Lu Xun and Lin Yutang are good friends. Why did they go their separate ways in the end?

I don't know if this has happened around you. Friends who used to be very good parted ways because of some small things and misunderstandings, and friends can't do it.

Maybe it's because of different personalities, maybe it's because everyone speaks faster, or maybe they just disagree. In short, for whatever reason, the relationship is getting worse and worse. There are countless such examples, and celebrities often appear, such as writer Lu Xun and writer Lin Yutang.

Lu Xun must be familiar to all China people. He is not only a generation of writers, but also a famous educator and revolutionary in China.

However, the public doesn't seem to know much about Lin Yutang. In fact, many novels that young artists like, Smoke in Beijing and Crying, were written by this public. He was also a famous translator and writer in the Republic of China. Even today, it is embarrassing for two people to become enemies from friends.

From 65438 to 0923, young Lin Yutang returned from studying abroad, which coincided with the university education reform in the Republic of China. So Hu Shi of Peking University introduced him to be employed by the English Department of Peking University to teach foreign literature.

At that time, Peking University was divided into two academic schools, one was the radical school headed by the Zhou brothers, and the other was the traditional education school represented by Hu Shi. According to the reference materials, Lin Yutang is definitely going to join the Hu Shi School.

Surprisingly, however, he joined the publication Threads founded by Lu Xun, which means that Lin Yutang stood on Lu Xun's side academically. In fact, after studying in Europe and America, Lin Yutang developed a strong social habit in Europe and America, which did not adapt to the social relations in China at that time.

He just chooses the thread according to his preference for literary creation. He felt that the articles in Yu Si were very open and free, and at the same time he dared to criticize the current disadvantages and tell the truth.

So Lu Xun and Lin Yutang, who were fourteen years apart, fought side by side, using pens as swords.

After the May 30th tragedy, Mr. Lu Xun wrote In Memory of Forgetting, and Lin Yutang also wrote an article aimed at the government. However, because this article hit the nail on the head, no newspaper dared to publish it. Moreover, Lin Yutang was also targeted by the warlord government at that time, and there were always military and police agents wandering around the door.

So Lin Yutang had to return to his hometown of Fujian to take refuge and become the director of liberal arts at Xiamen University. Lu Xun, who was also rejected by warlords, was also invited to Xiamen University.

But in fact, Mr. Lu Xun's personality has changed more, and he is not happy with his colleagues at Xiamen University. Even at that time, he was rejected by Liu Shuqi, the head of the science department, but he put up with it again and again in order to make his friend Lin Yutang of the liberal arts department feel better.

1927 At the beginning of this year, Lu Xun didn't like the old-school style of Lin Wenqing, president of Xiamen University, and didn't get along well with other colleagues, so he left Xiamen and went north to Guangzhou. Lin Yutang was also excluded after this and had no choice but to leave Xiamen University.

Most of the contradictions between people are caused by different personalities. It is actually a bad thing to have a friend with an opposite personality. For example, if your attitude towards something is ambiguous, but your friend is serious, then contradictions will naturally arise. If you don't want to explain clearly, it's only a matter of time before you resolve conflicts and part ways.

Lin Yutang was educated in Europe and America, and his personality was cheerful and lively. Lu Xun went to Japan to study medicine, cautious and rigid. They have different personalities and are full of individuality, so they don't respect each other and don't understand each other properly, so the misunderstanding caused by small things deepens their contradictions.

After Lu Xun arrived in Shanghai, his life was hard and he often asked Beixin Bookstore to publish his own books. However, due to the current situation, Li Xiaofeng, the bookstore owner, often defaulted on the manuscript fee, which made Lu Xun very unhappy. Moreover, there are rumors that Lu Xun loves money like a life, and he also attacked him by writing articles about the contradiction between Li Xiaofeng and Zhang Yousong.

Lu Xun doesn't care about those nonsense articles. He just couldn't bear to delay payment, so he planned to sue Beixin Bookstore.

In order to ease the relationship between them, Yu Dafu invited Li Xiaofeng to dinner and made peace with Lu Xun. Lin Yutang and his wife were also invited to dinner.

