Ye JiayingTalking poetry in the living room of your home.
1943, Ye Jiaying took a photo with her teacher Gu Sui and her classmates. Ye Jiaying is on the second right in the back row.
1997, Ye Jiaying taught ancient poems to children in Vancouver.
1974, the eldest daughter Yanyan’s wedding scene.
Ye Jiaying when she graduated from junior high school.
In the 1950s, Ye Jiaying took a photo with students from the Chinese Department of National Taiwan University. Photo provided by the interviewee
Ye Jiaying's latest public appearance was on September 10. The 96-year-old girl gave a routine first lesson to freshmen at Nankai University. Sitting in a wheelchair, she was full of energy and teased that her hair had turned blacker.
She is used to standing and giving lectures for two or three hours. But now, she needs a nanny to help her when she gets up from the sofa at home. She said that her "life is already in the middle of the night", but she still had to work hard to achieve the moment Du Fu said, "It's already the matter of lying in the coffin." She handwritten papers every day and guides students to organize more than 2,000 hours of recordings of lectures. Hundreds of universities such as
Harvard, Yale, etc. have left her teaching figure. When she just returned to Nankai to give lectures, she had to add seats in the classroom, and stools and chairs were added to the podium. There are also people standing against the wall window or sitting on the ground. Mathematicians Chen Shengshen, Wu Daren and his wife also squeezed under the podium with their students.
This is also the case when she was teaching in Taiwan. Later, she talked about half of the earth with her poems.
She does not have the airs of a high-ranking scholar. She taught poetry to kindergarten children, and also to scholars, academicians, workers and housewives. At the age of 92, she selected 218 ancient poems and wrote ancient poems for children. The next year, she recorded explanations and chanted these poems.
html When she was 191 years old, she was teaching graduate students in a 70 square meter residence. PhD students, master's students, plus those who came to listen, sat on plastic stools, with twenty or thirty people in each class. Later, the videos of the courses and lectures were sorted out and posted online, and she suddenly became an "Internet celebrity" who talked about poetry. html Post-190s netizens commented that "this 90-year-old lady's lectures are interesting", believing that her book "is not kept a secret, and she told the story with rich literary knowledge and historical allusions. She read three to five hundred pages in just two breaths."She is called "a 'scholar in skirts". On her birthday, scholars from home and abroad who study poetry gathered around her for a meeting, and many big names sent congratulatory letters. In the early years, she was not interested in the fun and had a meal with a few friends at most. One year on her birthday, she was responsible for cutting the cake. Mu Guoguang, two presidents of Nankai University, and Teng Weizao sat next to her. Chen Shengshen must hide the birthday poem he gave to her until her birthday. Yang Zhenning, who arrived one day in advance, received no "spoilers".
Writer Bai Xianyong said, "Mr. Ye is the one who guided me into the Chinese poetry hall." "She stood there and was a nobleman." Poet Xi Murong described that Teacher Ye was like a luminous body on the podium, and was the goddess on the Hunan Water in " Jiuge ".
She wants to tell young people about the "beautiful and noble world in classical poetry that she has experienced personally" that she hopes to open this door so that everyone can walk in and bring people who don't understand poetry into it.
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2017, the documentary about Ye Jiaying "Calling Water in the Moon in Hand" started filming. Before the filming, director Chen Chuanxing did a lot of homework on poetry. He wanted to discuss "Mr. Ye and the history of Chinese poetry and the great river of life of Chinese poets."
Chen Chuanxing "Every time I have to carry a big bag of books and open them at any time." Sometimes when shooting does not follow the outline, Mr. Ye would improvise a poem, and the staff at the scene began to frantically read through the information, worried about making mistakes and being embarrassed. "Every time I shoot, I feel like 'going to the battlefield'."
1954, Ye Jiaying, who only had Chinese teaching experience in middle school, was hired at Taiwan University. If the essay writing is used as the recruitment standard, she is not qualified.
Tai Jingnong, the then director of the Chinese Department of National Taiwan University, later recalled that he invited Ye Jiaying to teach at National Taiwan University because he saw that she "was very well written in the old poems she wrote", so he "invite her."
