Bing Xin (19001010.5-1999.2.28) was born in Changle, Fujian, and was originally named Xie Wanying. Modern famous female writers, children's literature writers and poets are called "century old people" because they have just spent a century, and they are deeply loved by the people.
1900 10 was born in a family of naval officers with patriotism and reformism in Fuzhou. Her father Xie took part in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to fight against the Japanese invaders. Later, he founded the naval school in Yantai and became the principal.
Bing Xin moved to Shanghai with her family seven months after her birth.
When I was 4 years old, I moved to Yantai, Shandong Province, and lived by the sea in Yantai for a long time. The sea has cultivated her temperament and broadened her mind; Her father's patriotism and ambition to strengthen the country also deeply influenced her young mind. One summer evening, Bing Xin and her father were walking on the beach together. On the beach, facing the red light of the sunset glow, Bing Xin asked his father to talk about the sea in Yantai. At this time, her father told his little daughter that there are many beautiful harbors along the northern coast of China, such as Ahava, Dalian and Qingdao, which are all beautiful, but they are all occupied by foreigners. "It doesn't belong to us in China" "Only Yantai belongs to us!" Father's words were deeply imprinted on young Bing Xin's mind. In Yantai, Bing Xin began to study. During her initial study at home, she came into contact with China's classical literature. At the age of seven, she read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin. At the same time, I also read Say No Series published by the Commercial Press, including The Story of a Piece of Meat by Dickens, a famous British writer, and other critical realism works in the19th century. When reading the story of "A Piece of Meat for the Rest of My Life", when poor David ran out from the abusive shopkeeper to find his aunt, Bing Xin cried and pretended to be a bun that his mother gave her as a snack on the trip.
After the Revolution of 1911, Bing Xin returned to Fuzhou with her father and lived in a big courtyard behind Wanxing Tongshi Store in Nanhou Street Yangqiao. Grandpa's big family lives here, and there are many couplets on the pillars at home, all written by Bing Xin's uncles. This house was originally the residence of Lin Juemin, one of the 72 martyrs in Huanghuagang. After the accident, the Lins were afraid of being punished, so they sold their house and took refuge in the countryside. The person who bought this house is Bing Xin's grandfather, Mr. Xie Shuan. Here, Bing Xin was admitted to the preparatory course of Fuzhou Women's Normal School with 19 12, becoming the first girl in Xie's family to formally enroll.
19 13 years, his father Xie went to Beijing National Government as the director of the Military Science Division of the Navy Department. Bing Xin moved to Beijing with his father and lived in the top lane of Tieshizi Hutong. The following year, he entered Beiman Girls' Middle School. 19 18, promoted to the Science Fund of United Women's University, hoping to become a life-saving doctor.
With the rise of the New Culture Movement and the outbreak of the May 4th Movement, Bing Xin closely linked her destiny with national rejuvenation. She devoted herself to the trend of the times and was selected as a student union document, so she joined the publicity unit of Beijing Women's Federation. Encouraged by the patriotic student movement, she published her first essay "Thoughts on the 21st Hearing" and her first novel "Two Families" in19/morning post in August. The latter first used the pen name "Bing Xin". Because the work directly involves major social issues, it will soon have an impact. Bing Xin said that it was the thunder of the May 4th Movement that "shocked" her writing. Later, he wrote "problem novels" such as When You Are Lonely, Helpless and Poor, Going to the Country, and Autumn Rain is Coming, which highlighted the destruction of human nature by feudal families, the fierce conflict between the two generations in the New World and the pain brought to the people by warlords. At that time, Concord Women's University was merged into yenching university, and Bing Xin joined the famous literature research society as a young student. Under the banner of "for life", her creations flowed out continuously, and she published the novel Superman and the poem Stars and Spring Water, which attracted the attention of critics, aroused the response of social literary circles, and thus promoted the writing trend of "short poems" in the early stage of new poetry.
1923, Bing Xin won the Wellesley Women's University Scholarship with excellent results. Before and after studying abroad, she began to publish a series of communication essays with "To a Little Reader" as the general title, which became the cornerstone of children's literature in China. Bing Xin, who is in her early twenties, has become a minor celebrity in China's literary world.
