On October 5, 1900, was born in Fuzhou, a patriotic, the idea of the naval officer's family, her father Xie Baozhang participated in the Sino-Japanese War, fought against the Japanese invasion forces, and later founded the naval school in Yantai and became the principal.
Seven months after her birth, Bing Xin moved to Shanghai with her family.
When she was 4 years old, she moved to Yantai, Shandong Province, and lived in Yantai for a long time thereafter. The sea cultivated her temperament and broadened her mind; and her father's patriotism and determination to strengthen the country also y influenced her young mind. Once in a summer dusk, Bing Xin with her father for a walk on the beach, in the beach, facing the sea at sunset under the sky full of red, Bing Xin want her father to talk about the sea of Yantai, at this time, her father told his youngest daughter: the northern coast of China look good harbor is a lot of things, such as Weihaiwei, Dalian, Qingdao, are very beautiful, but they are all occupied by foreigners, "are not our Chinese! "Only Yantai is ours!" My father's words were y imprinted on Bing Xin's mind. In Yantai, Bing Xin began to read, home school enlightenment learning period, has been in contact with Chinese classical literature masterpieces, 7 years old read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and so on. At the same time, also read the Commercial Press published "said Department Series", which has the famous British writer Dickens's "piece of meat to describe the rest of the nineteenth century, such as works of critical realism, in the reading of the "piece of meat to describe the rest of the life", when the poor David, from the abuse of his shopkeeper ran away to go to his aunt, the journey of hunger, Bing Xin shed tears while breaking his eyes, and the poor David, the shopkeepers of the shopkeeper's store, to go to his aunt to join him, the journey of hunger. Bing Xin while shedding tears, while breaking the hand of her mother to give her as a snack of bread, piece by piece into the mouth, to prove and experience their own happiness!
After the 1911 Revolution, Bing Xin returned to Fuzhou with her father, living in the South Back Street, Yangqiao Lane, after the Wanxing bucket stone store in a compound. Here lived a large family of his grandfather, there are many couplets on the pillars of the house, are Bing Xin's uncles and uncles wrote. This house was originally one of the seventy-two martyrs of the Huanghuagang Lin Jiemin family residence, Lin's after the incident, the Lin family afraid of being punished, sold the house, to avoid living in the countryside, buy this house is Bingxin's grandfather, Mr. Xie Luangen. Here, Bing Xin in 1912 was admitted to the Fuzhou Women's Normal School preparatory course, becoming the first Xie family formally into the school girls.
In 1913, her father Xie Baozhang went to the National Government in Beijing to become the Director of the Department of Naval Science, Bingxin moved to Beijing with her father, living in the Iron Lion Hutong in the Shearer Alley, the following year into the Beiman Girls' Middle School, in 1918, entered the Concordia Women's University pre-science, aspired to become a doctor to help the sick and the wounded.
The rise of the New Culture Movement and the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement made Bing Xin closely link her destiny with the revitalization of the nation. She devoted herself to the trend of the times, and was elected as a clerk of the University Student Union, and thus participated in the work of the Propaganda Unit of the Beijing Federation of Women's Academic Societies. Stirred by the patriotic student movement, she published her first essay, "Thoughts on the 21st Hearing of the Trial," and her first novel, "Two Families," in the August 1919 issue of the Morning Post. The latter used the pen name "Bing Xin" for the first time. Because the works directly addressed major social issues, they quickly became influential. Bing Xin said that it was the thunderbolt of the May Fourth Movement that "shook" her into writing. The "problem novels" she wrote afterward, such as "The Scholar is Alone Emaciated", "Going to the Country", and "Autumn Wind and Autumn Rain", highlighted the destruction of human nature by the feudal family, the fierce conflict between the two generations in the face of the New World, and the bitterness brought to the people by the warlords' conflagration. At that time, Concordia Women's University was merged into Yanjing University, and Bing Xin joined the famous Literature Research Association as a young student. Her creative work flowed under the banner of "for life", and she published the novel "Superman", which attracted the attention of critics, and the small poems "Flourishing Stars" and "Spring Water", which aroused the reaction of the social and literary circles, and thus pushed forward the trend of writing "small poems" at the early stage of the new poetry.
In 1923, Bing Xin obtained a scholarship to Wellesley College with honors. Before and after her studies abroad, she began to publish a series of prose newsletters with the general name "Send the Little Reader", which became the foundation of children's literature in China, and in her early twenties, Bing Xin was already famous in the Chinese literary world.
Bing Xin met Wu Wenzao on the President Jackson cruise to the United States. Bing Xin studied literature at Wellesley Women's University Graduate School in Boston, Wu Wenzao studied sociology at Dartmouth College, they corresponded with each other, gradually deepen their understanding, in the summer of 1925, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao coincidentally to the Cornell University tutorials in French, the beautiful campus, quiet environment, they fell in love.
In 1926, Bing Xin returned to China with a master's degree in literature, and Wu Wenzao continued to study for a doctorate in sociology at Columbia University in the United States. After returning to China, Bing Xin taught at Yanjing University, Beiping Women's College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Chinese Literature at Tsinghua University.
