Author(s)

Ruisi Deng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Elementary Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

Corresponding Author

Ruisi Deng

ABSTRACT

In response to the great changes that have taken place in the field of thought and cultural values since the May Fourth Movement, the writer Bing Xin used "philosophy of love"to express her deep thoughts about the changes of the times and the development of morality, and in her work, she criticised the suppression of the old moral concepts of the feudal family and the old tradition and attempted to put forward a ideal model of family morality. The specific embodiments are: criticism of patriarchal thinking, reflection on maternal love and awareness of gender morality. The critique of patriarchal ideology includes not only the embodiment of the majesty of patriarchal power under the feudal cultural tradition in the characterisation of Bing Xin's novels, but also the transfer of family power when the children become adults and their parents grow old, on the basis of which Bing Xin advocates a reformist view of family morality and an ideal model of family morality. In Bing Xin's "Philosophy of Love", she used maternal love as a driving force for social reform, but as she accumulated life experience, she also recognised the complexity and reality of maternal love. Finally, in the early stage, Bing Xin's understanding of gender morality focuses on portraying the image of "new ideal type of womanhood", emphasising the importance of women and their responsibility for the family; in the later stage, Bing Xin's works focus on the women's living condition, criticising the male's inaction in the family, and gradually converging to the real equality in the demand for gender morality. This is a brave attempt to construct a new morality, and also reflects the writer's own concern for life.

KEYWORDS

Bing Xin, life moral education, "philosophy of love"

CITE THIS PAPER

Ruisi Deng, Interpretation of Bing Xin's "Philosophy of Love" from the Perspective of Life Moral Education. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 47-54. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061708.

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