1919 In the Morning Post in August, Bing Xin published her first essay, Feeling of Listening on the 21st and her first novel, Two Families.
1923 Before and after studying abroad, he began to publish a series of communication essays with the general title "To Young Readers", which became the foundation stone of children's literature in China. 1946, she was hired by Tokyo University as the first foreign female professor to teach the course of "China New Literature" and returned to China in 195 1.
1February 28th, 999, at 2 1: 00, Bing Xin died in Beijing Hospital at the age of 99, and was known as the "old man of the century".
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When Bing Xin depicts characters, most of them don't need strong colors or careful carving, but only use sketches and light strokes. Characters are like hibiscus emerging from the water, emerging on the water. Sisters on June 1st, Girl Dong Er and Little Orange Lantern respectively created the images of girls in three different eras. Bing Xin created a series of ideal and perfect images of young women in her novels. Most of them are kind-hearted, gentle and beautiful, lively and generous, steady and dignified. They are full of youth and vitality, and have won the dignity of women with their wisdom and talent; Make brilliant achievements in your career and gain the respect of men. In addition, there are a series of young people who love the motherland, kind and gentle great mothers, reasonable grandmothers, learned and interesting old professors and other images, showing warmth. In artistic expression, Bing Xin is good at drawing lessons from and using lyric techniques. In the works, sometimes the feelings are expressed directly in the narrator's tone, and sometimes the author's subjective will is revealed through the characters' language or psychological activities, which makes the novel have a strong lyrical color.
Bing Xin often likes to use the first-person narrative technique. The story with "I" as the clue is full of affection, telling what you have seen, heard and suffered, so that readers can feel that everything that happens in the novel is the truth of life, without fictional weaving, romantic color, artificial drama conflict and kitsch humor, which is both realistic and intimate. This provides the author with greater freedom, can start and end more flexibly, turn and change, and express the author's strong feelings more easily.
There are few great works in Bing Xin's novels, most of which are fresh and meaningful treasures. Many of her works seem simple in plot, but profound in meaning, leaving endless aftertaste. She captured a fragment of real life, an opportunity in her life journey, and showed a side of complex social life. There is no bizarre and tortuous story, no feat of Jin Ge Ma Tie, but there is a philosophical pursuit. She often observes society and examines life with astute eyes; From the impact of interpersonal relationship, generate sparks, captures the philosophy contained in life, places his own feelings, and is full of fresh philosophy and poetry.
In the structure of novels, two-way structural framework and mutual reflection format are often adopted. She often takes two families, two characters, two events and the other side of the ocean as the main line, and develops in a balanced way, but the outcome of development is completely different. Through sharp contrast, it is enlightening and thought-provoking. In the description of novels, she often uses the technique of line drawing, with concise pen and ink, without contrast, to outline vivid images and express her unique poetic feelings.
In Bing Xin's works, the activities of characters are often arranged in the early morning, dusk and moonlit night. The activity scene is set at the seaside, lakeside, park, mountain and boat; With the help of the description of natural scenery, the beauty of characters and the beauty of environment are integrated into one, so as to achieve the situation of scene blending and create a specific warm atmosphere.
Prose: Bing Xin's prose has a wide range of topics and profound implications. Bing Xin vividly reflects some aspects of China's turbulent and complicated social life in the past hundred years through her delicate description of her own experience. In Bing Xin's prose, we saw the tragic scene that the imperialist, feudal and bureaucratic comprador classes oppressed and ravaged the people of China in semi-colonial and semi-feudal old China, and the heroic people and patriotic youths rose up to fight. At the same time, the theme of Bing Xin's prose also extends to the history, geography, culture and customs of many countries in the world, as well as people's sufferings and struggles, from which readers can gain rich international knowledge, such as the ancient cultures of Egypt and India. Sino-Japanese relations with a long history; Italy's past and present; Scottish folk art, the development of cultural exchanges between China and other countries, and the profound friendship between people all over the world and the people of China have given people new enlightenment.
Bing Xin's prose embodies the unique style emphasized by Bing Xin himself. Bing Xin is good at capturing fragments of life and weaving them in his own emotional waves. With keen eyesight and meticulous thinking, he integrated inner feelings with the triggers of external things, and combined feelings with scenes to give readers lofty beauty enjoyment. Bing Xin attaches great importance to the connotation beauty of prose. Her prose is novel and ingenious. In seemingly ordinary themes, creativity is surprising and structure is changeable. This is a beautiful emotion condensed by her ideological attainments and living environment.
Bing Xin pays special attention to the expression of feelings in the process of prose creation. Bing Xin often expresses her aesthetic psychology and ideals with the help of natural scenery.
