When we think of Lu Xun, most of these words appear in our minds: writer, educator, thinker, revolutionary... Sober, sharp, serious and "crossed eyebrows cold to a thousand fingers, bowing down to the cow", "In my back garden, I can see two trees outside the wall, one is a jujube tree, and the other is also a jujube tree"... Ever thought that the love he wrote to his wife was "little hedgehog", "little lotus", "good girl"? Love can really make a person who does not smile become gentle. To fully understand Lu Xun, we must not fail to understand Lu Xun in life. Read Lu Xun's works, taste Lu Xun's family letters, trace Lu Xun's emotions, and even understand the dinner he attended... All of them help to understand Lu Xun's rich inner world and the environment of the times in which he lived.
Look at Lu Xun's warm side from the family letter
Among Lu Xun's letters, the family letter is a particularly noteworthy part. The ancients said that "knowing people and discussing the world" and "reading his books and wanting to see him as a person", to fully understand Lu Xun, we must not fail to understand Lu Xun's family affairs.
The family letter helps to understand Lu Xun's rich inner world and the environment of the times in which he lived. The "Letter of Lu Xun's Family" contains fifty letters from Lu Xun to his mother, nineteen letters to his brother, seventy-eight letters to his wife, and three letters to other relatives.
Because of Lu Xun's experience and the characteristics of the times in which he lived, the family letter involves a wide range of aspects, rich in content, and personnel are complex, and Lu Xun is a master of words, and the thickness and weight of the family letter, euphemistic and tortuous, showing a lu Xun who is a son, a husband, and a brother who is real and warm.
Huang Qiaosheng, the author of "Lu Xun's Family Letter", said that Lu Xun fell in love in middle age, had children in old age, and finally lived a family life of fireworks, and was generally a "full" person. In Lu Xun's letter to his mother, one of the most important things was to report to the mother about his son's growth.
One spring, when their son was burned by boiling water, Lu Xun and Xu Guangping were very nervous, took therapeutic measures, and explored the reasons, it turned out that there was an oversight in the handover of the two nannies' jobs. After describing the causes and consequences in a letter to a friend, Lu Xun sighed: "This child is not wronged, although he has not yet invented the 'ass warm ice method' (there is no ice to warm in Shanghai), but there is already a passive resistance method such as refusing to eat." At this time, I often had to say a few kind words to him to calm things down. I've never succumbed to anyone like that. If I can do this to my parents, it is a filial piety, and I can go to the 'twenty-five filial pieties'. ”
"Lu Xun Family Book" is a real shot, and the Lu Xun Family Book is included in the book
"Warriors have to fight, but they also have to eat and fall in love"
The correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping records the hesitation and choice of the two in love, and talks about the world and human feelings. After living together, they compiled these letters into the Book of Two Places in chronological order, which was divided into three parts: Beijing-Beijing, Xiamen-Guangzhou, and Beijing-Shanghai.
Lu Xun said in the preface to the Book of Two Places: "We commemorate ourselves with this book, and we thank our well-meaning friends and leave it to our children to know the truth about our experience in the future." ”
He also sent an exclamation: "Looking back on the past six or seven years, there have been many storms surrounding us, and in the constant struggle, there are also those who help each other, there are also those who go down the stone, and there are also those who laugh and slander, but we have clenched our teeth, but we have also struggled to live for six or seven years." In his eyes, life is colorful, and warriors have to fight, but also to eat and fall in love.
Lu Xun and Xu Guangping
In 1926, Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, who had just fallen in love, lived separately. Lu Xun went to Xiamen University, and Xu Guangping returned to Guangzhou. The two had to complain about love through letters, in which Lu Xun and every man and woman in love were the same, tirelessly telling bits and pieces of life, and did not forget to show their attitude to reassure their lovers.
Like what:
"I always send your letters to the post office, I don't like to put them in the green mailbox on the street, I always suspect that it will be slower there."
"I don't know if my aunt slept?" I felt like she must not have fallen asleep yet, thinking I was talking about what I'd been going through for three years. In fact, I don't talk much about it, I only hope that the good girl will be obedient and maintain myself, and I should also be calm and gentle, and cross (the same "degree") to live a predetermined time, so as not to make the little hedgehog worry. ”
"Looking at the current situation, our future seems to be unimpeded, but even if there is, I am determined to cross it with the little hedgehog and move forward, and I will not be afraid."
Lu Xun's letter to Xu Guangping, "Lu Xun's Family Letter" was actually filmed
"The package has been taken, the vest has been worn on the outside of the small shirt, it is very warm, I think this can pass the winter, no need for cotton robes."
