What is the greatest misfortune in a person's life? The greatest misfortune is not that we are suffering, but that we are suffering without knowing it. Mr. Lu Xun has a saying, "Medical skills heal the body, literature heals the heart, each heals one side, and each has compassion." I think literature and medicine actually have something in common. One of their common characteristics is the healing of people, one in charge of the body and the other in charge of the soul. Mr. Lu Xun, his real name is not Lu Xun, and his earliest real name is Zhou Zhangshou.
Mr. Lu Xun was born in 1881 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, to a feudal bureaucratic family. In fact, their Zhou family conditions are very good. Lu Xun's father, Zhou Boyi, was born in Xiucai, but his luck was not very good, and he took the township test many times, and every time he failed. As a result, his grandfather saw his father squatting at home every day, and he was very anxious, so he made a foolish move, and his grandfather went to bribe the chief examiner of the township examination. Then his grandfather, an unreliable person, found a relationship in prison by himself, escaped from prison and ran away. The government couldn't find his grandfather, so they could only arrest his father and lock him up, and also dismissed him as a showman.
In the end, through the mediation of various relationships in the Zhou family, his father Zhou Boyi was indeed released. But let's think about it, in the past, a scholar was arrested for bribery and removed from his status as a showman, did he lose face? So when his father came out, he broke the jar and died, and died of depression at the age of 36. From the moment his father died, their Zhou family fell into disarray. The burden of the whole family fell on Mr. Lu Xun's mother. Mr. Lu Xun's mother is a country woman who has never read a book, but his mother knows that reading is the only way to change the fate of the next generation. So her mother sold her dowry at that time, sold it for 8 yuan, and sent Mr. Lu Xun to the Nanjing Sailor School. Then it was there that Mr. Lu Xun read the "Theory of Heavenly Evolution" translated by Yan Fu for the first time, and he knew for the first time that this world is natural selection and survival of the fittest.
When he was 21 years old, Mr. Lu Xun was sent to Japan to study medicine. Once, in a medical class, the teacher asked them to watch a movie in which a Chinese were buried alive by a Japanese. At that time, he was very shocked that there were half Chinese faces in the crowd eating melons, but they were not only numb, but also clapping their hands and saying that they were well buried. Therefore, it was this incident that deeply stung Mr. Lu Xun, and he suddenly realized that at that time, what the Chinese needed to heal was not the body, but the mind, and it was their stubborn feudal thinking. It was in that special era that this feudal system crushed the spirit of the Chinese and made their hearts a ruin, so they were able to be so insensitive. This is also a very important reason why Mr. Lu Xun gave up medicine and became a writer.
When he was 25 years old, Mr. Lu Xun received a letter from his mother, asking him to come back and get married. He married a country woman who was three years older than him, with small feet wrapped and illiterate, named Juan. Mr. Lu Xun had no love for her at all, and his heart was very resistant to this feudal arranged marriage, but at the same time he couldn't resist his mother's arrangement, and he ran back to Japan on the third day after marriage, and he went for three years. When he was 28 years old, Lu Xun returned from Japan, just in time for the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew China's feudal monarchy, but did not overthrow feudal thought, so Mr. Lu Xun picked up his pen from that time and really started his salvation road.
When he was 37 years old, Mr. Lu Xun wrote China's first vernacular essay ** "Diary of a Madman", that is, in "Diary of a Madman", the pen name "Lu Xun" was officially launched. How popular is "Diary of a Madman"? After the fire, many people didn't even know what Lu Xun's real name was. Later, he created Kong Yiji, the only person who stood and drank in a long robe. That man is still a classic image of our feudal pedantic reader. There is a professor who once said that if you want to understand women, you have to see Zhang Ailing, and if you want to understand China, you have to read Lu Xun. Mr. Lu Xun's writings, the observation and reflection on Chinese society, have a real stinging touch.
Many people say that Mr. Lu Xun's things are too bloody and unbeautiful, and they look shocking to you. For example, from "Tofu Shih" to the scathing "Compass Yang Second Sister-in-law" at the end, such as Ah Q who bullies the soft and is afraid of the hard, such as Xianglin's sister-in-law who has been struggling to resist her fate all her life, but has no way to get rid of the confinement of the times. So when we look at these images, we will find that these characters, their final ending is a tragedy. But the tragedy of these characters is not only the sadness of personal fate, but also the pathology of a society and a tragedy of the times. Mr. Lu Xun's thing is to give us a slap in the face and let us sober up.
Have you noticed that although Mr. Lu Xun wrote Ah Q and Xianglin's sister-in-law, but after reading it, you found that these people don't live by your side? Isn't it the who's under the community? Why are people from more than 100 years ago still alive with us now? It's because he doesn't write about a person, it's a type of person, and what he writes isn't **, it's human nature. Therefore, Mr. Lu Xun said that he was sad about his misfortune and angry with him.
In fact, we are a little afraid to face the truth, and we don't dare to face the real life. But if we don't face it, won't the truth be there? As Mr. Lu Xun said, a real warrior dares to face the bleak life and dare to face the dripping blood. He is such a warrior, he has depicted all the dark, ugly, and bloody realities in all human nature with his pen. That's why we will feel very stinging when we read his things, and we will feel unbearable when we read his things, and we can't accept this kind of truth.
When Mr. Lu Xun died, his coffin was covered with a special national flag, on which were written three words called "national soul", which I think is a particularly good summary of his life. His whole life was from studying medicine to finally abandoning medicine and literature, and then becoming such a warrior who used the pen as a gun and thought as a sword. He is constantly pouring cold water on our lives, constantly tearing apart the meaningless things in our lives, taking us to climb the slope in our thoughts, and letting us approach the truth of this life little by little, so in the end, Mr. Lu Xun told us what is the real sobriety in the world.
That's why I think I want to understand Mr. Lu Xun and read Mr. Lu Xun's things, because his things are not beautiful, and his things are too real. We need to know what the world is like. There is a saying that we don't have to experience setbacks, we don't have to go through storms, but we must know that there are storms and setbacks in this world.