Lao She's "True love can only be born in a wealthy family" comes from "Luotuo Xiangzi".

Meaning: There are some loves that poor people cannot afford. Everyone likes beautiful things, but they require a certain amount of capital. When even eating is a problem for you, those loves and fairy tales are just imaginable but not attainable. The so-called love is just that you happen to be born in a rich family. Without money, no matter how good things are, they are just illusions.

Extended information:

Creative background:

The background is the old Beijing in the 1920s. Xiangzi lived in an era dominated by Beiyang warlords. The background world in "Camel Xiangzi" is the dark, deformed, and unbalanced old Chinese society, where people live a poor life, and Xiangzi is only a representative of the working people. Although they have a certain degree of freedom, they have to struggle for their livelihood, and poverty deprives them of the poor freedom they have.

In 1936, a friend of Lao She's from Shandong University talked about his experience and knowledge of hiring a rickshaw driver: A rickshaw driver bought a "foreign rickshaw" and then sold it soon after. After three ups and downs, he was still poor in the end. At that time, Lao She felt that the subject could be turned into a novel.

Since the birth of new literature, writers such as Hu Shi and Lu Xun have written about rickshaw pullers, but they have always expressed sympathy for the rickshaw pullers from the perspective of intellectuals and looked down on them, without going deep into their hearts and souls. Go and experience the life of a coachman.

Because Lao She was born in a poor citizen family, he has been in contact with the lower class people since he was a child, and has a deeper understanding of the living conditions and psychology of the working people. All of this provided a source of materials for Lao She to create "Camel Xiangzi".

Lao She’s friend then told the story of another coachman who was captured by the army, but unexpectedly turned disaster into blessing and took back three camels while the army was moving. This is " The prototype of the story "Camel Xiangzi". Lao She decided to combine the camel and the driver, and use the camel to introduce the protagonist Xiangzi. Lao She placed Xiangzi in Peiping, a place he was familiar with.

Baidu Encyclopedia—Luotuo Xiangzi