Camel Xiangzi reading card

About the author: Lao She (1899 February 3 ~1966 August 24), formerly known as Shu Qingchun, was born in Xiaoyangquan Hutong (now Xiaoyangjia Hutong) in the west of Beijing on February 3, 1999, a poor Manchu family. Modern famous writers and outstanding language masters are known as "people's artists". Manchu Zhenghongqi, a Beijinger, whose father was Manchu Guard, was killed in the street fighting when Eight-Nation Alliance attacked Beijing. The pseudonym Lao She was first used in the novel Lao Zhang's Philosophy. Other pen names include She Yu, Qian Qing, Yu Qian, Fei Wo and Hongse.

Nationality: China.

Main plot: 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. Buy a car and be an independent worker. "This is his wish, hope and even religion." The city seems to have given 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 realistic profundity of this novel lies in that it not only describes Xiangzi's material life deprived by the harsh living environment, but also describes Xiangzi's spiritual degeneration after his life ideal is 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.

Main content: ditto (supplement: Xiangzi's tragedy is the product of his social life environment. By describing the characters and interpersonal relationships around Xiangzi, the novel truly shows the life of that dark society, the ugly faces of warlords, spies and car factory owners, and the distorted reflection of the oppression and oppressed relationship of Xiangzi by their ruling network. )

The protagonist: Xiangzi, a once strong first-class driver, 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.

Tigress, a shrewish and calculating middle-aged woman, is born with a man's character. She is good at taking care of things and keeping people and garages in order.

Grandpa Si Liu, the Paoge in the old society, opened a garage after improvement. As an honest and frank person, he has a strong personality and never refuses to lose face in the outfield.

Teacher Cao, an ordinary teacher, loves traditional art and is regarded as a "saint" by Xiangzi because he believes in socialism and is tolerant of people.

Gao Ma is a kind and strong old lady who is ready to help others. She experienced misfortune and learned the lowest methods of the old society. He has his own ideas and often enlightens Xiangzi. He is the man Xiangzi admired.

Pony's grandfather, a driver who has worked hard all his life, can't even save his grandson in the end.

Joy, a kind and sad character, left us only deep sympathy and infinite thinking.

Er, Hadron-a driver who gives up on himself.

Feeling: Through the painful history of a foreign coachman, it depicts how the old society destroyed an upright, strong, decent and self-reliant foreign coachman from body to soul. Xiangzi is kind and simple, and has a camel-like positive and tenacious spirit towards life. His only wish is to buy a car and work independently. Later, after three years of hard work, he bought a brand-new foreign car with his hard-earned money, but it didn't take long for the soldiers to take it away, and then the detective of the reactionary government cheated him out of all his savings. Tigress's inevitable "love" for him brought him physical and mental pain. I bought a car with Tigress's money, and it will be sold soon to arrange Tigress's funeral. After many twists and turns, his wish was finally completely shattered. His favorite happy suicide extinguished the last spark of hope in his heart. He lost any begging and confidence in life and went from hard work to being willing to fall. This tragedy powerfully exposed the crime of turning people into ghosts in the old society. It profoundly reveals the causes of production tragedy.