Wen Yuan's surname was Yao, and when he was one year old, his father took him to see Lu Xun, and Lu Xun gave them a poem.
Here's the thing.
In 1931, Wen Yuan was born in Shanghai into a family of scholars, his father was Yao Pengzi.
Yao Pengzi is a native of Zhuji, Zhejiang, whose real name is Yao Mengsheng, and "Pengzi" is his pen name. Yao Pengzi's father, Yao Hanzhang, was a late Qing dynasty official who worked as an editor at the Zhonghua Bookstore in Shanghai.
In his early years, Yao Pengzi studied at Zhuji County Middle School, Shaoxing Yuecai Middle School, Shanghai China Public School, and Peking University.
In the summer of 1924, Yao Pengzi came to Shanghai Guanghua Bookstore to work as an editor. After that, he published a collection of Symbolist poems and translated foreign novels.
In 1927, Yao Pengzi met Pan Hannian, and after Pan Hannian's introduction, Yao Pengzi secretly joined the party.
In March 1930, the Chinese Left-Wing Writers Union was established, and Lu Xun, Ding Ling, Mao Dun, Feng Xuefeng, Tian Han, Yu Dafu, Yao Pengzi and others participated in the Writers' Union. Yao Pengzi served as an executive member and minister of general affairs. In this way, Yao Pengzi and Lu Xun met.
After the founding of the "Left Alliance" journal "Beidou", Ding Ling served as the editor-in-chief, with the assistance of Yao Pengzi, mainly responsible for typesetting, running the publishing office, responsible for printing and proofreading.
Yao Pengzi's wife was named Zhou Xiuwen, and the two had four children, two of whom died prematurely, leaving their sons Wenyuan and wenhua.
In March 1932, Yao Pengzi published the novella "Ukiyo Painting", and in order to improve his reputation in the literary world, he decided to visit Mr. Lu Xun and ask him to read more and give him more guidance.
On the afternoon of March 31, Yao Pengzi took his one-year-old son Wen Yuan and the novella "Ukiyo-e Painting" to Lu Xun's residence in a rickshaw and asked him to comment. Mr. Lu Xun was very concerned about and cared for young writers and warmly received Yao Pengzi.
After Yao Pengzi and Mr. Lu Xun talked freely, he made a request-------------------------------------------------
Mr. Lu Xun agreed, and immediately wrote a seven-word poem "Gift pengzi" to Give to Yao Pengzi.
Poetry: Flying Immortals Descend into the Blue Sky, and Cloud Cars Have Two Spirit Children. Poor Pengzi was not a son of heaven, and fled to suck the north wind.
After Yao Pengzi received this poem, he was very happy, bowed respectfully, and then put the ink treasure into the canvas bag and took his son to get up and bid farewell.