Writer of short poems, essays and stories for children. Her poem collections 繁星 and 春水 and her letters to young readers, 寄小读者, are read in Chinese schools.
Bīng Xīn de sǎnwén wēnróu qīngxīn, chōngmǎn mǔ'ài.
Bing Xin's essays are tender and fresh, full of maternal love.
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Her pen name comes from 王昌龄's line 一片冰心在玉壶, 'a heart of ice in a jade pot', where ice stands for a pure, unstained heart, not a cold one.
history
She said 繁星 and 春水 were never meant as poems: they began as stray thoughts jotted down under the spell of 泰戈尔's Stray Birds. She later translated his Gitanjali and Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.
