What was the background of Lu Xun's Blessing?
Lu Xun's " Blessing " was an article that described the social customs and human nature of rural China. Its background was the Chinese countryside in the 1920s. During this period, China's social and economic situation and political environment had undergone tremendous changes. Along with the acceleration of the process of industrialisation and modernisation, the rural areas are gradually moving towards prosperity, but at the same time, they are also facing many problems and challenges. Lu Xun's " Blessing " depicted the life of a typical rural family, reflecting the poverty, ignorance, feudal superstition and human weakness of the rural society at that time. In the novel, Lu Xun revealed some deep-seated problems in Chinese society at that time, such as family ethics, marriage concept, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship, feudal ethics and the concept of face, by describing the protagonist's wife, Zhu Yingtai, and her family. At the same time, the novel also shows the weaknesses of human nature, such as greed, selfishness, vanity, love of leisure and abhorrence of work, so that readers deeply understand the complexity and variety of human nature. Lu Xun's " Blessing " was a work of social criticism. Through the description of rural social customs and human nature, it revealed some deep-seated problems in Chinese society at that time, and also showed the beauty and complexity of human nature.