#bing xin

[sareenademon]

Bingxin being the most chaotic toddler/baby ever. When he learned to walk it was all over. He’s like that baby from incredibles. He’s running on ceilings, wallls, biting people, etc.

[gladiates]

Bing Xin (1900-1999), selection from A Maze of Stars

[citizen-of-a-floating-world]

Bing Xin

[orientallyyours]

Writer Bing Xin 冰心 (1900-1999) with her cat at home

via: 三槐居

[sinetheta]

成功的花， 人们只惊羡她现时的明艳！ 然而当初她的芽儿， 浸透了奋斗的泪泉， 洒遍了牺牲的血雨。 Successful flowers, people marvel at her splendid brightness of the moment! Yet her sprouts in the beginning, her spring of tears were saturated with struggles, rain of blood scattered with sacrifice.

Bing Xin (冰心) A Sky Full of Stars, Water of Spring《繁星·春水》

Bing Xin was the penname of Xie Wanying (谢婉莹). At age four, Bing Xin’s family relocated to the coastal city of Yantai, Shandong, where the expanse of the nearby sea greatly influenced her perspective on love and beauty. She began reading the great classics of Chinese literature, such as  Romance of the Three Kingdoms  (三国演义) and Water Margin (水浒传). At Yanjing University, inspired by the ongoing May Fourth Movement in 1919, Bing Xin began her literary career writing for the student newspaper. She later went on to earn her master’s degree in literature at Wellesley College. As a traveling Chinese writer, Bing Xin was engaged with cross-cultural communication between China and other countries, teaching in Japan for a short period and also working in translation, especially of Indian poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore’s literary works. 

[zhugeliangs]

I never carelessly throw away a sheet of paper,               But save them all. Page by page, I fold them into little boats,                To throw them from the railing to the sea.

Bing Xin (冰心), from "Paper Boats”, The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from the Republican Period, tr. Herbert Batt and Sheldon Zittner

[sareenademon]

Bi Han being a strict, critical, helicopter dad but also a protective dad. When he saw Bing Xin was being shunned by the other children, (after he accidentally hit a kid’s finger off the kids feared and wanted nothing to do with him) Sareena had to stop Bi Han from fighting those kids.

It honestly hurt him to his core that his beautiful baby boy was being treated like a freak.

He would tell Bing Xin that he was superior to them anyways, and it didn’t matter what they thought because one day, he would be their Grandmaster. (Giving his a son a bit of a ego in the process.)

[orientallyyours]

Writer Bing Xin 冰心 (1900-1999) as a young student at the private liberal arts college, Wellesley College in the 1920s. She graduated with an M.A. in literature in 1926.

Source: Wellesley College’s magazine, Fall 2009 issue (PDF)