Although Ye Jiaying is a writer now, she didn't have a study or even a desk in hard times.
She said that she didn't want to be a poet or a scholar, and she never wanted to shoulder the responsibility of inheritance, just because she really had feelings for classical poetry and was really interested. So she can "endure insomnia and hunger" instead of.
Ye Jiaying and his classmates are at Mr. Tansui's home.
What fame and fortune, also not to achieve anything external. On the contrary, when Tao Yuanming and Du Fu can be revived in your feelings, poetry will naturally arouse your lively and open spirit, and the life of poetry will be integrated with your life, which is endless and complete joy.
Poetry plays an intrinsic role in improving people's mind and quality. When the life of poetry permeates into a person's blood and blends with her spirit, then poetry will become a force to support them through difficulties and hardships, from which they will gain a strong spirit of bearing burdens and a firm spirit of not escaping from difficulties.
When suffering fell from the sky, she silently read Mr. Wang Guowei's words: "If you open it, how can you suddenly fall down?" My life experience is like this falling catkin, which has fallen before it opens. Although her life has been in blowing in the wind, no matter where she goes, she can always grow up in her own way.
She should not only get comfort from poetry, but also draw strength from it.
"The blow of suffering can be a reminder, but it can also be an exercise." We don't mean to see through the world of mortals, but sometimes we really want to see through some distractions and gain greater spiritual freedom at the cost of having to bear some unbearable pain for ordinary people, and we must support ourselves in pain and not fall down.
There are ideal literati in China's cultural tradition, often intellectuals with a long way to go. We must be independent and help the world. If you see that a precious cultural tradition is dying, as a person who knows its value and significance, there will inevitably be an unspeakable pain. With this kind of pain, Ye Jiaying shoulders all the responsibilities and does a solid job in inheritance and development.
Suddenly looking back, the man was there, dimly lit. Ye Jiaying spent most of his academic career without Wang Guowei. The book Wang Guowei and His Literary Criticism records the traces of her dialogue with this dead soul.
When I was still studying at Fu Jen Catholic University, one day, my classmates copied some poems by Mr. Wang Guowei's The Recent Flowers for Ye Jiaying. "The frost on the ground is as thick as snow. People speak in the west wind, and thin horses hiss at the waning moon. " Such a sad sentence immediately caused her to sing * * *, only to know that the author of "thorns on earth" had such a touching poem. She fell in love with Wang Guowei's ci at once and went to the library to borrow his complete works. Unexpectedly, after reading it, I was disappointed and surprised: to my disappointment, there were only over a hundred poems left by Wang Guowei, and most of the rest were boring textual research works that she still didn't understand; What is even more surprising is that Wang Guowei went to Kunming Lake in the prime of life of 5 1 year. What on earth made him so determined to give up all his previous interests and hobbies? What kind of pain made him end his life in the prime of life without mercy? These questions have been hovering in Ye Jiaying's mind.
In the late 1960s, before Ye Jiaying left Harvard, he made a research plan about Wang Guowei. After many changes and delays, I returned to Harvard on 1970, and the plan was completed. The question that troubled her many years ago slowly revealed the answer.
Wang Guowei left a suicide note in the early years of the Republic of China, and resolutely sank on the grounds that "this world has changed and I am not ashamed to ask questions." According to Ye Jiaying's research, the real reason is that what Wang Guowei needs is a purely objective research environment. However, in the troubled times like old China, it is almost impossible for people to understand and accept his detached position if he wants to avoid being contaminated by his political background. However, because Wang Guowei was pessimistic, unable to take positive actions, and had too lofty ideals, he couldn't go with the flow. In the chaotic times of scuffle between political parties and warlords, he decided to die for fear of being forced to bear the burden of humiliation, in order to die for the last bit of innocence in his ideal.
Ye Jiaying said that in his early years, he was quite "immune". Apart from reading, he seldom communicates, knows little about life outside, and even talks about politics. When I was studying at Fu Jen Catholic University, my cousin once told me four jokes: "I don't know,
198 1, Ye Jiaying took photos with Miao Yue and Jin Qihua.
Don't listen to nonsense, enjoy yourself and go your own way. "This kind of" Qing dynasty "self-control is not without similarities with Wang Guowei. Therefore, in his original works, Ye Jiaying was full of admiration for Wang Guowei's "Qing Dynasty".
However, it was because of Wang Guowei's research that Ye Jiaying began to read books about the modern history of China, and he also became interested in reading the narrative of China's revolution and transformation in the past century. Because of my extensive coverage, I gradually realized that the thought and life of "independence" and pretending to be "clean" in the past was, to some extent, a narrow moral view of the weak. So in the spring of 1974, Ye Jiaying added an essay "Yu Lun" to Wang Guowei's book "Wang Guowei and His Literary Criticism". The evaluation of Wang Guowei has changed from blindly advocating love to adding more and more rational reflection elements.
