"Stars" is a collection of poems, consisting of 164 short poems. Bing Xin believed in the "philosophy of love" throughout her life. She believed that "with love, there is everything." In "Stars", she constantly sang hymns of love. What she is most passionate about praising is maternal love. In addition to loving her parents, Bing Xin also values ??brotherhood. She loved her three younger brothers. In an essay she later wrote, "To Little Readers: Newsletter Thirteen," she also compared her three younger brothers to three bright stars. Bing Xin praises maternal love, human love, and childlike innocence. At the same time, she also praises nature, especially the sea that she was familiar with in her childhood. Praising nature, praising childlike innocence, and praising maternal love have become the eternal themes of Bing Xin's life-long creation. Its themes are: maternal love, nature, innocence
"Stars·Spring Water" is recognized as the highest achievement of short poems, and is paradoxically called "Stars Style" and "Spring Water Style". The themes it embodies are: maternal love, nature, and innocence, which constitute the core of Bing Xin's thought, the "philosophy of love."
"Spring Water" is the companion piece to "Stars" and consists of 182 short poems. It was also first published in the "Morning News", but "Spring Water" came out three months later than "Stars".
In "Spring Water", although Bing Xin is still praising maternal love, praising family affection, praising childlike innocence, and praising nature, she uses more space to implicitly express herself and her feelings. The troubles and anguish of a generation of young intellectuals. She uses a gentle and slightly sad writing style to describe her inner feelings. At the same time, she is exploring the meaning of life and expressing her desire to understand the true nature of the world.
With her unique feminine delicacy, Bing Xin wrote two poetry collections "Stars" and "Spring Water" in fresh and beautiful language, and formed a unique artistic style. First, strong philosophy is a major artistic feature of "Stars" and "Spring Water". Many poems in "Stars" and "Spring Water" are philosophical poems containing profound thoughts. These profound thoughts are often integrated with the specific images depicted in the poem and the poet's deep thoughts, so they still have the mood of poetry and the beauty of poetry. Second, delicacy is another distinctive feature of Bing Xin's poetry. Bing Xin's poems show a kind of feminine delicacy everywhere. With her lyrical style "full of tenderness and sadness", she sings pure love with deep emotion and depicts the beauty of nature; at the same time, she also expresses her condemnation of certain social ugly phenomena in a unique way. Third, the text is soft and elegant, the rhythm is natural, and the artistic conception is beautiful and clear. The use of words and phrases in "Stars" and "Spring Water" seems to come easily, revealing a soft and elegant style everywhere.
"Bing Xin style" poems have been popular for several years among poets' repeated imitations. Liu Dabai, Guo Shaoyu, Ye Shaojun, Xu Yunuo, Zong Baihua, etc. have all created many unique poems. These short poems use true and concise words to implicitly express the poets' unique interest in ordinary things and the changes in their emotions in an instant.
Together with Bing Xin's poems, they form a crystal clear and distant constellation, forever shining on the development path of new poetry!