Bing Xin is a person who loves and cherishes flowers. The article says, "I longed for this kind of flower that is both gorgeous and elegant, but I had not yet fully appreciated its color, fragrance, and sharp thorns." It can be seen that Bing Xin likes the noble nature of roses. Character, and hope to learn the character of Rose. From the article, "After 1929, when I had a home of my own, I planted two rows of German white roses in front of my porch. The flowers bloomed very big and kept blooming. From March 3rd on the lunar calendar, , blooming until September 9th, making the vase at my house full of flowers. I not only enjoy it myself, but also give it to friends or students who are recovering from illness in the school hospital. "It can be seen that Bing Xin is a caring, elegant and kind person. A man of integrity.
Original text appreciation:
Bing Xin: "Me and Roses"
My contact with roses began in my youth.
I remember that in my childhood, in my father’s garden in Yantai, I only saw Jiangxi wintersweet, begonias, chrysanthemums, etc. In my grandfather’s garden in Fuzhou, all I saw were lotuses and orchids. Orchids have a delicate fragrance, but are very delicate. Use bamboo scissors when cutting flowers. I am also very afraid of ants, so I have to put four water cups on the four legs of the flower pot stand to prevent ants from climbing up. The fertilizer used is black beans soaked in smelly water.
At about the same time, I started watching "A Dream of Red Mansions" and saw the young man Xing'er describing Tan Chun to Third Sister You. He described it very vividly. He said: "The third girl's mixed name" My name is 'Rose Flower'. It is red and fragrant, and everyone loves it, but it has thorns that prick my hands..." I was very yearning for this kind of flower that is both gorgeous and elegant, but I didn't appreciate it in detail at that time. Her sex, fragrance, and sharp thorns.
It wasn’t until the autumn of 1918 that I entered university. At that time, the campus of Union Women’s University was located on Tongfujia Road, Dengshikou, Beijing (later changed to Tongfujia Road). This was originally the residence of Prince Tong of the Qing Dynasty, and the auditorium of the Women's University was built from the three halls of this palace. The steps in front of the hall are very high and the corridor is very long. There is a row of scarlet roses planted on both sides of the steps in front of the corridor. This rose is really "red and fragrant, everyone loves it", and the flowers are as big as a saucer! Our classmates all like to pluck a budding flower stamen and insert it into their bun. Of course, we are also very careful about the sharp thorns on the flower branches when climbing and picking.
I remember I also wrote a poem called "Under the Shadow of the Rose". Because the row of roses is really tall and big, with thick branches and leaves, we always like to sit on the grass under the flowers and read in the scent.
After I go abroad, you can see a wide variety of roses everywhere in the United States or Europe, and the price of roses can also be compared with our plums, orchids, bamboos, and chrysanthemums! There are so many rose gardens everywhere. In the Qin Ji Mausoleum in India, I was pleasantly surprised to visit the colorful and fragrant rose garden beside the mausoleum.
After 1929, when I had a home of my own, I planted two rows of German white roses in front of my porch. The flowers bloomed very big and kept blooming. It blooms from March 3rd to September 9th, making the vases in my house full of flowers. Not only do I enjoy it myself, but I also give it to friends or students who are recovering from illness in the school hospital.
When the Anti-Japanese War started, I left Beijing. Since then, I have moved east to west without a fixed address, and I have no desire to plant flowers. Between 1941 and 1945, I bought an earthen house at the foot of Gele Mountain in Chongqing, with no walls and a little open space around it. But vegetables were in short supply at that time, so I only planted some melons and vegetables on the hillside. I remember one summer, we ate pumpkins for three months!
When I returned to China after liberation, I had my own dormitory, but the unit we lived in was upstairs and there was no land. This is how I got lucky! Downstairs, there are two young people who are amateur rose lovers. Their flower beds are filled with roses of various colors. These young people knew that I liked them too, so when they were tidying up the flower beds in the early morning, they brought handfuls of bright roses with morning dew to Russia - they almost took turns giving me flowers. The hospital was no exception. From the first flower that bloomed in spring to the last flower that bloomed in autumn - every morning when I got up early and was still washing up, as long as I heard a gentle knock on the door, my joy would be like spring water. The earth overflowed...
November 5, 1981
(This article was originally published in "Eight Hours Away" Issue 1, 1982.)< /p>
Bing Xin
(Famous modern Chinese writer)
Bing Xin (October 5, 1900 - February 28, 1999), formerly known as Xie Wanying, was born in Changle, Fujian . Chinese poet, modern writer, translator, children's literature writer, social activist, essayist. The pen name Bing Xin comes from "a piece of ice heart in a jade pot".
In the "Morning News" in August 1919, Bing Xin published her first essay "Reflections on the Twenty-One Day Hearing" and her first novel "Two Families".
