Camel Xiangzi tells the tragic story of Xiangzi, a rickshaw driver in Beiping, old China. Xiangzi came from the countryside to make a living in the city, and finally chose to pull rickshaws. Buy a car and be an independent worker. "This is his wish and hope." 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 dream of a car, and kept up his spirits and fought again. The end of the struggle ended in Xiangzi's failure.

The theme of the extended material Camel Xiangzi is that the sufferings and destinies of the working people at the bottom of semi-colonial and semi-feudal China society are the same.

In old China, the warlord forces fought for profits, causing wars, and people's lives were hard, especially working people like Xiangzi, who were at the bottom of society. The dark and corrupt social reality is the root of Xiangzi's tragic fate.

Camel Xiangzi reveals the tragic fate of the bottom people in semi-colonial and semi-feudal China society through the life story of the rickshaw driver Xiangzi who finally fell down. Xiangzi's experience proved that the working people in the semi-colonial and semi-feudal era could not change their situation through their own hard work and personal struggle.

The novel depicts many small people like Xiangzi. Some of those little people had to live alone because of the family separation caused by the war, some were crushed by their families, and some sold their bodies to support their brothers. The tragedy of the working people at the bottom of society is a tragedy of the whole era. Everyone in it will eventually escape the same fate as Xiangzi, unless they recognize their present situation and unite to overthrow the cannibal society and system.

Xiangzi's life reflects the collapse of bankrupt farmers in China in the 1920s in the process of "citizenization", so Xiangzi's tragedy is not only his personal tragedy, but also contains more profound cultural and times factors.

The author analyzed Xiangzi's fate with concern about the national and cultural outlet, criticized the negative effects of modern deformed civilization from the positive factors of traditional civilization, lamented the decline of traditional virtues, dissatisfied with the inferiority of national culture accumulated in Xiangzi, cursed the dark society and system that "turned people into ghosts" and lamented the degradation of ignorant good people in the morbid old society.

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