Mao Zedong said that he did not have the opportunity to visit Lu Xun in Beijing in his youth, but he still had close contacts with Lu Xun's brother Zhou Zuoren.
Before the young Mao Zedong converted to Marxism, he was interested in the Xincun movement and even practiced Xincunism in Yuelu Mountain. Zhou Zuoren was the earliest introducer of Chinese New Villageism, and he translated and imported a large number of Japanese New Village Works. Mao Zedong often visited Zhou Zuoren, and the two had a relatively close relationship, and Zhou Zuoren recorded Mao Zedong's visit in a diary in 1920.
Zhou Zuoren later became a traitor, but he also did a good thing during the War of Resistance. Zhou Zuoren helped Li Dazhao's children defect to Yan'an, and he also told Li Dazhao's daughter that Mao Zedong in Yan'an was his old acquaintance and remembered to say hello on his behalf.
After liberation, Zhou Zuoren's life was difficult, so he wrote to Mao Zedong to reflect on his situation. Mao Zedong knew that Zhou Zuoren was a cultural traitor, did not kill people and set fires, did not harm society, and knew ancient Greek, so the state raised him and asked him to translate some foreign books.
Zhou Zuoren later lived until 1967, at the age of 82.
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