The following is about the origin of the pen name Bing Xin:
According to a search of Baidu library, Bing Xin’s original name was Xie Wanying. The word Bing Xin was taken from Wang Changling’s poem “A heart of ice is in a jade pot”. Nowadays, Bing Xin's pen name is far more widely known than her original name. Bing Xin once told the story of her grandfather naming her. She said that when she was just born, a fortune teller said that she lacked fire in her horoscope, so her grandfather named her Wanying. In this name, the traditional Chinese character Ying has two fires at the beginning. At the same time, Ying also means crystal clear. The origin of the pen name Bing Xin was also inspired by it.
The representative works are "Tao Qi's Summer Diary", "Miscellaneous Notes on Returning Home", "After Returning", "Dong'er Girl", "Leisure", "Stars", "Superman", "Spring Water", "Going to the Country", "Returning to the South" and so on.
At 21:12 on February 28, 1999, Bing Xin died in Beijing Hospital at the age of 99. He was known as the "Elder of the Century."