Love ancient poetry
Ye Jiaying, 1924, born in Beijing, is a descendant of Yehnala of Manchu. Ye He Na Laplace produced two famous people in the Qing Dynasty, one was Nalan Rong Ruo, a great poet who wrote "Gambling Books Makes Tea Sweet", and the other was Empress Dowager Cixi, who was in power in the ruling and opposition.
Ye's family is well-off, and his parents are intellectuals. Therefore, Ye Jiaying received a good education from an early age. In the poet's family atmosphere, Ye Jiaying was also immersed in ancient poems and many ancient books since childhood, which laid a good foundation for her future.
Children long for a happy and lively childhood, but Ye Jiaying's childhood did not enjoy the happiness of ordinary children. Her parents' education is almost strict, and they think that children should not be allowed to play. Ye Jiaying is immersed in books from morning till night. To others, she looks like a learning machine. Ye Jiaying didn't find reading boring, but he fell in love with those beautiful and artistic poems. The study life in childhood also made her develop the habit of studying hard.
At the age of nine, Ye Jiaying was able to enter primary school, and a year later, he was admitted to middle school. While reading a lot of Tang poetry and Song poetry at school, she followed her uncle with profound literary skills to create ancient poetry.
Ye Jiaying lost himself in the soft cloud of ancient poetry, saw all the past years written in poetry, and felt the spiritual core of ancient poets. Ancient poetry belongs to the tranquility of life for her, and it is also the spiritual pillar in life.
Years of suffering
Ye Jiaying herself should not have thought that the peaceful and beautiful life was soon broken, and she had to face an extremely difficult moment. 1937, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression officially broke out, and my father who worked in a government department lost contact with his family. My mother, together with Ye Jiaying and her younger brother, lived a precarious life in the occupied area.
Life suddenly fell to the bottom, but this is not the worst thing for Ye Jiaying. 194 1 year, Ye Jiaying was admitted to the Chinese Department of Fu Jen Catholic University. During the war years, the school was restless, and she could only seek spiritual peace. Unfortunately, not long after she was admitted to the university, her mother suffered from a tumor and suffered from illness. She wants to go to Tianjin for surgery.
Fearing that it would be unsafe for children to follow them in the war, Mu Ye forbade Ye Jiaying and her brother to follow her to Tianjin. Mu Ye died of infection on her way back, so the children couldn't see her for the last time. Being as strong as Ye Jiaying is the biggest regret in her life. This made Ye Jiaying feel the pain of parting and the impermanence of life and death for the first time. She wrote many poems in the grief of losing her mother.
Ye Jiaying lives with her brother and her aunt and uncle. It's very hard, but fortunately, everything at home is handled by her aunt, and her uncles and aunts are also very kind to her, and her studies have not been greatly affected. In college, she was also a favorite pupil of Gu Sui, a master of Chinese studies.
From 65438 to 0945, she graduated from Ye Jiaying University and taught in a girls' middle school. During this period, she met Zhao. Zhao fell in love with this woman with outstanding temperament and eloquence at first sight, and launched a passionate pursuit of her. 1948, they got married in Nanjing. Ye Jiaying resigned from his original teaching post and moved to Taiwan Province Province with her husband to teach in a school in Taiwan Province Province.
Ye Jiaying experienced a nightmare after he arrived in Taiwan Province. Zhao Zai 1950 was imprisoned for "white terror", as was her newborn daughter. Fortunately, Ye Jiaying's background is simple, and she was released soon after being locked up, but her husband was imprisoned for three years and suffered inhuman torture.
Ye Jiaying lost her faculty and dormitory, and couldn't find another job for a while. She had to take her daughter to her husband's relatives' home in Taiwan Province Province, and live a life of sponsor. Ye Jiaying helps with housework at relatives' houses, and takes care of her children, making a living in the corridor at night. During this period, Ye Jiaying wrote, "Who will help you if you fall into the well?" . Stay and caress the woman in my arms and swallow the tears in the middle of the night.
The following year, Ye Jiaying found a teaching position in a private girls' school in Tainan. Three years later, her husband was released from prison. However, after Zhao was released from prison, his temperament changed greatly and he was grumpy. He often kicks and punches Ye Jiaying and breaks things. His career is not smooth, and he is often depressed and drinks to drown his sorrows.
Ye Jiaying not only has to work hard to support his family, but also has to deal with all the trivial matters at home, and then she has to face the abuse and beating of her husband. This kind of life makes her very depressed. But she is willing to understand her husband and understand that he is a different person because he was tortured in prison. She reconciled with herself, silently accompanied her husband, endured his bad temper, assumed the responsibility of being a mother, took careful care of her two daughters, earnestly taught at school, and continued to conduct in-depth research on ancient poetry.
In 1950s, Ye Jiaying was a professor at Taiwan Province Provincial University and also gave lectures at Fu Jen Catholic University and Tamkang University. Ye Jiaying taught ancient poetry in beautiful and vivid language, and the students seemed to be in the era of poetry, talking with the ancients. Bai Xianyong and Xi Murong are both her students, and they all say that Teacher Ye has a deep influence on them.
China cultural communication
After spending 65,438+08 years in Taiwan Province Province, Ye Jiaying, who has made many contributions to education, was invited to be a visiting professor at Harvard University and Michigan State University. At this time, she seems to have a greater mission-to spread China's ancient poems to all parts of the world, so that people in other countries can also see the beauty of China culture.
This is a very challenging task. Ye Jiaying should not only consider how to teach China's poems in a language close to that of American students, but also properly translate them into English. However, Ye Jiaying has done a good job in all these tasks. Her profound literary skills and teaching methods that run through China and the West have been recognized by universities, and also made American college students feel the charm of China culture.
From 65438 to 0969, Ye Jiaying was employed as a tenured professor at Columbia University. While raising peaches and plums, she continued to study and spread the culture of ancient poetry. At this time, she gradually turned from creation to more appreciation in ancient poetry.
Repay the motherland, selfless dedication
Although Ye Jiaying's education abroad is also very smooth, she is always attached to her motherland and can't let go of this rooted land. 1974, Ye Jiaying finally returned to the motherland and set foot on this long-lost land. She wrote a long poem "A Journey to the Motherland" with more than 1000 words in tears.
However, fate seems to like to play jokes on her. 1976, she received the bad news that both her eldest daughter and her husband were killed in a car accident. The pain of sending white-haired people to black-haired people tormented her, and it took her a year to travel all over the country in Qian Shan to get out of this great pain.
From 65438 to 0979, Ye Jiaying began to give lectures in China, and helped to organize the poems and notes of his tutor, Mr. Gu Sui, and published many anthologies himself. Ye Jiaying's lectures are very popular with young students. Every lecture was packed, and students even packed the windowsill and corridor.
In order to maintain order, colleges and universities have to require students to attend Mr. Ye's lectures with their attendance cards. As a result, some students carved a fake lecture card with radish, and others followed suit.
Ye Jiaying has been standing on the podium for more than 70 years. For her, she has not only the responsibility of teaching and educating people, but also the responsibility of passing on the soon-to-be-lost chants to the next generation. During his teaching career for many years, Ye Jiaying has trained a large number of talents who study classical literature, many of whom are well-known professors and academic leaders in various universities.
Ye Jiaying, 95, devoted herself to charity and donated 35.68 million yuan naked, but she only ate some porridge and side dishes every day and lived in a humble house. Even when she was too old to walk, she didn't want to hire a nanny until she was seriously injured and had to ask a nanny to take care of her life. In the torrent of the times, Ye Jiaying is definitely the most precious soul.