The main content of the story before the fall of the rickshaw puller in old Beijing: the bitter and tragic story of the rickshaw puller in old Beijing.
The story happened in the late 1920s.
From the story that Xiangzi tried to get rid of the tragic fate of life through personal struggle, and finally failed or even degenerated, he mercilessly criticized that society-the theme of not letting good people have a way out. After the publication of Camel Xiangzi, it was translated into more than a dozen countries, which had a great influence.
Synopsis: Xiangzi originally lived in the countryside. /kloc-when he was 0/8 years old, he unfortunately lost his parents and a few acres of fertile land, so he went to Beiping City to make a living. He is young and strong, and neither smokes nor gambles. He decided that pulling carts was the most profitable job. After three years of hard work, he finally scraped together enough 100 yuan and bought a new car. He was so excited that he almost cried. Since having this car, his life has become more and more exciting. He fantasizes that if this happens for two years, he can buy another car, one, two ... he can open a factory.
Xiangzi runs boldly every day, and he doesn't think twice when he leaves the car. When the war was turbulent, he went out to pull carts. One day, just to earn more money, he ventured to pull his car to Tsinghua. As a result, on the way to copy the sidewalk, I was caught by a dozen soldiers, worked for the soldiers, and even drove the car to the barracks. His ideal of self-reliance was shattered for the first time. Later, when the army was defeated, Xiangzi went out of the barracks at night and stole three camels left by the army. At dawn, three camels were sold to an old man for $35. From then on, he got a nickname, "Camel Xiangzi". On his way back to the city, Xiangzi suddenly fell ill. Xiangzi came to his senses, entered the city, and went to the original renter and garage.
Si Liu, the owner of Renhe garage, is nearly 70 years old and has only one 37-year-old daughter named Tigress. Tigress looks like a man. Si Liu likes Xiangzi's efforts very much, and Tigress prefers the simplicity and reliability of this fool. Xiangzi gave 30 yuan money to Si Liu for safekeeping, hoping to save enough money to buy a car.
Xiangzi didn't easily forget that his car was robbed. He can't wait to buy a new car at once. To this end, he did not hesitate to grab business with others. Xiangzi stayed at Mr. Yang's house for a month and got angry. He only stayed for four days and then left Yang's home. Xiangzi, full of worries, returned to the garage after 1 1 in the afternoon. He was seduced by Tigress's wine and slept with Tigress. Xiangzi woke up feeling ashamed and a little dangerous. He decided to leave the car factory and make a clean break with Si Liu.
So Xiangzi went to the home of Mr. Cao, the former driver, and Mr. Cao was also very kind to him. One day, Tigress told Xiangzi that she was pregnant. Xiangzi was surprised. Tigress gave him back the thirty dollars saved by Xiangzi and Liu Si, and asked him to celebrate Si Liu's birthday on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, to please the old man, and then tried to get Si Liu to recruit him as a son-in-law.
Xiangzi met an old horse while pulling a cart in the street. He has no money to buy steamed bread for his grandson, so he can't make his grandson hungry. So Xiangzi bought some steamed buns for Lao Ma, who was very grateful to him. The old horse lamented that being a driver all his life is a dead end, and he deserves to die poor. No matter how strong it is, it is useless.
On the night of offering sacrifices to stoves, shopkeepers and others began to offer sacrifices to stoves. At about nine o'clock, Xiangzi took Mr. Cao home from Xicheng, and a detective followed them by bike. Mr. Cao told Xiangzi to pull the car to his good friend Mr. Zuo's house and asked Xiangzi to drive it home to see his wife and young master out. As soon as Xiangzi arrived at Cao Zhai, he was caught by Detective Sun, who was the platoon leader of the mutinous soldiers who had arrested Xiangzi. He cheated Xiangzi out of all his money, and Xiangzi's hope of buying another car was dashed. Soon, Mr. Cao's family left Beiping. The next day Xiangzi had to go back to Renhe garage.
