Camel Xiangzi is a novel by the people's artist Lao She (Shu Qingchun). It takes the whereabouts of Xiangzi, a rickshaw puller in Beiping (now Beijing) as a clue, the life of Beijing citizens in the late 1920s as a background, and Xiangzi's bumpy and tragic life experience as the main plot, which profoundly exposes the darkness of old China.
It accuses the ruling class of exploiting and oppressing workers, expresses the author's deep sympathy for the working people, and shows people the images of warlords fighting under the dark rule and the poor citizens at the bottom of Beijing living in the abyss of pain. There are also movies, TV plays and dramas of the same name.
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First, the creative background
The novel Camel Xiangzi is set in old Beijing in the 1920s. Xiangzi lived in the era of Northern Warlords. ?
The background world in Camel Xiangzi is a dark, deformed and unbalanced old society in China. People live in poverty, and Xiangzi is only the representative of the working people. Although they have some freedom, they have to make a living, and poverty deprives them of what little freedom they have.
Second, the theme idea
The theme of Camel Xiangzi is that the sufferings and destinies of the working people at the bottom of semi-colonial and semi-feudal China society are the same.
In old China, the warlord forces fought for profits, causing wars, and people's lives were hard, especially working people like Xiangzi, who were at the bottom of society. The dark and corrupt social reality is the root of Xiangzi's tragic fate.
Camel Xiangzi reveals the tragic fate of the bottom people in semi-colonial and semi-feudal China society through the life story of the rickshaw driver Xiangzi who finally fell down. Xiangzi's experience proved that the working people in the semi-colonial and semi-feudal era could not change their situation through their own hard work and personal struggle.
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