Others' evaluation of Lu Xun
Besides, Mr. Lu Xun has to be so short and thin, wearing a long gown and standing there as if he doesn't care. It would be a fatal mistake if he were as tall as Bernard Shaw and as big as Balzac. But if he also has Yu Youren's long beard, or a bald head like Shen Junru, antique is there, after all, it's still not like him. He looks very much like himself, very "May 4th"; Very "China", but actually very modern ... Westerners take advantage of the appearance because of the strength of the West, but they really want to meet excellent China people, who are refined and refined in their bones, and who are described as "noble and negative" by Peter Luzi, which is really beyond the reach of westerners. Like the ink color of Chinese painting, it can compare the western colorful; You compare Mr. Lu Xun's appearance with that of western writers, which is really literary, but not arrogant at all.
When Bernard Shaw met Lu Xun in Shanghai that year, he praised him for his good appearance. It is said that the old gentleman replied: His early appearance was even better. This is not that Lu Xun can speak, but that he respects Bernard Shaw and himself.
aren't I judging a book by its cover? Yes, in the highest sense, a person's appearance is his person. But the above statement is just my wishful thinking and unrequited love for the old gentleman, and I can't get everyone's consent. Fortunately, private opinions don't need to be agreed, but they are just talking about themselves.
The first fun person in China
The second reason I like Lu Xun is that the old gentleman is fun. In terms of literature and characters, he is the first fun person in China in the past 1 years.
The word "fun" is a bit frivolous. It is a casual remark made by young people now to describe Mr. Lu Xun, isn't it? I thought about it, but I chose this word. This word is used to refer to Lu Xun. What does it mean? I have to try to go on and see if I can make sense.
In the last twenty years, "Lu Xun Study" has finally been able to put Lu Xun back into the era and "context" where he lived, instead of painting him with thick ideological paint and treating him more honestly as in the past. Then, to be fair, there are quite a few people around him who can be called fighters, pioneers, mentors and revolutionaries. For example, Zhang Taiyan dared to fight Yuan Shikai, and Lu Xun appreciated it. There are countless martyrs who founded the Republic of China. Liang Qichao advocated * * * harmony, Cai Yuanpei advocated academic freedom, Hu Shi advocated democratic ideas, and Liang Shuming personally built rural areas ... These figures were pioneers and mentors in the modern history of China, and their achievements were above Lu Xun.
Lu Xun shouted about state affairs all his life, but you said that he was keen on politics. He neither joined the two parties nor became an official. You said that he was a scholar, but he had a close relationship with the "chaotic party" at that time in private, and even joined the Left League. Take the fact that he is often wanted, it is not inappropriate to compare Lu Xun with politicians. It is said that during the White Terror period, Lu Xun once seriously asked the revolutionaries what it was like to be tortured, which shows that he was prepared to suffer.
The old gentleman is "complacent"
Now I'm singling out a so-called "fun" saying that Lu Xun is suspected of "covering the whole with one side", but I don't care about it, because I can't belittle Lu Xun, and I can't erase all kinds of comments made by people who like Lu Xun or hate him. I'm just picking up my own experience and drawing an image of Lu Xun that I thought was "fun" in the gap between people's words.
According to my personal experience, the so-called "fun" can transcend meaning, right and wrong, all kinds of big words, layered value judgments and ideologies, and directly perceive that person-when I read Lu Xun in my youth, I would keep laughing. As an adult, I know that there are countless secret reasons for this laughter, but I can't say it, and fortunately I can't say it-such a kind of reading pleasure, among writers in modern China, reading and reading, only Lu Xun can give it to me. I believe that he writes like this and knows that someone will laugh.
Just give a trivial example. In "Watching Xiao and People Watching Xiao", it is recorded that Soong Ching Ling informed Lu Xun that Bernard Shaw had arrived in Shanghai and was having dinner there, and asked him if he would like to meet him. Lu Xun then wrote: If there is such a thing to meet, let's meet it.
what do you mean? It doesn't mean anything, but there is a layer of meaning that needs to be said but it's hard to say, and it's not fun if it's hard to say. What do you mean-Xiao is a big shot. Lu Xun knows that he is also a big shot. It is unnecessary, inappropriate and generous not to go to see him, or to see him quickly, or to look down on him. In fact, Lu Xun wants to meet, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't. Now that people have come and the invitation has come, then-if there is such a thing to meet, let's meet it.
This meaning is deep, shallow, spontaneous, and appropriate. He thought about it so much at that time, and wrote it afterwards. It was very light, casual, and I didn't see how to use my mind. However, there was such a pen-later I wrote about him, sitting there watching Xiao eat with everyone, and so on-this is what I call fun, very.
Lu Xun's real loveliness lies in his "self-satisfaction".
what does it mean to be complacent? I don't know, this sentence has long been forgotten, and I can only translate it into "fun" rudely and vulgarly. However, whether it is "self-satisfaction" or "fun", it belongs to the point-to-point statement. Those who understand it, don't understand it, or don't want to accept it, say it in vain. I'm going to insist on Lu Xun's "fun" today, but it's no longer fun. What should I do? Now that I'm pretending to be a lecture here, I have to continue to do this thankless thing. Let's start with Lu Xun's character.
