Because of the development of information in modern society, many people can recognize the other side of some celebrities, such as Lu Xun, who used to mistakenly think that he was a cynical and bitter poor literati through his articles when he was studying, and it was not until later that he learned that his monthly manuscript fee was converted into today's RMB, which is almost 1.5 million.
In addition, he is definitely a joker in private, and there is a lot of dry humor in his diary.
And he also said a very famous saying "Chinese characters do not perish, China will perish", what is going on?
When I started to see this sentence, I didn't expect it to be what Lu Xun said, so I went to check it and really found the source. This is an interview from the year.
In mid-May of that year, when Japan continued to encroach on China, a reporter interviewed him and raised several questions about resisting Japan and saving the country.
In fact, if you look at all the words he said, you can find that his true intention is not the so-called total resistance to Chinese culture, but the feeling that the people at that time were limited by complex Chinese characters, resulting in a cultural level far lower than that of neighboring countries.
In fact, he wanted to simplify the text so that it could be effectively promoted.
This sentence was very appropriate in that era, because at that time, the biggest enemyLiteracy rate in JapanAs high as 40 percent, our country did not count it back then, but it was not until before the founding of the People's Republic of ChinaIlliteracy rateAll reached 80 percent, and it was perhaps even higher that year.
What a terrible contrast!
Mr. Lu Xun also used two words as an example, "ginger" and "duck", even if the children of modern society want to learn it is not a simple thing, not to mention that in that era, this is still the literacy part, too cumbersome words will also hinder the education level of the entire nation.
At that time, it was not only Lu Xun, but also many literati who had the same views as him, such as Hu Shi, Qu Qiubai, Qian Xuantong, etc., they were all advocates of the implementation of new culture, which was not as shocking as Lu Xun as they said.
Lu Xun wanted to simplify or delete some complex characters, and some scholars and masters even said that they should replace Chinese characters with words that are easy to remember and write, such as Latin. (Thankfully, this method didn't work.) ）
China is now strong, naturally not to understand the predicament of the past, but the Chinese of that era were generally desperate, as can be seen from Einstein's evaluation.
Albert Einstein was a great scientist, he also visited Shanghai and Hong Kong in China, and left his observations in his diary, however, it was not positive, and he had the impression that children in China were dirty, industrious, and slow.
I just don't know what he would think if he saw China today.
An era has its own background of an era, like Lu Xun and those scholars, what they want is to let the Chinese get rid of ignorance as soon as possible and receive a good education to keep up with the pace of the world.
At that time, the people who shed their blood for China tried too many methods, failed many times and did not give in, but fortunately finally took a path of their own.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many high-level people also felt the low level of education of the people, so the implementation of simplified Chinese, which allowed the number of talents in the country to be more and more, but even after decades of implementation of simplified Chinese, in 17 years of sample surveys, China's illiteracy rate still reached 528。(No data for recent years have been found.) ）
It can be seen that in Mr. Lu Xun's time, complex writing really became an obstacle. What he said did not mean to criticize Chinese culture, but only to fulfill the mission entrusted to him by that era.
That's all.