Sea!
Which star?
No light?
Which flower?
No fragrance?
In my mind,
No sound of your waves?
Appreciation of Bing Xin's Yantai Sea
190 1 May, Bing Xin's family moved to Shanghai. 1903, his father Xie was appointed as the battalion commander of the naval training camp and was also responsible for organizing the naval school. At this time, he moved to Yantai with his father. In Yantai, Bing Xin lived for 8 years and spent her happy and colorful childhood. Yantai, the second hometown called by Bing Xin, the sea and mountains of Yantai, the sailors and lighthouses of Yantai, gave Bing Xin the initial edification of his "facing the sea" character and patriotism, and also gave him the initial literary enlightenment.
Bing Xin (1900- 1999), formerly known as Xie Wanying, was born in Changle, Fujian. She was born on May 5, 1900 in Fuzhou, a family of naval officers with patriotism and reformism. Her father Xie took part in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to fight against the Japanese invaders. Later, she founded the naval school in Yantai and became the principal. Bing Xin moved to Shanghai with her family only seven months after her birth, and moved to Yantai, Shandong Province at the age of four, and then lived in Yantai seaside for a long time. The sea has cultivated her temperament and broadened her mind; Her father's patriotism and ambition to strengthen the country also deeply influenced her young mind. One summer evening, Bing Xin and her father were walking on the beach together. On the beach, facing the red light of the sunset glow, Bing Xin asked his father to talk about the sea in Yantai. At this time, her father told his little daughter that there are many beautiful harbors along the northern coast of China, such as Ahava, Dalian and Qingdao, which are all beautiful, but they are all occupied by foreigners. "It doesn't belong to us in China" "Only Yantai belongs to us!" Father's words were deeply imprinted on young Bing Xin's mind.
Bing Xin is the first pioneer of China's new literature. In her creative career of more than 60 years, she wrote many dazzling and wonderful chapters, such as For a Young Reader and The Past, which deeply influenced several generations.
Bing Xin had a soft spot for Shandong before his death. She once wrote in "Communication 3 for Young Readers": "Shandong is my spiritual hometown. I only like loyal Shandong people and listen to timid Shandong dialect. " Her love for Shandong mainly stems from her eight-year childhood in Yantai. So when the author interviewed her in the early 1980s, as soon as the old man saw her, he asked about Shandong with great concern and recalled her life in Yantai with deep affection. ...
Yantai has become her "hometown of soul" because of the sea.
In Bing Xin's works, there are many descriptions of the sea: the sea in the morning breeze and the sea in the sunset; There is a stormy sea and a snowy sea ... She once wrote affectionately: "I spent my childhood at the seaside, and I especially like the sea, so I often describe it in my early works." "Every time I pick up a pen, the first thing that comes to mind is the sea." "Every time I chat with my friends. Speaking of scenery, Haibo has invaded the coastline of the conversation ... "Bing Xin's love for the sea also reflects her deep feelings for Yantai, the hometown of the soul.
Bing Xin, formerly known as Xie Wanying, 1900/kloc-0 was born in a naval officer's family in Fuzhou on October 5th. Her father Xie is a patriotic officer of Beiyang Navy. From 65438 to 0904, Xie was ordered to establish the Naval Academy in Yantai, Shandong Province. Bing Xin, who is only four years old, also came to the beautiful coastal city of Yantai with her parents and began her interesting childhood for eight years.
In Yantai, they first lived in the naval procurement department of the city and soon moved to a naval hospital on the northern slope of Dongshan in Yantai. The hospital is built on a steep slope, facing south, and looking east from the promenade, you can see the sea. Since then, Bing Xin has forged an indissoluble bond with the sea. She said: "From this day on, the sea has occupied an extremely important position in my thoughts and feelings. I often think of it in my heart, say it in my mouth and write it in my heart … "Sometimes, she" wears a black uniform with gold thread, takes a short saber and rides a tall white horse slowly along the coast ",and her heart is" full of magnificent pleasure ".
This special living environment has a certain influence on her psychology and personality, which makes her ideological development different from that of ordinary girls. What ordinary girls like, she doesn't love at all. Every summer evening, her father often takes her for a walk at the seaside at the foot of the mountain after work. They sat on the beach by the sea. "The sunset slowly sets behind us, and the sky is full of Xia Hong. Opposite is like a thick cloud on the sea, which is Zhifu Island. The lighthouse on the island has been on for a while. " What a beautiful night view of the seaside! Xiao Bingxin was intoxicated by the charming scenery and kept asking her father, "Dad, don't you think the lighthouse on this island is beautiful?" Yantai seaside is beautiful, isn't it? " .
