Liu Bao - Biographies of World Great Figures

Author: Xie Huailiang
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: In the early 20th century, China rose a great cultural giant. From a young age, he loved listening to beautiful folk tales, drawing, and reading classic works such as Shan Hai Jing and Journey to the West. He craved new knowledge, longed for a better life, and grew skeptical of traditional feudal rituals. The decline of his family made him deeply experience the harsh realities of the world and also more profoundly feel the simplicity, kindness, and hardships of the working people. At the age of 18, he left his hometown to study in Nanjing. New intellectual trends moved his passionate heart and inspired him to seek the truth to save the nation and its people. A few years later, he went to Japan to study medicine but later abandoned medicine for literature, determined to promote arts and culture. With his pen, he aimed to awaken the dormant and numb citizens, change their thoughts, transform their spirits, and alter all old morals and habits. He lived a life of hardship and simplicity throughout his life but studied diligently and worked tirelessly, leaving behind a precious spiritual legacy for future generations. He is a towering mountain, a vast ocean. His character and spirit are an inexhaustible treasure trove of our nation, a spiritual source from which our descendants can draw endlessly. He is the soul of literature—Lu Xun.