I never throw away a piece of paper,
Save it forever.-save it.
Fold into a boat,
Throw it into the sea from the boat.
Some were blown into the window of the ship by the wind,
Some are wet by the waves and stick to the bow.
I still don't give up and fold every day.
I always hope that a place can only flow where I want it to go.
Mom, if you see a small white boat in your dream,
Don't be surprised that it dreams for no reason.
This was folded by your beloved daughter in tears.
Wan Shui Qian Shan, please carry her love.
And sadness.
About the author:
Bing Xin (1900— 1999.2.28) is a contemporary female writer and a children's literature writer. Formerly known as Xie Wanying, her pen names are Ms. Bing Xin and Man. Originally from Changle, Fujian, he was born in Fuzhou. In his childhood, he was widely exposed to China's classical novels and translations. 19 18 entered the preparatory course of Concord Women's University and actively participated in the May 4th Movement. The first novel "Two Houses" was published in 19 19. Since then, there have been "problem novels" that discuss life problems, such as I am lonely and going to the countryside. At the same time, influenced by Tagore's Birds, he wrote untitled free poems. These crystal clear, beautiful and gentle poems were later published as "Spring Water of the Stars", which was called "Spring Water". 192 1 Join the Literature Research Association. In the same year, he published a collection of essays, Laughter and Past Events. 1923 graduated from yenching university Art Department. I went to Wellesley Women's University to study English literature. During my travel and study abroad in the United States, I wrote a collection of essays for young readers, which showed the characteristics of grace, lightness, elegance, conciseness and fluency, with high artistic expression and made higher achievements than novels and poems. This unique style was once called "Ice Heart Body" by people at that time, which had a wide influence.
From 65438 to 0926, Bing Xin returned to China after obtaining a master's degree in literature and taught in yenching university and Tsinghua University successively. Since then, he has written prose "Returning to the South", novel "Pink" and "Dong Er Girl", showing more profound social connotations. During the Anti-Japanese War, he was engaged in creative and cultural salvation activities in Kunming and Chongqing. 1946 went to Japan and was a professor at Tokyo University. 195 1 returned to China, and served as the editorial board of People's Literature, director of the Chinese Writers Association and vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. His works include essays After My Return, For Young Readers, We Woke up in Spring, Ode to Cherry Blossoms, Gleaning, Collected Works of Yat Sen, For Young Readers, etc. Show a colorful life. She still maintains her own unique style in art, and her short story Empty Nest won the 1980 Excellent Short Story Award. In the same year, Xiao Ju Deng, a children's literature work, won the honorary prize of the National Children's Literature Creation Award. In addition to the above works, Bing Xin has also published novels such as Superman, Going to the Countryside, Dong Er Girl, and novels and essays such as Past, Returning to the South, Essays for Women, Complete Works of Bing Xin, Collected Works of Bing Xin and Selected Translation of Bing Xin. Her works have been translated into many foreign languages and published.
Paper boat appreciation
1923 In the early summer, Bing Xin graduated from yenching university. On August 17 of the same year, she went to study in the United States by mail ship Yorkshire from Shanghai. Arrive in Kobe, Japan on August 19, and visit Yokohama on August 2 1 day. Judging from the writing time, this poem was written by the poet on a seagoing ship that continued to sail to the other side of the ocean on the sixth day after his visit to Yokohama.
The sparkling waves and surging tides revived the poet's childlike innocence of loving the sea; Green sea water and flying seagulls make the poet close to nature again. During the ten days when she went to sea from Wusongkou, the three pillars of Bingxin's early philosophy of "love"-maternal love, childlike innocence and nature, only "childlike innocence" and "nature" revived at this time, while "maternal love" could not be approached because she was far away from her mother. Therefore, the poet especially misses his mother, and even gets sick because he misses her, and recovers because he sees her in his dream. This poem expresses the poet's deep affection for his mother.
The first verse of the poem begins with his childish behavior-folding paper into a boat, saying that he refused to abandon a piece of paper on a seagoing ship and kept folding it into a boat and throwing it into the sea. Seemingly dull quatrains pave the way for the outbreak of feelings. The second section describes the whereabouts of the paper boat thrown from the ship. "Some were blown into the window of the ship by the wind, and some were wet by the waves and stained on the bow." All these destinations are not in line with the poet's sincere wishes. She "always wants a person to flow only where I want him to go." To this end, she "is still not discouraged and folds every day." This shows the intensity and sincerity of her desire. As for where the paper boat is expected to flow, the poet did not make it clear in this section, which caused suspense and thought-provoking. The poet naturally understands that the paper boat cannot flow to his mother, so the third verse of the poem is innovative. The poet dreamed of seeing a white boat in his mother's dream. If this kind of imagination is still general, "don't wonder that he has no reason to dream" shows the strangeness of the poet's imagination. So, why not let mom be surprised by the dream of the boat? At the end of the poem, the poet pointed out that the imaginary paper boat that entered her mother's dream was folded by her tears. She prayed that the paper boat would bring her love for her mother and the sadness caused by being away from her mother to her side. This ending is the climax of the whole poem.
Missing my mother's feelings is abstract and easy to be vague. This poem is novel in conception, and the poet uses the technique of expressing emotion by supporting things, so the expression of feelings is vivid, concrete, implicit and profound. In addition, this poem has a long line, which is in line with the mood of missing mother.
(Excerpted from A Dictionary of Appreciation of New Poetry, Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, 199 1 Edition)