Mountain Notes

Author: Bing Xin / Fu Guangming (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Bing Xin's favorite literary form is prose, and her prose often gives readers a sense of beauty similar to lyrical poetry and landscape paintings. The themes of motherly love and childhood innocence hold significant importance. Her prose is characterized by clear, agile, and fresh and elegant writing. A Record of Mountain Scenery is written in the innocent, stubborn, and extreme tone of a child, comparing "the sea" and "the mountain" from perspectives such as color, movement, vision, and depth of perception, striving to argue that "the sea is far superior to the mountain." She even swears and vows: "If I break a heavenly law, may I be given suicide, I would rather throw myself into the sea than fall into a cliff!" However, her reflections on color are mature, and her discussions on color contain rich philosophical, historical, and even psychological content. The aesthetic awareness and evaluation that arise from this are entirely modern. The passages describing "the sea" in the text vividly reveal Bing Xin's unique artistic personality in prose.