The Star is a collection of poems, consisting of 164 short poems. Bing Xin believes in the philosophy of love all her life. She thinks that "with love, everything comes". In "Stars", she kept praising love. What she loves most is maternal love. Bing Xin not only loves her parents, but also cherishes brotherhood. 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. Its theme is: maternal love, nature and innocence.
"Stars in Spring Water" is recognized as the highest achievement of short poems, and Mao Dun calls it "star grid" and "spring water body". Its theme is: maternal love, nature and innocence, and it constructs Bing Xin's ideological core "Philosophy of Love". Spring Water Stars contains three contents: First, it praises maternal love and innocence; The second is the worship and praise of nature; Third, many thoughts and feelings about life have been selected into middle school textbooks and are deeply loved by readers.
"Spring Water" is a companion piece of "Stars", which consists of 182 short poems. It was first published in the supplement of the Morning Post, but it 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 slightly sad and gentle 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 found in harmony poems. So there is still poetic emotion and beauty. 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 sang pure love with deep affection and described the beauty of nature. At the same time, it also expressed condemnation of some ugly social phenomena in a unique way. Thirdly, the words are gentle and elegant, with natural rhythm and beautiful artistic conception. The words and expressions in Stars and Springs seem to be handy, revealing a gentle and elegant style everywhere.
The poem "Bing Xin Ti" has been circulating among poets for several years. Liu Dabai, Ye, Xu Yunuo, Zong Baihua, etc. They all wrote many poems with their own characteristics. These poems implicitly express the poet's unique interest in ordinary things and the change of emotion in an instant with true and concise words. Together with Bing Xin's poems, they form a bright and distant star.