Analysis of Children's Images in Lu Xun's Works

The image of children is the carrier of children's mental outlook and personality characteristics in literary works, and children's literary works are special literary forms reflecting social life. When we read Lu Xun's works, we can find that there are many images of children in the works. Through research, the images of children's literature in Lu Xun's works are diversified: they have distinct children's perspectives; Works convey childlike innocence and childlike interest; The work is full of affection; Everything in the works pursues beauty; There are profound cultural connotations in the works, which are remarkable in the works.

1. In Lu Xun's works, children look at the world with special eyes and reflect life.

There are many sentences in the works that look at things in a child's immature way of thinking. In the article "From Hundred Herbs Circle to Three Books", when the young Lu Xun wrote why he left the Hundred Herbs Circle to go to Santan to reflect the moon, the author wrote, "I don't know why my family sent me to the bookstore. It is also called the most powerful bookstore in the city. Maybe it's because Polygonum multiflorum was pulled out and the mud wall was destroyed. Maybe it's because bricks were thrown into Liang's house next door. Maybe it's because I jumped off the stone well fence ... In short, I can't go to the Herbal Garden often. " This gentle voice was the truest call of Lu Xun at that time. He didn't understand why he had to leave the Herbal Garden. Why do you want to go to the bookstore? Lu Xun guessed the reason why he left the Herbal Garden from children's eyes and psychology. Several conjectures in the article all think that they did something bad and were sent to the bookstore for punishment. Lu Xun's works set out from reality and reflected children's most primitive and instinctive world outlook. The logical reasoning of children's thinking is illogical, and there are no distractions in their minds, which is in line with the characteristics of children's superficial inspection of things. Children's vision and way of thinking often have uncertain emotional factors. For example, in the article Chang and Shan Hai Jing, it says at the beginning, "Chang Ma, as I have already said, is a female worker who always leads me. To put it bluntly, she is my nanny. My mother and many others call her that, which seems a little polite. Only my grandmother called her Chang. I usually call her "Ma" instead of "Chang", but when I hate her, such as when I know that she killed my Tibetan mouse, I call her "Chang". In this article, "Chang" is the nanny who leads Lu Xun. From the family identity, Lu Xun called her "grandmother", which is a common title, proving that "Chang" was respected in Lu Xun's childhood eyes. If there is a contradiction between children and adults, children's psychology is most easily detected. Lu Xun learned that "Chang" murdered the Tibetan mouse, so he changed his name to "Chang". Among them, we can realize that children's view of the whole world is good or bad, which is measured by their immature thinking mode. Everything that can be seen from a child's eyes will have the characteristics of a child. Children's eyes are like a pool of clear water, without any impurities. The light transmitted from the water is the most thorough. With children's immature and authentic eyes, we can perceive children's inner world from Lu Xun's works and discover their truth, goodness and beauty. In literary works, readers cannot replace children's eyes with adults' eyes. Lu Xun perfected this point in these works.

Second, the children's images in Lu Xun's works conform to the characteristics of their times.

Children's innocence and simplicity convey innocence and childlike interest. For example, "Hundred Herbs Garden" wrote, "It's interesting to have a short mud wall root area. Oil flies sing here and crickets play the piano here. Turning over broken bricks, sometimes I meet centipedes; There is also Mylabris. If you hold down its spine with your fingers, it will smack and spray a puff of smoke from behind ... "Another example is" The Herb Garden is tasteless in winter, but it is different when it snows. " Shooting a snowman and making a plastic snow ocean's head need people's appreciation. It's desolate and inaccessible, so it's not suitable. You can only catch birds ... Sweep away a piece of snow and expose the ground, set up a big bamboo curtain with a short stick, sprinkle some chaff under it, and tie a long rope on the stick, and people will lead the birds down from a distance to peck. When they reach the bottom of the bamboo curtain, they will pull the rope and cover the bamboo curtain. The life in the Herbal Garden is colorful, including smashing bricks, crushing Mylabris, pulling Polygonum multiflorum, picking raspberries and catching birds. These activities are all the patents of children in Baicao Garden written by Lu Xun. The child is pure and beautiful, and everything is novel in his eyes, so he has full confidence and relative self-sufficiency joy. Adults lack the childlike innocence of children. Children are happy and naive in very simple things, while adults are definitely not as primitive as children. There is a golden full moon in the dark blue sky, and there are endless watermelons on the beach below. This is the most naive and childlike description of children's scenery, which evokes Lu Xun's yearning for children's life. There are many things in Lu Xun's works that can reflect childlike innocence and childlike interest, such as the games played by Lu Xun and Runtu when he was a child, and going to see social dramas with Afa and others. These childlike creations are very meaningful. They are an important part of people's consciousness awakening, and writers can share the same spiritual phenomenon ... longing for innocent childhood. Lu Xun's description of childlike innocence and childlike interest in his works, as well as his childhood behaviors, are the testimony of children's love for nature, pursuit of new knowledge and childlike innocence. Therefore, children in Lu Xun's works are naive and simple, conveying childlike innocence, which is a feature of his literary works.

