After reading the book Camel Xiangzi, I learned what kind of life people lived in the chaotic society at that time. This novel takes the life of Beijing citizens in the late 1920s as the background, and takes the bumpy and tragic life experience of rickshaw driver Xiangzi as the main plot, which profoundly exposes the darkness of old China and accuses the ruling class of its deep sympathy for the working people.
The novel mainly tells the suffering story of a foreign coachman, and describes how an upright, strong, decent and self-reliant foreign coachman was destroyed from body to soul in the old society. 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. The suicide of his beloved Joey extinguished the last spark of hope in his heart. He lost any begging and confidence in life, and went from striving to self-indulgence. This tragedy powerfully exposed the crime of turning people into ghosts in the old society. It profoundly reveals the causes of production tragedy. This story reflects the life, fate and experience of the working people in Peiping at that time. Xiangzi was originally a man full of hope for life. He loves life and Peiping, but a series of setbacks make him hate the whole world!
I seem to see the overpass, the Drum Tower and the White Pagoda, which are archways, streets, car factories, painting academies and bustling crowds. This is old Beijing decades ago, but there is no idyllic happiness here, but Xiangzi's big feet keep running across the streets and alleys. Under the scorching sun, there are his difficult figures everywhere in the rain and snow. The whip of soldiers and bandits, Mr. Yang's exploitation, his scolding, the robbery of Detective Sun, and the indifference of foreign doctors, this is a real hell! Finally, Tigress died tragically, Joy hanged herself, the old horse's head fell to death in the street, and Xiangzi finally fell down and disappeared into a city gate hole ... This was the life of the working people at the bottom of Beijing in the 1920s. This vivid description made me realize the insurmountable tragic fate of rickshaw pullers, and let me deeply understand what it was like.
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 whole novel is vivid in language and vigorous in writing, and has created distinctive characters. It is the masterpiece of Mr. Lao She. The sadness in the novel is thought-provoking, and the story is bizarre and touching. Therefore, it is a household name, translated into various languages, spread in many countries, and has a very important influence in the world literary world. What is said in this novel is indeed decades away from us now, and there must be artistic processing, but literature always comes from life, and it is a song in the lives of thousands of people in Qian Qian, Qian Qian. Through it, we can at least know that the society is so dark and the hope is so slim, because it happened in China not long ago, after all, in this age when the rooster is dying.
Now social stability and economic development. As teenagers, there are books to read, and people everywhere protect and encourage them. So we can't live up to the expectations of the new China. At least, we should learn from Xiangzi's enterprising spirit.
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Recently, I read Lao She's masterpiece Camel Xiangzi and felt a lot.
Through the bitter story of an old rickshaw puller, the novel depicts how an upright, competitive, kind and self-reliant foreign rickshaw puller was destroyed from body to soul in the old society. Xiangzi is honest, strong and simple, and has a camel-like positive and tenacious spirit towards life. His only wish is to buy a car to pull and be an independent laborer. Later, he scrimped and saved for three years, traded his hard-earned money for a car, and it was not long before the soldiers took it away. The second time, he saved enough money, but was given away by the hateful detective Sun. The third time, he married Tigress and bought a car with Tigress's money. Life was already good, but Tigress died in childbirth. Xiangzi was heartbroken and had no choice but to sell his car to bury Tigress. After many twists and turns, his wish was finally completely shattered. Happy suicide, his favorite, extinguished the last spark of hope in his heart. It lost any begging and confidence in life and became self-indulgent from its efforts. He became numb, down and out, cunning, taking advantage, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.
This book made me realize how dark and terrible the old society was and the crime of turning people into ghosts. Xiangzi was just an ordinary rickshaw driver in Beijing, who was insignificant in society, but fate still couldn't let him go, tortured him and ruined his dream, and later became a self-indulgent person. Tragedy is always creepy and scary.
People often say that "no pains, no gains". Xiangzi is ambitious, hardworking and thrifty. Why did he finally have nowhere to go? Why do you have to drive him to Liangshan? Is that a society where good people are not allowed to live?
In fact, Xiangzi was just a typical society at that time, and his fate was the fate of all the powerless people in that society at that time We can learn what kind of life people lived in the chaotic society at that time.
Our present society is beautiful and happy. No selfishness, no misfortune, no cruelty? The answer is yes. In today's society, many people have made progress and many people have regressed. This retrogression means that people's minds become corrupt and ugly. They gamble, prostitute and rob ... and do evil. However, society is always progressive, and we can only punish these people by coercive means.
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The poor people described in Camel Xiangzi are a group of slaves who have been exploited in society for nothing. They used to climb hard and struggle hard, but because of their unfortunate fate and decadent system, their efforts again and again went down the drain. There is no way and no hope. Their hearts are dying slowly, and their bodies are rotting in decadent morality. Xiangzi is a typical working people. He came to Peiping alone, without friends, but he was strong and strong, relying on his strong body, pulling a cart to earn money and buying a car. I am bent on doing what I can. But he bought a car several times and lost it several times. Either he was robbed or blackmailed, or he had to sell it because of his livelihood. Xiangzi has great strength, but he is bullied everywhere. Others are not fighting with him, but oppressing him with guns, money, power and tragic fate. He suffered physically and mentally, but no one came to comfort him. His wife, Tigress, married Xiangzi by trickery. Although she brought him some property, she was lazy and prevented Xiangzi from making money, so that Xiangzi's life was even worse than before he got married. Although he is his wife, he doesn't know how to get along, which makes Xiangzi unhappy at all. Soon, Tigress died in childbirth. Joy, the neighbor's daughter, was willing to marry Xiangzi. Xiangzi had no money, so she made an appointment to wait until Xiangzi earned enough money to marry her. So Xiangzi went out to pull a cart. By this time, he had suffered a lot, and all other hopes were dashed, but he still had a ray of hope-joy. He knows that Joy is a woman who is really kind to him and can live a good life together. Now he is pulling a rickshaw, relying on this glimmer of hope. If this dream can come true, then this novel will be a comedy. However, when Xiangzi finally returned to Joy's house, it was deserted. Joy's father sold her to the White House (brothel) because of her poor livelihood. However, even if she became a prostitute, Xiangzi would marry her. But when Xiangzi came, Joy had hanged herself because she couldn't stand the life of a prostitute. Xiangzi's heart was broken and his heart died, because all hopes were dashed. Xiangzi also wasted his youth in these years of torture, so he didn't make progress and gradually became a ruthless street thug.
