鲁迅逝世之后,即被谓之以"民族魂"称号,为民族解放斗争的革命家形象在新中国成立后三十年内进一步扩大,"革命"的能指与所指界限日渐模糊,被统统纳入到人民内部斗争、阶级革命的范畴之中。文章通过20世纪50年代教材的选编案例、60年代兴修新墓事件、《鲁迅传》创作以及70年代《庆祝沪宁克复的那一边》轶文的发现,分析和揭示主流意识形态对鲁迅信仰的规定和解读,社会各界对鲁迅信仰的共识和接受。一方面,梳理出鲁迅成为国民信仰的心理机制与历史策略;另一方面,发掘出鲁迅成为国民信仰所承担的价值准绳与精神导向。在种种合力的辨识中,指出鲁迅形象构建的本质和对国民信仰造成的影响。
Immediately after his death,Lu Xun was entitled"the soul of the nation".His image as a revolutionist to fight for national libration was further enlarged during the thirty years after 1949.The demarcation line between the signifier and the signified of the word"revolution"was getting more and more blurred and was taken into the category of internal struggle of the people and class revolution.Based on the selected cases in the text books during 1950s,the event of grave building in 1960s,creation of The Biography of Lu Xun,and discovery of the anecdote Celebrating Recapture of Shanghai and Nanjing in the 1970s,the writer of this article analyzes and discloses the stipulation and interpretation by the mainstream ideology and the public’s common view and acceptance of Lu Xun’s belief.On the one hand,the writer discloses the mental mechanism and historical strategy of how Lu Xun became the national belief,and on the other hand,the writer uncovers the value standard and spiritual guide that the citizens undertook when Lu Xun became the national belief.In identifying various joint forces,the writer points out the essence of constructing Lu Xun’s image and its influences on the belief of the nation.