Lu Xun's personal and family problems

Lu Xun was born in Zhoujia, Xintaimen, Dongchangfangkou, Huiji County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. His original name was Zhou Shuren, and his name was Yushan, Yuting and Yucai. At the age of 38, he used Lu Xun as his pen name. Together with Zhou Zuoren and Zhou Jianren, they became the "three brothers of Zhou".

In Shaoxing, the Zhou family is a noble family. Not to mention being an official and doing business, the population growth alone is considerable, so by the time Lu Xun was born, the Zhou family had separated in three places and looked after each other, just like a big family. Zhou Jiefu, Lu Xun's grandfather, was born in Hanlin. He was a magistrate of a county in Jiangxi, and later went to Beijing to become a cabinet official and became a standard Beijing official. Shaoxing is not a big city. People like Zhou Jiefu who are both academicians and Beijing officials can naturally win the respect of ordinary citizens. The horizontal plaque on Zhoujiamen's door, which was hand-picked as "Hanlin", clearly declared the special status of Zhoujia. Lu Xun is really lucky. The starting point of his long journey in life is located in such a place that seems to be quite convenient from the paradise.

This gave Lu Xun a series of conditions that children from poor families could not enjoy. Forty or fifty acres of paddy fields at home, that is, Zhou Jiefu does not remit a penny from Beijing, and his daily livelihood is always more than enough to drive poverty away from him. Zhou's family pays attention to reading. Zhou Jiefu even had the ambition of letting his children and grandchildren take the Hanlin exam together, and hung the plaque of "Uncle Hanlin, Father, Son, Brother and Uncle" on the door. The atmosphere of that kind of scholarly family is naturally quite strong. Lu Xun has two large bookcases in his home, from Annotations on Thirteen Classics and Four History to Complete Works of Wang Yangming and General Meaning of Literature and History by Zhang Xuecheng. Even novels such as The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The List of Gods are crowded in it. Not only do they have books in their own homes, but many relatives in their own homes also have a large collection of books, and they are not only boring and difficult to understand, but also many interesting books that make children very happy, from the illustrated "Flower Mirror" to the "Dream of Red Mansions" which describes boys and girls.

China is a country that pays attention to patriarchy, and is fond of parents who are rude and overbearing and regard their children as private property. You were born in a rich family. If you meet such parents, your childhood will still be ruined. What about Lu Xun's luck? Although Zhou Jiefu has a bad temper and sometimes scolds children, he is quite open in teaching Lu Xun to read. At that time, the children of ordinary families always read the four books and the five classics directly, and asked a six-year-old child to read "learn from the times" every day. How painful would he be? Zhou Jiefu, on the other hand, asked Lu Xun to read history first, starting with A Brief Introduction, then the Book of Songs, and then The Journey to the West, all of which were books that children were interested in. Even when reading Tang poetry, I choose Bai Juyi's relatively simple poems first, and then read Li Bai and Du Fu, which greatly lightens Lu Xun's depression of enlightenment. Grandma loves him very much. Every summer night, Lu Xun is allowed to lie on a small board table under a big laurel tree, shaking a banana fan and telling him stories in the cool breeze. What a cat is a tiger's master and what a fairy saved a white snake? Lu Xun still clearly remembers the fun and comfort at that time until his later years. Zhou Boyi, Lu Xun's father, is serious, but more gentle than his grandfather. Although his family education is strict, he never hits children. Lu Xun remembered one thing in the article "Five Cabins Meeting" in "Morning Flowers and Evening Picking Up", that is, he was forced to endorse it at such a happy moment as Xiao Lu Xun. But in fact, Zhou Boyi usually does not supervise his sons' reading. In daily discipline, they are often more tolerant. Once, Lu Xun and his younger brother secretly bought a copy of The Flower Sutra, which was discovered by Zhou Boyi. They were afraid and desperate, because it was a casual book, and children were generally not allowed to read it: "Oh, no, it will definitely be confiscated now!" Unexpectedly, Zhou Boyi turned over a few pages and silently returned them to them, which made them overjoyed. From then on, they bought idle books with confidence and boldness, so they didn't have to worry about it, just like thieves. As for mother Lu Rui, her love for him is not to mention. Among several children, her favorite is Lu Xun. In terms of human feelings, parents always love their children, but due to the bad habits passed down from generation to generation in China, this kind of parental love often turns into a cruel destruction of young minds. Of course, it can't be said that Lu Xun hasn't been devastated like this. He will write "Five Cabins Club" later, which shows that there are deep scars in his heart. But on the whole, he was quite lucky. At least in his childhood, he was often bathed in the love of gentle and generous elders. Lu Xun once wrote an article about an incident that happened when he was a child in Weeds. This article is called Kite, which is the 21st lesson in the first volume of Grade One.