Grandpa Si Liu's birthday is very lively. Because he was unhappy, he scolded Mulberry and poured his dissatisfaction on Xiangzi and Tigress. So Tigress couldn't help being angry and told Si Liu that she was pregnant and that the baby was Xiangzi's. He doesn't want to marry his daughter to Xiangzi. He was afraid that Xiangzi would inherit his property and asked Xiangzi to leave. Tigress didn't buy her father's account, so she rented a house with Xiangzi in a big house and got very close. Xiangzi insisted on going out to pull a rickshaw. Tigress couldn't beat him, so she agreed. Today's "Man and Car Factory" has become "Man and Car Factory". Si Liu sold part of his car and gave the rest to a car owner, so he enjoyed it himself. Tigress gave Xiangzi 100 yuan and bought a second-class car, which was also in the same hospital. Tigress, who is pregnant, doesn't like activities and likes to eat snacks, which leads to the fetus being too big and dying in dystocia. In order to hold a funeral for Tigress, Xiangzi forced to sell the car, and Xiangzi's efforts were all in vain.
Joey, the daughter of neighbor Joel Hadron, expressed her willingness to live with him. Xiangzi really likes Joy, but he is unable to support his family. I had to leave and make a promise. And went to Mr. Cao's house and promised to pull a monthly subscription. Who knows that when I return to the quadrangle, I can't see the joy. Later, I learned that I went to the White House. After the autumn, he wanted all those disgusting people to die, while Xiangzi wanted to live strong, and his life rekindled hope. He found Cao Fu again, and Mr. Cao promised to pay Xiangzi a monthly rent, willing to go with him with joy. Xiangzi felt that there was hope for life again and he came back from the dead. However, there is no joy in the quadrangle. Xiangzi found out that Joy had gone to the White House and went to see her. Who knows that Joy hanged herself because of tossing. So Xiangzi began to degenerate, smoking, playing badly, being lazy, and no longer cherishing cars. It's windy and rainy. He doesn't drive, and his body is a little sore. He has a rest for two or three days. In the eyes of patrolmen, Xiangzi is a "thorn in the side" of the first class.
While pulling a rickshaw, Xiangzi met Si Liu again. Si Liu asked him where Xiangzi's daughter was. Xiangzi said she was dead, and left without telling him where Tigress was buried. Being angry with Si Liu, Xiangzi was relieved again.
All his hopes are dashed, and there is no hope of life any more. If he can't be strong, he can only fall heavily. Xiangzi made money by all kinds of cruel means. Finally, he betrayed Minh Nguyen and became a villain. Xiangzi stopped pulling rickshaws and did everything for money, even betraying Mr. Cao. Xiangzi ate, drank and gambled, and gradually became a degenerate, shameless, numb, down and out, cunning, taking advantage of others and giving up on himself. In Xiangzi's mind, everything is "so", and he can't help taking advantage. Xiangzi became the last ghost of individualism.
The overall framework of content appreciation and overall interpretation-Xiangzi's three ups and downs
Together: I came to Beiping as a rickshaw driver, worked hard for three years, scraped together 100 yuan and bought a new car.
A fall: even people and cars were arrested by the gendarmerie as able-bodied men. The ideal was shattered for the first time.
Second: sell camels, pull carts desperately and save money to buy a new car.
Raul: When it was time to get a monthly salary, Xiangzi's hard-earned money was also taken away by Detective Sun, and his second hope was dashed.
Three times: Tigress bought Xiangzi a car at a low price from her neighbor's second hand, and Xiangzi got another car.
Sanluo: In order to arrange Tigress's funeral, Xiangzi sold the car again.
Xiangzi's trilogy of fate is "strive for progress-unwilling to fail-willing to fall"
Theme of the work
Mainly tells the bitter story of rickshaw pullers in old Beijing. This paper denounces the immoral people who oppress the people, exposes the exploitation and oppression of simple and kind workers in the dark old society, accuses the old society of turning people into ghosts, expresses the author's deep sympathy for the working people, and criticizes selfish and narrow individualism. At the same time, it also reveals that personal struggle is not the theme for the working people to get rid of poverty and change their situation. It also shows that people are animals that change with the environment and are the most vulnerable. The ugliness of human nature is exposed here. Lao She mercilessly criticized this society-it doesn't let good people have a way out.
