Not long ago, the famous poetry researcher Ye Jiaying passed away at the age of 100.
Many media quoted Mr. Female in their headlines, which once again triggered a debate about the title of "Mr.".
And Yang feels that Ye Jiaying is undoubtedly a great "lady" .
She is known as the "daughter of poetry" and "taxi in skirts". She has won dozens of awards and honorary titles such as "Chinese Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award", "Moving China 2020 Person of the Year", Bai Xianyong, Xi Murong and Jiang Xun have all is her student.
She not only made great academic achievements, but also made an indelible contribution to the inheritance and development of traditional culture.
When she was in her 90s, she still insisted on giving lectures to students on the podium. She carefully selected 218 ancient poems and compiled them into children's books, embodying the tragic story of "The wax torch turns to ashes before the tears dry up.".
Such a great lady had a life full of ups and downs.
lost his mother early in his youth, suffered long-term domestic violence in his prime, and lost his beloved eldest daughter in his later years.
The pain tempered and tortured her, and she also forged the greatest poet in contemporary China the "Iron Lady" .
7-year-old girl who takes care of two younger brothers and dreams of saving the world
In 1924, Ye Jiaying was born in a scholarly family in Peking.
As a descendant of the Manchu Yehenala family, she received a good traditional cultural education since she was a child. When she was three or four years old, she could recite Li Bai's "Changganxing".
When she memorized "Butterflies are yellow in August, they fly to the grass in the West Garden. It hurts my heart to feel that I am worried about my beauty getting old." When she memorized it, the adults laughed at her and said, "How old are you, and you are already worrying about your beauty getting old?"
Such carefreeness is one of the few happy times in her childhood memories.
After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, Peiping fell and Ye Jiaying's life was completely disrupted.
She had great pain in her heart, but she had nowhere to express it but through poetry.
When she was 16 years old, she wrote the poem "The Tathagata is an illusion, how can he save the common people?".
She said that everyone is looking forward to a peaceful and prosperous age, but when will that prosperous age come?
In the first year of college, Ye Jiaying encountered the first difficulty in her life.
Her mother died of illness, and she wrote "Eight Poems about Crying Mother" in grief.
"There is no word at the end of the coffin, and the novel will be shortened and shortened."
These poems are not only mourning for the mother, but also a description of the suffering of the times.
During the most difficult period of the Anti-Japanese War, in addition to studying by herself, she also had to take care of her two younger brothers.
I couldn’t eat white rice or noodles for several months at home. I could only eat sour and smelly mixed noodles. I had to make some salty sauce to cover up the smell before I could eat them.
In 1943, Ye Jiaying took a group photo with her teacher Gu Sui and her classmates.
Although she didn’t know when the war would end and when she would be reunited with her father, Ye Jiaying’s poems always looked toward the bright future.
She wrote "I am willing to die for Kuafu, but dare to laugh at Lu Yang Chi."
It means that she is willing to sacrifice bravely for the light she pursues like Kuafu.
During those difficult years, poetry became her emotional outlet and her way of fighting against suffering.
Encountered domestic violence and wanted to commit suicide, poetry became her only comfort.
In 1948, Ye Jiaying and her husband Zhao Zhongsun went south to Nanjing to get married. Soon afterwards, she moved with her husband and started a new life journey.
Later, her husband Zhao Zhongsun was imprisoned by the authorities for nearly four years. Ye Jiaying and her young eldest daughter were also detained for interrogation.
This experience brought great uncertainty and fear to her life.
She inquired everywhere, but could not get any news from her husband at all, and she could no longer live in the school dormitory.
In the 1950s, Ye Jiaying gave lectures to students when she was teaching in Taiwan.
She was committed to her husband's sister and brother-in-law's house.
Her family didn't treat her well. They didn't even give her a bed. She could only wait for others to fall asleep, spread a blanket on the corridor, and hold her daughter to sleep.
More than three years passed like this, and it was not easy until my husband came home.
However, her husband's return not only did not bring hope, but made Ye Jiaying's situation even more difficult.
Zhao Zhongsun’s personality changed drastically after he came back. Not only was he unwilling to go out to work, but he also frequently got angry and beat people at home.
When she was most desperate, Ye Jiaying once wanted to turn on the gas and commit suicide. The only ones she couldn't let go of were her two daughters.
