"Awakening Times" hits the air to reveal the creative experience of Peru Xun
Who is the prototype of the "Madman" in "Madman's Diary"?
"A Madman's Diary", written in April 1918, is the first short diary novel in the vernacular written by Lu Xun and the first modern vernacular novel in China.
There is a scene in the 14th episode of "Awakening Age", which is currently broadcast on CCTV: Lu Xun and his friends returned to the Shaoxing Guild Hall after dinner. His younger brother Zhou Zuoren told him that his classmate Yang Kaiming returned to teach after graduation and often helped a widow. , But was criticized by the widows.
Once he was drunk and stayed at the widow’s house for one night and was informed.
As a result, the widow’s clansmen drowned the widow’s Shentang in anger.
Yang Kaiming lost his heart and went crazy, wandering the streets crazy all day, never knowing anyone again.
After listening to Lu Xun, he angrily said that people are crazy and the sky is crazy.
At this moment, his cousin Ruan Jiusun broke in and yelled that someone outside was going to kill him.
Later, after explanation, Ruan Jiusun saw a lot of people who starved to death on the way here. He was irritated and confused.
When Lu Xun witnessed this scene, he thought of Yang Kaiming's frustration and madness, as well as the steamed buns dipped in human blood in the Caishikou execution scene... he contemplated the idea, then wrote a manuscript, and created his first vernacular novel "A Madman's Diary".
For this kind of plot arrangement, Lu Xun research scholar Professor Gu Xingyun said in an interview with a reporter from the Beijing Youth Daily that the screenwriting and production team has made great efforts to verify history.
He himself published an academic paper entitled "About Ruan Jiusun, the Archetype of the "Madman" in "Madman's Diary"" in the "Hebei Academic Journal" many years ago, and verified this archetype from the four Ruan's shorthands preserved by Lu Xun. .
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The prototype of "Madman" is Lu Xun's cousin Ruan Jiusun
Gu Xingyun told the Beijing Youth Daily that when Wang Shijing, a famous scholar and writer, described the illness of the "madman" prototype in "Lu Xun's Biography", he quoted a death letter written by a patient, saying that the letter is now preserved in the Lu Xun Museum in Beijing.
After seeing it, Gu Xingyun immediately asked Lu Bo for advice, and soon obtained the precious collection of the museum, namely the copy of the four letters of Ruan Jiusun, the prototype of the "madman" preserved by Lu Xun (including the above-mentioned dying book).
The first of the four letters is addressed to "Mother," with insane content, and no time for writing is marked at the end of the letter.
According to the "Lu Xun's Diary" on October 30, 1916, "a long-lasting sun in the morning" and "a long-lasting sun in the house" in the evening.
On the 31st, "Jiu Sun was sick in the afternoon, and it worsened at night, so I hurried to see Doctor Ikeda and paid five yuan. He was hired by a car and sent to Ikeda Hospital. Don’t hire a worker to keep watch." (Press, Jiu Sun means Jiusun.) Gu Xingyun inferred that from the contents of the diary, Ruan Jiusun wrote this letter before he entered the Chitian Hospital after he arrived in Beijing, that is, on the night of October 30, 1916, or the morning of the 31st.
The envelope has the words "Sent from Beijing" written on it, but there is no postage stamp and no postmark, so it is known that it has never been mailed.
As we all know, Shaoxing is well-known for being a master (in the office of secretaries, counsellors, litigation, etc.) in government offices such as in Zhou County.
Gu Xingyun introduced that the Ruan Jiusun brothers were all working as "teachers" at the county office in Fanzhi County.
Because he often gave advice to the governor, he was hated by others, so that the gentry and merchants waited for secret discussions, through bribery along the way, designed to frame the two brothers.
"Perhaps because of being framed in officialdom, Ruan Jiusun was under too much pressure and became mentally disordered. After arriving in Beijing, Lu Xun saw him in a trance, so he sent him to the hospital for treatment and paid for him." Gu Xingyun said.
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Zhou Zuoren’s writings describe that "madman" does have his own
A reporter from the Beiqing Daily noticed that Zhou Zuoren also gave a detailed account of this in the section "Who is the Madman" in "Characters in Lu Xun's Novels".
Zhou Zuoren said that this man was Lu Xun’s cousin, "Let’s call him Liu Si for the time being, and when he was traveling in the northwest, he suddenly said that his colleague was going to murder him and fled to Beijing to escape... Lu Xun stayed in the hall... with When he went to see a doctor, he saw the policeman standing guard with a gun in his car. He was shocked and his face was completely blank. It is said that his eyes were very terrifying, full of terror, and showed the characteristics of a madman. Lu Xun found someone to escort him back to his hometown. The disease healed later. It was because I saw the "persecutory" patient personally and added the knowledge from the books, so I could write this article."
