Do you still remember the "Juvenile Leap Land" of that year? Do you still remember the impassioned "In Memory of Liu He Zhenjun"?
These are Lu Xun's masterpieces that were selected into primary and secondary school textbooks that year, inspiring generations of young people.
However, these articles have now been gradually removed from textbooks.
Why should Lu Xun's article be deleted? The famous writer Yu Hua gave the answer......
Needles and disadvantages
If you want to understand Lu Xun's literature, you must first understand the era in which Lu Xun lived.
Lu Xun was born in 1881, at the end of the reign of the feudal dynasty, and the hierarchy of monarchs and ministers was still firmly rooted in the depths of everyone's psyche and influenced everyone's rules of behavior.
In "Juvenile Runtu", Lu Xun once mentioned that he and Runtu used to be childhood friends, and when a full moon was underway, two young people were stabbing in the watermelon field, laughing loudly and carefree.
However, as the two grew up, Mr. Lu Xun became the young master who represented the authority of the family in the eyes of Runtu, and Runtu became a hard-working and disciplined long-term worker in his heart, and the hierarchy washed away their childhood friendship and was training people into cold machines.
Criticizing the oppression and restraint brought to people by this era is also Lu Xun's original intention in creating this article, and only those who have truly experienced the vicissitudes of life can understand the deep meaning.
When Lu Xun was young, he went to Japan to study, when the Qing government had succumbed to the iron heel of the foreign powers, and even Japan, which had learned from the Celestial Empire in the past, had left Asia and entered Europe.
At this time, Mr. Lu Xun believed that learning from Japan and learning medical skills meant that a doctor was a country, so he traveled across the ocean.
However, during his time in Japan, Mr. Lu Xun saw with his own eyes Japan's contempt for China and its brutality in the Russo-Japanese War, which is reflected in his essays "Fan Ainong", "Mr. Fujino" and "My Memories".
Especially in the Russo-Japanese War, he saw innocent Chinese people being killed, but the compatriots next to him had indifferent faces, which deeply stung Mr. Lu Xun and made him finally understand that studying medicine could not save the country at all, and only the words that penetrated into it could be deafening.
So he gave up medicine and started his writing career as a writer.
At that time, China was in the era of Beiyang warlords, from Beiping to Shanghai, the warlords fought for each other, burned, killed and looted, and the people were displaced and homeless.
In the face of such a situation, Mr. Lu Xun was powerless to change the status quo, and could only use sharp articles to satirize the authorities and this chilling society.
Later, with the establishment of the Republic of China, although the situation of the melee was stabilized, the Japanese broke through the Shanhaiguan and fought from the three northeastern provinces to the North China Plain.
For a time, the land of China was full of wars, wolf smoke was everywhere, and countless people were killed in the war, and the lives were devastated, and the mourning was everywhere.
However, in the face of this situation, the Nanjing Nationalist Government was blindly weak, and only dared to frantically encircle and suppress the Communist Party in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo region, and did not dare to fight the Japanese on the frontal battlefield.
This weak attitude of the authorities made Mr. Lu Xun hate even more hatred, and his words were like knives and drums, piercing this dark world, knocking on the closed ears of meat eaters, and issuing a heart-rending cry for the people at the bottom.
If you don't empathize with these thoughts, it is difficult for people living in a peaceful and prosperous world to feel them.
Obscure
Nowadays, people live in a peaceful and prosperous era, with the continuous prosperity of the country, the living conditions of each generation are better than the generation, this feeling of hope and future is very different from the ideas expressed in Lu Xun's articles, so over the years, more and more people have questioned Lu Xun and hope to remove his articles from primary and secondary school textbooks.
They believe that there are several main reasons.
First of all, the connotation in Lu Xun's article is too dark.
It was the misfortune of the times that led to the sharpness of Lu Xun's articles, except for a small number of praises and reminiscences of the beauty of human nature in his youth, in the eyes of some people, most of Lu Xun's articles are satirizing society, satirizing the government, and satirizing insensitive compatriots.
Therefore, some people think that this kind of thinking is very different from the present, and the next generation, as the flower of the motherland, has been taught by the state and teachers to be united and friendly and kind. It will inevitably affect the minds of the next generation. Moreover, the values of primary and secondary school children are still in the stage of not being cultivated, and sometimes they can't even distinguish between reality and illusion, if they are allowed to read Lu Xun's articles excessively, they will inevitably have disappointment in society and the future.
Therefore, the answer given by this part of the people is that since it does not bring positive emotional feedback, it is better to delete it.
Second, Lu Xun's article is too obscure.
Lu Xun is on the cusp of the alternation of the times, with the rise of the New Culture Movement, the aspiring young people who are at the forefront of the ideological trend are transitioning from classical Chinese to vernacular Chinese.
