As the bingxin of the century old man, as the outstanding talented woman of the Republic of China, as the representative writer of modern Chinese children's literature and May Fourth literature, Bingxin has left us many valuable literary wealth, and in the 20th century, this era of bitter war, Bingxin occupies a place in the literary world with a unique style. But perhaps it is this "uniqueness" that also leaves Bingxin with a lot of "tongue and tongue". For example, the enmity between Bingxin and the famous Lady Lin Huiyin of the Republic of China, the competition between children and grandchildren after bingxin's death was actually on the hot search, the grandson Wu Shan wrote the words "godson has no direction, and is a table for others" on her monument, etc. What is the course of Bingxin's life, how is the merits of Bingxin and his works, please follow the small editor to explore.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > First, as a new youth of May Fourth, he abandoned medicine and followed the text, and was ridiculed by Lu Xun after becoming famous in one fell swoop</h1>
Bingxin, formerly known as Xie Wanying, was born in 1900, a native of Fujian, and is a veritable post-90s generation in the last century. Her generation is different from Lu Xun's generation after the 80s. Bing Xin was the May Fourth youth, and Lu Xun was the initiator of the May Fourth New Culture Movement. As a new youth of May Fourth, Bingxin's style in the literary circles at that time was extremely unique, and she used "love" and "goodness" as endorsements to promote such ideas to everyone. The leaders of the May Fourth New Culture Movement, like Mr. Lu Xun, focused on "criticizing national nature." Lu Xun's words are like blades, while the words of Bingxin are like milk tea.
At that time, a list of arrested writers flowed out, and someone told Lu Xun that there was still an ice heart in it, and Lu Xun joked that there was even her. He once believed that Bingxin's writing was too vain and not the literature of enlightenment. As everyone knows, Mr. Lu Xun has always been outspoken and sharp, and it is not surprising that almost the entire literary circle at that time had argued with him. What we want to know is, why is Bingxin's style so unique?
In fact, it is related to Bingxin's life experience. Bing Xin was born into a happy family and has a life that can be said to be perfect and happy. She suffered little, did not experience any hardship, and her father, Xie Baozhang, was appointed battalion commander of a naval training camp in 1903 and was also responsible for organizing the naval school. The soldier and literati father gave Bing Xin a perfect childhood. He took the whole family to the beautiful Yantai, and between the mountains and the sea in Yantai, Bingxin's personality became gentle and peaceful.
At that time, Bingxin was only three years old, and he often rode horses with his father, played by the sea, and went to the mountains to taste wine. At that time, Yantai was a place where concessions gathered, with consulates from various countries stationed there, modern industrial prototypes, the best English schools, post offices and bowling alleys, and so on.
Former site of the Danish Consulate
Therefore, Bingxin's childhood coincided with the most diverse time in Yantai culture, with temples, Taoist temples, and churches next to each other, and those who sang opera and listened to jazz music were all together. Bing Xin followed his father on patrol in the fort in Yantai, feeling the natural atmosphere.
Bingxin's mother is a traditionally gentle and generous mother who understands great righteousness. She treats her son and daughter equally and gives them as much help as possible. For example, Bing Xin went to private school and read extracurricular books such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", which her mother encouraged her to read.
Moreover, Bingxin also read a series of foreign literature published by the Commercial Press at that time, which were not easy to buy, but were brought to her by Bingxin's uncle. It can be seen that this family attaches great importance to their children's academics, and treats their daughters and sons in the same way. The most important thing is that her mother does not give her child too many restrictions, but thinks of her child everywhere and lets her grow up on her own. Of course, this also lays the foundation for Bingxin's education of children in the future.
Bing Xin lived in Yantai from the age of three to eleven, and the most important childhood time of a writer is often able to shape the character of his works. So in such an environment of ice heart, her words always reveal a kind of gentleness and calmness.
The former site of the residence of the Deputy Taxation Department of the East Customs
Some female writers such as Zhang Ailing, Lu Yin, etc., they all have painful love experiences, so they can write thought-provoking words after stinging pain, but Bing Xin does not.