Mr. Wang's personality
Recently, I got an internal document from more than 4 years ago, which was a conversation record of many cultural people invited by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China in order to shoot the film "The Biography of Lu Xun". Of course, all of them were literary and art officials, but they all knew and dealt with the old gentleman. Almost everyone mentioned that Mr. Lu Xun was not a straight face all the time, but very humorous, casual and fond of joking.
I have an old friend in Shanghai. His real uncle is a young man who played with Mr. Lu Xun. His name is Tang Tao. In the 195s and 196s, when Tang Tao saw that the world had made Lu Xun look like lost face and made a miserable face, he privately said to his nephew, "Oh, Lu Xun is not like that." He also said that, for example, the old gentleman wrote an abusive article at night, and met the scolded friend at the banquet the next day, asking each other questions, and still laughing and laughing. Except for some opponents that Lu Xun hated, his relationship with many friends was by no means so black and white.
In recalling the old gentleman's words, it seems that women can grasp the "fun" side of the old gentleman. In recent years, publications have intensively presented a relatively real Lu Xun. Looking down, Lu Xun almost joked about people and things around him anytime and anywhere. Even if you send a book to a young friend, you should make a joke-a book for newly married Chuan Dao: My dear brother Mao, please stretch out your hand from your lover's arms and accept this boring "A Brief History of China Literature". That kind of intimacy That kind of kindness and pride!
I guess, apart from what the old man is really angry about, he is seeking this kind of self-made pleasure every waking moment.
A fun person knows how to laugh at himself and advance and retreat. He is always relaxed, open-minded and playful. "Fun" is a huge room for personality and even fate, rich side and generous background. Once a fun person is correct and serious, once he is angry and fierce, once he threatens, he will suffer if he does not know how to play.
Mr. Wang's game articles
In my opinion, Lu Xun's critical, dagger-like and combative revolutionary articles have always been praised. Today, most of them are written by Mr. Lu Xun only for fun. In China's view, they are called "game articles", and in modern times, they are called "pleasure in writing"-so-called "game", so-called "pleasure" and straightforward. Anti-ethics, dissecting national character, advocating vernacular, opposing power, etc., as mentioned earlier, there were many people writing at that time, and their intensity and profundity were not under Lu Xun's command, or even worse. However, more than 9 years have passed, and we can find out today that the critical articles of the May Fourth Movement are always inferior to Lu Xun, not because his ideas and reasons are inferior to his, but because Lu Xun knows the pleasure of writing, the pleasure of scheduling words and the playfulness of the articles.
But when we look at his writing, we usually only see sharpness and profundity, but we don't see the old gentleman's pride, because the old gentleman doesn't reveal it. This is not revealed, but also a kind of pride, a "play" gesture, just like he tells jokes and doesn't laugh himself.
We just look at the titles of Lu Xun's various collections, such as "Just Collection", "Three Leisure Collections", "Quasi-romantic Talk" and "Assembling in the South and North". It's really fun and playful, and the result is beautiful and clever. The topics he gave to the article were also interesting, and I wanted to read them at first sight, such as Thinking and Doing, People's Heart is Ancient, Diary at once, and so on, and so on, and the number was countless. Presumably, the old gentleman smiled under the moustache and was proud of himself. There are two famous articles in Lace Literature: Beijing School and Shanghai School, and Southerners and Northerners, which were written on the same day. Obviously, the old man's writing rose in the middle of the night, and he was so proud that he smoked a mess that he simply wrote another article.
in China's prose, it is so sincere and beautiful that it is only Lu Xun. Don't underestimate this ending: it is not only for the sake of getting back to the point, but also for the level of the article and the collection of pens. I think the deeper meaning is that the old gentleman is very considerate in seeing things. He is sharp, kind, violent and sober, and will not push his views and attitudes to extremes, making it look like he is in a high fever-an angry man is also a wise man, and his anger is beautiful literature.
With such a playful attitude, Lu Xun's article can be serious and profound, and then set a funny topic and laugh at himself-he knows that his article stands taller than others, and he knows that he stands taller than his article-and he can stand tall and open up, so he can afford fun and games. The so-called "laughing and cursing are all articles", in fact, few people can do it at all times and in all countries.
His tone and style are not just angry and sharp, but he will be deep and kind all the time, such as his memory words; Suddenly spicy and naughty, such as essays after middle age; Suddenly plain and solemn, such as involving learning or translation; Suddenly profound and old, such as "New Stories"; Suddenly gentle and sad, such as "Chao Hua Xi Shi"; However, there is a very desperate and empty flavor, which almost appears in his writings in various periods-especially in his preface, postscript, inscription and postscript. The above qualities with great contrast will be unexpectedly mixed together and inseparable.