Ah Q comes from Mr. Lu Xun's novel "The True Biography of Ah Q", which tells the tragic life of farmer Ah Q. Mr. Lu Xun's characters have always been symbolic, full of high irony of the social acupuncture.
Ah Q is best known for his spiritual victory method, in short, arrogance and selective oblivion. Mr. Lu Xun used Ah Q to cut down the backwardness, pedantry and conservatism of the feudal era. Lu Xun's literary style is spicy, profoundly revealing the sufferings of the people at the bottom of society, and it is not outdated at any time.
Small and huge
There are many small characters in Lu Xun's pen. They are small, as small as ants, and they are large, so large that they cover the epitome of hundreds of millions of people. Ah Q is such a character, he himself is not good at mixing but despises everyone around him, feels good about himself, but his spiritual victory method is very effective, even if he lives very hard, he can still enjoy himself.
<h1>(i) Humble A Q</h1>
Ah Q's origins are extremely low, and he doesn't even have a proper name. Mr. Lu Xun once said that Ah Q may once have been surnamed Zhao. But unfortunately, the landlord Zhao Xiangsheng also had the surname Zhao. He would never allow such an inferior person as Ah Q to tarnish his surname, so Ah Q lost his surname under the threat of Old Master Zhao. If you don't even have a last name, it doesn't matter if you don't even have a first name.
A Q's ancestral home is also illusory and cannot be verified. If Ah Q is really surnamed Zhao, it can be judged according to the annotations on the "State Names and Hundred Family Names" that he is from Gansu Tianshui. But this is unreliable.
Although Ah Q often lives in Weizhuang, he sometimes stays in other places. Therefore, it is not simple to know who Ah Q is exactly "who". He can neither be said to be from Gansu nor weizhuang.
What is even more tragic is that after his death, his name was buried in the soil along with his body. When he was alive, everyone knew that he was called Ah Q, but after his death, no one knew which two words his name was, and even the author, Mr. Lu Xun, was difficult to know. As a person like him, his name is no longer important.
A Q is an ant-like character with no name, no hometown or even remembered by anyone. There is an innate humility permeated in his bones. This is very in line with the background of the times at that time, under the oppression of feudal ideas, everyone is pitiful and unaware, and Ah Q is the representative of that era.
<h1>(ii) The great A Q</h1>
There are two main reasons why he is great and not great. First, the shadow of many people was refracted in him, which was a huge shadow. Second, his spiritual victory method was too powerful.
Ah Q himself is in a low-level position in life, but he often looks down on others, so that after hearing him, everyone will frown darkly and scold a few times. This kind of person is not lacking at any time, think about what news we see on the Internet that all kinds of rich entrepreneurs or glamorous stars have come out, who will not fall into the well and talk about how many words? It's like people say, "People with a monthly salary of several thousand, but they care about whether people worth hundreds of millions of dollars are doing well."
Think about it, what qualifications do we have to evaluate them? If you really live better than them, you will not point fingers, judge your feet, and do yourself well is the most important. At least the vast majority of us have to think about food and clothing like A Q.
Ah Q is best known for his Spiritual Victory Method, which may make him "flow for hundreds of lifetimes". As a young man with three nothings, he has no power, and the other is incapable and even sloppy to no name. But he was never afraid of this, and he had his own unique way of facing a dull life.
Defeat the enemy in your imagination
Ah Q's psychological endurance and wound healing ability are extremely strong, and he can always find self-esteem in self-comfort after being beaten. For example, after Old Master Zhao beat him up, he did not feel that he had been hurt, but when he thought of Old Master Zhao's daily might, he was beaten by such a person and had a light in his face, at least a person who had entanglements with a big person.
No matter how much he suffered, he had never been bullied in Ah Q's spiritual world, and he could always concoct various reasons to balance himself psychologically.
Lemon essence psychology
We often say that a person is "sour" now, that is, when you can't get something, you denigrate it, say that it is not good, and achieve the purpose of self-comfort. And Ah Q can be described as the use of this technique, the use of pure fire. He himself was poor and destitute, and he liked to provoke little nuns, and when he met men and women talking on the street, he began to "sour" and said that people must have something to do.
Ah Q also likes to go to Wu Ma, and in one inadvertently Ah Q said "I want to sleep with you", which frightened Wu Mama. Since then, when the unpretentious women see him, they are desperately trying to stay away from him, as if they have lost their souls. And Ah Q is not ashamed of this, nor does he reflect on it.