Bingxin's love and marriage are all logical, and there are almost no waves. She seems to have been born a flower in a greenhouse, and there are very few, very few lucky female writers. Therefore, most of the female writers of the same period were famous for writing about painful love, and she became famous for writing about youth and writing confused and gentle poems.
Bingxin's father was transferred from Yantai to Beijing. So Bingxin followed the family to Beijing. In Beijing, BingXin's first dream was to be a doctor and become a doctor. She took a science class at Union Women's University at Union Hospital, and later during the May Fourth Cultural Movement, when youth took to the streets, she was inspired to give up medicine and study literature instead.
She was also selected for the Student Council Clerkship and threw herself into the student movement. At this time, Bing Xin began to publish novels. For example, "Si Ren Lonely Haggard", "Superman", "Two Families", Bingxin's article resonated with many young people at that time after publication, which was the beginning of the "problem novel" after May Fourth.
Bingxin's novel creation is rarely mentioned, and probably her poetry and prose are read by too many people, leading many people to think that Bingxin does not write novels. In fact, Bingxin's novel creation skills are not high, but it can grasp the delicate emotions of the characters, so it can impress many readers. Later, Bingxin's problem novels did not continue to be written, but turned to the creation of prose and poetry.
At that time, Chen Xiying, the editor-in-chief of the famous Literary Review, once said in "Ten Works Since the Journalism Movement" that Bingxin's writings were written by people who had never been out of school.
Chen Xiying
The reason why this sentence is pertinent is that Bingxin has hardly left the creative motivation of "warmth" and "love" in her life, and her life is almost surrounded by "warmth", and she cannot go beyond her "comfort zone" to create the creation of suffering and exposure. This has a lot to do with the growth and character of the writer. It is also in this way that many readers read Bingxin as a simple literature.
Of course, the underlying requirement of most readers for a writer is always to hope that she can go through hardships and write the true meaning of life to warn her life, and in this regard, Bing Xin is "wronged". Her experience does not satisfy the reader's hopes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" >2, and Lin Huiyin's "Hundred Years Of Controversy": Right and Wrong Between Talented Women in Fujian</h1>
Mention Lin Huiyin, people unconsciously think of the four talented women of the Republic of China. This talented and beautiful woman has aroused many people's reverie about that era. But do you know that Lin Huiyin and Bingxin were both born in Fujian, and both of them are called Fujian talented women. These two people have almost no intersection, but they have left many public cases in history, and even a hundred years have passed, and their respective "fans" are still arguing about this.
Writer Li Jianwu once published an article "Lin Huiyin", mentioning the relationship between Bing Xin and Lin Huiyin, and the expression used at that time was "enemy". In fact, the "public case" of the past hundred years lies in an article written by Bingxin, "Our Wife's Living Room". It reads that a lady invited many young local talents, including poets, scientists, painters, etc., to circle around the wife, who toyed with them in the palm of her hand.
As the article reads: In the "soft" living room of our wife, in addition to the wife of Yushu Linfeng, there is a Chinese maid and daughter Binbin, who has been changed to english name, and there are also scientists Mr. Tao, philosophy professors, literature professors, an American woman named Colucy of the "so-called artist", and a poet who is "white and thin".
As soon as this article "Our Wife's Living Room" was published, it caused a lot of controversy, and everyone rushed to put Xu Zhimo, Jin Yuelin, and Lin Huiyin into the seat. It is reported that after Lin Huiyin read the article, he let people buy a stall of Shanxi old vinegar and mail it to Bingxin. Why is there such a public case?
Because at that time, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin moved to the courtyard behind Zongbu Hutong after getting married, where a group of intellectual elites often gathered. And Lin Huiyin's personality is very straightforward, but also relatively good at chatting, especially favored by men. At that time, Xu Zhimo and Jin Yuelin's pursuit of Lin Huiyin had already caused a storm in the city, but Lin Hui, because of the reason, felt that The bright and upright was not afraid of people pointing fingers. Over the years, The home of Liang Qicheng and Lin Huiyin became a cultural salon in the 1930s, and everyone gave them a graceful name "Mrs. Lady's Living Room".
