Chapter 74 Lu Xun five

Lu Xun, who was in a dilemma, took Zhu An's life into consideration. It's as simple as that. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to humane choice here.If Lu Xun didn't hurt Zhu An, he would hurt himself.He was humane to Zhu An, but he was inhumane to himself.Could it be that "self" is not a human being?What kind of humanitarian moral law is this, does one have to sacrifice oneself to fulfill others?The idea of ​​equality is not like that. Like the egalitarianism of wealth, it was inexplicable in the eyes of the ancient Greeks. Just like Confucian culture advocates compassion for the benevolent, it also emphasizes hierarchy everywhere.

A sense of proportion is extremely important here.In a sound society, Lei Feng's spirit should coexist with the rich list.Partiality is harmful, and extremes lead to disaster. The difference between rich and poor.There are differences in the spiritual realm. The movement of a healthy society should be capable of both.Appearance means: remove the cover as much as possible. In the process of individual formation, extreme individualism should be guarded against. The paradox is: Everyone seeks profit and seeks self-interest at the expense of others, which is not only harmful to the harmony of society, work units, and families, but also not conducive to the growth and happiness of individuals.

Think about it: can a black-eyed hen be happy?Black-eyed chickens only go to black-eyed chickens... If the full mobilization of animal instincts is happiness, and the universal application of the law of the jungle is Datong, where will the thousands of years of human civilization be placed?Where should we put EMI's efforts of truth, kindness and beauty? And when all the eyes can only reflect the light of coins, the wholeness of life is out of the question.Love, poetry, divinity, morality, and customs will collectively exit.The meaning layer of life tears a big hole, just like the invisible ozone layer in the sky.

The eyes that can only recognize tangible objects are standard animal eyes. It is not difficult to imagine that if Lu Xun lived to this day, he would use his short knife and his spear-throwing dagger against the spreading money worship and materialism. Only "that person" who develops in an all-round way is worthy of the title of person. Those of us who only know how to be busy for a little profit may wish to ask ourselves: Are we worthy of Zhou Shuren who has exhausted his efforts to rebuild the soul of the nation? Not long after Lu Xun got married, he went to teach in a two-level normal school in Hangzhou.Xu Shoushang was the dean there, and the principal was Shen Junru.Lu Xun taught chemistry, taught physiology and hygiene, and translated natural history.He talked about the reproductive system to the students, facing baby faces of surprise and even horror.His face is expressionless, and he expresses it only with circumflex.The voice is his expression.He has a dry sense of humor.Even though he roared with laughter, his facial muscles didn't change much.

The style of lectures and speeches was formed in Hangzhou Normal University. It also affects the style of writing in the future. Humor, once "expanded", is easy to be glib.Lu Xun understood this subtle boundary, and wrote articles specifically to warn young people of their glibness. This admonition still applies today.There are variants of glib, such as spoofs of classic works of literature and film and television. Thirty-year-old Lu Xun lives in a single dormitory.In school, he is the best teacher who can stay up all night, preparing lessons, reading, and sorting out plant specimens collected from the wild with the students.He smoked "Bandit" cigarettes and ate Hangzhou's famous Tiaotou Gao.The janitor gave him these two things every night.Material life is much better than in Japan.

Late at night, he wandered around the small courtyard, feeling that the sky was strange and high. Cigarettes are always at hand and thoughts are in the air. Then, one person undresses and goes to bed... Shen Junru resigned, and a new principal Xia Zhenwu came in. He forced Xu Shoushang to accompany him to the Confucian Temple to "visit the saint", but Xu Shoushang sternly refused. Lu Xun nicknamed the new principal: Summer Papaya. Soon, "summer papaya" spread widely among the teachers.Annoyed and angry, Papaya put on a face of power and pulled the tiger skin as a banner, which aroused the anger of the crowd.The two sides fought for several rounds and ended with the victory of the teachers.Papaya resigned, the school held a celebration party, and Lu Xun drank old Shaoxing wine.