Bing Xin met Wu Wenzao on President Jackson's cruise ship to America. Bing Xin studied for a degree in literature at the Institute of Wellesley Women's University, and Wu Wenzao studied sociology at Dartmouth College. By communicating with each other, they gradually deepened their understanding. 1925 In the summer, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao went to Cornell University to study French. In the beautiful campus and quiet environment, they fell in love.
From 65438 to 0926, Bing Xin returned to China with a master's degree in literature, while Wu Wenzao continued to study for a doctorate in sociology at Columbia University. After returning to China, Bing Xin taught in yenching university, Beiping Women's College of Arts and Sciences and Chinese Department of Tsinghua University.
1On June 5th, 929, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao got married in Linhuxuan, yenching university, and Si Tuleideng presided over their wedding. After marriage, Bing Xin continued to write. Her works sincerely praise maternal love, childlike innocence and nature, but also reflect her careful observation of social inequality and life of different classes. Her pure and meaningful writing also reveals a little irony. The representative novels are Fen by 193 1 and Girl by 1933, and the excellent prose is 193 1 South Return-Mother in Heaven.
1932, Beixin Bookstore published the Complete Works of Bing Xin in three volumes (novel, prose and poem), which is the first complete works of modern literature in China.
From 65438 to 0936, Bing Xin and her husband Wu Wenzao went to Europe and America for a year. They visited Japan, the United States, France, Britain, Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union and other places extensively. In Britain, Bing Xin had a dialogue with Woolf, a pioneer writer of stream-of-consciousness novels. They talked about literature and China while having afternoon tea.
From 65438 to 0938, Wu Wenzao and Bing Xin left Beiping with their children in the bonfire of the Anti-Japanese War, and went to Kunming, Yunnan, the rear area, via Shanghai and Hong Kong. Bing Xin once volunteered to teach in Chenggong Simple Normal School, and experienced the hardships and hardships brought by the war with the whole nation.
1940 moved to Chongqing and became a member of the National Political Council. Soon after, he joined the Anti-Enemy Association of China literary and art circles, enthusiastically engaged in cultural salvation activities, and wrote influential prose chapters such as About Women and Sending Young Readers Again.
After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, she went to Japan with her husband and sociologist Wu Wenzao in 1946+0 1. She lectured at the Japanese Oriental Society and the Department of Literature of Tokyo University, and was later hired by Tokyo University as the first foreign female professor to teach the course "China New Literature". During their stay in Japan, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao United and influenced overseas intellectuals under complicated conditions and actively engaged in patriotic, peaceful and progressive activities. As a loyal patriotic intellectual, Bing Xin inherited the fine tradition of China intellectuals. Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, and the pursuit of light will never stop. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, she had contact with Zhou Enlai and published an article in the progressive journal at his request. Zhou Enlai invited her to visit Yan 'an. Although she didn't succeed, their hearts were connected.
During the War of Liberation, Bing Xin refused to participate in the election of the "National Congress" and supported his relatives to go to the liberated areas.
At the beginning of the founding of New China, she lived in Japan, caring for the motherland, and resolutely supported Wu Wenzao's just move to get rid of the Kuomintang clique.
Encouraged by the new situation of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wu Wenzao and Bing Xin risked their lives to break through numerous obstacles and returned to the motherland on 195 1. Settled in Beijing from then on. Premier Zhou Enlai cordially received Wu Wenzao and Bing Xin and affirmed and encouraged their patriotic behavior. Bing Xin felt the cheerful heart of the new China and devoted her energy to various cultural undertakings and international exchange activities in the motherland. During this period, she visited India, Myanmar, Switzerland, Japan, Egypt, Romania, Britain, the Soviet Union and other countries to spread the friendship among people all over the world. At the same time, she published a large number of works, praising the new life of the motherland and the people. She said, "We don't have winter here" and "We wake up in spring". She is diligent in translation and has published many translations. A large number of essays and novels written by her have been included as Little Orange Lantern, Ode to Cherry Blossoms, Small Prizes for Picking Ears and so on. As we all know, it is widely circulated.