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. Perhaps because of the extreme darkness of society, perhaps because of personal factors. Man is a thoughtful animal and should have his own ideals and goals. But it varies from person to person and from society to society. If you always fail to realize your ideals, you may become a "Xiangzi", degenerate, decline and hate life. After all, how many people can persist for a lifetime? Pursuit itself is a constantly changing process, however, this process will be very complicated and people will easily lose themselves. If you lose yourself, you will lose your way and even degenerate.
Camel Xiangzi's thoughts after reading
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.
Xiangzi is an ordinary coachman with a distinctive personality, and he 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.
The novel also describes in detail Xiangzi's efforts to realize his life wishes. As an unconscious individual worker, although he has an urgent need to improve his living conditions, he doesn't know what is the right way to liberate himself. He never thought that everyone should unite and struggle, but stubbornly fantasized about achieving this goal with personal strength and efforts. His life ideal is narrow, and his means of struggle is even more wrong. Cause me to stay away from my friends, lonely and helpless, and even more unable to resist repeated blows. Since "buy your own car? This has become the whole motivation of his struggle, so that his only purpose in life is. Then after he gradually realized that he could not meet such requirements, he lost not only an ideal, but the whole meaning of life, which would inevitably lead to mental breakdown. Blind personal struggle doomed his failure from the beginning, just like the metaphor in the works, as if pulling a rickshaw to cut corners, "strayed into luoquan Hutong, went for a spin, and returned to its original place". This aggravated his misfortune and gave people a heavy sense of suffocation. The end of the novel clearly points out that Xiangzi is "the last ghost of individualism"; Deep regret includes criticism. The whole work accuses the old society of cannibalism, and at the same time declares the bankruptcy of trying to liberate one's own road through personal struggle. This has more profound social significance than ordinary works that expose dark reality. Through the mouth of an old coachman who has experienced vicissitudes of life, the work points out meaningfully: "It is more difficult to work hard alone than to ascend to heaven. What can a person jump? Have you ever seen a grasshopper? 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 relatively simple, there is no further positive expression in the works with specific plots, but it can still be seen that this is a brand-new conclusion drawn by Lao She in exploring the road of liberation of working people, which shows the valuable progress that he did not have in his previous works.
Xiangzi was born in a working people's family in the lower class of the old society, and his family was poor since childhood. He is an ordinary driver in Beijing, tall and strong as a tree, silent and lively. Xiangzi was not afraid of hardship, and at first there was no bad habit that ordinary drivers could forgive but could not imitate. Xiangzi has a positive will to live and a life ideal shared by small producers. Although his ideal is not high: having his own car and being self-reliant. Being able to marry the daughter of a healthy, young and hardworking poor family, he wants to "eat by his ability". However, he was born in that dark world and experienced a series of things, such as the new car he bought was taken away, he married Tigress he didn't love, he sold his car to bury Tigress who died in childbirth, he sold his favorite Joy to a white house and committed suicide, and his hope and confidence in life.
Xiangzi's life and the scenery along the way had a bright and beautiful beginning, but in the end it was a dark and lazy result. Xiangzi tried again and again to create a beautiful and happy life through his own efforts, but failed again and again. He has good faith, unremitting efforts and exciting waiting, but?
No, what will happen if Xiangzi tries harder? What's the use of flowering apples if they don't bear fruit? What's the use of waiting for a caterpillar without the beauty of breaking its cocoon? You failed in the exam, and you have a hard time in the cold window. Who will pity you? Who cares if athletes take part in the Olympic Games and are tired of training?
What life needs most is actually hope, and with hope, there is motivation to move forward; Only with hope can we embark on the road to success. Xiangzi lived in a decadent society. At first, he constantly experienced setbacks, and every time he fell from there, he got up from there. But influenced by the society at that time, Xiangzi finally failed to survive the darkness of society, but if he was born in our society ... he would definitely make a difference. It was the hope and unremitting efforts in Xiangzi's heart that supported him to walk a lot.
We should have firm faith and hard work in our school life now, and learn a spirit from Xiangzi. He can achieve it towards a goal for the ideal he has buried in his heart. We can plant a piece of hope in his heart, but how can we see the rainbow without experiencing wind and rain? We must bravely overcome all difficulties before we can see our hopes sprout, thrive and bear fruit. Although Xiangzi finally fell, our society is different from his, and our conditions are very good. We can make our wishes come true through our own efforts. We can work hard to solve a difficult problem, fall on the road of life, or stand up and move on by our own strength ~
Xiangzi was later robbed of the package of expectations and efforts by the decadent society, and we are fully qualified to keep it well. I believe that as long as we keep these packages in our hearts, we will definitely break through everything and go to a beautiful and happy place!