Many friends heard that I went to Dalian in summer vacation, Zhanjiang in winter, and Japan and the United Arab Emirates went to meetings. They all wrote: "You have come to the sea you love again, and you have seen your childhood friends again. How much did you write?
Some of my friends' expectations have been realized, but most of them have not. In my opinion, the Sea of Japan, the Mediterranean Sea ... even Dalian Bay and Guangzhou Bay are not like the "sea" of my childhood, just as my best friend in my life is not necessarily my childhood bosom friend.
My childhood playmates are not as good as the friends I made when I grew up in many ways, but I have an inexplicable familiarity and intimacy with my childhood playmates.
Their names, voices, smiles, even a lock of short hair on their temples and a red mole on their eyebrows are still vivid decades later! More and more forgetful, I often feel ashamed because I can't remember my name after greeting people I know for a long time.
Therefore, I always marvel at the clear mirror-like picture of my childhood, and at the same time feel deep joy and mixed emotions-this kind of emotion, like a gentle needle, pierced my delicate heart! ?
Speaking of the sea-since I left my childhood seaside, I don't know how many magnificent beaches I have been close to and how many beautiful seascapes I have seen in these decades.
If I have a palace of memory in my mind, I don't know how many seascape paintings with different postures and verve are hung on the wall of this temple. However, the simplest, widest and most thrilling thing is the big painting on the north wall of the main hall!
In this big picture, on the right is the screen-like Nanshan, on the left is the hilly area surrounded by hills, with layers of wheat fields on the soil slope and flat yellow beaches in front. Between the beach and me, there are clusters of rugged farmhouses along the mountain, snuggling up and down into a small village.
There is a vast beach ahead, and that is the sea! The sea extends from north to south, covering the eastern horizon. There are several islands painted in light ink on the horizon, that is Zhifu Island, and there is a lighthouse on the island.
The composition of the painting, that's all But this painting of the sea, when I was still an ordinary blank piece of paper in my childhood mind, was painted day and night with a copper hook and iron bar, with a clear and sensitive memory, which was so profound that it could never be erased.
My sea is in the north of the motherland, and there are no beautiful mountains and waterfalls hanging high nearby. Winter to Qiu Lai, the earth is yellow, the sea is gray-blue, very bleak. Spring has come, and the grass has put on new clothes for the tall Nanshan. On the top of the hut in the distance, one or two peach blossoms occasionally appear.
The sea reflects the spring sunshine and slowly ripples with green waves ... this is the scene of my childhood activities and has never changed. I am a "one-legged" on this vast stage, sometimes wandering monologues, and sometimes kneeling in meditation. ?
I stared at everything with wide eyes, full of curiosity. In the morning, I saw the golden basin-shaped Asahi, which suddenly surged up from the dark black, light gray and white fish belly clouds; At this time, the space roared, and the thick gold sprinkled on the sea surface, dyed the sky red.
Gradually, the voice calmed down and a faint white smoke appeared on the horizon. I saw the masthead and the hull, as well as the place where the tourists came to visit our small city at the foot of the mountain in the north.
At dusk, I saw the moon like a silver plate, holding it out horizontally and trembling. The sea surface became layered, from thick ink to silver ash, and gradually overflowed into a shiny sequin. Light ink fishing sails, wing by wing, slowly passed by, with orange lights flashing at the stern.
I know that in this faint white smoke and orange light, there are many people-people I know from adults' mouths, books, like the people in "Arabian Nights", busy working and laughing.
I can't see them, but I keep working for them and speaking for them in my fantasy: they clean the deck with coconut shells and cast heavy fishing nets; They put a big thimble on the palm of their hand and sewed a thick canvas hard. They put their thick fingers in their mouths to suck, and then put them on their heads to determine the direction of the sea breeze.
Their conversation was tense and lively. They talked about the social drama in front of the Tianhou Palace, the pear flower on the top of the Jade Emperor, and the storm a few days ago ... At this time, my heart was pounding, my mouth was imitating Han Yong's call sign, my hands were clenched, and I was sweating. My body was so nervous that I stood up from the beach. ...
Scenery in memory: windy morning, moonlight, snowflakes, starry sky, like kaleidoscope, changing rapidly; My fantasy activities, in line with these scenery, are also like a different kind of drama, staged day and night. But every play is performed on the same stage with mountains and seas as the background.
