The role of the characters' personality characteristics and images in Teahouse in the novel.

Wang Lifa is the shopkeeper of Yutai Teahouse and the character of the whole play. He inherited Yutai Teahouse from his father, and also inherited his philosophy of life, that is, say more good things and bow more. He is timid, selfish, intelligent, capable and sociable, and takes different attitudes towards different people. In the dark old China, although Wang Lifa was good at socializing, managing and constantly improving, he could not resist the oppression of various reactionary forces. He also has strong dissatisfaction with this, but he expressed it very implicitly. It is such a small businessman who is good at dealing with the world, but still can't escape the fate of bankruptcy. Wang Lifa's tragedy is a true portrayal of the life and fate of ordinary people in old China.

Grandpa Chang was a standard-bearer in the Qing Dynasty and ate imperial grain. But he was dissatisfied with the corrupt Qing dynasty and hated foreigners even more. He was arrested for saying that "the Qing Dynasty was going to be finished". After he was released from prison, he joined the Boxer Rebellion. Later, he relied on his strength to sell vegetables for a living. He is honest, kind, enterprising and full of sense of justice. He made no secret of his dissatisfaction, and remained tough on catching his spies, but he gave timely help to worried Wang Lifa. It is such a person, and finally he is desperate and shouts, "I love our China, but who loves me?" This image represents the people of China who don't want to be enslaved, and reflects the resistance of the people of old China.

Mr. Song is also a standard-bearer. He is kind-hearted, but timid, lazy and incompetent. Before the demise of the Qing Dynasty, he idled about drinking tea and shooting birds all day. After the Qing Dynasty, "hard-core crops" disappeared, but he still lingered in his past life and refused to support himself. He would rather starve himself than let the birds starve. At the mention of birds, he was full of energy and finally starved to death. This is a typical example of the flag bearer's inability to make a living, which reflects the decay of feudal society in China. Cui Jiufeng: a revolutionary who takes the world as his duty-a defeatist who thinks that China will die.

Wu Xiangzi and Song Enzi: Evil villains who fall with the wind, bully the city and drag out an ignoble existence.

Pockmarked Liu, Tang Tiezui, etc. : a group of thugs. One is a matchmaker who sells people, and the other is a hemp farmer who tells lies in fortune telling. Such figures reflected the deformity and morbidity of the society at that time.