1. Speech anecdotes
Celebrities are often invited to give speeches, and Lu Xun is no exception. His speeches were erudite and full of wit, and he was often surrounded by applause and laughter. Once when he returned to Peiping from Shanghai, Beijing Normal University invited him to give a lecture titled "Literature and Armed Forces."
Some students have seen many articles attacking him in newspapers and feel very sorry for him. He said in his speech: "Some people say that I came to Peking this time to grab jobs and make a comeback; but please don't worry, I am about to make a comeback."
2. Punctuation royalties
Although punctuation marks are inconspicuous, they play an important role in the article. However, the publishing industry at that time did not pay much attention to punctuation marks. When paying manuscript fees, they often deducted them from the number of words and did not pay manuscript fees. Once, Lu Xun was asked to write a manuscript for a certain publishing house. Because he knew in advance that the publishing house would not pay for punctuation marks, his manuscript did not have a single punctuation mark throughout.
After reading the manuscript, the editor wrote back asking Lu Xun to add punctuation marks on the grounds that it was "difficult to break sentences". Lu Xun replied: "Since the author is required to add punctuation marks to separate paragraphs and chapters, it can be seen that punctuation is still indispensable. In this case, punctuation must also count the number of words." The publishing house had no choice but to adopt Lu Xun's opinion, and the punctuation marks were also The manuscript fee was paid based on the number of words.
3. The story of the beard
His beard is also very unique. During the years when he returned from studying in Japan, his beard was Japanese-style - the two ends were turned up. He looked very funny, and was ridiculed by people around him, saying that he admired foreign things. Lu Xun was so troubled that he simply trimmed his beard into the character "一" in official script, and he was fine ever since.
I have seen photos of Lu Xun when he was young, and I think he is not very handsome. At least he is far from the so-called "most handsome men" in South Korea and Japan today. But Lu Xun had great confidence in himself. Once the British writer Bernard Shaw met him and said: They say you are China's Gorky, but I think you are more beautiful than Gorky.
After hearing such kind words, Lu Xun not only had no words of humility, but actually said: "I will be more beautiful when I get older!" This old man is really interesting.
Influence:
As an academic researcher, on the one hand, Lu Xun used Western literary concepts to study Chinese classical novels and wrote "A Brief History of Chinese Novels", which not only ended The era when "Chinese novels have no history" also created typical examples of literary history works.
On the other hand, he organized and proofread dozens of ancient books such as "Ancient Novel Gou Shen", "Ji Kang Collection", "Han Portraits Collection", "Miscellaneous Collection of Old Books from Kuaiji County", etc. The study of classical literature left a huge legacy.