Abstract: This article aims to find the changes of Lu Xun’s influence on social culture through investigating and analyzing the publication and the library circulation of Lu xun’s books and books about Lu Xun in the 1980’s, 1990’s and the first decade of the new century.The analyzing is based on the number of books published, and library collections and their circulations.The conclusion is: The publication and library collections come to the highest in the new century, then followed by 1980’s and 1990’s.The proportion of the annual amount of Lu xun’s books borrowed and the number of students in school are the highest in the 1980’ s, and followed by the first decade of new century, declined in the 1990’s.The proportion of the annual amount of books about Lu Xun borrowed in the annual amount of all humanities books come to the highest, and maintained a stable level in the 1990’s and in the first decade of the new century.There are some changes of the social cultural context behind them.The amount of publication, collection and circulation of books about Lu Xun reached their peak in the humanity trend in 1980’s.The humanity trend no longer existed in 1990’s, and the publishing industry had not yet flourished.In the new century, publishing industry has its prosperity, readers have more reading diversification, so the circulations of books related to Lu Xun declined.