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 essay she later wrote, Letter to a Little Reader XIII, she also 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, innocence and life.
"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 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, while exploring the meaning of life and expressing her desire to know the true face of the world.
The extended materials "star" and "spring" are the flash confluence of Bing Xin's exploration of life, 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. Later, it was published in the "New Literature and Art" column of the Morning Post, and 1923 was published as "Stars and Springs".
These more than 300 free poems with untitled aphorisms and aphorisms express the author's feelings about natural scenery and thoughts on life philosophy in a natural and harmonious style, praising maternal love, human love and nature. They are short in length, beautiful in writing and profound in meaning, which show the unique thoughts, feelings and aesthetic consciousness of female writers and are unique and far-reaching in the May 4th new poetry circle.
Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Stars in Spring Water