"The True Story of Ah Q" is a novel written by Lu Xun. It effectively criticized the feudal, conservative, vulgar, corrupt and other social characteristics of Chinese society at that time, and effectively revealed the life of the people in old China. The scene and its dire morbidity. The novel was written at the end of 1921 and is divided into nine chapters. The novel is set in the Chinese countryside before and after the Revolution of 1911. It describes Ah Q, a wandering farmhand in Weichuang. Although he is "really capable" of work, he has nothing, and even his name has been forgotten.
Introduction
Chapter 1 "Preface": Ah Q is still sleeping in the background and has not been given a name. The author seems to have discovered actual characters from legends. Use forensic methods to describe the outline of the character Ah Q. Ah Q lives in a rural village called "Weizhuang". He doesn't even know his surname or identity. He is an insignificant figure who is looked down upon by others. After leaving this sketch of Ah Q to everyone, the author left the scene. From the beginning of the second chapter, in order to set the stage for Ah Q's activities, the author only showed his face from time to time and did not reveal the surface.
Chapter 2 "A Brief Summary of Victory": Ah Q lived in Tugu Temple in Weichuang and worked part-time for others to make ends meet. Although he was often teased by the villagers, in his heart he looked down on the villagers. One of his shortcomings is a leprosy scar on his head. So whenever someone talks about scars, he gets angry. Everyone thought his anger was funny, so they made fun of him even more. If he feels that his opponent is weak, he will deliberately find trouble and quarrel. But the result is often a loss. When he lost, he said to himself: "I was finally beaten by my son", and his heart was filled with a sense of superiority. If his sense of superiority was shattered, he would think again: I am a big shot "who can look down on myself", and he would be satisfied again. . Once, he was lucky enough to win money while gambling, but he managed to win a lot of money but was robbed. This time he felt that he really tasted the pain of failure, so he hit himself, feeling as if he had hit the other person, and fell asleep with satisfaction.
Chapter 3 "Continued Winning Story": One day, Ah Q saw "Wang Hu" catching lice in the sun, so Ah Q also caught lice, but when he saw that his own lice were much bigger than Ah Q felt that his self-esteem was hurt by the "Wang Hu" young man whom he looked down on, so he started to fight with him. But he lost to "Wang Hu" who thought he was no match for him. At this moment, the "fake foreign devil" - Mr. Qian's son came over. Normally Ah Q would often hide away when he saw him, but today Ah Q was very angry, so in order to vent his anger, he cursed. So he was beaten severely by the young master with a mourning stick. At this time, the little nun came over. It was better now. Ah Q cursed her and pinched her face. Finally, he felt that the suffocation just now was gone and he was filled with pride again.
Chapter 4 "The Tragedy of Love": However, Ah Q's fingers that pinched the little nun's face always had a slippery feeling, which kept him thinking about it. "Ah Q, the one who has cut off his descendants!" - The little nun's scolding voice lingered in his ears, and he felt that he missed a woman. So he seduced Mrs. Zhao's maid, Wu Ma, which caused chaos and everyone knew about it. Ah Q's entire property was suppressed, and he even apologized to Mrs. Zhao before he was finally forgiven.
Chapter 5 "Livelihood Issues": After that, every time Ah Q walked on the street, the women in the village stayed away. Ah Q didn't know why. No one hired him to do part-time work anymore. Ah Q didn't understand very much. Later, he finally found out that everyone was hiring Little D and no longer wanted him. So he found a fight with his enemy, Little D, regardless of the outcome. Later, he went to a nunnery far away from the village to steal radishes. Finally he decided to leave Weichuang.
Chapter 6 "From Rise to End": Half a year later, Ah Q quietly returned to Weichuang. This time because he had a lot of money in his pocket, everyone in the village looked at him with admiration. He said he worked for the richest families in the city and gained people's respect. He proudly told people about seeing the heads of the revolutionary party killed in the city. Because Ah Q had a lot of clothes, women who had avoided Ah Q before came to buy them. Mr. Zhao also wants to buy it. However, he felt that Ah Q was a bit suspicious and asked everyone to be on guard against him as a thief. In this way, he was kept at a distance in the village. Some idle people were pursuing the truth, and Ah Q told them without any concealment that he was not actually a thief, but only worked for thieves, and that those things came to him by chance. So those who stayed away from him began to laugh at him for not even being a thief.
Chapter 7 "Revolution": Rumors of the revolution spread to the village, causing unrest in the village. Ah Q saw the revolutionary party being killed and felt that he had become a revolutionary party, and the villagers began to please him. Ah Q, the "revolutionary party". Ah Q believed that the Revolutionary Party would definitely come for him, and he fell asleep dreaming of grabbing a lot of things. When he got up the next day and went to the nunnery to revolutionize, he found out that the fake foreign devils had already come and "revolutionized" decent things. This disappointed him.
Chapter 8 "No Revolution": Although there was a revolution, there were no significant changes. People only had their pigtails cut off when they walked onto the street and went home crying. Ah Q was very dissatisfied. After asking around, I found out that the fake foreign devil had become a high-ranking official of the Revolutionary Party. He also wanted to ask the foreign devils to let him join the Revolutionary Party, but the foreign devils who were giving a speech yelled at him and kicked him out. One night, Mr. Zhao's house was robbed. Ah Q went out to watch the excitement and saw the revolutionaries wearing the same clothes he had seen in his dream moving things in and out. Ah Q felt particularly sorry. He believed that this was because the fake foreign devils did not allow him to revolutionize, so the revolutionary party did not come to call him.
Chapter 9 "Happy Reunion": The robbery of the Zhao family caused panic in Weichuang. On the fourth day of the incident, the Tugu Temple where Ah Q lived was surrounded by the army, and Ah Q was easily arrested. He was sent to the prison in the city, but he didn't know why he was arrested. When he was brought to the court and saw rows of important people, his legs went weak unconsciously. Although he was ordered to stand up, he still did not stand up and knelt down. "Slavery," said one ringleader. He was put on trial for the Zhao family robbery. He told people that the revolution did not involve him in his anger. So the boss asked him to sign a piece of paper, but Ah Q couldn't read. He was asked to draw circles. He held a pen for the first time in his life. He wanted to draw a round circle, but when his hand shook, it ended up looking like a melon seed. He felt that this was the humiliation of his life, and he couldn't help but regret it. But when I thought about it, my grandson could only paint well, and I felt relieved again. One day, he was called out, put on white clothes, and got into a guarded car. He was very proud. Suddenly he realized that he was about to be beheaded, and his vision went dark. But he immediately became calm again: "It seems that in the world of life, it is inevitable to be beheaded sometimes." Among the crowd watching the excitement, he saw Wu Ma, whom he had not seen for a long time, but Wu Ma did not look at him, but at him. Holding the soldiers' foreign guns. At this time, he found that the eyes of those watching the excitement reminded him of the eyes of the wolf that had been chasing him four years ago, and then he finally escaped. Those eyes were all together as if biting at his "soul". He heard gunshots in his ears and felt his whole body burst into pieces.