Shaoxing guild hall

Shaoxing guild hall

The former site of Shaoxing guild hall is located at No.7, nanbanjie Hutong. It was built in 1826. It is one of Lu Xun's former residences in Beijing.

The buildings of Shaoxing guild hall include "Yangji hall", "Huan Wen Cui Fu Xuan", "Tenghua bieguan", "lvzhufang", "Jiayin hall", "Bushu library", "Xiange", "huaixu studio" and "yizhichao".

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In May 1912, when he first came to Beijing, Mr. Lu Xun lived in the "rattan flower Pavilion". There is a rattan flower pool in the east of his house. In May 1916, he moved into the "Bushu library". Now the "Bushu library" has been demolished, leaving only one Sophora tree. In the "Bushu bookstore", he wrote such famous novels as diary of a madman, Kong Yiji, medicine and a little thing, such important essays as my view of chastity and how to be a father now, as well as 27 essays and more than 50 translations.

After years of changes, Shaoxing guild hall has changed beyond recognition. However, because Mr. Lu Xun once lived and worked here, there are still many people who come here to visit, look forward to and pay homage to the relics.

Lu Xun and Shaoxing guild hall

In 1912, Lu Xun moved to Beijing as a little-known youth from other provinces. He stayed in Shaoxing guild hall in the South half of the alley outside Xuanwu Gate for seven years. Lu Xun and Shaoxing Guildhall have a lot to do with each other: he was born 30 years ago in xintaimen Zhou's residence in Fangkou, Dongchang, Shaoxing City. His grandfather Zhou Fuqing ordered the Imperial Academy, and happened to be waiting for an examination in this Guildhall in Beijing.

Lu Xun unconsciously followed his grandfather's footsteps. On the first night in Beijing, thirty or forty bedbugs held a "welcome ceremony" for him: they bit him so hard that he couldn't sleep, so he had to move to Dafang table to sleep. I wonder if my grandfather, who is looking forward to winning the gold medal, has ever suffered similar "hospitality"? The bedbugs in Shaoxing guild hall are famous for sucking the blood of a literary magnate.

At that time, Lu Xun only had a casual job in the Ministry of education of the Republic of China government. He lived in depression and hesitation all day, and spent his time by copying rubbings of broken steles. This is the most difficult "dormant" period in his life: green light, sad face. He often drinks at night, and he goes to guangheju across the street more than 20 times a year.

Perhaps it was from that time that Lu Xun really understood the Wei Jin demeanor of Ruan Ji and Ji Kang and the struggle of human nature in the dark ages. Qian Xuantong, who came for an interview, found that Lu Xun's desk was full of copies of ancient steles, so he kindly accused him of wasting his life. Lu Xun looked around the stuffy shack: "China used to be an iron house without doors and windows. If this iron house can never be destroyed, and there are many sleeping people in it, all of them will be suffocated eventually - they will turn from sleepiness to death unconsciously, and no one will feel the pain and the sorrow of dying. Now you shout, wake up a few more sober people, let them wake up but still can't escape, let these people know the pain and dying sorrow, and you can't save them, is this kindness or cruelty? " (quoted from biography of Lu Xun by Niu Daifeng)

The decadent old buildings in Shaoxing guild hall gave Lu Xun this famous metaphor of "iron house". Either break out in silence or die in silence. But it is the loneliness and depression of Shaoxing guild hall that creates a future fighter.

Shaoxing Guildhall was built in 1826. It was originally called Shanyang Guildhall in Kuaiji. It mainly entertains people from Shanyin and Kuaiji counties who come to Beijing to take exams. When Lu Xun came, the imperial examination system had been abandoned, but he could still smell the decadent atmosphere of the feudal remnants of old China. In October 1916, Lu Xun's cousin Ruan jiusun fled from Shanxi to Beijing and went to live in Shaoxing guild hall. He said that he was chased and killed and wrote a suicide note.

Lu Xun, who had studied medicine, knew that this frightened and insane relative was suffering from "persecution maniac" psychosis. Through a person's experience, he observed the illness of an era, so he created diary of a madman, the first vernacular novel in the history of new literature. From then on, he wrote works such as Kong Yiji, medicine, a little thing and my view on chastity. Shaoxing guild hall is the cradle of Lu Xun's early works. It also clearly witnessed the process of this generation of literary giants from depression, degradation to awakening. It can be said that Lu Xun became Lu Xun only after he arrived at Shaoxing guild hall. Before that, he was only a literary youth Zhou Shuren, an outsider who escaped marriage, a frustrated clerk who would not engage in interpersonal relations, and a pathetic person who had no fighting spirit.

In Shaoxing guild hall, Lu Xun first lived in the rattan flower Hall (the ancient rattan in the courtyard was once written into a novel by him), and then moved to the Bushu bookstore, where the original neem tree with lavender flowers was unfortunately broken and a Sophora tree was replanted, so it was named. When Lu Xun lived in the rattan flower hall, his good friend Xu shoushang and his brother lived in the Jiayin hall on the north side. Finally have a companion, can go to guangheju dinner together, to Liulichang books.

In 1917, at the recommendation of Lu Xun, Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University, agreed to employ Zhou Zuoren as a professor of Arts and editor of national history at Peking University. When Zhou Zuoren arrived in Beijing, he hired a foreign car and went straight to Shaoxing guild hall to meet his elder brother. It is recorded in Lu Xun's diary that the two brothers "turn over books and talk until midnight to sleep". And Zhou Zuoren's diary also wrote: "sleep at four o'clock." Lu Xun helped Zhou Zuoren rent a house in the Wang family next to Bushu bookstore.

You come and go, you walk around frequently, and you often meet common friends together. The two brothers started their business side by side in Beijing, more or less offsetting the loneliness that had plagued Lu Xun for a long time. The arrival of Zhou Zuoren really changed Lu Xun's life and mental state to a certain extent. Shaoxing guild hall period is also the golden age of Zhou brothers. "Since 1917, two new cultural stars have been rising in Shaoxing guild hall. The new culture movement has brought the Zhou brothers a great reputation and a stable high income. " (Ayi) so they joined forces to buy a Siheyuan in Badaowan, Xizhimen, and moved to a new house.

Lu Xun moved out of Shaoxing guild hall on November 21, 1919. He lived in Beijing for 14 years, half of which was spent in Shaoxing guild hall. In that long dark night like seven years, he was like a pupating silkworm, hard and persistent to bite through the heavy cocoon shell that bound him, bite through the boundless night, and finally transformed into a free butterfly (or fire fighting moth). In fact, the "tough fight" he advocated and practiced in his life began in the period of Shaoxing guild hall.

In Shaoxing Guildhall, Lu Xun, who was restless and sleepy, brewed his own future. In Shaoxing guild hall, Lu Xun is still a sword hidden in the chaotic scabbard, but he often sings on the wall. His personality gradually emerged: rebellious character, critical spirit, and martyr demeanor.

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