She is the writer Bing Xin. She has been writing about "love" all her life. There are stars in her eyes and warmth and happiness in her works. She was called "grandma in the literary world" and affectionately called "grandma Bing Xin" in her later years. But it is such a gentle person who was despised by many people in the Republic of China. Lin mourned her, Zhang Ailing said she was melodramatic, and Lu Xun sharply criticized her.
Growing up in a happy family
Bing Xin, formerly known as Xie Wanying, took his pen name from "There is a Bing Xin in the Jade Pot", which was adopted by 19 19 when he published his first novel Two Houses, and the word "Bing Xin" has been used ever since. Bing Xin was born in Changle, Fujian. His ancestors were tailors. It was not until his grandfather and even his father's generation that it gradually developed. Counting, Bing Xin was born in the "Wuyi family". Father Xie is a soldier, and mother Yang Fuci is an old-fashioned woman with a traditional education, but she is really a very open-minded person. She is a thoughtful woman who often reads newspapers, cares about the literary world and current affairs and politics, and attaches great importance to children's education.
Bing Xin has loved deeply since childhood. Although parents are arranged marriages, they sing with their wives, showing great love and harmonious family atmosphere. Bing Xin is the third child in the family, and the first two children died unfortunately, so the birth of Bing Xin injected joy into this warm family, and her parents loved her very much. Xin's mother undertook family education and taught her to read and write, while her uncle often told her stories, while her uncle followed her father as a clerk. In this atmosphere, Bing Xin fell in love with words and stories.
When she was very young, she couldn't read all the words, so she began to read books like The Three Kingdoms. She imagines what she doesn't understand, but enjoys it. When she was a teenager, reading had become the most important part of her daily life. She has read a lot of books, China's classical literature and western literature, and she is full of knowledge at an early age, which laid the foundation for her to set foot on the literary world in the future.
At the beginning of last century, women were imprisoned, not only ideologically, but also deprived of the right to go to school. But Bing Xin is lucky. Her parents are very supportive of her education, especially her mother. Mother plays an indispensable role in Bing Xin's adult life, giving her infinite love and tolerance, which is why Bing Xin has been eulogizing her mother's love when she embarks on the literary road in the future. 19 18, Bing Xin was admitted to United University to study medicine and determined to become a doctor.
However, the opening of the May 4th Movement in 19 19 also stirred Bing Xin's heart and began to publish her works under the influence of the current at that time. In August of the same year, Bing Xin published her first essay and novel in the Morning Post, which was the beginning of her literary career. Later, Concord Women's University merged into yenching university, where Bing Xin was able to meet more like-minded people, who also became her lifelong friends, such as Xu Dishan, Qu Shiying and Xiong Foxi. With the changes of the times, Bing Xin is more and more inclined to literature. So she gave up medicine to study literature, 192 1, and officially transferred to the Chinese department.
It was a coincidence that I met the lover of my life
1923, when Bing Xin graduated, she got a scholarship from an American school and could study abroad. But because her mother was ill at home at that time, Bing Xin could not be careful and hesitant. At this time, father Xie supported his daughter to go abroad, and mother tried to persuade her that her daughter was in good health and could study abroad with peace of mind. In this way, Bing Xin embarked on a ship to America. However, this trip made her meet the lover of her life-Wu Wenzao.
The encounter between Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao originated from a misunderstanding, which can be said to be a mistake and destiny takes a hand. It turned out that before going abroad, Bing Xin's classmates asked her to help take care of her brother Wu Zhuo, who was on the same boat. Bing Xin called a classmate named "Wu" on the boat, but she didn't call Wu Zhuo, but waited in Wu Wenzao. Later in the conversation, I realized that this person is not that person. But also because of this misunderstanding, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao met, and both sides had a good impression.
When they were both studying in the United States, they often corresponded and became familiar with each other. Later, Bing Xin went to Cornell University to study. It happened that Wu Wenzao was in this school at that time, and they went to the library to play together. On the occasion of a boating trip, Wu Wenzao confided to Bing Xin, and Bing Xin agreed. From then on, the two began a sweet love. After finishing their studies, they returned to China to teach together and got married in the summer of 1929.
The love between Wu Wenzao and Bing Xin is not vigorous, but full of warmth and love. Wu Wenzao doesn't have a romantic heart. He is dull and dull, but sincere. It is such a person who gave Bing A Xin a warm home. He guarded and accompanied Bing Xin through the ups and downs of life all his life.
The two have been married for 56 years. Young people meet and fall in love in a foreign country. They supported each other in the middle-aged war and never gave up. In their later years, they experienced ups and downs. Both of them have been engaged in education all their lives and have trained countless outstanding students for the motherland. Wu Wenzao made great contributions to sociology.
Talent is not weak, why is it criticized?
Bing Xin made great achievements in literature all his life. Her "To a Little Reader" became the cornerstone of China's children's literature. She has also made outstanding contributions to the development of children's literature. He joined the Literature Research Association in his early years and "literature for life" with other writers. In her later years, she also had a series of prose works, which were fresh, graceful and elegant. It is such an amiable, respectable and humorous writer who has been criticized and neglected by Zhang Ailing, Lu Xun and Lin.
Zhang Ailing is also a talented woman. She is smaller than Bing Xin. However, Zhang Ailing said: "The simplicity of Bing Xin is often a kind of pure melodrama." She thinks that Bing Xin and herself are not at the same level. Among the female writers of the same period, Zhang Ailing thinks that only Su Qing can be compared with herself. Zhang Ailing and Bing Xin have completely different family environment and growth experience, and their writing styles are also very different, not to mention her aloof personality, so it is not surprising to evaluate Bing Xin.
However, as the originator of China's modern vernacular novels and an insurmountable mountain of modern literature, Lu Xun, a literary warrior, also looked down on Bing Xin. Why? Bing Xin joined the Literature Research Association in his early years and wrote problem novels. It is reasonable to say that he is of the same clan as Lu Xun, but Lu Xun privately thinks that Bing Xin's works are too beautiful and not sharp enough. In the bloody reality at that time, how could he write works so divorced from the times and the people? This made Lu Xun look down on Bing Xin very much. Once, I heard that Bing Xin's works were banned, and Lu Xun's articles about Bing Xin were banned, which surprised him. The implication is that Bing Xin's article is not qualified to be banned, and it is a really good article that really throws the pen into the depths of national thought.
Bing Xin and Lin have a holiday. In fact, in earlier years, when Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao were at Cornell University, they also played with Lin and Liang Sicheng. At that time, the relationship was not that bad. Later, the deterioration of attention originated from Bing Xin's novel Our Wife's Living Room, which alluded to the famous cultural salon "Wife's Living Room" in Beijing cultural circle at that time. This salon was led by Lin and invited famous writers, scholars and poets to come to the living room every Saturday to talk. Lin, who was visiting Shanxi at that time, was very angry at the news, so she asked someone to send an altar of vinegar to Bing Xin, meaning that Bing Xin was jealous of her and jealous.
End of movement
In fact, the times changed rapidly at that time, and there were all kinds of voices in the literary world. Every writer has his own literary ideas and beliefs. Whether it is spicy and sharp, desolate and tragic, or as fresh and beautiful as Bing Xin, a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend, it is the best situation.