Thirdly, the children's images in Lu Xun's works are full of affection.

The work "Kite" says that when I was a child, "I" didn't allow my little brother to fly a kite, nor did I allow my little brother to do such worthless things. His behavior is very rude, and he realizes the significance of games to children. Lu Xun woke up, and his behavior in those days was simply "cruel to the spirit." The "I" in the work is a person who has devoted his life to practicing "dissecting himself is not more merciful than dissecting others". When describing "me" in the future, he expressed two beautiful feelings more vividly: from "I don't like flying kites" and "I hate flying kites", opposing my little brother's flying kites, destroying kites to "sending him kites", agreeing with him and persuading him to fly kites, so I flew kites with him. "I" broke free from the shackles of spirit and seemed to restore the nature of children, "Shouting, running and laughing". In the cheerful melody, extremely short sentences jump with the relaxed rhythm, as if reproducing the lively and happy scene of children flying kites. This common sense of regret is beautiful, and we can see the friendship between Lu Xun and his brother, especially when I begged my brother's forgiveness with a heavy heart, but his brother "completely forgot", which in my opinion is a scene of "cruel spirit". Listening to the past, I smiled in surprise: "Has this ever happened?" This unpretentious text shows two beautiful hearts, one is the great wall of the soul built by family members, and the other is the heart that strictly blames itself and pleads for forgiveness for its mistakes; A kind of innocence, completely forgetting other people's mistakes. Another example is the two images of the boy moistening the soil and "me" in Hometown. They were good friends who talked about everything when they were young. They deepened their friendship in games such as bird catching, melon watching and poking. There is such a description in the work: "Ah! There are countless strange things about the psychology of moistening the soil, which my usual friends don't know ... Unfortunately, I will go home after the first month of moistening the soil, and I am so anxious that I cried. He was still hiding in the kitchen, crying and refusing to go out, and finally he was taken away by his father. Later, he asked his father to bring me a bag of shells and some beautiful bird feathers. I gave him something once or twice, and I haven't seen it since. From this narrative, we can find that the friendship between "I" and "Runtu" is as deep as the sea, and childhood is an imagination.

Fourthly, children's images in Lu Xun's works are all in pursuit of beauty.

The work Kite not only expresses a sense of guilt, but also shows that it is wrong to suppress children's play instinct. Forget that we can clearly feel that Kite is a brand-new work, and its content is far less than these. "Kite" begins with the following description: "In winter in Beijing, it is still snowing on the ground, gray-black bald branches are hanging in the clear sky, and one or two kites are floating in the distance, which is a surprise and sadness for me." At the end, I wrote: "Now, the spring in my hometown pervades this strange place, which not only brings me long-lost memories, but also brings uncertain sadness." I might as well hide in the cold winter, but it is obviously cold in all directions, which gives me great cold and air conditioning. "Both the beginning and the end of the work wrote a suppressed and blocked spring. Kate felt the cold of winter in the spring breeze. This is still a poem about spring and youth, and Lu Xun continues to "look for lost youth." Kite was first written by the lonely spring and gloomy spring in Beijing. Then there is the memory of "Spring February" in my hometown, which is "the tenderness of a spring month". Kite is a symbol of spring in hometown, a symbol of beautiful youth, which guides readers to chew and savor beautiful things. "Kite" shows the longing for spring and youth, and the fascination and exploration of beautiful things with great enthusiasm. It needs a healthy and happy life, accompanied by beautiful spring. If the days of spring are gone, how can we explore a new life? Now, the kite incident has become a thing of the past, and my little brother's mental trauma has long since subsided, but spring and youth are elusive. Between the lines, children's pursuit of good things is revealed. In the work "Hometown", when I returned to my hometown, because my mother mentioned the leap soil, I recalled my hometown and leap soil more than 20 years ago, especially when I played with it as a child. The article shows us a picture with particularly beautiful artistic conception. At this moment, a magical picture suddenly flashed in my mind: a golden full moon hung in the deep blue sky, and endless green watermelons were planted in the sand by the sea. There was an eleven or twelve-year-old boy with a silver ring around his neck and a steel fork in his hand, who tried his best to stab a horse. "What a beautiful picture! Twenty years later, "I" still remember this photo, which shows that I have a deep memory of the beautiful things in my youth. Only those things that can make people have sweet memories can be hidden in the depths of memory and will never be erased. The glittering and translucent flower in my mind, in my heart forever blooms. When I was a child, I didn't know there were so many new things in the world: there were so many colorful shells by the sea; Watermelon has such a dangerous experience that "I" only know that he sells it in a fruit shop. " The leap soil has brought me many beautiful and fresh things. The temptation to "me" is enormous. Twenty years later, "I" returned to my hometown, and my hometown was in depression. "ah! Isn't this the hometown I've been thinking about for twenty years? " The beautiful hometown is gone forever, including the leap soil. The leap soil is no longer the leap soil of childhood. It's sad that things have changed. The depressed mood set off the position of my beautiful hometown in my heart. Hometown reflects the pursuit of those beautiful things by children's images from another side, because beauty is everyone's goal.

