A Difficult Issue in Lu Xun's Testament

Lu Xun expressed his hope in his will that he did not want his children to become writers and artists. This has often been viewed as Lu Xun's nihilism out of his disillusionment with his frustration in a cultural transformation of the society In acknowledging his own nihilism, however, Lu Xun did not give up his literary career in despair. These two sides of Lu Xun, which can not and need not be overlooked, coexisted and cooperated to produce a profound meaning in Lu Xun's literary outlooks in his old age.