This stage is extremely silent and boundless. I am both an actor and a playwright. Although I am single, I feel infinite happiness and freedom. These past events, if they continue, will never be finished. This is not what I want to say.
I mean, everyone has his own childhood memories, happy or bitter, which are the deepest memories for him. I happened to be close to the sea since I was a child. I fell in love with the sea, while others fell in love with other scenery. Talking about it and writing about it will inevitably lead to "ecstasy".
In fact, specifically, whether we love the sea or other things, we all love our land and our people!
Suppose we love the sea. What we love is by no means an endless sea. Every seaside has its own beach, its own rocks, its own trees and its own village, forming its own unique and loving "personality".
Her beaches and rocks define the geographical scope, and her trees and villages mark the people's labor. In her character, there are historical culture, customs and habits that are closely related to our flesh and blood. She belongs to us, we belong to her, she gave birth to us and nurtured us;
We are attached to her and defend her. We wish her happiness and prosperity and will never tolerate bullying and aggression from others.
It is this strong and sincere feeling that inspires us to write many beautiful and magnificent poems and make many great undertakings that have never been seen before. Do these examples need to be listed at all times and in all countries? ?
Also, if I love the "sea" of my childhood, don't I love Dalian Bay and Guangzhou Bay? Absolutely not. Grow up, the sea expands, they are still our own sea!
As for the Sea of Japan and the Mediterranean Sea-when I saw the children who participated in the movement against American bases in the inner beach of Japan and the children who participated in the war against British and French aggression in the port of Said in the United Arab Emirates, I took their warm little hands and looked at the blue sea behind them. My childhood love for the sea flooded into my heart like a tidal wave of anger.
What lovely children of Japan and the United Arab League, what lovely Sea of Japan and Mediterranean Sea!
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Bing Xin's creative characteristics:
1, novel
When Bing Xin portrays characters, most of them don't need strong colors or elaborate carving, and only use the brushwork of sketching and lightly counting strokes. Characters are like hibiscus out of water, emerging from the water.
Sister June 1st, Girl Dong Er and Little Orange Lantern respectively created the images of girls in three different eras.
Bing Xin created a series of ideal and perfect images of young women in her novels. Most of them are kind-hearted, gentle and beautiful, lively and generous, steady and dignified.
They are full of youthful vitality and win the dignity of women with wisdom and talent; Get men's respect for their brilliant achievements in their careers.
In addition, there are a series of young people who love the motherland, kind and gentle great mothers, reasonable grandmothers, learned and interesting old professors and other images, showing warmth.
In artistic expression, Bing Xin is good at drawing lessons from and using lyric techniques. In the works, sometimes the feelings are expressed directly in the narrator's tone, and sometimes the author's subjective will is revealed through the characters' language or psychological activities, which makes the novel have a strong lyrical color.
Bing Xin often likes to use the first-person narrative technique. Start the story with "I" as a clue, full of affection, and tell what you have seen, heard, suffered, felt and touched, so that readers can feel everything that happened in the novel.
They are all the truth of life, without fictional elements, romantic colors, artificial drama conflicts, kitsch humor, very realistic and intimate.
This provides the author with greater freedom, can start and end more flexibly, turn and change, and express the author's strong feelings more easily.
Bing Xin's novels are not many excellent works, most of which are fresh and meaningful treasures. Many of her works seem simple in plot, but profound in meaning, leaving endless aftertaste.
She captured a fragment of real life, an accident in her life journey, showing a side of complex social life. There is no bizarre and tortuous story here, no feat of Kingoma Iron, but there is a philosophical pursuit.
She often observes society and examines life with keen eyes; From the influence of interpersonal relationship, generate sparks, captures the philosophy contained in life, reposes his feelings, and is full of fresh philosophy and poetry.
In the structure of novels, most of them adopt two-way structural framework and mutual reflection format. She often takes two families, two characters, two events and two sides of the ocean as the main line and develops in a balanced way, but the outcome of development is quite different. Through sharp contrast, it is enlightening and thought-provoking.
In the description of novels, she often uses the technique of line drawing to outline a vivid image and express her unique poetic feelings with concise pen and ink without comparison.
In Bing Xin's works, the activities of characters are often arranged in the early morning, dusk and moonlit night. The activity scene is set at the seaside, lakeside, park, mountain and boat;
With the help of the description of natural scenery, the beauty of characters and the beauty of environment are integrated to achieve a situation of blending scenes and create a specific warm atmosphere. ?
