Therefore, when Lu Xun is mentioned, the serious appearance of him on the textbook pictures always comes to mind. In fact, Lu Xun also had a "childish" and hearty laugh, when his identity was not a writer and thinker, but a father.
Lu Xun had only one child: Zhou Haiying. Zhou Hainian was born in 1929, when Lu Xun was over forty years old. The most "childish" article he wrote is written for his son Zhou Haiying, and many people may not think that the serious Lu Xun will also have clumsy hands to coax his son and feed his son, this article is the "magic weapon" for him to coax his son to sleep at night.
When parents coax babies to sleep, they mostly hum some nursery rhymes, such as "Sleep, sleep, my dear baby" and so on. Lu Xun hummed this poem he created himself, the name is "Little Red Elephant", interestingly, it uses only 3 words in its entire text: "small", "red", "elephant". Why didn't Lu Xun hum the little tiger or the little white rabbit, but a little red elephant?
Quite simply, Lu Xun's family of three has a nickname, and Lu Xun's nickname is Lin Yutang's: a worrying white elephant. The reason is that Lu Xun is very special, the elephants in the zoo are all gray, and suddenly a white elephant appears, which is very precious; Lu Xun then called himself a "little white elephant", called his wife Xu Guangping "little hedgehog", and after his son was born, when he saw that he was red, he called him "Little Red Elephant".
Lu Xun's friend Yu Dafu and others have recalled Lu Xun's "chaotic parenting life", for example, after having a son, Lu Xun's time to read and write articles has shrunk greatly, as a novice parent, he bought a bunch of parenting books to study day and night, and did it stupidly according to what the book said, the book said that the child should be fed milk every two hours, so even if the son is asleep, he always wakes up his son.
But the "Little Red Elephant" was not in good health, and Lu Xun took him to see the doctor, only to learn that he had used the wrong parenting method. After that, Lu Xun strictly followed the doctor's instructions and took good care of his son. In view of the fact that the child was still young, Lu Xun was afraid that his smoke would smoke him, so he moved from the second floor to the first floor to work, and at midnight he went to the second floor to coax his son to sleep, and hummed the song "Little Red Elephant" tirelessly:
"Little red, little elephant, little red elephant; little elephant, little elephant red, little elephant red; little elephant, little red, little red red..." Lu Xun's self-created song can be said to have no literary talent, only the feelings of the beloved son, we probably can hardly imagine that a serious-looking Lu Xun also gently held his son from the window to the bedside, and then paced from the bedside to the window, slowly swallowing and humming songs.
Yu Dafu also recalled an interesting incident, he remembered that Lu Xun rarely laughed, and accidentally saw Lu Xun laughing once, because his son Zhou Haiying "rebelled" and asked "when will my father die", Lu Xun listened to the laughter and said to him, this boy seems to be in a hurry to occupy my study. In fact, from this incident, it can also be seen that Lu Xun is a relatively enlightened father.
Because Lu Xun's pet son is famous, everyone has some discussion behind their backs, Lu Xun wrote a poem in response after hearing it: "Ruthless may not be really Haojie, how pitiful is not a husband!" Therefore, Lu Xun's image is actually not so monotonous, just look at his father's appearance. Although the song "Little Red Elephant" has only 3 words, it has touched countless people and also let everyone know the most down-to-earth side of Lu Xun.