Juan's tragedy is only because she accidentally became a fool.
- "Juan as a Fool"
As a generation of ideological enlighteners, Mr. Lu Xun has devoted himself to China's future, and in Mr. Lu Xun's works "Blood Steamed Buns" and "Xianglin Concubine", we can all see that in addition to the criticism of the rulers, it is also full of exposure to the "foolish people". "Mourning their misfortunes, angering them" on the one hand expresses sympathy, but on the other hand, they feel powerless against their numbness and ignorance.
As Lu Xun's original wife, Zhu An is a traditional Chinese working woman, she is industrious, capable, filial and kind, and perhaps the only misfortune in her life is to meet Lu Xun, a scholar of ideological enlightenment. And her tragedy stems from the perfect overlap between her and the image of "foolish people" that Lu Xun has always criticized.
Lu Xun was born in Shaoxing in 1881, and Mr. Lu Xun, who was born on a feudal tail, naturally could not escape the "feudal poison". In 1896, Lu Xun's father, Zhou Jiefu, died, and the family arranged an "arranged marriage" for him in order to pass on the lineage, which was aimed at Zhu An, who was filial and obedient and had a well-off family. Although her ancestors had been from Zhixian County, by the time of Juan's father, she had already made a living from business, and Juan was a traditional woman who had not read a book and was wrapped in small feet.
In 1906, Lu Xun was tricked back to his hometown by his mother on the grounds of serious illness, and under the coercion and inducement of the parents of both sides, Lu Xun finally consummated marriage with Juan. But what awaited Juan was not the sweet life after marriage, Lu Xun gave Juan a cold "slap" - sleeping in the study the second day after marriage, and studying in Japan on the third day after marriage.
Zhu An is a traditional Chinese woman who only knows how to uphold the "order of her parents and the words of a matchmaker", and she only thinks that she has done something wrong with her husband's behavior, which angers her husband. But in the days when her husband left home, she was still filial to her mother-in-law, taking care of everything in the family and waiting for her husband to return. She has always said to outsiders: Mr. Big (Lu Xun) is very good, and he is also very good to her. Lu Xun was very calm about this marriage: "He is my mother's wife, not my wife.... Love is something I don't know. ”
In 1923, Lu Xun returned, but with xu Guangping, who was pregnant. Xu Guangping's attitude towards Juan was unremitting, this uncultured, little-footed woman, she had never looked at it. But Juan took good care of Xu Guangping and Zhou Haibao, who was born later. In her thoughts, she is the "right wife" to take generous care of the members of the family, especially to Zhou Haiying, to take care of her as if she were her own children, and even before she died, she still missed their mother and son.
Juan's attitude toward Lu Xun has always been humble and flattering with a little reverence. Lu Xun's hobby of eating sweets is known to many people, once Lu Xun was seriously ill and could not eat, Juan specially brought fennel beans and salt boiled bamboo shoots from his mother's house, which made Lu Xun's appetite open. While eating, Lu Xun suddenly said on a whim: "I want to eat the pastries of Daoxiang Village." ”
The speaker has no intention, the listener intends. Juan was glad that Lu Xun could take the initiative to talk to himself, but a casual sentence became The most important thing for Juan. So she used her foot-wrapped little foot to run 40 miles of mountain road overnight to sell cakes to Lu Xun, and then ran back and handed them to Lu Xun like a treasure. When she handed it to Lu Xun with an excited face, she got a lukewarm word: "Good." ”
In fact, Lu Xun was not unkind to Juan, he once persuaded Juan to put his feet down, read, and go to school, but the remaining feudal ideas were not so easy to break, And Juan preferred to believe that his enthusiasm could melt Lu Xun rather than listen to Lu Xun's words. Juan's suffering is actually no different from Xiang Lin's sister-in-law, who is deeply persecuted by the old society, but she cannot break free from rebirth. Until her death in 1947, she still said with tears in her eyes: "I hope to be buried next to Mr. Big." ”