1. Hu Niu looks ugly on the outside, but she is actually kind on the inside.

Readers who read "Camel Xiangzi" may have the first impression of Huniu with the word "ugly". Indeed, Mr. Lao She's description of the image of Huniu could not be more vivid.

He named this character "Tiger Girl", which represents his basic view of this woman: brutal, vulgar, domineering, and selfish. The description of the characters also fully reflects this "tiger" nature, "tiger head and tiger brain", "like a human being, but also like some ferocious beast".

Because of this appearance, in the patriarchal era when Mr. Lao She lived, men kept away from her, but the author believes that this is not her fault, because the appearance is innate .

In addition, Huniu was affected by her living environment and had not been influenced by feudal ethics since she was a child. Therefore, everything she said and did came from her unpolished nature. She was bold and aggressive, and even cursed people. There are more tricks than men."

She was tainted with the indolent, scheming, uneducated, vulgar and cunning traits passed down to her from her exploiting class family, and she was very cruel to the lathe workers. She is very philistine and never forgets to show her sense of superiority and her class nature of being rich and unkind. All the above made her have a deep "ugly" mark in people's minds.

2. Huniu is very capable and helps her father keep the car factory in order

Although Huniu is ugly, this is an indisputable fact, but when the author looks at it from a female perspective, When exploring Hu Niu's spiritual world, it is not difficult to find that there are many beautiful things under her ugly appearance. First of all, she is very capable and good at business and financial management. She is "a good helper in helping her father" and "manages people and the car factory like an iron tube." So much so that he has become the "authority in the foreign car industry". I think this kind of competence and housekeeping is a kind of beauty.

In addition, like ordinary girls, she also longs for a normal family and a normal married life when she reaches the age of marriage. It is also a kind of beauty for a girl to be pregnant. She married Xiangzi despite Liu Si's objections and became a rebel against feudal orthodoxy. This spirit of daring to boldly pursue freedom and pursue love should also be a kind of beauty. Extended information

Introduction:

"Camel Xiangzi" tells the story of the ups and downs of Xiangzi, a young, strong and energetic rickshaw puller in the city of Beiping, China.

Xiangzi comes from the countryside. He is a bankrupt young farmer who is diligent, simple and kind. He retains everything that the countryside has nurtured and taught him, but he never wants to go back to the countryside.

Xiangzi, who came to the city from the countryside, was eager to buy a car of his own with his honest labor. It was Xiangzi's wish, hope, and even religion to be an independent worker. With diligence and perseverance, he spent three years frugally, and finally realized his ideal and became a self-reliant first-class coachman.

But just half a year after pulling the cart, the cart was kidnapped by deserters in the chaos of war. Xiangzi lost the cart and only brought back three camels. Xiangzi was not discouraged. He still stubbornly started from scratch and drove the cart more self-consciously to save money. However, before he could buy another car, all his savings were extorted and robbed by detectives, and his dream of buying a car came to nothing again.

When Xiangzi pulled into his car again, it was at the expense of a deformed marriage with Huniu. The good times did not last long, because Huniu died in childbirth, and he had to sell the rickshaw to attend to the funeral.

At this point, his life ideal was completely shattered. Coupled with the suicide of his beloved woman Xiao Fuzi, the last spark of hope in his heart was blown out. Suffering repeated blows from life, Xiangzi began to lose any aspirations and confidence in life. He could no longer muster the courage to live. He was no longer proud of pulling carts as before. He hated pulling carts and hated working.

Xiangzi, who was teased by life, began to play games, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. In order to drink, Xiangzi swindled money everywhere and became a "urban garbage". In the end, he made a living by working as a handyman for weddings and funerals. Xiangzi was reduced from a "decent, strong, dreamy, self-interested, personal, strong, and great" bottom worker to a "degenerate, selfish, unfortunate, and socially ill child." The end of doctrine."

Writing background:

The novel "Luotuo Xiangzi" is set in old Beijing in the 1920s. Xiangzi lived in an era dominated by Beiyang warlords.

The background world in "Camel Xiangzi" is the dark, deformed, and unbalanced old Chinese society, where people live a poor life, and Xiangzi is only a representative of the working people. Although they have a certain degree of freedom, they have to struggle for their livelihood, and poverty deprives them of the poor freedom they have.

In 1936, a friend of Lao She's from Shandong University talked about his experience and knowledge of hiring a rickshaw driver: A rickshaw driver bought a "foreign rickshaw" and then sold it soon after. After three ups and downs, he was still poor in the end. At that time, Lao She felt that the subject could be turned into a novel.

Since the birth of new literature, writers such as Hu Shi and Lu Xun have written about rickshaw pullers, but they have always expressed sympathy for the rickshaw pullers from the perspective of intellectuals and looked down on them, without going deep into their hearts and souls. Go and experience the life of a coachman.

Because Lao She was born in a poor citizen family, he has been in contact with the lower class people since he was a child, and has a deeper understanding of the living conditions and psychology of the working people. All of this provided a source of materials for Lao She to create "Camel Xiangzi".

Lao She’s friend then told the story of another coachman who was captured by the army, but unexpectedly turned disaster into blessing and took back three camels while the army was moving. This is " The prototype of the story "Camel Xiangzi". Lao She decided to combine the camel and the driver, and use the camel to introduce the protagonist Xiangzi. Lao She placed Xiangzi in Peiping, a place he was familiar with.

In the spring and summer of 1936, Lao She collected materials obsessively and constantly polished Xiangzi's image. There was a student unrest in Shandong University. Lao She resigned from his teaching position and devoted himself to the writing of "Luotuo Xiangzi". In January 1937, the novel was serialized in "Cosmic Wind".