Summary and central idea of the novel
Camel Xiangzi tells the tragic story of Xiangzi, a rickshaw driver in Beiping, old China. Xiangzi came from the countryside, and the declining countryside made him unable to survive. He came to this city, eager to create a new life with his honest work. He tried all kinds of jobs and finally chose a rickshaw. This career choice shows that although Xiangzi left the land, his way of thinking is still the way of thinking of farmers. He is used to individual labor, and he is also eager to have a car as reliable as land. It is his wish and hope to buy a car and be an independent worker. Even religion and cities seemed to give Xiangzi a chance to realize his wish. Struggled for three years, bought a car, and was robbed in less than half a year. But Xiangzi still refused to give up his car dream. Although he doubted his pursuit and wavered several times, he kept pulling himself together and struggling again. It should be said that Xiangzi's tenacious character and stubborn attitude struggle with life, which constitutes the main plot content of the novel. The end of the struggle ended in Xiangzi's failure, and he finally failed to realize his dream of owning his own car. The realism of this novel lies in that it not only describes Xiangzi's material deprivation caused by the harsh living environment, but also describes Xiangzi's spiritual degeneration after his life ideal was destroyed. "He has no heart. His heart has been taken away." In this way, a hardworking and kind-hearted rural youth was transformed into a walking dead unemployed. The characters sum up Xiangzi-Xiangzi comes from the countryside. He is honest, strong and persistent, like a camel. He has strong self-esteem, bears hardships and stands hard work, and makes a living on his own. But in the end, after three ups and downs, Xiangzi had lost confidence in life. He became numb, down-and-out, cunning, taking advantage, eating, drinking, gambling and giving up on himself. A first-class driver who was once so strong did not struggle out of his tragic fate in the end. Xiangzi is the epitome of the poor working people in the old society, and he reflects the hardships and helplessness of the working people in the old society.
Character change
Xiangzi: (at first) simple and honest, tenacious, self-respecting and hardworking; (finally) numb, down and out, cunning, easy to take advantage of, self-indulgence.
Tigress: She has a heavy mind and a dual personality. On the one hand, she has her own desire to pursue happiness and is sincere to Xiangzi. On the other hand, the consciousness of the exploiter has penetrated into her soul. She wants to control Xiangzi (mentally abnormal) and is the possessor and dominator of the family. The theme of the novel is the social level: it is generally believed that this novel reflects the tragic life of the people at the bottom of the old China city, and Xiangzi's tragedy mainly embodies the connotation of social criticism including national criticism; The level of the relationship between civilization and human nature: the story of moral degeneration and spiritual corrosion caused by the opposition between a simple farmer and modern urban civilization contains thoughts on the relationship between urban civilization disease and human nature. Lao She tried to reveal how the anomie of civilization caused the pollution of human nature in the city, and was deeply worried about the harm that pathological urban civilization brought to human nature. Lao She's works exploring the source of modern civilization were unique in the 1930s.
Novel influence:
Camel Xiangzi occupies an important position in the history of modern literature in China. Most of the new literature after the May 4th Movement is good at describing the lives of intellectuals and peasants, but few works describe the urban poor. The appearance of Lao She broke this situation. With a number of works describing the life of the urban poor, especially the novel Camel Xiangzi, he expanded the expression range of new literature and made special contributions to the development of new literature.
Language scores:
First, Lao She wrote about the bumpy and miserable life of a laborer, a rickshaw puller, based on his living environment, what he saw, heard and met at that time, which made the readers feel deeply and personally. In addition, readers who are also living in ups and downs can feel that someone understands their experiences and knows how to face their misfortunes.
