A Brief Introduction to the Author of Talking about Life

Bing Xin (1900-1999), formerly known as Xie Wanying, is a famous modern female writer, children's literature writer, translator and poet. 1900 10 was born in Changle, Fuzhou, Fujian. My father, Xie, is a naval officer. He participated in the Sino-Japanese naval battle in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and had patriotic thoughts. Bing Xin spent his childhood in Yantai, Shandong. With its fantastic and colorful morning glow, the sea nurtured her rich imagination and cultivated her poetic temperament. Bing Xin began to read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio at the age of seven. The Journey to the West's Water Margin and Lin Shu (1852- 1924) are both modern writers and translators. Formerly known as Qunyu, the word Qinnan, Fujian Minxian (Fuzhou) people. He translated more than forty world famous works. Translation of Say No series. Since the Revolution of 1911, I went back to the south with my family and went to school as a female teacher in Fuzhou. 19 13 The whole family moved to Beijing. 19 14 entered Beiman Girls' Middle School, a Beijing missionary school. Because I volunteered to study medicine, I entered the science preparatory course of Concord Women's University at 19 18. When the May Fourth Movement broke out, she was a first-year preparatory student, enthusiastically joined the patriotic youth movement, worked as a clerk in the student self-government association, and was also a propagandist of the Beijing Women's Federation. In order to expand the publicity effect, she began to publish Xie Wanying's "2 1 Hearing Thoughts" and other commentary articles advocating the patriotic student movement in the Beijing Morning Post. Inspired by the May 4th Movement, she saw some social problems in semi-feudal and semi-colonial China. Since September of 19 19, many problem novels have been written under the pseudonym of Bing Xin. ), such as two families, and you are lonely, helpless and poor, autumn rain, and going to the countryside, have aroused strong social repercussions. So Bing Xin said it was May 4th lightning, and this thunder "shocked me on the road of writing!" My science class took off a lot because I publicized fund-raising in the street during the day and kept writing "problem novels" at night. 192 1 year, after graduating from the preparatory course of science, take the above undergraduate course. Because of his excellent performance in liberal arts, he also skipped a grade.

Bing Xin's "problem novels" can be roughly divided into three categories: one is to express dissatisfaction with feudal society and feudal families, the other is to expose the bitter life brought about by the warlord's melee, and the third is to express sympathy for the working people from a humanitarian standpoint.

192 1 year, Bing Xin was recommended by Xu Dishan and Qu Shiying and included in the Literature Research Association. Her "problem novel" is consistent with the literature of the Literature Research Association in reflecting social phenomena and discussing life problems. At this time, Bing Xin emphasized the hesitation and distress of petty-bourgeois intellectuals who had just broken away from feudal ideology and could not find a way out. She keenly felt the crisis of these young people: "They can't ascend to heaven and don't want to enter the earth", and they "are suspended in the middle of heaven and earth". Representative works include Superman and Boredom. But at that time, Bing Xin was not satisfied with asking questions only in novels. She hoped to find answers on the road of exploring life. At that time, she was still unable to combine with workers and peasants and lacked the armed forces of advanced ideas. She can only take the "parent-child love" in her "happy" family as a panacea and recommend it to the young people suffering from the disease of the times at that time, and comfort their troubled souls with deep maternal love, natural wonder and childlike innocence. This is the origin of Bing Xin's "philosophy of love". The literary grace of her novels and essays not only melted the charm of classical literature, but also fused the milk of European and American literature, which won the praise of many young people and was called "Bing Xin Ti".

From 1920, Bing Xin began to express her feelings about life in a poetic style. Influenced by Tagore's Birds, she wrote short poems "Stars" and "Spring Water", which attracted the attention of literary circles. There are many imitators, which leads to the so-called "popular era of short poems". At that time, some people called such a short poem "Spring Water". Bing Xin's poetic style is subtle, gentle and beautiful. Her Goddess of Poetry is full of tenderness, slightly sad and lingering for words. Bing Xin's early literary view is that literature should be "self-expression" in order to be "real literature" with creativity and individuality. Her short poems are the most typical examples of the deep exploration of life, the praise of nature and even the contradiction and boredom of "real literature".

1923, Bing Xin published a collection of novels Superman and a collection of poems Stars and Springs. In the same year, she graduated from yenching university (Concord Women's University has merged with Yanda University), won the Golden Key honor with the best results, won a scholarship from Wellesley University, the sister school of Yanda University, and went to study in the United States on August 1923. Soon he was ill and lived in lang, USA. Spent seven months in a nursing home. In the sanatorium, she lived a life completely opposite to "nature", and the mutual reminiscence between patients seemed to realize the fantasy that "all children in the world are good friends". Coupled with the homesickness in the guest trip, she misses her mother more and more, so she is more keen on the "philosophy of love" with the content of promoting maternal love, nature and childlike innocence in works such as Enlightenment and Sending a Little Reader. Starting from 1923, Bing Xin published "Dedicated to Young Readers" in the Children's World column of the morning newspaper supplement, which was published on 1926. Although "To a Young Reader" focuses on "all-round love", this American newsletter never exaggerates the so-called "material civilization" of the capitalist system, but madly loves the motherland and relatives. From 1926 to 1935, the episode was published 2 times, and was reprinted in less than half a year on average. Bing Xin is one of the most influential writers of children's literature since the May 4th Movement. At that time, she inspired her children with equal and induced education, which was a denial of the feudal cramming education way. From 65438 to 0926, Bing Xin returned to China after obtaining a master's degree in literature and taught in yenching university, Tsinghua University and Women's College of Arts and Sciences. At that time, the revolutionary storm of the Northern Expedition made her feel the illusion of the super-class "philosophy of love"; The artillery fire of the Japanese invaders scattered her "home" that could "melt" the troubles in the world. Bing Xin's thoughts have changed. He created works such as Pink and Dong Er Girl, and expressed deep sympathy for the miserable life of the working people. Fen describes a working woman who is forced by life to be a wet nurse, unable to support her newborn parents and children, indicating that not everyone can enjoy maternal love equally.