Around 2010, one person’s articles began to be gradually removed from the textbooks, causing an uproar.

Some people say that it is right to remove them because these articles are too profound and children cannot understand them; others strongly object, believing that these articles are the spiritual support of an era and have the power to infect people's hearts.

This man is Mr. Lu Xun, known as the "national soul" of modern China.

Lu Xun’s original name was Zhou Zhangshou. In 1881, he was born into the Zhou family, a prominent family in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. In "Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk", the father of his childhood friend Runtu worked as a day laborer for their family.

But Lu Xun's happy childhood did not last long. When he was 12 years old, Lu Xun's grandfather bribed the examiner in order to let his son gain fame. As a result, he was imprisoned and his family fell into decline. Lu Xun's father became depressed because of this and fell seriously ill. The expensive medical expenses made the declining family even worse. As the eldest son, Lu Xun had to bear the heavy burden of the family, going back and forth between the pawnshop and the pharmacy every day, and endured the looks of his snobbish relatives. Although he is still young, he has already had enough of the warmth and warmth of the world.

Lu Xun was extremely intelligent since he was a child and was good at reading and literacy. "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore" records interesting stories about when he studied in the private school of Teacher Shou Jingwu.

At the age of 17, Lu Xun, who could no longer afford tuition, went to the publicly funded Jiangnan Naval School and the Mining and Railway School. At that time, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing and signed the "Xinchou Treaty" that was humiliating and humiliating the country. The young Lu Xun had already realized that this declining country, like himself who was trapped and confused, needed to find a way out.

From 1860 to 1900, Emperor Meiji of Japan implemented a series of reform measures that were based on the West, known in history as the Meiji Restoration. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan's national power grew rapidly and it became a powerful country in Asia.

Since Japan and China are close neighbors and have relatively similar traditions, progressive young people at that time believed that learning from Japan was a shortcut to strengthening China, so they went to Japan one after another. Lu Xun also became one of them.

At the beginning, Lu Xun decided to study medicine. On the one hand, it may have been influenced by the experience of his father's death from a serious illness. On the other hand, Lu Xun believed that China's strength was inseparable from the strength of the Chinese people. So he was admitted to Sendai Medical College in Japan and met Mr. Fujino, a professor who was close to China. Mr. Fujino liked this serious and hard-working Chinese young man very much. He would use a red pen to revise the annotations from beginning to end of every classroom lecture that Lu Xun copied. Not surprisingly, the Chinese student favored by this teacher will become an excellent doctor. .

But in the second year after entering school, a "Russian-Japanese War Educational Film" was played during class. The content was of Japanese soldiers slashing and killing Chinese people with swords, while other Chinese people watching looked numb. , this scene deeply stimulated Lu Xun. He felt that the spiritual numbness of the Chinese people was a root cause that was more terrible than physical illness. This root cause could only be cured by literature.

So, Lu Xun expressed his inner thoughts to Mr. Fujino and decisively dropped out of school. From then on, he abandoned medicine to pursue literature and embarked on the road of using words to transform the people.

In 1918, the progressive magazine "New Youth" founded by Chen Duxiu published a short story in vernacular "Diary of a Madman". As soon as it was published, it attracted great attention from the society, and the pen name "Lu Xun" became famous. noise.

Mr. Lu Xun said: "Dissatisfaction is an upward wheel." With his love for the land of China, the Chinese hardworking people, and his endless dissatisfaction with the dark society, he transformed into an angry warrior and used The sharp brushstrokes tore apart the stinking footcloths one by one, revealing to the Chinese people the despicability and viciousness that had been hidden and cowering in dark corners for thousands of years.

"On the Fall of Leifeng Tower", "Dead Place", "In Memory of Liu Hezhenjun"... Lu Xun put his passion and profound thoughts into his works, leading the trend of the times. Mao Zedong once commented: "Lu Xun's direction is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation."

In 1930, the Chinese Left-wing Writers' Alliance was established. As a standing committee member, Lu Xun took up the banner of the alliance and led its progress. direction.

In the world literary world, Lu Xun's influence is also extremely far-reaching. Tai Jinnong once wrote to Lu Xun to test his attitude towards being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Lu Xun flatly rejected it. Japanese Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is a super fan of Lu Xun. Korean literary critic Kim Ryomori called Lu Xun "the writer who occupied the largest territory on the cultural map of East Asia in the twentieth century."

October 19, 1936 , Mr. Lu Xun, this great and proud fighter passed away.

"May all Chinese youth get rid of the air-conditioning and just walk upwards." Mr. Lu Xun's legacy will be inherited by the new generation of young people.

If the times need light, we must be the torch!