Bing Xin, formerly known as Xie Wanying, was born in Fuzhou on 190010.5. When she was a child, she stayed in Yantai for seven or eight years. Bing Xin's early works are often written affectionately to the sea. In her early years, she read China's classical novels and widely translated foreign works. 19 12 She was admitted to Fuzhou Women's Teachers College. 19 13 went to Beijing with his family and entered the Beiman Girls' Middle School, a missionary school. 19 18, Bing Xin was admitted to the preparatory course of Concord Women's University for the purpose of studying medicine, and then changed her mind and turned to literature. She graduated with honors from yenching university Art Department.
Bing Xin belongs to the first batch of modern writers who emerged in the May 4th New Literature Movement. She is one of the most famous female writers and an important member of the literary research society. Encouraged by the new trend of thought, 19 19 September, she published her first novel "Two Families" under the pseudonym of Bing Xin, revealing the necessity of improving family life for her career. Later, she published "When You Are Lonely, Helpless and Poor" and other "problem novels" that exposed life problems such as society, family and women. At the same time, her essay Laughter, published in 192 1, is considered as a typical American essay in the early period of the New Literature Movement. Influenced by Tagore's Collection of Birds, she wrote more than 300 free poems with untitled aphorisms, which were collected into "Spring Water in the Stars", which was unique in the May 4th new poetry circle and showed the unique thoughts, feelings and aesthetic consciousness of female writers, and was well received by readers.
/kloc-0 In the autumn of 923, Bing Xin went to the graduate school of Wellesley Women's University in the United States to study English literature. From this time to 1926, she wrote 29 intimate and sincere letters to the children, which were published in the children's world column of the Morning Post and included as "For Little Readers" in 65438. This is the masterpiece of Bing Xin's early prose and the earliest modern children's literature in China. Her prose has higher achievements than novels and poems, and was called the magical "Bing Xin Ti" at that time.
From 65438 to 0926, Bing Xin returned to China after obtaining a master's degree in literature in the United States, and taught in yenching university, Tsinghua University and Beijing Women's College of Arts and Sciences successively. There are not many creative works in this period, and the influential works include South Return, Destiny, Dong Er Girl, Our Wife's Living Room, etc. These works have more profound social content, which shows Bing Xin's new understanding of life.
1936 during the summer vacation, she traveled to Europe and America, passing through Japan, the United States, the Soviet Union, Italy, Britain, France, Germany and other countries. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Bing Xin went to Chongqing to preside over the bimonthly Women's Culture.
From 194 1 to 1947, she served as a member of the political conference. 1946 returned to Beiping in the summer, and the whole family went to Japan last winter. From 65438 to 0950, Bing Xin, as the first female professor in Tokyo University, taught China's new literature.
195 1 year, Bing Xin returned from Japan, and her life and creation turned a new page in the new socialist China.
After 1958 and 1978, she wrote "Send another little reader" and "Send a little reader three times" for the children, and also wrote essays "After Returning", "Walking into the Great Hall of the People" and "Ode to Cherry Blossoms". These essays not only keep her unique artistic style, but also show colorful life pictures and bright and optimistic colors on a broad background full of the flavor of the times.
From 65438 to 0980, her short story Empty Nest won the National Excellent Short Story Award. Her collection of children's literature "Little Orange Lantern" won the honorary award of 1980 National Children's Literature Creation Award.
From 65438 to 0982, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House began to publish five volumes of Selected Works of Bing Xin and three volumes of Selected Works of Bing Xin in the same year.
Bing Xin has also translated and published Tagore's poems, plays and other works by foreign writers. After writing, she devoted herself to maintaining world peace, friendship with foreign countries and cultural exchanges, and visited abroad many times. She was elected as a representative of all previous National People's Congresses, a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth China People's Political Consultative Conference, a vice-chairman of China Association for Promoting Democracy, a director of China Writers Association, a member, vice-chairman and honorary chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
1On July 28th, 988, Ba Jin called her "the last elder of our new literature" in the preface of Bing Xin Zhuan. At the same time, she said, "Her mind is clearer and sharper than many young people, and she has a deeper love for the motherland and people."
His main works are prose collection for a little reader, poetry collection spring, stars, and children's literature collection little orange lamp. There are also Selected Works of Bing Xin's Translation (three volumes) and Selected Works of Bing Xin (six volumes).
The main translations are: (Syria) The Prophet by Carol Ji Bolun (People's Literature Publishing House, 1957), Indian Fairy Tales by Mullah Anad (Shanghai Children's Publishing House, 1955), and Chittaglia (India) by Tagore (People's Literature Publishing House, India).