Camel Xiangzi is a novel written by Lao She (Shu Qingchun, 1899- 1966), which describes the tragic fate of rickshaw pullers during the warlord melee in the 1920s. Xiangzi was a representative of the working people in the old society.
Creative background:
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.
1936, a friend of Lao She's from Shandong University, told his experience and knowledge of hiring a rickshaw driver: a rickshaw driver bought a rickshaw, sold it soon, went up and down like this, and finally became poor. At that time, Lao She thought that this theme could be written as a novel. Since the birth of new literature, Hu Shi, Lu Xun and other writers have written about rickshaw pullers, but they all expressed their sympathy for rickshaw pullers from the perspective of intellectuals, without going deep into their hearts to appreciate their lives.