Freelance Writer And The Spirit Of The Late Lu Xun Characteristics

Lu Xun is a brilliant star in Chinese literature history of the 20thcentury as well as an object beyond description. Its profundity andcomplexity has aroused innumerable cultural debates and philosophicalconfrontations in contemporary literature history. Even today,researches on his philosophies and exploration on the value of his workshave been the focus in the academic field.This article mainly expounds Lu Xun's life in the last ten yearsin Shanghai, his choice to be a free and independent cultural warrior andspirit features in his late life in three parts including introduction,main text and conclusion.Introduction: it reviews current researches on Lu Xun in his latelife and some bias in the former researches. It educes the research purposeand content of the text and the conclusion.Part one: free composer—a wise choice of an independent culturalfighter. This part analyses the social environment for free contributorsin the 1930s, including political, economic and cultural circumstancesat that time to expound the special status of free contributor for Lu Xun.It probes into Lu Xun's wise choice to be a free contributor in such anglesas emerging popular literature demands accompanied with restructuringsociety, modern news press development and improving author'sremuneration system. He makes this choice not only to be free from fettersof power and money. More importantly, he aspires after freethinking andindependent personality. He shouldered the responsibilities of the timesto fight against the dark times. He thinks for suffering people in Chinaand arms himself with scribbles to conduct cultural criticism as acultural fighter.Part two: commonalty feelings and critical spirit as a culturalfighter. Lu Xun has been pursuing commonalty feelings for his life. Hehas become a self-reliant contributor in his late life, which acquireshim a purer thinking space and critical view in his philosophy. In variouscultural activities and creation in his last ten years, it has been animportant mission for him to concentrate on contemporary philosophy andlife condition of all walks of life. All the following activities originfrom his prevailing spirit of revolutionary love for all walks of lifeand commonalty feelings: to support and help young people improvethemselves;to join China Freedom Association and China Civil RightsProtection Association to provide physical and spiritual assistance;toimbibe Marxism theories and join China Left Wing Writer Union. In addition,Lu Xun inherits criticism spirit and independent political philosophy ofearly cultural fighters. He has never changed his nature of fearing nopower and pursuing truth from accepting Marxism, joining China Left WingWriter Union to quitting Left Wing helplessly. In his late life,furthering his criticism on traditional culture, Lu Xun has been focusingon reforming folk nature of civilians and attacking the feudalism gradesystem, which is person-eat-person in nature. He employs Marxism theoriesto conduct cultural criticism in depth with a suggestion of some socialcriticism and political criticism. The criticism orients from originallytraditional culture to national cultural psychology. He has sincerelyvoiced what the society, the times and people really want afterexperiencing the dark times.Conclusion: it summarizes general viewpoint in the article. It alsoindicates difficult problems in presenting this article and itsshortcomings.