Ye Jiaying was born in Peiping in 1924. She was locked up in the gate hanging with the plaque of "Jinshi" and "Ama" in her family.
The girl can play swinging, skating, kicking keys, and catching her, but she has never seen any of them. When she was illiterate, she began to memorize poetry, "all her energy was spent on reading." The Analects of Confucius is the "most familiar scripture she has recited."
html When she was 111 years old, she learned to write poetry with her uncle. The bamboo, pomegranate flowers, jujube flowers, sunsets, and moon shadows in the courtyard are the main themes of her poetry. The alias of "Jaling" was also obtained by chatting with her uncle - the Chen Weisong of the Qing Dynasty, which is the most commonly written among Chinese poets, and is called Jialing.After being admitted to the Chinese Department of Fu Ren University , she met Gu Sui, a teacher who had affected her life.
Gu Sui gave a lecture, and she kept her head and took notes without saying a word. After listening to the class for 6 years, she took down 8 major notes. In the past 50 years, she has wandered in Taiwan, the United States and Canada, and she only carries these notes with her. The old manuscripts, letters and poems that Gu Sui reviewed and revised were all framed by Ye Jiaying as calligraphy and brought by her side.
Influenced by Gu Sui, she improved her poetry style and wrote, "I have been fighting for sorrow like the sea when I enter the world, but I am not a name for escaping from Zen." More than 70 years later, Jialing School was completed at Nankai University, and these two sentences were hung on both sides of the Moon Gate.
Most of the time in her life she really has nowhere to escape. In 1945, China entered the eighth year of the full-scale war of resistance. In Peiping occupied by the enemy, people ate sour and smelly mixed noodles and wore patched old clothes. Teachers and students comfort each other with poems in class. In class, Gu Sui rewrites the poem "if winter comes, can spring be far behind" into a Chinese poem, "I endure his wind and snow to his cold, even if the cold is cold, it is already the cold spring." Ye Jiaying imitates Gu Sui's style and writes a poem "Treading on the Sha" with these two lines.
12 years later, Gu Sui also used the lyrics "Taisha Xing". But at this time, the teacher and student had lost contact for many years.
In 1977, Ye Jiaying returned from Canada and began to organize Gu Sui's collection of essays. She has always disliked trouble others and asked her friends for this matter.
"Insider" people can see that Ye Jiaying's lectures, writings and people are deeply influenced by Gu Sui. Chinese classical poetry and music researcher Zheng Qian once commented on her, "I followed Mr. Gu's path and passed on Mr. Gu's mantle."
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Ye Jiaying's recognized feature of poetry is "running wild horses".
The emperor of the Tang Dynasty, she said fifteen in one breath. She can talk about the "small hills" in "small hills overlap and golden darkness".
talks about philosophical poetry. She casually took out the poems of Zhang Jiuling, , Tao Yuanming, and Zhu Xi for comparison. When talking about "Chang'e" by Li Shangyin, , she will talk about Wang Guowei, Wang Wei , and Wang Wei , which is purely the poet's self-moaning, philosopher's compassion, and satisfaction of the practitioner; from Xin Qiji's , she talks about the essence of the lyrics, and then turns from the card tune of the lyrics to the difference between the small and long tunes, so she talks about Liu Yong , and then goes back to Xin Qiji's other two poems and allusions, combined with Western conscious criticism theory... Finally, I return to the poem "Shuilongyin·Chongjiankang Xiuxin Pavilion" in this class.
The young teacher went to listen to her class and sighed that "Mr. Ye can still run back after a long lap, and he can hardly make any mistakes."
Appreciate the "I want to marry my body and live a lifetime, even if I am abandoned ruthlessly, I cannot be ashamed." Ye Jiaying told students not to regard it as a small word just about beauty and love. This spirit is also needed to do academic research and pursue ideals. Studying physics may not necessarily win awards. You must make a lifelong dedication to your pursuit. That year, Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Physics suddenly became popular, and many students were competing to apply for the physics department.
