The Complete Works of Lu Xun's Novels

Chapter 38 Appendix A Brief Introduction to the Life of Lu Xun

Lu Xun was born on September 1881, 9 in Fangkou, Dongchang, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. He was named Zhou Zhangshou, styled Yushan, and later renamed Zhou Shuren, styled Yucai. His ancestral home was Runan County, Henan Province. In 25, he entered a private school to study. In 1886, the Sino-Japanese naval war broke out and China suffered a disastrous defeat. This aroused Lu Xun's strong desire to become a navy and wipe out enemies for the motherland. In 1894, he went to Nanjing and was admitted to Jiangnan Naval Academy, which was renamed Shuren, and later changed to Nanjing Road and Mine Academy.After that, he entered the Jiangnan Lushi School attached to the Road and Mine School, graduated in 1898, and went to Japan to study in the following year. In 1901, he wrote an article for the magazine "Zhejiang Chao" and translated "Travel in the Moon World".In the second year, he went to Sendai to study medicine at a specialized medical school, so he gave up his volunteering to be a navy.The reason why he decided to study medicine was because the Chinese were ridiculed by foreigners as "sick men of East Asia" and his father was killed by a quack doctor. He realized how important it is to the Chinese to be a good doctor who saves lives and heals the wounded. !
However, in Japan, Lu Xun realized that the mental paralysis of the Chinese people was more tragic and terrifying than the physical weakness, so he abandoned medicine to study literature and art in Tokyo. From 1905 to 1907, he participated in revolutionary activities and published papers such as "Theory of Cultural Bias". During this period, he returned to China and married Ms. Zhu An by his mother's order. In 1908, he became a member of the "Recovery Association" and co-translated "A Collection of Foreign Fiction" with his younger brother Zhou Zuoren. In 1909, he served as a teacher of physiology and chemistry in Zhejiang Normal School. After the recovery of Shaoxing in 1911, Lu Xun served as the principal of Shaoxing Normal School. In the winter of that year, his first trial novel "Nostalgia" was released and later published in "Novel Monthly". On January 1912, 1, the Nanjing Provisional Government was established. At the invitation of Minister of Education Cai Yuanpei, he was appointed as a member of the Ministry of Education.In May of the same year, he served as the chief of the first section of the Social Education Department of the Ministry of Education. In 1, he used the pen name "Lu Xun" for the first time and published the vernacular novel "Diary of a Madman".This is the earliest vernacular novel in my country, which opened a new chapter for Chinese novels. In 1918, he went to Beijing. In 1919, he translated Japanese opera "A Youth's Dream" by Takeshi Koji and the novel "Worker Sueyryov" written by Russian Arzhibasov.Later, he served as a lecturer at Peking University and Beijing Higher Normal School. In 1920, the collection of novels "The Scream" was published. "Kong Yiji", "The True Story of Ah Q" and other famous works are included. In 1923, "Hot Wind" was published, and in September of the following year, the collection of novels "Wandering". In 1925, he went to Guangzhou and served as the dean and dean of the Department of Literature of Sun Yat-sen University.In the same year, his only collection of prose poems "Wild Grass" was published.This year, Lu Xun married Ms. Xu Guangping and had a son named Zhou Haiying.In the second year, the only collection of reminiscence essays written by Lu Xun, "Crossing Flowers in the Evening" (formerly known as "Revisiting the Past") was published, and in the same year, the collection of essays "The Collection of Nothing" was also printed. In 1927, "Mixia Translation Collection" was published. In 1929, it was compiled into a collection of short reviews "San Xian Ji" and a collection of essays "Two Hearts Collection". In 1932, at the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, he joined the Civil Rights Protection League and became its executive committee member.In March, "Lu Xun's Selected Works" was published.In October, the collection of short reviews "Pseudo Free Books" was published. In December 1933, the collection of short reviews "Zhun Fengyue Tan" was published.Continuation of "A New Story". In January 1934, "A New Story" was published, and later became seriously ill, and died on October 12.Mr. Lu Xun used the pen as a sword to awaken the numb Chinese people at that time. He was not only a writer, but also a great thinker and revolutionist. He was called "the soul of the nation" by the people.

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