"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, while exploring the meaning of life and expressing her desire to know the true face of the world.
With her unique femininity, Bing Xin wrote two poems, Stars and Springs, in fresh and beautiful language, forming a unique artistic style. First, a strong philosophy is a major artistic feature of Stars and Springs. Many poems in Stars and Spring Water are philosophical poems with profound thoughts. These profound thoughts are often combined with the concrete images depicted in poems and the profound thoughts of poets, so they still have poetic feelings and aesthetic feelings. Secondly, tenderness is another remarkable feature of Bing Xin's poems. Bing Xin's poems show a feminine tenderness everywhere. With the lyric style of "full of tenderness and sadness", she sings pure love with deep and strong feelings and depicts the beauty of nature. At the same time, it also expressed condemnation of some social ugly phenomena in a unique way. Third, the words are gentle and elegant, with natural rhythm and beautiful artistic conception. The words and expressions in Stars and Spring Water seem to be handy, revealing a gentle and elegant style everywhere.