Bing Xin's prose can be found everywhere, and the full text is very concise. Bing Xin is good at extracting the essence of literary language and weaving those refined, vivid, accurate and vivid languages into his works, which makes Bing Xin's prose poetic. But also there are internal rhythms and rhythms, such as the third and tenth articles of The Past (Part II), all of which pay great attention to the level of emotion, the speed of rhythm and the length of sentence patterns. Bing Xin's prose can be not only read, but also recited, so that readers can feel the beauty of music in the taste of singing.
Children's literature: Bing Xin's children's literature works are full of love and hope for children. Bing Xin embarks from the characteristics of children, entertains education through fun, and empathizes with people. Bing Xin never appeared as a child educator. She didn't educate her children with vague sermons and blunt warnings. On the contrary, she talked with the children in a heart-to-heart way, and told her stories and inner feelings in a kind and euphemistic tone, and described them so interesting and beautiful, as if they had a magic power to attract young readers. When Bing Xin poured out her feelings, she was so sincere and emotional that she vaguely touched the hearts of children, prompting them to be unconsciously inspired by the theme of the work in excitement, happiness and excitement, and learn from it. It is an important content of Bing Xin's children's literature to educate children in patriotism and stimulate their national pride. However, Bing Xin's works do not directly discuss how great and lovely our motherland is and why we should be patriotic. Instead, we express our love for our motherland with exquisite ideas and vivid scenes.
In the children's literature works after the founding of the People's Republic of China, patriotism is more intense. The author's sincere praise for the motherland is not abstract and empty, but naturally expressed through Bing Xin's personal feelings. This feeling is based on hearing and seeing, comparing the old with the new; Coupled with the author's close observation and artistic combination, it is vividly reflected.
In her children's literature works, Bing Xin often artistically inserts some knowledge of astronomy, geography, history and science into young readers according to children's strong thirst for knowledge. However, Bing Xin does not simply impart knowledge. It is neither as systematic as textbooks nor as stereotyped as popular science books, but contains rich knowledge in flowing descriptions. It can be said that knowledge is embedded in images. Through artistic means and vivid image description, children have expanded their knowledge and added new wisdom in interesting reading.
Bing Xin uses children's literature to educate children in beauty, but it is not abstract and conceptual, but closely related to concrete social life. For example, green trees, wheat fields as neat as green carpets, and artificial lakes that glow golden in the sunset, this magnificent land of fish and rice was rebuilt by hardworking, brave and intelligent people. There are beautiful flowers, trees, mountains and rivers, cities and villages. In the beauty of nature, the beauty of social life is integrated. Such aesthetic education can inspire children to love life, life and career, and inspire them to fight for the transformation of the world and strive to create a better future. Children's literature, like other arts, "helps to achieve various actions of struggle, progress and beautification".
Character evaluation: "When I read Bing Xin's poems, my biggest disappointment is that I lack girl writers, but they are not as long as female writers. Ms. Bing Xin, whom I know from Stars and Spring Water, is a poet whose temperature is below zero. The genre of "stars" and "spring water" cannot be elegant in the poetry garden after all. This is probably the easiest thing to do. Grab a specious poem and choose a few beautiful words to schedule it. It will become a song and an episode that will gather in ten days. This is a poetic style that is the easiest to be lazy and should not be fashionable at all.
Ms. Bing Xin is a prose writer and a novel writer, which is not suitable for poetry. "Stars in spring water" is not worth imitating and has become a fashion. "(Liang Shiqiu)
Here, we feel what Ms. Bing Xin called "there is only sympathy and pity in the world, and there is only mutual assistance and help in the world"-such an "ideal world" refers to the "smile" as one of the literary elements; The so-called "nothingness in life" is "the reality of suffering", which is the so-called "tears". And she made it clear: I want to eulogize "ideal" and I don't want to draw "reality" to earn people's "tears". (Mao Dun)
"Have you at, the light is on.
After reading Bing Xin's book, generations of young people understand love: love the stars, love the sea, love the motherland and love all beautiful things. I hope young people can read some books about Bing Xin and have a sincere love. "
(Ba Jin) "A kind and beautiful star has fallen, and her light will remain in the hearts of generations forever ..."
(Wei Wei) "I remember that year when Bing Xin died, I rushed to Beijing Hospital to say goodbye to the old man at night. Her daughter took out a notebook for me to sign. I have great respect for the elderly and love her works. She is a person with personality, and she is also a caring and affectionate person. "
(Wen Jiabao) "The broad humanity embodied in Bing Xin's literary works is its vitality. Although the number of works is small and there is no long story, Bing Xin's vocal works and meticulous insight into human nature, like "Little Orange Lantern", have brought us a warm soul. "
([Japan] Akiji Kono) "China is an outstanding literary master, loyal patriot, famous social activist and close friend of China in the 20th century." (China Federation of Literary and Art Circles)