As a famous thinker and a great revolutionary in China, Lu Xun spent his whole life fighting against feudal ideological oppression and saving the ideological emancipation of the entire Chinese people. Most of Lu Xun's literature reflects the social turmoil and "cannibalistic society" at that time, among which in Lu Xun's "Young Leaping Earth" we recognize a playmate of Lu Xun's childhood- Leaping Earth.
As Lu Xun himself said: "It is enough to know oneself in life, and the world should be regarded as the same." This childhood confidant who once brought joy and laughter to Lu Xun's childhood had a tragic life. This tragedy was a common phenomenon in the general environment at that time, and it was also Lu Xun's regret and sorrow.
When I was young, I was beautiful and got to know Lu Xun
Yan Tu's real name is Zhang Yunshui, born in 1877 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, to a peasant family. Because the five elements lack water, they are named Zhang Yun shui, which is homophonous with yun in the local leap, so in Lu Xun's article, it is directly called leap soil.
Lu Xun was born in a family of scholars and doctors in the decline of feudalism, and the only contact between the Yantu family and such a high-ranking family was that Lu Tu's father, Zhang Fuqing, was an employee of Lu Xun's family, and the two families also intersected. Moreover, Yan Tu's mother is also Lu Xun's "long mother", and she is Yan Tu's mother.
The first meeting between Yan Tu and Lu Xun was in 1893. Lu Xun's great-grandmother died, and due to the lack of manpower in the family, Yan Tu's father brought his son Yan Tu to the Zhou family to help. It was also because of this opportunity that the young Yan Tu met Lu Xun for the first time.
The arrival of The LeapIng Earth added a unique color to the life of the young Lu Xun, who knew many things that Lu Xun had never heard of, as if it opened up another understanding of the world by Lu Xun.
Yan Tu grew up in the countryside, and when he was a child, he helped his parents to work in the fields, and his ideas and insights about This Yan Tu were very different from Lu Xun, who had been trapped in the courtyard of the deep house. When he was at Lu Xun's house, Lu Tu told Lu Xun interesting stories about the seashore, the moonlit night, and the fork. Not only that, But Tu Tu would also take Lu Xun to catch sparrows and play in the mountains.
In this way, Lu Xun and Yan Tu spent a very good time together, and the two also became friends and confidants who said nothing, but after the great-grandmother sacrificed the past, Lu Tu returned home.
Things change, fall in love with the widow
After growing up, Lu Xun and Yan Tu both started their own families, and the two lived these two completely different lives. Lu Xun was forced by his family and his mother to marry Zhu An, the daughter of the Zhu family of the Wang clan in Shaoxing, Zhejiang.
However, Lu Xun did not give in to this, and Lu Xun, who resisted feudal marriage, insisted on discording with Zhu An,who had no emotional basis after marriage. Lu Xun's move caused Juan to be full of resentment towards himself, which also led to Lu Xun's marital situation being very miserable.
But compared to Lu Xun, Yan Tu's treatment of his marriage and later feelings seemed so rational. In 1900, Yan Tu was just twenty-one years old and had only recently been married. At this time, Yan Tu was still a spirited teenager, and once he met Lu Xun, who had returned home from the academy, and Zhou Zuoren, who was only fifteen years old, the three of them sailed away in a boat, which was not comfortable.
But due to the weather, they had to abandon their original plan. The next day, the three of them prepared to go to the river bridge together, and an interesting thing happened during this trip. There was a fortune teller on the bridge who was said to be extremely accurate, and at this time, out of curiosity, He asked the gentleman to calculate it for himself.
However, the joyful leaping earth was tragically hit in the head, and Mr. Word Measurement said that the leaping earth should beware of ghosts and be confused, and should be sober up later. This sentence undoubtedly brings a heavy burden and pressure to the happy leaping earth.
Later, in Zhou Zuoren's diary squadron, he was confronted with the description of the matter of Yan Tu, who was originally married, but Yan Tu met a widow in the village, and the two somehow looked at each other and naturally came together.
At this time, Yan Tu wanted to divorce his wife, insisting on marrying the widow, no matter how much the people around him persuaded each other, they could not shake Yan Tu's determination. At this time, Zhou Zuoren thought of what Mr. Shuzi said at that time, which was not about the divorce of The LeapIng Earth, but in the end, the Leaping Earth still insisted on the divorce and married the widow as he wished.
Life is heavy, and the old age is bleak
The leap earth that he wished to be with his true love also began to move towards the tragic beginning of his life. Due to marriage and divorce, the leap soil spent a lot of money, which caused a lot of burden to the land family, which was not a very rich family.
In 1903, Yan Tu's father, Zhang Qingfu, also died of overwork, and his father's death undoubtedly made the situation in Yan Tu's family worse. The earth had to carry the burden of life and support this poor family. In 1919, when Lu Xun and Yan Tu met on the last side, Yan Tu had begun to appear insensitive, and the signs of aging could not be concealed.
Due to the oppression of the times and the burden of the family, not to mention the need to raise its own five children, life is even more difficult. As children are born and grown, the burden in the home becomes heavier and heavier. At this time, as the head of the family, the leaping earth will begin to assume his responsibilities as a husband, son, and father.
The earth began to work like crazy, the burden of life of labor crushed the backbone of the earth, and the helplessness of poverty left a trace on the body of the earth. Therefore, when Lu Xun saw the leaping earth again, the leaping earth that was just in his early forties was like a dead old tree trunk, leaning over, feeling like an old man in his seventies and eighties, and even his skin was not as good as the old man.
Even more unfortunately, in 1934, a rare drought occurred in Shaoxing, which brought a huge disaster to the leap soil, and the land cultivated by the leaping soil was seriously affected, and it could be said that there was no harvest. However, this land was rented by the leap soil, and whether the harvest was harvested or not, it was necessary to pay the rent, and this time the natural disaster caused serious debts to the leap earth.
Soon after, the earth began to grow abscesses on the back, but because he had no money to treat, the condition began to deteriorate, and the pustules on the back of the earth began to rupture and infect, so due to the cause of injuries, he died tragically in 1936.
brief summary:
The leap earth born in that era is sad, not only because of the yield of the leap earth itself, but also because of the helplessness of the times. And he can only choose to give in, and his tragic end is predestined from the beginning, nothing else, just because of the tragic circumstances of society.
Insensitivity, old age and helplessness were common phenomena of people in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, when people could not and could not change in the feudal and miserable society that could not be changed, so they could only go along the river. But today, we must cherish the happiness of the times and defend this prosperous China with the efforts of our generation.