Mr. Lao She's "Tea House"

Mr. Lao She's "Tea House"

"Tea House" is a seemingly simple drama, only three short acts, fifty or sixty characters, after reading the text version, the heart of Mr. Lao She's "Tea House" admiration of the five bodies thrown to the ground.

Looking at the movies searched for the first time, the familiar lines seemed to be engraved in the brain, unwilling to have any omissions, and every character who appeared seemed to have a story of suffering behind him.

"Tea House" describes three scenes, one is the last year of the Qing Dynasty, the Yutai tea house business is prosperous, all the stories start from here, the tea house treasurer is exquisite, dealing with all kinds of people every day, etc.:

The righteous Fourth Master Chang, the Erdezi of the Fox Fake Tiger Wei, the Liu Mazi who talked about the media pulling fiber, the Tang Tiezui who smoked opium on the face, Qin Zhongyi who wanted to run a factory, the Eunuch Pang who wanted to buy a wife, and the poor woman who wanted to sell her daughter...

The second act takes place in the early years of the Republic of China, warlords are divided, civil wars continue, the tea house manager Wang Lifa keeps pace with the times, improves the operation, the story takes place the day before the tea house reopens: in the face of continuous cannon fire, refugees blocking the door, soldiers robbing money, agents who come to blackmail from time to time...

Chang Siye is no longer the former Chang Siye, Pang eunuch has died, the daughter-in-law Kang Shunzi who bought the original purchase and the son Kang Dali who bought came to the teahouse...

The third act takes place at the beginning of the victory of the War of Resistance, and the former "old people" and "old things" have gradually declined, including the business of the tea house, in contrast, the new evil forces are extremely active, and the rogue agents want to occupy the tea house that Wang Lifa has painstakingly operated for several years.

At this time, the characters who appeared were already Xiao Er Dezi, Xiao Liu Mazi, and Xiao Tang Tiezui, but they still followed the vices of the older generation and still did things that hurt heaven and nature...

Each character in "The Tea House" jumps out of the paper and comes to life, especially with the portrayal of the character image in the movie, which is endlessly evocative.

From the story of the teahouse, in terms of character image, what can we get?

1. Those who are not ashamed in their hearts

This kind of person reminds me of Wang Yangming's life, although sad, but in the twilight years, the heart is bright. Representatives of such people are Chang Siye and Qin Zhongyi.

Chang Siye was a flag bearer, a patriot with backbone and blood in old China, who was arrested and imprisoned for saying in a teahouse that "the Great Qing Dynasty will be finished."

After his release from prison, he joined the Boxer Rebellion to fight against foreign invaders, and later made a living selling vegetables and selling his strength to make a living.

Qin Zhongyi, he was a capitalist, he sold his fields, opened a factory to save the country, and eventually the factory was also encroached upon, and it became a joke.

He finally asked the wang treasurer to tell the tea guests about his affair as a joke:

At the beginning, there was such a Qin person who did not know what to do, who loved to run an industry. After decades of doing it, he only picked up such a small thing from the factory! You should advise everyone that if you have money, you should eat, drink, gamble, and act recklessly, but don't do good things!

Tell them where, Qin Someone is more than seventy years old to understand this big truth! He was born stupid!

When Qin Zhongyi said these words again, I thought that he was a kind of self-deprecation, telling his story in another way, and if he did it again, I believe that he would still choose to run a business instead of eating, drinking and gambling.

2. Those who do things that lack virtue

This type of person is also trying to survive, but their way is immoral.

The representatives of such people are: Liu Mazi, Tang Tiezui, Erdezi, Pang Eunuch...

Liu Mazi, bought a girl to give ten silver, turned around and sold to Pang eunuch two hundred and two silver, the black heart in the middle is not a little bit, Tang Tiezui smoked a big cigarette, and then changed to white noodles, drank tea without giving money, and lived by looking at each other.

Erdezi, the appearance of a fox and a fake tiger, only dared to cross in the nest, did not dare to fight foreigners in a straight and bright way, and was a bully who was afraid of the soft and afraid of the hard.