She sighed in class that the world today is developing science and material enjoyment is becoming more and more advanced, but the crisis of war is buried everywhere, and no one knows what will happen tomorrow.When did humans have the world that Li Shangyin said, "Why do you want to see the Buddha's body on tens of billions of lotus flowers?
Students who have listened to Ye Jiaying’s lectures feel that Mr. Ye first “lowered the threshold for appreciation of poetry, and then led people in step by step.” "She talks about poetry, which combines her own life experiences and is a feeling of integration with life." For example, Mr. Ye talks about Du Fu's poems, and talks about the fact that the country is broken and the mountains and rivers are in the past. She has truly experienced it - after the July 7 Incident, Peking fell, eating mixed noodles, wearing patched clothes, the school changed teachers, and the English courses were changed to Japanese classes. They tore and smeared the history and geography textbooks page by page as required in the classroom.
The main function of Gu Sui's poem is to make people move. Ye Jiaying often uses "care" to students in English in foreign classrooms. She said she should have a caring person, caring for people, things, things, and nature.
Gu Sui does not talk about the content written in the book, nor does he quote scriptures from the classics. It is entirely his own feelings about reading poetry. When Ye Jiaying talks about poetry, she often puts her feelings and friendship in it.
Gu Sui talks about the author who likes, and also about the author who doesn’t like it. He said bluntly that Jiang Kui's poems were the biggest disadvantage of being clear. He believes that a person who is a person is just wearing white socks and refuses to stick to mud, and always keeps himself innocent and noble. Such a person is narrow and selfish, and refuses to contribute to his efforts when encountering problems, and refuses to be moved by others.
"Mr. Gu talks about the feelings in life of poetry." Ye Jiaying said. "The inspiration of life" is also the core of her research on classical poetry, and it is also an important reason why she "loves poetry for life and remains unchanged even though she is old." She believes that "the quality of poetry is always based on the thickness, size and depth of life it feels as the level of evaluation." When talking about
, Zhou Bangyan , Ye Jiaying praised the poet's skills and art, but still had to "speak very sincerely." She said that the poet Zhou Bangyan was a little bit different from Su Dongpo. The two of them also experienced a struggle between the old and the new party, and Su Dongpo put his gains and losses and good fortune aside. What Zhou Bangyan learned in the end was to protect himself, "The name of "committing to obey is like a wooden chicken, and he thinks he is happy." She felt that Zhou Bangyan's poems lack a broad and profound life.
She likes Xin Qiji and says that Xin Qiji is different from Su Dongpo and Tao Yuanming. Tao and Su both prepared a "retreat", which is a retreat where they are poor and they are safe. But Xin Qiji and Du Fu were people who did not "retreat". He never forgot to recover his hometown and country in his life. He insisted on moving forward.
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Ye Jiaying did not "retreat".
1948, Ye Jiaying went south to get married, and soon followed her husband who was working in the Kuomintang army to Taiwan. She failed to "have unique development and be able to build a self-confidence, become the Mazu under the Southern Mountains, not Zeng Shen of Confucius." On the contrary, in the rivers of history, "fixing and throwing things with fate."
The second year after arriving in Taiwan, her husband was imprisoned for nearly 4 years for "white terror". Ye Jiaying and her breastfeeding daughter were arrested and interrogated for a time. She and her daughter slept at the corridor of relatives' houses and lived in a dormitory where "the house has no ceiling and you can see wooden beams and pillars on the roof."
The husband lost his job and she relied on the income from teaching in middle school to support the whole family. In a class, I talked about the mica car of Fu Jian in " Battle of Feishui ". After class, she took the bus home. While waiting for the bus, she thought of Li Shangyin's poem from the "mica car": "The candle shadow of the mica screen is deep, and the long river is gradually falling and the morning star is sinking. Chang'e should regret stealing the elixir, and her heart is in the blue sea and blue sky every night." After experiencing difficulties, she had a spiritual resonance with the poet, and she felt that loneliness, loneliness and sorrow.
When she got home, she was the one who wiped the floor and baked diapers for her daughter on the charcoal fire. The house was in a narrow place, and she prepared lessons at a small table next to the corridor, with half of the chairs in the house and half in the corridor.
