The main contents of each chapter of Camel Xiangzi

Chapter 1: Xiangzi grew up in the countryside and lost his parents and several acres of wasteland. At the age of eighteen, he came to the city to pull rickshaws. After unremitting efforts, he bought a new car of his own and became a first-class foreign coachman in Beiping.

Chapter 2: Only half a year after Xiangzi bought a new car, news of war broke out in the streets of Beiping. One day, Xiangzi was lucky enough to attract guests to Tsinghua at a high price, but he was arrested by warlords and his car was taken away.

Chapter 3: Xiangzi fled for his life with three camels left by deserters overnight. At dawn, he came to a village. He sold three camels to an old camel farmer and 35 yuan.

Chapter four: Xiangzi fell ill in a small shop in Haidian and was in a coma for three days. During these three days, his relationship with three camels was heard in his sleep or nonsense, and he was nicknamed "Xiangzi Camel" from then on. He braced himself and went back to Renhe garage. Mann and Liu Si, the owner of the automobile factory, have a daughter named Tigress. Xiangzi saved the remaining 30 yuan from selling camels to Si Liu, hoping to continue saving money and buy another car of his own.

Chapter five: Xiangzi is still frugal, but his thoughts and behaviors have changed obviously. He stayed in Yangjiala for only four days and was tortured to leave.

Chapter 6: After Tigress left Yang's home and returned to Renhe Car Factory, she invited Xiangzi to drink. After drinking, Xiangzi was tricked into bed by Tigress in a daze. Afterwards, Xiangzi was extremely ambivalent about Tigress, resentful and yearning, and at the same time mixed with fear.

Chapter 7: Xiangzi went to Cao's house for a monthly subscription. Mr. Cao's house treated him well and respected him very much. One night, Xiangzi dragged Mr. Cao home and accidentally bumped into a stone. Both he and Mr. Cao were injured. Xiangzi was sad, but Mr. Cao didn't blame him at all.

Chapter eight: Gao Ma, who is also a servant of Cao family, advised Xiangzi to take the money to usury or deposit it in the bank to earn interest, but Xiangzi dared not; Gao Ma advised Xiangzi to get up, but Xiangzi dared not. The New Year's Eve is coming. Xiangzi is going to buy some presents, visit Grandpa Si Liu and get his lucky money back, but Tigress is here.

Chapter 9: Tigress returns the money saved by Xiangzi to Si Liu, tells him that she is pregnant, and proposes to him. She also figured out a way to get Xiangzi to please Si Liu and get Si Liu to agree to their marriage. Xiangzi was upset and drank wine to drown his sorrows.

Chapter 10: Xiangzi is waiting for Mr. Cao in a small teahouse. An old driver in his fifties fainted in front of the teahouse because of hunger and cold. Xiangzi bought ten steamed buns for the old coachman and his grandson pony. What happened to the old coachman gave Xiangzi a heavy blow. He found it terrible to get old even if he had a car.

Chapter 11: Xiangzi took Mr. Cao home and found him being followed. Mr. Cao asked him to transfer to Mr. Zuo's home, and then asked him to report to Cao's home. No sooner had he returned to Cao's home than Detective Sun caught him, threatening and seducing him. Finally, Xiangzi gave all the savings in the gourd jar to Detective Sun for "saving his life".

Chapter 12: Xiangzi fled from the Cao family and was desperate. Back to Cao Jia, I met Gao Ma. Gao Ma asked Xiangzi to stay and look after the house, and went to Zuo Jia to join Mr. Cao. Xiangzi was worried that it was not safe in Cao's house, so he climbed over the wall and went to the Wang's house next door to find the driver Lao Cheng. Tossing and turning at Lao Cheng's house all night. Mr. Cao is a progressive and upright intellectual. His student, Minh Nguyen, was busy with social activities all day, and failed in his lessons, but he asked Mr. Cao to let him pass. Mr. Cao disagreed, so Minh Nguyen went to the party department and falsely accused Mr. Cao of being a "disorderly party."

Chapter 13: At dawn, Xiangzi had nowhere to go, so he had to go back to the crowd and the garage. Tigress is glad to see him back. Liu Si was preparing to celebrate his birthday, so he asked Xiangzi for help. Tigress secretly bought Xiangzi a birthday peach for two dollars, asking him to be diligent and impress Grandpa Four.

Chapter 14: On Si Liu's birthday, at breakfast, the drivers vented their dissatisfaction with Si Liu on Xiangzi, and Xiangzi was so angry that he almost fought with them. Seeing his wife and belt attending the birthday party, Si Liu felt lonely and became very depressed. He was angry when he saw the intimacy between Tigress and Xiangzi. In front of everyone, the father and the daughter quarreled as a bee, and Tigress simply made public her relationship with Xiangzi. Si Liu gave Xiangzi a scolding.

Chapter 15: Tigress asked Mr. Feng to take Xiangzi to Tianshun Coal Plant. She rented two small north rooms in a big yard in Maojiawan, got everything ready for her wedding, fixed a wedding date and gave money to buy new clothes for Xiangzi. So they got married. On their wedding night, Xiangzi realized that Tigress's pregnancy was fake, just to cheat him.

Xiangzi was so angry that he wanted to leave the next day, but where to go? Finally, he returned to Tigress. He wanted Tigress to give him money to buy a car, but Tigress didn't want him to continue pulling carts. She asked him to accompany him, hoping to return to Liu's house.

