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Xiangzi is the hero of the novel. He used to be a bankrupt farmer and became a rickshaw puller when he entered the city. At that time, he was hardworking, unyielding, competitive and had persistent life ideals. When he first arrived in Beijing, Xiangzi experienced the blow of life, but he did not lose confidence in life. He is "strong, silent and energetic". After becoming a rickshaw driver, his greatest wish is to own a rickshaw of his own, because he naively fantasizes that "owning his own rickshaw means everything", so that he can live an independent and free life without being exploited by the owner. For this hope, he went through the wind and rain, desperately pulling a car, desperately saving money, and finally exchanged his sweat for a car of his own. However, the good times didn't last long. The warlords scuffled, took his car and ruined his ideal. Xiangzi didn't lose heart after this life blow. In order to buy a car again, he began to "like a hungry beast", leaving early and returning late, and Dora ran very fast. But Xiangzi still didn't expect that, surrounded by the dark forces in the old society, the lower classes were always blackmailed and teased. Just as Xiangzi attacked his ideals day and night again, he was involved in the political persecution of the progressive Mr. Cao. Detectives of the reactionary government took the opportunity to blackmail him and took all his savings from buying a car. The blow caused Xiangzi a great mental contusion. "It seems that he is dead and wants nothing"; But soon, Xiangzi struggled to stand up again. Later, with Tigress's support, he got a car of his own, although Xiangzi bought it at the expense of his independent personality and dignity, and it was hard to pull it. But Xiangzi still had his own car, and he finally realized his dream of buying a car. But Xiangzi still didn't think that even if he lived in such humiliation, society wouldn't allow him. Soon, Tigress died in childbirth, and Xiangzi had to sell his car to take care of Tigress's affairs. After this blow, Xiangzi's mind was seriously damaged again. He began to complain about life, feeling that his life wishes were always "like a ghost, which can never be grasped firmly." And suffer those hardships and grievances. "Later, his beloved Joey also hanged himself because of his life. This last blow made Xiangzi despair. Since then, he has lost any hope and confidence in life. He completely changed from his previous love of pulling cars to his hatred of pulling cars, and finally he couldn't even pull the motor car. From previous loyalty to loyalty, it became brazen; From the previous perseverance to self-abandonment, self-indulgence, and finally completely transformed into a heartless, soulless walking corpse. Through Xiangzi's tragedy, the work summarizes the same fate of the bloody life and rickshaw pullers in old China, and expresses deep sympathy for the sufferings and fate of the lower class workers.

Xiangzi finally degenerated, from human to "ghost". The image of "ghost" is ugly. So, what made Xiangzi, a once lively, simple and idealistic young man, degenerate into a "ghost"? The profound ideological content of the work lies in that it not only shows the sufferings and fate of tens of millions of lower-class people in Qian Qian through Xiangzi's tragedy, but also makes people think about the root of Xiangzi's tragedy through Xiangzi's becoming a ghost.

The root of Xiangzi's tragedy is firstly the cannibal old society. Xiangzi came to the city from the countryside, hoping to gain an independent living position by his hard work and tenacity, but he was constantly devastated, including soldiers robbing his car, and Mrs. Yang refused to feed his servants. Tigress bullied him, grandma fooled him, and Mrs. Xia seduced him. It was these soldiers and bandits, the scum of society, who formed a huge net and constantly exploited and oppressed Xiangzi. Finally, they destroyed his ideal, devoured his soul, destroyed his strong body and turned him into an animal. While the work shows Xiangzi's tragedy of turning from human to ghost, the pen always focuses on a dark society. This makes people see Xiangzi's tragedy, and at the same time further see the irrationality of the social system that devours Xiangzi's soul and pushes Xiangzi into the abyss of depravity, as well as its cannibalism nature. It should be said that this is the most ideological value of the work.