The True Story of Ah Q takes Weizhuang, a remote and backward rural town before and after the Revolution of 1911, as the background, and depicts a typical image of a farmer who has suffered serious material and spiritual injuries. Ah Q is a destitute person who has no tile on the top and no field on the bottom. He has no home and lives in Tugu Temple. I don't have a regular job. "Cutting wheat, chopping rice and punting boats." Judging from the living conditions of Ah Q, he was severely exploited. He lost his land and the foundation of independent life, and even lost his surname. Once he drank two glasses of yellow rice wine and said that he was originally from Grandpa Zhao's family. Grandpa Zhao stopped him and gave him a mouth, forbidding him to be surnamed Zhao. Ah Q's real situation is tragic, but he is always superior in spirit. The two chapters of the novel "Victory" focus on describing Ah Q's personality characteristics. He often boasted about the past: "We used to have much more money than you! What are you! " In fact, he is a little confused about his last name; It is often compared with the future: "My son will be much richer!" "In fact, he doesn't even have a wife; He is jealous of the scar on his head and thinks that others are "unworthy"; Being defeated by others, I thought, "I was finally defeated by my son, and the world is really disgraceful now …" So he won; When others asked him to admit that "people beat animals", he admitted contemptuously, "How about beating insects?" But it immediately occurred to him that he was the first person who could belittle himself. Except "belittle yourself", everything else is "first." Isn't the champion also the first? "So he won again. When all kinds of "spiritual victory laws" could not be applied, he punched two mouths in his face. Later, he felt that he was beating himself, and the other party was beaten, so he was satisfied with the resort again. He sometimes bullies people who are in a position without charges. For example, after being beaten by a fake foreign devil, I went to rub the scalp of a little nun as my "meritorious service" and reveled in the appreciation and laughter of others. However, this accidental "meritorious service" is still only a spiritual victory, as sad as his self-contempt and self-explanation. Ah Q's "spiritual victory method" is actually just a means of self-anesthesia, which makes him unable to face up to his miserable situation of oppression. His "victory story" is nothing but a record of slave life full of blood, tears and shame.

The work highlights Ah Q's "spiritual victory method" and shows many other complicated factors in his character. Ah Q's character is full of contradictions. Lu Xun later said: Ah Q "has the simplicity and stupidity of a farmer, but there are also some vagrants" (Note: "What's more? Send a letter from the editor of Drama Weekly). On the one hand, he was an exploited farmer, with a good labor force, simplicity and stupidity, and was influenced and poisoned by feudalism for a long time. He maintained some ideas in line with the Biography of the Bible Sage, and did not change the narrow and conservative characteristics of small producers: he maintained the "great defense of men and women" and thought that revolution was rebellion; I despise city people because they call the "bench" a "bench" and add shredded onion to fried fish. Anything that doesn't conform to Wei Zhaung's way of life is "heresy" in his view. On the other hand, Ah Q is a bankrupt farmer who lost his land. He wandered around and was forced to be a thief. He was infected with the cunning of some vagrants: he didn't admire Grandpa Zhao and Grandpa Qian and dared to "stare" with fake foreign devils; I also think that the villagers in Wei Zhuang have never seen fried fish in the city or beheaded them, which is ridiculous. Some characteristics of Ah Q's personality are not possessed by ordinary farmers in China's feudal countryside. Is to look down on city people and country people; From self-esteem to inferiority, and from inferiority to self-esteem, this is a typical character in such a typical environment as a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. On the one hand, the "spiritual victory law" in The True Story of Ah Q is the expression of the complex social contradictions in rural areas of modern China after the invasion of foreign capitalist forces, on the other hand, it is also determined by Ah Q's own specific experience. Starting from the life track and personality characteristics of farmer Ah Q, Lu Xun followed his own artistic creation habit-"Models don't need anyone" (Note: "Two hearts? Answer the question of Beidou magazine), which is highly summarized according to the needs of the subject. In the process of thought casting, it also highlights a certain point in the complex character of the characters, which makes a person have distinctive spiritual characteristics, thus shaping a profound and vivid model like Ah Q.