The husband's temperament becomes more violent. At night, she dreamed that she and her two daughters were beaten by her husband and fell into a dying situation full of bruises. She dreamed that her mother wanted to take her home and was trapped in a reed marsh and could not find the way.
Because of her pessimistic state of mind, she liked to read the extremely pessimistic words mentioned by Wang Guowei during that period.This is also the characteristic of her teaching poetry - whether she talks about poetry or writes a paper, she will only write it out with her own real feelings and real experiences.
She thought, if a person is really desperate, which form of suicide is the best? Someone asked her why she didn’t choose to divorce? She replied: I am an old woman, I have my father and two daughters.
"Later I forgave him, and I thought of a poem by Wang Anshi "Shi De in Mianshan." What she remembered was different from the original poem, but she liked the poem she remembered more: The wind blows the tiles and falls into the house, breaking my head. The tiles also shatter themselves, and I cannot only flow blood. When sentient beings create many karma, each has its own opportunity to draw. Don’t be angry with this tiles, this tiles are not free.
Ye Jiaying never reveals her misfortune to others and looks peaceful. Recalling Ye Jiaying, Taiwanese poet Yu Xian remembered two things: one was watching a movie at the Taipei Far East Cinema. He saw a woman standing in the corridor not far away, wearing a beige windbreaker and a light brown silk scarf. She was dressed in a fit, elegant and refined manner, and turned a blind eye to the messy crowd around her, like a "silent orchid in the valley" and her expression was "warm and cold". It took him a few decades later that he confirmed to Ye Jiaying himself that the woman he saw in the cinema that night was her.
Another thing is that Ye Jiaying once allowed the new and old poets in Taiwan to break the barriers and "sit together and eat rice dumplings."
At that time, new poets in Taiwan praised Western works with inverted syntax and obscure images. The old poets believed that these obscure and different poems were pretending to be profound. The two sides fought a battle, and even "refusing to commemorate the same Qu Yuan on the Dragon Boat Festival."
Ye Jiaying intentionally explains the confusion of the old and new poets in the article. She believes that one of the characteristics of Du Fu's "Eight Poems on Autumn" is the inversion of syntax, "the fragrant rice pecks with parrot grains, and the old phoenix branches are floating on the green sycamore." She explained the beauty of inversion. "It is possible to jump to images, and it is also possible to reverse grammar." The quality of the written content does not depend on the form, but on whether the emotion is sincere.
In the 1950s and 1960s, after foreign scholars arrived in Taiwan, they listened to Ye Jiaying's class and invited her to give lectures at the University of Michigan in the United States. Professor Tao Wei from the Far East Department of Harvard University is studying Tao Yuanming and invited her to Harvard.
"Going to Canada is not my choice, going to the United States is not my choice, and getting married is not my marriage." Ye Jiaying said, "But my husband was released because he was imprisoned for so many years. He left the navy and did not find a job. He didn't want to stay in Taiwan anymore. Seeing that I had the opportunity to go out, he insisted that I take my child out first, and he could go out." In front of the camera of
, Ye Jiaying calmly recalled the past. The mother passed away when she was 17 years old. She wrote "Eight Poems of Crying Mother", and she still "clearly remembers the sound of nails nailing on the coffin when her mother was buried." He lost his father when he was wandering in North America. She has told so many poems about love, but she has never experienced love. In her marriage, she was roared and humiliated by her husband. The documentary filming of
lasted for 3 years. Chen Chuanxing felt that he had photographed a woman's hundred years of loneliness. Although some scholars believe that "poetry cannot be divided like a subject and object with Mr. Ye", before the release, the director team finalized the words printed on the propaganda poster, "poetry saved her."
"The study of poetry is not the goal I pursue, but a kind of force that supports me to go through trouble." At the age of 87, Ye Jiaying wrote in the conclusion to a book.
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For Ye Jiaying, a heavier blow came when she was 52 years old.
She once told her eldest daughter that she had a baby early and I can help you with retirement. This is another idea she had for her later years.
