In Lu Xun's "Regret for the Past", "people must live, and love can only be attached to beauty".

Only by working hard to live, can the love you give and the love you get be better. No matter how many obstacles there are now, you can only see beautiful and open love when you are alive, and beauty refers to the spirit, which is a metaphor for the spirit of free love between protagonists. Although the reality is hindered by the love caused by the times, only by living can we get real happiness.

Regret for the Past is a short story written by modern writer Lu Xun 1925, which takes love as the theme and reflects the fate of intellectuals during the May 4th Movement. In the way of the protagonist Juan Sheng's sorrowful inner monologue, the novel tells that he and Zijun broke through the obstacles of feudal forces and pursued marriage to establish a warm family, but soon their love failed and ended in "injury" and "death".

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Creation background

During the May 4th Movement, it was the common wish of many young people to complain about the pain of freedom of marriage, and fighting for freedom of love and marriage became an important content of emancipating the mind at that time. So in the 1920s, 98% of the novels described the love between men and women, and most of them were about the fact that marriage was not free.

Lu Xun fully affirmed the anti-feudal significance of personality liberation, but at the same time he was keenly aware of the hidden crisis behind the freedom of marriage and love. As early as the end of 1923, Lu Xun pointed out in his speech "What happened after Nora left". If women want to be liberated, they must use "fierce fighting" to fight for economic rights. "If the economic system is really reformed, then of course the above is completely nonsense."

By 1925, Lu Xun's world outlook was on the eve of a fundamental change. At this time, he advocated using the method of "using with fire and sword" to completely change the social system. "Mourning for the Past" was written in June 1925, which is different from the popular works praising the supremacy of love at that time, and also different from the tragedy of double suicide with death in traditional masterpieces.

In the form of novels, Lu Xun linked the problems of women's marriage and young intellectuals with the reform of the whole social system and economic system, so as to enlighten the vast number of young people to get rid of the shackles of individual liberation and personal struggle and explore new ways.

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