"When the calamity comes, only those who kneel down in obedience do not stand up to fight; when the calamity is over, only those who stand up and complain do not kneel down to repent." This is probably also our national characteristic. ------------------
Nowadays, many people only know Lu Xun, but do not know his younger brother Zhou Zuoren, although Zhou Zuoren's literary achievements are not as good as his brother, but during the Republic of China, he was also one of the best people, why do many people avoid talking about him now? This has a lot to do with his identity.
Zhou Zuoren was born in 1985, and in his early years, his relationship with his brother Lu Xun was very harmonious, so the trajectories of their lives were often intersected. When he was young, he entered the Sanwei Bookstore to receive traditional teaching, and not long after, a new wave of learning was set off in China, and Zhou Zuoren entered the Jiangnan Water Teacher School, where after 6 years of education, he went to Japan with his brother Lu Xun and others to study.
After returning to China, Zhou Zuoren became a figure of all kinds of people competing for him, first teaching at a middle school in Zhejiang, and then entering Peking University in 1917 to teach literature courses. At this time, he had progressive ideas and was concerned about the development of the whole country, especially the literary world, and in 1919 he jointly proposed the use of new punctuation with Hu Shi and others. In the great wave of female teachers, he and Lu Xun issued relevant declarations together, but not long after, he seemed to have undergone some changes.
In 1909, Zhou Zuoren married Hatta Nobuko in Japan, and after returning to Japan, Hata Nobuko returned to China with him. At first, this woman did not reveal her nature much, but over time, she slowly changed Zhou Zuoren with her own lifestyle. She often spent money like flowing water, not only spending Zhou Zuoren's own money, but also extending her hand to Lu Xun's hand. The cost of Lu Xun's teaching and writing fees were among the best in the Republic of China period, but this could not fully support Yu Taixinzi's great cause of spending money. The most important thing is that this woman often provoked the relationship between the brothers, resulting in the discord between the two, which shocked the masters of the Republic of China period.
In this case, Zhou Zuoren, who was originally insufficient in blood, became more and more conservative and timid, and at that time his writing style became leisurely and natural, which made Lu Xun very dissatisfied, who believed that the smoke of the anti-Japanese war had risen, and at this critical moment, it should not be a corner of peace, but to attack the enemy with the pen in his hand.
But what Lu Xun did not expect was that his brother had actually become a traitor. At first, Zhou Zuoren stayed in Beijing to guard Peking University, but in the midst of gunfire, he hesitated to accept the official position of The Wang puppet government, and was promoted and reused. However, the darkness will eventually pass, and after the collapse of the Wang puppet government, Zhou Zuoren will also be imprisoned.
In 1946, when his fellow prisoners in the same prison as him were executed, how did Zhou Zuoren react? In the midst of panic, Zhou Zuoren did not sleep all night, and under high tension, he wrote a poem to borrow himself with yu xin and Chen Lin's allusions, hoping to use this poem to impress Lao Jiang and release himself. However, he was not executed by shooting, but was sentenced to life imprisonment, and it was not until January 1949 that Li Zongren took over as president of the Republic of China and Zhou Zuo was released.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Zuoren almost disappeared, and he immersed himself in writing in his old house in Beijing to obtain a fee, but in his later years, he hardly used his real name to create works. In 1967, this essayist suddenly fell ill while preparing to go to the toilet, and died.