This time, poetry saved her again.
She saw Wang Anshi writing in "Xianhanshan Shide", "All living beings choose different karma, and each has his own opportunity." The general idea is that everyone has his own cause and effect cycle.
She knew that her husband's drastic change in temperament was also related to his unfortunate fate.
Although this sentence is a bit self-deceptive, it also supports Ye Jiaying to continue to survive.
She focused her life on her daughter and poetry, and taught in various universities.
What is particularly ridiculous is that she teaches in Vancouver and supports her whole family by herself. When she wanted to take her family over, the immigration office told her that your husband is not your dependent.
"Even you can only be his dependent."
Later, she told her husband about it, but he took it for granted. He said, Of course, of course.
Ye Jiaying didn’t say a word.
made Ye Jiaying completely give up on her husband, probably after the death of her eldest daughter.
html When she was 252 years old, she flew from Vancouver to Toronto to visit her eldest daughter. She was full of expectations, but that night she received the news that both her eldest daughter and her son-in-law had died in a car accident.
She locked herself in the house and stayed at home for ten days in a row.
Ye Jiaying’s eldest daughter’s wedding
From the loss of her mother in youth to the loss of her daughter in her prime, every drop of her talent seems to have been tempered by suffering.
Some people said that in the next few days, when colleagues saw her at school, she seemed to just have a red eye and then pass.
At this time, Ye Jiaying was by no means not sad, but was in extreme pain, and tears could not provide any comfort.
Her daughter has almost taken away most of her cares about life, and her only mission in this life is poetry.
html He came to the podium at the age of 296 and donated 35.68 million yuan
At this time, New China has experienced many years of suffering, and it is a time when it is full of vitality and ready to go forward.
Ye Jiaying returned to China. She was very happy when she saw young people holding "Three Hundred Tang Poems" on the train.
Her motherland, like her, suffered many hardships but still did not give up poetry and civilization. The perseverance of the Chinese nation has been passed down from generation to generation.
In 1978, Ye Jiaying wrote to the State Education Commission to apply, hoping to return to China to teach.
The next year, the daughter of poetry, , who had wandered around for most of her life, finally returned to the embrace of her motherland.
She taught at Nankai University for three months, and every class was packed. In order to listen to her class, the students forged attendance certificates and were so obsessed that they refused to leave get out of class.
Ye Jiaying described this period of time as, "I talked about poetry during the day and lectured on lyrics at night, and all living beings became crazy with me.".
Dai Jinhua, who was already a professor in the Chinese Department of Peking University at the time, also came to listen to her class.
She said that Mr. Ye was an important and direct driving force for me to choose to be a teacher in the future without hesitation.
html Over the past 30 years, she has given lectures at dozens of universities in China and given hundreds of lectures.
Her teaching method focuses on reciting, "Reciting is an important way to learn classical poetry, and the excitement it brings The dynamic experience is the basis for a deep understanding of ancient poetry."
She said that after modern times, chanting was considered a decadent and lonely culture and was gradually not advocated. But she felt it would be a pity if chanting stopped.
"I feel sorry for the next generation of students if I don't leave orthodox chanting."
For example, Li Bai's "Recalling Qin'e" writes, "Le Yuan Yuan Shang Qing Qiu Festival (jie four tones), Xianyang ancient road sound is extremely dusty ( jue four tones). "
must be added with tones to restore the beauty of the ancient rhyme.
Her lecture style is known as "Running Wild Horse" , which can combine current events and life experiences, diverging from single words and sentences to a broad background.
Talk about "I plan to marry and rest for the rest of my life, even if I am ruthlessly abandoned," in Wei Zhuang's "Sidi Xiang", she spreads from love to lifelong ambition, inspiring many students.
talked about Wen Tingyun's "Bodhisattva Man". She talked about Du Xunhe and Du Fu together, and introduced the perspective of Western semiotics.
Talking about Du Fu's "Eight Poems on the Rise of Autumn", "The sun sets in the isolated city of Kui Mansion, and every time I turn to the Beidou to look at Beijing" , she remembered how she missed her hometown and couldn't help but burst into tears.
She does not regard poetry as an objective academic object, but integrates poetry with her own life.
