Chapter 60 first quarter

At 5:25 am on October 19, 1936, a giant star fell in Shanghai on the coast of the East China Sea: Lu Xun, the best and most painful soul in China for hundreds of years, passed away. The death of Lu Xun was the most important cultural event at that time. Beginning on October 19th, major newspapers mourned this generation of Chinese writers and ancient philosophers with the most solemn language and warmest comments. "Lu Xun, a giant in the literary world, passed away due to lung disease and heart paralysis" (Shanghai "Minbao"); "The home of a generation of literary giants, Lu Xun's funeral in the afternoon. The crowd of visitors this morning is still very crowded, and it is scheduled to be buried in the Wanguo Cemetery tomorrow." (Shanghai "Dahu Evening News"); The funeral is scheduled for 2:00 p.m., and Cai Yuanpei and others will hold the funeral" (Shanghai Libao); Paying homage to Lu Xun, the eve before the coffin of 'China Gorky'." (Shanghai "Society Evening News"); "The most heroic fighter in Chinese literature, Lu Xun, was buried yesterday. Unprecedented" (Shanghai "Guangdong News"); "Superstars fell to the earth! Lu Xun's funeral, Cai Zhimin and Soong Ching Ling held the funeral, and the mourning song shook the sky" (Shanghai "Great Evening News"); "The Soviet Union lost Gorky, and the loss was not as great as China's death of Lu Xun Great. Peking literary and art circles will launch a memorial service..." (Peking "Peking News")

The funeral committee consisted of nine people including Cai Yuanpei, Soong Ching Ling, Mao Zedong, Ma Xiangbo, Uchiyama Wanzao (Japan), Shen Junru, A. Smedley (US), Xiao San and Cao Jinghua. The participants were Ba Jin, Hu Feng, Jin Yi, Xiao Jun, Zhang Tianyi, Yao Ke, Lu Digen (Japanese), Wu Langxi, Zhou Wen, Huang Yuan, Cao Bai, and Li Liewen. The news of Lu Xun's death reached Beiping the next day. At No. 21 Xisantiao, a fifty-eight-year-old woman with tears in her eyes looked south at Shanghai and at the eighty-year-old woman she was taking care of. The old lady, with a sigh, stopped her desire to go south to attend Lu Xun's funeral, and arranged a study room as a mourning hall, and put a few side dishes that Lu Xun liked to eat during his lifetime, to keep Lu Xun's spirit.

This unremarkable woman is named Zhu An, and she is Lu Xun's original wife.The old man she was taking care of was Lu Xun's mother Lu Rui; the mourning hall she arranged was exactly Lu Xun's study before leaving Beiping (it was still called Beijing at the time). At this time, the widow of Lu Xun who received condolences from all walks of life in Shanghai was Xu Guangping. At the funeral of Lu Xun in Shanghai, Zhou Zuoren, the eldest brother who was almost as famous as Lu Xun in the cultural circle, did not appear. He only participated in the memorial service in the auditorium of Peking University Law School-this is not because of the well-known political reasons. Lu Xun died At that time, there were still three years before Zhou Zuoren became a traitor.