Cold rain and river night into Wu, Pingming sent guests to Chushan Lonely. Luoyang relatives and friends asked each other, a piece of ice heart in the jade pot. ——Wang Changling, "Furong Lou Sends Xin Gradually"
Whenever I read This poem by Wang Changling, I am always moved by the pictorial words, especially the last sentence, full of poetic feelings, full of infinite reverie.
In the Republic of China period, there was a woman named Xie Wanying, presumably she also loved this poem, and she also gave herself a pen name for this poem: Bingxin.
Bingxin is a poet, writer, essayist, children's literature writer and social activist, she was born in 1900, died in 1999, known as the "Old Man of the Century".
Bing xin created a large number of works in her lifetime, which has a pivotal position in the literary world, and her works are also highly evaluated in later generations, as Ba Jin said:
Generations of young people have read Bingxin's books and learned love: love for the stars, love for the sea, love for the motherland, love for all beautiful things. I hope that young people will read a little bit of ice heart books and have a sincere heart of love.
I don't know if you have read Bingxin's books, if you are full of boredom about life, or lose faith in the love of the world, Bingxin's books can actually be read with your heart.
There are many classic quotes in Bingxin's book, some sentences have the magic of shocking the soul, thinking about the middle school career of that year, many sentences in Bingxin's book have been written into the composition, at that time, I thought of reading Bingxin's books, but unfortunately I have not done it until now.
I believe that there must be many people who are touched by the words of Bingxin like me.
According to common sense, the ice heart full of love in the text, in the reality of the time, should also be the Lord of personal love, but in fact, this is not the case.
Literary people of the same era as Bingxin, such as Lin Huiyin, Zhang Ailing, Lu Xun and others, actually do not like Bingxin, so why did Bingxin, who was ruthlessly satirized by Lin Huiyin and Zhang Ailing and looked down upon by Lu Xun, cause them to hate?
The grudge between Bing Xin and Lin Huiyin is still because of Bing Xin's personal reasons, and the matter is like this:
Bing Xin and Lin Huiyin actually knew each other for a long time, after all, their husbands were classmates in college, and the two were also talented women at that time, so they would naturally intersect.
However, later Bing Xin wrote a novel called "The Wife's Living Room", in which the heroine is filled with Lin Huiyin's shadow.
Or would you say that it's not a good thing to be written in a book by a friend?
Sometimes it is, sometimes it is not, at least for Lin Huiyin, the wife in Bingxin's pen is repugnant, because the wife in the book always has salon parties at home, going in and out between various men, and is a typical "social flower".
Maybe you will say, how can Lin Huiyin be sure that Bing Xin is writing her?
In fact, it is also simple, first of all, the wife in the book has an adopted daughter named Binbin, and Lin Huiyin has a daughter named Bingbing, in addition to a poet in the book, which is also quite similar to the real Xu Zhimo.
After Lin Huiyin read this novel of Bingxin, her reaction can be imagined, it is said that in order to break off friendship with Bingxin, she also specially sent a pot of vinegar to Bingxin from Shanxi.
The intention is to satirize Bingxin for doing this, but in fact, he is jealous of himself and jealous.
As for whether Bing Xin was jealous of Lin Huiyin, I think there was, after all, in that era, the light emitted by Lin Huiyin was dazzling.
Zhang Ailing, as a talented woman in the Republic of China, she has also written a lot of classic famous articles, and the friends who have read my previous articles will surely know that I am an authentic Ai Ling fan.
Compared with the love full of love in Bingxin's text, Zhang Ailing's text is very sharp, such as the topic of life:
Zhang Ailing said: Life is a gorgeous robe, crawling with lice.
Bing Xin said: May your life have enough clouds to cause a beautiful dusk.
The difference between the two people was immediately set off at a glance, to put it bluntly, there was more truth, goodness and beauty in the Bingxin text, while the reality in Zhang Ailing's text was more.
It is precisely because of this that Zhang Ailing has always looked down on Bingxin, and when someone compared her with Bingxin, Zhang Ailing said:
If the female author must be specially divided into a column to comment, then I really can't be proud of comparing me with Bingxin and Bai Wei, only I am willing to compare with Su Qing.
The women mentioned by Zhang Ailing were all talented women with a high reputation at that time, and Zhang Ailing was proud that Qinggao was unwilling to compare with Bingxin, which was undoubtedly a great irony for Bingxin.
Lu Xun and Bing Xin have a rather similar experience, both of them initially had the ambition to learn medicine to save people, but later they abandoned medicine and went to the road of literature.
Lu Xun devoted his life to the fields of literary creation and literary criticism, his writing and criticism have always been merciless, and with a sharp literary style, Lu Xun also became the most dazzling presence in the literary world at that time.
Lu Xun believed that literature should speak for the revolution, and could not do the tricks of the times, but would only laugh generously, which was also the mainstream idea in literature at that time.
Obviously, Bingxin's literary style can not do the needle and time, her text contains too much "truth, goodness and beauty" that is inconsistent with reality, looking at Bingxin's text, it is undoubtedly like eating a fly.
Therefore, at that time, Lu Xun looked down on Bingxin and felt that the pen in her hand was simply to make herself happy, not to shout revolutionary beliefs.
In fact, in addition to Lin Huiyin, Zhang Ailing, Lu Xun and others, Bingxin's reputation in other literature is not good, for example, Mao Dun has also criticized the characters in Bingxin's novels as good people with cartilage.
What was the reason that made Bing Xin feel like he was offended by public anger?
In the final analysis, it was because Bingxin's literary style was incompatible with that era, Bingxin was born into a prominent family, and her father Xie Baozhang was a famous general of the Qing Dynasty, who participated in the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle and later contributed to the founding of the Naval School.
Bing Xin is Xie Baozhang's only daughter, or the kind of late woman, which leads to Xie Baozhang being very doting on this daughter, and in that chaotic era of the Republic of China, it is a luxury for many people to have a comfortable and carefree early life.
It is precisely because of Xie Baozhang's care everywhere that Bing Xin has never felt the ugliness and evil that run rampant in the chaotic world of the Republic of China.
Therefore, the purity, kindness and beauty contained in Bingxin's literary works, Lin Huiyin did not want to understand, Zhang Ailing did not want to understand, and Lu Xun did not despise to understand.
In addition, what makes it even more difficult for these people to accept is that Bingxin's fame was too easy, when he was in college. Bing Xin is very famous, and the popularity of students during the May Fourth period, Bing Xin once surpassed Lu Xun.
This is because at that time, Bingxin was highly praised by the Morning News Supplement, and as for why this newspaper did this, it was not really that it needed words like Bingxin in that era, but because his cousin Liu Fangyuan worked at this newspaper.
Compared with other people who became famous by hard work, Bingxin became famous with such ease, and naturally was despised by the literary people at that time, so it was reasonable that Bingxin, whose writing was incompatible with the mainstream literature at that time, was looked down upon by other literatures.
Fortunately, our era needs the words of Bingxin to warm up, just as Wei Wei said: her light will always remain in the hearts of generations...
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