It tells the story that Wang Lifa, the owner of the teahouse, is bent on making his father's teahouse flourish. For this reason, he entertains in all directions, but the harsh reality makes him often ridiculed. Finally, it was swallowed up by a ruthless society. Qin, a national capitalist who frequented teahouses, went from ambitious industrial salvation to bankruptcy; Chang Yesi, the son of the Eight Banners, embarked on the road of self-reliance after the demise of the Qing Dynasty.

Taking Beijing Yulong Teahouse as the background, this paper describes the social features of Beijing in three historical periods: the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China and the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. With exquisite writing and ingenious artistic techniques, the author intercepted three fragments of the old era spanning half a century, and reflected the whole social background through the small window of the teahouse and the three religions and nine streams of people inside and outside the teahouse and their manners.

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Through the description and depiction of several typical characters in Teahouse, Lao She reveals and criticizes the historical features of social life in three historical periods: the late feudal period, the warlord scuffle in the Republic of China and the Kuomintang rule after the struggle.

The author describes and depicts these three historical periods in a declining teahouse in Beijing. Nearly half a century of society has been concentrated in this small world. The teahouse belongs to China people. A small teahouse can gather all kinds of people and races in this society, and people with different personalities and different status will gather here.

Lao She is unique in putting society in a teahouse, which can't be said to be unique. Lao She used the simplest and most vicious pen to sketch a timid, bold, powerful or smooth image of all beings with a few strokes.

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