1900 10 was born in a family of naval officers with patriotism and reformism in Fuzhou. Her father Xie took part in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to fight against the Japanese invaders. Later, he founded the naval school in Yantai and became the principal.
Bing Xin moved to Shanghai with her family seven months after her birth.
When I was 4 years old, I moved to Yantai, Shandong Province, and lived by the sea in Yantai 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. In Yantai, Bing Xin began to study. During her initial study at home, she came into contact with China's classical literature. At the age of seven, she read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin. At the same time, I also read Say No Series published by the Commercial Press, including The Story of a Piece of Meat by Dickens, a famous British writer, and other critical realism works in the19th century. When reading the story of "A Piece of Meat for the Rest of My Life", when poor David ran away from the abusive shopkeeper and went to find his menstruation, Bing Xin cried and broke the bun that his mother gave her as a snack.
After the Revolution of 1911, Bing Xin returned to Fuzhou with her father and lived in a big courtyard behind Wanxing Tongshi Store in Nanhou Street Yangqiao. Grandpa's big family lives here, and there are many couplets on the pillars at home, all written by Bing Xin's uncles. This house was originally the residence of Lin Juemin, one of the 72 martyrs in Huanghuagang. After the accident, the Lins were afraid of being punished, so they sold their house and took refuge in the countryside. The person who bought this house is Bing Xin's grandfather, Mr. Xie Shuan. Here, Bing Xin was admitted to the preparatory course of Fuzhou Women's Normal School with 19 12, becoming the first girl in Xie's family to formally enroll.
19 13 years, his father Xie went to Beijing National Government as the director of the Military Science Division of the Navy Department. Bing Xin moved to Beijing with his father and lived in the top lane of Tieshizi Hutong. The following year, he entered Beiman Girls' Middle School. 19 18, promoted to the Science Fund of United Women's University, hoping to become a life-saving doctor.
With the rise of the New Culture Movement and the outbreak of the May 4th Movement, Bing Xin closely linked her destiny with national rejuvenation. She devoted herself to the trend of the times and was selected as a student union document, so she joined the publicity unit of Beijing Women's Federation. Encouraged by the patriotic student movement, she published her first essay "Thoughts on the 21st Hearing" and her first novel "Two Families" in19/morning post in August. The latter first used the pen name "Bing Xin". Because the work directly involves major social issues, it will soon have an impact. Bing Xin said that it was the thunder of the May 4th Movement that "shocked" her writing. Later, I wrote "Problem Novels" such as When You Are Alone, Helpless, Down and Out, Going to the Countryside, Autumn Rain and Sorrow, which highlighted the destruction of human nature by feudal families, the fierce conflict between the two generations in the new world and the pain brought to the people by warlords. At that time, Concord Women's University was merged into yenching university, and Bing Xin joined the famous literature research society as a young student. Under the banner of "for the sake of life", her creations flowed out continuously, and she published the novel Superman that attracted the attention of critics and the poems such as Stars and Spring Water that aroused the response of social literary circles, thus promoting the trend of "writing poems" in the early stage of new poetry.
1923, Bing Xin won the Wellesley Women's University Scholarship with excellent results. Before and after studying abroad, she began to publish a series of communication essays with "To a Little Reader" as the general title, which became the cornerstone of children's literature in China. Bing Xin, who is in her early twenties, has become a minor celebrity in China's literary world.
Bing Xin met Wu Wenzao on President Jackson's cruise ship to America. Bing Xin studied for a degree in literature at the Institute of Wellesley Women's University, and Wu Wenzao studied sociology at Dartmouth College. By communicating with each other, they gradually deepened their understanding. 1925 In the summer, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao went to Cornell University to study French. In the beautiful campus and quiet environment, they fell in love.
From 65438 to 0926, Bing Xin returned to China with a master's degree in literature, while Wu Wenzao continued to study for a doctorate in sociology at Columbia University. After returning to China, Bing Xin taught in yenching university, Beiping Women's College of Arts and Sciences, and Chinese Department of Tsinghua University.
1On June 5th, 929, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao got married in Linhuxuan, yenching university, and Si Tuleideng presided over their wedding. After marriage, Bing Xin continued to write. Her works sincerely praise maternal love, childlike innocence and nature, but also reflect her careful observation of social inequality and life of different classes. Her pure and meaningful writing also reveals a little irony. The representative novels are Fen by 193 1 and Girl by 1933, and the excellent prose is 193 1 South Return-Mother in Heaven.
1932, Beixin Bookstore published the Complete Works of Bing Xin in three volumes (novel, prose and poem), which is the first complete works of modern literature in China.
From 65438 to 0936, Bing Xin and her husband Wu Wenzao went to Europe and America for a year. They visited Japan, the United States, France, Britain, Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union and other places extensively. In Britain, Bing Xin had a dialogue with Woolf, a pioneer writer of stream-of-consciousness novels. They talked about literature and China while having afternoon tea.
From 65438 to 0938, Wu Wenzao and Bing Xin left Beiping with their children in the bonfire of the Anti-Japanese War, and went to Kunming, Yunnan, the rear area, via Shanghai and Hong Kong. Bing Xin once volunteered to teach in Chenggong Simple Normal School, and experienced the hardships and hardships brought by the war with the whole nation.
1940 moved to Chongqing and became a member of the National Political Council. Soon after, he joined the Anti-Enemy Association of China literary and art circles, enthusiastically engaged in cultural salvation activities, and wrote influential prose chapters such as About Women and Farewell to Little Readers.
After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, she went to Japan with her husband and sociologist Wu Wenzao in 1946+0 1. She lectured at the Japanese Oriental Society and the Literature Department of Tokyo University, and was later hired as the first foreign female professor by Tokyo University to teach the course "China New Literature". During their stay in Japan, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao United and influenced overseas intellectuals under complicated conditions and actively engaged in patriotic, peaceful and progressive activities. As a loyal patriotic intellectual, Bing Xin inherited the fine tradition of China intellectuals. Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, and the pursuit of light will never stop. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, she had contact with Zhou Enlai and published an article in the progressive journal at his request. Zhou Enlai invited her to visit Yan 'an. Although she didn't succeed, their hearts were connected.