A Maze of Stars and Spring Water (1923), originally called Fanxing and Chunshui, is a collection of poems written by Bing Xin when she was 19 years-old and directly inspired by the poetic movement of short poetry (xiaoshi in classical Mandarin) that emerged after the May Fourth Movement and the New Literature movement. A Maze of Stars and Spring Water is regarded as representative work of the short poetry genre and Bing Xin is considered as the cultural representant of the genre. Expressions remain common to refer to the short poetry genre such as "Bing Xin style", "Fanxing style" or "Chunshui style". Bing Xin was inspired by Tagore's piece of work, Stray Birds. She wrote about nature, youth, abstract concepts of love and emotions and social and political perspectives.