What's the story in Lao She's Camel Xiangzi?

Xiangzi on Camel is a novel by Mr. Lao She, and the hero in the novel is Xiangzi. Xiangzi came to Beiping from the countryside and began his story of making a living. Although Xiangzi is taciturn, he is honest, hardworking and enterprising. At first, he tried almost all physical work.

According to the novel, Xiangzi's hard work made him stoop like a camel. The title of the novel "Camel Xiangzi" also appropriately reflects Xiangzi's hard-working characteristics.

In life, Xiangzi is a very self-disciplined person. He doesn't smoke, drink, gamble or have any hobbies. Xiangzi kept this habit all the year round because he set himself a long-term goal and planned his life.

Xiangzi's goal is to save money and not buy rickshaws, and then make a foothold in the city by being a rickshaw driver. In order to achieve this goal, Xiangzi cut unnecessary expenses as much as possible. Even if he is ill, he is unwilling to spend money on medicine.

After three years of hard work, Xiangzi finally saved enough 100 yuan to buy a car, which is his real asset under Xiangzi's name. He started a rickshaw puller himself and made a living in the city by pulling carts.

Xiangzi is conservative and even selfish. He is taciturn and seldom talks to people. He never contacted other drivers and lived alone in his own closed world. In the war-torn era of the 1920s, Xiangzi ignored the world and pulled his cart as always.

On one occasion, when he was pulling a rickshaw, he knew that things were not good, but he couldn't let go of his so-called face and continued to pull the rickshaw. As a result, he just bought a rickshaw for half a year and was robbed by a soldier of fortune. Xiangzi's first car in his life was so strangely lost, but the strong Xiangzi was unwilling. He didn't have his own car, and he didn't pull it, so Xiangzi's life suddenly lost its purpose.

It is Xiangzi's life goal and significance to buy himself a car and start a life of pulling carts. Driven by this psychological effect, Xiangzi began to save money again and prepared to buy another car. The strong side of Xiangzi's character helped him to continue to realize himself. He went out early and came back late to pull rickshaws hard, and also saved his diet to an unimaginable extent.

In order to save money to buy another car, Xiangzi took risks. After he stole two camels and crossed the line, he wanted to sell them and buy a car. After selling the camel, Xiangzi gradually saved enough money for the second car purchase.

Mrs. Fang asked Xiangzi to deposit the money in the bank. Xiangzi stubbornly believed that it was best to keep the money in his own hands. However, Xiangzi's hard-earned hard-earned money, including more than 30 yuan he hid in a crock, was washed away by Detective Sun. Xiangzi thought he couldn't resist, so he let go. This is the second time that Xiangzi's ideal has failed.

In the second stage of buying a car, Xiangzi constantly realized himself and lost himself at the same time. Seeing others drinking and smoking in brothels, aggrieved Xiangzi envied them and thought they were right.

Xiangzi felt that alcohol and tobacco didn't cost much, but they could comfort him. But at this time, in the psychological balance between self-realization and self-loss, self-realization still prevailed, and Xiangzi refused to get his hands on alcohol and tobacco.

Xiangzi was honest, hardworking and enterprising, which was his original intention of going to town. He won't compete with other drivers for business, let alone conflict with other drivers. But at this time, Xiangzi gave up his original intention in order to realize his small goal in life. In this process, Xiangzi also experienced a painful psychological confrontation.

The third time, Tigress bought Xiangzi a car with her own private money. Although Xiangzi partially realized himself this time, he finally lost himself completely. It was not Xiangzi's intention to marry Tigress, and Xiangzi lost the direction he pursued in life.

Tigress is a scheming but bold woman who pursues love. As Si Liu's only daughter, Tigress helped Si Liu manage the family business, and she was mean and stingy to the coachman in the process, which made her feel domineering. But Tigress likes Xiangzi, and in order to achieve the goal of being with Xiangzi, she carefully planned it. Tigress told Xiangzi that she was pregnant.

Because of Tigress's scheme, Xiangzi married Tigress, whom he didn't like, but Xiangzi didn't marry Tigress of his own free will. This was his bow to reality, that is, he gave up his life ideal.

After marriage, Tigress disciplined Xiangzi strictly. Although Xiangzi realized himself temporarily in the so-called career, Xiangzi was extremely painful inside, emotionally lost himself and gradually lost his yearning for freedom and ideals.

Xiangzi was disillusioned with his wife, but the blow was not over. During Tigress's dystocia, Xiangzi was distressed that the money had not sent Tigress to the hospital. Tigress died in childbirth, and Xiangzi had to sell her car for Tigress's funeral. The death of Tigress and her children and the loss of her car dealt a heavy blow to Xiangzi again.

Although Xiangzi realized his dream of buying a car with Tigress, he was in great pain. Finally, he had to sell his car because of Tigress's death, which made Xiangzi completely lose his life ideal.

Later, Xiangzi met joy and fell in love with it. Joy completely conforms to Xiangzi's fantasy about his wife. The appearance of Xi 'er also rekindled Xiangzi's hope for life. Joey is a kind but sad person. She was sold by her father to an officer, and as soon as the officer was transferred, she went home.

Joey's return to her family is the beginning of her tragic fate. Her father was a heavy drinker and killed her mother. Her two younger brothers are helpless. Joy, whose family was ruined, was sold to a brothel by her father. Xiangzi likes Joy, but after he saw her father and brother, the selfish and narrow-minded Xiangzi made a decision to leave Joy. The humiliating Joy chose to hang herself and ended her life.

Since then, Xiangzi has gradually become numb, depraved, lazy, selfish and greedy. Instead of pulling carts as hard as he did when he was young, he developed a strong aversion to taking taxis and working, and eventually became a near-rogue who bullied the weak, took away the business of the sick and elderly, and cheated Mr. Cao's family out of eating and drinking. In this way, Xiangzi completely degenerated, and in the process of degeneration, he went to death.

After three failures in buying a car and three struggles, Xiangzi finally lost himself completely. The defect of Xiangzi's thought and character determines his loneliness, fragility and inevitable failure. Xiangzi didn't send Tigress to the hospital because he was worried about money, which led to Tigress's death in childbirth. When he was happy alone, Xiangzi didn't save her, which indirectly led to happy suicide. It can be said that Xiangzi's cowardice, incompetence and meanness indirectly led to their death.

In the form of novels, Lao She showed the hardships and helplessness of the bottom workers in the old society through Xiangzi's life tragedy, and revealed the factors that led to Xiangzi's tragic fate. It can be said that Camel Xiangzi has strong practical significance and practical significance.