Introduction Stars is a collection of poems, which consists of 164 short poems. Bing Xin believed in "the philosophy of love" all her life, and she thought that "with love, there is everything". In the Stars, she kept praising love. What she loves to praise most is maternal love. Bing Xin not only loves her parents, but also cherishes brotherhood. She loves her three younger brothers. In her later essay A Letter to a Little Reader, she compared her three younger brothers to three bright stars. Bing Xin praised maternal love, human love and childlike innocence. At the same time, she also praised nature, especially the sea she was familiar with as a child. Praising nature, childlike innocence and maternal love has become the eternal theme of Bing Xin's life creation.
"Spring Water" is a companion piece of "Stars", which consists of 182 short poems. It was also published in the morning paper first, but the spring water came out three months later than the stars.
In Spring Water, although Bing Xin is still praising maternal love, affection, childlike innocence and nature, she has used more space to implicitly express the troubles and anguish of herself and her generation of young intellectuals. She tells her feelings in a gentle and sad tone, while exploring the meaning of life and expressing her desire to know the true face of the world.
With her unique femininity, Bing Xin wrote two poems, Stars and Springs, in fresh and beautiful language, forming a unique artistic style. First, a strong philosophy is a major artistic feature of Stars and Springs. Many poems in Stars and Spring Water are philosophical poems with profound thoughts. These profound thoughts are often combined with the concrete images depicted in poems and the profound thoughts of poets, so they still have poetic feelings and aesthetic feelings. Secondly, tenderness is another remarkable feature of Bing Xin's poems. Bing Xin's poems show a feminine tenderness everywhere. With the lyric style of "full of tenderness and sadness", she sings pure love with deep and strong feelings and depicts the beauty of nature. At the same time, it also expressed condemnation of some social ugly phenomena in a unique way. Third, the words are gentle and elegant, with natural rhythm and beautiful artistic conception. The words and expressions in Stars and Spring Water seem to be handy, revealing a gentle and elegant style everywhere.
The poem Bing Xin Ti has been popular for several years in the imitation of poets. Liu Dabai, Ye, Xu Yunuo, Zong Baihua, etc. Have written many small poems with their own characteristics. These short poems implicitly express the poet's unique interest in ordinary things and the change of his feelings in an instant with real and concise words. Together with Bing Xin's poems, they form a glittering and translucent and distant star, always flashing on the road of the development of new poetry.
Background As a famous poet during the May 4th Movement, Bing Xin's poems are associated with stars and spring water. Star *** 164, spring water 182, mainly published in the morning post supplement 1922. Short poems have no separate titles, but are arranged according to serial numbers. 1923 two groups of poems have been collected and published by Commercial Press and Xinchao Society respectively. It caused a strong response at that time.
Bing Xin's novels and essays have won a wide range of readers and countless praises. It is noticed that this new literary genius has the talent of a poet. She decided to write her own poems because she was encouraged by Sun Fuyuan, a reporter from the Morning Post Supplement. He put Bing Xin's poetic miscellaneous feelings in the poem column, which greatly inspired Bing Xin. He decided to open the boundary between Chinese column and poetry column in his mind and become a poet who explores life in the form of poetry.
Bing Xin later recalled the scene when writing poems. At the height of her thirst for knowledge, she greedily reads all kinds of books and newspapers after class, and when she meets a favorite sentence, she copies it on her notebook's eyebrows in a few words. She used to be like this, sometimes writing down her miscellaneous feelings and memories anytime and anywhere. As time goes on, this figure is considerable. Although it is only three or five elements, there is always something related to personal experience behind these three or five elements. Seeing these words, I think of very kind and real scenes, and I can't bear to throw them away.
At this time, she happened to see Tagore's serial of Birds translated by Zheng Zhenduo in a magazine, which was full of poetic and philosophical words. Her heart moved and she felt that the words she had written on her notebook eyebrows could also be sorted out and copied. When copying, she chose those that were more poetic and implicit and put them together. Because they were all fragmentary ideas, she chose a paragraph that began with the word "star" and put it in the first book and named it "star".
At that time, many critics also thought that Bing Xin was influenced by Tagore. But perhaps more accurately, she discovered her own poems under the inspiration of Tagore, and the real source lies in her own "fragmentary thoughts".
Zheng Zhenduo's view is more comprehensive. He thinks that besides Tagore, Bing Xin is also influenced by quatrains and poems in classical poetry. When Bing Xin/Kloc-0 was 0/0 years old, she studied The Analects of Confucius and Tang poetry, read rhymes and learned couplets. After class, she made two four-character poems and stubbornly gave them to her husband. Her profound poetic skills are one of the reasons for her successful creation of short poems. In addition, the Japanese short song haiku translated by Zhou Zuoren is very popular and has a great influence on Bing Xin.
"Stars" and "spring water" are the meeting of Bing Xin's flashes in life exploration, which contains her knowledge and understanding of the true meaning of life and rich philosophy. Seize the flash of inspiration and condense it into short poems, which are stars and springs. From the winter of 19 19, influenced by Tagore's Birds, she recorded her "fragmentary thoughts" in a few words from time to time. Later, it was published in the "New Literature and Art" column of the Morning Post, and 1923 was published as "Stars and Springs". These more than 300 free poems with untitled aphorisms and aphorisms express the author's feelings about natural scenery and thoughts on life philosophy in a natural and harmonious style, praising maternal love, human love and nature. They are short in length, beautiful in writing and profound in meaning, which show the unique thoughts, feelings and aesthetic consciousness of female writers and are unique and far-reaching in the May 4th new poetry circle.