歷史今天:1881年魯迅出生(9.25)

【英文原文】

Lu Xun (simplified Chinese: 魯迅; traditional Chinese: 魯迅; pinyin: Lǔ Xùn) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (simplified Chinese: 周樹人; traditional Chinese: 周樹人; pinyin: Zhōu Shùrén; Wade-Giles: Chou Shu-jen) (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936) is one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua (白話) (the vernacular) as well as classical Chinese. Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator, critic, essayist and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.

Lu Xun's works exerted a very substantial influence after the May Fourth Movement to such a point that he was lionized by the Communist regime after 1949. Mao Zedong himself was a lifelong admirer of Lu Xun's works. Though sympathetic to the ideals of the Left, Lu Xun never actually joined the Chinese Communist Party. Lu Xun's works are known to English readers through numerous translations, especially Selected Stories of Lu Hsun translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang.

【中文譯文】

魯迅（簡體中文：魯迅，繁體中文：魯迅;拼音：Lǔ Xùn）或Lu Hsün（威妥瑪拼音），是周樹人筆名（簡體中文：周樹人，繁體中文：周樹人;拼音：Zhōu Shùrén，威妥瑪拼音：Chou Shu-jen）（1881年9月25日- 1936年10月19日）是二十世紀重大的中文作家之一。被視爲現代文學創始人的魯迅使用白話文和文言文寫作。魯迅是短篇小說作家，編輯，翻譯，評論家，散文家和詩人。在20世紀30年代，他成了上海左聯名義上的領導人。

魯迅的作品在五四運動有着非常重大的影響，這一點使他在新中國成立之後被譽爲一代文豪。毛澤東本人就是魯迅作品終身崇拜者。雖然同情左派，魯迅從未加入共產黨。魯迅的作品被大量翻譯成英文，廣爲流傳，尤其由楊憲益和戴乃迭翻譯的《魯迅文選》。