"Camel Xiangzi" tells the tragic story of Xiangzi, a rickshaw driver in the old city of Beiping, China. Xiangzi came from the countryside, and the increasingly declining and declining countryside made it impossible for him to survive. He came to the city, eager to create a new life with his honest labor. He tried various jobs and finally settled on pulling a rickshaw. This career choice shows that although Xiangzi has left the land, his way of thinking is still that of a farmer. He is used to individual work, but at the same time he longs for a car as reliable as the land. Buying a car and being an independent worker, "This is his wish, hope, and even religion." The city seemed to have given Xiangzi the opportunity to realize his wish. After three years of struggle, he bought a car, but in less than half a year, But Xiangzi still refused to give up his dream of owning his own car. Although he had doubts about his pursuit and wavered several times, he still kept picking himself up and struggled again. It should be said that Xiangzi fights against life with his tough character and stubborn attitude, which constitutes the main plot content of the novel. The end of the struggle ended with Xiangzi's failure. He finally failed to realize his dream of owning his own car. The profound realism of this novel lies in the fact that it not only describes the material deprivation of Xiangzi by the harsh living environment, but also depicts Xiangzi's spiritual degradation after his ideal of life is destroyed. "He has no heart, his heart has been taken away by others." In this way, a hard-working and kind-hearted rural youth was transformed into a jobless vagrant like a walking corpse.
Xiangzi’s tragedy is the product of the social living environment in which he lives. Through the description of the characters and interpersonal relationships around Xiangzi, the novel truly shows the life in that dark society, showing the ugly faces of warlords, spies, and car factory owners, as well as the oppression and oppression of Xiangzi by the web of rule woven by them. A deformed reflection of oppressed relations. The novel does not avoid the instinctive desire and a little bit of mutual attachment between Xiangzi and Huniu, but at the same time it also profoundly describes that even such a relationship between a man and a woman is also based on the relationship of financial interests, so Huniu Always keep money in your own hands, "The money is in your own hands, and the power is in you." The combination of Huniu and Xiangzi undoubtedly exacerbated Xiangzi's tragedy.
"The Look of a Camel" is a masterpiece written by the famous modern Chinese writer Lao She from 1899 to 1966. Lao She, whose original name was Shu Qingchun, was given the courtesy name Sheyu. Manchu people. He was born in a poor family in Beijing and grew up in the living environment of Beijing's lower class citizens. In 1924, Lao She went to Britain to work as a Chinese teacher in Xiangtian, where he worked until 1929. There, he read a large number of Western European literary masterpieces and began writing novels. The early works, such as "Lao Zhang's Philosophy", "Zhao Ziyue", "Two Horses", etc., contain irony in their humor, which is quite close to the writing style of the British writer Dickens, but the exaggeration is sometimes a little too much, almost falling into the glib . However, for Lao Hui, his early creations were indispensable for practicing his pen. In the 1930s, his creations gradually matured, and he finally launched his highlight play "Camel Xiangzi" in 1936.
"Camel Xiangzi" plays an important role in the history of modern Chinese literature. The new literature after the May Fourth Movement was mostly good at describing the lives of intellectuals and farmers, but there were very few works describing the urban poor. The emergence of Lao She broke this situation. With a number of works on the life of urban poor, especially the novel "Camel Xiangzi", he expanded the scope of expression of new literature and made special contributions to the development of new literature.