However, Chairman Mao once said in March of the same year in his "Conversation with Representatives of the Literary and Art Circles": "I think that Lu Xun can write essays when he is alive, and true Marxists are not afraid of anything, and no one is afraid. I am not afraid that others will not be tidy, at most there will be no food to eat, begging for food, being rectified, sitting in the shift room, killing the head, and being wronged", so Chairman Mao's answer to Luo Jinan may just be a praise for Lu Xun's courage to tell the truth.

In 1950, a reader asked the People's Daily, "If Lu Xun was alive, how would the party view him?" Guo Moruo, then director of the Cultural Affairs Committee of the State Council, personally replied: "Lu Xun, like everyone else, must accept ideological transformation and assign appropriate work according to the actual situation of transformation. 」

Due to the bureaucratic corruption of Lu Xun's opposition to the Kuomintang during his lifetime, he was severely suppressed by the Nationalist government. After 1949, Lu Xun was also belittled in Taiwan as a negative teaching material for the Kuomintang.

However, in recent years, there have been efforts to promote Lu Xun's works in Taiwan, and the Taipei Fengyun Times Publishing Company published "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" around 1990. The publisher hopes to "restore the true appearance of history and let Lu Xun's works speak for themselves".

Indeed, Lu Xun's works have aroused so many positive and negative evaluations that they are not only rare in new literature, but even in the history of Chinese literature.

When Chiang Kai-shek was also Minister of Education, someone told Chiang Kai-shek that Lu Xun was hiding in the Ministry of Education as a special editor. Chiang Kai-shek replied, "It's good. Do you know that there are any old colleagues and friends in the Ministry of Education who have befriended him? You should send such a person to him and tell him that I am very happy to know about this. I've always admired him and wanted to meet him. As long as he is willing to live in Japan for a while, not only can he be released from the arrest warrant, but of course his position will be retained, and if he has other ideas, he can do so. 」

Famous Japanese writer. Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe commented on Lu Xun: "The greatest Asian writer of the 20th century. 」

Gu Bin, a famous German sinologist: Lu Xun is a writer in the 20th century.

Famous writer Mu Xin: In my mind. Mr. Lu Xun is an outstanding "stylist". In Europe, and especially in France, "stylist" is the highest honorific title for a writer. Gide was a stylist, but Romain Rolland was not.

Cai Yuanpei: Mr. Lu Xun's creation. In addition to "Grave", "Scream", and "Weeds". Both were completed from 1925 to mid-1936. With the exception of novels and letters, his essays are all essays and short reviews, and many of these works have been written in 12 years. The richness of his feelings, the profundity of his observations, the eternality of his artistic conception, the correctness of his words, and the painstaking thinking of others but not easy to get right, he naturally wrote, what a genius! What a scholar!

Chen Duxiu: I thought that the real Lu Xun was not a god or a dog, but a person, a person with literary genius.

Yu Dafu: If you ask who is the greatest and who best represents this era since the New Literary Movement began in China? I will answer without hesitation: Lu Xun.

Lu Xun's novels are a step up from all the masterpieces in this regard in China for thousands of years. First of all, it is characterized by the profundity of observation, the sharpness of speech, the conciseness of writing, the ingeniousness of metaphors, and the humorous atmosphere that permeates the reader, so it is no wonder that readers feel a poignant flavor that is not afraid of death even if they drink poisonous wine.

When we are keen to grasp the present, he has grasped the past and the present and the future. To fully understand the Chinese national spirit, there is no shortcut except to read "The Complete Works of Lu Xun".

Ma Yueran, a famous Swedish sinologist and judge of the Nobel Prize in Literature, once clarified the rumors that Lu Xun refused to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, saying: "Lu Xun died in 1936, and at that time, in the 1930s, no one outside knew who Lu Xun was, nor had they heard of his name.