In 1979, Ye Jiaying arrived in Tianjin and took a group photo with teachers from Nankai University.
During class, Ye Jiaying insisted on using vertical traditional Chinese characters to write on the blackboard. Although the chalk dust made her fingers chapped, she still persisted.
She lectures with enthusiasm and never slows down or lowers her tone even when she is unwell.
Ye Jiaying is never afraid of students being stupid, but she is afraid that students will not study hard.
According to the memories of the classmates who took her class at that time, in one class, an older senior brother stood up and explained poetry. As a result, his explanation was so wrong that no one else could listen.
But Ye Jiaying did not interrupt him at all. When the students looked at the teacher, they only saw her hiding behind the book "Laughing quietly" .
Ye Jiaying explains ancient poetry to children in Vancouver
In her later years, Ye Jiaying had nothing to worry about and dedicated everything to poetry.
She established the Ye Shi Tuan Scholarship and the Yongyan Academic Fund at Nankai University to support young scholars and students, with a total donation of 35.68 million yuan.
She did not stop recruiting graduate students until she was 90 years old, and continued to educate students who had not yet graduated in her small living room.
html At the age of 296, she also gave lectures in person and guided students to organize more than 2,000 hours of lecture recordings.
The current social atmosphere despises the weak, but Ye Jiaying proposed "The beauty of weak virtue".
Being weak does not mean being weak, but "a kind of hidden beauty that has to be restrained and restrained under the pressure of strong external forces."
is the core of Chinese literati to persist in ideals and ethics when they are depressed.
Ye Jiaying said, "I am a woman who was born into the so-called 'weak' category. It can be said that my whole life has been fiddled with and thrown away by fate. But I don't If I fall, I will go my own way while enduring it.
Use retreat to advance, and use defense to attack.
Rather than calling Ye Jiaying sir, it would be better to say that she is a rock-solid iron lady who is soft on the inside and strong on the outside.
"Thousands of hammers carved out the deep mountains, and the fire burned them as if it were easy."
Her soul has gone through many hardships, and her thin body has been tortured by life, but her poetry has given her the great courage to survive in desperate situations.
She fought against the cruel life in her own way until the last moment, never admitting defeat.
Although she has passed away now, her spirit is worthy of praise. Not long ago, the famous poetry researcher Ye Jiaying passed away at the age of 100. Many media quoted Mr. Female in their headlines, which once again triggered a debate about the title of "Mr.". And Yang feels that Ye Jiaying is undoubtedly a great "lady" . She is known as the "daughter of poetry" and "taxi in skirts". She has won dozens of awards and honorary titles such as "Chinese Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award", "Moving China 2020 Person of the Year", Bai Xianyong, Xi Murong and Jiang Xun have all is her student. She not only made great academic achievements, but also made an indelible contribution to the inheritance and development of traditional culture. When she was in her 90s, she still insisted on giving lectures to students on the podium. She carefully selected 218 ancient poems and compiled them into children's books, embodying the tragic story of "The wax torch turns to ashes before the tears dry up.". Such a great lady had a life full of ups and downs. lost his mother early in his youth, suffered long-term domestic violence in his prime, and lost his beloved eldest daughter in his later years. The pain tempered and tortured her, and she also forged the greatest poet in contemporary China the "Iron Lady" . 7-year-old girl who takes care of two younger brothers and dreams of saving the world In 1924, Ye Jiaying was born in a scholarly family in Peking. As a descendant of the Manchu Yehenala family, she received a good traditional cultural education since she was a child. When she was three or four years old, she could recite Li Bai's "Changganxing". When she memorized "Butterflies are yellow in August, they fly to the grass in the West Garden. It hurts my heart to feel that I am worried about my beauty getting old." When she memorized it, the adults laughed at her and said, "How old are you, and you are already worrying about your beauty getting old?" Such carefreeness is one of the few happy times in her childhood memories. After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, Peiping fell and Ye Jiaying's life was completely disrupted. She had great pain in her heart, but she had nowhere to express it but through poetry. When she was 16 years old, she wrote the poem "The Tathagata is an illusion, how can he save the common people?". She said that everyone is looking forward to a peaceful and prosperous age, but when will that prosperous age come? In the first year of college, Ye Jiaying