He thought about all the unzhuang women, and finally came to the conclusion that "none of the women here are worthy of him." "Ah Q's mental psychology is very strong, and he paralyzes himself from the reality of the situation in his self-talk. So in his world, he was always a winner and never lost.
<h1>(iii) The pathetic and hateful Ah Q</h1>
A Q is alone, making a living by working as a farmer for others. He had no long-term plans, he just wanted to use his poor salary, drink a little wine, and have a good time at the gambling table. But he lived a very happy life, which can also be said to be self-amusement, pitiful and not self-aware.
Not worth pity
Ah Q himself did not have a real residence, and that Earth Valley Ancestral Hall was where he settled in Weizhuang. But such a decadent young man often looks down on the villagers. Once in the city, he could blow for a while, and when he came back, he became full of energy.
He was arrogant and conceited, and often ridiculed the villagers with "what a ridiculous countryman". This is similar to the current people He Zeng, who spent a few days in the city and closed his mouth is "how are you in the countryside, how are we in the city?"
But they are all interconnected neighbors and countryside, and everyone is very familiar with Ah Q. Who would believe that he had married his daughter-in-law and had a big fat boy. What's even more funny is that this person from the city has never even heard of fried fish and benches. Naturally, no one would pity him, he despised his neighbors on the one hand and could not integrate into the city on the other.
In this way, in such a small and ugly living environment that ordinary people cannot understand, Ah Q uses his pathetic thinking method to make himself fall into the abyss that is difficult to extricate himself. Repeating the same thing every day as yesterday, life has no life at all.
A Q is an out-and-out optimist, even overly optimistic. The most intuitive thing that is reflected in him is the servility and the deep-rooted inferiority of the people of that era.
Hope and hate
A Q's life is undoubtedly full of great contradictions and controversies. First of all, he was a peasant who had suffered from the oppression of the landlord class and withstood the ravages of feudal rule, and then he was a casual, arrogant, and low-minded bastard. He sometimes steals, but he also dares to fight with the great powers.
Ah Q is a "spiritual victory law scholar" who is arrogant, self-contemptuous, self-deceitful, and bullying soft and afraid of hard. These four words perfectly interpret the character of Ah Q, which also cast his life is destined to be a bleak life.
Ah Q is good at self-deprecation and self-deprecation, and believes that this behavior also contributes to the improvement of his status. When he was constantly touched on the wall by someone with his braids, Ah Q deliberately said that he was a worm and begged others to let him go.
After being liberated, he used his own arrogant system to fantasize that he was the first in the world. At this time, he has won again, and he can boast of it again.
A Q himself is very thin and weak, not good at words, often slightly inferior in fighting or cursing, but always likes to deliberately provoke things. Before each conflict, he would weigh it up beforehand so as not to lose too badly. If he encounters someone stronger than himself, he will reason with others, and after being beaten by someone, he can imagine that he has been beaten by his "son" in exchange for a little balance in his heart.
Ah Q is pitiful most of the time, but poor people must have something to hate, so it can be said that his life is also an abominable life. He has no career, no family, and doesn't even deserve a name. Zhou Zuoren once commented, "However, this hatred is not world-weary, and the negative is not all destruction."
<h1>(iv) End this miserable life in confusion</h1>
The first time Ah Q held a pen, it was when he was escorted to the execution ground to sign the pledge. He didn't want to be laughed at and did his best to draw the circle. However, it backfired, and in the end it was painted in the shape of a melon seed.
His spiritual victory law appeared for the last time, and he was relieved to think that only his grandson could draw the circle well. At the moment of execution, he shouted in confusion, "Twenty years later, he is still a good man."
The words fell, and his miserable life came to an end. The birth is not great, the death is slightly honorable. But in the end it was still lonely and nameless, and there was no one who remembered the way he wrote his name. It was as if he had never been here, but it was as if he had lived to the present.
<h1>epilogue</h1>
There is no doubt that Ah Q has never received the slightest favor and mercy from Heaven. His whole life was a self-inflicted pain, hopeless but still alive. But he was his own emperor. The realistic spirit and spicy pertinence exuded by Ah Q have not diminished at all. His spiritual victory method is a mirror of human weakness, Mr. Lu Xun abandoned the doctor to look directly at the bottom of the living state, and used the pen to poke the sleeping Countrymen.
In the true sense, "A Q Zheng Biography" "writes out the soul of a modern chinese.". Lamenting his misfortune and angering him, why is there no Q-like figure now?
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"A Q True Biography"
Movie version of "A Q Zheng Biography"