"Juan as a Fool" commented on Zhu An: "As an enlightener, Lu Xun broke his heart for the future of China, and the enlightenment in ancient and modern China and abroad occurred in the ideological circles, and only Lu Xun and Qian Xuan were the same group of prophets who enlightened the common people. I have to admit that Lu Xun exaggerated the evil of fools in some excessive one-sided ways, and Chinese not so evil. Anti-foolishness ran through Lu Xun's life. Juan is a typical kind and simple ancient Chinese working woman, and she concentrates many of the good qualities of ancient women. Juan's tragedy is only because she accidentally became a fool. "
Lu Xun is a great literary hero in China's modern literary circles, his writing is deafening, he is known as "the writer who occupies the largest territory on the map of East Asian culture in the twentieth century", how many people do not know Lu Xun's writing? It's just that everyone knows Lu Xun and his love affair with his student Xu Guangping, but they don't know his wife, Zhu An, a "fool" as mentioned in the article.
She was a woman of the old era, but she married a man of the new era, and used her life to wait for his return, but she never got it, and when Lu Xun died, she finally said the words that had been brewing for more than forty years. That is the life that belongs to Juan, so listen to the story of Lu Xun's aura, which only belongs to Juan.
The marriage of the "little-footed woman" and the "new youth"
Zhu An, a rich lady born in the Family of Shaoxing Shangjia, her grandfather once worked as a Zhi County, the family was rich, and in Juan's father's generation, the family business began to decline, but she was still a big bridesmaid who grew up in the deep boudoir.
Unlike the women of the old days, Juan had little education and was not literate, but she knew etiquette and had a gentle and kind personality.
On the other hand, Lu Xun, the Zhou family was originally a large family, but the imprisonment of his grandfather and the death of his father, the Zhou family became more and more poor, all supported by his mother, Mrs. Zhou.
Therefore, Mrs. Zhou can be described as a decisive position in the family, she picked Zhu An, who was a showgirl for Lu Xun, and set up a relationship between the two without Lu Xun's knowledge.
When Lu Xun, who was studying in Japan, learned of this family affair, he also complained about his mother, but finally agreed to this family affair. After learning that his future wife was a woman with small feet and had not been in school for several years, he wrote to her to let her go, encouraging her to go to school and wanting to transform her into a new woman.
But what he didn't expect was that Juan was a child who grew up in a feudal family, and how could he allow her to learn new women like this? So Juan ignored Lu Xun's request, and when Lu Xun returned from studying in Japan to see that Juan was still the feudal woman, he was disappointed.
So on July 6, 1906, Juan and Lu Xun held a wedding and embarked on a loveless married life.
Second, the unfortunate life after marriage, alone in an empty house for 41 years
When the night of the candles in the cave room came, the young man who was young and hot-blooded did not have the slightest throbbing of the newlywed Yan'er, and he was extremely disgusted with Juan, who was wrapped in small feet and only promised. Although the two slept together, they were separated by a "milky way".
For Juan, the silence of her husband on the wedding night has made her feel lost, and on the second day of the new marriage, Lu Xun moved out of the room to sleep alone in the study, which made her understand that there is a clear boundary between them. On the third day of their marriage, Lu Xun went to Japan, and since then, the two have maintained a superficial relationship between husband and wife.
Zhu An, on the other hand, accompanied Mrs. Zhou to live in Shaoxing for thirteen years. Mrs. Zhou was once dissatisfied with Juan for not doing anything, and Juan's answer was frank and full of helplessness: "Mr. Big doesn't talk to me, so how can he have a son?" ”
Juan's calling Lu Xun "Mr. Big" already reveals that her inferiority complex is too deep. Admittedly, how can two people with completely different life experiences, cultural backgrounds, and personality qualities maintain a considerable position in marriage? As a result, she had no choice but to keep her promises and bow her head.
For Lu Xun, [Juan] "is a gift from my mother, I only have one obligation to support, love is something I don't know." ”
Lu Xun's love is not on her, she can wait, but when Mr. Da has his own love, her waiting has become endless, so after realizing her desperate situation, she said a deafening sentence.