2. Prose
Bing Xin's prose has a wide range of themes and profound implications. Bing Xin vividly reflects some aspects of China's turbulent and complicated social life in the past hundred years through her delicate description of her own experience.
In Bing Xin's prose, we saw the tragic scene that in semi-colonial and semi-feudal old China, the imperialist, feudal and bureaucratic comprador classes oppressed and ravaged the people of China, and heroic people and patriotic youths rose up and fought bravely.
At the same time, the theme of Bing Xin's prose also extends to the history, geography, culture and customs of many countries in the world, as well as the sufferings and struggles of the people, from which readers can gain rich international knowledge, such as the ancient cultures of Egypt and India.
Sino-Japanese relations with a long history; Italy's past and present; Scottish folk art, the development of cultural exchanges between China and other countries, and the profound friendship of people all over the world towards the people of China have all given people new enlightenment.
Bing Xin's prose embodies the unique style emphasized by Bing Xin himself.
Bing Xin is good at capturing fragments of life and weaving them in her own emotional waves. With keen eyesight and meticulous thinking, he melts his inner feelings with the trigger of external things, combines feelings with scenes, and gives readers lofty beauty enjoyment.
Bing Xin attaches great importance to the connotation beauty of prose. Her prose is novel and ingenious. In the seemingly ordinary theme, the creativity is surprising and the structure is changeable. This is a beautiful emotion condensed from her ideological attainments and living environment.
Bing Xin pays special attention to the expression of feelings in the process of prose creation. Bing Xin often expresses her aesthetic psychology and ideals with the help of natural scenery.
Bing Xin's prose is not only available everywhere, but also very concise. Bing Xin is good at picking up the essence of literary language, weaving those refined, vivid, accurate and vivid languages into his works, which makes Bing Xin's prose poetic.
There are also internal rhythms and rhythms, such as the third and tenth articles of The Past (Part II), which pay great attention to the level of emotions, the speed of rhythm and the length of sentence patterns.
Bing Xin's prose can not only be read, but also recited, so that readers can feel the beauty of music in the taste of singing.
3. Children's literature
Bing Xin's children's literature works are full of love and hope for children. Bing Xin embarks from the characteristics of children, entertaining and influencing people's hearts.
Bing Xin has never appeared as a child educator. She didn't educate her children with vague sermons and blunt warnings. Instead, she had a heart-to-heart conversation with her children and told her story and inner feelings in a kind and euphemistic tone, which was so interesting and beautiful, as if there was a magic power to attract young readers.
When Bing Xin confided her feelings, she was so sincere and emotional that she touched the children's hearts faintly, prompting them to be unconsciously inspired by the theme of the work in excitement, happiness and excitement, and get lessons from it.
It is an important content of Bing Xin's children's literature to educate children in patriotism and stimulate their national pride.
However, Bing Xin's works do not directly discuss how great and lovely our motherland is, why we should be patriotic and so on. Instead, we express our love for our motherland with exquisite ideas and vivid scenes.
In children's literature after the founding of the People's Republic of China, patriotic feelings are more intense. The author's sincere praise for the motherland is not abstract and empty, but naturally expressed through Bing Xin's personal feelings.
This feeling is based on hearing and seeing, comparing the old with the new; Coupled with the author's close observation and artistic combination, it is vividly reflected.
In her children's literature works, Bing Xin often artistically inserts some knowledge of astronomy, geography, history and science into young readers according to the characteristics of children's strong thirst for knowledge.
However, Bing Xin is not simply imparting knowledge. It is neither as systematic as textbooks nor as stereotyped as popular science books, but contains rich knowledge in flowing descriptions.
It can be said that knowledge is embedded in images. By artistic means and vivid image description, children can expand their knowledge and add new wisdom in interesting reading.
Bing Xin uses children's literature to educate children in beauty, but it is not abstract and conceptual, but closely related to concrete social life.
For example, green trees, wheat fields as neat as green carpets, artificial lakes with golden light in the sunset, this magnificent land of fish and rice was rebuilt by hardworking, brave and intelligent people. There are beautiful flowers, beautiful trees, beautiful mountains and rivers, beautiful cities and beautiful countryside.
In the beauty of nature, the beauty of social life is integrated. This kind of aesthetic education can inspire children to love life, life and career, and inspire them to work hard to transform the world and create a better future.
Children's literature, like other arts, "helps to achieve various actions of struggle, progress and beautification".
Extended source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Bing Xin