"Star" is a praise for maternal love and innocence. Bing Xin, the first famous female writer in the history of modern literature in China, was famous for advocating "the philosophy of love" as soon as she entered the literary world. And maternal love is the fundamental starting point of "the philosophy of love". She believes that maternal love is the source of all things and the fundamental driving force for the world to move towards light. "With love, there is everything." In Stars, she regards maternal love as the noblest and most beautiful thing and praises it repeatedly.
"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. This is also an exhortation poem, which describes a person's life in reverse order with the method of calling at the beginning of the word.