What is the significance of Lu Xun's existence in Chinese history?

As an outstanding representative of modern Chinese intellectuals, Lu Xun did not confine himself to his own design of life, but showed the social responsibility of an intellectual in a maverick way. At a time when some writers and artists are struggling for personal fame and fortune, the first revelation of Lu Xun's cultural choices to the current cultural development is the social responsibility of literary artists.

1, "people-oriented" compassion. Although Lu Xun was an advocate of the individuality liberation movement, he did not become an absolute individualist, and the general public has always been the center of attention of his literary activities. Lu Xun's creations have always been based on the general public, and he has maintained flesh and blood ties with the peasants, who are the lowest in the social status, and has taken their material poverty and spiritual misfortunes as the object of his expression.

As an intellectual with a strong sense of social responsibility, Lu Xun did not "hide in a small building", but pointed his criticism at the dark side of the traditional society and the cruelty of the old civilization, and sought the ideal situation for the survival of the common people in the denial of the bitter reality.

2. The ideal belief of "rebelling against despair". As a special spiritual individual in the group of intellectuals, writers are required by their sense of social responsibility to create a kind of hope for everyone's survival through their creations, and to reject the temptation of reality and hold up a lighthouse for their own nation, even if their own survival situation is difficult. Due to the constraints of the social environment, although Lu Xun's works also reveal a strong sense of despair, he still believes that "despair is as false as hope".

It was in his criticism of the weaknesses of the "national character" that Lu Xun discovered the spiritual strength that sustained the survival of the Chinese nation.

3. The spirit of sacrifice. Lu Xun lived at a time when the Chinese nation was suffering from the invasion of foreigners. In the face of the catastrophe of China, Lu Xun did not run away, but made the most valuable choice in life. He could either "shoulder the gate of darkness" for the future of the country or "recommend my blood to Xuan Yuan" for the hope of the nation, integrating his own flesh and blood into the destiny of the country and the nation.

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Lu Xun's Character Evaluations:

1. Mao Zedong ( proletarian revolutionary): "Lu Xun's bones are the hardest of all, and he has not the slightest slavishness or pandering. This is the most valuable character of the colonial and semi-colonial people. Lu Xun is a national hero on the cultural front." "Lu Xun is the main general of China's cultural revolution; he is not only a great man of letters, but also a great thinker and a great revolutionary."" ?

2. Kim Ryomori (Korean literary critic): "The writer who occupies the largest territory on the cultural map of East Asia in the twentieth century."

3, Fadeyev (Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev, a Soviet writer): "Lu Xun is a truly Chinese writer, and because of this he has contributed to the world's literature a lot of national forms, inimitable works. His language is in folk form. His satire and humor, though of the same character as that of mankind***, also bear inimitable national characteristics." He also described Lu Xun as "the Chinese Gorky."

4, Guo Moruo (poet and scholar): "Lu Xun is a revolutionary thinker, an epoch-making writer of literature and art, a factual historian, an educator by example, and an internationalist who aspires to the liberation of mankind."

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