The novel mainly tells the suffering story of a foreign coachman, and describes how an upright, strong, decent and self-reliant foreign coachman was destroyed from body to soul in the old society. Xiangzi is kind and simple, and has a camel-like positive and tenacious spirit towards life. His only wish is to buy a car and work independently. Later, after three years of hard work, he bought a brand-new foreign car with his hard-earned money, but it didn't take long for the soldiers to take it away, and then the detective of the reactionary government cheated him out of all his savings. Tigress's inevitable "love" for him brought him physical and mental pain. I bought a car with Tigress's money, and it will be sold soon to arrange Tigress's funeral. After many twists and turns, his wish was finally completely shattered. His favorite happy suicide extinguished the last spark of hope in his heart. He lost any begging and confidence in life and went from hard work to being willing to fall. This tragedy powerfully exposed the crime of turning people into ghosts in the old society. It profoundly reveals the causes of production tragedy. This story reflects the life, fate and experience of the working people in Peiping at that time. Xiangzi was originally a man full of hope for life. He loves life and Peiping, but a series of setbacks make him hate the whole world!

I seem to see the overpass, the Drum Tower and the White Pagoda, which are archways, streets, car factories, painting academies and bustling crowds. This is old Beijing decades ago, but there is no idyllic happiness here, but Xiangzi's big feet keep running across the streets and alleys. Under the scorching sun, there are his difficult figures everywhere in the rain and snow. The whip of soldiers and bandits, Mr. Yang's exploitation, his scolding, the robbery of Detective Sun, and the indifference of foreign doctors, this is a real hell! Finally, Tigress died tragically, Joy hanged herself, the old horse's head fell to death in the street, and Xiangzi finally fell down and disappeared into a city gate hole ... This was the life of the working people at the bottom of Beijing in the 1920s. This vivid description made me realize the insurmountable tragic fate of rickshaw pullers, and let me deeply understand what it was like.

Xiangzi's tragedy is the product of his social life environment. By describing the characters and interpersonal relationships around Xiangzi, the novel truly shows the life of that dark society, the ugly faces of warlords, spies and car factory owners, and the distorted reflection of the oppression and oppressed relationship of Xiangzi by their ruling network.

The whole novel is vivid in language and vigorous in writing, and depicts the characters with distinct personalities. It is the masterpiece of Mr. Lao She. The sadness in the novel is thought-provoking, and the story is bizarre and touching. Therefore, it is a household name, translated into various languages, spread in many countries, and has a very important influence in the world literary world. What is said in this novel is indeed decades away from us now, and there must be artistic processing, but literature always comes from life, and it is a song in the lives of thousands of people in Qian Qian, Qian Qian. Through it, we can at least know that the society is so dark and the hope is so slim, because it happened in China not long ago, after all, in this age when the rooster is dying.

Now social stability and economic development. As teenagers, there are books to read, and people everywhere protect and encourage them. So we can't live up to the expectations of the new China. At least, we should learn from Xiangzi's enterprising spirit.