And Bing Xin is a gentle and traditional woman, she is not familiar with Lin Huiyin, only knows that she has such a fellow countryman, perhaps the ancestors also know, the second is that her husband and Lin Huiyin's husband are classmates, there are many layers of relationship, can hear about this. Therefore, Bing Xin was able to obscure what he heard into the novel. Bing Xin probably wouldn't like such a salon, her bones were Chinese, not Western. For example, the text reads: "Although our wife herself is a woman, she does not like women." She felt that Chinese women were particularly old-fashioned, particularly trivial, and particularly petty. ”
The difference in personality between the two people, coupled with the fact that they are not familiar, so it is understandable to cause misunderstanding. Of course, there is another important reason, that is, Xu Zhimo. The relationship between Bing Xin and Xu Zhimo is very strange, because Xu Zhimo's diary mentions Bing Xin no more than five times, and Bing Xin mentions very little to Xu Zhimo. But when Xu Zhimo died early by plane, Bing Xin wrote a letter to Liang Shiqiu, in which he directly wrote to me: "My heart, liver and five internal organs are broken, and I want to go to your holy place to repent!" "I didn't say anything. He and I were never friends, and now we pity him. He really failed to live up to his strength.
Bing Xin and Liang Shiqiu
If not a friend, why would an unfamiliar person come to her to confess? It can be seen that the two people have some friendship. Immediately after, Bing Xin hinted at the relationship between Xu Zhimo and women, and Bing Xin wrote: When it comes to women, is it "women who misunderstand him?" "He mistook the woman?" It's also hard to say. Shima is a butterfly, not a bee. The benefits of women cannot be obtained, and the disadvantages of women make him sacrifice. - At this point, I won't stop talking!
Bing Xin once again implied that Xu Zhimo had been deceived by women and was willing to be used. Of course, at this time, there was also Lu Xiaoman. I can't help but wonder, if Bing Xin and Xu Zhimo are general friends, why do they talk about a woman using men five times over and over again? Cast a woman as a "green tea" image. There are also some people who speculate that perhaps Bingxin once had a crush on Xu Zhimo, and in 2012, there was a small article in "Yilin" magazine titled "Bingxin once had a crush on Xu Zhimo", but this is just speculation and there is no evidence.
However, from the article written by Bingxin to Liang Shiqiu, it can be seen that Bingxin is fighting for Xu Zhimo. The objects are Lu Xiaoman and Lin Huiyin.
Bing Xin so obviously hinted in "Our Wife's Living Room", of course, everyone did not want this to be Lin Huiyin is difficult, and later Bing Xin explained that the prototype of this article is not Lin Hui and therefore Lu Xiaoman. However, this is something that writers sometimes say does not count, but most readers think it is important who writes about it.
Such an article and Lin Hui's old vinegar mailed out, in the eyes of most people, the two people must be "fighting each other", so many analytical articles also "came into being".
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Because Bingxin has always existed in the minds of readers as the image of "gentle love", in 2012, Bingxin's grandson Wu Shan entered the memorial garden of Bingxin and her husband, Mr. Wu Wenzao, and wrote several blood-red characters on the monument: "Godson has no direction, and is a vain person".
Wu Shan stopped the vandalism after the staff stopped it. After the interview, it turned out that Wu Shan and his father, Wu Ping, the son of Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao, had an affair. Bingxin's grandson Wu Shan asked his father Wu Ping to give his mother emotional compensation, but there was no response, when Chen Lingxia was diagnosed with cancer, Wu Shan was in a hurry to make this decision, ran to his grandparents' tombstones and painted several blood-red characters.
The incident caused an uproar in the media at the time. Such behavior and the subsequent explosion of the family scandal made the vast number of netizens suddenly have a subversive impression of Bingxin's text. Why didn't Bingxin, who wrote such a text, educate his son well? The origin of the incident must start from the beginning.
Bing Xin and the young talent Wu Wenzao met during their study in the United States, the two people in a foreign country because they could talk and comfort each other, so they soon fell in love, after returning to China, Wu Wenzao was a professor at Peking University at that time, and later became the dean of the College of Literature. The two were married at Peking University. Soon after getting married, that is, in 1931, Bing Xin gave birth to a son, then named Wu Zongsheng, who later changed his name to Wu Ping.
