Lu Xun was originally named Zhou Zhangshou, later renamed Zhou Shuren, whose real name was Yushan, and later changed to Yucai, and studied at Sendai Medical College. Lu Xun was the pseudonym he used when he published Diary of a Madman on 19 18, and he was also the most influential pseudonym. He was from Shaoxing, Zhejiang.
A famous writer, thinker and democratic fighter, he was an important participant in the May 4th New Culture Movement and the founder of modern literature in China. Mao Zedong once commented that Lu Xun's direction is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation.
Lu Xun has made great contributions in many fields, such as literary creation, literary criticism, ideological research, literary history research, translation, introduction of art theory, introduction of basic science and research on ancient books collation.
He had a great influence on the development of China's social ideology and culture after the May 4th Movement, and enjoyed a high reputation in the world literary world, especially in the fields of Korean and Japanese ideology and culture. He is known as the writer who occupied the largest territory on the East Asian cultural map in the 20th century.
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When Lu Xun was young, his family conditions were very bad. In order to study, he took 8 yuan and went on his way. This 8 yuan, or mother managed to get it for him.
In Nanjing, he entered Jiangnan Naval Academy, which is a free school. However, Lu Xun soon found that the school spirit there was not very good, so he transferred to another mine road school attached to the Teachers College.
Mine Road School is a new school, which is not only free, but also has a large student allowance, allowing Lu Xun to buy more books and stationery. At that time, the general affairs office of the mine road school was more open-minded, and students were more free to read books and newspapers.
Lu Xun loves reading and has a strong thirst for knowledge. Besides studying his lessons, he also widely reads ancient novels, unofficial history, miscellaneous books and new books translated from western languages.
At that time, it was the introduction of western culture, and excellent western works came out almost every month. In order to buy these books, Lu Xun scrimped and saved and went hungry from time to time. He still wears a thin jacket in the cold winter.
Lu Xun is the youngest in the class, but he gets the best grades. He has a strong understanding potential and memory potential, and he studies hard at ordinary times, so he almost won the first prize.
Mine Road School has a perfect reward and punishment system, and every time you get excellent results in the quiz, you will be given a third-class merit medal. Several third-class medals can be exchanged for a second-class medal; Those who have accumulated more than two medals will be awarded a first-class medal.
The first prize is gold, which is very valuable. Lu Xun is the only person who has won a gold medal in his class. He sold his medal and got many excellent books.
In Lu Xun's view, books are more useful than medals, and he doesn't need anything to satisfy his vanity. Someone has done statistics, and the books he quoted in his creation are enough to open a large library.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Lu Xun