The Aesthetic Salvation and Love——Lu Xun's Acceptance of Nietzsche From "Weeds"

Weeds reveals Lu Xun's gloomy and profound personality,the lonely thinker in Chinese modern literature history sharing the characteristics with Nietzsche's Zarathustra.The influence of thoughts is hard to be measured by data.The explicit or tacit similarity implies more in the thinkers' characters and styles.Nietzsche,being sad for the vanishing tragedy spirit of ancient Greece,criticized the European traditional metaphysics with his pursuit of the simple truth. Correspondingly,Lu Xun,whose criticism on the national character and the deficiency in traditional culture was based on Nietzsche,had never given up the truth love with dual features of both Chinese traditional Confucian and modern intellectual.Nietzsche's powerful will,with strong sense of negation,surpassed the superficial world though this made him trapped into void and samsara.