This is 1910, very close to the Revolution of 1911.Summer papaya respects Confucius, which is really out of date. Lu Xun was "promoted", returned to Shaoxing from Hangzhou, and worked as a school supervisor at Shaoxing Fu Middle School. Still wearing cheap feather gauze gowns, smoking Bandit cigarettes, and eating sticky cakes.Still looking like a bachelor... The ancient city of Shaoxing was filled with a revolutionary atmosphere, and people openly discussed Qiu Jin and Xu Xilin who died three years ago.Lu Xun has short hair and walks on the street high-spirited.The students of Shaoxing Fu Middle School watched him pass by with full respect, and whispered about his friendship with Qiu Jin.

"Revolution" came. The team of the revolutionary Wang Jinfa drove from Hangzhou to Shaoxing overnight.Soldiers in blue military uniforms, wearing straw sandals, carrying rifles, and wearing leggings, are full of energy. All kinds of lamps were lit in Shaoxing City: oil lamps, paper lanterns, glass square lamps, and mast lamps.Those without lamps lit torches. The revolution illuminated the millennium dark night. Lu Xun became the principal of Shaoxing Normal School.On his first day in office, he met all the students, and he wore a military cap.The principal's speech was short and powerful.Cheers erupted from the playground below.

But not long after, people in Shaoxing saw that Wang Jinfa, the iconic figure of the revolution, had gained weight and his face was full of oil.The gentry in Shaoxing used the old method handed down from their ancestors to support them in groups, worshiping and sticking them like snowflakes, one gave cloth materials, and the other gave wing mats.Although Shaoxing Mansion was changed into a military government, those people still came in and out. Suddenly there were many revolutionary parties in the city.Many people talk about revolution and talk about revolution in silence. The idlers in the city and the countryside were elated and poured into the government offices of the military government one after another, ostentatiously wearing leather robes.

Sediment rises.Good and evil are mixed. Wang Jinfa changed, and rejected the strong demands of the young people to punish the executioner who killed Qiu Jin, saying it was "don't forget the old evil" and "salt and reform". The young people got angry, distributed leaflets, published newspapers, scolded Wang Jinfa, and asked Lu Xun to be their backing. Lu Xun stood on the opposite side of Wang Jinfa. It was widely rumored in Shaoxing City that Wang Jinfa wanted to send someone to kill Lu Xun. Lu Xun's mother was frightened and asked him to leave the city and go to the countryside to escape.

