What do you think of Lu Xun's takenism? What does it inspire us today?

Nazism is an immortal work. Although it has been more than half a century since Lu Xun wrote this article, it still feels kind to read. Obviously, in the whole process of China's modernization, people need to pay attention to learning foreign advanced technology and experience. There is no doubt that readers need "takenism".

For the vast number of young people, it is precisely in the period when the seniors in the discipline are knowledgeable that they need to broaden their horizons as much as possible, learn from others and enrich themselves. This is the so-called "takenism". Readers should remember Lu Xun's sentence at the end of this article: "Without it, people can't become new people, and without it, literature and art can't become new literature and art."

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Lending doctrine

China has always been a so-called "closed door". No one else is allowed to come unless you go yourself. Since the door was broken by a gun, a series of nails have been hit. Up to now, everything has become a "farewell". If nothing else, I just sent a batch of antiques to Paris for exhibition recently. I don't know what will happen after that. There are also several "masters" holding several ancient paintings and new paintings and hanging them all the way in European countries, which is called "carrying forward the national light".

I heard that Dr. Mei Lanfang will be sent to the Soviet Union to promote "symbolism" in the near future, and then he will go to Europe to preach. I don't want to discuss the relationship between Dr. Mei's acting skills and symbolism here. In short, living people have replaced antiques, and I dare say it is a little progress.

But none of us said according to the ceremony of "reciprocity": bring it!

Of course, it is not a bad thing to give it away directly. A person is rich in knowledge, and a person is knowledgeable. Nietzsche boasted that he was the sun, with infinite light and heat, just giving and not wanting. However, Nietzsche is not the sun after all. He's crazy. Neither is China. Although some people say that digging out underground coal is enough for the world to use for hundreds of years, what about hundreds of years later?

Hundreds of years later, of course, we will become souls, or go to heaven or go to hell, but our children and grandchildren are still alive, so we should leave them some gifts. Otherwise, on the occasion of the festival ceremony, they get nothing, so they have to kowtow to each other and ask for some leftovers as a reward.

This kind of reward should not be misunderstood as throwing things. It was thrown away. To put it mildly, it can be called "sending". I don't want to give examples here.

I don't want to say "send" here, otherwise it will not be "modern". I just want to advocate that we should be more stingy, not only "send", but also "bring" for "bring".

But we were frightened by what was delivered. First, British opium, abandoned guns in Germany, then French gunpowder, American movies, and various Japanese gadgets printed with "completely domestic products". Therefore, even sober young people are disgusted with foreign goods. In fact, this is precisely because it is "sending" rather than "bringing".

So we should use our brains, open our eyes and get it ourselves!

For example, there is a poor young man among us who got a big house because of his ancestors' yin gong (let me put it this way), whether it was cheated, robbed, legally inherited or obtained as a son-in-law. So, what should we do? I think, first of all, regardless of the willy-nilly, "bring it"!

However, it would be a shame to oppose the old owner of this house and hesitate to enter the door for fear that his things will be dirty; When you fly into a rage and set it on fire, you can save your innocence, but you are stupid. But because I envy the old owner of this house, this time I accepted everything, jumped into the bedroom happily, smoked the remaining opium, and of course it was even more wasteful. "Usualism" is completely different.

He has and chooses. When you see shark fin, you don't just throw it on the road to show its "popularity". As long as it is nutritious, you can eat it with your friends like radish and cabbage, but don't use it to entertain big guests; When you see opium, you won't fall into the toilet in public to see its complete revolution. You just send it to the drugstore for treatment, but you don't create the mystery of "while stocks last"

Only pipes and lanterns, although different from India, Persia and Arabia, can really be regarded as the quintessence of China. If you travel around the world with it on your back, someone will surely see them, but I think everything can be destroyed except sending some to museums. There are still a group of concubines who want to ask them to separate, otherwise "takenism" may be a bit dangerous.

Anyway, we must take it with us. We want to use it, store it, or destroy it. Then, if the owner is a new owner, the house becomes a new one. However, first of all, this person should be calm, brave, discerning and not selfish. Without it, you can't be a newcomer. Without bringing it, literature and art can't become new literature and art.

June 4th.

Extended data

"Take doctrine" wrote the following contents.

1. Criticize "closing the door" and "sending away".

At the beginning, the author points out the harm brought by China's "closed door" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: the "foolish policy" of closed door led to China's backwardness, being bullied by foreign powers and signing a series of unequal treaties.

Then it changed from one extreme to the other, moving towards "giving away", giving away "antiques" first, then "old paintings and new paintings" and then "living people", which can be described as going from bad to worse. Therefore, the essence of this "farewell doctrine" is "traitorous doctrine", which will lead to the national subjugation of China. After criticizing "closing the door" and "sending away", the author leads to the central topic of this paper "sending away".

2. Continue to criticize the harm of "sending away".

Because China's national strength at that time was not enough to continue to "close the door to the outside world", the author focused his criticism on the harm of "sending away". It is pointed out that even though China is vast in territory and rich in natural resources, China's products are sent away blindly, and future generations can only be beggars. After the criticism, the author once again pointed out his central topic-"takenism".

3. Criticize the harm of "sending".

We should have talked about "take-ism", but the author slipped and began to criticize "send" and talked about the harm that all kinds of foreign goods have done to the people of China. So this kind of "sending" is actually an "aggression" against the people of China. After excluding the wrong options, the author once again put forward the viewpoint of takenism: "So we should use our brains, open our eyes and get it ourselves!"

4. Point out the practice of "takenism".

Taking how to inherit "big house" as a metaphor, the author points out the wrong attitude towards "cultural heritage". "Concubine" dare not accept the big house, and is a coward who is timid and afraid to accept the cultural heritage; "Idiot" is a fool who blindly excludes foreigners and refuses to accept advanced cultural heritage in order to protect his innocence. "Wastes" are willing to smoke opium in big houses, and they are scum who blindly accept cultural heritage regardless of good or bad.

On the other hand, the attitude of the taker is to accept the essence of cultural heritage ("shark's fin"), abandon the dross ("concubine"), make rational use of the part of cultural heritage where the essence and dross coexist ("opium"), and send some old forms of cultural heritage dross to museums as negative teaching materials ("smoking lamps and pipes").

After that, the author summarizes the practice ("use, save or destroy") and quality ("calm, brave, discerning and selfless") of "takenism", and points out the purpose of carrying out "takenism": shaping new people and new literature and art ("people can't become new people without taking it". Without bringing it, literature and art cannot become new literature and art. " )

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