Why did Lu Xun name himself Lu Xun?

The reason why Lu Xun named himself Lu Xun: Lu Xun’s mother’s surname was Lu, and Zhou Lu came from a country with the same surname, which means stupid and quick. Lu Xun (September 25, 1881 - October 19, 1936), whose original name was Zhou Zhangshou, later changed to Zhou Shuren, with the courtesy name Yushan, and later the courtesy name Hencai, was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. Famous writer, thinker, revolutionist, educator, democratic fighter, important participant in the New Culture Movement, and one of the founders of modern Chinese literature.

In his early years, he went to Japan to study abroad at public expense with Li Suizhi and Qian Junfu, and graduated from Sendai Medical College in Japan. "Lu Xun" was the pen name used when he published "Diary of a Madman" in 1918. It is also the most widely used pen name.

Lu Xun made significant contributions in many fields throughout his life, including literary creation, literary criticism, ideological research, literary history research, translation, introduction of art theory, introduction to basic science, and collation and research of ancient books. He has a great influence on the ideological and cultural development of Chinese society and is well-known in the world of literature, especially in the ideological and cultural fields of Korea and Japan. He has an extremely important position and influence and is known as "the writer who occupies the largest territory on the cultural map of East Asia in the 20th century."