There was a giant in Chinese literature before the World War I. His name is Lu Xun.
Literature attaches much to culture and history of his nationality and time. Before the World War I, China was in a reformation from feudalism to a democratic country. It was not an easy process, because China has experienced thousands years of feudalism when all emperors ha
d highly control to the society. Hereditary System had existed for many years in the feudalist society, which presented in the intensive power control of the central 
government. The emperor was the emperor because he was born to be instead of being elected. Some people of common classes fought for establishing a new government, in result of a new intensive control government with hereditary system. It was a vicious circle and a maze. People in China had been trapped in the feudalism for a long time for thousands years. People seemed to be born with all the rules of feudalism and that China’s society was a pitch of backwater at that time, with civilians deadly dull, seldom knew what was going out of the outside world and with a motionless mind.
At that time, a class that consisted of some Chinese educated abroad raised, wanted to lead China to a modern and democratic country. They were too weak to fight against the feudalism, but offered China a new solution in the fast changing world and evoked more and more people in the new thought.
Lu was a great writer for the great revolution. Fight against the absolute authority would be dangerous in any time. Looking back in history, we can find Giordano Bruno in Italy who was burned to death, Galileo Galilei etc. Reformation costs lives, let alone China, which had been a highly centralization power for so long time. People died, and those who were alive would be killed by any moment. The reformation seemed to stagnate because some people’s hesitation. Lu wrote about common people’s life, with a calm style to tell people how their life suffered. People could see a Pedantic life in his novels and essays, without a word showing d
issatisfaction. Lu’s works cover almost all topics in the society. They were indication of the reformation and also an encouragement to do so.
His works, telling stories about low class people, is a mark stone in China. His works is also a beginning of modern style in China. Sometimes I have comprehension problems when reading his works, because the time he lived is too far away from me. He is a recorder of that time, telling the latter generations how life was when feudalism met modernism in politics then all kinds of walks.
Literature attaches much to culture and history of his nationality and time. Before the World War I, China was in a reformation from feudalism to a democratic country. It was not an easy process, because China has experienced thousands years of feudalism when all emperors ha
d highly control to the society. Hereditary System had existed for many years in the feudalist society, which presented in the intensive power control of the central 
government. The emperor was the emperor because he was born to be instead of being elected. Some people of common classes fought for establishing a new government, in result of a new intensive control government with hereditary system. It was a vicious circle and a maze. People in China had been trapped in the feudalism for a long time for thousands years. People seemed to be born with all the rules of feudalism and that China’s society was a pitch of backwater at that time, with civilians deadly dull, seldom knew what was going out of the outside world and with a motionless mind.At that time, a class that consisted of some Chinese educated abroad raised, wanted to lead China to a modern and democratic country. They were too weak to fight against the feudalism, but offered China a new solution in the fast changing world and evoked more and more people in the new thought.
Lu was a great writer for the great revolution. Fight against the absolute authority would be dangerous in any time. Looking back in history, we can find Giordano Bruno in Italy who was burned to death, Galileo Galilei etc. Reformation costs lives, let alone China, which had been a highly centralization power for so long time. People died, and those who were alive would be killed by any moment. The reformation seemed to stagnate because some people’s hesitation. Lu wrote about common people’s life, with a calm style to tell people how their life suffered. People could see a Pedantic life in his novels and essays, without a word showing d
issatisfaction. Lu’s works cover almost all topics in the society. They were indication of the reformation and also an encouragement to do so.His works, telling stories about low class people, is a mark stone in China. His works is also a beginning of modern style in China. Sometimes I have comprehension problems when reading his works, because the time he lived is too far away from me. He is a recorder of that time, telling the latter generations how life was when feudalism met modernism in politics then all kinds of walks.
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