Beijing Lu Xun Museum, Literary museum in Xinjiekou Subdistrict, Beijing, China.
The Beijing Lu Xun Museum is a museum in the Xinjiekou Subdistrict of western Beijing dedicated to the writer Lu Xun, displaying manuscripts, photographs, letters, and personal objects. The site combines a purpose-built exhibition hall in traditional Chinese architectural style with the original courtyard house where the writer lived.
Lu Xun lived in this western Beijing courtyard from 1924 to 1926 before leaving the city to continue his work in the south. The museum was founded in 1956, and the site was later designated a nationally protected historical and cultural site.
The small courtyard house where Lu Xun actually lived is part of the site, and visitors can walk through his study and bedroom as they were during his time in Beijing. The space gives a sense of how he worked and spent his days in a modest, ordinary setting.
The museum sits in the western part of the city and is easy to reach by metro or bus, with several stops nearby. Visiting both the exhibition hall and the original house together takes around one to two hours for most people.
Lu Xun planted two lilac trees in the courtyard with his own hands, and they are still standing today. He wrote about them in one of his most personal essays, which is how that piece got its title.
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