5. Luxun's works have the flavor of the author's hometown.

The rich local flavor, profound cultural background, local customs, living habits and culture in Shaoxing area are all displayed in front of readers. This work shows a strong local flavor. Social drama is also called spring competition, that is, the competition held in spring. In the old days, on festivals or gods' birthdays, it was a folk custom to welcome gods out of temples, parades or villages by means of gongs and drums and acrobatics, which was called "competition". This kind of drama is also described in social drama. "Social Drama" is based on the rural areas in the south of the Yangtze River, showing an ideal rural picture in memory. Pingqiao Village, the grandmother's hometown, is a remote village near the sea and the river. This remote seaside village, less influenced by the secular, retains more natural simplicity, which is a "pure land" for me and a "paradise" for me. The author puts many children's images such as "I", "Afa", "Double Happiness" and "Guisheng" in the Jiangnan water town full of soil fragrance. Another example is the description of the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River in Hometown, and the unique description of my hometown in Herb Garden, all of which reflect the characteristics of my hometown Shaoxing. "Chang and Shan Hai Jing" wrote: "Brother, remember it!" She said solemnly, "Tomorrow is the first day of the first month. As soon as I open my eyes in the morning, the first thing I want to say is,' Grandma, congratulations', remember? You should remember that this is a lucky year. Don't say anything else! After that, I have to eat some oranges. " She picked up the orange and shook it in front of my eyes twice. "So, it runs smoothly all the year round ..." This is a unique custom in Shaoxing. Lu Xun is from Shaoxing. In many of his works, Lu Xun superimposed Shaoxing's rich local flavor with children's images, which shows that Lu Xun is famous for his homesickness and yearning for childhood. Both of them appear in his works, which are the combination of perfect things in Lu Xun's ideal. Reading these works of Lu Xun is like enjoying a picture of a shepherd boy playing a flute in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, giving people a melodious and unforgettable song of homesickness.

Sixth, the language in Lu Xun's children's literature works is permeated with children's characteristics.

The children's language in Lu Xun's works conforms to their childlike innocence and the characteristics of the times. In "Social Opera", I, Shuang and Afa wrote about picking arhat beans on the way back from the social opera, which wrote: "Afa, Afa, this side belongs to your family, and this side belongs to Father-in-law's family on June 1st. Which side shall we steal?" Double happiness jumped up first and said on the shore. We all jumped ashore. Afa jumped up and said,' Wait a minute, let me have a look.' So he went back and forth, touched it once, straightened up and said,' What stole from us is much bigger!' "Among them, Afa advised everyone to steal his arhat beans. It can be seen that Afa's atmosphere and frankness are not adults, which is in line with the innocence of children. " Hometown wrote a little boy's words, "He said,' This can't be done. It is bound to snow heavily. We are on the beach, and it's snowing. I cleared a clearing, set up a big bamboo flat with a short stick and planted seeds in the valley. When the bird came to eat, I just pulled the rope tied to the stick at a distance, and the bird was covered under the bamboo plaque. Everything: rice chicken, horn chicken, big owl, blue back ... "Runtu added," It's too cold now. Come to us in summer. We also go to the seaside to pick up shells every day. There are red and green shells, ghosts are afraid, and so are Guanyin players. "Young Runtu is a clever, enthusiastic and lively little hero. From his endless words, we can know that children's minds are full of interesting things, which are of interest to them and conform to children's playful nature. Children's language is not as sentimental and subtle as adults, it is a kind of innocence, and any eyebrows are engraved. " Words are from the heart. " There are not many images of hungry children in Lu Xun's works, but we can understand children's psychology from some words. Many places show that children love nature, love new things and love life. Proverbs are also permeated with the pure friendship between some children's images and their respective qualities, and Lu Xun shows readers vivid children's images in children's words.

Lu Xun deserves to be a great writer. In his literary works, readers can appreciate this master's unique writing skills. He skillfully arranged and showed the various characteristics of children's images in his works to everyone. Looking at the images of children in modern literary works, many of them are influenced by Lu Xun. Being familiar with the characteristics of children's images in Lu Xun's works can provide evidence for the treatment of children's images in contemporary literary creation.