The story of Lu Xun and his brother

"Brother, when are we going to catch sparrows?" Zhou Zuoren asked with a smile.

Shu Ren glanced at his brother. "Don't you see that I have to study here?" Go and play. "Dust-covered Zhou Zuoren vomitted to stick out tongue at his brother and ran away. There, his mother took a nap in a plush chair with her little brother in her arms. That year, Lu Xun was 8 years old.

The three brothers have always had a good relationship. On the one hand, there are many older brothers, on the other hand, their growth is based on family changes, which naturally has long been understood. As the eldest brother, Lu Xun is the son of Zhou's parents. His heart is more of a sense of responsibility for family and society, and his words often naturally reveal a kind of domineering. As a man, the second brother has a brother and a younger brother. While welcoming the eldest brother, you should also have the majesty of being the second brother. His bones are full of the golden mean of reading China's ancient classics for many years. When Ren Jian really grew up, his two brothers went out to study. Naturally, Ren Jian always appears in front of his two older brothers as a little brother.

Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren are four years apart and are the closest brothers. In addition, Zhou Zuoren is smart and easy-going, and they spend the most time together, which is naturally thicker than others. There are some interesting things. They often work together and seldom hide from each other.

When Lu Xun was thirteen, his grandfather Zhou was put into Hangzhou prison for being involved in an examination case. Parents are afraid of implicating their children, so they quickly put their children in their uncle's house not far from the city to take refuge. At that time, Zhou Zuoren was still ill in bed. When he gets up in the morning, he often drowns the mat. After a long time, the voice of ridicule gradually increased, and even the news of "begging" was spit out. Lu Xun knew that it was not good to rely on others, so he had to submit to humiliation, but he didn't want to hurt Zhou Zuoren's heart more, so he took on the eyes of his relatives alone. Zhou Zuoren was still young and knew nothing about these difficulties. It was not until I read Lu Xun's Memories of this Life that I realized how meticulous my brother was in protecting himself.

Six months later, another misfortune happened at home, and the sick father suddenly vomited blood. In order to invite famous doctors, the family reluctantly sold land. I finally invited a "famous doctor", but the drugs I might buy were particularly strange, and drug introductions were even harder to find. What is old rice, what is sugar cane frosted for three years, and what is "cricket pair"? Next to it is the small print: "original match." Although there are many crickets in the Herb Garden, it is not easy to catch the "original couple". To this end, Lu Xun called Zhou Zuoren and agreed in advance that one person would catch a "worm couple". Fortunately, the two brothers are also used to cooperation. After many twists and turns, I finally caught a pair, tied them with cotton thread and sent them to the medicine pot.

However, strange herbs and drugs still failed to save his father's life, and the old man died soon. However, the cooperation between the two brothers in this difficult situation is deeply engraved in their hearts. Until the two brothers broke up, they still couldn't forget the story left by their childhood. After all, childhood is full of childlike interest. In Regret for the Past, Lu Xun mapped this beautiful memory with the sad love of young people. Zhou Zuoren read this story, although it was about sad love, but it was closely linked with himself, and he could not help but roll up his sleeves and sigh.

One autumn, the sweet-scented osmanthus in the south of the Yangtze River was fragrant, and the adults at home rested under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree. Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren unexpectedly began to perform their own children's dramas, jumping and dancing, which amused the adults. When other children were still around their mothers asking for foreign money to buy candy cakes, the creative talents of the two brothers began to appear gradually.

In winter, there is a thin layer of ice in the big bucket of water at home. Lu Xun smashed it and fished it out for his younger brothers to eat. The three of them bit their mouths and exploded. Of course, they are disappointed sometimes. On another occasion, Lu Xun learned from a picture of "mice getting married" that the Lantern Festival night was the day when mice got married, so he whispered with his younger brother and kept his eyes open all night, but saw nothing. The next day, Zhou Zuoren was listless, but he didn't blame his brother.

Of course, there are many differences between brothers. For example, the personality is completely opposite since childhood. Lu Xun is honest and daring, but if he is unfair, he will be unfair. He is a man who doesn't want to be silent between right and wrong. Zhou Zuoren, on the other hand, is calm, careful and does not like to cause trouble. Even in bad environment, he can bear it. The rivers and mountains may change, but not one's essential nature Brothers' different personalities really dominate their lives.

On one occasion, they heard that there was a gentleman named "Short Beard" in Wang Zhai private school near Xintaimen, who was particularly harsh on students. All students who want to pee must ask in advance and get a "pee sign" before they can go to the toilet. In this regard, the students of Santan Yinyue were very surprised. However, Lu Xun was not only shocked. At noon the next day, he led the "righteous teacher" to punish him. When he arrived, he found no one. Everyone took their anger out on the "pee stick", folded it all up, and covered the pen holder and inkstone of "short beard" on the ground as a punishment. In this war, Lu Xun, as the eldest brother, dared to act boldly, and Zhou Zuoren did his best, but he never took the lead. Zhou Zuoren was gentle from childhood, and Lu Xun's criticism and revolution from childhood made the two brothers have inevitable contradictions in their bones. If Qi Ming and Chang Gung can't coexist in heaven.

