Lu Xun was originally named Zhou Zhangshou, Yushan, and later renamed Zhou Shuren, Yucai, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. When I was a teenager, I studied poetry and classics at home, and liked unofficial history's miscellaneous notes and folk painting art. From 65438 to 0898, I studied at Nanjing Jiangnan Naval Academy founded by Westernization School. A few months later, I was re-admitted to the Railway Mining and Metallurgy School affiliated to Jiangnan Lushi School, and began to contact the new school. 1902 to study in Japan. He entered Hongwen College in April, graduated from 1904 in April, and entered Sendai Medical College in June. During this period, he began to participate in various national democratic revolutionary activities and extensively dabbled in modern western science and literature books and periodicals. The first half of the earliest translated article Soul of Sparta was published in the fifth issue of Zhejiang Tide published in June, l903 in Japan (the second half was published in the ninth issue). In the same year, the first translated science fiction novel A Journey to the Moon Boundary was published in Tokyo. 1906 abandoned medicine and joined literature, hoping to transform the national spirit with literature and art. After failing to organize the literary magazine "New Life", he published important papers such as Human History, Moro Poetry and Cultural Re-discussion in Henan magazine. Co-translated the first episode of foreign novels with Zhou Zuoren, published in 1909. /kloc-returned to China in the summer of 0/909 and taught in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Normal School and Shaoxing High School. After the Revolution of 1911, he served as the principal of Shaoxing Normal School. 19 1 1 year, he wrote his first novel homesickness in classical Chinese, and its ideological characteristics and artistic style are the same as those of later novels. Pushkin, a Czech scholar, thinks it is "the pioneer of modern literature in China". 19 12 in February, at the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, he went to work in Nanjing Ministry of Education, and then moved to Beijing with the Ministry of Education. 19 18 In May, the first modern vernacular novel Diary of a Madman was published in New Youth under the pseudonym of Lu Xun. In the following three years, he published more than 50 novels, new poems, essays and translations in New Youth, and participated in the editing of New Youth. 1920 was hired as a liberal arts lecturer in Peking University and Beijing Normal University in August. From 192 1 12 to the beginning of the following year, The True Story of Ah Q was serialized in the supplement of the Morning Post. 1923 published the first collection of short stories "Scream". 1926 The Imitation of Fear was published. In addition to novels, Lu Xun also wrote many essays with unique styles, represented by Random Thoughts, published in New Youth 19 18. 1925 published a collection of essays, Hot Wind. Since then, a collection of mixed feelings has been published almost every year.
In the mid-1920s, he participated in the establishment of Mangyuan Weekly, Yusi Weekly and the last famous literary society. 1927 Joined Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou at the beginning of the year, and served as the head of literature department and the dean of educational affairs. 1August, 927, became a professor at Xiamen University. In June 5438+10 in the same year, he went to Shanghai and settled in Shanghai from then on, specializing in writing. 1928, co-founded Liu Ben magazine with Yu Dafu. 193O, the Chinese Left-wing Writers Union was established. He is one of the founders and the chief editor. He has successively edited important literary periodicals such as Germination, Sentinel, Shiyu Street and Translation.
1936 55 years old died of overwork and lung disease in Shanghai.