2021February 17 at 8: 00 pm, "Touching China 2020 People Award Ceremony" was broadcast on CCTV. A white-haired winner is widely expected. She is an old gentleman in Ye Jiaying. She is the daughter of Shi, and she inherited a family. Her life is full of twists and turns. But she also loves poetry, reads poetry, writes poetry and talks about poetry. Through poetry, she gains the strength of life and uses poetry to resolve the hardships and regrets in life.
This is an old man full of poetry, and also an old gentleman who supports his life with poetry. He passed on his favorite poems in his own way, edifying and influencing more people, even abroad.
1924 On the first day of the sixth lunar month, Ye Jiaying was born in a quadrangle in the west of Beijing. This is a season when lotus flowers are in full bloom, so her parents nicknamed her Xiaohezi and Ye Jiaying. When I was a child, my life in Ye Jiaying was very happy. Scholarly family has a strong cultural background, and aristocratic descendants also have their own family inheritance. Ye Jiaying, who grew up in such an environment, not only has the gentleness and demure of a good family, but also has his own unique views. It is in this family environment that she has an indissoluble bond with poetry.
She didn't go to school before she was ten years old. Her first teachers were her parents, aunt, aunt and uncle. When she was very young, her parents taught her to read and exposed her to classical poetry books with long-term value and significance. When she is older, her aunt will teach her The Analects of Confucius, so that she can slowly change her stubborn and impatient temper and become soft and tough, while the four-book notes will strengthen her memory. Similarly, "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Poetry" is a course arranged by my aunt. I don't need to understand it, just keep it in mind, which has laid a solid foundation for her classical culture and provided a steady stream of energy for her future creation. Later, because my father worked outside all the year round and corresponded with her, he asked Ye Jiaying to write back in classical Chinese. At this time, my uncle began to give her guidance and instruction, which made her have an indissoluble bond with poetry, started the road of creation, and laid the foundation for her later life.
My uncle is knowledgeable and likes to tell her many stories about poets and poets. These stories have influenced Ye Jiaying and made her passionate about poetry. "A pomegranate fire is too cabin, and Gu Muyin is bitter and wormwood leaves are long. There is nothing to say in early summer, and curtains only love dates and flowers. " It was at that time that the four wonders were written. Although it is green, it has a girl's unique curiosity and innocence. At that time, her life was brisk and her writing was pleasant, fresh and picturesque.
If Ye Jiaying's childhood was beautiful, her youth and middle age were tortuous. 1937 When the July 7th Incident broke out, North China quickly fell, and my father was forced to lose contact with his family with the retreat of the National Government. Soon after, Ye Jiaying suffered from edema and dropped out of school for some time. Under double anxiety, my mother fell ill, got uterine cancer, and was infected with septicemia during surgery in Tianjin. At the last moment of her life, her mother urged her to go home, and she was admitted to a western medicine hospital. When Ye Jiaying arrived at the hospital, her mother had died. Ye Jiaying is 17 years old.
The death of her mother gave Ye Jiaying a heavy blow, as if the whole world was gloomy, which made her feel helpless and sad as never before. Wrote the fine print of "Recalling the Moon": "Leaves are rustling. The akino mountains overlap. Sadness is the most regrettable grave last month, but according to the parting of the world. Pingsha is vast. The remains of the monument wriggled in the sun. Understand the true meaning of life, and the night is clear and desolate. " Later, under the influence of Mr. Gu, the teacher came out of grief and began to face suffering instead of escaping.
Her teacher, Mr. Gu Sui, a teacher in the Chinese Department of Fu Jen Catholic University, is also a man of great character. Although I graduated from the English Department, I always wear Hanfu and call myself a school when I give lectures. If family education permeates Ye Jiaying's poetry, then Mr. Gu Sui is the guide of Ye Jiaying's poetry. His open teaching opened Ye Jiaying's eyes and made her embark on a road of poetry linking China and the West. He created his own world in poetry appreciation and research.
Every woman longs for love, and Ye Jiaying is no exception. But her pursuit of love is different. She believes that the ideal love should be "if you don't meet heaven and man, you won't succeed." If you don't meet the right person, if you don't meet the person you like and look up to, you will never be tempted, never. It's a pity that she has never met such love. Her lover was arranged by a junior high school English teacher. Because of her lack of love experience, she thought that Zhao's unemployment was due to frequent leave to see her suffer, so 1948 went south to Shanghai and married Zhao, which lasted for thirty years.
