Four generations under one roof, a history of national pain and anger, shows the lofty spirit and fearless spirit of the ancient nation. A culture can truly show its strengths and weaknesses only at critical moments, and a nation can truly show its strengths and weaknesses only at times of crisis. Lao She, one of China's 100 classic works, is known as "people's artist". He wrote all kinds of Beijing flavors with his exquisite grasp of the old capital. The history of Sri Lanka has gone away and become a page in history; The former capital has sunk into memory, and now Peiping carries more mottled history. Open a family for four generations, Lao She invites you to breathe the air again. 1944 At the beginning of this year, Lao She began to write the novel "A Family of Four Generations". The book is divided into three parts: confusion, drag out an ignoble existence, famine and millions of words. Based on the activities of Qi Zusun's four generations in Xiaoyangquan Hutong in Beiping, supplemented by the ups and downs of life and death of various characters in Xiaoyangquan Hutong, the novel truly describes the deformed world after the fall of Beiping, vividly describes the tragic experience, spiritual shock and resistance struggle of the broad masses of civilians under the Japanese invaders, and depicts a picture like a huge picture of life, which is a touching masterpiece of realism. Lao She's Four Generations under One roof is not only one of the best novels published in China since the Second World War, but also one of the best novels published in the United States in the same period. -American Saturday Literature Review In the eyes of many western readers, Lao She, the author of Four Generations under One roof, seems to be more able to inherit the "glorious tradition" of Tolstoy, Dickens, Dostoevsky and Balzac than any western and European novelist. -The famous critic Confield's Four Generations under One Family tells the profound disaster of our nation, showing the deep pain of a broken country and the artistic style of "blood and tears can drop on the pen tip". Here, the expression of social thoughts in the years of suffering is true, and the ideological theme of self-destruction is more prominent because of the standard color and lyrical atmosphere of the novel. -China literature history "four generations under one roof" is the best and most satisfactory work of Lao She. The grand epic composed of trilogy is as rich in connotation as A Dream of Red Mansions. The face of all beings in the war and the declining ancient capital Peiping are vividly reproduced in this work. -"Lao She and Four Generations Living under One roof" Rational criticism and emotional attachment "Four Generations Living under One roof" is undoubtedly a great achievement of Lao She's novel creation, and its ideological and artistic achievements are mainly attributed to the author's choice of cultural perspective. The novel takes War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression as the background, and makes a critical reflection on the national inferiority caused by family culture in China traditional culture. This rational reflection is accompanied by the author's emotional attachment to family ethics. The author's rational and perceptual aesthetic choice determines his different aesthetic attitudes towards the positive and negative characters in the novel, which on the one hand increases the aesthetic effect of the work, but also brings some artistic limitations. . "Four generations under one roof" takes an ordinary small sheepfold alley in Peiping during the Anti-Japanese War as the specific environment in which the story takes place, and reflects the confused, miserable social mentality of Peiping citizens during the eight-year Anti-Japanese War with the humiliating and tragic experiences of many small people in several families, and reproduces their slow, painful and difficult awakening process when their country is ruined and their family dies. The profound ideological implication of the work shows that the rise and fall of a nation depends not only on its developed economy and advanced weapons, but also on its universal social mentality. Why a big country with thousands of years of splendid civilization was invaded by the Japanese can not but arouse the profound introspection of intellectuals, including the author. Lao She inherited the May 4th tradition of Lu Xun's transformation of soul of china. He pointed out that the ideological root of China people's cowardice, perfunctory and stealing security is the traditional Peiping culture, and the whole Peiping culture is based on family culture. Therefore, Lao She pays attention to China's family culture in his works, and makes a rational examination and criticism of its negative factors. As we all know, "home is an ethical fortress in China." But this fortress contains many contents of family culture, including hierarchy, patriarchal ideology, ethics, customs and habits. Four generations living under one roof is a traditional family ideal of China people, a family model that people have always advocated, and the only capital that Qi old people can boast about to others. He did everything possible to keep his family intact and enjoy the family happiness that others did not have. Therefore, he was dissatisfied with Qi Ruixuan's release of his third child without his permission, disapproved of Ruixuan's expulsion of Ruifeng on the Mid-Autumn Festival, expressed deep anger at his son's suicide because of being insulted by the Japanese, and expressed indignation at his granddaughter's loss of young life because of hunger. He finally stood up and shouted angrily at the Japanese. However, as soon as the Anti-Japanese War ended, he soon forgot himself. Even if I die, you have to live to my age and be your old sect for four generations. "The spiritual burden of family culture is passed down from generation to generation. The works tell us that if we don't change China people's cultural mentality of having more children and more happiness, and break the family ideal of four generations living under one roof, China people, no matter how big and strong they are, will only be meaningless publicity materials and spectators.