On June 15, 1929, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao, who had returned to China after completing their studies, were married in Linhu Xuan at Yanjing University, and Stanton presided over their wedding. After she became a family member, Bing Xin continued to write her works, which praised her mother's love, children's hearts, and nature, while also reflecting her meticulous observation of social inequality and the lives of different classes, and revealing a slight irony in her pure and timeless writing. The representative works of the novel are "The Score" in 1931 and "The Winter Girl" in 1933, and the outstanding works of prose are "The Return to the South - Dedicated to the Heavenly Spirit of the Mother" in 1933 and so on.
In 1932, The Complete Works of Bing Xin was published in three volumes (one each of novels, essays, and poems) by the Beixin Bookstore, which was the first complete works of a writer in modern Chinese literature.
In 1936, Bing Xin traveled with her husband Wu Wenzao to Europe and the United States for a year, where they made extensive visits to Japan, the United States, France, England, Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union. In England, Bing Xin spoke with Woolf, a pioneering writer of stream-of-consciousness fiction writing, and they talked about literature and China while drinking afternoon tea.
In 1938, Mr. and Mrs. Wu Wenzao and Bing Xin left Peking with their children in the midst of the war, and moved through Shanghai and Hong Kong to the backwater of Kunming, Yunnan Province. Bing Xin had to Chengong simple teacher training school voluntary teaching, and the whole nation **** with the war brought hardship and difficulties.
In 1940, moved to Chongqing, as a member of the National Committee of the Senate. Soon after, he joined the Chinese Literary and Artistic Association to fight against the enemy, and was enthusiastically engaged in cultural activities to save the nation, and wrote influential prose chapters such as About Women and Sending the Little Reader.
After the victory of the war against Japan, in November 1946, she went to Japan with her husband, the sociologist Wu Wenzao, who lectured at the Oriental Society of Japan and the Department of Literature of the University of Tokyo, and was later appointed as the first foreign female professor at the University of Tokyo, teaching the course of "New Chinese Literature". During their stay in Japan, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao united and influenced overseas intellectuals to engage in patriotic, peaceful and progressive activities under complicated conditions. As a loyal and patriotic intellectual, Bing Xin inherited the fine tradition of Chinese intellectuals, who had the responsibility for the prosperity and demise of the world and never ceased to pursue the light. In the anti-Japanese war period, she and Zhou Enlai had contact, should be published in progressive publications, Zhou Enlai had invited her to visit Yan'an, although it was not possible, but their hearts are connected.
During the liberation war, Bing Xin refused to take part in the election of representatives of the National People's Congress (NPC), and supported her relatives in defecting to the liberated areas.
At the beginning of the founding of the new China, she lived in Japan, her heart to the motherland, and resolutely support Wu Wenzao resolutely get rid of the Nationalist group of justice. Bing Xin
In the People's Republic of China **** and the establishment of the country's new situation inspired, Wu Wenzao, Bing Xin couple risked their lives, breaking through the many obstacles, in 1951 returned to the motherland day and night. From then on, they settled in Beijing. Premier Zhou Enlai cordially received Wu Wenzao, Bing Xin couple, and their patriotic action to express affirmation and encouragement. Bing Xin felt the new China's thriving people's heart, with a hundred times more energy into the motherland's various cultural endeavors and international exchange activities. During this period, she visited India, Burma, Switzerland, Japan, Egypt, Romania, Britain, the Soviet Union and other countries, spreading friendship among the peoples of the world. At the same time, she published a large number of works to glorify the motherland and the new life of the people. She said, "We have no winter here" and "We woke up spring". She was a diligent translator and published a variety of translations. She wrote a large number of essays and novels, which were collected into "Little Orange Lantern", "Cherry Blossom Praise", "Gleanings of Little Za" and so on, all of which were popular and widely circulated.
After the start of the Cultural Revolution, Bing Xin was impacted, the home was copied, into the "cattle shed", under the scorching sun, to accept the rebel faction's criticism.
In early 1970, Bing Xin, 70 years old, was sent down to Xianning, Hubei, the five-seven dry school, to accept the labor of reformation, until 1971, the U.S. President Richard Nixon is about to visit China, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao to return to Beijing. Bingxin and Wu Wenzao returned to Beijing to accept the translation tasks assigned by the Party and the government. At this time, she and Wu Wenzao, Fei Xiaotong and others, through the whole work to complete the translation of the outline of world history, world history and other works. In this period of the country's economic construction and political life is extremely abnormal, Bing Xin and her people as well, into the dilemma and pondering. During the turmoil of the ten-year "Cultural Revolution", despite being treated unfairly, she faced everything calmly, firmly believing that the truth would prevail. She paid close attention to the progress of the socialist motherland and the improvement of people's lives. She once wrote in the "Century Impression" article: "Ninety years ...... my a love for the motherland, love the people's heart, is always as solid as gold and stone". Practice has proved that Bing Xin is a long time with the party in trouble and **** close friends.
