Lu Xun's Discussion on the Relationship between the Old and the New in the Social Revolution

Lu Xun put a fact here, which I think is to reveal the cultural mentality of the lower scholars (not civilians) in feudal culture. For many years, they just followed the old tradition and regarded the old things as norms. There are two attitudes towards new things. What has nothing to do with self-interest is gentle, and what is related to self-interest is regarded as a scourge and rejected without discrimination. At the beginning of the New Culture Movement, these people refused for fear of endangering their long-standing superior position, but when they really found that the object of the New Culture Movement was not their own interests, but ordinary people, they were relieved. There is a little spirit of Ah Q in this, which is also a reflection of Lu Xun's national character. In fact, these people do not really believe in Confucian culture. They are just fetishists who wear the cloak of Confucian culture and only believe in interests. The spirit of Confucius' traditional culture is to serve people, not to control them.

You can talk about the fact that this blind rejection and liberation continues-the main performance is selfishness. Selfish people only care about their own interests, and their strength in this respect should be easy to find.