After the Cultural Revolution began, Bing Xin was hit, his family was copied and entered the "bullpen". In the scorching sun, he was criticized by the rebels. 1At the beginning of 970, Bing Xin, who was 70 years old, was sent to the May 7th Cadre School in Xianning, Hubei Province for labor reform. It was not until 197 1 that US President Nixon was about to visit China that Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao returned to Beijing to accept the translation task assigned by the Party and the government. At this time, together with Wu Wenzao, Fei Xiaotong and others, she completed the translation of Outline of World History and World History. Under the extremely abnormal economic construction and political life in this country, Bing Xin, like her people, is in trouble and thinking. During the ten-year "Cultural Revolution" turmoil, despite being treated unfairly, she faced everything calmly and firmly believed that truth would prevail. She has always been concerned about the progress of the socialist motherland and the improvement of people's lives. She once wrote in the article Impression of the Century: "In the past 90 years, my love for the motherland and the people has always been rock-solid." Practice has proved that Bing Xin is a good friend of the Party through thick and thin.
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh China Producers' Party, the motherland entered a new historical period, and Bing Xin ushered in a miraculous second creative climax. She doesn't know that old age is coming, and she has always maintained the noble quality of constant thinking, enterprising forever and selfless dedication.
From June 65438 to June 0980, Bing Xin suffered from cerebral thrombosis and then fracture. Illness can't make her put down her pen. She said, "Life begins at the age of eighty". Her short story "Empty Nest" published that year won the National Excellent Short Story Award. Later, he created masterpieces such as "Everything is Top Grade ……" and "Monks in the Distance". In prose, in addition to Three Letters to Young Readers, he has successively created four series of articles: As I Think, My Autobiography, About Men and Fu Jian's Miscellanies. Its large number, rich content and unique writing style have made her literary achievements reach a new height and become a magnificent landscape in her later years. My Request, My Thank You and Letter to a Reader published at the end of 1990s all spoke the truth in an honest, frank and earnest tone, showing her deep love for the motherland and people. She has donated more than RMB100000 to the primary schools in her hometown, the National Hope Project, the China Rural Women's Education Development Fund, Anhui and other people in disaster areas. She enthusiastically responded to Ba Jin's initiative to establish China Modern Literature Museum, donated a large number of books, manuscripts, calligraphy and painting, and took the lead in establishing Bingxin Library. As the people's diplomatic envoy, Bing Xin frequently visited all over the world, bringing the literature and culture of China and the friendly feelings of the people of China to every corner of the world. She has made outstanding contributions to national reunification and promoting friendly exchanges with people all over the world. She is a shining example of patriotic intellectuals in our country.
199212 On February 24th, Bing Xin Research Association, a national social academic group, was established in Fuzhou, with the famous writer Ba Jin as its president. Since then, a series of research and activities have been carried out.
1995, The Complete Works of Bing Xin was published by Straits Literature and Art Publishing House, and a publishing forum was held in the Great Hall of the People in the same year. Zhao Puchu, Lei Jieqiong, Fei Xiaotong, Han, Wang Meng and Xiao Gan published the summary of the symposium, and spoke highly of Bing Xin's great literary achievements and broad spirit of love.
In order to publicize Bingxin's literary achievements and spirit, the Standing Committee of Bingxin Research Association proposed that Bingxin Literature Museum be established in Changle, Bingxin's hometown, under the direct leadership of Fujian Federation of Literary and Art Circles, with the approval of China Fujian Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government. There is a large-scale exhibition of Bing Xin's life and creation, Bing Xin Research Center, conference hall and living room, covering an area of 13 mu, with a construction area of 4,500 square meters. It was officially completed and opened for business on August 25th. 1997.
1999 bing Xin died in Beijing hospital on February 28th at the age of 99.