"It was half past ten on the night of the twenty-third day, and I was sitting alone at the table against the wall, next to which the little hedgehog used to sit, and she was in Shanghai at the moment. I had to write a letter to talk about it. ”
"I am good, I can eat and sleep, and I am relieved to report her closeness with a little hedgehog, knowing that I am very well-behaved."
"At this moment, the little hedgehog = the little lotus = the little lotus child does not know whether to fall asleep or awake."
"In short, I should choose the most stable and comfortable way to go, and never take risks, which worries my little lotus. Now the spirit is also very good, don't rest assured, I will never take the little hedgehog's little white elephant alone in Beiping and have a little loss, which makes the little hedgehog feel painful. ”
Lu Xun's letter to Xu Guangping during his stay at Xiamen University not only has text, but also intersperses it with sketches drawn by his own handwriting, and also specially marked Xu Guangping with "the place where I have lived here", which shows the "careful thoughts" of wanting to share life with his lover.
"Lu Xun's Family Book" was filmed
There is a sense of family responsibility, there is passion, and there is love
Reading Lu Xun's family letters is helpful to understand Lu Xun's literary works and grasp some of Lu Xun's subtle feelings and thoughts in life. These emotional thoughts, Lu Xun may not be expressed in essays and prose poems, but in the pen conversation with relatives, they are naturally revealed. Huang Qiaosheng said that from Lu Xun's family book, we can see Lu Xun's strong sense of responsibility and interest in life.
Lu Xun has a sense of family responsibility, enthusiasm, and love. Some of his famous works have the shadow of himself and his relatives, such as "Hometown", "Social Drama", "Brother", "Wounded Death", prose such as "Father's Disease", "A Chang and the Classic of Mountains and Seas", prose poems such as "Kite", "The Flutter of the Decadent Line" and so on. His essays often mention the topic of family and children's education.
His life has changed because of his family and relatives, such as attending a new-style school because of his family's lack of family, interrupting his study abroad and returning to china because of his family's financial constraints, making up his mind to achieve a big family reunion because he has to take care of the life of his mother and brother, changing his living state because of his brother's loss, leaving his work and living environment for many years because of love, and determining the content and way of writing in his later years because of his family's livelihood.
The Book of Lu Xun
Author: Huang Qiaosheng, ed
Publisher: Dayou Bookstore (Beijing) Co., Ltd
Lu Xun, who loves food
In addition to having delicate emotions in life, Lu Xun is also a life master who loves food extremely much, he enjoys delicious food and is willing to share. According to the "Guangzhou Tongue Hualu", Mr. Lu Xun lamented in Guangzhou that he "didn't want to be a celebrity", so he went down 43 times in 253 days. Whether in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou or Xiamen, each city has his "food map", and even often writes his own "visiting the store" feeling in his diary, which records a large number of food names and shops. According to statistics, there are a total of 25 Guangzhou restaurants mentioned by Lu Xun in his diary, namely North Garden, Bie Youchun, Miaoqi Xiangliji, Luyuan Tea Room, Daguanyuan Tea Room, Huifang Garden, Tao TaoJu and so on.
At the Lu Xun Memorial Hall in Shanghai, there is a special collection of menus recorded by Xu Guangping, which records the recipes that Lu Xun ate every day between November 1927 and June 1928. It can be seen from this that Mr. Lu Xun's daily recipes are very rich, and the combination of meat and vegetables is very reasonable.
Mr. Lu Xun also has many anecdotes about food, such as because he loves sweets, he suffers from caries and rewards himself with a Daoxiangcun biscuit after seeing a dentist. In Lu Xun's diary, it is recorded that: "Before noon on the third day, I went to Dong Cichang's house with more than ten people in the ministry and quickly went to the ministry to see things. In the afternoon, Xu Jingwen, a dentist in Wangfujing, was treated for dental diseases, and agreed to supplement four teeth and contain a bottle of gargle medicine, with a total price of forty-seven yuan and ten yuan. Buy biscuits for one dollar over Daoxiang Village. (May 1935)
On the way home, zhiya also insisted on buying snacks to eat daily, which made people see a lovely Lu Xun.
