Lu Xun's attitude toward people is uncertain, even difficult to grasp

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Someone asked: If Lu Xun lived by your side, would you be willing to be friends with him?

I think this question is the opposite, not whether we are willing to be friends with Lu Xun, but whether Lu Xun is willing to be friends with us. He is a very strange person, he is very nostalgic, Chinese traditional good habits he has, and he likes to deal with ordinary people, ordinary people. He was also particularly jealous and hateful, and he particularly hated two kinds of people, the first being a "false prophet" and the second being a "vulgar being", and his main opponent in this life was not yet an official, and he hated these two kinds of people even more.

He is a person who has great love and hatred, and expresses love and hatred beyond the limit, and perhaps he is only willing to be friends with a small number of people, such as he and Xu Shousheng have been friends all their lives. He had also made many young friends, but he thought that many of them were ill-intentioned and offended him, and he would double down on these people. In the middle and early part of his life, some of the friendships he made lasted his life, and many of them were abandoned halfway. In his later years, he liked Feng Xuefeng, Hu Feng, Xiao Jun, Xiao Hong and others.

Lu Xun's attitude toward people is uncertain, even difficult to grasp. In the "Book of Two Places", he said that his old friend Qian Xuantong was "fat and slippery, nagging as before, time is a pity, silent and not talking." In this regard, Qian Xuantong said that when the relationship was good, I nagged him that he loved to listen, and now that it is still those words, he does not like to listen.

Lu Xun was very angry at that kind of opportunistic person. A typical example is ye Lingfeng, who once illustrated a magazine in Shanghai and plagiarized the work of Japanese illustrator Hong'er Kaotani. Lu Xun and Ye Lingfeng were both the original albums of Hong'er Ofu purchased at the Neishan Bookstore, and he discovered Ye Lingfeng's plagiarism. Lu Xun's way to expose this was that he published a copy of "Selected Paintings of Hong'er in the Valley" at his own expense, so that everyone could see it, and he said that the book was to pierce Ye Lingfeng.

Lu Xun's likes and dislikes are often overexpressed. The earliest published "Scream" has 15 novels, and Cheng Fangwu of the Creation Society wrote an article commenting that "The Scream" only has one "Bu Zhou Shan" good, and the rest are not good, Lu Xun deleted "Bu Zhou Shan" when "Scream" was republished, and said that what was left this time was "bad".

His method of handling things is: correction must be excessive, and revenge must be doubled. Zhou Zuoren once relayed a sentence by Lu Xun, which can see his characteristics very well: "People have angry eyes and look at them, and they respond with scolding, those who scold them in return for beatings, and those who beat them in return for killing." ”

Someone once said, "Don't scold those who are inferior to yourself," which means that you should not scold people who are inferior to you, because you have lowered yourself. But Lu Xun was a person who was inferior to himself, because he looked down on these people--he did have the capital to look down on these people, and ye Lingfeng, Liang Shiqiu, and Zhang Shizhao, whom he had scolded, were all things he despised. Lu Xun is such a character, very cute when it is cute, and very scary when it is terrible.

——Originally published in the "Single Reading" public account on September 25, 2021