Family member

Grandfather: Zhou Fuqing (1838 ~ 194), whose original name was Zhou Zhifu, whose name was Zhen Sheng and Jie Fu, was a scholar of Xin Weike in the tenth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1871), Jishi Shu of the Imperial Academy, who was once the magistrate of Jinxi County, Jiangxi Province, and now served as a cabinet secretary in Beijing.

father: Zhou Boyi (1861 ~ 1896), whose name is Boyi, was renamed Wen Yu, a scholar and lived at home. Died of tuberculosis.

mother: Lu Rui (1858 ~ 1943), a great-granddaughter of Luxi, was quite open-minded. She came from an official family in Pingqiao village, Shaoxing, and had never studied, but she was able to read books through self-study.

The second brother: Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), translated Greek Myth in his later years

The third brother: Zhou Jianren (1888-1984), who was the governor of Zhejiang Province and vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC).

son: Zhou Haiying, male, was born in Shanghai in September 1929. He is 8 years old. He is the only son of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, and has written books such as Lu Xun and Me for Seventy Years. From 1952 to 196, he studied radio in the Physics Department of Peking University. Since 196, he has worked in the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. Former deputy ministerial cadre of State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, radio expert. He is currently a member of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; He is also the chairman of Shanghai Luxun Cultural Development Center, honorary president of China Luxun Research Association, honorary curator of Beijing Luxun Memorial Hall, Shaoxing Luxun Memorial Hall and Xiamen Luxun Memorial Hall, honorary principal of Beijing Luxun Middle School and Shaoxing Luxun Middle School, consultant of China Luxun Research Office and Shanghai Luxun Memorial Hall, and consultant of China Radio Sports Association (CRSA). He served as the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh session of the National People's Congress and the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh session of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is the author of [Lu Xun and I for 7 years], [Lu Xun's family photo album] [dressing case-Zhou Haiying's 8 photos] and other works. .

wife: Zhu An. In 196, Mr. Lu Xun and Zhu An got married. Three days after their marriage, Mr. Lu Xun traveled to Japan again, and lived a miserable life from then on until he lived with Xu Guangping in 1927.

for the rest of my life: Xu Guangping. Xu Guangping (1898 ~ 1968) was born in Fujian. In 1917, she studied in the preparatory course of Tianjin Zhili No.1 Women's Normal School, served as the editor-in-chief of Wake the World Weekly, the journal of Tianjin Patriotic Comrades Association, and participated in the May 4th Movement under the leadership of Zhou Enlai. In 1923, he was admitted to the Chinese Literature Department of Beijing Women's Normal College and became a student of Lu Xun. In January 1927, Lu Xun went to Sun Yat-sen University to teach, served as a teaching assistant and Guangzhou dialect translator, and rented a house with Lu Xun on Baiyun Road. In October, he and Lu Xun went to Shanghai to formally live together. In 1929, Zhou Haiying was born. In December 1932, the communication collection "The Book of Two Places" was published. He has served as Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council, Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Standing Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Vice Chairman of the All-China Women's Federation, Vice Chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Democracy, and member of the Presidium of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He died in Beijing in March 1968 at the age of 7.