My father told Bing Xin that the purpose of building a naval school in this secluded Yantai is to build a strong navy and recapture lost land in Weihai, Dalian and Qingdao. It also tells the blood debt owed by Japanese imperialism in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. My father also talked about his experience of traveling abroad: "I don't think we can lift our heads anywhere!" " You won't know the loveliness of China until you go abroad. The farther away from China, the closer you are to her. But how pitiful we are in China. If you don't revitalize yourself, you will be divided up by others. But now we have many difficulties, high-level corruption ... "My father's patriotic passion deeply touched the young Bing Xin. In her young mind, the seeds of patriotism were sown and the flames of hatred against imperialism and feudal forces were ignited. She once said with deep feelings: "In this long conversation, what I remember most firmly and deeply is' Yantai is ours! This sentence. "
Later, their family moved to a new house next to the naval training camp on the Shandong side. This is Bing Xin's closest life to the sea during his eight years in Yantai. Barracks, flags, forts, docks and the surrounding seaside near her home have all become the stage for Bing Xin's activities. She once recalled this life in the essay Love in the Sea written by 1962. "... in the morning, I saw the golden basin-like Asahi suddenly rising from the dark black, light gray and fish-bellied white clouds. At this time, the space roared, and the thick gold spilled all over the sea and dyed the sky red ... At dusk, I saw the silver plate-like moon sticking out of the horizontal line. Although I am single, I feel infinite happiness and freedom. "It can be said that the sea is the great cradle of childhood Bing Xin. With its broad mind, various beautiful and fantastic faces and connotations, it cultivated the spirit and emotion of Bing Xin in childhood and gave her endless inspiration for her future creation. ...
Extensive reading laid a solid foundation for her later literary creation.
In Yantai, when Bing Xin was 4 years old, she began to read and write at the urging of her mother and uncle. Mother taught her "word films" and my uncle taught her textbooks. However, with such beautiful places as the sea and mountains, she began to lose interest in reading. In the preface of the Complete Works of Bing Xin, she once wrote: "I remember one time, my mother locked me in the room and told me to read, but I struggled to get out." My father was outside, banging heavily on the table in the hall with a whip to scare me, but the whip that never hit me on the head never scared my running temper back. "
At the age of six or seven, Bing Xin began to go to school at home during the day, reading some books and learning some short sentences. After school, my father came back from the military camp and taught her to shoot, ride horses, row boats and watch the stars at night. On holidays, her father also took her to downtown Yantai, to participate in the navy soldiers' get-together in Tianhou Palace, or to see pear blossoms at Yuhuangding and to eat grapes in the vineyard of Changyu Brewery Company. More often, it is to take her to visit her friends on those warships that enter Hong Kong. The beautiful natural scenery and various beneficial and interesting activities in Yantai have cultivated Bing Xin's thoughts and feelings and broadened her horizons. At this time, books provided her with a rich source of knowledge. During this period, reading became an important part of Bing Xin's life. When Bing Xin was 7 years old, the solitary environment forced her to take the "key" given by her mother and open the door of the stacks. "What a dazzling picture inside the door!" She wrote, "as soon as I step into this threshold, I can't get out!" " "
Whenever it's windy and rainy and she can't go out, she pesters her mother or wet nurse and tells her stories. After listening to stories like Tiger Mother, Snake Lang, Cowherd and Weaver Girl, and Liang Shanbo Zhu Yingtai, she was out of control. By this time, she had learned two or three hundred words, and her uncle Yang Zijing became her teacher. Every day she finishes her homework and tells her stories like Romance of the Three Kingdoms after dinner. Fascinated by the story, she refused to sleep. Every night, she is always coaxed by the wet nurse, takes off her shoes and clothes and goes to bed crying. But during the day, she works harder. When my uncle is busy with business, he often stops reading. At this time, Bing Xin was anxious like an ant on hot bricks, wandering around his uncle's desk at night. Seeing that my uncle ignored her, she had no choice but to pick up the reflection herself. She swallowed it in one gulp, and many glyphs were guessed by her because of repeated appearances. The more you read, the more you understand, and the more you look, the more interested you are. After reading the Three Kingdoms, I began to read Water Margin and Strange Stories from a Lonely Studio. She was immersed in reading. "I don't go to the seaside, I don't comb my hair, I don't wash my face;" After reading books, I like to laugh and cry. "Mom said she was a fan of reading and advised her to go out to play, but she wouldn't listen. Once she peeked at Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio in the bathroom, and the bath water was so cold that she didn't even notice it. Her mother was so angry that she grabbed the book and tore it in half. She staggered over, picked up the serial torn on the ground and watched it again. Her obsession made her mother laugh.
