Lu Xun not only scolded the Chinese intelligentsia, but also wrote the novel “Blessing”, which vilified belief in God and Buddha as superstitious and foolish. (Internet photo)
There have been many studies of Lu Xun over the past few decades, and the term “sweat and cattle” is not an overstatement, and has actually become “Lu Studies”.
And Lu Xun’s “cursing” has long been known at home and abroad, despite its cry of “abuse and intimidation is never a battle”, but in the 1930s almost cursed the entire Chinese literary world, and spread to the scientific and technological community, the pear world and the martial arts community.
It is true that, in history, Lu Xun used his sharp pen to scold many people and things that should be scolded, without anger!
However (please forgive me for using Lu Xun’s preferred turn of phrase), Lu Xun also scolded many people and things that should not be scolded, and because of his suspiciousness, prejudice, bigotry and cynicism, he not only created a lot of “discourse violence”, but also hurt some people consciously or unconsciously.
Denial of Beijing Opera and Personal Attacks on Celebrities
Lu Xun, the promoter of the Chinese Left Wing Writers’ Union. (Internet photo)
For example, he did not recognize Peking Opera as a play, and considered it to be only a “Bana style” that “plays tricks” and “has no aesthetic value”. “In his letters, he referred to Mei Lanfang in a disdainful and blasphemous tone as “‘Meilang’s stream In his letter, he called Mei Lanfang “a stream of ‘Mei Lang'” with disdain and blasphemy; and asserted that Mei Lanfang’s light would soon fade in China (during the anti-Japanese period, Mei Lanfang grew a beard and refused to perform, showing respectable national integrity. In this regard, Feng Zikai expressed his heartfelt admiration. (After his death, he repeatedly wrote memorial articles).
Lu Xun also said to Ma Yinchu, another person with whom he had neither personal friendship nor personal grudges, “I do not want to work with this generation” (“The Book of Two Places”), and satirized Ma Yinchu in his “Proposed Yu Yan”, saying, “A doctor speaks of ‘the essence of economics He also satirized Ma Yinchu in his “Proposed Yu Yan”, saying, “A doctor speaks of ‘the essence of economics’ in two sentences only: ‘A copper plate is exchanged for a horn, and a horn for a large ocean. The whole world is in awe”. Others, such as the use of stuttering and red noses to ridicule and insinuate the physically challenged historian Gu Jegang, were well known in “New Stories”.
Creating “discourse violence” and corrupting social morale
Lu Xun also scolded the Republican literary figure Shao Xunmei in his article, which was written by a hired hand.
Shao later said to his prison friend Jia Shifang: “This is a big misunderstanding! My article was badly written, but it was really me who wrote it (see “Reading”, No. 10, 2006). Therefore, the famous geologist Li Siguang in the February 3, 1926 “Morning Post Supplement” contains an article that Lu Xun “…… he picked up the pen, always to write until the end of the bones, to do his pleasure, so that people suffer for no reason, he did not care”;. “The people who guide the youth, but also insult each other, made a bad society” and so on.
Lu Xun himself once said in “Just Collection. Answer to Mr. Youheng”, he said: “Also, my earlier attack on society was actually boring. Society did not know that I was attacking, and if it had known, I would have been dead and buried …… I was able to survive because most of them could not read and write, did not know, and my words were ineffective, like an arrow into the sea. Otherwise, a few miscellaneous feelings, you can send the life of. The people are no less punitive of evil than the scholars and warlords.
Lu Xun, who had fallen for Nietzsche’s “superhuman” doctrine in the West, could not have been unaffected by the influence of Zhang Taiyan, the master of Chinese studies, who was called “Zhang madman” by the revolutionary party’s Minli newspaper, and who was known for his “cursing” when he was in the League.
There are its teachers must have its disciples. Lu Xun had the self-proclaimed cloud: “Scolding is a very common thing in China, but unfortunately we only know how to scold without knowing what to scold and who to scold, so it does not work. Now we have to point out the way to scold, and then scold” (Lu Xun’s Complete Works: Letters to Lu Yunru).
This is true for people, and it is no exception for things.
Presumptuous criticism of traditional Chinese medicine
As we all know, Lu Xun did not graduate from medical school in Sendai, Japan (by the way, the reason why Mr. Fujino, whom Lu Xun respected, gave him enthusiastic and serious tutoring was out of his love and respect for Chinese culture), so to judge the profound Chinese medical culture with his limited knowledge of Western medicine is, to put it politely, “an ant to shake a big tree”.
Perhaps the famous Czech writer Zimitzky was not as accomplished as Lu Xun in literature, but in medical theory and practice, this writer and medical doctor, who received his doctorate in medicine in France and was the director of a psychological medical center, admired the ancient culture of China and had a fondness for Chinese medicine.
In his book on Chinese medicine and acupuncture, he realized that Western medicine had a major disadvantage compared to ancient Chinese medicine: the excessive use of drugs.
This is not the case with acupuncture, which only stimulates points that promote harmony in the muscles, and with the help of this therapy can provide more effective help to patients (see Reference News, May 25, 2006).
According to Hans Jonivalle, a professor at the Karolinska Institute of Medicine in Sweden and secretary of the Nobel Prize jury, the arbitrary statement that Western medicine is a science and Chinese medicine is not a science is itself unscientific.
Why should Chinese medicine be abolished?
Now that Western society is beginning to understand TCM properly, it is a worrying thing that the country where TCM was born wants to abolish it!
In dealing with the various diseases that threaten human health, we need effective treatments, and medicines that minimize side effects.
For a certain treatment, regardless of the medical theory on which it is based (according to the famous Swedish hematologist, Dr. Bigger Blomberg), Chinese medicine is the most effective. According to Dr. Brombach, Chinese medicine is fundamentally different from Western medicine in that Chinese medicine views the human body as a combination of five elements: gold, wood, water, fire and earth, while Western medicine believes that the human body is formed by the cooperation of various organs, blood vessels, nerve centers, etc.), the ultimate goal is to cure the disease.
Phillip Fignon, a British doctor of both Chinese and Western medicine, lamented the “Abolish Chinese Medicine” campaign launched by Lu Xun’s faithful follower Zhang Gongyao on October 7, 2006.
“Many Westerners do not understand the history and culture of China, they think that the West is advanced and China is backward. Some Chinese people who study Western medicine have also accepted the Western concept and deny the value of Chinese medicine. This does not exclude the interests behind Western pharmaceutical companies from being at work. Chinese medicine is the national essence of China, and Chinese people should cherish it.”
The author thinks that Mao Zedong and Lu Xun were in sympathy with each other in “fighting with others”, so they “fought” in it and “enjoyed” it.
However, in today’s world, the “fight” between each other without tolerance will bring “chaos” to the society and the world forever!
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