Lu Xun, whose real name is Zhou Shuren, is a great writer, thinker, and revolutionary in our country, and his articles not only have extremely high literary attainments, but also have extremely strong practical significance. For example, his "Hometown" depicts a childhood playmate named "LeapIng Earth", and through his adolescence and middle-aged changes, he explains to us the numbness and sadness of people under the old social class system.
Who would have thought that "LeapIng Earth" was actually a real person, and his descendants also had an incomprehensible relationship with Lu Xun...
<h1 toutiao-origin="h1" > teenager "Leap Earth" and Lu Xun</h1>
Lu Xun's family was originally a family of scholars and doctors in the feudal period, but later it gradually declined, and there were not enough domestic servants, and when they were busy, they could only invite outside workers to work, including Yan Tu's father. Yan Tu's father, named Zhang Fuqing, was a bamboo craftsman and an "acquaintance" of Lu Xun's family.
Yan Tu's mother is also related to the Lu Xun family, and she once worked as a nanny in The Lu Xun family. Lu Xun mentioned in the "A Chang and the Classic of Mountains and Seas" that before the short and fat long mother, there was also a "long mother", she was the mother of Yan Tu, and she was also the "Zhang Ma" mentioned in the diary of Lu Xun's younger brother Zhou Zuoren.
His real name was Zhang Yanshui, and from an early age, he followed his father to do some work such as catching fish and drying grain. One year, when the New Year coincided with the death of Lu Xun's grandmother, Lu Xun's family suddenly became busy, and the young Yan Tu was entrusted with the care of the objects used for sacrifice.
It is precisely because of this "help" that the young Lu Xun met this thick and honest brother. At that time, Yan Tu was still young, only two or three years older than Lu Xun, and the two of them quickly became good friends, and even called each other brothers.
Unlike the young Lu Xun who lived in the city, Yan Tu lived in the sand by the sea since he was a child, and the animals and landscapes he came into contact with were unheard of by Lu Xun, so he told Lu Xun about those novel things, and the two formed an innocent friendship. This friendship is indelible in Lu Xun's heart, and even many years later, Lu Xun still has a good impression of this friendship.
<h1 toutiao-origin="h1" > father dies, and the teenager carries the burden</h1>
Later, Yan Tu's father died of illness, and the young Yan Tu could only forcibly afford the family's life. Once he and his father worked hard to make the family subsistence, suddenly they lost the top pillar of the family, and the hard work of the leaping earth could only barely keep the family from starving to death.
In order to facilitate labor, he shaved his head, always wore clothes made of native cloth, wore a hat, and was still a small man, but he could only work non-stop all day. In addition to planting land and weaving bamboo, Lu Tu would still go to Lu Xun's house to work during the busy months of each year, but Lu Xun had already gone out to study, and the two had not seen each other for many years.
Lu Xun's impression of the teenager who guarded the melon hedgehog in the moonlight could not escape the fate of being poisoned by the old society and gradually numbing and desperate, and he was no longer the vivid and agile teenager he had been.
<h1 toutiao-origin="h1" > was destitute and died of illness</h1>
As an adult, he became a family and gave birth to five children. As the children grow. The burden of life is getting heavier and heavier, and the earth can only work harder. When Lu Xun saw him again, he was already in a slump, silent and numb, no longer the "leaping brother" in Lu Xun's heart. As Lu Xun wrote in the text, "We have separated a sad barrier between us."
Later, the Lu Xun family fell, the family sold their ancestral home, dismissed many workers, including the mintu, and the mintu who lost their jobs had to go home to farm and survive. There are only a few acres of barren sand in the leap soil family, and the crops harvested each year are only enough to pay taxes. But even though it has been impoverished to this point, fate has not stopped torturing the leaping earth.
In the 1934 drought, the Yantu family had no harvest and was forced to pay debts
< h1 toutiao-origin="h1" > repeats fate, and the son of The Leap Earth dies early</h1>
There are five children in Yantu, but except for the son "Aquatic" mentioned by Lu Xun in "Hometown", the status of the rest is unknown, "Aquatic" is really named Zhang Qisheng, who is the eldest son of Yantu.
