Jingle Bells songwriter James Lord Pierpont (25 April 1805 - 5 August 1886) graduated from Yale University. He followed his grandfather's wishes and became a teacher. Because he was always kind and tolerant towards his students without being strict, the conservative educational circles pushed him away. Pierpont became a lawyer again. He was eager to use his own efforts to maintain legal justice. He disdained the principle of "serving whoever has money" that was popular in the American legal profession at that time. Seeing that good people were treated unfairly, He always does it without any reward, and if the person involved is a villain, he will ignore it even if the reward is generous. Other lawyers were naturally intolerant of Pierpont's approach. Soon, he had to leave his position as a lawyer and became a businessman selling textiles. However, in the cruelly competitive business world, he always benefits his opponents and suffers losses for himself because of his kindness. In the end, he had no choice but to become a pastor again, hoping to guide people's hearts toward kindness. However, because he strongly supported temperance and opposed slavery, he offended the parishioners and had to resign.
Every time the relaxing and cheerful melody of "Jingle Bells" floats in the air at Christmas, people can always think of him. Pierpont may not have expected that a work he occasionally worked on in his life would have such a huge impact, which was in sharp contrast with his personal life experience. In fact, Pierpont never gave up his pursuit because of the many frustrations in his life. He always believed that life was beautiful. He is not passive or decadent, nor does he let himself go. Although he has been squeezed out by those with low moral character in many fields, this does not mean that his life ideals have lost their value and luster. Life may make people with beautiful ideals suffer hardships, but life will never abandon a beautiful heart, and life always likes beautiful things. It is precisely because of this that this person with a beautiful soul can compose such beautiful and beautiful songs, which travel through time and space, cleanse our souls and shock our hearts.
Contrary to everyone's previous knowledge, John Pierpont was not the author of this song, and he did not have a very rough experience. The existing story is from Robert Flughum's It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It (published in 2006), but the story was strongly criticized when it came out because the author did not hesitate to distort history in order to achieve a touching effect. Write Mr. John Pierpont as a loser (see appendix for relevant information). In fact, Mr. Pierpont was a talented poet and renowned educator (see Wikipedia), only his later life was less than satisfactory. The story states that he was impoverished in his early years, which is not true - he had already received national attention in 1821 for his contribution to the founding of Boston's English Classical School, and he was not a graduate of Yale University - he had graduated from Yale University in 1821. He studied in Baltimore and later went to Harvard. He was also no mediocre literary figure: his poems advocating for the abolition of slavery were often recited, and the plays he co-wrote were also enthusiastically received.