Speaking of "Runtu", I believe everyone must be very familiar with him, he is a character in Lu Xun's works in our primary school Chinese textbooks, and he is a well-known figure,、。 We all know him from books, this simple teenager with a collar around his neck, full of positive spirit, was once a very brave child. It's just a pity that such a good child, under the influence of feudal society, eventually became a "wooden man", which is really regrettable.
The character of "Leaping Earth" appears in Mr. Lu Xun's short story "Hometown", which was written in 1921 and is based on what Mr. Lu Xun saw and heard when he returned to his hometown to deal with the relocation. Therefore, "Leaping Earth" is not only an artistic image, he also has a character archetype, so who is the character archetype of "Leaping Earth"? What are his descendants doing now?
Let's first talk about "LeapIng Earth", the character archetype of "Leaping Earth" is a person named Zhang Yunshui, in the hometown dialect of Lu Xun's hometown, "Run" and "Luck" are homophonous, and "Water" and "Soil" are one of the five elements, so there is this name. Zhang Yunshui himself was born in an ordinary family in the countryside, Mr. Lu Xun's family is well-off, and there are paddy fields, so his father came to Lu Xun's house to help with long-term work.
In 1893, Mr. Lu Xun's great-grandmother died, because he was too busy, so he brought him over to help, and Zhang Yunshui was two years older than Lu Xun, so at that time Lu Xun also called him "Brother Yunshui", and the relationship between the two people was very good. Later, when his father died, he could only pick up the burden of supporting the family, and there was no end to the farm work every day, but even so, because his family was not rich and only had six acres of thin land, it was still very difficult to support the family.
In 1934, just in time for the great drought, Zhang Yunshui's family not only had no harvest, but also carried debts, and eventually he had to sell his land and make a living by working. When he was in his 50s, his body was full of bad sores, but he had no money to heal, and finally he died at the age of 57. That year was 1936, and Mr. Lu Xun also left in the same year, and the two people were still very close.
He gave birth to three sons, his eldest son Zhang Qisheng is the aquatic life in the novel, who died of illness early, leaving behind his 3-year-old son Zhang Gui (the grandson of "Leap Earth") and a widow. In order to survive, Zhang Qisheng's wife only needs to go to the city to work, and Zhang Gui can only do child labor, life is extremely difficult, and the only little sister also leaves early because of illness and no money for treatment.
When New China was founded, Zhang Gui was already 16 years old, and he had been a child laborer since he was a child, and he had no opportunity or money to study, but he was not willing to accept the status quo, on the contrary, he had a very self-motivated heart, so he went out to work during the day and entered a crash course to study at night. In 1954, he was given the opportunity to work at the Lu Xun Memorial Hall, and his studies became even more arduous.
It was also for this reason that he eventually became an expert in Lu Xun's research from an illiterate peasant, publishing articles related to Mr. Lu Xun in the newspaper many times, and officially becoming the deputy director of the Lu Xun Memorial Hall in 1982. Another point is also very interesting, Zhang Gui is the grandson of "Leap Earth", and Zhou Haiying is Lu Xun's son, and they first met in the Lu Xun Memorial Hall, which is really like a repetition of history.