Chapter 16: Tigress and Xiangzi rented a big yard, where all the poor people lived. Tigress likes to show off her wealth before them. After the Lantern Festival, Xiangzi couldn't stand such idle days any longer. He pulled up the car quietly, determined to pull it no matter how Tigress objected. Tigress wants to go back to Renhe Automobile Factory, but she is worried that Si Liu will not accept it. Xiangzi sneaked near Renhe garage to observe and found that the signboard of the garage had changed.

Chapter 17: Xiangzi found out that Si Liu had sold his people and garage, and went out to see the world with the money. Tigress's hope of relying on her father failed, so she had to take money to buy Xiangzi a car.

Er Qiangzi of the same general hospital sold his daughter Joey and bought a car. Soon he killed his wife, sold her car to Tigress and buried it. Joy was bought by an officer as a little wife for less than a year, and the officer quietly left, leaving her. She is going home again, and she and Tigress have become good friends. Joy's father forced her to engage in prostitution, and Tigress took the initiative to lend her the house to profit from it.

Chapter 18: Er, Hadron felt contradictory and painful when he watched his daughter engage in prostitution. Tigress is really pregnant. June 15, the sun is like fire, making people breathless. In the afternoon, it was windy and raining cats and dogs. On this hot and cold day, Xiangzi pulled the cart and finally fell ill.

Chapter 19: Xiangzi was ill for a month and got on the bus before he was fully recovered. A few days later, he became ill again and for another month. While Xiangzi was ill, Joy came to talk to him. Tigress was jealous and deliberately ruined Joy's "business". Joy dragged her brother to make amends, and they made up again. In order to make a living, Xiangzi desperately pulled carts to earn money; After Tigress became pregnant, she did not exercise and was greedy. Finally died in childbirth.

Chapter 20: Xiangzi sold the car and buried Tigress. Joey offered to live with him. Xiangzi promised to come to her when he got mixed up. Xiangzi made friends in the new car factory and became addicted to smoking. He has a monthly subscription at Xia's house.

Chapter 21: In autumn, Xiangzi couldn't resist the temptation, but he had sex with Mrs. Xia and became ill. He left his summer house and went back to the garage. Although he sometimes wants to be strong, buy a car and miss the fun, such thoughts are only fleeting. He became lazy and learned to fight. One night, he accidentally involved Si Liu, and Si Liu asked about Tigress's whereabouts. He answered "dead" and left.

Chapter 22: Xiangzi went to Cao Sheng. He told him all his experiences for his attention. Mr. Cao asked Xiangzi to pull his cart and Joy to help the Cao family. Xiangzi saw hope. He went to see the painting, but he couldn't find Joey.

Chapter 23: Xiangzi met the pony's grandfather and he had an idea. Xiangzi went to the White House to find Xi 'er, but Xi 'er couldn't bear to be a prostitute and hanged himself in the pine forest. Xiangzi became corrupt from then on.

Chapter 24: Minh Nguyen tried to use Xiangzi, but Xiangzi sold him 60 yuan and lost his life. Xiangzi can't pull the motor car. He spent the rest of his life sending people to funerals. "Decent, strong, dreamy, self-interested, personal, strong and great Xiangzi" degenerated into "selfish, unfortunate, born in the womb of social illness and the last ghost of individualism".

Xiangzi is the hero in Lao She's Camel Xiangzi. Xiangzi is from the countryside. After pulling the rented rickshaw, he decided to buy a rickshaw to pull it himself and become an independent worker. However, after many setbacks, this wish was finally completely shattered. He lost any desire and confidence in life, from ambition to self-indulgence: Xiangzi, who was originally honest and kind, was crushed by the millstone of life.

Extended information Camel Xiangzi is a novel written by Lao She (Shu Qingchun), a people's artist, which describes the tragic fate of rickshaw pullers during the warlord scuffle in the 1920s. Xiangzi was a representative of the working people in the old society.

brief Introduction of the content

Camel Xiangzi tells the story of Xiangzi, a young and energetic rickshaw driver in Beiping, China. ?

Xiangzi is from the countryside. He is a bankrupt young farmer. He is hardworking, simple and kind. He kept everything that he was brought up and educated in the countryside, but he never wanted to go back to the countryside. Xiangzi, who came to the city from the countryside, is eager to buy a car of his own with his honest labor.

Being an independent laborer is Xiangzi's wish, hope and even religion. With hard work and perseverance, he spent three years scrimping and saving, and finally realized his ideal and became a self-reliant first-class driver. But after only half a year, the car was taken away by deserters in the war. Xiangzi lost his car and brought back only three camels.

Xiangzi didn't give up, but still stubbornly started from scratch, and it was more economical to pull the cart. However, before he could buy a car again, all his savings were ransacked by detectives, and his dream of buying a car was shattered again.

When Xiangzi pulled the rickshaw again, it was at the expense of his deformed marriage with Tigress. The good times didn't last long. Because Tigress died in childbirth, he had to sell a rickshaw to arrange the funeral. At this point, his life ideal was completely shattered.

Coupled with the suicide of his beloved woman Joy, it blew out the last spark of hope in his heart. After being hit by life, Xiangzi began to lose any desire and confidence in life, and could no longer summon up the courage to live. He is no longer as proud of pulling carts as he used to be. He hates pulling carts and working.

Xiangzi, teased by life, started playing games, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. In order to drink, Xiangzi cheated money everywhere and eventually became "urban garbage", earning a living by giving people weddings and funerals and doing odd jobs.

Xiangzi changed from a "decent, strong, dreamy, selfish, personal, powerful and great" bottom worker to a "depraved, selfish, unfortunate and socially ill child, the last ghost of individualism".

References:

Camel Xiangzi-Baidu Encyclopedia