Love, grace, integrity.
Two. Bing Xin (19001010.5-1999.2.28), female, originally named Xie Wanying, was born in Changle, Fujian. China poet, modern writer, translator, children's literature writer, social activist and essayist. The pen name Bing Xin is taken from There is a Bing Xin in the Jade Pot. ?
In the morning post of August 19 19, Bing Xin published her first essay "Hearing Feelings on 2 1 Day" and her first novel "Two Houses". 1923 Before and after studying abroad, he began to publish a series of communication essays with the general title "To Young Readers", which became the foundation work of children's literature in China. In Japan, she was hired by Tokyo University as the first foreign female lecturer to teach the course "China New Literature". 195 1 returned to China.
1February 28th, 999 At 2 1 p.m., Bing Xin died in Beijing Hospital at the age of 99, and was called "the old man of the century".
Third, the 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. With "I" as the clue, the story is full of affection, telling what you have seen, heard, suffered, felt and touched, so that readers can feel that everything that happens in the novel is the truth of life, without fictional weaving, romantic colors, artificial drama conflicts and kitsch humor, which is true and cordial. 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, and showed 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 into one, so as 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 the children's literature works after the founding of New 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".