Zhang Qisheng, like Yan Tu, picked up the girder alone because of the death of his father when he was young. Originally, the living conditions of the Zhang family improved slightly under the efforts of Zhang Qisheng and his younger siblings, but due to the flood, the family's condition was miserable. It was difficult to survive the flood, and I did not want to have another drought in the local area a few years later, and the Zhang family has been in a slump ever since. Soon Zhang Qisheng fell ill and eventually died due to lack of money for medical treatment.
Zhang Qisheng left two sons and a daughter, and his wife came to Shanghai with three children in order to seek a way to survive, and found a job as a nanny, barely enough for the three children to survive. A few years later, the daughter also fell seriously ill, and the two sons had to go to child labor in order to collect money to see their daughter, but eventually the daughter died of illness.
<h1 toutiao-origin="h1" > end poverty and start a new life for the descendants of the leap soil</h1>
One of The two sons that Zhang Qi lived on was Zhang Gui, and unlike the introverted honesty of his father and grandfather, Zhang Gui was lively and cheerful from an early age. After the founding of New China in 1949, The Zhang Gui family ended years of poverty and turmoil and began a new life.
At that time, Zhang Gui was 16 years old, but due to his early child labor, he had not read or read, but he did not lose the motivation to learn because of the burden of life. After liberation, he often went to adult school in his spare time at work, and began to learn cultural knowledge little by little from literacy.
Probably because of the relationship between his ancestors and the Lu Xun family, Zhang Gui came to work at the Lu Xun Memorial Hall in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. He knows that compared with other cultured colleagues, his education level is not high, so he desperately studies and wants to improve himself.
At this time, Zhang Gui, through the literacy education of the adult school, already had a little cultural foundation, and decided to go to night school to receive formal education. He studied wholeheartedly in his spare time and gradually caught up with his colleagues, who also recognized this colleague who did not start high but worked extra hard.
The descendants of Yan Tu became friends with Lu Xun's son
A person heard about Zhang Gui's ancestors' relationship with Lu Xun and wanted to ask him to meet, but Zhang Gui accepted the other party's invitation without thinking. When he saw the other party, Zhang Gui found that the other party was actually the only son of Lu Xun and his wife Xu Guangping, Zhou Haiying.
Lu Xun often thought about the Yantu family before his death, and Zhou Haiying also learned of his friendship with Lu Xun from his father, and after learning that Zhang Gui was a descendant of Yan Tu, he asked him to meet him at the Lu Xun Memorial Hall. Zhou Hainian originally thought that Zhang Gui was just an ordinary person. But I did not expect that Zhang Gui's cultural level was not low, and he was enthusiastic and simple, and the two talked very speculatively.
The friendship between Lu Xun and Yan Tu was once alienated from class due to the times, but their descendants continued this friendship. Since then, Zhou Haiying will invite Zhang Gui to a small gathering every time he passes through Shaoxing, and the two often communicate with each other by letter, and gradually become close friends.
< h1 toutiao-origin="h1" > gorgeous transformation, and the descendants of the leap earth enjoy their old age in peace</h1>
Zhang Gui loves literature very much, and Lu Xun is undoubtedly a microcosm of the literature of the times. He began to study Lu Xun's works carefully and investigated a large amount of information about Lu Xun. Later, Zhang Gui published dozens of articles about Lu Xun and became a core member of the Lu Xun Research Society.
In 1982, Zhang Gui was appointed deputy director of the Lu Xun Memorial Hall in Shaoxing, and eleven years later, the sixty-year-old Zhang Gui retired home and began to enjoy his old age, ending the desolate fate of his ancestors for generations.
Zhang Gui's children no longer became child laborers or died prematurely due to poverty, but became accountants and teachers by their own efforts. At this point, the descendants of the leaping earth officially bid farewell to the suffering of their ancestors and lived a happy and peaceful life.
There is no end to the eggs under the nest, and the gap between the leap soil and its descendants is not so much a gap between people as it is a gap between the times and the times. The great wheel of the times will crush everything into fly ash, but in the end it will leave ordinary but tenacious people, as long as they are not completely crushed by suffering, they will be gorgeously reborn in a harmonious environment and prosper again.
The flesh of Lu Xun and Yan Tu has long been dead, but as Lu Xun said, "Some people are dead, but he is still alive", the spirit of literature will not perish, and their friendship and warning to future generations will never disappear.