Fortune telling in the teahouse

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.

Master song

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.

Qin

Qin is the owner of Yutai Teahouse and a new national capitalist who stepped onto the political stage after the Reform Movement of 1898. When he was young, he was soft-blooded, arrogant and arrogant, and even dared to be an enemy of the powerful eunuch Pang. He has a lofty ideal, that is, "saving the country through industry".

Master Chang

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. In the first act, he was arrested for saying that "the Qing Dynasty is going to be finished" and spent a year in prison. After he was released from prison, he joined the Boxer Rebellion and later made a living by selling vegetables. He is honest, kind, enterprising and full of sense of justice.

Extended data:

The Teahouse written by Mr. Lao She has spanned another fifty years. It reflects not only the point and face of society, but also the depth of the time axis, which is a three-dimensional change of the times. From the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898 in the first act, to the Republic of China in the second act 20 years later, and then to the victory in the third act 30 years later.

People in teahouses grow old with time, and what happens in teahouses has distinct characteristics of each era, but it is closely related to the past and the future. Whether the plot is reasonable or unexpected, whether the story makes people smile or sigh, it just reflects the style of an era.

A society can be reduced and projected into a small teahouse by Mr. Lao She. In this stage that "small is not a novel, big is not a big deal", ordinary people become the protagonists, and the three protagonists of the series show-Wang Zhanggui, Mr. Qin and Mr. Chang, except the shopkeeper, play a series of stories in every scene.

The life changes of Master Song and Master Chang were put behind the scenes. However, chewing these people's experiences carefully is actually the best reflection of people's helplessness in that turbulent era.

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