"Camel Xiangzi" is a work created by Lao She in 1936, and it is a representative work of Lao She's mature period of language art.
The story tells the struggle and misfortune of a young rickshaw driver in Beijing in the twenties of the twentieth century, a rickshaw driver named Xiangzi, in order to achieve the freedom of pulling the cart, he vowed to buy his own rickshaw, for which Xiangzi desperately saved money, but during the period he always repeatedly hit a wall: he finally bought his own car, but encountered a war, and even people and cars were robbed and lost; saved money again, and encountered extortion by the gendarmes; After marrying the tiger girl she didn't like, she finally bought a car for the second time, and then the tiger girl died again and had to sell the car for the funeral ...... the tiger girlThe ill-fated Xiangzi ups and downs, experiences ups and downs, and is finally swallowed up by the dark reality, gives up his ideals, gets by, gets into bad habits, and degenerates into "urban garbage" and becomes a waste.
The work adopts the form of seeing the big from the small, with the disillusionment of a small person as the starting point, showing the plight of ordinary laborers in the old era who had difficulty finding a way out, which is vivid and touching and thought-provoking.
With realistic brushwork and compassion for the heavens and people, Lao She has successfully created a number of artistic images with complex personalities and vivid images, such as Xiangzi and Tiger Girl.
The content of this book is realistic, and while presenting the style of old Beijing, it exposes the miserable life of the people at the bottom during the warlord war, and expresses deep sympathy for the working people.