Lu Xun's View Of Faith

Luxun's thought about belief is extremely complicated. The early on science and education holds that Science, a kind of advanced technology of skills can provide intellectual impetus and support for the development of human society. It can utterly be regarded as a kind of art to save the country. He was incisively aware of the paradox between science and conviction. And then he criticised the people who has no belief and suppress others'belief, affirmed the religion's spirit that presents the properous state of common people, provided the believers with power and faced up to the religion's saving function which is saving the manners and morals of the time. For the regretting of the reality ---' persisting on the pursuit of material interest throughout history ' that has given rise to the lack of sincere faith among the common people. Lu Xun outcried the people who have two faces should not exist in society but superstition can. He confirmed that religion as requisite spiritual appeas for the positive people is a kind of ideology that should be respected.In addition, because of the special culture of east of Zhejiang, family education and childhood memories, Lu Xun treated the traditional"ghosts"culture differently from others and he had a sense of closeness to such things.After truly affirming the need for the faith of ghosts, Lu Xun was sensitively aware that new issues emerged in the process. Chinese people were superstitious, and they trust ghost to some extent, but few of them worship the"ghost", and they just wish that it would do less evils. However, But for the kindly Zurirens who discovered the way of drilling wood to make fire , they took no notice them.People who accept or reject the faith depend on utilization and dread, they show evil spirit with awe and forget genial man. Lu Xun believes that most scholars and man of letters and even Taoist almost featured with no personal integrity.First, at the time, it was an era, called"an era that has come"by Lu Xun a famous Chinese writer, when"-isms"prevailed. Second, some Chinese people in that era regarded belief as a variable means for making a living. In terms of religious belief, they either had fear for it or made use of it. Third, collapses also took place in the religious belief itself. For example, when comparing Mahayana and Hinayana(austerity), they held that Hinayana involving"austerity"was Buddhism and While the belief of Mahayana is much more comfortable. No matter who you are, rich or poor, you can become a believer as long as you have vegetarian diet for a meal. Although described euphemistically as Mahayana which spread more widely and further than Hinayana, such Buddhism distorted by them may became subtle or even annulled. The religious discipline and scale that originally belong to faith has been lost. Coming to big fame by virtue of"-isms"was the most common means for them."In the pretext of non-believers, they indeed dared to do everything evil". By this, Lu Xun criticized all kinds of features such as pursuing personal fame and gain, hypocrisy and greed displayed by those who were double-faced about belief.Finally he upheld that people should hold a prudent attitude, serious but suspicious, towards belief under love, meaning neither fanaticism nor temporization. There should be moderate tensility between belief and suspicion. First and foremost, Lu Xun stood for love. He discussed in an earlier time with Xu Shoushang that the Chinese people were shortest of honesty and love, in other words, they were deeply poisoned by cheat, hypocrisy, impudicity and suspicion. Secondly, seriousness was of vital importance. The so-called seriousness should refer to a staunch perseverance while seriousness came from honesty. Thirdly, he advocated that suspicion should keep abreast of thinking. Suspicion was both a way and an expression of thinking. In the premise of"believing through thinking", freedom of belief should be given back to individuals who thus could keep their own individualities, which would be the ideal state of belief. Here it showed us Lu Xun's unremitting efforts to seek a spiritual support for the modern belief system by virtue of the folk belief so as to rebuild the Chinese people's belief system.