To say who is the most responsible writer in modern times is None other than Lu Xun. At that time, he deeply felt the decay of the national consciousness, and deliberately abandoned medicine and literature, and returned to China from Japan. Leaving a sentence of "studying medicine cannot save Chinese", he vowed to use his own resolute brushstrokes to awaken the foolish thoughts of the Chinese people.
However, Lu Xun was only the initiator of the problem, not the reformer of society. He has a deep insight into the inferiority of Chinese bones, but he does not give a good improvement plan. Therefore, although his words are spicy and ironic, they are like a sharp whiplash whipping on the souls of the Chinese people. However, in the past few hundred years, these ignorant feudalisms have not changed much, and they are still subtly rooted in the thinking of every countryman.
Among the many criticisms put forward by Mr. Lu Xun at that time, the most profound ones were these ten major criticisms, which have been applied to today's Chinese society more than 80 years later. In the end, which ten major criticisms, the following author will come for everyone one by one.
In 1925, Lu Xun published four short stories, and in each of them, Lu Xun mentioned a kind of criticism. The first is the "Book of Two Places", which is a collection of letters from Lu Xun and his wife Xu Guangping in that year. Lu Xun's letter accounted for 67 and a half.
And what does it mean that he wrote that "all the best prescriptions are the so-called hopes for the future"? That is to say, it is pointed out that the Chinese people will only hope for the future in everything, and they have a slight attitude of resignation. But he never took the initiative to change the status quo and jumped out of prison. It is precisely this blind optimism that has paralyzed the Chinese people for thousands of years, and has also led to the difficulty of the modern reform movement.
The second short story, "On Opening Your Eyes", criticizes the despicable humanity of the Chinese people who are "weak, lazy, and slippery". This is a kind of servility cultivated by the thousand-year-old feudal monarchy, the people of the country are always bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and for those who are high up in power, we who are weak and weak can never rise up to resist. At the same time, ideological laziness makes us content with the status quo and willing to become vassals of the powerful. Even those who are not lazy are trying to climb to power, trying to be smooth and clever. Under such an atmosphere, where does the progress of the people begin?
The third short story is called "After Hitting the Wall", and Lu Xun pointed out to the point that there are too many invisible "walls" in China's current society, and these "walls" are like ghosts hitting walls in all aspects of Chinese society, hindering the progress of society and the people. Even if the Chinese people touch the wall, they still can't feel the pain and won't choose to break it. In response to the phrase "the numb is the victor", Lu Xun's generalization of society and the numb condensation of human nature are appropriate.
The fourth short story is called "Hua Gai Ji", which is ironic that the Chinese people do not recognize who is right, but whoever holds the power, who is strong obeys whom. This kind of "only the strong are from the strong" is the fundamental reason why China's feudal system has survived for thousands of years.
After putting forward the four major criticisms, in 1926, Lu Xunyou immediately published the article "This and That". The article questioned the chinese people four puzzles, and used a double negation to express the criticism of the Chinese people's refusal to change. He pointed out that the Chinese people have always had a conservative idea of refusing to accept new things, and everyone refuses to step out of the comfort zone, hoping to settle down in the old state calmly. Cixi is a typical example, in order to be satisfied with the status quo, signed many unequal treaties, and vigorously suppressed the nascent things such as the restoration and reform of the law, and the irony is that most of the Chinese people at that time actually sided with Cixi.
After "This and That", in 1927, Lu Xun published "Silent China" and "The Wrong Way of Literature, Art and Politics". Two major criticisms were put forward, namely "pedantic compromise" and "selfish egoism".
Regarding "pedantic compromise", Lu Xun's classic "window opening theory" in "Silent China" must have been familiar to most Chinese people for a long time. That is, "Chinese temperament is always like to be harmonious and compromised. For example, you said that this room is too dark, you must open a window here, you must not allow it. But if you advocate tearing down the roof, they will reconcile and be willing to open the window. Without more drastic ideas, they will not even carry out peaceful reforms. I have to say that this passage is simply whipped into the inside, and the eclectic character of the Chinese people is critically exhausted.
This was followed by the "Experience" published in 1933, which also put forward two major criticisms, that is, the criticism that the Chinese people love to see the hilarity and schadenfreude. Chinese people always like to base their happiness on the ugly and miserable situation of others, originally they are all struggling at the bottom of a quagmire, and seeing their colleagues more depressed, their own status has been elevated, and they can make the people of the country happy. Such a deformed onlooker attitude has created the "spectator" mentality of the people for thousands of years.
There is also a criticism of the problem of the Chinese people "words without faith", although there has always been the ancient adage that "a gentleman's word is difficult to chase". But throughout the ages, countless Chinese people have left integrity behind for the sake of profit. Just as today's social situation where counterfeits are rampant and food safety has become a common problem, this evil trend has never changed.
The final criticism comes from the article "I want to deceive people" written by Lu Xun in the last year of his life, which will never doubt the fact that the Chinese people have never doubted their own suspiciousness. And the Chinese people can always forgive themselves for not paying attention to credit, but in turn they are suspicious of others.
Shortly after writing this last critique, on October 19, 1936, Lu Xun died of illness in his apartment at the age of 55. Although it has been more than 80 years since his death, his ten major criticisms are still deafening today.