[2] Bing Xin published her first prose in the Morning Post (Chinese: 晨報) The Impressions of the 21st Hearing and her first novel Two Families in August 1919.

It was also in Yantai that Bing Xin first began to read the classics of Chinese literature, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin, when she was just seven.

[citation needed] Bing Xin entered Fuzhou Women's Normal School and started preparatory study in 1911.

She entered the science department of North China Union Women's University (華北協和女子大學) and began to learn to become a doctor.

[3] The May Fourth Movement in 1919 inspired and elevated Bing Xin's patriotism to new high levels, starting her writing career as she wrote for a school newspaper at Yanjing University where she was enrolled as a student and published her first novel.

[3] Later in her life, Bing Xin taught in Japan for a short period and stimulated more cultural communications between China and the other parts of the world as a traveling Chinese writer.

Because of the translation of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Sand and Foam, Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, The Gardener and other works, she was awarded the National Order of the Cedar by the president of the Republic of Lebanon in 1995.

Bing Xin said, when she wrote Fanxing (A Maze of Stars)繁星 and Chunshui (Spring Water)春水, she was not writing poems.

[10]National Order of the Cedar (Lebanon, approved in March 1995, awarded at Beijing Hospital in 1997, now in the Bing Xin Literature Museum[15][16][17])