Zhao, who worked in the National Government, took her to Changhua, where she gave birth to her eldest daughter. However, due to the tense relationship between Taiwan Province Province and the mainland at that time, the authorities regarded everyone as a spy lurking in Taiwan Province Province. On the Christmas Eve of 1949, the police put all three of them in prison. Although soon after he came out, he also lost his source and residence and had to go to Zhao's sister. Life is very difficult. 1953, the husband had a little daughter soon after he was released from prison, but at this time, the husband's temperament has changed greatly, and sometimes he even used violence against Ye Jiaying. In this environment, Ye Jiaying often couldn't sleep at night and even thought about suicide, but as a parent, she changed her mind and took responsibility for her children. What's more, he chose to forgive and comforted himself with a poem by Wang Anshi: "The wind blew the tiles off the house and broke my head. The tile was also broken, and the bandit bled alone. All beings create many industries, and each has its own machine. Don't be angry with this tile, it's not free. "
Even under such difficult living conditions, she still accompanied poetry and taught as an inspector in Taipei Education Department. Her class is so popular with the students that even the inspector is fascinated by the inspection. Later, she was introduced by several teachers to teach at Taipei University. Then he was invited to Fu Jen Catholic University to teach courses such as poetry selection and word selection. Even later, Taiwan's education authorities set up a college Chinese course on the radio, and Ye Jiaying helped some teachers to take the class instead. Her classes have influenced a whole generation in Taiwan Province Province. Both Xi Murong, a famous poet in Taiwan Province Province, and Bai Xianyong, a famous writer in Taiwan Province Province, have listened to her classes and benefited a lot.
Her teaching style is deeply influenced by her teacher, Mr. Gu Sui, who is unconstrained and irrelevant. Moreover, her memory is amazing, and any allusions related to poetry will come at will. Reciting poems, flowing. In class, she talked and laughed. She could talk for two or three hours at a time, standing all the time, not drinking water, and she was very devoted.
Her love of poetry and inheritance of Chinese studies spread her reputation abroad, and soon overseas schools also threw olive branches at her. In order to better teach Chinese studies, she began to make up English in poetry, and taught China classical literature at Harvard University and the University of Michigan successively. Later, with the help of American friends, Ye Jiaying got a teaching position in Canadian UBC and stayed in Vancouver to teach. During this period, she supported the whole family, supported her two daughters and supported her father.
Until 1975, Ye Jiaying's two daughters got married one after another, and she herself traveled all over Canada, the United States and Taiwan Province Province, teaching her favorite ancient poems, and obtained a lifelong letter of appointment from the University of British Columbia in Canada. She began to be glad that she had finally survived the ordeal and could live a relaxed life for a few days. Then life is like this. When you are full of hope, it will give you a head-on blow and bring you more pain. 1976 after visiting her eldest daughter in America, she wanted to visit her youngest daughter in Philadelphia, and it was this decision that made her lose her eldest daughter. After twenty-seven years, she was empty. After arranging her daughter's affairs, she shut herself in her room, seeing no one all day and crying every day. I wrote "Ten Poems of Crying Women", one of which is: I hope that once the Millennium is empty, I will be diligent in raising and paying.
On this sad day, only poetry accompanied her and expressed her feelings. After the same great sorrow, there will be an epiphany. The death of the eldest daughter made Ye Jiaying jump out of the narrow "self" and devote himself to a broader and higher realm of life, that is, to spread the power of traditional culture and the beauty of classical poetry, and to open a door of light and strength for more people.
Although she has made great achievements overseas, and even been hired as a tenured professor by UBC in Canada, she misses her hometown more and longs to return to the motherland, where she was born and raised. 1974, Ye Jiaying passed the application and finally set foot in Chinese mainland. Tears came down when she saw thousands of lights on the plane. In order to better serve the motherland and inherit the poetry and China culture, even if she returned to China at her own expense, she still enthusiastically lived in a quadrangle without a toilet. He has taught in Peking University and Nankai successively, and the classrooms of hundreds of people are often packed. The students even stood in the corridor, on the stairs and by the window to listen to the class, and later even the teacher rushed to attend the class. She brought a poetic heart and poetry to the motherland, and brought the beauty of poetry to one student after another. She devoted all her enthusiasm and energy to poetry and teaching. In the words of her students, Teacher Ye is really patriotic. That "country" is China culture and China traditional culture. From then on, Ye Jiaying's life only belongs to poetry.
In 20 18, Mr. Ye Jiaying announced that he would donate his life savings to Nankai University and set up Jialing Fund to finance the study of classical culture in Nankai University. Immediately, she sold the houses in Tianjin and Beijing as promised, with a donation of 2065.438+09185,700 yuan. 2065.438+076.5438+065.438+million yuan, with a total donation of 35.68 million yuan.
Ye Jiaying's return brought poetry back to the motherland, and this increasingly fast-paced society began to settle down slowly. With poetry, we can endow life with beauty, feel life with poetry, enrich people's spiritual world with poetry, let poetry slowly awaken in China, and let the spirit of poetry take root in China.