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Lu Xun's prose novels, mainly criticized.

In 1893, along with the imprisonment of Lu Xun's grandfather, the Zhou family fell into a predicament, and Lu Xun, who was young and innocent, was subjected to hardships and stigmatization for the first time in his life. At the age of fifteen, his father was seriously ill, and as the eldest son, he had to go in and out of pawnshops and drugstores to save his father's life, enduring humiliation and swallowing his teeth in his stomach. During this period, he saw the true colors of the world, which undoubtedly had a significant impact. When his father finally died at the age of sixteen, Lu Xun's great grief and hatred for quacks led him to develop a strong desire to cure the sick and save people's lives and eliminate their suffering. This influenced his later choice of profession. Lu Xun said in the preface of "Scream", "Anyone who has fallen into poverty from a well-off family, I think that in this way, I can probably see the true colors of the world!" For more than four years, I used to go in and out of the quality store and the drugstore, almost every day, but I have forgotten my age, but in any case, the counter of the drugstore was as high as I was, and that of the quality store was twice as high as I was, so that I delivered clothes or jewelry from the counter that was twice as high as I was, and then I received the money in insults, and then I went to the counter that was as high as I was, and gave them to my long-suffering patient. I went to the counter of the same height to buy medicine for my father, who had been sick for a long time. When I got home, I had to do something else, because the doctor who wrote the prescription was the most famous, and the prescription was also strange: winter rushes, sugar cane that had been frosted for three years, crickets in pairs, and flatwoods with seeds ...... were not easy to come by. Yet my father finally died day by day." These experiences became the starting point of his life and kept him alive for the rest of his life. The character of not bowing down to evil forces continued throughout Lu Xun's life. When Lu Xun talked about his afterlife in his later years, he said, "The man who damages other people's teeth and eyes, but opposes retaliation and advocates tolerance, never get close to him." Speaking of his opponents, he told Xu Guangping, "Let them bear their grudges, I will not forgive any of them." That's why Mao Zedong said in his evaluation of Lu Xun: "Mr. Lu Xun's bones are the hardest, and he doesn't have the slightest slavish face or flattering bones. ......" It's also this unyielding character that makes him have a clear-cut love and hatred, and makes him have the ability to "face thousands of people with a cold eyebrow, and bend his head willingly to be a child's cow". The first thing I'd like to say is that I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I think I'm going to be able to do it.

Reading Lu Xun's novels, you will feel cold at first. For example, Xianglin's wife, so a healthy and diligent peasant woman, how can in the customary prejudice and the coldness of the crowd into a beggar, and finally died in the unknown. In Medicine, the blood of a patriot who sacrificed himself for his country was dipped into steamed buns by a man suffering from consumption as a secret recipe to eat. A rural proletarian, Q, who is actually very capable of labor, somehow becomes a scapegoat for others in the midst of the contempt of the masses and his own self-deception. It seems that Chinese society is completely devoid of humanity, and only turns living people into zombies, without even the slightest breath of "life". Lu Xun, like the other leaders of the New Culture Movement, was not afraid to expose the cold and inhuman side of Chinese culture with the sharpest of strokes. Yet Lu Xun was also a most ardent patriot, which seems rather paradoxical.

The novels in "Scream" and "Indecision" are Lu Xun's chilling portrayal of real social life, intended to wake up the sleeping nation, while the prose in "The Morning Flower and the Evening Gleanings" is Lu Xun's inner bitterness, transformed into a supra-worldly imagination, which has made "Wild Grass" a wondrous piece of modernist literature in China. Lu Xun once told someone, "My philosophy is all in the Weeds." Lu Xun's innermost emotional experiences and most subtle philosophical insights are conveyed through this peculiar artistic means.

Lu Xun dared to break the taboos of reality and tradition, and to tear the props and shibboleths of the rulers bluntly, revealing the bloody reality, which, though sometimes seems cruel, is better than letting people sink into anesthesia. In the case of Diary of a Madman, what the madman sees in the words of history is the word "cannibalism". Among the great figures of history, their greatness and achievements were all made at the cost of one innocent life, and the development of Chinese Confucianism also culminated in the elimination of human nature. The so-called Three Principles and Five Virtues and the Three Obediences and Four Virtues are all based on treating human beings as if they were animals. The Twenty-four Filial Prayers is a living picture of the extermination of human nature. In modern times, Zeng Guofan became a prominent scholar, and he stained his own top by killing his compatriots, but externally, he did not have the slightest bit of cynicism. Lu Xun saw through all this, he never labeled as a mentor and direction, he brought us to think, this thinking is closely around the human nature, Kong Yijie, Sister-in-law Xianglin, the bottom of these tragic fate of the characters are not cohesion of his deep sympathy and care.