Lu Xun’s Essays And The Medicine

Lu Xun was constantly struggling with kinds of illnesses in his whole life, Lu Xun’s painful illness experience and his knowledge about illness not only made his sensitive character and skepticism, but also at some point made him decided to have a trip to Japan to study medical science, from then on, medicine could never be separated from him. After selected to use the literary methods to save his nation, Lu Xun changed his focus from the individual physiological disease to whole nation’s mental illness. Lu Xun had a well knowledge of medicine, so he often use highly illustrative medical knowledge in his creations, and the way of his thinking was obviously involved with the characteristics of medical, because of the reasons above, Lu Xun’s essays always have a special significance and enchantment. This paper is intended to research on Lu Xun’s medical experience and medical thinking in Fen and Refeng, base on Lu Xun’s medical experience and thinking, this article tries to explore how Lu Xun’s medical background influenced his artistic presentation of his essays with a scientific perspective especially medical perspective, hope to reveal the personality and value of Lu Xun’s essays from a new dimension.Lu Xun’s medical experience and medical thinking had an important influence on his essay’s creation. Firstly, Lu Xun used the method of specimen in his essays, which were commonly been used in the medical field, this method can help people find key issues instantly and then classify the characteristics, therefore, the whole society could recognize the problem and try to prevent these problems. Secondly, Lu Xun used the method of surgery, this method could help Lu Xun to concentrate his criticism on the weakest point of the issue, then use the smallest effort and shortest time to solve it. Lu Xun used medical certificate style in his essays, the "disease--diagnosis--remedy" pattern making his essays fluent and gave his essays clear points. Lu Xun made extensive use of professional medical terminology in his creation, formed his unique medical language, the advantage of medical language lies in its scientific and imagic expression, so that his essays has a special criticalness. In the end, Lu Xun used Darwinism and Freudianism to enhance his criticism of his essays. This paper is intended to research how Lu Xun’s medical experience influenced his thought and writing in scientific perspective, and tries to analyze its positive significance.