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the motherland into a new historical period, Bing Xin ushered in a miraculous second creative climax of her life. She did not know that old age is approaching, and always keep thinking, always enterprising, selfless dedication to the noble qualities.
In June 1980, Bing Xin first suffered a cerebral thrombosis, and then fracture. The disease could not make her put down the pen in hand. She said, "Life begins at the age of eighty". Her short story "empty nest" published that year, won the National Outstanding Short Story Award. Then she wrote "All Things Are Superior ......", "The Monk from Afar" and other masterpieces. In terms of prose, in addition to "Three Sendings of Little Readers", he created four groups of series of articles in a row, i.e., "Write When You Think of It", "My Autobiography", "About Men", and "Miscellany of Fushigi". The large number, richness of content and unique style of creation made her literary achievement reach a new level and a magnificent landscape in her later years. When she was nearly ninety years old, she published "My Request", "My Thanks", and "Letter to a Reader", all of which were uttered with uprightness, frankness, and fervor of her heart, speaking the true words, showing her deep love for the motherland and the people. She practiced what she preached by donating more than 100,000 yuan of manuscript fees to elementary school in her hometown, the national Hope Project, the China Rural Women's Education and Development Fund, and people in disaster areas such as Anhui. She warmly responded to Ba Jin's initiative to establish the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, donated a large number of books, manuscripts, paintings and calligraphy from her own collection, and took the lead in setting up the "Bing Xin Literature Library". Bing Xin, as a diplomatic messenger, often traveled all over the world, bringing Chinese literature, culture and the friendship of the Chinese people to all corners of the world. She has made outstanding contributions to the unification of the country and the enhancement of friendly exchanges with people all over the world. She is a shining example of patriotic intellectuals in China.
On December 24, 1992, the Bingxin Research Society, a national social and academic organization, was established in Fuzhou, with the famous writer Ba Jin as its president, and a series of research and activities have been carried out since then.
In 1995, the Straits Literature and Art Publishing House published the eight-volume The Complete Works of Bing Xin, and a publication symposium was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in the same year, in which Zhao Puchu, Lei Jieqiong, Fei Xiaotong, Han Suyin, Wang Meng, Xiao Qian, and Xie Coronation published the symposium and made speeches, and spoke highly of Bing Xin's great literary achievements and the spirit of love and generosity.
In order to publicize Bing Xin's literary achievements and literary spirit, proposed by the Executive Council of the Bing Xin Research Association, approved by the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese ****production party and the provincial government, under the direct leadership of the Fujian Provincial Federation of Literature and Culture, in the hometown of Bing Xin, Changle, Bing Xin Literature Museum. Inside the large-scale "Bing Xin life and creative exhibition", Bing Xin Research Center, conference halls, parlors, etc., covers an area of 13 acres, construction area of 4500 square meters, August 25, 1997 was officially completed and opened.
Bing Xin died at 21:00 on February 28, 1999 in Beijing Hospital at the age of 99 years.
Bing Xin died, the party and the people gave her a high evaluation, called her "the twentieth century China's outstanding master of literature, loyal patriot, a famous social activist, China **** close friends of the Communist Party." In other words, Bing Xin's achievements and contributions are manifold, she dedicated her life to her children, the motherland and the people, to the whole society and all mankind.
Bing Xin is the same age of the century, her whole life has been accompanied by the changes of the century, has been keeping up with the times, and insisted on writing for seventy-five years. She is the patriarch of the new literary movement. Her writing history shows the great trajectory of the development of Chinese modern and contemporary literature from the May Fourth Literary Revolution to the New Age Literature. She pioneered a variety of literary styles in the "Bingxin Style" and carried out a solid practice of literary modernization. She is the first generation of children's literature writers in China, a famous modern Chinese novelist, essayist, poet and translator. Her translations, such as "The Prophet" and "Sand and Foam" by Karel Gibran of Lebanon, "Gitanjali" by Rabindranath Tagore of India, "The Gardener's Collection" and a variety of drama collections, are all recognized as literary translations of the finest quality, for which she was conferred the Order of the Cedar of the National Order of Merit by the signatures of the President of Lebanon*** and the State in 1995. Her literary influence transcends national boundaries, and her works have been translated into various languages and appreciated by readers at home and abroad.
Ice Xin is also a famous social activist. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, she has served as a member of the second and third Council of the Chinese Writers' Association and Secretary of the Secretariat, counselor, member and vice-chairman of the second to fourth National Committee of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy, representative of the National People's Congress of the first to the fifth, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of the fifth to the seventh National Committee Standing Committee and members of the eighth and ninth National Committee, vice-president of the National Children and Youth Welfare Foundation. She was also the vice-president of the National Children and Youth Welfare Foundation and a member of the Standing Committee of the China Women's Federation. She always pays attention to and devotes herself to various activities with a great love for the motherland, the people and the children. She has made outstanding contributions to the development of our country's literature, women and children, and to the adherence to and improvement of the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system under the leadership of the Chinese ****anufacturing Party.