Beginning with the disappearance of "From the Hundred Grass Garden to the Sanwei Bookhouse" in the textbooks of middle school students, Lu Xun's article seems to have begun the "process" of his withdrawal from the textbook.
The emergence of this phenomenon has naturally touched the hearts of many parents of primary and secondary school students.
In the minds of some parents who knew Lu Xun and even studied Lu Xun quite a bit, the act of removing Lu Xun from the textbook made them completely confused.
With the fermentation of this behavior, some voices that say bad things about Lu Xun have gradually appeared in the ears of the world.
Among them, the most talked about is naturally the eight characters that Lu Xun wrote in the article that year: "Chinese characters do not perish, China will perish.".
Since so many people have used this to "ridicule" Mr. Lu Xun, let's talk about the true meaning behind these eight words.
These eight words come from Mr. Lu Xun's article "Answering the Information Inspector of saving the dead during illness", which was left by Mr. Lu Xun before his death (before his death). Shortly after writing this article, Mr. Lu Xun died on his sickbed.
Logically, Mr. Lu Xun at this time must have known that his life was imminent. Instead of writing these eight easily criticized words at this time, it is better to remain silent and leave yourself an innocent posthumous name. Mr. Ke Lu Xun is a man who uses ink-stained pens as knives on the battlefield. If he was told to shut up and put down his pen because his life was short, wouldn't that mean that Lu Xun was a deserter on the battlefield?
What's more, at this time, a new cultural movement called "Chinese character simplification" has become more and more intense. Faced with the contradictions that exist between the "conservative faction" and the "reformist faction," how could Mr. Lu Xun bear not to speak out?
The heart of a person who can write, "If there is no torch after that, I am the only light, will not be willing to be sick and cooled down.
Therefore, when the "intelligence officer" visited, Mr. Lu Xun naturally wrote this article.
In fact, explaining to people the eight words "Chinese characters are not extinguished, China will perish" is a completely meaningless act, because anyone who just looks at these eight words will have absurd thoughts in their hearts. But if these eight words were placed in Lu Xun's person, there would be many changes in it.
Mr. Lu Xun once wrote in the book "Silent China": "If a house is too dark and wants to open a window, it will attract the opposition of Chinese..."
If you put this sentence behind these eight words to analyze, "Chinese characters do not perish, China will die" can get a relatively complete answer. Moreover, when Mr. Lu Xun wrote this sentence, the new cultural movement about the "simplification of Chinese characters" was still only circulating in the circle of literati.
What's more, Mr. Lu Xun's own opinion is to support the simplification of Chinese characters, not to make Chinese characters disappear.
This is not the explanation given by a small number of people who have studied Mr. Lu Xun, but the explanation given by all those who have studied Mr. Lu Xun.
As for why Mr. Lu Xun used the eight words "Chinese characters do not perish, China will perish", it is entirely because Mr. Lu Xun knew too much about the temperament of the Chinese people at that time.
But with the exception of Mr. Lu Xun, most of the people involved in the New Culture Movement did not have the courage to stand up and "lift the roof." Seeing this scene, even if Mr. Lu Xun was seriously ill at that time, he would stand up and use the eight characters of "Chinese characters are not extinguished, China will die" to "lift the roof".
Sure enough, when the people who wanted to "lift the roof" appeared, the wind direction of the new cultural movement changed in just a few months. Not only that, these eight characters of Mr. Lu Xun also completely changed the core of the opinions of some people who wanted to completely abolish Chinese characters in the new cultural movement.
At that time, in fact, many people really wanted to completely abolish Chinese characters and use the Latin alphabet instead. However, after the appearance of these eight characters of Mr. Lu Xun, the ideas held by these people immediately became "radical means and strategies proposed for the purpose of simplifying Chinese characters."
Therefore, if someone borrows these eight words to say that Lu Xun is a "cultural scum", they should simply stay away from him, so as not to be contaminated with "stupidity" themselves.
If we want to list a list of representative figures at the peak of modern literature, then there is no doubt that Mr. Lu Xun will become the most peak figure on this list. Without him, Mr. Lu Xun is so powerful and important.
Of course, as one of the pinnacle figures in the modern literary world, we cannot say that Mr. Lu Xun was excessively "deified." As a Zhou Shuren, of course, he also made some personal mistakes. But this mistake should stop at the name Zhou Shuren, and should not affect the name of Lu Xun.
And for many netizens to say that Lu Xun's article was removed from primary and secondary school textbooks because "Chinese characters do not perish, China will perish", it is completely nonsense, there are many reasons for this, such as his article is critical, difficult to understand and a little extreme, etc., but does not include these 8 words, so now do you know the reason?
Lu Xun wrote 8 words before his death: Chinese characters do not perish, China will die
The 8 words that Lu Xun wrote before his death were said by modern people to be the reason why the article removed the textbook?
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