In March 11976, 52-year-old Ye Jiaying attended the Asian Society in the Eastern United States. She received news of her eldest daughter and son-in-law's death in a car accident and immediately flew to Toronto . After returning to Vancouver, she locked herself at home and stayed in her door for dozens of days.
In "Ten Poems of Crying Girls", she wrote, "I cry my son to mourn myself, what is the reason for my life to be exhausted?" "The heavens still punish me in the evening, and I will not make me laugh but sad."
After attending the funeral, she came back to work at school. When I saw my colleagues, friends and students, my eyes turned red at most and I lowered my head and walked over."The pain of her loss of a daughter seems to be relieved by knowledge and poetry," recalled Ye Jiaying's friend Liu Bingsong.
director team asked her, is this kind of soothing because Ye Jiaying is not sensitive?
"I think she is not insensitive. She has such a thorough understanding of the subtle emotions in the poems. How could she be insensitive? It is precisely ancient poetry that saved her. The essence of life given to her by ancient poetry, allowing her life to stay at such a high level forever. Her pain has been dissolved by poetry." In Liu Bingsong's view, "the most difficult life is to retreat to a position, accept everything with the same attitude and then subtract it."
The death of his daughter almost completely changed Ye Jiaying's second half of her life, and her family is no longer what she calls a ties.
"She felt that God heard her wish, but she had an unfinished task, so she took her daughter away." Shen Yi, deputy director of "Shocking Water in Hands", told a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network, "She wants to convince herself like this or believe in her next mission in this way, which is actually at the cost of the departure of his relatives."
poems helped her relieve the pain of losing her relatives and reminded her that she still had the mission of inheriting poetry.
The second year after her daughter passed away, she returned to China to visit relatives again. At that time, the Cultural Revolution ended. On the train, she was so happy to see the young man holding "Three Hundred Tang Poems". When visiting the Great Wall, I bought "Tiananmen Poetry Copy".
"I thought at that time that China was really a poetic nation. Despite having experienced so many disasters, I still expressed myself in poetry." She felt that "this little thing I learned in my life" could also serve the motherland.
1978, Ye Jiaying wrote a letter to the State Education Commission and applied to return to China to teach.
1979, when Ye Jiaying returned to Nankai to give lectures, the former executive vice president of Nankai University, Chen Hong , was just a graduate student in the Chinese department who helped carry his luggage. Every time she travels to and from Canada and China, she takes economic class at her own expense and does not receive any penny for lectures.
Chen Hong admitted that Mr. Ye was still a little "short in his pocket" back then. I followed Ye Jiaying to the fruit stall myself. The prices of 3 piles of oranges are different, so Mr. Ye must buy the cheapest one.
In the largest ladder classroom at Peking University, Professor of Chinese Department of Peking University Dai Jinhua came to listen to the North American professor's class. She recalled Mr. Ye's lecture on "Nineteen Ancient Poems" that she "as a woman she saw the beauty of another wise female teacher." Dai Jinhua said, "Mr. Ye was an important and direct driving force for me to choose to be a teacher in the future without hesitation."
Ye Jiaying wrote vertical and traditional blackboard writing, and she wrote while talking, which was very fast. Because she often writes on the blackboard, her chalk dust always makes her fingers cracked. She always has tape on her right thumb and index finger.
Some friends who have listened to her classes often remind her not to speak too loudly, save some energy and pay attention to her health. But as soon as she started teaching, she forgot everything.
Because he has accepted the ancient saying "The Shrines and the Shrines are shameful to a gentleman" since he was a child, Ye Jiaying does not like excessively lively arrangements. But as long as the invitation is to persuade the importance of promoting the tradition of classical poetry, she agreed.
"Although I know that there are many scholars and poets in China who are more talented than me, the responsibility for inheritance may not fall on me. But I have an uncontrollable feeling for Chinese classical poetry." She told college students and kindergarten children. When it is dense, talk every other day, 3 hours a day.
Some course videos can be seen coughing slightly, but her tone did not decrease or slow down. "If I use a sentence my teacher, Mr. Gu Sui, often said to describe my lecture, it means, 'Although I am not sensitive, I am sincere'."
Her speech was sorted out, and some students studying science and engineering watched it all night.
