This year marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of the great writer, thinker and revolutionary Mr. Lu Xun. In April 1931, in order to protest the atrocities committed by the Kuomintang authorities in killing the five martyrs of the Left League, Mr. Lu Xun, at great risk, secretly compiled and printed the "Outpost Commemorating the War Dead" together with Feng Xuefeng and other Communists, exposing and accusing the crimes of the Kuomintang reactionaries, which caused unprecedented repercussions at home and abroad.
The text and the martyr's remains in the "Outpost : Commemorating the War Dead" were forced to be printed separately, and then the martyr's remains were pasted on the publication, and the word "outpost" was re-engraved into a seal by Lu Xun's handwriting, and printed one by one on the masthead... In order to adapt to the harsh environment of struggle, the second issue was renamed "Literary Herald", published to the eighth issue, and was once again banned.
This is the first character memorial hall established after the founding of New China, and it also manages Lu Xun's tomb and Lu Xun's former residence. Cultural relics such as large manuscripts, relics, documents and prints reproduce the great spirit of "horizontal eyebrows and cold fingers, bowing down to the cows"... Let's walk into the Shanghai Lu Xun Memorial Hall and listen to the story of Lu Xun's cultural relics.
Narrator: Happy Rong
Deputy Director of Shanghai Lu Xun Memorial Hall and Research Librarian
"Outpost: Commemoration of the Dead"
One of the exhibits in the Lu Xun Memorial Hall in Shanghai is the 1931 magazine Outpost Commemorating the War Dead, an early official organ of the Chinese Left-Wing Writers' Union.
On the night of February 7, 1931, 24 young revolutionaries, including Rou Shi, Yin Fu, Li Weisen, Hu Yipin, and the five martyrs of Feng Haozuolian, sang the "Internationale" with jingling shackles and walked to the scene of righteous execution. Lu Xun, as the lord and standard-bearer of the Left Alliance, felt extreme grief and recited the poem "Untitled" ("Accustomed to Spending Spring in a Long Night"), which expressed his will to fight "angrily looking for small poems in the knife bush".
In order to expose the brutality and despicableness of the Kuomintang reactionaries, Lu Xun took the risk and edited the "Outpost: Commemorating the War Dead" together with Feng Xuefeng, secretary of the Left League. In order to avoid the cultural inspection of the Kuomintang authorities, the contents of the magazine were printed all night long, and then transported to the upper floor of the Gongdao Bookstore on Laojizi Road (now Wujin Road), and then the two characters engraved with the words "outpost" written by Lu Xun in thick ink were coated with red ink and printed by hand on the newspaper head.
The "Outpost" also includes biographies and testaments of the martyrs, as well as mourning and protest articles and declarations such as Mr. Lu Xun's "Chinese Proletarian Revolutionary Literature and the Blood of the Precursors" exposing the brutal atrocities of the Kuomintang and the indomitable will of the Left League. Because the comrades were full of feelings of grief and hatred when they knocked on the masthead, they almost pressed their entire bodies up, so the back of the cover paper still left traces of ink passing through. In this way, "Outpost" was published at an unimaginable speed under extremely difficult conditions.
You and I build the Red Journey together
The centenary grand plan set sail from here
Tell the story of Lu Xun's cultural relics
Relive the great cause of red and carry forward the red tradition
Let the red gene pass on from generation to generation
Special thanks: Shanghai Lu Xun Memorial Hall
Planner: Guo Jun, Wang Wei, Lv Yuxin
Photography: Chen Long, Zhang Ting, Zhou Junchao
Editing: Wang Zhuo
Editor: Chen Yunfeng Chen Yin