Abstract: As a modern civilian writer with the identity memory of bannermen descendants of Manchu nationality, Lao She always embodies strong ethical consciousness in his prose. This ethical consciousness is mainly reflected in the following three specific aspects: the first is to stick to the principle of “national interest comes above everything else” in the political atmosphere of the Anti-Japanese War; the second is never to forget to write vividly the detailed account of the daily secular human relations based on his own identity and memory as a civilian; the third is, influenced by the modern thoughts, to pursuit the essence and freedom of individual life in his lifetime. Lao She’s writing of multiple ethical shapes can not only manifest his great and profound ethical feelings, but also reveal to the readers his complex connotations and characteristics of his ethical cognition in different historical contexts.

Key words: Lao She’s prose; ethical consciousness; human relations; individual life