Spiritual Victory in The True Story of Ah Q

The beginning of modern literature usually dates back to Lu Xun's works, while the maturity of modern literature comes from Lu Xun's works. Lu Xun's novels are few, but many of them are masterpieces, among which The True Story of Ah Q is a household name and deeply rooted in people's hearts. The following is my collection of spiritual victory methods of The True Story of Ah Q for your reference, hoping to help friends in need.

The image of Ah Q created by Lu Xun in The True Story of Ah Q calls this character's spiritual victory the spirit of Ah Q ... The concrete manifestation is his arrogance, inferiority, hegemony, numbness and forgetfulness. It is through the incisive description of Ah Q's method of spiritual victory that Mr. Lu Xun shows this kind of mental illness, which is ubiquitous in the "soul of China people".

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Speaking of the spirit of Ah Q, of course, we should mention the "spiritual victory law". What is the essence of spiritual victory law? This question really needs deep thought. When talking about Ah Q, many foreign critics have pointed out that foreigners are weak and feel inferior, and many of them are like Ah Q, so Ah Q is the common weakness of human beings. However, Lu Xun's True Story of Ah Q mainly comes from China, and is not limited to the oppressed weak. The ruling class often deceives itself and others. More importantly, "face" is extremely important to China people. Regarding "face", Lu Xun also felt that "I don't want to be okay, but I feel confused when I think about it." However, from ancient times to the present, words like "giving face", "losing face", "losing face", "showing face" and "losing face" abound. Different people have various flexible usages in different occasions, not only Ah Q, but also others.

"Face" is often easily associated with "dignity" and "sense of honor" abroad, but it is actually quite different. Judging from Ah Q's performance, what he faces is nothing more than money, power, power and fame. Once he can't get these, he can only deceive himself with spiritual victory. However, the method of spiritual victory can't give Ah Q a comfortable way to live. In other words, China society cannot cultivate those maverick people. He lives under a kind of "public opinion", and he is consistent with social value standards. Moreover, under this value standard, whoever has more money has more obvious rights. For these, the masses are clear, and Ah Q knows it well. In this way, the method of spiritual victory will become popular in public.

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For truly powerful people, give up verbally, use words like "My son beat Lao Zi" to support face, and for weak people, "bully" to prove their strength. What he did to little D and little nun showed this. Only considering the first part of the spiritual victory law is incomplete, even very incomplete. China people are very materialistic and realistic. In a "three noes" traditional culture, it is impossible to survive by "spiritual independence". He should show the reason and value of his existence according to the socially recognized value standard. Of course, if Ah Q has the means to be rich, as written in Chapter 6, he can greatly look forward to saving the lost "face" in the past and turning the "spiritual victory" into a real and tangible victory. But this kind of opportunity is often rare, and the more realistic way to save face is to find the weak to show their strength. Ah Q made a mistake in subjective calculation and met Wang Hu, whom he despised, and was defeated. All the bad habits of Ah Q are shown in little D and little nun. Not only did he use these people to vent his anger (obviously his spiritual victory method could not convince himself), but he also felt dissatisfied when little D gave in. The more advanced Ah Q, as Lu Xun said, "Some winners are willing to be an eagle for the tiger, and he feels the joy of victory; If he is like a sheep or a chicken, he will find victory boring. ..... "This is an advanced spiritual victory method, and Ah Q is only the primary stage. But the essence is the same. When you're outside, you're king when you get home, so the excuse comes out. Their philosophy of survival is "gloating", which is the essence of modern Ah Q's "spiritual victory law".

I can cite many historical examples here: the cruel poison of a generation of ethnic representatives persecuted by other ethnic groups was the Song Dynasty, and the spiritual victory law only flourished after the Song Dynasty. Song Taizong was personally recruited by Liao people, but he was shot dead by an arrow from Liao people. After Qin Hui was captured by Jin people, he went to the desert and suffered from human sufferings. In the Yuan Dynasty, Yang Lian Jia Zhen stole the tombs of the Southern Song Dynasty and stole the treasures. Build a white tower with the bones of the emperor and miscellaneous cattle and horses, and intercept the top bone of Li Zong as a drinking vessel. This is a great insult to the Chinese nation, so at that time, the adherents of the Song Dynasty were listed as the most unforgettable feud and the most painful commemoration, which was closely related to the Yuan people. But they really can't retaliate with strength, so they have to make up a legend of "Holly" first, and then make up a legend that Yuan Shundi is the blood of the British emperor at the end of the Song Dynasty to comfort themselves.

In the early Qing dynasty, almost all the early emperors came from the Han nationality. Therefore, according to legend, Shunzhi was the son of the Kanto Hunter King and the Qing Taizong Concubine King. Yongzheng, David's fat son, was welcomed into the palace and became Wei Wei's concubine, but I didn't know she was pregnant. Gan Long is the son of Chen Ge, an old man in Haining. Gan Long travels south and lives in Chen Jia 'an Orchid Garden. When he learned that, he wanted to restore the clothes of the Han Dynasty. Fortunately, the queen mother failed. Therefore, there is a saying in predecessors' Ci in Qing Dynasty that "the clothes made in Han Dynasty are difficult to recover, and they reside in Cuikun An Lan". Unexpectedly, the story that Lv Buwei was captured by Lu Yi during the Warring States Period was so widely copied at this moment. No matter how secretive the palace is, it is not easy for outsiders to know, but it is unreasonable to exchange blood for luck. But why did our ancestors make such rumors? I think it is nothing more than this rumor. On the one hand, it can make me feel gratified by the shame of foreign rulers, and on the other hand, it can deceive myself to alleviate the pain of my failure. Understandable, but ridiculous! Another example is the debate between the Qing court and Britain about what kind of state system it was. This suggestion was put forward by Wu, who advised the court not to force it. The general idea is that foreigners are no different from animals for barbarians, and we humans compete with animals and are not proud of winning or losing. Another example is Zengxiang Fan's "Colorful Clouds", which describes a saying in Victoria after Britain: "The dragon on the river is a grandson, and the parrot caught in the middle is called the queen of heaven." Although this is a deliberate comparison with Wu Zetian, who is despised by Chinese people, it can be forgiven. When Sai Jinhua took a group photo with the Queen of England, (According to Sai Jinhua, the photographer in the same seat was the daughter of the Queen of England, that is, the Queen of Germany. See Kim's interview with Sai Jinhua. Fan Shigai misused it. He added, "Who knows what mountains and rivers look like, but they follow Yang Zhi's example." According to China's traditional concept, it is frivolous. If this poem had been translated into English, it would undoubtedly have caused serious diplomatic problems. These old-fashioned scribes are greedy for cheap and complacent writing, thinking that they are enough to wash away the shame of losing teachers and land, but they have actually lost the dignity of the Chinese nation. Because this and the above examples belong to the most despicable ah q spiritual victory method.