Secondly, Lao She wrote this rickshaw puller truly and nakedly, without any distortion or modification, presenting the exploitation and oppression of laborers in the dark old society of China at that time to the readers completely. This will help government officials who read this book to understand the poor life of workers, thus improving the harm caused to them by the dark old society in China. In addition, readers of other classes can understand the poor life of workers after reading it, thus helping them face various difficulties.
Third, Lao She wrote this book in Beijing vernacular. In this way, the reader class of Camel Xiangzi will be wider. Moreover, those citizens whose Chinese level is not high will not be affected by language barriers and cannot understand what Lao She expressed.
Lao She is an outstanding "master of language art" and has made great contributions to the development of language art in China vernacular literature. Lao She grew up in a miscellaneous courtyard in Beijing. He also likes local operas and folk arts in Beijing. He is very familiar with Beijing dialect, which is a good foundation for his integration into Beijing local spoken language in his creation. He once said: "Some people criticize me, saying that my literature is not bookish, too vulgar, too poor, close to the vulgarity of drivers;" "I'm not ashamed at all!" However, Lao She did not completely use Beijing dialect in his creation, but refined and processed it by himself. It can be said that this kind of language training effort runs through Lao She's life's creation. Camel Xiangzi is a mature work of Lao She's language art. His language not only retains the liveliness of folk spoken language, but also has the simplicity, agility and mellow artistic language. It is known as "nothing is so simple, natural and pure without the paleness of a student's accent, the melodrama of Taiwanese, and the verbosity of Europeanization". This language can be elegant or vulgar. In Camel Xiangzi, Lao She wrote all kinds of people in civil society in this language, which is very interesting in life. Writing about Xiangzi's experience in torrential rain and scorching sun, and writing about the night in Beihai are full of brushwork, scene blending and rich in texture. Xiangzi's Tragedy Xiangzi's tragedy is a social tragedy, and his good wish of "being an independent laborer" was finally shattered, which has its historical inevitability. The mutinous soldiers of the warlords, the detectives of the reactionary government and the extortion of car dealers are all products of the semi-colonial process of China society, and the ultimate deprivation of the right to live is an unavoidable historical fate of the lower-class workers.
Xiangzi's tragedy is also a spiritual tragedy. The novel aims to observe what hell is like from the driver's inner state, and to explore the internal causes of his tragic fate from the character and spiritual weakness of the lower-class workers in the city. First of all, Xiangzi's life ideal and the behavior of realizing this ideal are deeply branded with the thought of individual workers. His self-confidence in personal strength, age and hard-working quality makes it impossible for him to compete with powerful social dark forces by personal struggle. Can only be "the last ghost of individualism." Secondly, Xiangzi's tragic character, kindness, integrity and realistic oppression made him unable to get rid of the shackles of his marriage with Tigress, and his weakness determined that he could not control his own destiny.
Xiangzi's tragedy is deeply rooted in the soil of civic culture. His life ideal is marked by a small producer. He dare not face the reality of blind self-confidence. After all his efforts failed, he gave in to fate and even fell. Deep down, it is precisely because of his cultural foundation. Although Xiangzi entered the city from the countryside, his production and lifestyle, living standards and values are still closely related to the traditional agricultural culture. The traditional virtues, such as kindness, diligence, chivalry and simplicity, as well as the negative factors, such as narrowness, selfishness and ignorance, which were initially shown in him are the products of traditional agricultural culture. The blind self-confidence of not daring to face the reality at first, and then yielding to fate after all efforts failed, is the result of the continuous expansion and deterioration of negative factors in traditional cultural character.
Xiangzi's tragedy is also branded with the modern civilization of a semi-colonial city with abnormal development. The "money worship" and hedonism in this deformed modern urban culture, accompanied by Xiangzi's life course, have been eroding Xiangzi's soul.
Through the description of Xiangzi's tragedy, Lao She completed his dual cultural criticism: he not only examined traditional culture with modern rationality, but also criticized the disadvantages of urban modern culture with the positive value standpoint of traditional culture. In this way, Xiangzi's tragic image is brought into the overall cultural critical vision of Lao She's novels.
