Abstract:Lu Xun created five historical novels in Left League period, and they were included in his third anthology of stories which named Old Tales Retold. Lu Xun showed the modern sense in his Chinese theme historical fictions, and deepened his thought of modern enlightenment in early stage. More importantly, his novels presented the conflict and tension between tradition and modernity as well as the integration and undertaking of enlightenment and revolution, which made his works always stand in the center of the conflict between tradition and modernity and interaction between enlightenment and revolution, and bear the pain and price of Chinese modernization to the utmost degree.