Lu Xun was born in a rich family. Because my grandfather cheated in the imperial examination, he was sent to prison and was beheaded in the autumn. Lu Xun's family spent a lot of money to rescue him. Later, Lu Xun's father fell ill, spent a lot of money to treat him, and gradually sold and bought land as things, and his family gradually declined.
1898, 18-year-old Lu Xun left his hometown with eight silver dollars raised by his loving mother in various ways to find a new way out. First entered Nanjing Naval Academy, then changed to Railway Mining Institute. He accepted a philosophy of self-improvement, self-reliance and independence, and at the same time strongly felt the crisis of the backward Chinese nation in a fiercely competitive world.
Lu Xun has been full of love for the motherland since he was a teenager, which drives him to pursue new knowledge and explore traditional culture. Lu Xun first went to Japan to study medicine with the idea of saving the country through science. Later, stimulated, he decided to give up medicine and join literature. He wanted to use literature and art to awaken the people. Under the social environment at that time, feudal ideology and culture and feudal ethics became a terrible thought that had been precipitated for thousands of years, affecting people's thoughts. Lu Xun, on the other hand, can study in such an environment and achieve such excellent results, which is really an example for us. It is precisely because Lu Xun saw the fetters of this terrible thought that he abandoned medicine and became a writer, determined to heal people's minds and save backward countries.