In this regard, Gu Xingyun said that Zhou Zuoren’s "Liu Si" is Ruan Jiusun. Jiusun is the fourth oldest among the Ruan brothers. His mother is Lu Xun’s aunt, several years younger than Lu Xun, but older than Zhou Zuoren. .
The relationship between their aunts and cousins is very good and they have frequent contacts.
"When Ruan Jiusun became ill in Beijing at the end of October 1916, Zhou Zuoren was still teaching at his hometown middle school in Zhejiang. So it was Lu Xun who was in Beijing who sent Jiusun to the hospital for treatment. I guess that after Zhou Zuoren came to Peking University in 1917 to work, When Lu Xun wrote "The Diary of a Madman" in 1918, he talked to Zhou Zuoren about this past. So, Zhou Zuoren later relayed these statements of Lu Xun in his book."
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Cao Lei: tar wiping hands pretends to be a "smoker" Lu Xun
Cao Lei, who played Lu Xun in the hit drama "The Age of Awakening", recently revealed in an interview with a reporter from the Beijing Youth Daily that in order to truly show how Lu Xun’s fingers were smoked and yellow, he evenly smeared the tar between the fingers, showing Yellowing effect.
Add lines to express humor and humor
Some netizens commented that Lu Xun in the play was very cold.
In this regard, Cao Lei explained that Mr. Lu Xun has many facets. He is cold and sharp. At the same time, he is also a humorous person.
In "Awakening Age", there is a scene where Lu Xun criticized the novel "Demon Dream" created by the retro school scholar Lin Shu on the stage of Peking University and supported the New Culture Movement.
In Cao Lei's view, this is a good opportunity to show Lu Xun's humorous side.
He revealed that there were only three lines in the script's lines about the scene at first.
He felt a little thin, so he wondered if he could enrich it.
After obtaining the director's permission, Cao Lei went back to read the materials and found that Lu Xun had such a statement, "No one can try to block the wheel of history. He has to block it. There is only one in the end. You will be run over!" He said. Lu Xun's sense of humor came out after adding the lines criticizing "Demon Dream".
In Cao Lei's view, Lu Xun saw too much bloody essence in life. Humor, as a way of self-protection, conveys a sadness to everyone. This is the background color of humor.
Imitate Lu Xun's brushwork and play in person
Cao Lei introduced that in order to play this role well, he read many articles of Mr. Lu Xun—especially the two jujube trees in the prose poem "Autumn Night" written by Lu Xun, which inspired him more, "Autumn Jujube" The tree is bleak and bleak. In my opinion, the two jujube trees represent the spirit of the husband. Although the jujube tree was beaten mercilessly by wind and rain, all the leaves were lost, but the trunk was straight and straight. This symbolized His unyielding and uncompromising to the dark forces of the old society."
Cao Lei also discovered that Lu Xun, a writer with a distinct personality, had relatively smooth handwriting.
This contrast also reminds Cao Lei that he can't just play Lu Xun's anger and depression.
Cao Lei revealed, "In order to play Lu Xun well, I also learned how to write Lu Xun. The shots of Lu Xun's handwriting in "The Awakening Age" are all shots of Lu Xun's handwriting, which is useless as a substitute."
Before filming, Cao Lei also went to the former residence of Lu Xun in Beijing, the Shaoxing Hall, and the house where Lu Xun lived to feel his aura and breath.
In these places, Cao Lei didn’t find a guide, so he sat quietly at the door, imagining what Lu Xun was doing in this room through time and space, and imagining how he would do it here if he were Lu Xun. creation.
Lu Xun sat in the armchair and filmed the meditation scene all night
Cao Lei introduced that the makeup stylist and director Zhang Yongxin spent a lot of time on his styling. After hooking the headgear, the makeup artist glued the headgear to his head and contrasted the trimming of the head shape in Lu Xun's photo.
After I cut it, I didn’t think it looked like it, so I stuck a second headgear on, and just made three headgears in a week, and finally set the shape of the head.
At the same time, Lu Xun's beard is also very distinctive. In the play, Lu Xun's beard is changed at least two or three.
Cao Lei also revealed that the scene where Lu Xun was sitting in a chair and meditating with a pen in "Awakening Age" was the director holding Mr. Lu Xun's photos of the year and looking at the monitor bit by bit: the waist should be straighter and the arms higher. Some, with your head up a little...Finally, the effect of a photo-reproduced version was achieved, "That scene was shot all night".
According to relevant national regulations, no smoking scenes can appear in TV dramas, but in history Lu Xun never left his hand and relied on smoking to refresh his writing.
In order to reflect this habit of his life, Cao Lei evenly smeared the tar between his fingers, which looked a bit smoky yellow, like a veteran smoker.
This group of articles / our reporter Zhang Enjie