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How high is Lu Xun's social status? The 16 people who "carried the coffin" for him at his funeral were not simple

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As we all know, although the Republic of China is in turmoil and has internal and external troubles, there is one thing that is worth affirming, that is, an era of a hundred schools of thought contending and masters emerging.

Wars are frequent, and the spiritual world of the vast majority of people is extremely empty, but it is in such a big environment that many "hard pen poles" have emerged in the literary world, and Mr. Lu Xun is naturally the best among them.

He was deeply skilled, jealous and hateful, and used sharp blade-like words to cut through this decadent world, making many forces tremble, and even the old Jiang at that time admired him for three points! It can be said that the three words "national soul" are used in Mr. Lu Xun's body.

How high is Lu Xun's social status? The 16 people who "carried the coffin" for him at his funeral were not simple

Mr. Lu Xun is a hard pen holder, but his health is not very good, in his early 20s, because of some circumstances and infected with the vice of smoking, to later abandon the doctor from the literature to find no inspiration, and smoke all night, the most serious time the cigarette in his hand has never been broken.

At that time, most of the tobacco was tobacco leaves, just simple processing, very hurtful, and Mr. Lu Xun actually had 35 years of smoking age, an old smoking gun. Mr. Lu Xun suffered from chronic bronchitis after long-term smoking, which subsequently developed into emphysema.

In October 1936, Mr. Lu Xun was terminally ill, coughing up and wheezing, and sometimes even coughing up blood, so he had to go to the doctor and found the Japanese doctor Sudo.

How high is Lu Xun's social status? The 16 people who "carried the coffin" for him at his funeral were not simple

In the early years, Lu Xun studied in Japan and knew that Japanese Western medicine was very good, but Kasuto was an idiot doctor who misdiagnosed it as "cardiogenic asthma" and only treated it with oxygen, resulting in aggravation of the disease.

A few days later, Lu Xun's condition became more and more serious, and he asked Suto a sentence from his hospital bed: "How is my illness?" But who would have thought that this sentence would be the last sentence in his life.

After Mr. Lu Xun's death, his widow Xu Guangping informed Lu Xun's student Hu Feng, and after that, the news of Lu Xun's death spread like an earthquake, and countless celebrities rushed to Shanghai to mourn.

How high is Lu Xun's social status? The 16 people who "carried the coffin" for him at his funeral were not simple

Song Qingling and others were in Shanghai and came first. With Xu Guangping's consent, a list of condolences was drawn up, and the obituary of Mr. Lu Xun was published in the newspaper on the same day, a total of 13 people, all of whom were celebrities.

Later, a total of 15 people, including Ma Xiangbo, were added to this obituary. After this news was published in the newspaper, it caused a huge sensation in all walks of life, and countless ordinary people spontaneously went to mourn.

On the afternoon of October 22, 1936, after Mr. Lu Xun's body was parked at the Wanguo Funeral Home for 4 days, 16 social democrats and literary leaders lifted the coffin for Mr. Lu Xun and set off from the Wanguo Funeral Home and personally sent it to the Wanguo Cemetery for burial.

How high is Lu Xun's social status? The 16 people who "carried the coffin" for him at his funeral were not simple

According to Xiao Jun's "Brief Record of the Death", there were 16 people carrying coffins for Mr. Lu Xun's body at that time!

There are: Ba Jin, Chen Baichen, Cao Bai, Hu Feng, Huang Yuan, Li Liewen, Lu Diqian, Nie Cyan, Wu Langxi, Meng Shihuan, Jin Yi, Ouyang Shan, Xiao Jun, Xiao Qian, Zhang Tianyi, Zhou Wen.

There are more than 10 kilometers on this road, and when they marched, they stood on both sides of the road and stood on both sides of the road who spontaneously came to see Mr. Lu Xun off, dressed in plain clothes, with a gloomy look, and some people with banners and slogans, and whispered anti-enemy songs, which was the first time in China's history that it had happened, and it was the only time in China's history.

How high is Lu Xun's social status? The 16 people who "carried the coffin" for him at his funeral were not simple

When Mr. Lu Xun's body was carried to the Cemetery of Nations, the people took it upon themselves to dig a suitable pit for Mr. Lu Xun's coffin at the tomb site.

The funeral was presided over by Mr. Cai Yuanpei, who was the president of Peking University at the time, Song Qingling, Xiao Jun and others came to the stage to speak, and at the beginning of the funeral, everyone present sang the "Rest Song" together to pray for Mr. Lu Xun and wish him a rest in heaven.

Under the respect and tears of all people, Mr. Lu Xun's coffin was covered by dirt, Mr. Lu Xun was buried in the earth, his era was over, he was also isolated from this world, but he left an indelible voice in the hearts of the world, and he will always live in the hearts of the world.

How high is Lu Xun's social status? The 16 people who "carried the coffin" for him at his funeral were not simple

References for this article: "Xiang Yi Mo", "The Republic of China", "Brief Notes on the Death", "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Terms - Lu Xun, Lu Xun Funeral, etc."

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