Exploring Lu Xun's Aesthetic Idea From Lu Xun's Letters

Mr.Lu Xun is a great literary giant in modern China,a great educator,thinker,and also a great art scholar.Mr.Lu Xun has been crazy about art all his life.He has devoted a lot of time and energy to collecting and sorting out rubbings of ancient Chinese stone carvings,embroidered images of ancient novels,woodcut illustrations,stationery and folk New Year pictures.Moreover,in his later years,he spent a lot of effort to pay attention to Chinese and foreign art activities,especially to advocate the new woodcut movement.He personally organized exhibitions,held woodcut workshops,compiled picture collections,introduced the creation of outstanding foreign artists,and trained and supported young artists.He also wrote a large number of papers and letters on fine arts,in order to inherit and support traditional Chinese art.The development of modern art has made unparalleled contributions.After the death of Mr.Lu Xun,the research on Mr.Lu Xun has never stopped.As Mr.Lu Xun is closely related to the alliance of Chinese left-wing writers in his later years,many scholars will label Mr.Lu Xun as a "left-wing" in the academic circles,which has also exerted a subtle influence on the views of the aesthetic circles on Lu Xun.As a result,the views on Lu Xun in the field of art history research and aesthetic theory research are often centered on the left-wing art.Therefore,in the current theoretical circles,the mention of Lu Xun and art is often linked to the left-wing art.Through reading through Mr.Lu Xun's articles on fine arts and combining with his sincere words in his letters,the author finds that there is a great deviation in the mainstream view that Lu Xun is positioned as a pioneer of left-wing Fine Arts in academic and aesthetic circles.Therefore,the author combs Mr.Lu Xun's letters,extracts the concept of art expressed by Mr.Lu Xun in the letters,and tries to discover Mr.Lu Xun's true aesthetic concept by combining the paper on art published by Mr.Lu Xun with the aesthetic intention in his literary works.The author takes letters as the main research object because letters are a very important part of the cultural heritage left by Mr.Lu Xun to future generations.They truly record Mr.Lu Xun's thoughts and feelings.At the same time,letters are a special style,flexible and free,which has always been valued by scholars in academic circles.Mr.Lu Xun himself attached great importance to the role of letters.He wrote the Preface to Modern Writers' Letters by Kong Yijie,a young writer at that time,and said,"From the writer's diary or ruler,we can often get more clear opinions than from his works." The letter most truthfully reveals Mr.Lu Xun's inner voice,his most direct joy,anger and sorrow,but also the most true reflection of the era background and social life at that time.It is the most direct annotation and interpretation of Mr.Lu Xun's thoughts,as well as the most real and concrete resources.However,as far as the current research environment of academic circles is concerned,there is still no research on the topic of excavating Mr.Lu Xun's true aesthetic ideas from his letters,and there are not many people involved.Therefore,based on the academic value,historical significance and practical significance of this topic,there is still a lot of academic space,which is worth exploring and researching.