In 1990, Ye Jiaying retired from the Asian Department of the University of British Columbia, Canada. She decided to donate half of her pension - US$100,000 to establish the "Ye Shi Tuan Scholarship" and "Yongyan Academic Fund" at Nankai University. "Tu'an" is Gu Sui's name, while "Yongyan" picks one word from the names of her late eldest daughter and son-in-law.
A few years ago, she donated all her savings and income from selling real estate. At present, a total of 35.68 million yuan has been donated.A reporter came to interview, and Ye Jiaying said, I didn't want them to announce it at first. Originally, I donated it, but they said it to the alumni association.
"I was going to talk to you about learning, but it seems that you are not interested in learning." Faced with the reporter's questioning, she answered directly to the camera.
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Ye Jiaying said that she is "good teacher" because she is eager to tell others the benefits in the poems she knows.
She reads a wide range of things. She reads all Chinese, foreign, literary, psychological, classic, and best-selling.
During the 20 years he was hired at the University of British Columbia, Ye Jiaying drove past Southwest Seaside Avenue almost every day. On the right side of the avenue is a tall forest and on the left is a residential area. Over the residential area, it is the vast and boundless Pacific Ocean. After retirement, as long as she returned from lectures in China, she still traveled back and forth on this road every day, going to Asian libraries to read, study, and write new papers. In addition to going to the lounge for lunch to eat the sandwiches and fruits she brought, she had to wait until the library closed before leaving.
She was searching for English dictionary teaching overseas. When her English improved, she went to Westerners' classes and borrowed books on Western literary theory. She found that some statements in Western literary theory have a secret relationship with traditional Chinese poetry theory.
Ye Jiaying pointed out that traditional Chinese literary theory needs to be supplemented and expanded with new Western theories.
She talks about the relationship between mind and object, which is the "biography" of traditional Chinese poetry and the mutual relationship between subject and object as Western phenomenology calls it.
When she talked about Qin Guan's words and her inner keenness, she put forward the point of view of Hillis Miller - no matter how different the content of the novel is, he can always find the origin of the author in different stories, plots and styles. She therefore explains that the word originates from the "real spiritual emotions".
Speaking of Wen Tingyun's "Bodhisattva Man", she said "I'm lazy to draw my eyebrows", and she talked about Du Xunhe's poems and Du Fu, and also explained it from the perspective of semiotics in the West: "Brow" is a code on the association axis. Because "looking in the mirror to draw eyebrows as metaphors, a tradition has formed in Chinese literature. It can evoke our association. When you look at the eyebrows, you can think of the 'the eyebrows of all women jealous of me' in Li Sao, and the 'long eyebrows can be drawn' in Li Shangyin's "Unt title"."
In recent years, she has found that more and more students are studying English majors in undergraduate studies, and then studying Western theories abroad. After returning to China, he copied these theories into his own culture. She thinks this is not advisable and she must first have a full understanding of her culture. "Theory is quan, the purpose is fish."
She created a noun "the beauty of weak virtue", which interprets the essential nature of the aesthetic characteristics of Chinese classical poetry. She said that weak virtue is not the weak, the weak are just lying there and being beaten. Weak virtue means you bear it, you persist, and you must have your own ethics. You must fulfill yourself, and this kind of character is weak virtue.
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Many people also see the "beauty of weak virtue" in her.
"I am a woman born to be the so-called 'weaker'. My life can be said to be fiddling and throwing with fate." She said, "But I don't fall, I have to go my own way while I bear it."
Since 2000, she began to recruit graduate students in Nankai.
She doesn't like to bother others. After returning to China to teach, she lived alone on the campus of Nankai University without hiring a nanny. Once when she got up at night, she slipped in the bathroom and broke her collarbone. She was afraid of affecting her secretary's rest, so she lay on the ground for more than 4 hours before dialing the other party's phone number at dawn.
In order to save time in cooking, she asked her secretary Ke Yantao to buy frozen dumplings at most 10 kilograms at a time. But Yantao said that Mr. Ye has very strict requirements for knowledge, but has very low requirements for life, especially he is unwilling to waste time on trivial matters such as eating and dressing. Many of her clothes were bought twenty or thirty years ago, and she never wanted to throw them away. Some holes were broken, and Ye Jiaying sewed the broken parts with needle and thread.