Third, the husband's betrayal, her mourning
In 1925, Lu Xun and Xu Guangping fell in love, compared to the traditional Zhu An, Xu Guangping undoubtedly had a great attraction to Lu Xun, she was young and energetic, intelligent and capable, and the two had a high degree of spiritual world fit, Lu Xun deeply liked this woman, liked to ignore the feelings of his wife Juan, and officially cohabited with Xu Guangping in Shanghai in 1927.
When Juan learned the news, she had no way to do anything, although she was hit, she still did not say no trouble, but continued to serve Mrs. Zhou in the old house in Beijing, and Lu Xun also sent living expenses to her home in Beijing on time, so that Juan could live a worry-free life.
Later, Xu Guangping gave birth to Zhou Haibao, and Juan seemed to finally realize her desperate situation. She exclaimed, "I was like a snail, climbing up from the bottom of the wall little by little, thinking that although I climbed slowly, I would climb to the top of the wall one day." But now I don't have the strength to climb. ”
When Zhou Haiying was born, she had a new idea, and she may have thought in her heart that "accept this child, and someone can give me a pension in the future, so she showed great kindness to Zhou Haiying and Xu Guangping."
In fact, when Lu Xun died, Juan had no source of livelihood and once lived on Xu Guangping's help. Only in the war years when materials were scarce, Xu Guangping could not guarantee her three meals a day, so one day Xu Guangping could no longer help her, and she lived a life of extreme hardship.
Lu Xun's death did not leave her anything, some were just boxes of books, which were worthless items, but because they were Mr. Liu's relics, they were also valuable. So under the advice of Zhou Zuoren, Zhu An once planned to sell Lu Xun's books to survive this difficult life, but one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and Mr. Lu Xun's fans and friends condemned her behavior, and even Xu Guangping, who had not been in contact for a long time, advised her not to sell them.
She didn't understand, she didn't understand that the meaning of these dead things was more important than her life as a living person, she was just seeking a way to live for herself, how could she be attacked by the whole world? So Juan, who had been silent for decades, uttered an invigorating and deafening sentence. She said, "You always say that Lu Xun's relics should be preserved, but I am also Lu Xun's relics, so why don't you keep and preserve me?" "It was a real surprise!
This is the cry that Juan spent her life in exchange, she lived a life with a low brow and a smooth eye, and finally shouted out this heartfelt word because of too much unfairness in her heart. From this point of view, perhaps it is time to feel relieved for Juan, she has finally learned not to go against the grain, and finally dares to express her demands.
It's just that her life has come to an end, and despite the monthly help from her friends, her health is deteriorating. In 1947, she signed a document on Lu Xun's legacy and copyright, transferring all her rights and interests to Zhou Haiying.
It was also this year that the sixty-nine-year-old Juan completed her lonely life at home in Beijing, and she was not buried with Lu Xun, but buried next to Mrs. Zhou, who accompanied her the longest.
brief summary
It is true that, as mentioned in the opening article, Mr. Lu Xun has been using words all his life to arouse the minds of commoners in an attempt to get them rid of feudal ignorance, but his wife with hair is a typical example trapped by feudal etiquette, how can he love her and understand her?
And Juan is the same, the three from four virtues that she has received since childhood have made her ignorant, has made her one of thousands of women of the old times, how can she understand him? So, two people who did not understand each other spent the marriage with resentment and hatred, which was the misfortune of two people and the product of that era, and no one was really wrong.
It's just that I think that Juan's life is lamentable, she married a great thinker of the times, but she can't become a presence with him, she can only be buried under the aura of Mr. Big, and use her life to wait, maybe her heart is always longing for Mr. Big to look back.
But at the same time, she is also strong, in the face of hopeless marriage, she has never quarreled, in the face of the darkness of life, the only thing she can do is to find meaning for herself to live. This is Juan's life.
Reference: Juan as a Fool
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