Lu Xun is the pen name of the writer born as Zhou Shuren in 1881 in a family with a deep Confucian background. Owing to the decline of his family fortunes, Lu Xun's childhood was filled with hardship. In 1904, he went to Sendai, in Japan, to study medicine, but he soon realized that China needed far more“spiritual medicine”than treatment for physical ills. Therefore, he returned to Tokyo in 1906, and decided to give up studying medicine and devote himself to education and literature. Lu Xun has been considered as China's greatest modern writer during the 20th century. Chairman Mao called him“commander of China's cultural revolution”.
魯迅是作家周樹人的筆名，生于1881年，其家庭有深厚的儒家背景（Confucian background）。由于家道中落，魯迅的童年充滿了苦難。1904年，他去了日本仙臺學醫(yī)，但很快意識到中國對“精神醫(yī)學”的需要遠遠超過治療身體疾病的需要。因此，魯迅在1906年回到東京，決定放棄醫(yī)學，投身于教育和文學事業(yè)。他一直被視為中國20世紀最偉大的現(xiàn)代作家。毛主席稱他為“中國文化革命的主將”。
