Lu Xun (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936), originally known as Zhou Zhangshou, later changed his name to Zhou Shuren, the character Yushan, and later changed the character Yucai, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Famous writer, thinker, revolutionary, educator[179], democracy fighter, important participant in the new cultural movement, one of the founders of modern Chinese literature.
When Mr. Was a child, the most frequented places were Baicao Garden and Sanwei Bookstore, when there was a friend called Yan Tu, and then Lu Xun went to Japan during his studies, Mr. Fujino was his respected teacher, after returning to China, he abandoned medicine and literature, wanted to save China with words, in the past, he had a little knowledge Chinese and almost every family had a copy of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun".
In our impression, Lu Xun is a poor man with long coats, rubber shoes that he often wears, and "a broken hat to hide his face and live in the city", but is Lu Xun really poor? In such a difficult environment that he describes, what is the economic situation that supports himself and his family?
Today we are full of copper-smelling gossip about the money of this great thinker and the arrangement of wealth after his death.
Mr. Lu Xun earned an average of 3,000 oceans a year at that time, which was not low!
Now many people calculate accounts for Mr. Lu Xun, because his assets are particularly good at calculation, Mr. Lu Xun is very good at accounting, and his diary is an economic document of the top literary heroes in the Republic of China period, which records in detail how much money he earns every month and how much money he spends on buying vegetables.
Around 1920, Lu Xun's salary in Beijing was basically 300 oceans a month, but there were often deductions during the war, in short, there were an average of about 200 oceans per month.
At that time, some radical proletariat scolded Mr. Lu Xun, saying that he was not a proletarian revolutionary at all, that he had an idle class, because at that time Mr. Lu Xun was doing things in the Ministry of Education and spent most of his time idle.
Mr. Lu Xun was very angry, so he named one of his collections of essays "Three Idle Collections", on the one hand, he laughed at himself, and on the other hand, he scolded them.
Even now, more and more people are helping Mr. Lu Xun settle accounts.
Gao Xiaosong also helped Lu Xun calculate an account in "Xiao Shuo", and concluded that he earned 120,000 oceans in his lifetime.
Among them, living in Beijing for more than ten years, he earned more than 40,000 oceans.
That was around 1917 and 1926, when a lower- and middle-class man earned almost 200 yuan a year to feed a family of four or five. Mr. Lu Xun earned an average of 3,000 oceans a year at that time, which was not low!
At that time, in addition to doing things in the Ministry of Education, Mr. Lu Xun also had a position as an academician at the graduate school engaged by Cai Yuanpei, which had sent him a total of 15,000 oceans.
In 1926, Lu Xun and Xu Guangping went south, and after arriving in Xiamen and Guangzhou, his income increased to 400 yuan to 500 yuan.
At that time, it was basically to make money by writing a large number of manuscripts and copyrights, and in november 1996, in the "Lu Xun Research Monthly", a "Liang" mr. "Liang" excerpted a record from the "Biographical Literature", saying that "Lu Xun's manuscript remuneration is 30 yuan for a thousand words". During this period, Mr. Lu Xun's income may have been more than 80,000 yuan of ocean.
In his simple life, he gave his family and friends a lot of money and generosity
Looking at these historical accounts, I feel that Lu Xun is indeed quite a lot, but in fact, his expenses are also very large.
Mr. Lu Xun is the eldest son of the family, and he has always believed that after his father's death, he has the obligation to take care of the whole family.
Before 1917, Mr. Lu Xun raised a large family in Shaoxing, in addition to his mother and legal wife Zhu An, there were three brothers Zhou Jianren, second brother Zhou Zuoren and their families, as well as two domestic workers.
Later, the three brothers discussed selling the ancestral house, and the whole family moved to Beijing with Lu Xun, where he bought a three-entry house in Beijing's Bada Hutong, spending a total of 3500 oceans. Today, such a large yard here, at least a few hundred million.
At that time, Lu Xun's younger brother Zhou Zuoren also began to earn money, but Lu Xun's money was still given to his sister-in-law to do family expenses, the two brothers had a population of more than 400 and 12 people, Lu Xun, mother, Zhu An, Zhou Zuoren and his wife and two children, Zhou Zuoren's wife's relatives Yu Taijiu and Fuzi, Zhou Jianren and his wife and two children, as well as housekeepers and female workers.
Although Mr. Lu Xun's family has always said that the fate of the feudal society has always been a pot of porridge, and the total expenditure of the family is controlled by the sister-in-law.
This is a Japanese woman, in life, she is arrogant and pompous, spending money like flowing water, without any plan. The family often can't make ends meet, and many people speculate that it is possible that the brother has turned his face for financial reasons.
Lu Xun moved away on his own, including later going south, and he has always undertaken his obligations to support himself and his mother, Juan and female workers, and subsidize Zhou Jianren and Zhu An's relatives.
Later, the third brother Zhou Jianren held a position in Shanghai, and also had an income, and Lu Xun's burden began to decrease, but Lu Xun loved to read, had more than 20 book lists in his life, purchased nearly 10,000 books, and at the same time he loved to collect, such as prints, gold stones and the like, these costs are not small.
Another important expenditure is that Mr. Lu Xun has funded countless unemployed young people throughout his life, many of whom are in charge of food and housing, and the names are Xiao Jun, Xiao Hong, Rou Shi, Yin Fu (Bai Mang), Wei Suyuan, Tao Yuanqing, Ye Zi and so on.
The will only talks about family training and not about inheritance
So the money can't help but be spent! The generous Mr. Lu Xun worked hard all his life, but in the end he left no property. After Lu Xun's death in 1936, coupled with the war, Lu Xun's lover Xu Guangping did not continue to support Lu Xun's mother and Zhu An.
After the death of Mr. Lu Xun's mother, the legal wife Juan lived a very miserable life, she did not have a penny of income, life was very poor, and finally in 1947, she died alone.
Mr. Lu Xun's lover Xu Guangping became a democrat, and later became deputy secretary-general of the State Council, living in Beijing with his son Zhou Hainian. She twice refused the royalties of the publishing house to publish Mr. Lu Xun's works, once donating the royalties to Lu Yi, and once donating a total of 340,000 yuan of copyright to the state.
In fact, Mr. Lu Xun actually made a will before his death, but his will was the family training of a great man, and he did not mention the issue of inheritance and royalty disposal and distribution.
Interestingly, Mr. Lu Xun's son Zhou Haiying began to demand these royalties after the reform and opening up, and the People's Literature Publishing House said to give him 300,000 yuan, but Zhou Haiying did not agree, and also pursued the royalties that the People's Literature Publishing House later authorized Japan to publish the Complete Works of Lu Xun.
In 1986, Zhou Haiying sued Chinese Min Publishing House, and in the end he lost the lawsuit, receiving 200 yuan in compensation, but bearing 400 yuan in litigation costs.
On April 7, 2011, the news that Lu Xun's only son, Zhou Haiyi, died in Beijing because he had no money to treat his illness shocked the world. It is said that Zhou Haiyan suffered from a rare and strange disease in his later years, and the medicine had to be paid for by himself, but he had no money to pay for himself, and often lamented to his friends that there was no "life-saving money"
The story is like this, and the ending is inevitably lamentable.