What was the main influence of Bing Xin's thought in his youth?

In the history of modern literature in China, the prose poems of Tagore, a great Indian writer, can be said to have influenced a generation of literary pioneers in China. We know that Tagore sympathized with China all his life. He has visited China twice. After his visit, his works were translated into Chinese in large quantities. Most of the poems translated at that time were prose poems. Therefore, Tagore's influence on China is firstly prose poetry. Since the mid-1920s, many literary works have appeared in China, such as Gardener's Collection, Crescent Moon Collection and Birds Collection, among which the works of Shen, Liu Bannong, Bing Xin, Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Qu Qiubai and Xu Zhimo. Among them, Bing Xin can be said to have benefited from Tagore's deepest "private disciple". Tagore's prose poem "I can still feel the harmonious heartbeat of the sacred unicorn" touched and inspired a new generation of female poets and essayists in China-Bing Xin. She wrote an influential book "Send to Young Readers", which is the best example.

Influenced by Tagore's pantheism, Bing Xin's creation tends to praise tender love. Xu Zhimo's artistic style is close to Bing Xin's, pursuing freshness, liveliness, gentleness and kindness, with a touch of sadness. However, after careful tasting, Xu Zhimo is too ethereal, lacking Bing Xin's unremitting pursuit of life and patriotism.

Tagore's influence on China's prose poems is extensive. Only Bing Xin got the essence of Tagore's thought and art and became "Tagore's most famous private disciple" (Xu Zhimo's Tagore Came to China).

It is an indisputable fact in the history of modern literature that Bing Xin's poems are influenced by Tagore, and it is also a cliche of researchers. Wen Yiduo called Bing a female writer 1 who was "China's best at learning from Tagore", and Xu Zhimo thought Bing Xin was "Tagore's most famous private disciple with beautiful appearance". Bing Xin said, "When I wrote Stars and Spring Water, I was not writing poetry, but was influenced by Tagore's Birds, so I wrote my usual time in my notebook. There is no need to avoid Bing Xin's influence by Tagore, but this influence is not only a one-way imitation of the external structure of poetry. More importantly, Bing Xin's poetry creation was more influenced by Tagore and developed in religious spirit and ideal. We can not only enjoy the pleasure of reading poetry and painting in the language structure of the two poets' works, but also feel that two poets of different nationalities and different cultural backgrounds are trying to find a soul to rest in peace for the troubled human beings in their poems.

Religion is people's spiritual pursuit and sustenance, and poetry is the most effective expression of the poet's emotional consciousness. When the poet expresses his world outlook and life ideal in his poems, the spiritual core of religion will inevitably penetrate into the poet's emotional process and attract readers through the image connotation of the poems. India is a country with multiple religions. Moreover, in the history of India, religion and literature and art are integrated and become the core of Indian culture. Tagore grew up in a religious atmosphere, and his father, Dai Vindra Nath, was very good at studying the Vedas and Upanishads, and was called "the Great Immortal" in the society at that time. It is this cultural background that makes Tagore's poems reflect the idea of "unity of Brahma and Me" in the big universe and small universe of Indian religious culture, as well as the spiritual ideal of pursuing love. Especially in his youth, Tagore was influenced by western Christianity, so the "God" in his poems is a symbol of the blending of eastern and western religions and cultures. On the one hand, he believes that "when God dies, religions will become one" (Birds, section 84). On the other hand, he advocated not to worship in disorder. "To whom? Open your eyes, God is not in front of you. " (Rabindranath Tagore 1 1 section) Obviously, Tagore's understanding of "God" combines the religious spirit of eastern and western cultures and turns this spirit into a completely universal philosophy. Bing Xin was born in a warm family in China in the early 20th century. Her grandfather Xie Zixiu is a private school teacher, and his calligraphy couplet "Be content with what you know, do something for others" is enough to show the religious and cultural atmosphere of this family. Bing Xin's mother devoted herself to Buddhism and stood aloof from the world, which had a certain influence on Bing Xin's early religious complex. When she entered Beiman Girls' School, "influenced by Christianity, I formed my own love philosophy" 4. Influenced by religious culture, poetry is used to express religious spirit, which is the same point in Tagore's and Bing Xin's poetry creation, while all-round religious love is the same theme of the two poets' poetry emotions.