The Star is a collection of poems, consisting 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 an article she later wrote, Writing 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, explores the meaning of life and expresses her desire to know the true nature of the world.
Time background
As a famous poet in the May 4th Movement, Bing Xin's poems are associated with stars and springs. 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.
The author's life
Bing Xin, formerly known as Xie Wanying, was originally from Changle County, Fujian Province. Since she was a child, she likes reading and reading, and has read a lot of China's classical novels, which has laid a solid foundation for her future creation. 19 18 graduated from middle school and was admitted to Peking union medical college women's university. After the May 4th Movement broke out, he actively participated in this patriotic and democratic movement against imperialism and feudalism, and began to write "problem novels" with the theme of society, family and women. 1965438+published the first novel in September 2009.
Influenced by birth and family education, Christianity and Tagore's philosophy, Bing Xin regards "love" as the highest ideal in life. Under the guidance of "love", his works praise maternal love, innocence, nature and human love. The style of writing is fresh and beautiful, euphemistic and feminine, but the subject matter is narrow and the atmosphere of the times is not strong enough. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Bing Xin's prose creation presented a new ideological style, praising the working people and the ever-changing and prosperous motherland, full of patriotic passion, such as A Passage to India and Ode to Cherry Blossoms. In terms of style, it not only maintains the characteristics of euphemism, freshness and aestheticism in the past, but also is full of fighting passion, showing a clear and cheerful tone.
Bing Xin died in Beijing on 1999, and spent 99 beautiful spring and autumn years.
Classic fragment
Mom!
The wind and rain in the sky are coming,
The bird hid in his nest;
The storm in my heart is coming,
I only hide in your arms.
-"Stars"
Another year,
Still blowing slightly like this,
Can I take another photo?
Spring water quietly thanked me and said:
"My friend!
I never left a shadow,
Not just for you. "
-"Spring Water"
Humorous words
◆ Young people! Draw your present picture carefully for future memories.
◆ The flower of speech is getting bigger and bigger; The smaller the fruit of behavior.
◆ Birds in the air! Why argue with your partner in the cage? You have your own world.
◆ Flowers in the corner! When you admire yourself, the world becomes smaller.
◆ Stars can only make young people's hair turn white, but not their hearts turn gray.
Reading teaching
Bing Xin wrote Stars and Spring Water just after the climax of the May 4th New Literature Movement. A few years ago, Li Dazhao, Hu Shi, Chen Duxiu, Lu Xun and others just published ideas such as "ideological enlightenment" and "literary revolution". Bing Xin is smaller than them. She was still a student when the May 4th Movement broke out. Her family environment is very good, and she went to a missionary school. Therefore, she was different from the male writers who were active in the ideological field at that time. In addition to patriotism and democracy, she also accepts Christian teachings and the philosophy of love. In the social environment where literary societies sprang up like mushrooms after rain at that time, Bing Xin became a member of the literary research society. The literary research society's creative proposition of "for life" has also been fully reflected in Bing Xin's "problem novels". But only the two poems, Stars and Spring Water, can directly reflect the inner feelings and emotions of Bing Xin, a young intellectual woman.
Bing Xin admitted that her Stars and Spring Water were influenced by Tagore's poems, which were her first two collections of poems and also poems in the early May 4th Movement. When Stars first met readers in the Morning Post, Guo Moruo's Goddess, regarded as a poetic style, had just been published for five months. But the artistic style of stars and springs is very different from that of goddesses. Bing Xin's poems are tender and delicate, slightly sad, slightly philosophical and have extraordinary charm.
Bing Xin is a novelist, poet and essayist. She was diligent in writing all her life and cared about the motherland and people. She is the most famous female writer in the history of modern literature in China. Her early poems "Stars" and "Spring Water" are not only the representative works of Bing Xin's poems, but also the representative works of China's modern poems, which are well known by readers from generation to generation.
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1, spring star theme
There are more than 350 short poems in "Stars in Spring", which Bing Xin calls "fragmentary thoughts", but there is a distinct clue running through it, that is, the praise of maternal love, virginity and nature. Generally speaking, they include three aspects.
One is the praise of maternal love and innocence. Bing Xin, the first famous female writer in the history of modern literature in China, was famous for advocating "the philosophy of love" as soon as she entered the literary world. And maternal love is the fundamental starting point of "the philosophy of love". She believes that maternal love is the source of all things and the fundamental driving force for the world to move towards light. In "Stars in Spring Water", she regards maternal love as the noblest and most beautiful thing and praises it repeatedly.
The second is the worship and praise of nature. In Bing Xin's view, human beings come from and belong to nature, and should be harmonious:
We are all born babies/lying in the cradle of the universe.
Bing Xin also combines maternal love, innocence and nature.
Bing Xin loves the sea, from her love for the sea to her love for nature.
The third is thinking and feeling about life. We call these poems "philosophical poems". Bing Xin is full of longing for the new spiritual life and strives to explore the mysteries of the world and life. In this exploration, the poet doubts whether his ideal of "love" over "hate" can be realized, and this ideological contradiction is also manifested in his poems.
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Summary: Motherly love, innocence and nature.