As a pioneer of modern Chinese literature and a people's warrior who bravely spoke out and led the national spirit at a critical moment for the Chinese nation, Mr. Lu Xun occupies an unshakable and important position in the history of modern Chinese literature.
In the mid-spring of 1902, Lu Xun, who had just graduated from the Minlu Academy, was sent to Japan to study, and went to Sendai, Japan to study with the ambition of saving the country and the people by relying on medicine.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, China under the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society was experiencing a humiliating history of being occupied and exploited by Western capitalist countries.
In "Mr. Fujino", Lu Xun also reflects the humiliating treatment of China as a weak country in international status at that time as a weak country in international status.
In the text, Lu Xun sarcastically said, "Several staff members are still worried about my food and accommodation", but they actually eat the same food as prisoners, and live near the prison and are tormented by mosquitoes. It can be seen that at that time, as a national of a weak country, there was no respect for other countries to speak of humiliation and heartache.
In many of Lu Xun's works, he did not mention much about his life of studying in Japan, and the description of Japan was also hurriedly mentioned in the opening chapter of "Mr. Fujino" with the sentence "Tokyo is nothing more than this", which is difficult to hide disappointment.
It is not difficult to find from the words in Lu Xun's works that Lu Xun's impression of Japan is not good, not only because of the unfair treatment of food and accommodation, but also because of the naked discrimination of the Japanese people against Chinese.
During his time in Japan, Lu Xun's arrogant national self-esteem was faintly painful, and what made him even more disappointed was actually the chinese people who studied in Japan like him.
It is precisely because of these Chinese people that Lu Xun has completely changed his life aspirations.
Once Lu Xun achieved good results in an anatomy exam, but was suspected by his Japanese peers.
At the same level meeting, Lu Xun was knocked on the side because Mr. Fujino leaked the question to him to obtain high scores, and also sent a large anonymous letter specifically to slander Lu Xun for cheating.
Helplessly, Lu Xun informed Mr. Fujino of the incident, and only after the inspection results came out did he quell the gossip.
In the eyes of the Japanese, as a weak country, the Chinese is naturally inferior to the Japanese, and if they score higher than the Japanese, they must Chinese move. Such absurd logic made Lu Xun more aware of the urgency that the Chinese nation should stand up.
What really made Lu Xun completely change his mind was to trace back to a short scene between classes.
At that time, during recess, some students were using projectors to show films of Japan's victory over Russia, and there was Chinese captured and shot by the Japanese.
In the cheers of the Japanese, it was the group of Chinese people who watched and cheered along with them.
At that moment, when the chinese people saw that their compatriots were killed, but turned a blind eye, the indifference and insensitivity made Lu Xun feel creepy.
At the same time, he also completely changed his idea of using medicine to save the country and the people, and he suddenly realized that what should really be cured was not external diseases, but the inner thoughts of the people.
Lu Xun made up his mind and embarked on the road of abandoning medicine and practicing literature.
Lu Xun's depictions of Japan are few and far between in his works, but there is only one dedicated depiction of a Japanese man, who was Lu Xun's unforgettable mentor when he studied medicine at the Sendai Medical College in Japan, Fujino Yankuro.
In Lu Xun's recollection, Mr. Fujino has the image of a scholar who treats people warmly and dresses sloppily but is strict with his studies.
With the help and care of Mr. Fujino, Lu Xun, who was in a foreign country, felt great warmth. Mr. Fujino did not despise Lu Xun like other Japanese people because he was a Qing dynasty student.
In the first semester of sendai Medical College, Mr. Fujino noticed that Lu Xun's Japanese was not very good, so it was difficult to study, so he revised the lecture notes for him every week, and even carefully corrected some grammar errors for him.
Lu Xun was deeply grateful for his fair and impartial attitude towards the students.
When Lu Xun was preparing to return to China, he also specially bid farewell to Mr. Fujino and showed his change of ambition, although Mr. Fujino deeply regretted his decision to give up medicine, he still expressed the hope that his students could make some achievements on the path they chose, and gave Lu Xun a photo of himself before leaving, with a farewell message in Chinese characters.
This cross-nationality teacher-student friendship is like a warm light, encouraging Lu Xun to make unremitting efforts for the national spirit of the motherland on the road of literature.
Lu Xun once expressed in a correspondence with friends that he missed Mr. Fujino very much, and asked someone to inquire about his situation in Japan, but only learned that Mr. Fujino had resigned.
In 1934, a Japanese publisher came to visit Lu Xun and asked to be able to publish Lu Xun's works in Japan, and Lu Xun took this opportunity to specifically instruct him to publish this "Mr. Fujino", and took the photo that Mr. Fujino gave him when he was parting, saying that he really wanted to find Mr. Fujino and wanted to know whether he was doing well in Japan.
Until the death of Lu Xun in 1936 at the age of 55, the photo given to Lu Xun by Mr. Fujino thirty years ago with the 22-year-old Lu Xun was still placed at the head of Lu Xun's bed.
One day in 1935, the language teacher of Fujino Tsunami (Son of Fujino Yankuro) handed him a collection of essays translated into Japanese by Lu Xun and turned to the essay "Mr. Fujino" and asked him if the article with the same name as her father was written by his father.
At that time, Mr. Fujino, 61, read from the book what he looked like when he was teaching at the university thirty years ago, read the sentence "I am called Fujino Yanjiuro...", and looked at the photo of the author printed at the beginning of the volume, and could not help but sigh: "It is really Zhou Jun."
Lu Xun, who had become a great writer at that time, had a deep influence on the entire east Asian cultural field, and Mr. Fujino, who learned that he had been written by Lu Xun into a collection of essays, did not make a public statement, but only let his son's language teacher understand about it.
Lu Xun asked his former Japanese classmate Shigeo Kobayashi to find the whereabouts of Mr. Fujino, and it was at the end of the year of Lu Xun's death that Shigeo Kobayashi finally had the news of Mr. Fujino, and Mr. Fujino learned that his former student Zhou Shurenjun not only wrote an essay to remember himself, but also had been looking for him all these years, wanting to learn about him...
Mr. Fujino, who was also very affectionate, was greatly moved and specially wrote an article "Remembering Zhou Shurenjun" and published it in a Japanese newspaper to recall Lu Xun at that time.
In this short article, Lu Xun was a very diligent and intelligent student in Mr. Fujino's impression, but at that time, he was not so proficient in Japanese, so his grades were not so prominent, and considering that There was only one Chinese Zhou Jun in Sendai, he should need his own care and help, but he did not think that his little help made Zhou Jun so grateful.
In Mr. Fujino's recollection, he was in the aftermath of the war, so Sino-Japanese relations were very bad, but he respected Chinese culture very much and wanted to do his best to help this Student from China.
Mr. Fujino also felt very sorry that he could not see The Last King.
epilogue:
I believe that the photo that has been placed at the head of Lu Xun's bed has always given him unlimited courage in the difficult moments of Lu Xun's life.
As the saying goes, "One day is a teacher, one life is a father", Mr. Fujino's care for Lu Xun made Lu Xun grateful throughout his life. This cross-nationality teacher-student friendship was a rare flower of goodwill that bloomed in the historical background of cultural hatred against China at that time.
Reference for literature: "Dr. Fujino"