The car that Xiangzi had worked so hard to buy for several years was robbed and injured, which profoundly exposed the darkness of society at that time.
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1. Lao She-a great people's artist, a literary giant that future generations will always admire and an eternal monument. He created many classic works in his life, such as the novel Divorce and Lao Zhang's Philosophy. Dramas Longxugou, Teahouse, Chunhua Qiushi; Collection of short stories such as Train Collection and Sakura Sea Collection. But the most famous work is Camel Xiangzi.
The novel "Camel Xiangzi" takes Beijing residents' life in the late 1920s as the background and rickshaw driver Xiangzi's bumpy and miserable life experience as the main plot, which profoundly exposes the darkness of old China and accuses the ruling class of its oppression of the working people. Xiangzi was a young coachman in Beijing in the 1930s. He is kind and upright. His ideal is to drive and own his own car. So, he scrimped and saved, and got up early to get greedy. Three years later, he finally got his wish, but that was during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. Beiping was in chaos, Xiangzi was taken to odd jobs in a muddle, and what was more painful was that his sustenance and car were also taken away. After going through all the hardships, I escaped and returned to Renhe Factory to continue pulling carts. But the pain is not over yet: Tigress, the daughter of factory owner Si Liu, took a fancy to Xiangzi and seduced him. Xiangzi was cheated and had to marry Tigress. Soon Tigress died in childbirth. After Tigress died, she promised to live with him again, but when Xiangzi found a stable job and went to find Joy, she realized that Joy had entered the "White House" and hanged herself.
Since then, Xiangzi has fallen, and his former kindness and integrity have disappeared. He hates anyone. He stopped pulling carts and got into the bad habit of eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. He can betray his friends for money and become a walking corpse completely.
Xiangzi's tragedy is caused by his social life environment. The novel truly shows the life of that dark society, and shows the ugly faces of warlords, spies and car factory owners. But for their persecution, Xiangzi would not have changed from hopeful to depraved. A person who used to be diligent and patient and had his own goals turned out to be social garbage-isn't this a sad life? Maybe this is reality, cruelty, sadness and helplessness.
Ideal and reality are always full of contradictions, often irreconcilable, but exist at the same time. Society is realistic, it will not change because of one's ideal, nor will it be perfect. I pity Xiangzi, a camel. I feel very sorry and helpless, but I also admire him. I admire his previous strength and his progress. However, he failed to defeat himself and society, and was defeated after all.
Although this is only a novel, it reflects the cowardice of human nature. After all, few people can persist for a lifetime, but we can gradually change in the process of pursuit. After all, what will happen tomorrow? We don't know, but we can grasp today.
Camel Xiangzi truly depicts the tragic fate of a rickshaw puller in Beijing. Xiangzi came from the countryside and worked hard to make money. He worked hard for three years and traded his sweat for a rickshaw. But before long, the mutinous soldiers of the warlord took his car away; Then the detective of the reactionary government cheated him of his only savings, and the protagonist lost his relatively stable job because he avoided the spy's tracking. Faced with this blow again and again, he struggled and still stubbornly tried to realize his dream life wish with greater efforts. But everything was in vain: I bought a car with Tigress's savings and soon had to sell it to arrange Tigress's funeral. His wish was finally completely dashed. His favorite happy suicide blew out the last spark of hope in his heart, and he lost any desire and confidence in life. He changed from ambition to self-indulgence: Xiangzi, who had been upright and kind, was crushed by the millstone of life.
