Lu Xun was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang in 188 1, but at the age of 13, his grandfather, who was an official in Beijing, was imprisoned for some reason. Since then, my father has been ill for a long time and eventually died, and his family has rapidly declined. Family changes have had a far-reaching impact on young Lu Xun. He is the eldest son of the family, with a lonely and weak mother and a young and weak sister in law. He must bear the burden of life with his mother. His innocent and lively childhood is over, and he has experienced the hardships of life and the changes of the world prematurely. He often takes the prescription prescribed by the doctor for his father to the pharmacy to get medicine, and takes things to the pawnshop to sell. In the past, when his family was well off, people around him looked at him enviously as a little "dude". There is kindness in his words and tenderness in his eyes. But now that my family is poor, the attitudes of people around me have changed: my words are cold, my eyes are cold, and my face is disdainful. The change of people's attitudes around him left a deep impression on Lu Xun's mind, which caused a great blow to his mind and made him feel that China at that time lacked sincere sympathy and love between people. People treat people and things with snobbery: one attitude towards the rich and powerful, another attitude towards the poor and incompetent. Many years later, Lu Xun said with great sadness: "Who fell from a well-off family to a poor situation? I think that on this road, we can probably see the true face of the world. " (Introduction to Scream)

The family changes and life experiences after the changes also made Lu Xun close to the lower class from his childhood. His grandmother lives in the countryside, which gives him the opportunity to get in touch with and understand the life of farmers. Especially before and after his grandfather went to prison, he had to take refuge in relatives in the countryside and live in the countryside for a long time. There, he became friends with children in the country, played with them, rowed boats, watched movies together, and sometimes "stole" beans and cooked them in their fields. There is no mutual discrimination and hatred between them, only mutual care and love. Lu Xun recorded his simple, natural, sincere and simple relationship with rural children as the best interpersonal relationship in his life.

At that time, the average scholar took three roads: one was to study and be an official. Through the imperial examination, you can be promoted, you can make a fortune, your personal worth is a hundred times, and your family background is also envied by the world. This is considered to be the "right path" for scholars. Those who are not officials can also be the "aides" of a bureaucrat, making suggestions for this bureaucrat, running for efficiency and accepting gifts from this bureaucrat. With this bureaucratic power, I also have power. This is the second road that scholars often took at that time. If the first two roads fail, you can still go into business. Although this was despised by bureaucrats at that time, you can make a fortune and not fall to the bottom of the insulted and damaged society. Lu Xun took another road that was most despised at that time: entering the "foreign school". In China at that time, it was generally regarded as a despicable activity of "selling souls to foreign devils". 1898, 18-year-old Lu Xun left his hometown, entered Nanjing Naval Academy, and then transferred to Nanjing Railway and Mining Academy in order to find "others" in a "different place". These two schools were set up by the Westernization School at that time to enrich Qiang Bing. Among them, mathematics, physics, chemistry and other courses are offered to impart natural science knowledge, which is unprecedented in China's traditional education. After class, Lu Xun also read works on foreign literature and social sciences, which greatly broadened his cultural horizons. In particular, Yan Fu's translation of Huxley's Theory of Evolution, an Englishman, had a profound influence on Lu Xun. Evolution is a book introducing Darwin's theory of evolution, which makes Lu Xun realize that the real world is not harmonious and perfect, but full of fierce competition. To survive and develop, a person and a nation must have the spirit of self-reliance, independence and self-improvement. Can't be at the mercy of fate, can't be bullied by the strong.

Lu Xun's life and creation Lu Xun is a man with a strong thirst for knowledge. During his study in Nanjing Road Mining School, his academic performance has been excellent, which gave him the opportunity to study abroad at public expense after graduation. 1902, he went to Japan, began to study Japanese at Hongwen College in Tokyo, and later entered Sendai Medical College. He chose to study medicine in order to treat patients who were victimized by quacks like his father and improve the health of China people who were ridiculed as "the sick man of East Asia". The Japanese realized the value and significance of western science and technology through western medicine, and Lu Xun also wanted to inspire the consciousness of China people through medicine. But his dream didn't last long before it was shattered by the harsh reality. At that time, Japan grew rapidly through the Meiji Restoration, but the forces of Japanese militarism were also developing at the same time. In Japan, as a citizen of a weak country, Lu Xun is often discriminated against by Japanese with militaristic tendencies. In their eyes, all China people are "imbeciles". Lu Xun scored 59 points in the anatomy test, so he suspected that Fujino Genkuro, the anatomy teacher, had leaked the examination questions to him. This made Lu Xun feel deeply sad as a weak country. On one occasion, in a slide show before class, Lu Xun saw a China man being beheaded by the Japanese army, while a group of China people stood by and watched. Lu Xun was greatly stimulated. This made him realize that mental numbness is more terrible than physical weakness. To change the tragic fate of the Chinese nation in the modern world with many powerful countries, the first thing is to change the spirit of China people, and the first thing that is good at changing the spirit of China people is literature and art, so Lu Xun left Sendai Medical College and returned to Tokyo to translate foreign literary works, organize literary magazines, publish articles and engage in literary activities. At that time, what he discussed most with his friends was China's national character: what is the ideal human nature? What is China's national character lacking most? What is the root cause? Through this kind of thinking, Lu Xun linked his personal life experience with the fate of the whole Chinese nation, which laid the basic ideological foundation for him to become a writer and thinker later. At that time, he and his second brother Zhou Zuoren translated two volumes of foreign novels and published a series of important papers, such as Teaching the History of Science, On Cultural Deviation and On Moro Poetry. In these papers, he put forward the important idea that "founding the country" must first "establish people" and enthusiastically called for "warriors in the spiritual world who aim at resistance and action".