Camel Xiangzi reveals the miserable fate of the people at the bottom of semi-colonial and semi-feudal China society through the story of the rickshaw driver Xiangzi's ups and downs in his life. Xiangzi's experience proved that it was impossible for the working people in the semi-colonial and semi-feudal era to change their situation through their own hard work and personal struggle.
The novel depicts many little people like Xiangzi. Some of those little people had to live alone because of the separation of their families caused by the war, some were overwhelmed by their families, and some sold their bodies to support their brothers. The tragedy of the working masses at the bottom of society is the tragedy of a whole era, and everyone in it can't escape the same fate as Xiangzi in the end, unless they recognize their present situation clearly and unite to overthrow the cannibal society and system.
Xiangzi's life reflects the downfall of bankrupt farmers in China in the 192s in the process of "citizenization", so Xiangzi's tragedy is not only his personal tragedy, but also contains more profound cultural and times factors. The author analyzes Xiangzi's fate with concern for the way out of the nation and culture, criticizes the negative effects of modern deformed civilization from the positive factors of traditional civilization, laments the decline of traditional virtues, and is dissatisfied with the inferiority of national culture accumulated in Xiangzi, cursing the dark society and system that "turned people into ghosts" and lamenting the degradation of ignorant and ignorant good people in the morbid old society.