After Bing Xin's death, the Party and people spoke highly of her, calling her "an outstanding literary master in China in the 20th century, a loyal patriot, a famous social activist and a close friend of the Communist Party of China (CPC)." In other words, Bing Xin's achievements and contributions are manifold. She dedicated her life to her children, to the motherland and the people, to the whole society and all mankind.
Bing Xin, a contemporary of the century, has been writing for 75 years, following the changes of the century all his life. She is a veteran of the New Literature Movement. Her creative process shows the great track of the development of modern and contemporary literature in China from the May 4th literary revolution to the new period literature. She created a variety of Bing Xin's literary styles and carried out solid literary modernization practice. She is the first generation children's literature writer in China, a famous novelist, essayist, poet and translator in modern China. Her translated works, such as The Prophet by Ji Bolun in Lebanon, Sand and Foam by Tagore in India, Kitangari by Tagore in India, Gardeners Collection and many other plays, are recognized as excellent literary translations and awarded the National Cedar Medal by the Lebanese President (1995). Her literary influence transcends national boundaries, and her works have been translated into foreign languages, which has been appreciated by readers at home and abroad.
Bing Xin is also a famous social activist. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, she has served as a member of the second and third councils of the Chinese Writers Association, secretary and consultant of the Secretariat, member and vice-chairman of the second and fourth national committees of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy, deputy to the first to fifth National People's Congress, member of the fifth to seventh Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Standing Committee, member of the eighth and ninth National Committees, vice-chairman of the National Children's Welfare Foundation and member of the Standing Committee of the China Women's Federation. With great love for the motherland, people and children, she has always paid attention to and devoted herself to various activities. She has made outstanding contributions to the development of literature, women and children in China, and to upholding and improving the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system led by the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Bing Xin's famous saying is "With love, there is everything". Her words and deeds all her life, all her millions of words, all show her incomparable love for the motherland and people and confidence in the future of mankind. She loves all the outstanding cultural achievements accumulated by the Chinese nation and all mankind through history. She loves life, beautiful things, and the appearance and character of roses. Her innocence, kindness, fortitude, courage and integrity make her enjoy a high reputation among readers at home and abroad. The people of China are proud to have such a literary master as Bing Xin.
1March 999 19, in the first farewell room of Babaoshan revolutionary cemetery, people bid farewell to Bing Xin in a unique way. There is no cold in the past, no black veil and no white flowers. The mourning hall is surrounded by blue like the sea and bright red like roses. In front of the farewell room, the big red banner reads "Farewell to Bing Xin" in four striking characters. The mourning hall is full of flowers and baskets. Bing Xin's old man lies among flowers. In front of the flowers, there are flower baskets carefully woven by Bing Xin's good friend, Ba Jin, chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, and his family who have struggled for China's literary career. Bing Xin loved red roses best before his death. In a century of career, she has consistently dedicated her rose-like love to the motherland, to the people and to this beautiful world. As a result, people who love Bing Xin flew more than 2,000 freshest red roses from Kunming and Guangzhou to bid farewell to Bing Xin in the form of roses. The front of the mourning hall is set against the light blue background, which sets off the characters "Love is everything" inscribed by Bing Xin. Surrounded by four Zhou Songbai, it is a red heart pattern woven by red roses. When I entered the mourning hall, the waves of the sea sounded in my ears, as well as the cheerful cries of seagulls soaring, and the elegant melody of organ and trumpet floated in the distant sky ... This is the music carefully prepared by Chen Gang, Bing Xin's favorite grandson, for grandma. When he came back from the United States, he specially brought back natural music materials composed by Li Huanzhi's son. Music is divided into four movements: sea, life, light and sunset. After Bing Xin's death, telegrams of condolences rained down to express condolences. There are old-timers in the literary world, young readers full of childlike innocence, and friends from home and abroad. At this time, a long line has been lined up outside the mourning hall to bid farewell to Bing Xin. Some of them made a special trip from other places to bid farewell to Bing Xin, and thousands of people came to bid farewell. Writers and artists attending the Fourth National Committee Meeting of the Fifth Chinese Writers Association and the Fourth National Committee Meeting of the Sixth China Federation of Literary and Art Circles also came to bid farewell to Bing Xin. Pan Xincheng, vice governor of Fujian Province, bid farewell to Bing Xin on behalf of the people in his hometown. Everyone who bid farewell to Bing Xin held a red rose in his hand, bowed to the old man Bing Xin three times, and then gently placed the red rose beside the old man Bing Xin, and gradually Bing Xin rose and sublimated in a sea of red roses.
