In "The Liu Family Courtyard", Lao She depicts the distinctive lower-class characters living in the Liu Family Courtyard. The language is simple and funny, and he uses innuendo many times in the novel. Languages ??such as "civilized man's cat urine" and "civilized man's urine" constitute Lao She's unique novel style.

Lao She uses the death of the Wang family’s daughter-in-law as the main thread of the whole text to focus on depicting the lives of the Wang family, the Zhang family and me. By using characters' self-reports, Lao She criticized poor people like Lao Wang and Xiao Erniu who had serious personality distortions. Lao Wang was originally a gardener from a foreign family, and his son worked as a mason outside the city. It can be said that his life was not rich, but Lao Wang regarded himself as a civilized person all day long, and regarded feudal ethics as his moral standard. He was quite proud of himself, but he did not He treats his daughter-in-law as a human being and never looks down upon her. He treats his daughter-in-law as a piece of merchandise, because he bought it with a gift of one hundred yuan. One year, the father and son also returned the favor. Not understanding the deficit, Lao Wang took it out on his daughter-in-law. What was even more disgusting was that he did not beat his daughter-in-law himself, but only punished her physically and tortured her mentally.

He shamefully instigated his son to beat his younger wife, and she despicably asked her daughter, Xiao Erniu, to torture her younger daughter-in-law. The little girl was just as bad as her father. She studied in school with the help of foreigners, so she thought she was great and looked down on others. Just like his father, he relies on the power of others. He is obviously a slave to others, but he also regards it as an honor. From this, we can see the strong servility of these people. And what about Xiao Wang? His character is not as bad as that of his father, Lao Wang, and Xiao Erniu, but he is still poisoned by feudal ethics. In order to take care of his foolishness and filial piety, he repeatedly hits his wife with heavy fists. All these devastations and tortures finally left the little daughter-in-law with no way to survive. We can say that Lao Wang is the culprit who killed his little daughter-in-law, and Xiao Wang and Xiao Erniu are actually Lao Wang's accomplices.

We can see from the novel that people like Lao Wang and Xiao Erniu are indeed pathological. They obviously live in this dilapidated Liu family compound with other poor people, but they think they are She is superior to others, but she is obviously a pauper herself. The foreign lady gave her one hundred yuan because she worked hard for her and because it was deducted from Lao Wang’s salary. It can be said that Lao Wang did not get any advantage from the foreign lady, but why He is still smug and feels very satisfied in his heart? This is because they are a group of people who are used to being slaves. Under the influence of feudal ethics, they have no independent personality. They are used to their masters and have formed a habit of following their masters. Masters as glorious universal values, they have been poisoned and cannot be called people in the full sense.

The poor people at the bottom of society are not only materially poor, but what is even more tragic is that the pathological civilization has distorted their way of looking at the world. Their own servitude makes them flatter the masters and wives, but at the same time By bullying and enslaving those who are weaker than themselves, in a cycle of tragedy and under the absolute rule of a sick civilization, the spiritual poor can never see the dawn of hope and enjoy true civilization.