A 7-year-old child can read The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the news that "Tai Shi Dong and Feng Yiting are in conflict" and other stories soon spread among Bing Xin's father's colleagues and friends. So every time Bing Xin and her father go to the warship, they always take her to the round table and let her sit there and talk about the Three Kingdoms. Most of the rewards for telling books are novels translated by Lin Shu, such as Biography of Filial Piety and Nair, Funny History and A Piece of Meat for the Rest of My Life published by the Commercial Press. When the book was finished, the sailor sent her home with a big bag of novels. She laughed and danced happily and got great satisfaction.
Bing Xin's father Xie's photo when he was a battalion commander in Yantai Naval Training Camp 1903.
Later, he selected novels with a bid of one or two cents from the "storytelling series" at the back of books such as The Biography of Filial Piety and Naier, and entrusted the groom who delivered the letters to buy them every day at Mingshan Bookstore, the only new bookstore in Yantai. In "Say No Series" published by the Commercial Press, she likes Dickens' novel "A Piece of Meat for the Rest of My Life" (david copperfield) best. In Miscellanies of Childhood, she once described her reading of this book at that time: "I remember when I read this book repeatedly, when poor David ran out of the abusive shopkeeper's house to find his menstruation, and when he was hungry and cold during the trip, I shed tears, broke the buns that my mother gave me as a snack and stuffed them into my mouth one by one, which proved that I was happy! Sometimes my mother sees it and says,' You are a strange child. With books to read and food to eat, you still cry! It's been decades, and I've never told anyone this strange psychology! "
By the time Bing Xin 1 1 year-old, she had finished reading all the series of Shuobu, as well as The Journey to the West's classical novels such as Water Margin, Rain Flower Fall, Rebirth, Legend of Heroes of Children, New Moon and History of Eastern Zhou Dynasty. This extensive reading laid a solid foundation for her later literary creation. The concise, implicit, fresh and beautiful literary language in her works is closely related to the high classical literature literacy she has cultivated since childhood.
Two new teachers made her unforgettable.
When Bing Xin/Kloc-0 was 0/0 years old, her cousin Mr. Wang came to Yantai from the south and became her teacher. Teacher Wang received a good education and was the first good teacher in Bing Xin's life. Bingxin was interested in many things at that time. "Since I love reading, I have paid attention to all the glyphs. I keep in mind the couplets in other people's halls, the plaques and plaques in Tianhou Palace and Longwang Temple, the signboard paper wrapped in fruit bait, and the epigrams behind cigarette paintings. "
Teacher Wang attended classes for a few days and talked several times. When she discovered Bing Xin's "three teachings and nine streams" style of study, she gently advised her to study hard but not to overdo it. So her readers, in addition to Chinese textbooks, added The Analects of Confucius, Zuo Zhuan, Tang Poems and various old and new essays, such as Ban Zhao's Women's Commandment and Free Book in the Ice Room. Only then did Bing Xin begin to get in touch with Confucian classics.
Bingxin fell madly in love with poetry under the guidance of her cousin. She learns to pair and watch rhymes ... when her father and friends started a poetry club, she also attended. She asked her cousin to teach her poetry. Cousin refused and only allowed her to write a paper. She made one or two four-character poems after class and showed them to her cousin for help. At this time, she was most interested in the books in class, but her enthusiasm for novels decreased.
Another person who had a great influence on Bing Xin was her younger brother, Mr. Yang. He is the best storyteller. When he goes to Yantai for a holiday in summer, he often tells Bing Xin stories with strong national complex, such as Hong Chengchou betraying his country and Lin Zexu burning opium. His impassioned speeches often made Bing Xin too excited to sleep, from which he was educated in patriotism. In addition, this little uncle often reads some progressive books, and Bing Xin steals some pamphlets from him to publicize the revolution.
19 1 1 Before the Revolution of 1911, Bing Xin's father was denounced as a "disorderly party". Moreover, because many students in the naval school are league members, the school library has progressive newspapers and periodicals that publicize the revolution, such as "The Call of the People", and friends advised him to resign immediately to avoid being "dismissed for investigation". At the suggestion of a friend, he resigned as the principal of Yantai Naval School. In this way, Bing Xin bid farewell to her favorite sea, left Yantai and returned to her hometown of Fuzhou with her parents.