Catalogue of works
Stars (Poems) 1923, Business.
Spring water (poetry anthology) 1923, trendy.
Superman (collection of novels and essays) 1923, business
To a young reader (prose collection) 1926, Beixin.
Past events (novels, essays) 1930, enlightenment.
Nangui (Prose Collection) 193 1, Beixin
Auntie (collection of novels) 1932, Beixin
Bing Xin's novels, one of the complete works of Bing Xin, 1933, Beixin.
The Complete Works of Bing Xin-Bing Xin Poetry 1932, Beixin.
Bing Xin's third complete works-Bing Xin's prose collection 1932, Beixin.
Leisure (Poetry and Prose Collection) 1922, Beixin
Go to China (novel collection) 1933, Beixin.
Travel along Pingsui (essays) 1935, Pingsui Railway Bureau.
Dong Er Girls (Collection of Novels) 1935, Beixin.
One of Bing Xin's works-Bing Xin's novel 1943, Wu.
The second collection of Bing Xin's works-Bing Xin's essays, 1943, Wu.
The third collection of Bing Xin's works-Bing Xin's poems, 1943, Wu.
About women (essays) 1943, heaven and earth
Selected Works of Bing Xin's Novels and Proses 1954, Humanities
Tao Qi's Summer Diary (Novel) 1956, Shanghai Children.
Miscellaneous notes on returning home (essays) 1957, Shanghai children.
After returning (essays) 1958, writer.
Message to a young reader (prose collection)1958 March 1 1, 2 1 articles written by * * were published in People's Daily and Children's Times successively.
We Awaken Spring (Prose Collection) 1960, Hundred Flowers
"Little Orange Lantern" (anthology of novels and prose poems) 1960, writer.
Ode to Cherry Blossoms (Prose Collection) 1962, Hundred Flowers
Notes (Prose Collection) 1964. author
Yat sen villa (essays and novels) 1980, Hundred Flowers
Three small readers (essays) 198 1, children.
Notes on Beads (Creation) 1982, Humanities
Bing Xin Wheel Creation 1982. Shanghai literature and art
Selected Works of Bing Xin 1982, Children.
Selected Works of Bing Xin 1983, Humanities
Selected Works of Bing Xin (1-2) 1983, Sichuanese (incomplete)
Collection of Bing Xin's Works (1-3) 1983 Shanghai Literature and Art (incomplete)
The Complete Works of Bing Xin (1-8) 1994, Literature and Art in the Straits.
"Pick only children for many lines" 1980, children.
My secret 1957
In prose, in addition to Three Letters to Young Readers, he has successively created four series of articles: As I Think, My Autobiography, About Men and Fu Jian's Miscellanies. The exact time is unknown.
Translated bibliography
Prophet (Selected Prose Poems) by Syrian Carol Ji Bolun, 193 1, Crescent Moon.
Indian fairy tales by Anand, India, 1955, Zhongqing.
Indian Tagore's Good Luck and Good Luck (Poetry Collection), 1955, Humanities.
Indian folktales by Anand, India, 1955, Shanghai children.
Co-translation of Tagore's Selected Poems and Shi Zhecun, 1958, Humanities
Tagore's Drama ④ 1959, Drama
A copy of Ma Hengda's poems (in Nepali) translated by Sun Yong, 1965.
"The Lamp Burner" (poetry anthology) Anton Buttigieg, 198 1, humanities.
