Concise, Meaningful, Natural And Sincere

After 1977, Bing Xin's works entered a late period. Her later works brought a whiff of fresh flavor to the literary world of the present age, and pushed her characters to a new peak. From the late seventies to the middle nineties, she produced about 250 pages of prose. She had experienced many vicissitudes of life, and by using such life experiences, she followed the real society with great interest together with sharp eyes, with which she had seen much social changes. She expressed her thick historical culture intention through fresh and natural works; she expressed her patriotic passion and formal wise philosophic theory of life through simple and natural prose. The prose in her later years shows us her extensive love, broad sincerity and kind pathos. They not only moved the readers'heartstrings and became famous throughout the world, but also made great contributions to the development of literature during the new historical period. Furthermore, the honorable and firm characters, lofty and perfect morality in her works embodies the high unity of her character and culture literary works. Thus these became great models in the culture and art field.There are great differences between the writing styles in her later years and early years. The most outstanding difference is that the works became shorter, even no more than one thousand words. Short as they are, they contain rich content, inspiring and encouraging people. Some of them only have several hundred works, but the experiences in her whole life were formed there.Bing's familiar essay in her later years mixed all her experiences. It is, though short, full of emotions. It contains a kind of historically thick feeling...