"Spring Water" is a companion piece of "Stars", which consists of 182 short poems. It was first published in the morning paper, but it came out three months later than the Star.
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 slightly sad and gentle tone, while exploring the meaning of life and expressing her desire to know the true face of the world.
As a famous poet during the May 4th Movement, Bing Xin's poetry titles are always associated with stars and springs. There are 164 stars and 182 springs, which are mainly published in the morning post supplement 1922. Short poems have no separate titles. Published by Commercial Press and Xinchao Society respectively, which aroused strong repercussions at that time. Bing Xin's novels and essays have won a wide range of readers and countless praises. It is pointed out that this new literary genius has the talent of a poet. But she decided to write her own poems because she was encouraged by Sun Fuyuan, a reporter from the Morning Post Supplement. He put an interesting poem by Bing Xin in the poetry column, which greatly inspired Bing Xin. Determined to open the boundary between Chinese column and poetry column in her mind, she became a poet and explored life in the form of poetry. Bing Xin later recalled the scene when writing poems. When she was most curious, she greedily read all kinds of books and newspapers after class, and when she met a favorite sentence, she copied it in her notebook in a few words. Accustomed to doing so, sometimes she writes down her mixed feelings and memories anytime and anywhere, and the days are numbered. The number is considerable. Although it is roughly three or five elements, there is always something related to personal experience behind these three or five elements. Seeing these words, I think of a very kind and real scene, and I can't bear to throw it away. At this time, she happened to see Tagore's serial of Birds translated by Zheng Zhenduo in a magazine, which was full of poetic and philosophical words. Her heart moved and she felt that those words were written on her notebook eyebrow. Copy it. When copying, she chose the more poetic and subtle ones and put them together. Because it was a fragmentary idea, she chose a passage beginning with the word "star" and put it in the first book, named "Star". At that time, many critics also thought that Bing Xin was influenced by Tagore. But perhaps more accurately, she discovered her own poems under the inspiration of Tagore. The real source still lies in her own "fragmentary thoughts". Zheng Zhenduo's view is more comprehensive. He thinks that besides Tagore, Bing Xin is also influenced by quatrains and poems in classical poetry. Bing Xin, 65,438+00 years old, studied the Analects of Confucius and Tang poetry, "fell madly in love with poetry", read rhymes, learned couplets correctly, and made two quatrains after class. Her profound knowledge of poetry is one of the reasons for her success in writing short poems. In addition, the Japanese short song haiku translated by Zhou Zuoren is very popular and has a great influence on Bing Xin. Stars and springs are the meeting of Bing Xin's flashes in life exploration, which contains her understanding and understanding of the true meaning of life and rich philosophy. Catch the flash of inspiration and condense it into a short poem called "Star". The content is a mess of poems, and many people think this book is well written. The author accepted Tagore's fresh style and free short story form, thus forming his own unique artistic style. "Xiaohua also wants to look up and thank Chunguang for her love-however, her deep kindness finally silenced her. Mom! Are you that spring? " "mom! The wind and rain came, and the birds hid in the nest; The storm in my heart is coming, so I have to hide in your arms. " "mom! Put aside your troubles and let me sink into your arms. Only you are the destination of my soul. "