Reading "The True Story of Ah Q"

Mr. Lu Xun is a great writer, thinker and revolutionary in China. He has left many spiritual masterpieces for the world. "The True Story of Ah Q" is one of them. I am eager to open the book and begin to walk into the inner world of the tragic character of Ah Q.

Lu Qun’s Ah Q was exploited and oppressed by the feudal forces represented by Zhao Taiye. His social status was low and his life situation was very miserable. In his body, there are the advantages of the old Chinese peasants who defensive duty, the responsibility of doing things, and the shortcomings of conservative thinking, cognitive ignorance, and narrow consciousness.

Ah Q is one of the thousands of poor people. His understanding of the revolution is vague. Until the revolution of the 1911 Revolution, he saw that Zhao’s eunuch and other feudal rulers were eager to sweep the ground, but he began to yearn for the revolution, but he was thinking. He did not really understand the meaning of the revolution, and continued to comfort himself with his sad and ridiculous "spiritual victory method". He did not admit his superstition, was fascinated by the self-esteem of fantasy, or was psychologically satisfied by passing on humiliation. Sincerely. When these are useless, they deceive themselves and turn failure into a spiritual illusory victory. At this point, Ah Q did not wake up to death. Mr. Lu Xun used Ah Q’s “spiritual victory method” to criticize the Chinese people who were not consciously ideologically in that era and considered this to be one of the biggest obstacles to the awakening and rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Ah Q wanted to participate in the revolution, but he could not do what he wanted. Instead, he became a victim of the compromise between the revolutionary party and the feudal forces. He was sent to the guillotine and fell to the end of a "great reunion." The end of Ah Q, just like the ending of the Revolution of 1911; the tragedy of Ah Q itself is also the tragedy of the Revolution of 1911. Through the ending of Ah Q, the novel profoundly reveals the incompleteness of the Revolution of 1911. An important reason why this vigorous revolution eventually led to failure was that it did not fully mobilize and rely on the peasant people.

After reading "The True Story of Ah Q", my thoughts seem to have returned to the end of the Qing Dynasty. I saw the tragic life scene of the peasant people at that time. I saw the heroic scene of the revolutionary party going forward and charging forward. I also saw some of them like Ah Q. Chinese who are not awakened...

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