Father's Disease is selected from Lu Xun's prose collection Flowers in the Morning, which was originally published in the 21st issue of the first volume of Mangyuan (1926 1 10).
Main content: The story happened in Shaoxing when Lu Xun was young. Lu Xun's father suffered from edema and could not recover for many years. He invited two expensive doctors to see him. He prescribed many prescriptions and used many strange medicines, but none of them worked. Finally, his father died. I heard that the doctor still sits on his back every day, leading a good life and being healthy.
The article recalls the scene of delayed medical treatment for his father when he was a child, describes the attitudes, styles and prescriptions of several "famous doctors", and reveals the essence of these people's ignorance, mystifying, extortion and disregard for human life.
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Creative background: During 1925, when Lu Xun was a university lecturer in Beijing, he was attacked and excluded by the so-called "gentlemen" for supporting the student movement at that time. 1926, the Beiyang warlord government shot and killed progressive students, creating the "March 18th" tragedy.
Lu Xun, the author, wrote a series of articles, such as "In Memory of Liu Hezhen", enthusiastically supported the students' just struggle and accused the Beiyang warlord government of cruelty. As a result, he was wanted by the authorities and had to take refuge in Xiamen. Although all the works in Morning Flowers and Evening Picks are reminiscing about the past, they are also making use of the topic to insinuate and ridicule the social reality at that time.
In the article "Father's Disease", the author wrote with the ironic tone that quack doctors mislead people that the medicines of two "famous doctors" are more unique than one, which shows the profound affectation of some Chinese medicine practitioners. Through their resignation one after another, it shows that their father's condition is getting worse step by step. Through family changes, they express their deep hatred for quack doctors, mystifying, extortion and disregard for human life, which makes people feel life with a sigh.