Shen Yi remembers that when she went to Mr. Ye’s house to shoot, she ate dumplings with her rice bowl, but she never had a moment of casual clothes or dressing up or cleaning up.
In her life, she valued the identity of a "teacher" the most.Until she was 91 years old, she still taught students at home. She asked students to read the original text of the document and recite it more. She would criticize students with a harsh tone and almost scold them. But if the student is hardworking and serious, she will be tolerant even if he talks with poetry clumsy and ridiculously.
When interviewed by People magazine, student Zhong Jin recalled that once the classmates expressed their opinions in class. A very old senior brother said it was completely wrong and others couldn't listen, but he was very serious and devoted. When she saw Ye Jiaying, she covered her face with a book and hid behind and smiled quietly.
As long as the blood pressure is stable, she will reply to emails from students and friends one by one after dinner. Even if she received a group of pictures of scenery, she would tap the keyboard with one finger and reply seriously "Received, thank you."
A strange student who loves classical poetry can also receive her responses.
A student who transferred from the Department of Physics to ancient literature failed the postgraduate entrance examination and wrote an email to Ye Jiaying. Ye Jiaying called him on the home landline and encouraged him not to be discouraged. Some students had never expected a reply and did not leave any contact information in the letter, so she asked the secretary to find the other party according to the information in the letter.
went out for a lecture. She was still standing and talking for two or three hours each time. A student found that Mr. Ye's legs were swollen.
In order to give her a better place to teach, hold meetings and study, an overseas student proposed to build a school, just like an ancient academies. Students around the world began to respond.
"Each of them contributed a lot." Chen Hong recalled the construction of the Jialing School, "Several students came when they heard about it. Some students said that all the furniture belongs to mine, and some said that I was responsible for all the appliances. They all listened to Mr. Ye's class more than ten years ago or even thirty or forty years ago."
In 2015, the Jialing School was completed. The recordings, videos and research materials of Ye Jiaying's overseas lectures were loaded in 150 cartons and transported back to China in batches. Old suitcases of varying sizes were posted with notes of "information".
This Chinese-style courtyard is adjacent to the Siyuan Hall, the oldest existing building in Nankai, and to the west is Ningyuan, the former residence of international mathematician Chen Shengshen.
Most of the scenes of the documentary "Calling Water in the Moon in Hand" are filmed here. After watching this documentary, Dai Jinhua said bluntly that when we face Mr. Ye’s poems and her, we will be “aphasic” and “all languages appear ugly.”
Some viewers thought of a poem written by Ye Jiaying in Taipei, with the last two lines "The tears left by the pearls of the sea for thousands of years, and no one has ever written a poem about brocade zither." Ye Jiaying believes that Li Shangyin's poems are sad and beautiful, and there is no need to regret it because no one makes annotations, but that they cannot be omitted at all, because the loneliness in the poem, which is as secluded and unspeakable as the sea, is far beyond the power of the annotations. "Mr. Ye is a secret and hard to describe the loneliness of the sea and is as deep as the sea, which is also difficult for us to express in words."
"Pick up a handful of water, and the moon in the sky will be reflected in the water. The light and shadow in the water are very close to you but far away from you. I think the beauty of the world lies in a kind of "distance", which is out of reach between your imagination." Ye Jiaying explained this way, "Calling the water and the moon in your hand."
A student has experienced this beauty. At the Oriental Art Building of Nankai University, Ye Jiaying stood on the stage to give a lecture, and he stood more than ten meters away from Mr. Ye and listened quietly. "You can understand every word she says, and you can also appreciate the beauty in the lyrics, but you just feel that it is so far away from Mr. Ye."
Some people describe this feeling, "The moonlight is very close, but the moon is very far away."
But Ye Jiaying only said modestly, I am just the moon in the water.
China Youth Daily·China Youth Network reporter Ma Yuping Source: China Youth Daily
Source: China Youth Daily
