1 winds bend the trees on the roadside, tear up the cloth of the shopkeeper, open the newspaper form on the wall, cover the sun, sing, shout, roar and reverberate; Suddenly relaxed, like a frightened elf, tearing the sky and the ground; Suddenly panic, chaos in all directions, like a demon who doesn't know what to do, decided to run into it; Suddenly sweeping, unexpectedly attacking everything on the ground, twisting branches, blowing off roof tiles and breaking wires; But Xiangzi was there watching; He just came out of the wind, and the wind didn't do anything to him!
Let's go, even if we can't sell camels for a while, it doesn't seem to matter; Let's go to the city first. He is eager to see the city again. Although there are no parents, relatives or any property, it is his home after all. The whole city is his home. Once there, he will find a way.
He doesn't want to go, see or accompany her; He really wants to jump, lower his head, break the ice, sink, and freeze in the ice like a dead fish.
But one day, Mr Fang asked him to put ten dollars in. He carefully looked at the small passbook with words and a small red seal on it. * * *, hum, as heavy as a dozen toilet paper.
Several times Xiangzi tried to stop the car by cold braking, but the boy fell behind, but he didn't dare, so the driver had to submit to humiliation.
At that time, he was full of hope; Now, my stomach is full of worries.
7 embarrassment gradually turned into embarrassment, and his fire came up; They stared at him, and he stared at them.
She swallowed saliva, suppressed complex expressions and emotions, took out some outfield strength of Si Liu, half annoyed and half laughed, and pretended not to care.
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Camel Xiangzi occupies an important position in the history of modern literature in China. Most of the new literature after the May 4th Movement is good at describing the lives of intellectuals and peasants, but few works describe the urban poor. The appearance of Lao She broke this situation. With a number of works describing the life of the urban poor, especially the novel Camel Xiangzi, he expanded the expression range of new literature and made special contributions to the development of new literature.
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Camel Xiangzi is a tragedy described by Lao She with sympathetic brushstrokes: in Beijing in the 1920s, a hardworking and sturdy lowlife struggled hard with a beautiful dream of getting rich, and was finally swallowed up by a dark storm. Revealed the slave psychology and hope of the "little people" at that time. With the suicide of Xiangzi's beloved woman Xier, Xiangzi put out the last spark of personal struggle. This is the typical fate of poor citizens in old China and old Beijing.
Camel Xiangzi is a classic of modern vernacular novels, which uses a lot of descriptions of local conditions and customs in Beijing dialect and old Beijing.
Camel Xiangzi was first published in Cosmic Wind magazine (1936), and 10 People's Literature Publishing House (1955) published a new monograph. Lao She made some modifications and deleted the second half of chapter 23 and the whole chapter 24. The complete works of Lao She published by People's Literature Publishing House in 1980s, 1982, restored the original appearance of the old edition.
There is a saying in Camel Xiangzi that "money will lead people into a bad society, put aside noble ideals and willingly go to hell." It not only vividly describes that the lower class people, after endless grief, pass on their resentment of social injustice to money. In fact, what is evil is not money, but an unhealthy mentality. It is this distorted cynicism that depicts the social sorrow and human sorrow and constitutes a social tragedy!