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鲁迅，原名周树人，号豫才人。1881出生于浙江绍兴。

鲁迅是中国伟大的文学家，思想家，革命家。他七岁开始读书，十二岁从寿镜吾老先生就读于三味书屋。1898年离开故乡考进南京江南水师学堂；后又转入江南陆师学堂附设的矿路学堂。1902年初毕业后被选派赴日留学，先是学医，后为改变国民精神，弃医从文。1909年８月回国。

鲁迅1918年在《新青年》上发表新文学的第一篇白话小说《狂人日记》，正式开始了辉煌的创作生涯，至1926年，又相继出版短篇小说集《呐喊》和《彷徨》等。“四·一二”反革命政变使其思想产生了飞跃，由进化论思想为主导，转向以马克思主义的阶级论思想为主导。1930年３月“左联”成立时，被推荐为常委，成为中国共产党领导下的左翼文化运动的主将。

鲁迅后十年的杂文，更加深刻、犀利，有如匕首、投枪，充满了唯物辨证的精神。这些作品收在《而已集》、《三闲集》、《二心集》、《南腔北调集》、《伪自由书》、《准风月谈》、《花边文学》、《且介亭杂文》等专集中。1936年10月19日病逝於上海。

 Lu Xun, originally named Zhou Shuren, alias Yu Cairen, was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in 1881.

Lu Xun was a great writer, thinker and revolutionist of China. He began his schooling at age of six, and attended Sanwei Study at twelve under the guidance of Mr. Shou Jingwu. In 1898 he left his country to be admitted into Jiangnan Marine School in Nanjing, later shifted into Mine School affiliated to Jiangnan Army School. After graduation early in 1902, he was chosen to study in Japan, first majoring at medicine, later at literature with a dream to change national spirit. He returned to China in August, 1909.

In 1918 Lu Xun published in La Jeunesse his Lunatic’s Diary, the first novel of the vernacular Chinese literature, formally initiating his splendid career as a writer. In succession, he published his collected short stories of Call to Arms, Wandering, etc. “April 12” counterrevolution coup radically changed him from an evolutionist into a revolutionist influenced by the Marxism. He was recommended as the member of standing committee of “The Left League” when founded in March 1930, and became the leading writer of “Left-Wing Cultural Movement” under the leadership of the Communist Party.

His last decade of scribers are imbued with materialistic dialectic and characterized by the sharp militancy, like daggers and harpoons. Those works are collected as Nothing More, Digression, Double-minded, Mixed Accent, Pseudogarph of Freedom, Chat on Love affairs, Fancy-Edge Literature, Scribble at Qiejie Garret, etc. He died of illness in Shanghai on Oct. 19, 1936.