"Camel Xiangzi" is one of the masterpieces of modern Chinese writer Lao She, telling the tragic story of Xiangzi, a rickshaw driver in Beiping (now Beijing).
Shoko comes from the countryside, he is honest, kind, strong, and stoic, like a camel. After he came to Beiping, he chose the industry of pulling cars. His biggest dream is to own his own car, and he hopes to become an independent laborer with his hard work and perseverance. However, his hopes were dashed again and again, and his battle against fate ultimately ended in failure.
In the story, Shoko has experienced three ups and downs in life. After he bought a car for the first time, he was robbed by a warlord; After saving enough money for the second time, he was blackmailed by Detective Sun; The third time, I used Tiger Girl's money to buy a car, but because Tiger Girl died in childbirth, I had to sell the car to take care of Tiger Girl's funeral. These blows caused Shoko to gradually lose her confidence in life. He began to play a life, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, cheating money everywhere, and degenerated into "urban garbage". In the end, he could only make ends meet by doing handymen for red and white ceremonies.
Through the tragic experience of Shoko, Camel Xiangzi profoundly exposes the darkness of the old society and the deep sympathy of the ruling class for the working people. ** Using Xiangzi's whereabouts as a clue, it shows people the picture of warlords fighting and the poor citizens of Beijing living in the abyss of misery under the rule of darkness. At the same time, ** also expressed a strong condemnation of the unreasonable society, warning people that the poor peasants in the cities should turn over and become masters, and that they cannot change their destiny by relying on individual struggle alone.
In terms of artistic characteristics, "Camel Xiangzi" adopts tragic colors, civilian language, reasonable psychological descriptions and environmental descriptions, etc., so that the work has a strong sense of life and realism. In addition, there are some wonderful quotes in **, such as "The rain falls on the rich and also on the poor; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Actually, the rain is not fair, because it falls in a world where there is no justice. These famous sentences further enhance the artistic appeal of the work.
In short, "Camel Xiangzi" is a work with profound social significance and literary value, which shows readers the inhumanity, cruelty and despair of the old society through the tragic story of Xiangzi, and also expresses the author's deep sympathy for the working people and a powerful condemnation of the unreasonable society.