The small courtyard of Lu Xun’s former residence, always exuding cleanliness and elegance, has become an important part of the Lu Xun Museum. It is one of the earlier established ‘biographical museums’ in New China. The museum houses over 30,000 cultural relics, including rare treasures such as Lu Xun’s geological manuscript drafts; a fragment of the manuscript of ‘The True Story of Ah Q’; and the manuscript of ‘Self-Portrait’ written by Lu Xun in his twenties, among others.
Located at No. 19, Gongmenkou Erdiao, Fuchengmen Nei, Xicheng District, Beijing, it was Lu Xun’s residence in Beijing from 1924 to 1926. He designed and renovated it himself in the spring of 1924, moved in the same year in May, and lived there until August 1926 when he left for the south. In May 1929 and November 1932, Lu Xun returned to Beijing from Shanghai to visit his mother and stayed here as well. Lu Xun’s former residence is an ordinary small Siheyuan in Beijing. From architecture to spatial furnishings, it is quite simple. It was here that Lu Xun completed many of his combative works, including three collections ‘Huagai Collection’, ‘Huagai Collection Continued’, ‘Wild Grass’, and parts of ‘Hesitation’, ‘Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk’, and ‘Grave’. The museum is open all year round from Tuesday to Sunday, 09:00-16:00; closed all day on Mondays; and open on New Year’s Day, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and National Day, 09:00-16:00.Beijing Lu Xun Museum (Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial)
The small courtyard of Lu Xun’s former residence, always exuding cleanliness and elegance, has[...]
