Chapter 18 Chapter 19 The Tragedy of Lu Xun

Old Xia: I cannot agree with your opinion on Lu Xun.The biggest difference between Lu Xun and Lin Yutang including Zhou Zuoren lies in the deep things of life.Lu Xun's yin, cold, dark, dark, sharp, spicy, and fierce are all unique among Chinese writers. His desperation for China is deep in his bones and has no place. He has seen the rot in the bones of the Chinese people, so he does not flirt with Chinese traditions not only in his attitude but also in his language.Lin Yutang was quite different. His "My Country, My People" did scold and belittle traditional Chinese culture very harshly, but his language is beautiful and graceful, very lingering, romantic, and elegant, and I can't figure out a single one. When swearing, people can use a language that is romantic or lyrical to mountains and rivers.Comparing his essays with Lu Xun's essays, the difference is too obvious.Like How We Became Fathers. , "In Memory of Mr. Liu Hezhen" and so on.Later, Lin Yutang immigrated to the United States, and wrote "The Art of Life" in English, which had a great influence. He said that the life of Chinese literati influenced by Lao Zhuang and Buddhism is an artistic life.This is what is in his bones, and this is the reason why he scolds Chinese traditions and scolds Chinese so gently and honestly and so gentlemanly.He doesn't seem to be harsh, at most he is humorous, but the main tone is sentimental. He hates tradition, as can be seen from his settlement in the United States, but he is a traditional literati at heart. As an individual, he does not have the power of Lu Xun to break through the tradition.

Wang Shuo: I don't have as much respect for Lu Xun as you do.He is indeed relatively good among Chinese literati.But since I was a child, I can’t listen to the lessons of being superior. The Lu Xun I know is the tall, big, and almost sanctified Lu Xun. He is the only god who can’t be touched besides Mao Zedong. Who recruited him? Whoever is unlucky is not only recruited at that time, but also new and old grudges will be counted together if he was recruited in the past.In my impression, he is as sacred as a panacea stick, whoever is caught and swung, without distinction.Criticizing Hu Feng used Lu Xun as an excuse. During the "Cultural Revolution", the critics of Zhou Yang also used Lu Xun as a knife and gun. After the "Cultural Revolution", Lu Xun was used to criticize the "Gang of Four" again.I don't think this idolized Lu Xun is a good thing.Then, after reading the things about his hostile relationship with people from all walks of life in the literary world in the later period, I think he is a narrow-minded person who holds grudges in his blood.His good things are all in the early stage, and he can't read the later stuff. After reading it, he thinks that this person thinks he is a god in the Chinese literary world, and no one can touch him. If he touches him, he will bite people.Later, I realized that Lu Xun was wronged by being turned into a stick and a trash can, and it had nothing to do with him.But if a person is used in this way and is invincible all over the world, then I feel that he must have provided some excuses himself.

So I think it seems that there are no serious people, and there is nothing in Chinese culture, no theory, no academics, no works.It's just doing it for nothing, and doing it for nothing for more than a hundred years.Just such a Lu Xun was turned into a vicious and ferocious man.If I meet someone like him, just read a few articles, don't get close, it will definitely end badly, whoever touches it will suffer. Old Xia: No matter what, you still admit that he has something.I think Lu Xun is indeed a master who has never been surpassed so far.If you want to surpass him, it is not to read a few more books.Accumulate more knowledge.How many thousands of words can be written.It takes a gifted personal depth.Lu Xun did write a lot of boring things in his later period, which were even exploited and ruined to this day. He made enemies on all sides, attacking the "Crescent School" and Hu Shi and other liberal intellectuals. He talked about the bourgeoisie and the bourgeois On the side, we must fight "reservoir dogs". "The lackeys of the capitalists" and so on.There are still those villain mentalities who are worried about who took the imperialist pound and who took the Soviet ruble, and are almost petty and dark.He advocated personal freedom in his early years, but he really couldn't figure out what kind of values.Only the social system can guarantee individual freedom.Some people often imagine what would happen to Lu Xun if he lived to the end?With his sobriety before dying and his character of not letting anyone off, his fate would not be much better than Hu Feng's, at most it would be the fate of Chen Yinke and Liang Shuming.