encountered the first difficulty in her life. Her mother died of illness, and she wrote "Eight Poems about Crying Mother" in grief. "There is no word at the end of the coffin, and the novel will be shortened and shortened." These poems are not only mourning for the mother, but also a description of the suffering of the times. During the most difficult period of the Anti-Japanese War, in addition to studying by herself, she also had to take care of her two younger brothers. I couldn’t eat white rice or noodles for several months at home. I could only eat sour and smelly mixed noodles. I had to make some salty sauce to cover up the smell before I could eat them. In 1943, Ye Jiaying took a group photo with her teacher Gu Sui and her classmates. Although she didn’t know when the war would end and when she would be reunited with her father, Ye Jiaying’s poems always looked toward the bright future. She wrote "I am willing to die for Kuafu, but dare to laugh at Lu Yang Chi." It means that she is willing to sacrifice bravely for the light she pursues like Kuafu. During those difficult years, poetry became her emotional outlet and her way of fighting against suffering. Encountered domestic violence and wanted to commit suicide, poetry became her only comfort. In 1948, Ye Jiaying and her husband Zhao Zhongsun went south to Nanjing to get married. Soon afterwards, she moved with her husband and started a new life journey. Later, her husband Zhao Zhongsun was imprisoned by the authorities for nearly four years. Ye Jiaying and her young eldest daughter were also detained for interrogation. This experience brought great uncertainty and fear to her life. She inquired everywhere, but could not get any news from her husband at all, and she could no longer live in the school dormitory. In the 1950s, Ye Jiaying gave lectures to students when she was teaching in Taiwan. She was committed to her husband's sister and brother-in-law's house. Her family didn't treat her well. They didn't even give her a bed. She could only wait for others to fall asleep, spread a blanket on the corridor, and hold her daughter to sleep. More than three years passed like this, and it was not easy until my husband came home. However, her husband's return not only did not bring hope, but made Ye Jiaying's situation even more difficult. Zhao Zhongsun’s personality changed drastically after he came back. Not only was he unwilling to go out to work, but he also frequently got angry and beat people at home. When she was most desperate, Ye Jiaying once wanted to turn on the gas and commit suicide. The only ones she couldn't let go of were her two daughters. This time, poetry saved her again. She saw Wang Anshi writing in "Xianhanshan Shide", "All living beings choose different karma, and each has his own opportunity." The general idea is that everyone has his own cause and effect cycle. She knew that her husband's drastic change in temperament was also related to his unfortunate fate. Although this sentence is a bit self-deceptive, it also supports Ye Jiaying to continue to survive. She focused her life on her daughter and poetry, and taught in various universities. What is particularly ridiculous is that she teaches in Vancouver and supports her whole family by herself. When she wanted to take her family over, the immigration office told her that your husband is not your dependent. "Even you can only be his dependent." Later, she told her husband about it, but he took it for granted. He said, Of course, of course. Ye Jiaying didn’t say a word. made Ye Jiaying completely give up on her husband, probably after the death of her eldest daughter. html When she was 252 years old, she flew from Vancouver to Toronto to visit her eldest daughter. She was full of expectations, but that night she received the news that both her eldest daughter and her son-in-law had died in a car accident. She locked herself in the house and stayed at home for ten days in a row. Ye Jiaying’s eldest daughter’s wedding From the loss of her mother in youth to the loss of her daughter in her prime, every drop of her talent seems to have been tempered by suffering. Some people said that in the next few days, when colleagues saw her at school, she seemed to just have a red eye and then pass. At this time, Ye Jiaying was by no means not sad, but was in extreme pain, and tears could not provide any comfort. Her daughter has almost taken away most of her cares about life, and her only mission in this life is poetry. html He came to the podium at the age of 296 and donated 35.68 million yuan At this time, New China has experienced many years of suffering, and it is a time when it is full of vitality and ready to go forward. Ye Jiaying returned to China. She was very happy when she saw young people holding "Three Hundred Tang Poems" on the train. Her motherland, like her, suffered many hardships but still did not give up poetry and civilization. The perseverance of the Chinese nation has been passed down from generation to generation. In 1978, Ye Jiaying wrote to the State Education Commission to apply, hoping to return to China to teach. The