"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"