Night Reading | Lu Xun and I are "Neighbors"

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Lu Xun is probably the earliest non-blood name I know since I can remember. The first photo in my impression of being "in the same frame" with my husband was taken when I was about four years old, in front of Lu Xun's tomb in Lu Xun Park - my home is next to Lu Xun Park, and for my father, who just had a Seagull camera, the park is an excellent place to collect wind.

The printed photos were placed in a family photo album, which led me to like to introduce the address with "living near Lu Xun Park" at a very young age, as if this represented a deep cultural heritage and a strong sense of rigidity, as if I should be such a person. Even for a long time, whenever I read Mr. Wang's article, I had an inexplicable sense of superiority, as if I had read a "neighbor's" masterpiece.

I remember the spring trip in the fourth grade of primary school, the school arranged to visit the former residence of Lu Xun in the new village of the mainland, and a bunch of classmates in the class chattered, "My home is just opposite" and "my family lives in the alley next door." Later, more twitter stretched out, and Jingyunli on Hengbang Road and Ramos Apartment on North Sichuan Road were once Lu Xun's former residences, and now they all live in his fans. Oh, it turns out that there are so many people who are as excited as I am for having such a "great neighbor."

After reading more books, I learned that Mr. Lu Xun spent his last ten years in Hongkou. In recent years, the place where Mr. Li once stopped has also held various related exhibitions to build a more three-dimensional and more "resident" Lu Xun.

Stringing a string of clues between the lines of the words can even construct his "15-minute life circle" - to meet friends, he does not drink coffee, but often goes to the public coffee café at the intersection of Duolun Road, where Zuo Lian was born; the body is sick, go to Fumin Hospital on North Sichuan Road, where the sea baby was also born; to send letters, always suspect that the green mailbox "will be slower", he is willing to run to the post office on North Sichuan Road; reading books and buying books, of course, is to go to the Neishan Bookstore on Shanyin Road, and by the way will meet his old friend Neishan to finish; one year He wanted to cultivate the "tinder" of woodcuts, so he set up a woodcut workshop on Changchun Road, and the main lecturer was Uchiyama Cargill, the younger brother of Uchiyama...

Immersed in such a "Lu Xun life circle", I always have another feeling for my husband, he seems to be no longer the angry-eyed and bitter "national nature" of the textbook, and he is no longer "reciting the whole text" and "'one is a jujube tree, the other is also a jujube tree'. With reading comprehension, he became an old uncle who lived by his neighbors.

Today is the 85th anniversary of Mr. Lu Xun's death, early in the morning I went to Lu Xun's tomb again, and asked passers-by to take a photo for me, just in the position where I stood that year. Walking out of Lu Xun Park, I saw the copper bricks engraved with "Lu Xun Trail" on the ground, and simply followed it.

Statue in front of Lu Xun's tomb

After that, I went to the North Sichuan Road Post Office to send EMS express, and I happened to see that there was a special exhibition of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping's "Two Places Book" love letter exhibition. It turned out that this was the post office that Mr. Lu Xun often came to. Love letters and family letters can always make people restore the authenticity of being a "person", what kind of person was Lu Xun eighty or ninety years ago? "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." Ha, it turns out that the "horizontal eyebrow cold pair" in love is no different from ordinary people.

If he also uses EMS, will it be calmer, or will it be more urgent? For a moment, I wanted to travel back in time and tell this "great neighbor" what life was like. He may not have thought that after nearly a hundred years, his "15-minute life circle" is still the life circle of our "neighbors", but it has become more comfortable - the mainland new village and Jingyunli are still residential areas, and now the entire lane has been renovated, and the quality of life of residents has been improved; the public coffee shop has been "moved" to another place on Duolun Road...

Lu Xun is Chinese, Shanghainese, Hongkou, and possibly community. Stained with the light of Mr. Big, I am quite satisfied with the current "15-minute life circle" and Lu Xun as a "neighbor", which is very good.

Editor-in-Charge: Shen Bin

Proofreader: Ding Xiao