Therefore, those who propose to delete Mr. Lu Xun's article believe that although the article is mainly in vernacular, because it is in a transitional period, many language habits cannot get rid of the shackles of classical Chinese.
Therefore, looking at Mr. Lu Xun's article from the current perspective, we can find that it is different from the current style in terms of grammar and word choice.
Primary and secondary schools are in a critical period of speaking and writing training, should take a look at the current vernacular news fluent articles, if you study Mr. Lu Xun's articles, especially learn the habit of half-literate shallow words and sentences, it will have a serious impact on children's speaking and writing.
In the end, another answer given by these people is that Mr. Lu Xun's article has been divorced from the development of the times.
The sad and indignant era in Lu Xun's article has passed, and now it is a thriving and beautiful China, and what children need to learn is how to grow up healthily, improve their personality, and work hard for the development of the country, not how to satirize the government, the country and society.
Although Mr. Lu Xun's article is good, he is only limited to the era to awaken countless learned people, and it is useless for children to learn, and it will only take up more of their learning time.
Therefore, they believe that Mr. Lu Xun's article should be gradually eliminated.
At the beginning of the 21st century, textbooks also included Mr. Lu Xun's articles such as "Juvenile Leap Land" and "In Memory of Liu He Zhenjun", which are basically difficult to see when looking through them now.
When asking many teenagers about Mr. Lu Xun's memory, they are only limited to knowing that this is a famous writer, and they know almost nothing about Mr. Lu Xun's articles and deeds, and Mr. Lu Xun's traces seem to be erased by this era.
But is it really good?
Age-appropriate
Some time ago, there was a hot stalk circulating on the Internet, called taking off Kong Yiji's long shirt.
It refers to the current situation of college students' employment difficulties, many students feel that they are talents who have come out of the ivory tower because they have received university education, so they are not high or low in the job market.
I want to find a good job, but the position is limited, or the education is not enough to match, looking for those jobs that do not require academic qualifications, such as cleaning, security, etc., and I feel that I have failed to live up to my hard work for more than ten years.
Just like Lu Xun's Kong Yiji, because he has been reading for a few years, he thinks that he is barely an elegant reader, so he can't do without the sour and rotten spirit of a scholar when doing things, even if his life is so poor that he needs to steal books, he can only eat fennel beans, and he refuses to take off his shirt and return to the bottom.
When I first studied this article, many people didn't understand the deep meaning, and it was only after entering the society that they understood Kong Yiji's sadness.
This is the important point of Lu Xun's article, he is not referring to a certain era, but borrowing the era to reflect human nature, the content of his article seems to have been out of the times, in fact, it has always been in the tolerance of the times.
Moreover, although Mr. Lu Xun's article is mixed with white and white, you can only feel the beauty of it after reading it carefully.
Especially in today's fast-paced development of short videos, more and more people have lost the habit of reading, and many people have reported that they are no longer able to focus on one thing for a long time, not to mention sitting down and reading a book of hundreds of thousands of words, even if it is very difficult to write an 800-word essay like in high school.
Even due to the proliferation of typing software such as mobile phones and computers, many people have forgotten to write with a pen.
Although the development of science and technology can bring convenience to people's lives, it is indeed the decline and regression of literature.
At this time, reading Mr. Lu Xun's article, it seems that there is a sense of historical fate to save literature from peril, at least to let the next generation know what a really good article looks like.
It is much better for young people to read Lu Xun's anthology than to open their mouths to be hot stalks on the Internet.
In fact, about Mr. Lu Xun, Yu Hua, a writer at that time, gave quite pertinent evaluations.
Yu Hua once mentioned in a lecture that the writer he hated the most when he was a child was Lu Xun, because his articles were obscure and difficult to learn as a child.
However, as he grew older, especially when he really picked up the pen to write, after entering the literary world, his admiration for Mr. Lu Xun rose spontaneously, and it is undeniable that Mr. Lu Xun has made indelible contributions to the promotion of the times and the development of literature.
Yu Hua's answer seems to have cracked the reason why "de-Lu Xunization" has become a trend, because the article does not match the age and understanding of children.
But this is not the fault of Mr. Lu Xun and the article, in fact, Lu Xun's articles can be assigned to read according to the age of the child, such as "Juvenile Leap Earth", "Mr. Fujino" and other relatively easy articles, in fact, they can be placed in primary and secondary school textbooks, which is convenient for children to understand and read.
As for those that are sharp and sarcastic, they can be placed in high school and college, when the children's minds are more mature, reading comprehension.
Mr. Lu Xun's articles are a treasure trove of ideological enlightenment, even Chairman Mao loves to translate, he even used this book to educate his daughter Li Min, in fact, it is precisely because of Mr. Lu Xun's articles to understand the horror of the feudal era, young people can better understand, how hard it is to come by in today's peaceful society.