1929 He entered the English Department of Peking University, got in touch with English romantic poetry and French symbolism poetry, and began to write new poems. The work was published in 193 1 year. 1933 graduated from English Department of Peking University, and published Sanqiu Grass in the same year, Fishes Collection in 1935, and Hanyuan Collection with Li Guangtian and He Qifang in the following year. 1942, poetry published in ten years. 1946 to teach at Nankai University. 65438-0946 worked in Tianjin Nankai University for one year. 1947 visited Oxford, England,1949 (1949-1952) returned to Peking University as a professor of western languages. 195 1 year published poetry anthology, turning a wave. 65438-0953, researcher, Institute of Literature, China Academy of Social Sciences. 1964, research fellow, Institute of Foreign Literature, China Academy of Social Sciences. In addition, he also served as a member of the first and second foreign literature review groups of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, vice president of China Shakespeare Research Association, director and consultant of Chinese Writers Association. He has been engaged in the translation and research of works by foreign writers such as W. Shakespeare for a long time, and has translated works such as Tracing the Source of Shakespeare's Tragedy and Selected Poems in English. In addition, he also published a collection of poems, Man and Poetry: Recalling the Old and Saying the New. In June 5438 +2000 10, Bian won the first "China Poet Award-Lifetime Achievement Award" and died in February of the same year.

He is the author of poetry anthology Sanqiu Grass (1933), Fish Meal Collection (1935), Consolation Letters Collection (1940), Ten Years of Poetry Grass (1942) and Turning over a Wave.