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“Save the child…” With a weaker cry, Lu Xun ended the whole chapter in the despair of a madman. This kind of powerlessness makes people feel like a biting cold, which may startle more sober “unfortunate people” in the iron house.
Awakening in the Iron House
Lu Xun “went to N to enter K school” to study Gezhi and mathematics. His vision broadened, and he realized that Chinese medicine may not be a good cure for people’s diseases, and there are more Chinese people like his father who cannot receive scientific treatment. So he went to Japan to study abroad, specializing in medicine. One day, in a film of the Russo-Japanese War he watched, there were also Chinese people, “one was tied in the middle, and many stood on the left and right. They all had strong physiques and showed numb expressions.” “According to the commentary, the tied He was a military spy for Russia, and was about to be beheaded by the Japanese army as a public display, and those who surrounded him were those who came to enjoy the grand display.” People cheered. In China, the Chinese who were beheaded by the Japanese in the conflict between Japan and Russia, the Chinese were watching, and the Chinese were shouting “Long Live”. Trembling in Lu Xun’s heart, he made up his mind to “change their spirit” and “advocate a literary movement”.
This is the preface of “The Scream”. Perhaps what drove Lu Xun to make such a determination was not such a movie-watching experience, but what he had seen and thought for a long time. The Chinese are sick, and the sickness is spiritual, and the sickness is not serious.
He wants to find comrades. Guided by the road of saving the country with utensils, “International students in Tokyo are very good at studying law, politics, chemistry, and even the police industry, but they don’t rule literature and fine arts.” In the end, several people were invited to publish the magazine “New Life”, but they each withdrew before publication. Lonely, that’s how Lu Xun described it. No one agrees, no one opposes. There was no response at all. Sad, lonely. What Lu Xun faced was a wasteland. “This experience made me reflect and see myself: that is, I am by no means a hero who raises his arms and responds.”
In the pain of loneliness, Lu Xun copied ancient monuments in the S Guild Hall, willing to let his life disappear quietly. This was his anesthesia, for many years, until Qian Xuantong came to visit—at this time they were working on “New Youth”, shouting to the wasteland. “What’s the use of you copying these?”
“Suppose an iron house has no windows and is indestructible. There are many sleeping people in it. They will soon be suffocated to death. However, they don’t feel the sorrow of dying when they go from sleep to death. Now you shout Do you think you are doing them a favor by awakening those who are more sane and causing this unfortunate few to suffer irreparably dying pain?”
“However, since a few people got up, you can’t say that there is absolutely no hope of destroying the iron house.”
hope? hope. hope! Hope to light up the troubled. Lu Xun finally agreed, so there is this “Diary of a Madman”.
Running in loneliness, shouting…
Madman’s Compromise
In the preface, Lu Xun wrote that this madman was the younger brother of his good friend in middle school, who suffered from “persecution mania”, and wrote a diary. “The language is quite incoherent, and there are many absurd words.” Now that he has recovered from his illness, he has gone to a certain place as a candidate.
The full text is absurd, but frightening. At first, the madman felt that the dog of the Zhao family was looking at him more, so he needed to be careful. Later, I felt that Zhao Guiweng and the people on the road seemed to be afraid of him, and seemed to want to harm him, so they needed to be careful. Immediately, the children on the street, the women on the street, the people in the family, the elder brother…all of them were suspected by him. He felt that the whole village seemed to have a plot to eat him. In the end, I found that I was not only a “victim”, but also a “perpetrator”, just like them-maybe the girl was eaten by her brother, or her meat was also eaten by the whole family in meals. Then he asked “there are no children who have eaten people, or are there?” It is the pursuit of the pure land outside this world of cannibalism.
Cannibalism does not mean eating only the flesh, but also the spirit. Cannibalism does not necessarily require sharp teeth, and can also be replaced by “benevolence, righteousness and morality”.
Everything must be studied before it can be understood. In ancient times, people often eat people, I still remember, but I don’t know very well. I opened the history and looked it up. There is no date in this history, and the words “benevolence, righteousness and morality” are written on each [page] crookedly. I couldn’t sleep anyway, and after reading carefully half the night, I finally saw the words between the words. There were two words “eating people” written all over the book!
The madman is still incoherent after all. Yi Ya and Jie Zhou were not contemporaries, and “Compendium of Materia Medica” is not “Supplements to Materia Medica”. But the history of cannibalism has no chronology. In ancient times, there was a saying of “eating when changing sons”. Yi Ya could steam his son and give it to Duke Huan of Qi first; Some yamen servants took his wife, and some old mothers were forced to death by creditors.” It’s also reasonable. “Last year, a prisoner was killed in the city, and there was a man with tuberculosis who licked his blood with a steamed bun.” “The big villain was beaten to death by everyone; several people dug out his heart and liver, fried it with oil, and ate it.” You can be bold. “From the beginning of Pangu to cannibalism, Yi Ya’s son, until now. “Good people” can eat “wicked people”, and “wicked people” deserve to be eaten. The reason is “benevolence, righteousness and morality”.
The madman realizes the fact of “cannibalism” and looks for people around him, hoping to persuade them to turn them around, but he is regarded as a “lunatic”. Perhaps this is also connected with Lu Xun’s pain of loneliness. After realizing that he is also a cannibal, he sighed, “It’s hard to see real people!” This is a society where people cannibalize, and hope is given to the next generation.
“Save the children…”
It’s a pity that with such hopes and having discovered the truth, after “recovering from illness”, he was a substitute, waiting for commission, willing to serve as an official in the court. Perhaps this is another compromise? The alien who discovered the truth about cannibalism seeks to survive in this way in the cannibalistic society.
Waking up in the iron house, pretending to be asleep again?
Hope, responsibility, give to the next generation.
“Save the children…”
The next generation should not be devastated by the “cannibal culture”, and should abandon these wrong and conservative so-called “benevolence and morality”. Children will no longer eat people, and society will no longer be a “cannibal society”. “Save the children” contains the prayer of “save the children”.
“The feast of human flesh is still lined up, and many people want to continue to line it up. It is the mission of today’s youth to wipe out these cannibals, toss this banquet, and destroy this kitchen.” Quoting Lu Xun’s Essays under the Lamp “Conclusion.
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