Lu Xun’s contemporary background

The era in which Lu Xun lived from 1881 to 1936 was a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society in which the Chinese nation suffered from serious disasters and faced serious threats to its survival.

From 1894 to 1895, Japan provoked the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and China failed. The Treaty of Shimonoseki signed between China and Japan after the war greatly deepened China’s semi-colonialization. In the late 19th century and 1970s, Japan After invading Taiwan, Japan extorted 500,000 taels of silver from China as a condition for withdrawing its troops. After that, Japan began its plan to invade China.

In China at that time, it was considered by most people to be a despicable activity of "selling one's soul to foreign devils". In 1898, 18-year-old Lu Xun left his hometown to enter the country with 8 silver dollars borrowed by his loving mother in various ways. He entered Nanjing Naval Academy and later changed to Nanjing Road and Mining School.

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The contemporary perspective of Lu Xun’s works still has important current significance in inspiring students’ writing perspectives. As a great writer, Lu Xun's works show that he always maintained a gaze and reflective perspective on the era in which he lived. At the same time, he dissects himself, has insight into society, and can see the differences and misalignments between himself, others, and the times.

Therefore, Lu Xun’s works can not only help people better understand the current era and see the consistency of themselves and others with the era, but also learn to perceive and grasp the era more deeply, so that students can write better Only with new ideological connotation can we see true innovation and creativity, and show the significance of the times.