Erdezi-(looking around at Master Ma) Drink, Master Ma, where are you? How silly of me not to see you! (Salute in the past)
Grandpa Zhang-I have some peanuts here. Drinking tea and eating peanuts is really fun!
Qin but who can chew it?
Wang Lifa-Look how amazing it is to have peanuts, but you can't chew them all! How ridiculous! ……
Qin-others don't know, you know: I have advocated saving the country by industry since I was in my twenties. So far ... the machine has been sold as scrap metal! Can the world find such a government? Let me ask you something!
Wang Lifa-people have to live, right? I did everything I could, just to survive! ..... Why don't you let me live? Who have I offended? Who is it? The emperor, the queen, the dogs, men and women are all alive and well, but I'm not allowed to eat corn bread. Whose idea was this?
I love our country, but who loves me? ……
Analysis of the Characters in Laoshe Teahouse Wang Lifa is the shopkeeper of Yutai Teahouse, and also the character throughout the play. He inherited Yutai Teahouse from his father, and also inherited his philosophy of life, that is, say more good things and bow more. He is timid, selfish, intelligent, capable and sociable, and takes different attitudes towards different people. In the dark old China, although Wang Lifa was good at socializing, managing and constantly improving, he could not resist the oppression of various reactionary forces. He also has strong dissatisfaction with this, but he expressed it very implicitly. It is such a small businessman who is good at dealing with the world, but still can't escape the fate of bankruptcy. Wang Lifa's tragedy is a true portrayal of the life and fate of ordinary people in old China.
Grandpa Chang was a standard-bearer in the Qing Dynasty and ate imperial grain. But he was dissatisfied with the corrupt Qing dynasty and hated foreigners even more. He was arrested for saying that "the Qing Dynasty was going to be finished". After he was released from prison, he joined the Boxer Rebellion. Later, he relied on his strength to sell vegetables for a living. He is honest, kind, enterprising and full of sense of justice. He made no secret of his dissatisfaction, and remained tough on catching his spies, but he gave timely help to worried Wang Lifa. It is such a person, and finally he is desperate and shouts, "I love our China, but who loves me?" This image represents the people of China who don't want to be enslaved, and reflects the resistance of the people of old China.
Mr. Song is also a standard-bearer. He is kind-hearted, but timid, lazy and incompetent. Before the demise of the Qing Dynasty, he idled about drinking tea and shooting birds all day. After the Qing Dynasty, "hard-core crops" disappeared, but he still lingered in his past life and refused to support himself. He would rather starve himself than let the birds starve. At the mention of birds, he was full of energy and finally starved to death. This is a typical example of the flag bearer's inability to make a living, which reflects the decay of feudal society in China.