Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t10.11

v2.c10.s2.t10.11

Bing Xin is mostly known for her prose. *To Little Readers*, a prose collection, has a poetic portrait of childlike innocence, maternal love and beauty of the Nature, and spiritually has something in common with Tagore, under whose influence she had cultivated an elegant, lyrical, fresh and flowing style of language. Like Tagore, Bing Xin had a heart which was magnanimous and merciful as well intolerant towards all evil. In 1920, shortly after her literary debut, she wrote a prose "To Tagore from Afar", to express her admiration and agreement with his "beautiful poetry" and "sublime philosophy." Actually, in her heart, she already took Tagore as a mentor and maintained a lifelong affection for him.