Bing Xin is a famous female writer in modern Chinese society. I believe many of us have read her masterpieces. When I was studying in junior high school, one of the dozens of books that the teacher asked me to read was There is "Spring Water with Stars" written by Bing Xin when she was young. This female writer who lived from the Republic of China to our modern times has influenced several generations, but the rest of her life and the days after her death left people speechless. It turns out that after her death, her grave was splashed with red paint by her grandson, and she was insulted and accused of being an incompetent person. So what is the cause and effect cycle here?
Bing Xin’s childhood life and educational career
In our impression, the Republic of China has always been an era when masters emerged in large numbers, and Bing Xin, as a woman, was obviously outstanding in that era. But we have overlooked one of the important reasons. The family backgrounds and living and economic conditions of those masters in the Republic of China are still among the social elites in modern times, rather than being children of poor families. Bing Xin's father Xie Baozhang once worked in the Beiyang Fleet. As a very powerful navy in China's modern history, the Beiyang Fleet has been moving on the ocean, and Bing Xin's childhood and childhood were also constantly moving.
Because Bing Xin’s father was serving as deputy captain in the Beiyang Fleet at the time, their family conditions were very good and they were very wealthy, which allowed Bing Xin to receive a complete education. You must know that during the Republic of China, Bing Xin had just left the Qing Dynasty. Not far. Although women's education has been liberalized, it is still impossible for most people. Bing Xin was very lucky. Because of her superior family conditions and openness, she received traditional education as well as Western education at a very young age. This foundation laid at an early age enabled her to learn Chinese and Western skills later on.
Bing Xin lived the longest in Shanghai and Yantai as a teenager. We often say that a person’s childhood has a lot to do with his growth, and Bing Xin is the same as us. She grew up by the sea during her childhood, and the East China Sea in China is a very majestic and turbulent scenic spot. This made Bing Xin very open-minded very early on, just like all the rivers flowing into the sea. According to historical records, when Bing Xin was seven or eight years old, she had already read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and other traditional masterpieces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. She published "Spring Water with Stars" when she was 18 years old. The "Spring Water with Stars" that we read in junior high school was exactly what she wrote when she was in junior high school. This is the gap between people.
The reason why Bing Xin was insulted by her grandson after her death
As a female talent during the Republic of China, Bing Xin was naturally associated with very outstanding people. At that time, she only knew Wu Wenzao as a member of the Republic of China. He became Bing Xin’s husband. The two of them rely on their talents to hold important positions, and their family life is very happy. Among them, the eldest son Wu Ping has also reached an important position with the support of his family. Later, Bing Xin's grandson insulted Bing Xin, which also originated from his eldest son Wu Ping.
It turns out that after Wu Ping got used to living a wealthy life, his mastery of important power made him not regard family life as very important, and he had some habits of a kid from a rich family. At that time, Wu Ping had an affair during their marriage, which humiliated both Bing Xin and her husband. But when such a big thing happened, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao, as heads of the family, did not contribute or work hard for family harmony. They just paranoidly supported their son Wu Ping's divorce. In this case, the eldest son Wu Ping spent six years divorcing his original wife. Eventually he lived with his lover.
After Bing Xin's death, the reason why red paint was splashed on the grave and it was written that he was a man in vain and showed his incompetence in teaching his children was because of what his own grandson did. Because Wu Ping and his first wife had a child named Wu Shan. He had lived in a single-parent family since he was a child. He was full of resentment towards his father and even more indignant at his grandmother's inaction. Therefore, although he did not dare to do anything during Bing Xin's lifetime, What, but when Bing Xin was young, he secretly wrote those eight characters on Bing Xin's grave in the dark to express his anger.