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The Biography of Lu Xun

Most people remember the Kong Yiji who was the only standing drinker that wore long robes in the typical novel of Lu Xun .He shaped lots of vivid and special characters like Kong Yiji. Certainly, as a litterateur and translator, he was also the founder of New Culture Movement.

Lu Xun was born in a fallen feudal family in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province. At that time, our country was in a great panic. Foreign invaders entered into our country. The civil war was bound to break out. Homeless people spread here and there. It was in the period that Lu Xun aroused people’s awareness to fight against the enemy and look for a better solution to save our country

His primitive name was Zhou Shuren. His popularity was proved by the fact that several of his works was entered in the textbooks of middle school and high school. What’s more, he was known by thousands of foreigners.

When he was a younger boy, he had to look after his poor family with his mother. He experienced the hardship and the indifference and hypocritical of people. He had the chance to come into close contact with people in low position and knew more about their life.

When he was 18, he left his hometown to enter the Nanyang Navy School. Then he studied in the school of mines in Nanjing Street. He was

excellent in all subjects. In 1902, he had a state scholarship to Japan to study medicine. At first, he spared no effort to learn it in Xiantai, for he wanted to improve people’s healthy condition and save as many people as possible. But he changed his mind totally after he saw a movie with his classmates. In the movie, a Chinese person regarded as the Russian detective would be killed by the Japanese solider. But some Chinese students did not show any sympathy for him and did not do anything. Then the Japanese said that China was bound to be perished. Hearing it, he was sad. He considered that the most important thing for Chinese was to free their mind and change their spirit appearance. After that, he made his mind to study literature to call on more people to protect our motherland. So he returned to Tokyo to translate foreign works as well as to publish literary magazines and articles. But he could not make him understood by most Chinese, let alone a small number of students studying abroad.

He came back form Japan in 1909. He taught students in a college to make a living after the Revolution of 1911. He pitched in the May Forth Movement. Then he published his first vernacular novel, A Madman’s Diary in New Youth in 1918 After that ,he reported a couple of short novels including NaHan and PangHang to describe the life of the poor. He also wrote some proses like The Weeds. In the year of 1926, he was honed, so he had to leave for Xiamen because of his scathing voices. He

had experienced with different kinds of national movements. Persecuted by the KMT, he did not give in. On the contrary, he regarded his pen as his gun to criticize the reactionaries. In his later time, he published a novel named Old Tales Retold. It came form an old Chinese legend. In the meantime, he added his imagination and experiences to it.

He died in shanghai in 1936. He was not only one of the greatest pioneers of Chinese culture, but also played a very important role in the political stage in Chinese history.