Shanghai - Lu Xun Memorial Hall

Lu Xun Memorial Hall, Lu Xun Park

A museum dedicated to the life of the famous Lu Xun (1881 - 1936), China's best-known 20th Century writer. Born as Zhou Shuren, Lu Xun is known as the Father of Modern Chinese Literature. He had developed a modern style of Chinese prose and simplified Chinese script. Lu Xun had written stories, essays, poems, literature and translated foreign novels into Chinese for people to read so as to awaken and inspire the Chinese people in the nation's modern history. Lu Xun's own works had been translated into English, Russian, German and Korean, and distributed worldwide.

This memorial hall exhibits Lu Xun's life. I LOVE this museum because there are English explanation and description all throughout. His work is really inspiring. 

Plum garden at the entrance of the memorial hall

 Plum blossoms

Wintersweet flowers

Lu Xun

Left a visitor note

Woodcut and Art exhibition

There is twilight in the east. What is in need are the 'people', who are naturally the 'sons of mankind'.

- Lu Xun -  

These are miniature figures and scenes from The True Story of Ah Q, Lu Xun's masterpiece that was published between 1921 and 1922 in the Beijing Morning News. These tiny clay models revisit the classic adventures of Ah Q, an uneducated rural man famous for 'spiritual victories' that symbolized the Chinese national character of his time. 

"How could you be named Zhao?"

"If he monk paws you, why can't I?"

" 'A gentleman uses his tongue but not his hands'!"

" Rebellion! Rebellion!"

Feeling ashamed that it could not be drawn so round.

Lu Xun's life stories

1500 portraits of characters from Lu Xun's writings, created by scores of well-known Chinese artists over the years.

On the background are 14 representative works by 14 artists which Lu Xun had reviewed. The wax figures are Lu Xun and young artists at a seminar.

Lu Xun's grandfather (top photo), mother (bottom left) and father (bottom right)

LU XUN

- born in Zhejiang province

- 1893, grandfather was sent to prison for fraud

- 1902, went to Japan to study medicine

- left school to devote himself to literature

- 1909, returned to China to teach and work

- 1918, published first short story, 'Diary of a Madman'

- 1927, fled Beijing due to personal and political reasons, ended up in Shanghai

- 1936, died of tuberculosis

After Lu Xun's death, Mao Zedong hailed him as the 'Commander of China's cultural revolution'

Lu Xun's inhaler

Collection of Lu Xun's works

On the day of Lu Xun's death, Okuda Koka, a Japanese friend, cast a plaster mould of Lu Xun's face, on which are stuck 20 beards and two eye brows of Lu Xun. These are all the remains of Lu Xun now.