谢冰心老人生于书香世家,祖上藏书甚丰,字画条幅无数。一些悬挂的书联,从小就给冰心心灵和艺术上以熏陶。晚年她连续写了几篇短文,谈论对其中一些对联的体会。在福州老家她祖父的书斋里,有这样一副对联:知足知不足;有为弗有为。冰心记得她的祖父曾这样向她解释这副对联:“有的 Xie Bingxin was born in a scholarly family. The ancestors had a rich collection of books and numerous banners and paintings. Some hanging books have influenced Bing Xin’s mind and art from an early age. In her later years she wrote several essays in a row and talked about the experiences of some of them. In her grandfather’s study in Fuzhou, there is such a couplet: contentment is not enough; Bingxin remembers her grandfather explaining this couplet to her like this: "Yes