Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian poet, philosopher, and Hindu nationalist who became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. His poems contain profound religious and philosophical insights. For Tagore, his poems were a gift he dedicated to the gods, and he himself was a suitor of the gods. Tagore’s poems enjoy the status of epics in India, and his representative works are “Gitanjali” and “Flying Birds”.

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta to a family rich in philosophy, literature and art, he was able to write long poems and anthems at the age of 13. His grandfather was one of the first Indians to visit England, and his father was a famous philosopher and religious reformer. Tagore was the youngest of his 14 children. Among his older brothers and sisters were philosophers, musicians, dramatists, novelists, and patriots.

Bingxin (October 5, 1900 – February 28, 1999), female, formerly known as Xie Wanying, a native of Changle, Fujian, was a Chinese poet, modern writer, translator, children’s literature writer, social activist, and essayist. The pen name Bingxin is taken from “A piece of Bingxin is in the jade pot”.

On October 5, 1900, Bingxin was born in the Xie family mansion in the seventh lane of Sanfang, Fuzhou (now No. 17 Yangqiao East Road, Gulou District).

In August 1919, he published his first essay “Thoughts on the 21st Hearing” and his first novel “Two Families” in the Morning Post. Before and after studying abroad in 1923, he began to publish his communication essays under the general title “Send Little Readers”, which became the foundation work of Chinese children’s literature. In 1946, he was hired as the first foreign female professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan to teach the course “Chinese New Literature”. He returned to China in 1951. He died at 21:12 on February 28, 1999 in a Beijing hospital at the age of 99. He was known as the “Old Man of the Century”.