Lu Xun was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang in 188 1, but at the age of 13, his grandfather, who was an official in Beijing, was imprisoned for some reason. Since then, my father has been ill for a long time and eventually died, and his family has rapidly declined. Family changes have had a far-reaching impact on young Lu Xun. He is the eldest son of the family, with a lonely and weak mother and a young and weak sister in law. He must bear the burden of life with his mother. His innocent and lively childhood is over, and he has experienced the hardships of life and the changes of the world prematurely. He often takes the prescription prescribed by the doctor for his father to the pharmacy to get medicine, and takes things to the pawnshop to sell. In the past, when his family was well off, people around him looked at him enviously as a little "dude". There is kindness in his words and tenderness in his eyes. But now that my family is poor, the attitudes of people around me have changed: my words are cold, my eyes are cold, and my face is disdainful. The change of people's attitudes around him left a deep impression on Lu Xun's mind, which caused a great blow to his mind and made him feel that China at that time lacked sincere sympathy and love between people. People treat people and things with snobbery: one attitude towards the rich and powerful, another attitude towards the poor and incompetent. Many years later, Lu Xun said with great sadness: "Who fell from a well-off family to a poor situation? I think that on this road, we can probably see the true face of the world. " (Introduction to Scream)

The family changes and life experiences after the changes also made Lu Xun close to the lower class from his childhood. His grandmother lives in the countryside, which gives him the opportunity to get in touch with and understand the life of farmers. Especially before and after his grandfather went to prison, he had to take refuge in relatives in the countryside and live in the countryside for a long time. There, he became friends with children in the country, played with them, rowed boats, watched movies together, and sometimes "stole" beans and cooked them in their fields. There is no mutual discrimination and hatred between them, only mutual care and love. Lu Xun recorded his simple, natural, sincere and simple relationship with rural children as the best interpersonal relationship in his life.

At that time, the average scholar took three roads: one was to study and be an official. Through the imperial examination, you can be promoted, you can make a fortune, your personal worth is a hundred times, and your family background is also envied by the world. This is considered to be the "right path" for scholars. Those who are not officials can also be the "aides" of a bureaucrat, making suggestions for this bureaucrat, running for efficiency and accepting gifts from this bureaucrat. With this bureaucratic power, I also have power. This is the second road that scholars often took at that time. If the first two roads fail, you can still go into business. Although this was despised by bureaucrats at that time, you can make a fortune and not fall to the bottom of the insulted and damaged society. Lu Xun took another road that was most despised at that time: entering the "foreign school". In China at that time, it was generally regarded as a despicable activity of "selling souls to foreign devils". 1898, 18-year-old Lu Xun left his hometown, entered Nanjing Naval Academy, and then transferred to Nanjing Railway and Mining Academy in order to find "others" in a "different place". These two schools were set up by the Westernization School at that time to enrich Qiang Bing. Among them, mathematics, physics, chemistry and other courses are offered to impart natural science knowledge, which is unprecedented in China's traditional education. After class, Lu Xun also read works on foreign literature and social sciences, which greatly broadened his cultural horizons.