"The New Year's Sacrifice" (祝福) is a short story by Lu Xun, was originally published in Oriental Magazine, Volume 21, Number 6 (March 25, 1924), and was later compiled in Lu Xun’s second collection of short stories, Wandering.It is a story of a woman who is exposed to a tragic life that eventually forces her to the external scopes of societal moral standards. The story is a way for motivating social changes. It has distinctive consideration to women's dilemma by taking into account women's liberty concepts. The story, which occurred during the early era of the 1911 revolution, is a religious ceremony that occurs on the impressionable New Year's Day in China. Source: Wikipedia (en)