The desk where the young Lu Xun carved the word "morning" was reproduced in his hometown - Shaoxing, Zhejiang.
"The word 'early' is close at hand, the word is very small, very shocking!" Recently, in the introduction exhibition area of the Sanwei Book House in the Lu Xun Memorial Hall in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Zhang Yu (pseudonym), a college teacher who has admired Mr. Lu Xun since childhood, sighed with emotion in the introduction exhibition area of the Sanwei Book House in the Lu Xun Memorial Hall in Shaoxing, Zhejiang.
The word "early" was engraved by Lu Xun on his desk when he was a child
Lu Xun is famous in the world literary circles and is a "big man" who accompanied Chinese through their student days. When Lu Xun went to private school as a child, he was criticized by the teacher for being late, and he carved the word "morning" on his desk to warn himself, and his story of diligence and hard work inspired countless people.
Seeing the word "early" is the wish of every tourist who admires "Brother Xun". A month ago, good news came out of the scenic spot in Lu Xun's hometown: the "morning" word desk was moved out of the cultural relics warehouse for tourists to visit at close range.
Lu Xun's "morning" word desk
Walking into the area, you can see a 95-centimeter-long catalpa square table, an 82-centimeter-high mahogany armchair, and a photo of Sanwei Study House on the background wall. The tables and chairs are a bit old, but the wood grain is clear and antique, and the lower right corner of the table top is clearly engraved with a square word "morning".
This is the original desk used by Lu Xun, which was bought by Lu Xun's family for him to study. Later, it was preserved by the owner of the Sanwei Book House and donated to the Lu Xun Memorial Hall. Zhou Yuer, deputy director of the Shaoxing Lu Xun Memorial Hall, said in an interview that cultural relics are witnesses of history, and now, a table and a chair are China's national first-class cultural relics, and Lu Xun's former residence and Sanwei Book House are national key cultural relics protection units.
Zhou Yuer introduced that this "early" word desk was originally displayed in the Sanwei Book House, far away from tourists, and at the same time, due to the humid environment of the Sanwei Book House, the four table legs appeared moldy in the early years, "In order to protect the cultural relics, we will move the original back to the Lu Xun Memorial Hall Cultural Relics Warehouse for repair." Now that the desks are placed in the exhibition hall, people can feel the word 'morning' up close and immersively."
Recently, Lu Xun's "morning" desk attracted tourists to visit
In the past month, there has been an endless stream of tourists from home and abroad who have heard the news. Zhang Yu has "checked-in" Lu Xun's hometown for the third time, and as soon as he arrived at the scenic spot, he went straight to the "morning" desk. After staring at it from a distance of one meter for a long time, he raised his mobile phone and took a photo with his desk, leaving a precious commemorative photo.
"The word 'early' is very clear, and it also has the meaning of enlightenment and encouragement for future generations. Zhang Yu said that he will share the photos he took with his students, hoping that college students can also deeply understand the connotation of the word "early", "live up to their youth and work hard".
The "early" word desk is "close" to the public eye, and it also pulls people's thoughts back to the years more than 100 years ago, and the childhood anecdotes of the "literary giant" once again arouse people's curiosity - from Lu Xun's former residence to Sanwei Study, about 110 meters to school, why is Lu Xun still late?
Recently, Lu Xun's former residence attracted tourists
In 1893, Lu Xun was 12 years old, which was his first year in private school. It was in this year that my grandfather went to prison and my father fell seriously ill. As a local expert who has studied Lu Xun's culture for a long time, Yang Shuitu, full-time deputy director of the Shaoxing Municipal Research Museum of Culture and History, introduced in an interview that at that time, Lu Xun, as the eldest son and eldest grandson, needed to go to the pawnshop early every day to change money, and then use the money to buy medicine for his father, and took on the burden of the family alone.
Lu Xun mentioned in the novel "The Scream": "I have more than four years, I used to ,—— almost every day, in and out of the quality shop and the pharmacy, but I forgot the age, in short, the counter of the pharmacy is as high as me, and the quality shop is twice as tall as me......"
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Between taking care of his family and going to school, the young Lu Xun shouldered a lot of pressure. Yang Shuitu said that Lu Xun was once late and was severely criticized by Mr. Shoujingwu, but Lu Xun did not defend it, but secretly carved the word "early" on the desk for self-encouragement, "Since then, Lu Xun has never been late."
Lu Xun's life was short, only living to be in his 50s, but he never stopped writing and left behind about 10 million words. It can be seen that the word 'early', as Lu Xun's motto, encouraged him all his life. In Yang Shuitu's view, a desk with the word "early" not only allows people to "get closer" to history, but also conveys the deep meaning behind the word "early" - people should make up their minds early, set up early aspirations, promote diligence early, and people will be diligent in spring.
Text/Xiang Jing
Editor/Dynasty