In addition, Lu Xun also had the desire to be a leader. The reason why he attacked from all directions and made enemies from all directions was because those people did not buy his account. In the end, you can't even make friends.He scolded those who have brains and brains in the literary world, but he has an amiable attitude towards literary youths, such as Rou Shi, Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun, etc. He found a tireless sense of teaching in these young people who respected him as a mentor , to satisfy the vanity of his leader.There is also the correspondence between him and Xu Guangping. No matter how you read "Books from Two Places", you can't read that they are lovers or husband and wife, but it has always been the tone between the tutor and the student.This is terrible, from being a tutor in the literary world to being a bed at home.Don't be surprised, this is a Chinese intellectual who likes to be a teacher and tireless in teaching others, whether he is a colleague, friend or husband and wife.Father and son, as long as you give him a step, he will immediately step on it to issue instructions.

In addition, his attacks on the academic schools at that time must have been due to his jealousy. Hu Shi and the others were professors when they went to Peking University, while Lu Xun only had a lecturer. Wang Shuo: I also know about Lu Xun's conversation with Qu Qiubai in his later years. He has already seen the true colors of the people around him. Lao Xia: The tragedies in Lu Xun’s later period may even be called farces. There are factors in his personality, but I think this kind of personal factor is so magnified that his arrogance is out of control. It is because our culture has not provided him with a higher scale.Our culture is too secular, and there is no absolute Western standard of religion. If there is, if Lu Xun is a Christian, after he finishes writing, he realizes that he is the only lonely soul in society in this culture. Ghost, after passing by in a hurry, he will never return to the secular world to entangle with mediocre people.His novels and essays in the early stage have already seen the Chinese people through. Behind his "sorrow for his misfortune, anger for his indisputable" is the despair of Zhong, the kind of despair in front of which there are only desolate graves. He has already seen in this culture There is no way to go, in a state of "everyone is drunk and I am alone", but unlike Qu Yuan, Qu Yuan still believes in the Lord, while Lu Xun does not believe in anything. This state is to regard himself as the only one in despair. of despair.There are only three roads ahead of him: committing suicide, and going to the arrogance of being the only one who is the enemy of everyone.The torture and dialogue of self-seeking soul facing a higher value.In China's secular background with no transcendent sacred value, Lu Xun did not choose to commit suicide, he could only choose to fight against the secular world with a stance of supremacy.

At that time, Lu Xun joined the "Left League" for both moral reasons and the reason why he had a chance to be the leader of the alliance after a long period of silence. The debate between him and the "four men" was superficially a dispute between "national defense literature" and "popular literature" , In fact, it is a battle for the status of the leader of the "Left League".He found that when people invited him to the "Leftist Alliance", they didn't let him have the final say, but used him as a tool. His arrogance of "the lotus halberd wandering alone" must point to anyone or anything he doesn't like , in China, with Lu Xun's depth and genius, who can he have in his eyes?It was his arrogance that led to his shallowness in his later years, and also caused him to bloom around as a tool and stick again in the future.If Lu Xun had God and reverence in his heart, he would no longer fight against mediocrity, nor would he reduce himself to mediocrity, but would write a book similar to St. Augustine's or Pascal's "Thoughts" "The kind of thing that transcends wins.Lu Xun's tragedy is also the epitome of the tragedy of the entire Chinese intellectual circles.Without a super-worldly sacred measure in our hearts, without true humility and reverence for this sacred, we will always struggle with borrowing fast (struggling, others are not) or living in secular power and money.In the quagmire of status and reputation, there will always be the little cleverness who is eager for quick success, and it is impossible to have the great righteousness and tenacity of the wise and compassionate.Arrogance must be punished by heaven, and even Lu Xun, who combines morality, wisdom, profundity and tenacity, cannot escape this fate.

Wang Shuo: Then I think that only a path of pessimism and despair can make a decent Chinese.Talking about language again, I think the translation style has indeed become a fact now.I have read some articles saying that the translation style is really hateful.It is actually a style produced by the Chinese.