Quote by Lu Xun: “There was no road before; it is made by those who walk it.”

Progress, freedom, and change don't come with pre-made paths. The people who dare to move forward in uncertain territory — without a clear route — are the ones who create the possibilities that others can follow. Trailblazing is a moral and political act.

Lu Xun published his story Hometown in 1921, during a period of profound national crisis and cultural ferment in China. The May Fourth Movement of 1919 had called for the rejection of traditional Confucian values and the embrace of science and democracy, and Lu Xun's fiction relentlessly examined how tradition trapped Chinese society in patterns of suffering and self-deception.

Chinese writer, essayist, and cultural critic of the early twentieth century, widely regarded as the father of modern Chinese literature. His short story collection Call to Arms, including the landmark story A Madman's Diary, broke from classical Chinese literary forms and confronted Chinese society's deeply embedded hierarchies with brutal clarity. He was a major influence on Chinese intellectual life from the 1920s until his death in 1936.