From then on, no matter how busy her daily work is, she will pay attention to the news about the mainland in newspapers and periodicals, and she is no longer afraid of what happens in her motherland, but she is not enough to participate.
The day I interviewed Ye Jiaying was the season when the sun was shining and all the leaves fell, which inspired Mr. Wang Guowei. Ye Jiaying, 83 years old, especially lamented that although troubled times did not provide a good environment for Mr. Jing 'an, it was a loss of the times that Mr. Jing 'an committed suicide in the heyday of his highly talented academic career. The so-called "times failed Mr. Jing 'an, and Mr. Jing 'an also failed the time when he was born" is also true. Ye Jiaying believes that even if the ideal of Avenue can't be realized, the heart of benevolence can't be lost. People should give full play to their talents and live up to their lives, times and home country.
Ye Jiaying mentioned that during the summer vacation when she studied Mr. Jing 'an in the Harvard Yanjing Library, sometimes at night, she walked through a long dark corridor with bookshelves on both sides, and she felt that Mr. Jing 'an's soul was wandering nearby. Suddenly looking back, the man was there, dimly lit. When she was young, she felt sad for the early death of Mr. Jing 'an. Twenty years later, Mr. Jing 'an finally gave her great inspiration with all his life left in the dust of history.
In order to promote traditional culture, she took out her pension and set up a scholarship. "I was born in Beijing. I am a minority, not a Han nationality. I am a Mongolian Manchu, and I am a Manchu Ye Henala. "
Ye Jiaying's quadrangle in Beiping was bought by her great-grandfather who was the "assistant", and it was a big quadrangle in Daoguang period. Mr Deng Yunxiang, a famous scholar, once wrote an article to describe this big quadrangle filled with the ancient culture of China. He said, "this is a standard big quadrangle, ... with good pattern and large scale." Because Mr. Deng Lao's mother is often ill and Ye Jiaying's uncle is a Chinese medicine doctor, he has the opportunity to enter this yard.
"The quiet, serene and leisurely atmosphere I felt as soon as I entered the yard can still emerge in front of my eyes as soon as I close my eyes." Only a few times, Mr. Deng went to see a doctor with his mother when he was very young, but after more than 50 years, his eyes were closed. The atmosphere of this yard was right in front of him, showing how deeply impressed this "special feeling of Beijing flavor" would be.
The poetic environment has accumulated the details of ancient culture. Mr. Deng Yunxiang described it this way: "The simple, clean, bright window without idle dust, the sunset outside the window and the quiet courtyard are themselves a picture full of artistic conception of words." The artistic conception of a poetess is always nurtured in such an atmosphere. "
After years of wandering overseas, Ye Jiaying has deep feelings for his hometown. She loves her hometown in Tea Garden Hutong, Fu Jen Catholic University, her hometown Beijing and her haunted hometown.
Ye Jiaying said, "No matter in Taipei or North America, I have set up a special course on Du Fu's poems. I have written a book, Du Fu's Eight Episodes of Autumn Prosperity, because I have special feelings for Du Fu's autumn prosperity. When I speak overseas, I often burst into tears unconsciously. I wrote a poem myself, which has two sentences:' The end of the world often feels Shaolin poems, and Beidou Jinghua has dreams.' Tell me about my homesickness. "
Ye Jiaying I suffered many hardships, but he was able to devote himself to a broader and higher realm of life and complete himself under heavy pressure. She resolutely undertakes the mission of inheriting China's classical culture and conveys the power of life in her poems.
"I started teaching after graduating from 1945 university. I have been teaching for more than 60 years without a year's rest. Teaching is my greatest pleasure. Any kind of academic culture can last for a long time because of its inheritance and development, and teaching is such a sacred work. My wish is to teach a few good students. "
The greatest energy in her life was devoted to teaching, teaching three middle schools in Beiping and one middle school in Taiwan Province Province for 20 years. 1969 settled in Canada. The following year, she won a lifetime employment contract with the University of British Columbia, which is already full of peaches and plums.
1976 After the Cultural Revolution, China ushered in the spring of reform and opening up. She immediately wrote to the Ministry of Education of Chinese mainland to apply for returning to China to teach during her vacation. After being approved, she returned to China to give lectures for the first time on 1979, and wrote, "What is the plan of a scholar to serve the country?" I will never forget Du Li's soul. " The Book of Songs and Li Sao, the poems of Li Bai, Du Fu and China come down in one continuous line, and great poets all carry heavy burdens.
Ye Jiaying said the poems of Han, Wei and Six Dynasties.
Carrying human suffering. Mr Miao Yue, a famous late scholar, called her "the heart of Beijing Beidou, serving the country to the best of my ability." In this way, she overcame many difficulties and insisted on returning to China to teach, not only because of her homesickness and feelings of serving the country, but also because of her love for China's classical culture and her responsibility for inheritance.
1996, she founded the China Institute of Classical Culture in Nankai University, and took out her own pension of 65.438 billion yuan to set up the "Ye's Tuoan" scholarship and "Academic Fund".