Xiangzi is an ordinary coachman with a distinctive personality. He has many fine qualities of working people. He is kind and simple, loves labor, and has a camel-like positive and tenacious spirit towards life. Usually he seems to be able to tolerate all dissatisfaction, but there is also a need to resist in his gender. His angry resignation in Yangzhai and his revenge on Si Liu, the owner of the automobile factory, can illustrate this point. He has always been strong and struggling, which is also a manifestation of his uneasiness about his humble social status. He doesn't want to listen to Gao Ma's words to loan sharks, covet 60 cars in Si Liu, and do small business according to Tigress's words. All this shows 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 a humble but reasonable life wish of individual workers. Description of the work, after the detective knocked away his hard-earned money in Cao Zhai, he was most concerned about Mr. Cao's entrustment, because Mr. Cao was a good man in his view; He also described his concern for grandparents and grandchildren of old horses and ponies, showing his kindness and integrity. Apart from his social status and unfair experience, his tragedy can arouse readers' strong sympathy, and these personality characteristics also play an indelible role. Hard-working and strong people like this have finally become first-class "thorns" and embarked on the road of depravity, which obviously exposed the evil of unreasonable society corrupting people's hearts. The work wrote: "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. This is 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 imprinted 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. This novel takes the life of Beijing citizens in the late 1920s as the background and the bumpy and tragic life experience of rickshaw puller 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 honest, competitive, 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 his own car, pull it by himself 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 soon I had to sell it to arrange Tigress's funeral. After many setbacks, 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 turned 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. 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 fields 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 was finally down and out, and gradually 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. Through the description of 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 their ruling network on Xiangzi's oppression and oppressed relationship.
The language of the whole novel is vivid, and the writing is vigorous and powerful, which shapes the characters with distinct personality. 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 and 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, and there must be artistic processing, but literature always comes from life. It is a song in the lives of thousands of people in Qian Qian. Through it, we can at least know that the society at that time was so dark and the hope was so slim, because it happened in China not long ago after all, in this era when the rooster was about to die.
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 spirit of hard work and progress.
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 his own car to pull and be an independent laborer. Later, after three years of scrimping and saving, he traded his hard-earned money for a car, but it was not long before the soldiers took it away. The second time, he saved enough money, but was betrayed 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 to sell his car to bury Tigress. After many setbacks, his wish was finally completely shattered. His favorite happy suicide extinguished his last hope. It lost any begging and confidence in life, and became self-indulgent from hard work and progress. 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, ruined his dream, and later became a self-indulgent person. Tragedy is always creepy and scary.
People often say "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 only a typical society at that time, and his fate was also the fate of all the powerless people in that society at that time. We can understand what kind of life people lived in the chaotic society at that time.
Our present society is beautiful and happy. No selfishness, misfortune and 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 all kinds of evil. However, society is always progressive, and we can only use coercive measures to sanction these people.
6 After reading Camel Xiangzi
"All men are created equal, and the Creator endowed them with certain inalienable rights, including the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
This is part of the American Declaration of Independence. It tells us that everyone has his own rights, and everyone can have freedom and happiness. It tells us a simple truth-everyone has dignity!
Xiangzi written by Lao She, a literary master, is unfortunate: he has all the conditions for a happy life, but he was born in the wrong era.
Xiangzi is honest, strong, determined, hardworking like a camel, longing for a better life and full of longing for the future. He has a strong self-esteem and makes a living on his own. His biggest dream is to own his own car so as not to be exploited by the owner of the trolley factory. However, his hopes were dashed again and again, and his struggle with fate ended in fiasco.
For the first time, he went through the wind and rain, saved money for meals and tea for three years, and finally bought a car, but it was quickly taken away by soldiers. The second time, before buying a car, the money was blackmailed by Detective Sun. The third time he married Tigress, he bought it with Tigress's money. Although he is very upset, he doesn't have to rent a car in the garage after all. But it didn't last long. Tigress died in childbirth, so Xiangzi had to sell the car to bury Tigress.
At the end of the story, Xiangzi became a self-destructive walking corpse.
It was through the change of Xiangzi that Lao She mercilessly criticized this society-it didn't let good people have a way out.
Saint Amethyst in the Southern Song Dynasty has a proverb, "People are born good", which shows that people are innocent when they are born, but their temperament has changed greatly because of their contact with society. To put it mildly, it is to keep pace with the times; to put it bluntly, it is to walk with the world.
There is nothing wrong with people themselves. What is wrong is that his time forced him to succumb to secular arrogance. Everyone is born equal, everyone has personality and freedom, no one should not exist, and no one is specially cared for by God.
Now that you have come, you have the right to live in this world. Even if you only have a shabby shirt to cover up your shame, you can enjoy fresh air and enjoy the happiness of life like the richest man in the world. Even if you are illiterate, you can bathe in the warm sunshine and accept generous gifts from the light with a clear conscience, just like the most outstanding politician in history. Even if your body is defective, you can show another flavor on the stage of life, feel the fragrance of flowers and receive endless applause and cheers after the program, just like the artist who dances best and sings sweetest.
This is a world that can't stay too long, so we should bloom like summer flowers and give ourselves a season without regrets!
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