Is Lu Xun's "Two Jujube Trees" a sick sentence? Why is it a famous sentence now?

Speaking of great writers in modern times, I have to mention Mr. Lu Xun, who is one of them. Lu Xun's original name was Zhou Shuren, and his words were forceful, incisive and humorous. There are profound meanings between the lines, and people have to read them repeatedly to understand their essence and significance.

As the founder of modern literature, two jujube trees, Mr. Lu Xun's articles are always full of indomitable and upward power. He awakens people's sleeping thoughts through words and pulls people back from the edge of ignorance. However, in Mr. Lu Xun's works, there is a controversial sentence in an article, which obviously seems to be a sick sentence, but it has spread through the ages and become another famous sentence of Mr. Lu Xun.

In my back garden, you can see two trees outside the wall, one is jujube and the other is jujube. This sentence comes from the article "Autumn Night", which is a prose poem written by Lu Xun at 1924. As the first sentence at the beginning, at first glance, it seems to be a wordy and redundant sentence. If this sentence was written during our study, it is estimated that the Chinese teacher will inevitably "entertain" it.

But did Mr. Lu Xun, a famous outstanding writer and philosopher, make the same low-level sentence mistakes? I don't think so. Mr. Lu Xun is an influential person. Since he chose to use pen as a weapon to wake up the world with words, he wouldn't throw his pen and ink around at will. If you have to write something, then write something useful to the world, and the unnecessary nonsense is not like what Mr. Lu Xun did. In my opinion, this "sick sentence" in the eyes of many people has become a famous sentence for the following reasons.

Portrait of a Lonely Hero A person's work is the product of his time, and we often interpret it in combination with the background at that time when evaluating the work. Lu Xun was in his prime when he wrote Autumn Night, but the vigorous democratic revolution in northern China was at a low ebb, dying under the collusion of imperialism and Beiyang warlords. Compared with external threats, internal division is the most painful thing. After the May 4th wave receded, the original United front partners also parted ways.

Some people have been promoted, some have retired, and some have moved forward, but that is only a small number. And Lu Xun is one of these very little people. At the same time, some people in the society are trying to pull the youth back to the retro trend of thought of the pile of old paper. Lu Xun, who is full of blood and ambition, is inevitably lonely and sad when he sits at home and looks at the bleak autumn scenery in front of the door.

Powerful external forces are no less destructive than storms, but can evil forces really make us bow? Lu Xun looked at the two jujube trees in front of him and wrote, "One is a jujube tree and the other is a jujube tree". In Lu Xun's works, the jujube tree represents the progressive force to fight evil forces to the end, and represents a proud, independent and inviolable mental outlook. These two jujube trees are also the portrayal of the lonely hero Lu Xun and all the resistance forces. Although the situation was steep at that time, Lu Xun did not give up the pursuit of light.

Why did Mr. Lu Xun write jujube twice? Since they are two jujube trees, why not just write "There are two jujube trees outside the wall"? After understanding the meaning of jujube tree, the author thinks that by describing jujube tree twice, we can better understand Mr. Lu Xun's indomitable spirit of resisting evil forces. The first jujube tree was endowed with Lu Xun's tenacious spirit, and the second jujube tree represented the progressive force of the whole society that Lu Xun expected.

Therefore, the writing of "one is a jujube tree and the other is a jujube tree" is not repetition, but the author has ulterior motives, which not only strengthens feelings, but also embodies Lu Xun's anger, fearless fighting spirit and firm determination against evil forces, and also places Lu Xun's expectation and hope for light in the dark. Perhaps the principle of emphasizing twice is the same as the principle of saying important things three times.

As a generation of literati, Lu Xun is an all-round thinker and politician with independent characteristics and profound literary foundation. The articles written also have a unique tone. Lu Xun chose to write Jujube twice, on the one hand, in order to use the novelty of language to create a cold and objective environment and inner loneliness and anger at that time.

The reason why this sentence is a sick sentence to many people is that it is different from the sentences we usually see and violates the grammatical convention. And Mr. Lu Xun has always been unconventional, pursuing innovation and novelty, so there is such a sentence. Sentences written according to everyone's consistent thinking may be difficult to stir up waves in people's minds. A common skill of writers is to change the same word into various sentences, both in form and content, which are refreshing and thoughtful.

This is also the defamiliarization of language, which emphasizes the violation of people's common sense in content and form and produces new defamiliarization intentions, thus giving people sensory stimulation or emotional shock. This theory was put forward by a Russian formalist critic in the 1920s, when Lu Xun wrote Autumn Night. However, this technique has long been used by Lu Xun in China. I have to say that Mr. Lu Xun's literary attainments are extremely high.

Finally, one of the most crucial reasons why such a sentence will become a famous sentence through the ages is that it was written by Lu Xun. I think everyone has written similar scenery descriptions, but no matter whether we write the same "sick sentences" or gorgeous and beautiful sentences, we can't have such fame, because Lu Xun's words are endowed with meaning far beyond our perception, because we are not Lu Xun, because there is only one Lu Xun called "Chinese soul".

There was a popular saying before, "Lu Xun: I didn't say it", because there are always some series of "Lu Xun once said it" on the Internet. Words that did not come from Lu Xun's mouth were immediately taken seriously after being crowned as Lu Xun's reputation. This phenomenon can be regarded as a "celebrity effect".

But the effect brought by Lu Xun here is not groundless, as written at the beginning of the article, so nonsense is not Lu Xun's style. And the meaning of this "autumn night" is far beyond our perception. A thousand readers have a thousand interpretations of this article. The author believes that it is not difficult to understand why this seemingly ill sentence has become a famous sentence through the ages by combining the three factors in the article.

Whenever we mention Lu Xun, we think of the "Chinese soul" with a strong character, the awe-inspiring righteousness of "looking on coldly with a thousand fingers and bowing down as a willing ox", and the bloom and regret of "there is a hot air, emitting a beam of light, not waiting for the torch fire".