Scream is a collection of short stories by modern writer Lu Xun. This collection of novels truly depicts the social life from the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th Movement. Starting from revolutionary democracy, with the aim of enlightenment and the spirit of humanitarianism, it reveals all kinds of deep-seated social contradictions, deeply analyzes and completely denies the old China system and some outdated traditional concepts, and shows a strong sense of national survival and a strong hope for social change.

The main contents of Scream and Scream include 14 novels, including Diary of a Madman, Kong Yiji, Medicine, The True Story of Ah Q and Hometown, which reflect the appearance of ancient villages and towns in China from around the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th Movement. It depicts the social reality of China from around the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th Movement, summarizes the historical experience and lessons of the Revolution of 1911, profoundly exposes the cannibalism and hypocrisy of the feudal patriarchal clan system and feudal ethics, painstakingly dissects the silent national soul of China and criticizes the national inferiority.

The creation background of Scream was written from 19 18 to 1924. This period is a historical period of vigorous development of the May 4th New Culture Movement. The May 4th New Culture Movement is a great cultural movement in which the advanced intellectuals in China made a more comprehensive and profound reflection on the ancient traditional culture of China at a higher historical level than the "Westernization School" and the "Reform School", and then built the modern culture of China. It is also a large-scale anti-feudal ideological movement in China.

Its core is to oppose old culture, advocate new culture, oppose old morality and advocate new morality. Lu Xun's Scream embodies the requirements and historical characteristics of the Cultural Revolution. The author's novels are intended to describe "the unfortunate in a morbid society", "expose suffering and attract the attention of treatment" and "shout" for the New Culture Movement.

Lu Xun (188 1 September 25th ~ 1936 June 5438+00 October 19), originally named Zhou Zhangshou, later renamed Zhou Shuren, later renamed Yucai, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. A famous writer, thinker, revolutionary, educator, democracy fighter, an important participant in the New Culture Movement, and one of the founders of modern literature in China.

In his early years, he went to Japan to study at public expense with Li Suizhi and Qian Junfu, and graduated from Sendai Medical College in Japan. "Lu Xun", 19 18, is the most commonly used pseudonym when he published Diary of a Madman.