Because the meaning of "The Flowers in the Morning and the Evening" is that the past is now being brought up again, which is the same as the content of this anthology, the whole anthology is Lu Xun reminiscing about the past, and the original name of the anthology is "Old Matters Being Revisited".
This collection of essays, as a "recollection of memories", reflects the author's life during his youth in many ways, and visualizes the formation of his character and interests. The first seven essays reflect his childhood in his family and private school in Shaoxing, while the last three recount his experiences from his hometown to Nanjing, then to Japan to study, and then back to China to teach.
Exposing the ugly and irrational phenomena of semi-feudal and semi-colonial societies, the book also reflects the difficult course of aspiring young intellectuals in searching for the light in the vast darkness of old China without fear of difficulties and dangers, as well as expressing the author's nostalgia for his friends, relatives, teachers and teachers of the old days.
Expanded InformationBackground:
In 925, when Lu Xun was a university lecturer in Beijing, he was attacked and ostracized by the so-called "righteous people" for supporting the student movement. 1926, the Northern Warlord government shot and killed the progressive students, creating the "March 18" tragedy.
Author Lu Xun wrote a series of articles, such as "In Memory of Liu Hezhen", to enthusiastically support the students' struggle for justice and complain about the brutality of the Beiyang warlord government, but he was wanted by the authorities and had to take refuge in Xiamen. Although the works in Chao Hua Xi Jie (朝花夕拾)
are all about reminiscing the past, they are also about alluding to and ridiculing the social realities of the time.Chao Hua Xi Jie was written between February and November 1926, and contains 10 pieces. The first five were written in Beijing, the latter five were written in Xiamen, had been published successively in the "Mangyuan" half-monthly magazine, the general title of the "old story". 1927 May into a collection, renamed "Morning Flower and Evening Gleanings", and made the "small introduction", and July wrote the "Postscript", 1928 by the Beijing Weiming Society printed.
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