"No Man is an Island" is a collection of essays, which is one of the "Complete Collection of Bi Shumin's Prose·Seven Colors Heartwarming Series". It takes "spiritual healing" as the theme and focuses on "getting out of trouble." , the core concept of "reconstructing oneself" has collected about 66 famous prose works by Ms. Bi Shumin from different periods.
Bi Shumin was born in Yining, Xinjiang in October 1952. In 1969 (17 years old), he joined the army and went to the Ali Military Division in Tibet. He served as a soldier for 11 years and served as a health worker, assistant military doctor, and military doctor. After returning to Beijing, he returned to Beijing. Become an attending physician in internal medicine. In 1980, he changed his career and returned to Beijing to practice medicine for more than 20 years before engaging in literary creation. Wang Meng called him "the angel in white in the literary world."
As for the origin of the title of the collection, at the beginning of the article, the author quoted a passage from Hemingway: "No one is an island, self-contained. The death of anyone leaves me with something missing, because I Inseparable from human beings. So never ask for whom the bell tolls, the bell tolls for you. "Personally, I think this is the origin of the name.
After reading the work, I gained a long-lost peace and tranquility in my heart, which may be the reason why her healing words emphasize both warmth and literariness. Bi Shumin's writing has a kind of sensitivity and delicacy unique to women, as well as the wisdom and calmness of a doctor. It is never condescending or aggressive. It not only gives people a sense of equality and intimacy, but also gives people deep inspiration and thinking. . With these knowledge backgrounds of medicine, psychology, and literature, coupled with her personal talents, special life experiences, and female perspective, her writing is unique, telling people about her life experiences, spiritual enlightenment, While philosophizing, the text gives people a modern humanistic character of extreme equality, sincerity, and caring.
Her prose always seems breezy, but she suddenly turns around at a certain street corner, and the strange peaks give people a full spiritual impact and long aftertaste of thinking. Articles such as "I am important", "Your support system", "Who is your significant other", "What is love afraid of", "You can't ask for an ocean without storms", etc., solved many of my confusions.
"I Matter" made me feel strongly for the first time the pride, happiness and pride of being a human being and an independent individual, which helped me gradually overcome my concern about others' evaluations. "Your Support System" made me rethink my relationship with the people around me, especially my family, and reposition my support system. Who Is Your Significant Other addresses a very important question that has troubled me since childhood, simply because of the profound and lasting role that significant others play in psychology. "You Can't Ask for an Ocean Without Storms" made me re-examine my attitude towards life and gain more confidence and calmness in facing the challenges and setbacks in life. Articles such as "Tiredness" and "The Wisdom of Being a Woman" analyze the main spiritual dilemma of modern people - various kinds of loss in various "relationships", especially the relationship with oneself. The author often faces life and death. issues, talk about life and death without hesitation, and advocate living with dignity. This has had a different impact on my outlook on life and death. Probably a very important reason is because of the author's identity as a doctor and his legendary life experience, I think.
There are many more chapters in the article, but no matter how it changes, the author’s compassion and concern run through it all, and this is the charm of the article.