How does Lu Xun arcticles affects Chinese literature

Lu Xun’s Revolutionary Impact on Modern Chinese Literature Student Name University Course Professor Name Date Lu Xun’s Revolutionary Impact on Modern Chinese Literature Lu Xun, one of the forerunners of literary modernism in China, spent most of his life spreading the word about the social ills of classical Chinese culture. Lu Xun’s biting critique of traditional feudalism exposed its oppressive values and practices, which the Chinese people had willingly exchanged enslavement for. His demand for national transformation of the ideological core of the nation ended up driving the May 4th Movement and providing the platform for Chinese literature to modernize itself. Lu Xun, instead of walking the beaten path like other writers, was bold without any fear; he used his writings to criticize the Confucian core values and detailed the flaws of society; this made him revolutionary as his voice and the impacts are felt today and continue to be relevant. This paper discusses Lu Xun’s revolutionary impact on modern Chinese literature. Exposing the Darkness of Feudal Society In the 1921 short story, “The True Story of Ah Q”, Lu Xun revealed one unavoidable truth that in China, rural life was corrupted by the repulsively dissolution feudal system and was a constant sight of oppression, ignorance and complacency. The portrayal of Ah Q presented an exceptional talent that Lu Xun perceived as tarnishing the irrational notions of magnificence and blindness to reality held by the commoners (Xun, 1921). Lu Xun mocks Ah Q when he tells people that he has won no matter how humiliating his act is. He did pretty well in his effort to show how such psychological complexity could hold people back from struggling against the authorities. Through his burning social criticism, he revealed how social injustices had bound generations by the chains of political tyranny and fatalistic expectations. To the same extent, Lu Xun was critical in the use of a different point of view; he told of an article from a man who thought that the people of his town were cannibals and that they were planning to eat him. Lu Xun used that as a plot to express that the traditional Chinese society was backwards and actively dehumanized the Chinese people. By deconstructing his world in his erratic, quite mad diary form, Xun (2018) had Confucian traditional customs represented as prisons that looked like rational ones. He tried to expose the “human flesh-eating” human character, which was considered an outdated part of society. Through this, he strongly demanded that people quit the tradition. Lu Xun lashed directly at a traditional governing institution that insisted on retaining Chinese feudal society riddled with an out-of-date mindset - the civil service examination system. Kung-I-chi, published in 1919 by this author, focuses on a young man who has nothing else in life except studying and trying to conquer the Eight-Legged Essay technique, considered to be the most challenging and essential part of the government exams that are for the top positions in the government. The account of Kung, who ultimately succumbed to mental illness and took his own life, serves as a poignant and sorrowful metaphorical representation employed by Xun (1919) to condemn the examinations as the arduous and repetitive pursuits of writing devoid of any scholarly doctrines. By depicting Kung’s horrifying process of “self-unraveling” due to the examination system, Lu Xun challenged this system as undermining free and creative thinking and intellectual growth. Wu and his people are engrossed in the tiny details of the routine writing test that highlights how the exams served feudal interests by prioritizing forms over substance and the excessive emphasis on strict obedience over the freedom of thought and innovative thinking Xun (1919). This comparison highlights how the exams served feudal interests by prioritizing forms over substance and the excessive emphasis on strict obedience over the freedom of thought and innovative thinking. This persuasive fiction illustrated the slander mindset behind his hate for these tests, which worked to increase the gap between social classes by forming bureaucrats whose work style revolved around being submissive. Fundamentally, “Kung I-chi” expressed the lament of Xun (1919) as an irrelevant relic that does not produce applicable knowledge for modern society. He believed that the centuries-old examination system was, in reality, the perverse downfall that destroys people, not cultivating morally responsible individuals. As Kung turned into a pathetic figure, accepting the feudal order’s age-old system for selecting the ruling class was why the rational mindset of the preserved innovators was continuously eliminated. Of...