The news of his death attracted the attention of all China. Funeral committee is composed of famous people such as Soong Ching Ling and Cai Yuanpei, including Shen Junru and Li Gongpu recommended by Shanghai National Salvation Federation. In Shanghai, tens of thousands of people spontaneously held an unprecedented grand funeral for him as a literary figure.
On the day before the funeral (10,21) and in the afternoon 16, the coffin and silk ladle with the funeral belt were not ready. Shen Junru ordered Yao Shiyan, then director of the Shanghai National Salvation Federation, to deal with it immediately: "It is up to funeral committee to decide what to do with the silk gourd ladle and the band.
Yao Shiyan decided to use a big white silk bag with three big black letters "soul of china" written on it. So, I immediately went to a gift shop next to the hankou road declaration hall to make it. After the silk was sent to funeral committee, Shen Junru saw the word "soul of china" and found it very appropriate, as did other members of funeral committee.
1936, 10, 2 1 afternoon, the funeral procession attending Lu Xun's funeral was arranged from Xujiahui to Hongqiao International Cemetery. Lu Xun's coffin was covered with a white flag with the words "soul of china", which caused a sensation. When I arrived at the cemetery of Wanguo Cemetery, there was a sea of people, about 20,000 people.
From 65438 to 0956, Lu Xun's tomb was relocated in Hongkou Park, Shanghai.
There are seven articles in Lu Xun's will, the first few of which explain that the funeral should be simple; Article 5 explains that young Zhou Haiying, "if he has no talent, he can find something small to live with and will never become a short writer or artist"; The sixth is that you should not take what others promised seriously; The last one is never to get close to people who "hurt other people's teeth", but oppose retaliation and advocate tolerance. "
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I. Introduction
Lu Xun (188 1 September 25th-19361October/0/9), whose real name is Zhou Shuren, whose original name is Zhang Shou, whose pen name is Yucai, is Lu Xun, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, a famous modern writer in China, and one of the leaders of the new culture movement, China.
Lu Xun's major achievements include essays, short stories, literature, ideological and social comments, academic works, natural science works, collation and research of ancient books, essays, modern prose poems, old-fashioned poems, foreign literature and academic translations, woodcut prints and so on.
It has had a certain influence on the social, ideological and cultural development of China after the May 4th Movement, and enjoys a high reputation in the world literary world, especially in the ideological and cultural fields of South Korea and Japan, and is known as "the writer who occupied the largest territory on the East Asian cultural map in the 20th century".
Second, the purpose of writing
Lu Xun said that the purpose of his writing is "to serve those brave people who" gallop "for China's reform. They are fighting in loneliness, and I have the responsibility to shout for them and give them even a weak comfort. "
Second, for those "young people who are dreaming as I was when I was young, it is because of them that I' must give people a sense of not shrinking, not pessimistic and not desperate everywhere in my works, and restrain my deep sadness (besides, I am skeptical about sadness itself)".
Third, his enemy, Lu Xun, said, "My enemy lives too happily. Why should I make them so happy? " I want to stand in front of them like a black devil and let them feel their imperfections. "
Third, some works
Lu Xun's works have a wide range of themes, diverse and flexible forms and distinctive styles. In his life, the genre of his works involves novels, essays, essays, poems and so on. The Complete Works of Lu Xun has 20 volumes, with more than ten thousand words of 10 handed down from generation to generation. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many of his works were selected into Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools, which had a far-reaching impact on the language and literature of New China.
Lu Xun began with novel creation. 19 18 The Diary of a Madman, published in New Youth magazine, is the pioneering work of China's modern vernacular novels and has far-reaching influence. Later, Lu Xun published several short stories in succession, and later compiled two short story collections, Scream and Wandering, which were published in 1923 and 1926 respectively.
With the change of social situation, Lu Xun gradually gave up his planned novel creation and turned to essay writing. Lu Xun's later novels were accepted as New Stories.
Lu Xun's novels are few in number, but of great significance, with many famous works. His early novels often have no bizarre twists and turns, but focus on the life of the bottom people in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, pay attention to the description of details, and can vividly depict characters and explore subtle psychological changes bit by bit. It mainly shows the numbness and ignorance of the bottom people and the hardships of life.
"My materials are mostly taken from the unfortunate people in the sick society, which is intended to expose the suffering of the disease and attract the attention of treatment." The later works use historical allusions to map real life, with calm and rich style and free and easy humor, which is quite different from the previous works.
Representative works include The True Story of Ah Q, Blessing, Kong Yiji, Hometown and so on. The protagonists of the novel, Ah Q, Sister Xianglin, Kong Yiji and Runtu, are well known to women and children in China.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Lu Xun