The 30-year-old memorial hall of Lu Xun (1881-1936), a prominent Chinese writer who died 67 years ago, is being renovated in his hometown of Shaoxing in east China's Zhejiang Province.
The Lu Xun memorial is composed of the literary giant's old residence, the residence of his ancestors, the Sanwei Study, the Baicao Garden, and an exhibition hall.
As all the buildings except the 1,560-square meter exhibition hall were built in the typical Shaoxing architectural style, the hall will be dismantled, and a new one, representing the architecture of the Lu Xun period, will be built to cover nearly 5,000 square meters of land.
The reconstruction project is expected to be completed in October.
Lu was one of China's greatest thinkers and man of letters in the 20th Century. He wrote a number of literary classics including The true story of Ah Q, A Madman's Diary, Kong Yiji and Medicine.
(Xinhua News Agency February 26, 2003)
