A person, living in a semi-feudal and semi-colonial small water village in southern China, he has no surname, he is bullied and beaten by people, he can only laugh at himself and be beaten by his son, he likes to gamble and win money, he is robbed and injured, it is difficult to protect himself, and he also uses my son to comfort himself with strange ideas such as my son is stronger than you, and seeing people who are weaker than himself bullying fiercely... Who is he? Mr. Lu Xun's A Q is him.
The history of China after the Opium War in 1840 was a history of humiliation by imperialist aggression and plunder, and under this special history, the feudal ruling class formed a perverted psychology, on the one hand, humiliated and weak to the imperialists, and showed a slave appearance; on the other hand, it put on the shelf of the master's master against the people in the country, fiercely suppressed, and frantically exploited.
This "method of spiritual victory" of the ruling class and the feudal and foolish education of the people have caused the working people to gradually anesthetize, forget oppression and humiliation, have no resistance and lack of fighting spirit, and although there is a taiping heavenly kingdom and others to fight, under the joint strangulation of feudal forces at home and abroad, it has also become a short-lived flash, and the common people have been obedient to the situation, and they will always be in a state of oppression, exploitation, and poisoning, and become the slaves and submissive people of the feudal rulers. A Q is just one of them.
First, A Q exists alone and can never blend into the circles that think they are noble. The text says that Ah Q has no home and lives in the Tugu Ancestral Hall in Weizhuang; there is no fixed occupation, only to do short-term work for others, cutting wheat to cut wheat, scooping rice to scoop rice, and punching boats to punch boats. When he was working long hours, he could also live in the Lord's house, but he left as soon as he was finished. Therefore, when people are busy, they also remember Ah Q, but they remember the work, not him; when they are idle, even Ah Q has long forgotten, let alone people. At that time, people, who had been brainwashed by anesthesia and foolishness for a long time, naturally believed that all injustices and difficulties were normal, were satisfied with the status quo of survival, looked down on people who were weaker than themselves, and anesthetized by being bullied by people who were stronger than themselves. Who is A Q? Is it an individual? What is the point of life and death for me? This is a true portrayal of people in the land of China at that time. Is it okay now? Now we are indeed much better, we are hungry and have food to eat, cold and clothing, everyone can maintain basic dignity, will not be for no reason someone to beat you, bully you, we do not have to squeeze our heads to fit into the circle and environment that we do not like. We are free.
Second, Ah Q is cunning, and the Spiritual Victory Method is used perfectly. Ah Q's wife is not, seeing that Old Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Qian are greatly respected by the villagers, I think that my son is much stronger than you; when arguing with others, I can't win and say, "What are you, my ancestors are much wider than you", Ah Q has no surname in this life, where to find the ancestors? Anyway, no one cares; when there is a leprosy head, people make fun of it, and they say "You are not worthy...", as if the leper is very glorious, others are not qualified to be born; when there is a conflict with the idle person, it is said that he was beaten by his son again, and the son said that he was beaten by the group, and he starved himself as a worm, only to be beaten lighter; gambling money was beaten and robbed, and a very white and bright pile of foreign money disappeared from his eyes, Ah Q felt angry for the first time, but after the anger, he remembered that it was not himself, and he could say it, drink two sips of wine, Slightly drunk, I can sleep peacefully again. Does A Q have a temper? I believe that people have tempers, as the saying goes, mud bodhisattvas have three points of earthiness, rabbits will bite people when they are anxious, and A Q's final anger also shows that he also has a personality, but he did not have a seizure, why? The little man uses the spiritual victory method to carry out self-anesthesia in order to escape reality, but he also knows in his heart that he needs to survive in society and money is indispensable. The so-called escapism is nothing more than not touching the bottom line and surviving.
Third, Ah Q is not just a person, he is a combination of personal obscurity and the obscurity of the times. Ah Q was a true manifestation of the collective personality or national character at that time, and Ah Q, who could not stand up on his knees, had already incorporated the servility of the knee into his bones, and we can assert that he was not born like this, just as The Earth was not called the class-defined title of Lord from an early age. What makes all individuals insensitive? When encountering the first injustice, everyone must believe in the imperial court and believe in the government, those in power do not uphold justice for the unjust, after many times they will try to resist, after the resistance is brutally suppressed, there will be only numb obedience left; when they do not understand things, they see Old Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Qian standing in front of the ancestral hall generously when they celebrate the New Year or major festivals, when they say that they are the heavens and the hope of survival, when they grow up, they see that the guys around them are tired and have to live every day, or they can't eat enough and can't wear warmly, and Old Mrs. Zhao, Old Mrs. Qian didn't have to do anything, just a generous statement but did not worry about eating and drinking, the five corners of the small money he earned had a triangle when he was too grandfather, he had inexplicable resentment in his heart, and when he was beaten by idle people twice and blackmailed by the land security, he only had the respect that hurt to the bone.
Fortunately, the era of ignorance has passed, but the ignorant people are still emerging in an endless stream, we all put the responsibility to the times, let alone attributed to the individual, individuals are born as human beings, there is nothing wrong with itself, what is wrong is the whole person. The inferiority of a group is not decided by one person, but by all people. We can do ourselves well and protect ourselves.