Before leaving, Mrs. Lin also reminded Lin Yutang not to talk more. Who knows that when Zhang Yousong was mentioned during the dinner, Lin Yutang said a few more words, as if to ease the contradiction and say a few words about Zhang Yousong.

Lu Xun drank too much, and after listening to some misunderstandings, he patted the table and asked Lin Yutang why he wanted to follow suit. Lin Yutang also argued that he didn't mean that. The more they talked, the more they choked, and the dinner broke up in discord.

After that, the two did not stay away from each other, but the deepening of contradictions often came from casual accumulation. Lin Yutang published an article entitled "My Quitting Smoking" in his publication The Analects of Confucius. This article was criticized by Lu Xun that today's China is not suitable for this kind of western humor.

Soon after, while chatting with Lu Xun at a dinner party of Li Liewen, Lin Yutang suddenly asked Lu Xun, "How many cigarettes do you usually smoke?"

He just thought it was interesting to smoke in the room. However, this question was mistaken by Lu Xun for finding materials to refute criticism.

So Lu Xun said rudely, "Do you know that it is boring to regard smoking as a humorous publication?" This is a terrible publication! "The tone of those lessons. Lin Yutang was speechless, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

At this time, in order to ease the atmosphere, Li Levin interjected in the hope that Lu Xun could pay more attention to his own publication "Free Talk", but Lu Xun quipped: "If your publication can publish swearing manuscripts, I have plenty! There are many people I want to scold! "

This was heard to scold Lin Yutang. Lin Yutang just smiled and didn't say a word.

In the following years, the literary style between Lin Yutang and Lu Xun gradually changed. Lu Xun was naturally furious and wielded his pen like a knife.

Lin Yutang began to express his dissatisfaction with the society at that time in a humorous way In fact, they write in the same direction, but in different ways. But it also caused the final formation of the break between the two.

The deepening of the contradiction actually stems from a funeral.

1932 12 in February, Yang Xingfo, director-general of China civil rights protection league, was assassinated by secret agents, and both Lin Yutang and Lu Xun were deeply saddened.

It happened that both of them were closely watched by spies at the same time, and the date of condolence was coincidentally staggered. Lu Xun thought that Lin Yutang was afraid of things, so he was extremely angry at the condolence ceremony and expressed his contempt for Lin Yutang. Lin Yutang also risked his life at the subsequent burial ceremony, but Lu Xun was absent that day. This incident deepened their misunderstanding.

1934, Lin Yutang started the publication "Human World" again, so he invited friends to dinner at home, and Lu Xun was also at the dinner party, which shows that there is still a chance to ease the relationship between the two.

However, Human Life was criticized by the left-wing alliance. As the leader of the alliance, Lu Xun criticized the humorous literature of Human Life run by Lin Yutang as "anesthesia literature".

After that, Lu Xun even embarrassed Lin Yutang face to face several times, and Lin Yutang disdained to distinguish. My friend did not quarrel, that is to say, he did his best. Lu Xun and Lin Yutang can be said to have completely broken up.

Two years later, Lin Yutang went to the United States.1In mid-October, Lu Xun died of tuberculosis. The two writers will never meet again. After learning of Lu Xun's death, Lin Yutang wrote down his views on Lu Xun.

The article said: I have always respected Lu Xun, and the bad blood between them is actually due to natural reasons of different personalities. What's more, disagreements are not necessarily friends, and there is no emotional entanglement between them.

Ma Weidou, a collector, once mentioned in the program: "The interpersonal relationship in China society has three characteristics: strangers should be familiar, acquaintances should be close, and relatives should be born. The proportion between these three interpersonal relationships is often overlooked. "

These three characteristics are very abstract, but they have aroused many friends' reflection.

In China's social relations, people who want to get close to strangers often have to get familiar with each other first. And with familiar friends, you have to get along like relatives and deepen your contacts.

However, too close friends must have some mutual respect and respect for each other in order to have a long-term relationship. Perhaps if Lu Xun and Lin Yutang can maintain such a good standard of communication, their friendship will not turn against each other in the end.