The Diary of Lu Xun (1-3)
Author: Lu Xun
Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
These books also help you understand Lu Xun
Lu Xun's Thirty-Five Years of Best Friend's "Biography of Lu Xun"
The Biography of Lu Xun contains two parts, "Impressions of Lu Xun of the Dead Friend" and "Lu Xun I Know", written by Xu Shousheng, a famous educator and biographer in modern China and a close friend of Lu Xun. Xu Shousheng is a well-deserved profound understanding of Lu Xun's spirit, and he quickly found the shining point of Lu Xun's spirit with real facts and simple understanding. The two memoirs he wrote, with their thick writing, informative content and deep feelings, are second to none in Lu Xun's biography and are primer books for Lu Xun's researchers and enthusiasts. Xu Guangping said in a letter to Xu Shousheng at that time: "The text of memories is none other than a teacher! ”
A profound understanding of Lu Xun's spirit, he quickly found the shining point of Lu Xun's spirit with real facts and simple understanding. The two memoirs he wrote, with their thick writing, informative content and deep feelings, are second to none in Lu Xun's biography and are primer books for Lu Xun's researchers and enthusiasts. Xu Guangping said in a letter to Xu Shousheng at that time: "The text of memories is none other than a teacher! ”
"Lu Xun's Meal" is another form of Lu Xun's short biography
In a variety of Lu Xun research monographs, this "Lu Xun's Meal Bureau" is very special, the whole book in the form of a small essay, with Lu Xun's meal for more than twenty years as a clue, strictly combing and introducing his interactions and life, creative daily life, easy to read, rich in information, is another form of Lu Xun's small biography, readers can glimpse the true side of Mr. Lu Xun, can also feel the real social customs of the Republic of China period, but also have some understanding of the works of modern literature writers, is worth collecting the ingenuity of the work.
The article uses Lu Xun's meal as a clue to hook his literary exchanges, life experiences, creative trajectories, ideological changes, and the style of the times in which he is located, which has made certain contributions and breakthroughs in Lu Xun's microscopic research.
The language of the article is plain and simple, the information is informative, the quotations and views are well documented, the logic is appropriate, and there are a large number of pictures, which adds to the interest of the book and has collectible value. It is a must-read text to understand Lu Xun.
Lu Xun wears Xu Guangping's hand-knitted vest (taken in Shanghai on May 1, 1933). (Remade from "Lu Xun's Meal")
"Lu Xun's Grass and Wood Spectrum" follows the grass and wood to understand Mr. Da's inner world
This book focuses on Lu Xun's microscopic research. The author not only extensively studied Lu Xun's works and research collections, sorted out the clues about plants in Lu Xun's works, combined with the works for in-depth analysis, but also expanded the horizon to his life parallel traces, from the subtleties to find the connection between his life and plants, insight into his inner world. The form of the essay is small incision and unique perspective, and the language is plain and simple, full of meaning.
Arranging the content with the timeline of Lu Xun's life, narrating the text and cultural activities related to grass and trees in different periods, lu clearly shows that Lu Cuts from grass and trees, and in addition to the image of Lu Xun in writing and thinking, he excavates his interest in botany and outlines the little-known image of Lu Xun in life.
The use of rich written materials to show Lu Xun's love for botany and grass and trees, and to string together Lu Xun's life with grass and trees as clues, is a valuable historical material for studying Lu Xun's daily life and spiritual world.
The book has a large number of vivid illustrations combined with the text, which adds to the interesting nature of the book, which can be viewed, speculated and collected.
"The Cover of Lu Xun" takes you to know a Lu Xun as a designer
Lu Xun personally designed and guided the design of more than 100 kinds of book covers in his lifetime, many of which are the leaders of modern book binding design. He sees the book as a perfect whole, from illustrations, covers, inscriptions, decorations, typography, punctuation, all the way to the paper, binding, book edge cutting, everything is very carefully considered.
This book is another "microscopic Lu Xun" essay monograph by the famous scholar Xue Linrong after "Lu Xun's Grass and Wood Spectrum" and "Lu Xun's Meal Bureau". Lu Xun can be called a pioneer in the binding design of modern Books and Periodicals in China, and he has created the most eye-catching "facades" of modern literature, which today seem to be "not only still vigorous, strong, good-looking, and enduring, but also not outdated.". By combing through the covers of 82 first editions of Lu Xun's works, "Lu Xun's Cover" explains Lu Xun's advocacy of "new shapes" and "new colors", as well as his adherence to "the national character that has not destroyed China", explores Lu Xun's publishing ideas, and also looks back at the process of modernity in The Design of Chinese Books. At the same time, there are also many cultural events involved in the Republic of China period. The whole book is full of pictures and texts, which will present the most intuitive reading experience for readers.
Starting from the perspective of Lu Xun's cover, this book combines the cover pattern to explain and diverge, and the pictures and texts are rich, which is another unique perspective for understanding the master.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng reporter Sun Jun
Photo: Sun Jun, reporter of Guangzhou Daily And New Flower City
Video/ Guangzhou Daily New Flower City reporter Sun Jun
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Wu Bo