Lu Xun's eldest grandson responded to the hot search: "There has been confusion, still go in the desired direction"

Source: Beijing News

"Can't escape the life of Lu Xun's grandson of Lu Xun" The topic became popular on the Internet, and the Beijing News reporter interviewed Lu Xun's eldest grandson Zhou Lingfei

"There have been confusions and entanglements, still going in the direction you want"

Recently, Lu Xun's eldest grandson Zhou Lingfei was on the hot search, and the Weibo topic #Can't escape lu Xun's life of Lu Xun's grandson #, which collected Zhou Lingfei's various experiences as a descendant of Lu Xun: being called "Lu Xun's grandson" by his classmates, being asked to study medicine when he was a soldier, writing communications that he was not good at, learning to smoke... The topic was read 340 million times and generated 51,000 discussions.

Zhou Lingfei currently has many identities as president and secretary general of Lu Xun Cultural Foundation, dean of Lu Xun and World Culture Research Institute of Beijing Language and Culture University, and visiting professor of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts.

For the hot search, Zhou Lingfei said that he was "quite surprised" and "didn't expect this topic to attract so much attention." "He mentioned that everyone has unspeakable secrets, and they will encounter difficulties and dissatisfaction in life." I have been confused, entangled, and evaded, but I am still struggling, step by step in the direction I want. ”

Talk about hot search

It's not easy to be a celebrity descendant, just tell the truth about the situation at that time

Beijing News: How do you think you are on the hot search?

Zhou Lingfei: This was an accident, I didn't have the mental preparation, nor did I have the idea and ability to operate in this way.

This year is the 140th anniversary of Lu Xun's birth and the 85th anniversary of his death, when a reporter came to interview me, he talked about what everyone thought of me when I was young, and I casually talked about these personal experiences.

I just want to say that it is not easy to be a celebrity descendant, everyone has unspeakable secrets, and they will encounter difficulties and dissatisfaction in life. I just told the truth about the situation at that time, so that everyone did not think that the descendants of celebrities would live a good life.

I hope that everyone will look at this matter with a normal heart and not stir-fry it. Everyone should think about whether they are also confused in the path of life, and whether these confusions are hindering your development. I would like to say that I am not hindered, I am still struggling, eliminating all kinds of difficulties, step by step in the direction I want. I also admit that there have been confusions, entanglements and avoidances.

Beijing News: Why do you think this topic is so interesting?

Zhou Lingfei: I think that on the one hand, the name Lu Xun is well known to everyone, and his serious image is deeply rooted. Now that there is such a light topic that has something to do with Lu Xun, everyone is happy to talk about Lu Xun in this way and understand his family and descendants. Related to Lu Xun is a topic that everyone cares about.

From a very ordinary point of view, it may be that everyone thinks this matter is very fresh.

Talk about impact

The most important thing about Lu Xun's spirit is the spirit of "Li Ren"

Beijing News: On the Internet, "Lu Xun said" and "Do we need Lu Xun today" constantly brushed the screen. What does Lu Xun mean to contemporary young people?

Zhou Lingfei: Saying that we need Lu Xun in our current era is like saying that people need to eat, and they naturally want to eat when they are hungry, that is what the body tells you. Everyone may need Lu Xun, but the points needed may be different, or they should find something suitable for themselves to learn and absorb.

Today's children have their own pursuits, and they must be allowed to pursue. We must show young people more things, see Lu Xun, see Tolstoy and Hugo. Classic literary works, science and technology, etc., all aspects should be fully contacted, contact with the people you love, the things you love. In the vast number of contacts, reading, thinking, to find their own interests and career direction, to find self-judgment, independent thinking and rational criticism of the ability, young people need to grow and gradually improve the process.

Now many students who have read undergraduate and master's degrees do not want to go to the society, and want to study for doctorates and postdocs. I think they may be accustomed to the school environment and afraid to enter an unfamiliar social environment. So I encourage some people to work for two years before they go to their Ph.D. to see what society is like and whether what they want to learn is really a career that they love and want to fight for for a lifetime. What's the point of knowing nothing, just staying for the sake of staying, reading for the sake of reading?

Beijing News: Do you think that most people's interpretation of Lu Xun's spirit is now entertaining? What is the most important thing about Lu Xun's spirit?

Zhou Lingfei: There are individual cases of entertaining interpretation, but I think most people respect Lu Xun. Now there is a saying on the Internet that young people are willing to embrace Lu Xun, and through the hot search, I think it can be said that Lu Xun is still very influential today.

In my opinion, the most important thing about Lu Xun's spirit is the spirit of "liren". He also has many things to say about "Li Ren", such as "The First in Li Ren" and "Respecting the Spirit of Personality Zhang".

Why is it important to establish people? Because the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the realization of the Chinese dream are all based on people. When everyone is strong, the country becomes strong. Young people look for their own advantages, values, and find a way forward, these are "standing people".

If you want to extract some words from the spirit of Lu Xun to give to modern society, I think it is four sentences: people-oriented, independent thinking, "take-ism" and "tenacity" persistence.

Talk about communication

A few years ago, I encouraged making memes to make Lu Xun's spirit close to young people

Beijing News: Some young people like Lu Xun's sharp language and make his words into memes. What do you think of this kind of situation?

Zhou Lingfei: This is their perception of Lu Xun's spirit at this age. Everyone's growth has several stages, and the pursuit of things is different. These young people may be all school students, after going to society, he can understand, may be different immediately, want to be different.

I encouraged memes a few years ago, hoping to make Lu Xun's spirit approach young people in this way. In the past 20 years, what I have done is the dissemination and popularization of Lu Xun, and I think that Lu Xun has been done very seriously, academically, and profoundly, and it is not easy to approach young people, and it is necessary to use young people's ways and languages while grasping a suitable degree.

Someone interviewed me before and asked "Lu Xun said" if it was good or not, whether the memes were suitable, I felt that as long as it was not excessive, this is also a way to spread Lu Xun, and there is no need to be so serious.

But there are also people who are more excessive. In the past few days, some people have fabricated that Lu Xun himself has a diary, recording that he himself went to visit the kiln, which is a rumor and slander. There must be a minimum of respect, and everyone must not be too dismissive and cannot allow it to form a bad climate.

Beijing News: Before you mentioned "three-dimensional reading", how do you think we should promote the spirit of Lu Xun? How do you do it?

Zhou Lingfei: Now that we read classic literary works, we are not in the environment at that time, and it is more difficult to read and understand. Some people say that Lu Xun's works cannot be read, because the things and people in the book do not happen around them, and they cannot resonate.

Times are different, in the past it was print reading, there was no TV, radio, everyone got knowledge from books. Now there are pictures, images and even immersive experiences, and flat reading has become three-dimensional reading, which is the most habitual and convenient way for modern young people to read. We must also use the way of three-dimensional reading, so that the classics can be approached by young people, otherwise young people will not read.

Lu Xun's spirit also had to try to restore the scene at that time to understand, if you can tell everyone the environmental information of that era, present the images, sounds, etc., let everyone use the five senses, it is easier to understand.

I've been planning, executing, and disseminating for almost 50 years, and it's a bit like a producer. In recent years, speaking, writing articles, planning symphonies, movies, books, forums, seminars, doing cultural creations, hand-organizing, planning Lu Xun's theme of running, etc., these are all ways to promote Lu Xun's spirit. I took a graduate student at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and animated Lu Xun's works, the purpose of which was to make Lu Xun's works more accessible to young people.

Beijing News reporter Wang Jingxi