Xiangzi is kind and simple, loves labor, and has a camel-like positive and tenacious spirit towards life. He has always been very strong and struggling. He is unwilling to listen to Gao Ma's words to lend usury, to covet 60 cars in Si Liu, and to listen to Tigress's words to do small business, all of which show that he thinks that "you can have everything if you have your own car" and doesn't want to climb up. What he dreams of is to seek an independent life by his own labor. The work describes that after Cao Zhai knocked away his hard-earned money, the detective was most concerned about Mr. Cao's entrustment, because Mr. Cao was a good man in his view; He also described his concern for the grandparents of the old horse and pony, showing his kindness and integrity. The reason why his tragedy can arouse readers' strong sympathy is that besides his social status and unfair experience, these personality characteristics have also played an indelible role. Hard-working and strong people like this have finally become first-class "thorns" and embarked on the road of depravity, which clearly exposed the sin of unreasonable society corrupting people's hearts. The work writes: "The laziness of the bitter people is the natural result of hard work and failure, and the tricks of the bitter people contain some axioms." He added, "Man has improved himself from wild animals, but so far, he has driven his own kind into wild animals. Xiangzi is still in the city of culture, but he has become an animal. It's not his own fault at all. " It is from this understanding that Lao She wrote this tragedy with deep sympathy for those who were insulted and damaged. This makes this work have the power of angry accusation and strong critical spirit, which is deeply branded in the readers' hearts.
The novel also describes in detail Xiangzi's efforts to realize his life wishes. As an unconscious self-employed, have you ever seen a grasshopper, despite the urgent need to improve your living conditions? I jump far by myself, but I can't even fly if I am caught by a child and tied with a thread. Fight into a ball, fight into a formation, hum, and eat up the crops in the whole area in a moment. No one can cure it! "Although this formulation is still very vague, and there is no further specific plot in the works, it can still be seen that this is a brand-new conclusion drawn by Lao She's exploration of the road of liberation of working people, which shows the valuable progress that he did not have in his past works.
3. In the late 1920s, Peiping, war, oppression, money, rickshaw pullers. ...
These words add up to two words-Xiangzi. Xiangzi camel.
Xiangzi, a young farmer from the countryside, abandoned his empty home except himself and came to the city, scrimping and saving every day, desperately pulling the rented car day and night, just to save money to buy a car of his own. Three years have passed through Xiangzi's efforts. He has his own car, so he can't be angry with the owner. He can pull as he wants! The happy days did not last long. Beiping was in danger during the war. Xiangzi, a rickshaw puller, was inexplicably arrested by the warlords. Xiangzi can endure all these hardships. What makes him most miserable and angry is that the only sustenance in his life-the new car he bought with three years of hard work and sweat-was robbed. Xiangzi went through all kinds of hardships and fled back to Beiping. In the "Renhe Car Factory", he was filled with sorrow and continued to pull rickshaws. After a lot of hardships, when he finally found a relatively stable job of pulling a moon cart in a peaceful and kind family, he lost his stable job because his employer was targeted by spies and was drained of his savings by detectives of the reactionary government in the name of "buying a life". Faced with one heavy blow after another, he still held his head high proudly. He is a youthful, tall and strong Xiangzi! How can you be knocked down by difficulties so easily? He refused to give in. He will use his own strength, blood and sweat to earn food for himself and his wife Tigress! Tigress bought a car for Xiangzi at a low price. Xiangzi thought he had gone back to the past and had to sell it again because of Tigress's funeral.
Xiangzi is a kind and upright man, strong and willing to struggle. He didn't want to listen to Gao Ma's advice to loan sharks and covet 60 cars owned by farm owner Si Liu, and he didn't want to listen to Tigress's advice to do small business, because he thought that "if you have your own car, you will have everything". What he dreams of is to seek an independent life by his own labor. He doesn't drink or smoke, and he doesn't have any bad habits, but God still has no mercy on this poor honest man. Numerous blows and setbacks finally shattered Xiangzi's iron spirit. He stopped pulling carts so hard, drinking and smoking, and Xiangzi, who had been kind and upright, disappeared. He only learned to eat, drink and gamble and sell his friends' walking corpses for money. But as written in the work: "The laziness of the bitter people is the natural result of hard work, and there is some axiom in the thorns of the bitter people." Xiangzi's fall was not Xiangzi's fault, but the foul atmosphere of the whole society made Xiangzi, who was originally kind and upright, qualitative.
