Biography Bing Xin (1900.10.5-1999.2.28) was born in Changle, Fujian, and her original name was Xie Wanying.

A famous modern female writer, children's literature writer, and poet. Because she lived exactly one century in her life, she was called the "Elder of the Century" and was deeply loved by the people.

She was born in Fuzhou on October 5, 1900, into a family of naval officers with patriotic and reformist ideas. Her father, Xie Baozhang, participated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1898 and fought against the Japanese invaders. Later, he founded a naval school in Yantai and served as its principal.

Seven months after Bing Xin was born, she moved to Shanghai with her family.

He moved to Yantai, Shandong Province when he was 4 years old, and lived by the sea in Yantai for a long time.

The sea cultivated her temperament and broadened her mind; and her father's patriotism and ambition to strengthen the country also deeply affected her young mind.

One summer evening, Bing Xin walked with her father on the beach. On the beach, facing the red sky under the setting sun, Bing Xin asked her father to talk about the sea in Yantai. At this time, her father told his little daughter: The coast of northern China is beautiful.

There are many harbors, such as Weihaiwei, Dalian, and Qingdao. They are all beautiful, but they are all occupied by foreigners. "None of them belong to us Chinese." "Only Yantai belongs to us!" My father's words deeply impressed me.

In the heart of young Bing Xin.

In Yantai, Bing Xin began to study. During her enlightenment studies at home, she was exposed to Chinese classical literature. She read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" at the age of 7.

At the same time, I also read the "Shuo Bu Series" published by the Commercial Press, which included the famous British writer Dickens's "A Story of the Remaining Life of a Piece of Meat" and other critical realist works of the 19th century.

, when poor David ran away from the abusive shopkeeper and went to live with his aunt, and was hungry and distressed during the journey, Bing Xin shed tears while pretending to be the little bread her mother gave her as a snack, and put it into her mouth piece by piece.

Rise, to prove and realize that you are happy!

After the Revolution of 1911, Bing Xin returned to Fuzhou with her father and lived in a compound behind the Wanxing Tongshi Store at the entrance of Yangqiao Lane on Nanhou Street.

A large family of my grandfather lived here, and there were many couplets on the pillars in the house, all written by Bing Xin's uncles.

This house was originally the residence of Lin Juemin, one of the seventy-two martyrs of Huanghuagang. After Lin's accident, the Lin family was afraid of being punished, so they sold the house and fled to the countryside. The person who bought this house was Bing Xin.

Grandfather Xie Luanen.

Here, Bing Xin was admitted to the preparatory course of Fuzhou Women's Normal School in 1912, becoming the first girl in the Xie family to officially enter the school.

In 1913, her father Xie Baozhang went to the National Government in Beijing to serve as the Director of the Military Science Department of the Navy. Bing Xin moved to Beijing with her father and lived in Jianzi Lane in Tieshihutong. The next year, she entered Beiman Girls' High School. In 1918, she was promoted to the preparatory department of Concordia Women's University.

Become a life-saving doctor.

The rise of the New Culture Movement and the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement made Bing Xin closely link her destiny with the rejuvenation of the nation.

She devoted herself wholeheartedly to the trend of the times and was elected as secretary of the university student union, and therefore participated in the work of the publicity unit of the Beijing Federation of Women Academics.

Under the agitation of the patriotic student movement, she published her first essay "Reflections on the 21st Hearing" and her first novel "Two Families" in the "Morning Post" in August 1919.

The latter used the pen name "Bing Xin" for the first time.

Because the work directly involves major social issues, it quickly has an impact.

Bing Xin said that it was the thunder of the May Fourth Movement that "shocked" her onto the path of writing.

The "problem novels" written later, such as "The Man Is Alone and Haggard", "Going to the Country", and "The Autumn Wind and Autumn Rain Are Sad", highlighted the destruction of human nature by feudal families, the fierce conflict between two generations in the new world, and the melee between warlords.

The pain it brings to the people.

At that time, Union Women's University merged into Yenching University, and Bing Xin joined the then famous Literature Research Society as a young student.

Her creations flowed out under the banner of "For Life", and she published the novel "Superman" which attracted the attention of critics, and the short poems "Stars" and "Spring Water" which aroused repercussions in the social and literary circles, and thus promoted the "small poems" in the early stage of new poetry.

"Writing trends.

In 1923, Bing Xin received a scholarship from Wellesley Women's University in the United States with excellent results.

Before and after studying abroad, Bing Xin began to publish correspondence essays under the general title "For Young Readers", which became the foundation of Chinese children's literature. Bing Xin, who was in her early 20s, was already well-known in the Chinese literary world.

Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao met on the President Jackson cruise ship to the United States.

Bing Xin was studying for a literature degree at Wellesley Women's University Graduate School in Boston, and Wu Wenzao was studying sociology at Dartmouth College. They gradually deepened their understanding through mutual correspondence. In the summer of 1925, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao came to Cornell by chance.

Tutoring French in college, beautiful campus, quiet environment, they fell in love.

In 1926, Bing Xin received a Master of Arts degree and returned to China, while Wu Wenzao continued to study for a PhD in sociology at Columbia University in the United States.

After Bing Xin returned to China, she successively taught at Yenching University, Peking Women's College of Arts and Sciences, and the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University.

On June 15, 1929, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao, who had returned from school, held a wedding at Linhuxuan of Yanjing University. Stuart Leighton presided over their wedding.