Not to mention Song Enzi and Wu Xiangzi, that is, a lord who gives money and who is a mother, who sells his life to whomever he wants...

This kind of person really responds to the sentence: "The son of a dragon born of a dragon, a phoenix born of a phoenix, and a mouse will punch a hole!" "Their descendants are doing their property.

Xiao Er Dezi is still a rogue thug, Xiao Liu Mazi is still inheriting his father's estate, Xiao Tang Tiezui is under his father's estate and has the desire to be a heavenly master, and Xiao Song Enzi and Xiao Wu Xiangzi are still sitting as spies.

I don't know how they ended, I think there will be no good ending.

3. The kind of people who suffer

In order to survive, they could not control their destiny, and the representatives of such people were Kang Shunzi, Second Master Song, Lao Chen, Lao Lin, Ding Bao, Zou Fuyuan and Wei Fuxi...

Kang Shunzi was sold by his father to Pang eunuch as a daughter-in-law, Pang eunuch was starved to death by his nephew, was driven out of the house, was taken in by the tea house owner Wang Lifa, suffered for a lifetime, fortunately finally defected to his adopted son Kang Dali, which is a good home.

Second Master Song, who can write and calculate, but after the fall of the Great Qing, he could not feed himself, but he was bent on raising a golden and noble yellow bird for himself, and after he died, he was the coffin of Chang Siye's incarnation.

Old Chen and Old Lin were deserters, fought most of their lives, earned a few silver dollars, and wanted to buy a daughter-in-law for the two of them, who knew that song Enzi and Wu Xiangzi snatched up a large part and continued their career of escape.

Entertaining the female Ding Bao, the commentator Zou Fuyuan and Wei Fuxi, the changes in the world have forced them to live hard.

4. Wang Lifa is in charge

Wang Lifa, as he himself said, has been a lifelong obedience to the people, and when he sees everyone, he asks for peace, bows, and bows.

I only hope that the children will have a job, frostbite, hunger, no disease and no disaster, and have been thinking of ways to improve the teahouse and adapt to the development of the times all their lives.

I have not done anything that lacks morality, I have not done anything that harms nature and reason, and I still can't live when I am old.

He seems to be sleek, but he let Tang Tiezui, who can't afford to drink tea, drink tea for a lifetime, and take in the homeless Kang Shunzi and Kang Dali, he is kind, all his sleekness just wants his tea house to open, and he has more justice in his bones.

When Song Enzi and Wu Xiangzi tried to arrest the students in his apartment, he used up the money; when Kang Dali of the Eighth Route Army returned, he did not turn them away.

When Grandma Pang Si wanted to force Kang Shunzi to be a hostage, he first let his son Wang Datuo give kang Shunzi away; when he knew that his tea house could not be saved, he let his daughter-in-law leave with his granddaughter Xiaohua and all the silver money, leaving him alone, ending his life with his belt.

Of course, there are many characters in the short teahouse, Cui Jiufeng, who does not care about himself, the newspaper boy who works hard, and Li San who runs in the teahouse... They're all toiling.

postscript

Is this the tragedy of the times? Perhaps, if we lived in that era, what kind of experience would we have had?

However, Lao She still gave us hope at the end, such as Kang Dali, who joined the Eighth Route Army, Wang Lifa's son Wang Datuo, and his granddaughter Xiaohua, all of whom went to the bright place.

Perhaps it is the existence of that era that has led to our happy life today, but modern people have more hardships in the life of modern people, then we just need to believe that everything will pass, just as the sun will definitely return.

As the last sentence in the book goes:

The new will always replace the old. Do not be too passive and lose confidence when encountering difficulties and obstacles, but should firmly believe that after the haze, there will eventually be a beautiful sunshine.

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About the author: Yu Qing, a northern woman living in the south, has the personality of a female man and the delicacy of a southern woman. An engineering woman who loves to write; a volunteer who loves environmental protection and public welfare, and a temperamental woman who loves to read and read aloud.