Before and after studying abroad in 1923, he began to publish correspondence essays under the general title "For Little Readers", which became the foundation of Chinese children's literature. In 1946, she was hired as the first foreign female professor in Japan by the University of Tokyo, teaching the "New Chinese Literature" course. She returned to China in 1951.
Bing Xin died in Beijing Hospital at 21:12 on February 28, 1999. She was 99 years old and was known as the "Old Man of the Century."
Birthplace: Hengling Village, Changle City, Fuzhou, Fujian Province
Date of birth: October 5, 1900 (Year of Gengzi)
Date of death: February 28, 1999 (Jimao year)
Occupation: poet, writer, translator, children's literature writer
Graduation school: Yenching University, Wellesley, USA Women's University
Title: Elder of the Century, Grandmother of Literature
Nationality: Chinese
Ethnicity: Han
Works
Time Works Category Publishing House
1920 "Superman" Novels and Essays Collection Commercial Press
1922 "Leisure" Poems and Essays Beixin Bookstore
1923 "Stars Spring Water" Poetry Collection Commercial Press
1931 "Past Events" Correspondence Collection Beijing Xinhua News Agency
1932 "Part One of Bing Xin's Complete Works - Bing Xin's Novels" Poetry Collection Beixin Bookstore
1932 "The Complete Works of Bing Xin Part 3 - Collection of Prose by Bing Xin" Prose Collection Beixin Bookstore
1933 "Going to the Country" Novels Beixin Bookstore
1935 "Travel Notes Along the Pingsui" "Prose Collection Pingsui Railway Administration
1935 "Dong'er Girl" Novels Beixin Bookstore
1943 "One of Bing Xin's Works - Bing Xin's Novels" Novels Kaiming Publishing House
1943 "The Second Collection of Bing Xin's Writings - Bing Xin's Prose Collection" Prose Collection Kaiming Publishing House
1943 "The Third Collection of Bing Xin's Writings - Bing Xin's Poetry Collection" Poetry Collection Kaiming Publishing House
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1943 "About Women" Prose Collection Tiandi Publishing House
1945 "Return to the South" Prose Collection Beixin Bookstore
1954 "Selected Prose from Bing Xin's Novels" Novels and Prose China International Humanities Publishing House
1956 "Tao Qi's Summer Diary" Novel Children's Publishing House
1957 "Miscellaneous Notes on Returning Home" Prose Collection Children's Publishing House
1958 "After Returning" Prose Collection Writers Publishing House
1958 "Sending Again to Young Readers" Correspondence Collection People's Daily, Children's Times
1960 "We Wake Up the Spring" Prose Collection Hundred Flowers Literature and Art Publisher
1960 "Little Orange Lamp", a collection of novels, essays and poems, Writers Publishing House
1962 "Ode to Cherry Blossoms", a collection of essays, Baihua Literary Publishing House
1964 "Gleaning Notes" Prose Collection Writers Publishing House
1978 "For Young Readers" Novels and Essays Kaiming Publishing House
1980 "Wanqing Collection" Prose and Novels Collection Baihua Literature and Art Publisher
1981 "Three Letters to Little Readers" Correspondence Collection Children's Publishing House
1981 "Only Selecting Children and Traveling Many Places" Children's Publishing House
1982 "Memory Beads" on Creation People's Literature Publishing House
1982 "Bing Xin on Creation" thesis Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
1982 "Selected Works of Bing Xin" Anthology Children's Publishing House
1983 "Selected Works of Bing Xin" Prose People's Literature Publishing House
1983 "Selected Works of Bing Xin" (1-2) Selected Works Sichuan People's Publishing House
1983 "Collected Works of Bing Xin" (1 13) Anthology Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
1987 "Aunt" Novel Collection Kaiming Publishing House
1994 "The Complete Works of Bing Xin" (1-8) Complete Works Straits Literature and Art Publishing House
Translation
Time Work Category Original Author Publishing Unit
1929 "The Birds" Poetry Indian Rabindranath Tagore -
1931-09 "The Prophet" Prose Poetry Collection The Lebanese poet Gibran Gibran Crescent Bookstore
1955-01 "Indian Fairy Tale Collection" Fairy Tale Collection India Mu La Annad China Youth Publishing House
1955 "Gildi "Tanjali" Poetry Collection, Rabindranath Tagore People's Literature Publishing House, India
1955 "Indian Folktales" Story Collection, India M.Ra. Annand Children's Publishing House
1958 "Selected Poems of Tagore" 》 (Co-translation) Collection of Poems, Tagore Humanities Publishing House, India
1959 "Collection of Tagore's Plays" (4) Collection of plays, same as above, China Drama Publishing House
1965 "Copy of Mahendra's Poems" (Co-translation) Collection of Poems, Mahend Writers Publishing House, Nepal
1981 "The Lamp Burner" Collection of Poems, Anton Buttigieg People's Literature Publishing House, Malta