At that time, because both husband and wife were busy with work and had no time to take care of the children, the children gave life to the grandfather, the children were spoiled by the elders from an early age, and Bing Xin and her husband neglected the childhood education of the children. Although Bing Xin was an educator and a children's writer, these theories did not give the only son's childhood to a fuller degree.
Bingxin's childhood was happy, but her son's childhood grew up without his parents. Later, Bing Xin and her husband Wu Wenzao sent their son to Japan to study, and during the study abroad, under the influence of Western ideas, the son became more and more casual. However, as a parent, he knew that he had been ashamed of his son, and he had a psychology of compensation, so he became more and more indulgent.
Wu Ping returned to China in 1950 to study architecture at Tsinghua University, and graduated in 1954 to work. Later, he met Chen Lingxia and gave birth to a son and daughter after marriage. The feelings of the two people have become weak because of time, and Wu Ping went to Shaanxi to become a soldier and had an affair. The wife was heartbroken after knowing it, but in order to protect the face of the family, she has been silently endured and dare not speak out.
Bingxin's children Wu Ping and Wu Qing took a group photo in front of their mother's statue
Until Bingxin's death, Wu Ping appeared even more unscrupulous, and even brought his lover to the house. Years of patience made her intolerable, so Chen Lingxia helplessly filed for divorce. The two men quarreled many times over the divorce. Their son Wu Shan may have witnessed his mother's grievances since childhood, or perhaps he also hated his father in his mother's sorrow.
Coupled with the fact that Chen Lingxia was diagnosed with cancer at that time, her blood pressure has been high, and the children dare not tell her about things. So he was very protective of his mother, and he was very upset with his mother, and he transferred his hatred for his father to his grandparents and godson Wufang, so he ran to his grandparents' cemetery in a rage and wrote down a few big words of sadness and indignation.
This matter continued to ferment, and Chen Lingxia was also very angry when she heard that her son had done such a thing. Because she was involved in the completion of the memorial garden, her lawsuit with her husband involved her deceased family, which was irrational. The memorial garden side believes that the memorial cemetery of Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao is not their personal tombstone, but a cultural relic, and the price is not cheap. They demanded that Wushan be held accountable and was fined ninety thousand yuan for use as a restoration.
Bingxin's daughter-in-law Chen Lingxia
But Wu Shan believes that he can apologize, but for the compensation of 90,000 yuan, there is no job at present, there is no money to compensate, and the claim is not recognized. Later, the trial was held, and Bingxin's grandson Wu Shan did not appear as a defendant, but the lawyer brought a letter of apology from Wu Shan, sincerely apologizing for his irrational behavior and hurting Bingxin's readers. The article reads, I love my grandparents and want to apologize to my grandparents for their spirit in heaven. Subsequently, the plaintiff and the defendant adjusted the costs.
But the matter does not seem to be over, after the "incident of splashing paint on the memorial garden", Wu Ping, the son of Bingxin, took Wu Shan and his original wife Chen Lingxia to court, asking them to let the house where they appeared to live, that is, a house in Beijing's Shijingshan District. The two men began a court run again.
Bingxin's grandson Wu Shan did not want his sick mother to know that his father Wu Ping had taken them to court, so he confronted his father alone. They filed a court appeal over the property. This matter once again set off a wave on the Internet, and the words of Bingxin's children and grandchildren competing for real estate were all over the screen. We not only lament that a generation of writers who pioneered the trend of the past has finally been talked about again in this way.
In summary, no matter what the grudge between Bing Xin and Lin Huiyin is, it can only be regarded as an anecdotal rumor among the literati, and the entanglement between her children and grandchildren can only make us lament that it is difficult for the Qing officials to break the family affairs. For the evaluation of Bingxin, we have to look at the value of its works. Bingxin's works are the product of the May Fourth New Culture Movement, a characteristic of an era, and no matter how readers read these works today, they cannot extinguish her influence on young readers at that time.