Through vivid plots, The True Story of Ah Q has successfully created a number of artistic images, especially Ah Q, who is flesh and blood, vivid and distinctive in personality, and contains profound social and historical content, and has become an immortal artistic model.

In 1980s, scholar Lin Xingzhai summed up ten aspects of Ah Q's personality: simplicity, ignorance and smooth rogue; Honesty, willfulness and orthodoxy; Self-esteem and inferiority; Competitive, submit to humiliation; Narrow-minded, conservative, blindly following the fashion; Reject heresy and yearn for revolution; Aversion to power, attachment to situation; Overbearing and cowardly; Sensitive taboos are numb and forgetful; Dissatisfied with the status quo, content with the status quo (see On A Q's Personality System in Related Materials). This comprehensively summarizes Ah Q's contradictory and complicated personality characteristics.

Ah Q is a wandering farm laborer in Wei Zhuang. He has no tile on the ground, no field on the ground, and only lives by selling his own labor. "When you cut wheat, you cut wheat, and when you smash rice, you punt." He was brutally exploited, oppressed and humiliated, and was at the bottom of society. This book is already very sad, but it is particularly sad that he was brutally persecuted by the ruling class, numb and forgetful, self-deprecating, self-deceiving, and even bullying the weak to vent his injustice of being oppressed by others. It is at this level that the novel depicts Ah Q's character.

The main personality characteristic of Ah Q is the method of spiritual victory, that is, to achieve spiritual satisfaction and victory in imagination with a self-explanation method for the humiliation and failure in fact. The two chapters of "Victory Strategy" and "Continued Victory Strategy" mainly depict the character Ah Q. He is very vague about his life experience, but when arguing with others, he will say, "We used to have much more money than you!" What are you! " ; He is embarrassed in life and has a low status. He can't even marry a wife, but he falsely boasts that "my son will have a lot of money" and shows blind arrogance. He is jealous of the scar on his head, and he is very upset, but when others insist on making fun of his scar, he will say "you don't deserve it", so he thinks that the scar on his head is unusual and "a noble and glorious sore"; When he was caught by a yellow braid and hit his head against the wall, he stood for a moment and thought, "I was finally beaten by my son, and the world is really disgraceful now ..." It showed his self-deception; Later, people beat him and asked him to admit that it was not his son who beat Lao Tzu, but the man who beat the beast. Ah Q was forced to say, "How about fighting insects?"? "I am a bug, don't let it go?" Should he give up now? No, he thought: He is the first person who can "degrade himself". Apart from "demeaning yourself", "the rest is the first rule". Isn't the champion also the first? "He won again in spirit; When the foreign money he won by gambling was robbed and he couldn't get rid of the "sudden unhappiness", he turned his mental frustration into victory by pretending that he was playing "another" and showed his self-destruction; Being hit on the head by Wang Hu is "the first humiliation in this life", eating a fake foreign devil's "funeral stick" is "the second humiliation in this life", and pretending to be "Long Hudou" with Xiao D, flirting with a little nun, showing its fear of bullying; Ah Q pursued Wu Ma and was scolded by Zhao Xiucai. After a while, he heard a noise outside and saw Wu Ma crying there. " He wanted to find out, so he approached Zhao. At this moment, he suddenly saw Uncle Zhao running towards him, holding a big rip-off in his hand. When he saw this big rip-off, he suddenly realized that he had been beaten, which seemed to be related to this excitement ... "It showed Ah Q's incredible forgetfulness and numbness. Ah Q failed everywhere in reality but won with this magic weapon. This "spiritual victory method" is like an anesthetic, anesthetizing every nerve of him, making him unable to understand his tragic fate, living a life inferior to slavery, and never waking up until his death. At the end of his life, Ah Q comforted himself with "Sun Tzu drew a very round circle" and shouted: "Twenty years later, another one ..." His character remained unchanged until his death.

Ah Q's "spiritual victory law" is the epitome of the inferiority of the whole nation.

Through the portrayal of Ah Q, the novel profoundly reveals the manifestations and serious harm of Ah Q's "spiritual victory method", "exposing suffering and attracting medical attention", enlightening people to cheer up and abandon the spiritual shackles that hinder progress.