Xiangzi is a tragedy. He used up all his strength and all his pain, but he still came back empty-handed. If Xiangzi had lived in our time, he might not have become such a diaosi. Because he is so strong, so kind and so upright, he can put everything down for his own ideal! We should also learn from Xiangzi's spirit of "difficulty in eating". Although we may not be "masters", we can have a clear conscience as long as we work hard.
Xiangzi is an ordinary coachman with a distinctive personality, who has many good qualities of working people. He is kind and simple, loves labor, and has a camel-like positive and tenacious spirit towards life. At ordinary times, he seems to be able to tolerate all grievances, but he also has the need to resist in sex. His angry resignation in Yangzhai and his revenge on Si Liu, the owner of the car factory, can illustrate this point. He has always been strong and struggling, which is also a manifestation of his unease about his humble social status. He doesn't want to listen to Gao Ma's advice to loan sharks, covet 60 cars in Si Liu, and do small business according to Tigress's advice. All these show that he thinks that "owning his own car means everything" and he doesn't want to climb up and buy a car as the owner to exploit others. What he dreams of is to seek an independent life by his own labor. This is the humble but legitimate life wish of individual workers. The work describes that after Cao Zhai knocked away his hard-earned money, the detective was most concerned about Mr. Cao's entrustment, because Mr. Cao was a good man in his view; He also described his concern for the grandparents of the old horse and pony, showing his kindness and integrity. The reason why his tragedy can arouse readers' strong sympathy is that besides his social status and unfair experience, these personality characteristics have also played an indelible role. Hard-working and strong people like this have finally become first-class "thorns" and embarked on the road of depravity, which clearly exposed the sin of unreasonable society corrupting people's hearts. The work writes: "The laziness of the bitter people is the natural result of hard work and failure, and the tricks of the bitter people contain some axioms." He added, "Man has improved himself from wild animals, but so far, he has driven his own kind into wild animals. Xiangzi is still in the city of culture, but he has become an animal. It's not his own fault at all. " It is from this understanding that Lao She wrote this tragedy with deep sympathy for those who were insulted and damaged. This makes this work have the power of angry accusation and strong critical spirit, which is deeply branded in the readers' hearts.
After reading the book Camel Xiangzi, I learned what kind of life people lived in the chaotic society at that time. Based on the life of Beijing citizens in the late 1920s, this novel takes the bumpy and tragic life experience of rickshaw driver Xiangzi as the main plot, profoundly exposes the darkness of old China, accuses the ruling class and deeply sympathizes with the working people. Classic books are worth recommending. Highlight: The greatest sorrow of the poor is not poverty, but hopelessness. Being diligent and busy every day is not fruitful, but cheating; What you see is not respect, but contempt. Life is just a mechanical repetition, with no tomorrow and no hope. Although that era is so far away from us, we feel so familiar with it that our concepts of prosperous times and troubled times are so vague.
Camel Xiangzi truly depicts the tragic fate of a rickshaw puller in Beijing. Xiangzi is from the countryside. After pulling the rented rickshaw, he decided to buy a rickshaw to pull it himself and become an independent worker. He is light and strong, just like the golden age of life; And work hard and do not hesitate to use all your strength to achieve this goal. Encouraged and supported by strong confidence, after three years of hard work, he exchanged his blood and sweat for a foreign car. But before long, the mutinous soldiers of the warlord took his car away; Then the detective of the reactionary government cheated him of his only savings, and the owner escaped the spy's tracking, which made him lose a relatively stable job; Tigress's inevitable "love" for him brought him physical and mental suffering. Faced with one blow after another, he struggled and still stubbornly wanted to make greater efforts to realize his life dream. But everything was in vain: I bought a car with Tigress's savings and soon had to sell it to arrange Tigress's funeral. His wish is "like a ghost, he will never be able to grasp it firmly, but he will suffer those hardships and grievances"; After many twists and turns, it was finally completely shattered. His favorite happy suicide blew out the last spark of hope in his heart, and he lost any desire and confidence in life. He changed from ambition to self-indulgence: Xiangzi, who had been upright and kind, was crushed by the millstone of life. This tragedy powerfully exposed the crime of turning people into ghosts in the old society.