Thoughts on Teahouses

Thinking of writing: first introduce the content of the article, which is a post-reading, then briefly introduce the main content of Teahouse, then analyze the specific characters in Teahouse in detail, and finally make a summary.

Mr. Lao She deserves everyone. His articles always give people a sense of stability rooted in the soil. The first time I read his book was Camel Xiangzi, and now I read Teahouse. I was once again deeply impressed by the language with the flavor of old Beijing and the life of the bottom people described in Mr. Wang's book.

Teahouse is a typical cultural gathering place. With the background of the Reform Movement of 1898, the warlord scuffle and the eve of the founding of New China, it tells the life changes and current situation in the transitional period of old and new China. Lao She brought us into that bizarre era with careful observation and vivid description, and got in close contact with such a special crowd.

Wang Lifa is the shopkeeper of Yutai Teahouse. He was a typical old Beijing citizen of that era, sophisticated and kind-hearted, but a little selfish and greedy. He can be said to be the incarnation of Yutai teahouse. He is flexible, which can be seen from the renovation and longevity of Yutai Teahouse.

He is too timid to stand up for his friends. Yutai teahouse has always posted a note saying "Don't talk about state affairs". However, even if Yutai Teahouse is improved and renovated, the old things will die out, and finally Yutai Teahouse is occupied and Wang Lifa hangs himself.

Mr. Song and Mr. Chang are good friends and frequent visitors to Yutai Teahouse. Their personalities can be seen from their appearance. Mr. Song trembles, carrying a small yellow birdcage; Master Chang is brave and good at fighting, carrying a big and tall thrush cage. "

Mr. Song is a typical old literati. He is patriotic, kind and timid. He is a little literary talent, but he doesn't know where to use it. Grandpa Chang is healthy and upright, but stubborn and inflexible. Later, he can only pick vegetables and sell them in the street to make a living.

Qin was the representative of national capitalists in the Reform Period. He is an ambitious man, eager to save the country through industry. He sold his ancestral property, tried his best to set up large enterprises, thinking that he could enrich the people and strengthen the country. However, in that semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, the road of state capitalism simply doesn't work. In the end, Qin's factory was forcibly confiscated under the double oppression of the Chinese and Japanese governments.

There are other characters in Teahouse, Kang Liu, a chicken and a country woman, who represent the bottom farmers. Represents the stubborn old forces, eunuch Pang and grandma; Director Shen and others, who represented the warlord forces, together constituted the society of China in that era. Mr. Wang highly concentrated these characters and three eras in Yutai Teahouse, making the drama Teahouse an unsurpassed classic.

The greatness of Lao She's Teahouse lies not only in its description of all kinds of closed, compromised and gray citizens, but also in its pointing out the most stubborn aspect of our national roots. More importantly, it points out that we should think deeply about how to treat ourselves in a rapidly changing society, cherish the beauty of the present and remember the sufferings of the past.