next year, the daughter of poetry, , who had wandered around for most of her life, finally returned to the embrace of her motherland. She taught at Nankai University for three months, and every class was packed. In order to listen to her class, the students forged attendance certificates and were so obsessed that they refused to leave get out of class. Ye Jiaying described this period of time as, "I talked about poetry during the day and lectured on lyrics at night, and all living beings became crazy with me.". Dai Jinhua, who was already a professor in the Chinese Department of Peking University at the time, also came to listen to her class. She said that Mr. Ye was an important and direct driving force for me to choose to be a teacher in the future without hesitation. html Over the past 30 years, she has given lectures at dozens of universities in China and given hundreds of lectures. Her teaching method focuses on reciting, "Reciting is an important way to learn classical poetry, and the excitement it brings The dynamic experience is the basis for a deep understanding of ancient poetry." She said that after modern times, chanting was considered a decadent and lonely culture and was gradually not advocated. But she felt it would be a pity if chanting stopped. "I feel sorry for the next generation of students if I don't leave orthodox chanting." For example, Li Bai's "Recalling Qin'e" writes, "Le Yuan Yuan Shang Qing Qiu Festival (jie four tones), Xianyang ancient road sound is extremely dusty ( jue four tones). " must be added with tones to restore the beauty of the ancient rhyme. Her lecture style is known as "Running Wild Horse" , which can combine current events and life experiences, diverging from single words and sentences to a broad background. Talk about "I plan to marry and rest for the rest of my life, even if I am ruthlessly abandoned," in Wei Zhuang's "Sidi Xiang", she spreads from love to lifelong ambition, inspiring many students. talked about Wen Tingyun's "Bodhisattva Man". She talked about Du Xunhe and Du Fu together, and introduced the perspective of Western semiotics. Talking about Du Fu's "Eight Poems on the Rise of Autumn", "The sun sets in the isolated city of Kui Mansion, and every time I turn to the Beidou to look at Beijing" , she remembered how she missed her hometown and couldn't help but burst into tears. She does not regard poetry as an objective academic object, but integrates poetry with her own life. In 1979, Ye Jiaying arrived in Tianjin and took a group photo with teachers from Nankai University. During class, Ye Jiaying insisted on using vertical traditional Chinese characters to write on the blackboard. Although the chalk dust made her fingers chapped, she still persisted. She lectures with enthusiasm and never slows down or lowers her tone even when she is unwell. Ye Jiaying is never afraid of students being stupid, but she is afraid that students will not study hard. According to the memories of the classmates who took her class at that time, in one class, an older senior brother stood up and explained poetry. As a result, his explanation was so wrong that no one else could listen. But Ye Jiaying did not interrupt him at all. When the students looked at the teacher, they only saw her hiding behind the book "Laughing quietly" . Ye Jiaying explains ancient poetry to children in Vancouver In her later years, Ye Jiaying had nothing to worry about and dedicated everything to poetry. She established the Ye Shi Tuan Scholarship and the Yongyan Academic Fund at Nankai University to support young scholars and students, with a total donation of 35.68 million yuan. She did not stop recruiting graduate students until she was 90 years old, and continued to educate students who had not yet graduated in her small living room. html At the age of 296, she also gave lectures in person and guided students to organize more than 2,000 hours of lecture recordings. The current social atmosphere despises the weak, but Ye Jiaying proposed "The beauty of weak virtue". Being weak does not mean being weak, but "a kind of hidden beauty that has to be restrained and restrained under the pressure of strong external forces." is the core of Chinese literati to persist in ideals and ethics when they are depressed. Ye Jiaying said, "I am a woman who was born into the so-called 'weak' category. It can be said that my whole life has been fiddled with and thrown away by fate. But I don't If I fall, I will go my own way while enduring it. Use retreat to advance, and use defense to attack. Rather than calling Ye Jiaying sir, it would be better to say that she is a rock-solid iron lady who is soft on the inside and strong on the outside. "Thousands of hammers carved out the deep mountains, and the fire burned them as if it were easy." Her soul has gone through many hardships, and her thin body has been tortured by life, but her poetry has given her the great courage to survive in desperate situations. She fought against the cruel life in her own way until the last moment, never admitting defeat. Although she has passed away now, her spirit is worthy of praise.