1 and 1898, the Reform Movement of 1898 failed. One early autumn morning, Yutai Teahouse opened, and the owner Wang Lifa sat on the counter with great interest. Tired of walking the birds, the flag-bearers in twos and threes went into the teahouse to have a rest and drink tea. There are two tea drinkers singing Beijing opera, while the others are looking at the crickets in the jar around the table. The teahouse is full of "no talk about state affairs" notes.
But often grandpa four insists on talking about state affairs. He hates foreigners, people who eat foreign food and speak foreign languages, and people who work in camps like Erdez. He was arrested and imprisoned by two spies, Song Enzi and Wu Xiangzi, for saying that "the Qing Dynasty will be finished soon".
The treacherous fortune-teller Tang Tiezui came to beg for a bowl of tea, and the matchmaker Liu Mazi also came to sell his 15-year-old daughter Kang to the eunuch Pang in his seventies as his wife. Qin, who advocated saving the country by industry, came in and said that he wanted to run factories and reform.
2. During the warlord scuffle in the early years of the Republic of China. At this time, Yutai Teahouse gradually declined, and Wang Lifa, the owner of the teahouse, actively catered to the trend and implemented improvements, but it was still difficult to maintain. Main players: Wang Lifa, Chang, Liu Mazi, Tang Tiezui, Song, Song Enzi, Wu Xiangzi, Kang, etc.
Teahouse shows a chaotic and declining social picture: Master Chang was released from prison; Kang and his mother Junko escaped from the palace; Pockmarked Liu, the procuress, was beheaded in a fog; Two deserters want to marry.
The teahouse business is light, the area is reduced, and it is painstakingly managed to try to improve. After the "improvement", it was unlucky before it opened, and spies, patrolmen and soldiers of fortune came to extort money. Song Enzi and Wu Xiangzi suddenly became the lackeys of warlords.
After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Kuomintang agents and American soldiers ran roughshod over Beijing. At this time, Yutai Teahouse was even more dilapidated, and only the note "Don't talk about state affairs" was written more and the words were bigger. Kang's mother is discussing going to Xishan to find Kang Dali. Xiaodingbao, who was introduced as a waiter by Pockmarked Liu, also went into the teahouse to talk to the old shopkeeper.
Pockmarked little Liu Liang came up with his evil plan to kidnap women to Tiezui, Tang Xiao. Xiao erdezi, a thug hired by the Kuomintang Party Department, ran to the teahouse to arrest people, while grandma came to intimidate Wang Lifa and asked him to hand over Kang.
The famous chefs who arranged the Manchu-Han banquet were forced to go to the prison to steam steamed buns, saying that the famous chefs who wrote books could not earn three cakes of noodles at a time. Fourth Master Chang's life was even worse. Qin's factory was robbed and Wang Lifa's teahouse was occupied. At this time, grandpa four and Qin came to the teahouse one after another and had a heart-to-heart talk with the old shopkeeper who had been away for many years.
They told each other their misfortunes and threw paper money for themselves in tears. At this time, the lights in the teahouse gradually dimmed, while the sunshine in the street gradually lit up.
Extended data:
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 brushstrokes to outline a timid, bold, powerful or smooth image of all beings.