In 1921, Mr. Lu Xun's "Hometown" short story was published in the New Youth Magazine, and the passage at the end of the novel was like a treasure passed down from generation to generation.
Excerpt from the original article:
"I thought of hope, and suddenly I was scared. When The Earth asked for incense burners and candlesticks, I laughed at him secretly, thinking that he always worshiped idols and never forgot them. Isn't my so-called hope now also my own handmade idol? It's just that his wish is close, and my wish is far away.
In the haze, I was in front of a turquoise sandy field by the sea, and in the deep blue sky hung a golden full moon. I thought: Hope is nothing to have, nothing to have. This is like the way on the earth; in fact, there is no road on the earth, and the more people who walk, the more it becomes the road. ”
January 1921.
People read Lu Xun's articles in recent middle age, and another taste is in their hearts. Lu Xun was born in 1881 during the Qing Guangxu period, and in January 1921, he completed the short story "Hometown", at this time Lu Xun was already 40 years old, a middle-aged man full of vicissitudes.
At the end of the Xinhai Revolution in February 1912, Empress Dowager Longyu came to the throne and promulgated the Edict of Abdication in the name of the Empress Dowager, and Puyi abdicated. The autocratic regime of the feudal dynasty was overthrown, and for nearly 10 years, under the rule of the warlord bureaucracy of the landlord class, imperialism manipulated not only China's financial and economic lifeline, but also China's political and military power. As a result of this double oppression, the broad masses of the Chinese people, especially the Chinese peasants, have become increasingly impoverished, living a life of hunger and cold and no political rights, and the Chinese people have not lived a life that revolutionary aspirations want to see.
Exploring a new way out of China is still the primary task of those pioneers who saved the country, and Lu Xun at this time was also one of the pioneers.
In 1919, Lu Xun sold the old mansion in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, near the Xinjiekou of Beijing's Xicheng, wanted to pick up his mother to live in Beijing, on the way back to his hometown, saw a large number of deserted villages and houses, Lu Xun's previous homesickness and eagerness gradually cooled down, except for Beijing, the situation in other places seems to be worse than before.
"Since it is the depths of winter; as we approach our hometown, the weather is gloomy again, and the cold wind blows into the cabin, whining, looking out from the canopy gap, under the pale yellow sky, there are several desolate villages near and far, and there is no vitality. My heart couldn't help but get sad. ”
How bitter and helpless it is for a person to go from homesickness to coldness, and it is more urgent to worry about the way out and future of the country than to feel the loneliness of his hometown.
When he arrived at his hometown, the ruined scene, Lu Xun had already expected in his heart, and he was not surprised, that is, he wanted to dispose of the furniture properly and return to Beijing, no longer nostalgic.
During this period, he met his childhood playmate Yan Tu, the second sister-in-law of the old house neighbor Tofu Xi Shi Yang.
Mr. Lu Xun portrayed these two people very carefully, and through these two characters, the reader very clearly felt the scene of Lu Xun's hometown at that time, and clearly saw the living conditions of the lower classes at that time.
Lu Xun, Lu Xun's playmate at that time, when he was a child, the New Year, Lu Xun's family was busy, and Lu Tu's father brought Lu Tu to help. During the period, Lu Xun told Lu Xun how to catch birds, how to go to the beach to collect shells, how to take care of watermelons, and fork badgers with a fork, Lu Xun was 40 years old at this time, and the memories of Yan Tu's childhood, still remember clearly, but now The leaping earth, like woodcuts, has deep wrinkles on his face, but he is motionless. And the respectful old man in The mouth of The Humble and Respectful Old Man once again struck Lu Xun's heart.
When he was a child, he called himself the playmate of his brother and brother, and now he respectfully calls himself a master, bowing his knees, not daring to say much, not daring to sit upright, such a class imprisonment makes it difficult for Lu Xun's heart to calm down.
But his niece Hong'er and Shui Sheng, the son of Yan Tu, played innocently together like himself and Yan Tu. Until hong'er on the boat back to Beijing, he asked Lu Xun when he would come back, because the aquatic asked him to play together again. Lu Xun sighed in his heart, hoping that there would be no gap between Hong'er Aquatic's generation like himself and The Leap Earth.
Tofu Xi Shi Yang second sister-in-law is also impressive, in the early years of her youth, the tofu business has been booming, and now the world is chaotic, tofu Xi Shi Yang second sister-in-law gradually becomes sour and mean, the lips become thinner, high cheekbones, like a thin footed compass.
During Lu Xun's sale of furniture, he would arrive every day, each time taking some things, and the last time, he turned over some bowls in the incense ash, saying that they were hidden in the leap earth, so that he could take them when he pulled the incense ash. Just by discovering this, she thought she had merit, and took the gas dog from Lu Xun's house to kill the fence.
At this time, Yang Erjie has become a villain who speculates on others for no reason in order to take advantage, and selfishly loves to take advantage.
Is it their fault that such a change? Lu Xun looked up at the night sky and asked himself, and he also had the words that have been passed down to this day at the end of the novel.
In the haze, I was in front of a turquoise sandy field by the sea, and in the deep blue sky hung a golden full moon. I thought: Hope is nothing to have, nothing to have. This is like the way on the earth; in fact, there is no road on the earth, and the more people who walk, the more it becomes the road.