"Scream" and "Hesitation" were only translated into foreign languages in the 1950s (the original words are so, after verification, Lu Xun's works were first translated into Western languages, and it was "Living China-Selected Short Stories of Modern China" published by George C. Harap Company in August 1936, which included many works such as "Medicine", "A Little Thing", "Kong Yiji", "Blessing", etc.), which was translated by Yang Xianyi, (the real translator is Snow) translated very well, but Lu Xun was no longer there at that time. 」

In 1949, Zang Kejia, a contemporary poet in Shandong, wrote a lyrical poem entitled "Some People" to commemorate the 13th anniversary of Lu Xun's death: "In memory of Lu Xun's feelings—some people are alive, he is dead, and some people are dead, but he is still alive."

Some people rode on the heads of the people: "Oh, how great I am!", and some people bent down to serve the people as cattle and horses.

Some people carve their names into stone in order to be "immortal", while others prefer to be weeds waiting for the fire to burn in the ground.

There are people who cannot live if they live, and there are people who live for the better life of the majority.

Whoever rides on the head of the people, the people will crush him, and whoever treats the people as a cow and horse, the people will always remember him!

The name of the one who carves it into the stone rots earlier than the corpse, and wherever the spring breeze blows, there are green weeds everywhere.

He lived a life that others could not live, and his fate could be seen, and he lived for the better life of the majority, and the masses lifted him very high, very high. - November 1, 1949 at Zang Ke's house in Beijing. ”

Famous scholar Hu Shi: "Lu Xun is a liberal and will never be succumbed to external forces, Lu Xun is our man. 」

Ye Gongchao wrote "Lu Xun as a Non-Soldier" and published it in the supplement of Tianjin's Yishi Bao on November 1, 1936, saying: "I sometimes read his miscellaneous writings, on the one hand, I feel that his words are good, and at the same time, I feel that the objects he is aiming at (Lu Xun's favorite use of various military terms) are really not worth a bullet. None of those who scolded him and those who were reviled by him were equal to him in any way. 」

Japanese writer Hidemi Ozaki: "The Champion of the Left Alliance". The Japanese writer Masayoshi Yamagami called Lu Xun "the only representative of the mainstream of modern Chinese literature". Japanese writer Shibu Masuda praised Lu Xun as "the behemoth of the Chinese literary and artistic circles".

There are also many people who think that he is a shallow radical, mainly because he is eager to repay and likes to argue. When Lu Xun died, Su Xuelin wrote a letter to prevent Cai Yuanpei from serving as a member of Lu Xun's funeral committee, calling him "a well-dressed scum who insults Shilin, a treacherous villain who is not found in the twenty-fourth historical and literary biography", "When he was entrenched in the Shanghai literary circle, he was densely covered with minions and skillfully set up a snare", "The secret of the literary network is better than the prison of Zhou Lai, and the cruelty of the hoe is like the copying of melons and vines", which triggered a pen war with leftist writers.

The "True Biography of Lu Xun" written by scholar Zheng Xuejia has many criticisms about Lu Xun's character. Tang Shaohua argues that Lu Xun "will never be satisfied with any reality, and thus becomes a real opponent for the sake of opposition." 」

Xue Yong believes that Lu Xun's remarks that "if the soul of the Chinese people are not healed, the body is not worth curing" is a declaration that challenges the basic medical ethics of civilized society; he also believes that Lu Xun inherited the moral and intellectual superiority of the intellectuals of the traditional Confucian society over the common people, and "has no constitutional spirit, but is full of the spirit of tyranny"; in addition, Lu Xun "has no experience of being a peasant directly", and the formation of the Ah Q-style image of the ignorant people in his works is influenced by the demonization and ugliness of the Chinese by the Japanese media; " Lu Xun said that Chinese culture eats people, but it is true knowledge. It's a pity that he himself has not been able to jump out of such a culture. 」

Qian Xuantong once summarized that he had three shortcomings: suspicious, gullible, and angry. (To be continued......)