Lu Xun did not leave.At night, I went to the street with lanterns, and the big "Zhou" was written on the lanterns.After a while, nothing happened.He also serves as principal.Although Wang Jinfa was confused, he would not assassinate him. Xu Shoushang worked in the Ministry of Education of the Nanjing Provisional Government and asked Lu Xun to go to Nanjing.The head of education is Cai Yuanpei. In the spring of 1912, Lu Xun left his hometown Shaoxing. In May of the same year, the provisional government moved to Beijing.Lu Xun went north with the Ministry of Education and lived in a secluded alley outside Xuanwumen: the Shaoxing Guild Hall in the southern half of the alley.In August, he was promoted from the position of chief of the second section of the Ministry of Education to a senior cadre in the ministry, with a generous monthly salary and great power.As a result, many people came to see him, almost lined up, to his office or club house.If he is willing to seek a future in the officialdom and weave a network of relationships, this is an excellent opportunity. But for people like Lu Xun, some opportunities are not opportunities at all. He does not see these opportunities. The direction of Lu Xun's consciousness is the times.And because he has been staring at people and individuals for so many years, the era he saw was hugely different from his contemporaries. He really didn't like the various visitors.In fact, he either passed through his mind with all kinds of fame and fortune thoughts that those people harbored, or he couldn't see them: he turned a blind eye. The most outstanding thinkers in modern China have to be entangled in ordinary government and ordinary interpersonal relationships.He became a senior cadre of the Ministry of Education because of the appreciation of Mr. Cai Yuanpei, the Minister of Education.Later, both transferred from the step-by-step government service to the university.Cai Yuanpei is the founder of modern education.Lu Xun is the founder of modern thought and literature. Thinkers commute to get off work every day.The thinker hurriedly walked with his briefcase in his hands, through the four seasons of Beijing. Lu Xun became more and more annoying to those knockers, and sometimes he was very rude to the knockers. A person who is unwilling to regard others as a stepping stone is unwilling to be a stepping stone for others himself.What's interesting is that Lu Xun neither knew what a "door" was, nor what a brick was. My mind is full of the Republic of China, the nation, history, and the present, where are the bricks and the like? People who live in the process of history and are aware of this process, how can there be trivialities and trivialities in their eyes?In modern times in the West, there are especially many people with such a sense of history.From the pre-Qin period to the Han, Tang and Song Dynasties in China, there are many people with long-term vision. In the early years of the Republic of China, ideas were running at high speed again in a small alley in Beijing. Lu Xun plunged into ancient books, ancient monuments, and ancient Buddhist scriptures.In order to move forward, he looked back at history.He recognized darkness.The vastness and depth of the darkness continued to the Republic of China through the inertia of history: Yuan Shikai became emperor, Zhang Xun was restored, and warlords separatist... Lu Xun nervously identified the dark "core substance". Depressed, painful.The poisonous gas and ghostly gas of history also invaded Lu Xun's thin and hard body.To identify an object, he needs to be in close contact with the object. Against the toxins of history, Lu Xun must use a highly poisonous body and carry a strong heterogeneous force to leap into the abyss of history to fight poison with poison.He inventories the poisons of history, looking for the devilish octopus head that dominates countless suckers. And history has its bright spots. Lu Xun discovered Wei Jin literature and Ji Kang.It was an era of "human consciousness", and scholars rebelled against Confucian ethics and ethics, and they did not hesitate to fight to the death.The individual has to pay the price in blood to become a free individual.Ji Kang's 40-year-old execution ground is a historic debut of a freedom-seeking individual under the clutches of feudal power. Etiquette.The head of the octopus. Lu Xun himself was a victim of ethics.And that innocent Zhu An who silently accompanied his mother in Shaoxing... Six years have passed.Lu Xun was smoldering with enormous attack power.The ground fire is running, and the magma is rushing. During these silent, nearly bleak six years, Lu Xun completed his own cultivation, aiming to become higher, stronger and more determined. At the same time, he was saving money to buy a house in Beijing and take his mother and Zhu An over.He smokes, drinks, and eats desserts.Long hair and a messy beard.Always wear the same clothes and shoes without "talking to lice"; or pulling out a dagger to chase flies.Lu Xun could see the feigned madness of the scholars in the Wei and Jin Dynasties at a glance. Depression also includes sexual distress. One day in the spring of 1918, Qian Xuantong paid a surprise visit, bringing a copy of "New Youth" magazine, and asked Lu Xun to write some articles.Lu Xun was not excited. He said a passage that was later quoted countless times by expert writers: "If there is an iron room that has no windows and is impossible to destroy, there are many sleeping people in it, and they will soon be suffocated to death. However It's a drowsiness to death, and you don't feel the sorrow of dying. Now you start a few more sane people by shouting, and make this unfortunate few suffer irreparable dying pains. Do you think you are worthy of them? ?” That's what Lu Xun said, but he still agreed to write for "New Youth".Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu were both editors of this magazine. In May of this year, short stories in vernacular came out.This is the first thunder in the long history of feudal ethics.It is also the first cornerstone of modern Chinese literature.The modern novel begins. The novel uses the first person to write about a "madman" who suffers from persecution paranoia.The prototype of the novel is a relative of Lu Xun who was originally a friend in Shanxi, but suddenly felt that everyone was going to frame him, so he fled to Beijing in a hurry.Although he stayed, he still panicked and wanted to run away, changing one room after another.Lu Xun settled him down and comforted him, but it was useless to say anything.One day, this relative yelled at Lu Xun in great horror: "I will be taken to beheaded today!" and tremblingly took out a suicide note.Lu Xun thought he was insane, and when he was sent to Ikeda Hospital, the patrolmen along the way frightened him again.I was treated in the hospital for a week, but it didn't work.Lu Xun asked someone to send him back to Shaoxing.