A big writer, a "big traitor", a big cadre - the famous writer Zhu Zheng
The three most accomplished brothers in modern China, who were born and raised in the same family, embarked on three different paths due to differences in circumstances and ideological concepts, and the two also married Japanese wives.
They had a profound influence on Twentieth Century China, but also reflected the current situation of many societies at that time, they were the three brothers of Zhou Shuren, Zhou Zuoren and Zhou Jianren. Among them, the most low-profile is Zhou Jianren, who has 7 children as soon as he has children, as the most unknown of the three brothers, what is the status of his children?
Bookish Mendi
In Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, there is a Scholar Xiang Mendi surnamed Zhou, whose distant ancestor is the famous Confucian scholar Zhou Dunyi during the Northern Song Dynasty, who wrote the "Ai Lian Theory" that has been passed down to future generations. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, this family produced many officials and readers. At the beginning of the Republic of China, Zhou Fengyi, a descendant of the Zhou family, was still a dynasty Xiucai, and he cultivated three famous sons, namely zhou shuren, Zhou Zuoren, and Zhou Jianren.
Zhou Shuren - a giant of literature
Zhou Shuren, pen name Lu Xun, modern literary scholar and thinker, his literary ideas guided the direction of the development of modern new culture, had a major impact on the development of Chinese social ideology and culture after the May Fourth Movement, and to this day, is also the spiritual leader of literati from all walks of life.
Lu Xun went to Japan to study medicine in his youth, and in Japan, he was influenced by the cultural ideas of the New Democratic Revolution and completely awakened. He saw the essence of society, and studying medicine could not save the festering country at that time, so this weak scholar decided to abandon medicine and follow literature. After returning to China, Lu Xun actively participated in the new democratic revolutionary movement, fighting with the barrel of a pen, and creating a series of works that were enough to become the spiritual food of the revolutionary youth at that time. In 1936, Lu Xun died of illness in Shanghai at the age of 56. Last words for future generations: Funerals are all simple.
Zhou Zuoren - Cultural traitor
Zhou Zuoren, a famous essayist, his style of writing is very different from Lu Xun's, not talking about politics, but only paying attention to the smooth, perfect, relaxed and humorous style. Zhou Zuoren also studied in Japan in the early days and married a Japanese wife, probably related to his personal ambitions, he did not join the revolution, but with his own language talent, he helped the Japanese translate Japanese books.
According to the requirements of the Japanese government, he taught in domestic schools and served as the president of the Japan Writers Association, becoming a "cultural traitor" recognized by society at that time.
Political factors aside, Zhou Zuoren's literary and linguistic attainments were definitely the first of the three brothers, until after the founding of New China, Chairman Mao spared no effort, and Zhou Zuoren, who had undergone ideological transformation, became a translator and spent his old age in an ordinary way. Before I die, I will leave it to my descendants: I will be cremated or left ashes after I die, and I will be buried casually.
Zhou Jianren - counterattack into talent
Zhou Jianren, the least famous of the three brothers, but extremely high achievements. His birth coincided with the complete collapse of China's feudal system, the premature death of his father, and the distant study of his two brothers in Japan. He could not bear to leave his mother alone, although he had the heart to study, he eventually stayed at home and became a self-taught talent, engaged in biological research and translation. He also translated Darwin's book On the Origin of Species.
Later, under the introduction of Lu Xun, he served as the editor of the Zoology Department of the Shanghai Commercial Press. Due to his outstanding professional knowledge and writing, after the founding of New China, he was appointed deputy director of the National Publishing Administration, and eventually became a deputy state-level cadre. At the same time, Zhou Jianren is also a pioneer in advocating equality between men and women.
Zhou Jianren's wife, Yu Taifangzi, was the younger sister of Zhou Zuoren's wife and a Japanese. During the period when he came to China to take care of his sister Yu Taixinzi, he secretly had a relationship with Zhou Jianren and married him, and the two had 3 sons and a daughter.
The eldest son, Zhou Chong, was born in 1915 and died tragically, when he was only one year old.
The eldest daughter, Ma Buri, also known as Juzi, was born in 1917 and grew up living in Beijing with her mother and grandmother. After marrying as an adult, he followed her husband to Tangshan to live, but was unfortunately killed in the Tangshan earthquake, leaving behind a pair of children.
The second son, Zhou Pei, was born in 1919 and grew up in Beijing, and later worked as a mathematics teacher at Beijing Middle School. In the later special period, after some persecution, he survived with his optimism and persistence, and invented a coal stove that saved effort and convenience. Family and later life are calm and serene.
The youngest son, Fengsan, was born in 1922, and his parents divorced him at an early age, and his father was born to his student Wang Yun during his tenure in Shanghai. At the age of 19, Feng San could not bear the blow of family changes and eventually committed suicide by drinking bullets, which was regrettable.
Zhou Jianren and Wang Yunru had three daughters, probably influenced by their parents, and all three had extremely high achievements.
The eldest daughter, Zhou Ye, was born in 1926 and attended St. John's University in Shanghai and joined the Communist Party of China during her student years. After graduation, he worked as a newspaper reporter and actively devoted himself to revolutionary work. In literature, he published two books, "My Uncle Lu Xun" and "The Fall of Lu Xun's Former Family". She had three sons with her husband, the eldest son and the second son worked in the Beijing Publishing House and the Beijing Railway Department respectively, and the youngest son was passed on to her third sister.
The second daughter, Zhou Jin, born in 1927, was also an underground party worker, she studied medicine at an early age, went to the Soviet Union for further study as an adult, and continued to engage in medical research after returning to China. After marriage, she had a son and a daughter, the son taught at the university, and the daughter became a doctor like her mother.
Born in Shanghai in 1932, the youngest daughter Zhou Qu was admitted to the Department of Economics of Tsinghua University, and after graduation, she devoted herself to the education industry, with only one daughter and a son of the eldest sister Zhou Ye.
In 1984, Zhou Jianren died of illness in Beijing at the age of 96, and his will before his death was also simple. He advocated that everyone get rid of old customs, create new trends, and spend funds on building socialist modernization.
Don't spend the state's money on funerals, don't waste everyone's precious time, and after death, it is forbidden to hold memorial services and say goodbye to the body. The body was donated to the medical school for dissection, and the ashes were scattered to the sea, and as a believer in Marxism, we must also learn from its great revolutionary spirit.
Meritorious deeds have become history
The completely different life endings of the three brothers of the Zhou family, no matter the merits or demerits, are already the clouds of history. The wealth they left behind in literature is eternal, and their last words before their deaths are all warnings to future generations: low-key people, indifferent to fame and fortune.
In particular, in today's society, there are still many people who pay attention to class solidification, believing that only those who reincarnate into a family similar to Wang Sicong are winners in life. As everyone knows, Mr. Zhou Jianren, a thinker a hundred years ago, has long told us with his own experience: self-improvement is unremitting, and nothing is impossible in life.
Throughout Zhou Jianren's life, he was unable to choose his own path from an early age, and with regret, he taught himself to become a talent, and fought against the wind under the wings of his two elder brothers with high literary attainments. In his youth, his life was depressed, and he even had to rely on Lu Xun's writing fees to get by.
But he did not give up, from an editor to a deputy state-level cadre, it can be said that under the aura of self-improvement. What is even more valuable is that he also left many biological research works and translations to posterity.
It is this kind of spiritual wealth that profoundly affects its descendants, shining in ordinary life and indifferent to fame and fortune. Deep cultivation in their own field will inevitably achieve something, make their own contributions to society, and become what their parents expect.