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A historical celebrity with an A in his name.
Ah Q: Ah Q ("Q" is not pronounced as "Q" here, but as "Gui") is the protagonist in Lu Xun's novella "The True Story of Ah Q", and Ah Q is a peasant image that has been seriously hurt both materially and spiritually. He lives at the bottom of society and suffers from oppression and humiliation. However, he can't face up to his miserable situation of oppression and can only comfort himself. Even if he was humiliated or even beheaded, he considered himself a spiritual "winner". Later, people often used Ah Q as a synonym for this "spiritual victory method" that comforted themselves with imaginary victory.