Bing Xin, formerly known as Xie Wanying, has a pen name Bing Xin, which means "there is a piece of Bing Xin in the jade pot". His ancestral home is Hengling Village, Changle, Fuzhou, Fujian. Famous poet, writer, translator and children's writer. He used to be honorary chairman of the Central Committee of China Association for Promoting Democracy, vice chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, honorary chairman and consultant of Chinese Writers Association, and honorary director of China Translators Association.
all one's life
Juvenile period
1900 10 October 5th. Bing Xin was born in a patriotic and reformist naval officer's family in Fuzhou. His father Xie participated in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Later, he founded the naval school in Yantai and became the principal. Bing Xin's boyhood was spent in men's clothing, riding horses, shooting in waves, on ships and in military camps. The humiliating history of the Chinese nation being bullied by foreign powers even inspired her patriotism. 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, and her father's patriotism and ambition to strengthen the country have also deeply influenced her. In Yantai, Bing Xin began to study. During her initial homeschooling, she came into contact with China's classical literature. At the age of seven, she had read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin. At the same time, I also read "Shuo Bu Series" published by the Commercial Press, including david copperfield by Dickens, a famous British writer, and other works critical of realism in Kloc-0/9th century. After that, Bing Xin returned to Fuzhou with his father and lived in a big courtyard behind Wanxing Tongshi Store in yangqiao, Nanhou Street. 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 Shuen. Here, Bing Xin 19 12 was admitted to Fuzhou Women's Normal School, becoming the first girl in Xie's family to formally enroll. 19 13, his father Xie went to Beijing National Government as the director of the Military Science Division of the Navy Department, and Bing Xin moved to Beijing with his father, living in Jianzi Lane of Tieshi Hutong, and entered Beiman Girls' Middle School (now Beijing 166 Middle School) the following year. 19 18 entered the pre-science course of Concord Women's University, hoping to become a life-saving doctor.
early stage
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. Later, he wrote "problem novels" such as "Sven Man languishes alone", "warlords" and "autumn rain worries people", 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 by warlords to the people. In the meantime, Concord Women's University merged into yenching university, and Bing Xin joined the famous literature research society as a young student. Under the banner of "for life", her creations flowed out continuously, and she published the novel Superman and the poem Stars and Springs that attracted the attention of critics, which aroused the response of social literary circles and thus promoted the writing trend of "short poems" in the early stage of new poetry. 192 1, Bing Xin joined the Literature Research Association. At this time, most of his works revolve around four themes: maternal love, childlike innocence and understanding of life and nature, and construct the core of Bing Xin's thought-"philosophy of love". Representative works include Superman, Boredom, Stars and Springs.
Study in the United States
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 literature at the Institute of Wellesley Women's University in Boston, and Wu Wenzao studied sociology at Dartmouth College. By communicating with each other, they gradually deepened their understanding. 1925 Summer, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao went to Cornell University to study French, and they fell in love.
Teach Tsinghua.
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.
Get married and start a family
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 1933' s Return to the South-Mother's Soul 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. 1938, Wu Wenzao and Bing Xin left Beiping with Wu Ping's child Wu Bingsan in the bonfire of the Anti-Japanese War, and went to Kunming, Yunnan, the home front, via Shanghai and Hong Kong. Bing Xin once volunteered to teach in Chenggong Simple Normal School, and experienced the 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 Sending Young Readers Again. Known as one of the three talented women in Fuzhou.
War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression wins.
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 Department of Literature of Tokyo University, and was later hired by Tokyo University as the first foreign female professor 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. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, she had contact with Zhou Enlai, and they met to publish articles in progressive journals. Zhou Enlai invited her to Yan 'an. Although she couldn't make it, their hearts were connected. During the War of Liberation, Bing Xin refused to participate in the election of the "National Congress" and supported his relatives to go to the liberated areas. At the beginning of the founding of New China, she lived in Japan, caring for the motherland, and resolutely supported Wu Wenzao's just move to get rid of the Kuomintang clique.
In New China.
Encouraged by the new situation of the founding of New China, Wu Wenzao and Bing Xin risked their lives to break through many obstacles and returned to the motherland on 195 1. Settled in Beijing from then on. Premier Zhou Enlai cordially received Wu Wenzao and Bing Xin, and affirmed and encouraged their patriotic behavior. Bing Xin is committed to various cultural undertakings and international exchange activities of the motherland. During this period, she visited India, Myanmar, Switzerland, Japan, Egypt, Romania, Britain, the Soviet Union and other countries to spread the friendship among people all over the world. She is diligent in translation and has published many translations. A large number of essays and novels written by her have been included as Little Orange Lantern, Ode to Cherry Blossoms, Small Prizes for Picking Ears and so on. As we all know, it is widely circulated. After the Cultural Revolution began, Bing Xin was hit, his family was copied and entered the "bullpen". In the scorching sun, he was criticized by the rebels. 1At the beginning of 970, Bing Xin, who was 70 years old, was sent to the May 7th Cadre School in Xianning, Hubei Province for labor reform. It was not until 197 1 that US President Nixon was about to visit China that Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao returned to Beijing to accept the translation task assigned by the Party and the government. At this time, she cooperated with Wu Wenzao, Fei Xiaotong and others to complete the translation of Outline of World History and World History. Under the extremely abnormal economic construction and political life in this country, Bing Xin, like her people, is in trouble and thinking. During the ten-year "Cultural Revolution" turmoil, despite being treated unfairly, she faced everything calmly and calmly. She has always been concerned about the progress of the socialist motherland and the improvement of people's lives. She once wrote in the article Impression of the Century: "In the past 90 years, my love for the motherland and the people has always been rock-solid."
The second creative climax
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the motherland entered a new historical period, and Bing Xin ushered in a miraculous second creative climax. From June 65438 to June 0980, Bing Xin suffered from cerebral thrombosis and then fracture. Illness can't make her put down her pen. Her short story "Empty Nest" published that year won the National Excellent Short Story Award. Later, he created masterpieces such as "Everything is Top Grade ……" and "Monks in the Distance". In prose, in addition to Three Letters to Young Readers, he has successively created four series of articles: As I Think, My Autobiography, About Men and Fu Jian's Miscellanies. Its large number, rich content and unique writing style have brought her literary achievements to a new level. My request, my thanks and a letter to readers published in the late 1990s all show her deep love for the motherland and people with integrity and frankness. She has donated more than RMB100000 to the primary schools in her hometown, the National Hope Project, the China Rural Women's Education Development Fund, Anhui and other people in disaster areas. He donated a large number of books, manuscripts, calligraphy and painting that he treasured, and took the lead in setting up Bingxin Library. As the people's diplomatic envoy, Bing Xin frequently visited all over the world, bringing the literature and culture of China and the friendly feelings of the people of China to every corner of the world. 199212 On February 24th, Bing Xin Research Association, a national social academic group, was established in Fuzhou, with the famous writer Ba Jin as its president. Since then, a series of research and activities have been carried out.
The Year of the Crane has passed.
1999 bing Xin died in Beijing hospital on February 28th at the age of 99. Because he just spent a century in his life, he was later called "the old man of the century".