The recurrent depiction of widowed-mother images is a significant phenomenon in Lu Xun’s creations and serves as an entry point into his spiritual world. Lu Xun’s ideological resources stem from the collective unconscious, Chinese classical literature, the May Fourth New Literature, and his personal experiences, among others.?The widowed mothers portrayed in Lu Xun’s works embody the contradictory attributes of mother archetype—both loving and formidable, but also incorporating his reflections on the living conditions of widowed mothers in reality. They reside at the bottom of society, facing immense survival pressures and moral dilemmas of chastity. In fact, Lu Xun himself, to a large extent, approached youth with the mindset of a widowed mother raising an orphan, manifested in the idealistic tendencies of his early views on youth, his self-imposed sense of “guilt”, and the seemingly “decadent” yet still strongly maternally supported perspective on youth in his later years. Through an intertextual understanding of the widowed mother figures in Lu Xun’s literary texts and his personal widowed-mother mentality, we can supplement the conventional image of Lu Xun as a “father” figure with an equally important dimension of him as a “mother”.