"Bingxin body"
The language of Bing Xin's prose is "beauty" and "elegance". She is good at refining spoken English into a literary language. She can absorb and melt the words and phrases in classical literature and inject them into modern languages. As early as the early May 4th Movement, Bing Xin was engaged in writing vernacular Chinese. In the flowing style of writing, some words in classical Chinese sometimes appear in quoting poems or making sentences. However, it is not a combination of writing and writing, but is carefully refined and processed to blend with each other, forming a unique language art: concise, lively, fresh and beautiful. Or bright colors, or simple but elegant, have strong lyricism, giving people a poetic aesthetic feeling. Its patchwork long and short sentence patterns and punctuality of parallelism and antithesis enhance the musicality of the language. Readers praised this language so much that later, this language not only showed the fluency and clarity of vernacular Chinese, but also showed the refinement and beauty of classical Chinese, which was collectively called "Bing Xin Ti" language.
"Bing Xin Award"
Name of Award: Bing Xin Award
Established: 1990
Organizer: Bing Xin Award Organizing Committee
Award introduction
The annual Bing Xin Award, which is well-known at home and abroad, was founded in 1990. It was initiated by Ms. Han, a famous writer, and received strong support from people from all walks of life in literature and publishing circles at home and abroad. In the past ten years, it has developed from a single children's book award to a comprehensive award including books, new works and art, aiming at encouraging the creation and publication of children's literary works, discovering and cultivating new authors, and supporting and encouraging the development of children's art popularization education. The continuous awarding of 13 Bing Xin Award has had a great influence in all walks of life and at home and abroad, and has played a positive role in promoting the construction of contemporary advanced culture in China.
Bing Xin Award, which is famous for its strictness, impartiality and authority, is the only international Chinese children's literature and art award in China. It is divided into four awards: Bing Xin Children's Book Award, Bing Xin Children's Literature Award, Bing Xin Art Award and Bing Xin Photography Literature Award. Chinese articles from all over the world participated in the selection, and the winners were all over the world. Past winners include not only Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan writers, but also China writers from the United States, Switzerland, New Zealand and Singapore.
13 Bing Xin Award is different from other awards. Emerging photographic literature has been included in the Bing Xin Award since this year. The first photographic literature award includes 12 photographic poems, 10 photographic prose, 10 photographic documentary literature and 8 photographic novels. Another 100 well-known experts and scholars won the photographic literature theory award. Among them, Cheng Dongfang, editor-in-chief of Photography Literature Guide, was awarded the Special Contribution Award of Photography Literature.
Previous awards
Previous awards
13 awards
13 Bing Xin Literature Award was awarded during the National Day. In this award activity, 26 authors won the Bingxin Children's Literature Award, and 86 books from 28 publishing houses won the Bingxin Children's Book Award. Among the award-winning books, the number of new scientific and technological knowledge books has increased and the level is also high. The new variety of children's books is eye-catching. Patriotic traditional education books carry considerable weight. The number of excellent overseas children's books has increased, and the content, illustrations, binding design and layout printing are all exquisite, showing a colorful face. Bing Xin Art Award has been awarded by teachers and students from more than ten provinces and cities. Now that high technology has entered the field of art, it is a good attempt to let children use high technology to create artistic realm from an early age. Bing Xin Art Award guides children to meet the new era, feel new things, and make contributions to promoting children's all-round education in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty.
At the award ceremony. In view of Mr. Cheng Dongfang's outstanding contribution to the creation and development of photographic literature, the jury decided to award Cheng Dongfang a special contribution award for photographic literature creation; Dongfanghong (Yuan, Yuan Ying), Soul of the Army (Green Island, Gai Xuhui), My Motherland (Shao Hua, Qiao Yan), I Love Beijing Hutong (Ji Xianlin, Xu Yong), Definition of Time (Van Gogh, Yu Fu), Exploring Tibet (Xiong Yuqun), etc. The romance "Still Bow" (He Xiangyang), the life show (Jianghua Zhu,), the thriller "Summer" (Cheng Jian, Gui Hanbiao ...) ... 40 pieces of photographic literature won the Bing Xin Photography Literature Award; Famous literary theorists Wang Chaowen, Ruxin, Liu Gangji ... 100, a well-known expert and scholar, won the Bing Xin Photography Literature Theory Contribution Award.