In the memories of his third brother Zhou, it also reflects the childhood characters of his two brothers interestingly:

(About 1894 Chinese New Year) We three brothers discussed it, put the lucky money together and bought a book "The Sea Fairy Map" ... After buying it, I told my father about it ... (Father) asked him to show it to him, and the eldest brother showed it to his father. He looked at it for a while and seemed interested. He returned it to his eldest brother without saying anything. From now on, my eldest brother will call me "Ye Ren". He called me several times, but when he saw that I didn't say anything, he thought I didn't understand the meaning of "calling people" and stopped calling me "a complete bitch" This meaning is of course popular, but I ignored him! He stopped screaming.

The second brother, on the other hand, was tactful, not opinionated and easy to get along with. There will probably be no nicknames and shameful things. From the observation of the younger brother, it shows the bitterness of the older brother and the tolerance and tide wait for no man of the second brother. The personality differences between them are distinct, and their childhood personality differences are closely combined with their future life development. Lu Xun's astringency is reflected in his later writing and struggle with others, while Zhou Zuoren's personality of moderation and compromise runs through his life. It can't be said that this is a kind of sadness, maybe it's just the arrangement of heaven.

As a heavyweight in the history of modern literature in China, Lu Xun only existed in this world for 56 years, but it was during these 56 years that he left precious and immortal works for the literary world of China and even the history of world literature, such as Diary of a Madman, The True Story of Ah Q and other humorous and profound works, which became eternal classics. Essays and letters, which occupy an important position in Lu Xun's works, are still shining after decades because of their literariness and historicity.

Lu Xun loved reading since he was a child. His grandfather was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, and his family was once well off. Lu Xun and his brother Zhou Zuoren had the opportunity and conditions to receive a good private school education since childhood, which played a very good enlightenment role for the latter two to become masters with profound attainments in Chinese studies. Lu Xun was clever and studious when he was young. When I was thirteen or sixteen, my family went from bad to worse because of my grandfather's bribery case and my father's death. However, Lu Xun went to Nanjing and was admitted to Jiangnan Naval Academy on 1889 with profound knowledge of Chinese studies and yearning for new learning. Xu Shoushang wrote in the Chronicle of Mr. Lu Xun: "(Mr. Lu Xun) did not review his lessons, but he was among the best in the exam." After school, I need to read newly translated books, especially good novels, and sometimes go out riding. " It can be said that Lu Xun is no longer the product of traditional Confucian classic education, but a typical representative of the progress of the times full of new ideas and concepts. Let's take a look at his second brother: Zhou Zuoren's prose is leisurely and diluted, and there is little fireworks in the world. It is a good product in prose to read. His profound knowledge of Chinese studies and gentle personality prompted him to write almost as good vernacular as Lu Xun. Maybe the two are not the same. Because Lu Xun's foundation is full of perseverance and bitterness, Zhou Zuoren's inner repression and cowardly and moderate character are naturally different from Lu Xun's writing style. Maybe only when they translate a work together can they find more similarities.

Zhou Zuoren's birth may be legendary, although when he wrote his memoirs at the age of 76, he repeatedly stressed: "My birth was extremely ordinary" and "there was no sign of evil in Chery beforehand". But there is a legend that Zhou Zuoren came back from a night tour and saw an old man with a white beard in the house. The old man with white beard disappeared, and Zhou Zuoren was born with his cry. So the baby was born, and before his hands and feet could stretch out, there were two kinds of sayings: good or bad, cheating. Perhaps the legend didn't explain anything, or it was just the talk of some people, but Zhou Zuoren had a rough 83 years. No matter what people say, the image of this "white-bearded old man" has been deeply imprinted in Zhou Zuoren's heart, so that 50 years later, when he wrote "Poems on Self-longevity", the first couplet wrote two sentences: "I was a monk in my previous life, but now I am at home, and I don't change my robes."

Zhou Zuoren's heart was full of "melancholy" from an early age. Although his world was still happy at that time, the changes of family and times made his young mind full of invisible pressure in nature and its beauty from an early age. This kind of pressure may not come out of thin air, but it has vaguely penetrated into his whole body. Zhou Zuoren lived with his grandmother when he was a child. His gentle and elegant personality is inseparable from living with the elderly since childhood. His grandmother's tradition.

"... unfortunately, the fate of a woman in my mind is the sad and ordinary image of this old woman. "

"My grandmother ... in an authoritarian family with concubines, she has her own other hardships ... that kind of bitter and patient ceremony, such as not sitting on a stone bar and not drinking longan soup, is a common occurrence. As for not seeing a smile in my life, I deserve to know my opinion. "

For the first time, Zhou Zuoren realized the cruel suppression of feudal ethics on human nature from his grandmother's suffering and smoothness, and aroused his concern and sympathy for the fate of women for the first time.

Because Zhou Zuoren's grandfather committed a crime when he was nine years old, according to Zhou Zuoren's own memory, the real enlightenment education began when 1885 went to San Tan Ying Yue to study, so he first came into contact with China's traditional culture. Perhaps his feelings at that time were intuitive and emotional, but the first book he read was a classic (the first half of The Doctrine of the Mean), and then he accepted the tradition of China.

Although Lu Xun's enlightenment education was also an antique roadside house paved in the small town of Qingwa in the south of the Yangtze River, they all received the original edification of China's classics here, but the life trajectory of the two brothers just lurked here. It can be said that the so-called orthodox education with Confucianism as the core influenced the Zhou brothers from different sides to varying degrees.