Abstract:Beixing Press paid Lu Xun royalty from January,1924 to October,1936,totaling 154 months. Lu Xun received a total royalty of ¥55 557.334 at the average of ¥360.762 each month. According to the statistics of the academic circles, Lu Xun’s salary amounted to about ¥124 511.995 in his whole life, and the royalty paid by Beixing Press covered 44 percent of it, which was really a surprising ratio. Beixing Press paid royalty to Lu Xun at the standard of 20 percent at least, while the royalty standard of Commercial Press to celebrities including Liang Qichao was about 20 percent of a single book, or 10 percent of the collected works. Compared with this, the royalty standard of Beixing Press to Lu Xun was fairly high at the time.