Lu Xun Quotes

China, Literary
September 25, 1881 – 1936 BC.

Lu Xun (Wade–Giles romanisation: Lu Hsün) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese, he was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, poet, and designer. In the 1930s, he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.

Savage as a lion, timid as a rabbit, crafty as a fox...

Lu Xun
- Lion
- Savage
We have hereafter only two roads to choose: one is to embrace the ancient literature and die, the other is to forsake the ancient literature and live.

Lu Xun
- Live
- Die
- Literature

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Lu Xun
- People
- Country
- Hope
I used to think that a man was sentenced to death or imprisonment because he was guilty; now I know that he is found guilty because he is disliked.

Lu Xun
- Death
- Guilty
Chinese people love compromise. If you say to them, 'This room is too dark, we must have a window made,' they will all oppose you. But if you say, 'Let's take off the roof,' they will compromise with you and say 'Let's have a window.'

Lu Xun
- People
- Dark
- Chinese
The literature of former days is like watching a fire from across the water; in present-day literature, the author himself is being scorched by the fire and he is bound to feel it deeply, and when he begins to feel it deeply, he is bound to take part in the social struggle.

Lu Xun
- Water
- Present
- Struggle
中醫不過是一種有意的或無意的騙子。

Lu Xun
The so-called 'peace' is an interval between wars.

Lu Xun
- Peace

救救孩子……

Lu Xun
When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them you will suit each other very well.

Lu Xun
- Famous
凡是愚弱的國民，即使體格如何健全，如何茁壯，也只能做毫無意義的示眾的材料和看客，病死多少是不必以為不幸的。

Lu Xun
中國人的性情是總喜歡調和折中的，譬如你說，這屋子太暗，須在這裏開一個窗，大家一定不允許的。但如果你主張拆掉屋頂他們就來調和，願意開窗了。

Lu Xun
辱駡與恐嚇不是戰鬥。

Lu Xun
Rather than worship Confucius and Kuan Kung, one should worship Darwin and Ibsen.

Lu Xun