Lu Xun sells his house or his ancestral home in Shaoxing. China people have a strong local concept and attach great importance to their ancestral home. Lu Xun is different from others, and he also has a dream of buying a house. 19 19, Lu Xun, as Zhou's parents, shouldered the heavy responsibility of rejuvenating the family and decided to buy a house in Beijing. To this end, Lu Xun wanted to buy a big house and took a fancy to a 28-room quadrangle with a total area of 2,700 square meters. Lu Xun spent 3500 oceans, more than 600 oceans to decorate furniture, and more than 4000 oceans to go back and forth. With such a large sum of money, Lu Xun had no choice but to entrust his hometown to sell his ancestral home in Shaoxing and make up 1600.
Lu Xun not only sells houses, but also borrows usury. Lu Xun's expenses soared, so he borrowed usury from 500 yuan through an intermediary. Lu Xun wrote clearly in Lu Xun's Diary, "Spring is 500, interest rate is 1.3%, and the period is March". To put it bluntly, 500 yuan is the principal and the interest rate is 13%. It was paid off in three months, and the annual interest rate reached an astonishing 156%. That doesn't sound like much. The loan interest rate during the Republic of China was twice as high as it is now.
According to most people's thinking, since Lu Xun sold his house and borrowed usury, he must be down and out. In fact, in the last ten years of Lu Xun's life, he was not only not poor, but also lived a well-nourished life. Just look at his recipes. Lu Xun's Family Cookbook records Lu Xun's dinner from June 1927 to June 165438. This period is quite special. Lu Xun and Xu Guangping live together, and the cost of food and accommodation has increased.
Lu Xun and Xu Guangping together, a meal is at least three dishes and one soup, and the dishes are very particular about two meats and one dish. Judging from the contents of the menu, Cantonese cuisine, Shaobang cuisine and Shanghai cuisine are the most, and the single dish costs more than 20 yuan per month. Everyone should understand the concept that food expenses can best reflect a person's income level. According to the salary bill of Shanghai Fuxin No.3 Flour Factory, the average monthly salary of Shanghai workers in that year was only 17. 14 yuan. It can be seen that Lu Xun spent a lot of money on eating.
Although Lu Xun spends a lot of money, he can also make money. There are four main ways for Lu Xun's income in his later years. The public welfare income is about 200 yuan/month, the teaching income is basically not lower than 400 yuan/month, the university special writer 300 yuan/month, and the manuscript fee is 400 yuan/month. Basically, a month is also a lot of income. Therefore, Lu Xun was not as poor as everyone thought, and he belonged to the upper class among intellectuals at that time. Rao, Lu Xun still cares about the fate of the country, which makes future generations respect him.