Mr. Lu Xun died at the age of fifty-five, leaving not many works in his life, but there are many vivid characters. For example, under the poison of feudal decadent ideology and the imperial examination system, Kong Yiji, who was mentally insensitive, was not diligent in his life, and was poor and destitute. Kong Yiji's length is not long, but after reading it, it seems that an intellectual has been poisoned. Or Xiang Lin's sister-in-law, this poor old-time woman, her heart was polished little by little.
Her spirit has no sustenance, her life has no dependence, and her behavior has no destination. When every family was busy "blessing", she was eventually killed by poverty, but not exactly poor. In addition to these two people, Yan Tu is also a very impressive character, from the innocence of youth to the numbness of middle age. Yan Tu is a character in Lu Xun's novel hometown, based on Zhang Yanshui, a typical peasant figure in Chinese novels, and the two met when they were teenagers.
At that time, although the family was still poor, but still with the health, liveliness and cleverness of the teenager, watching melon hedgehogs, catching birds in the snow, collecting shellfish by the sea, and watching jumping fish vividly showed this lively and lovely teenager. There will not be too heavy a class concept among teenagers, and Lu Xun, who is similar to his age, fights fiercely and tells him many things that he has never seen before. However, the middle-aged leap soil is completely different, the purple round face of the young age, the middle age has become gray and yellow.
With the addition of deep wrinkles, the area around the eyes was swollen red, just like lu Xun had seen the father of the earth. He wears a torn felt hat on his head, has only a thin cotton coat, and his hands are no longer red and round. Rather, it was thick and clumsy, cracked like pine bark, and thought became bigger. His heart was filled with the traditional hierarchical concept of feudal society, and when he saw his childhood friend, he was already numb to kong Yiji's mind.
In fact, the real Zhang Yanshui is almost the same as this, even more tragic, zhang Yanshui family has been farming for generations. Usually, he relies on the bamboo weaving craft to maintain his life, or he cultivates his own land and helps others during the New Year's Festival and rent collection. Zhang Yanshui's father was a helper in Lu Xun's family, and he continued to work as a helper in his youth, but at that time, Lu Xun was already out studying. In his youth, Zhang Yanshui's courage was not so heavy, and when he met Lu Xun, who returned from vacation, the two could still talk warmly.
However, after the death of his father and the fact that he had a family, he had to shoulder the burden of the family. His face began to be engraved with the marks of hard life, and he gradually became less talkative and worked all day and all night. There were several mouths waiting to eat at home, and he couldn't stop, he could only keep drying his hands and feet. But life did not treat him well, and the Zhang family's six acres of thin sand had to pay taxes on the grain produced. After handing it over, there was not much left, and he could only barely support the family, and later Lu Xun took his mother to the place where he worked.
Zhang Yanshui was also dismissed as a result, with less of a source of livelihood and more difficulty. In 1934, there was a severe drought in the local area, and all the grain was confiscated, and those who forced debts and collected donations were encountered. I could only sell the land, and from then on I became even more impoverished, and eventually I became ill. After he was in his fifties, he had a bad sore on his back, but he had no money to heal it and could only ignore it. The result became more severe, and the suppuration never healed, eventually causing him to die at the age of fifty-seven.