Abstract: “Research on commemoration of Lu Xun” is a subject of agreed importance. One cannot talk about the massive “commemorating community of Lu Xun” without encountering the leftist writers, one of whom was Ai Wu who, after the death of Lu Xun, engaged in continuous commemoration of and research on Lu Xun. His research concerned two major aspects1) praising Lu Xun's fighting spirit and love for mankind like most other commemorating comrades; and 2) studying Lu Xun's novel writing and combining it with his own exploration on novel writing and thus enhancing his own novel writing skills while enlarging the reading population of Lu Xun's works. Furthermore, knowledge of the difficulties of Ai Wu in commemorating Lu Xun will arguably help us understand the difficult lives of intellectuals commemorating Lu Xun year after year since the 1930s.

Key words: Ai Wu, commemoration of Lu Xun, enthusiasm of commemoration, difficult life