After the release of the documentary "Water Moon in Hand", mr. Ye Jiaying, 96, began to enter the vision of more people.
The poet Yan Xian recalled in "The Moon in the Hand": "By the Dragon Boat Festival (Poets' Festival), poets of the old and new schools originally did not eat zongzi together. Everyone's interpretation of Qu Yuan is different, so you eat your Zongzi, I eat my Zongzi; you commemorate your Qu Yuan, I commemorate my Qu Yuan. ”
It was not until the old and new poetic schools saw Ye Jiaying's research articles on traditional poetry and songs that they reconciled their poetic quarrels with each other.
Ye Jiaying listened to the original lecture notes of Mr. Gu Sui
The poet Xi Murong bluntly said that "she is the soul of poetry"; Yan Xian praised Ye Jiaying as a "taxi in a skirt"; the writer Bai Xianyong said that "Mr. Ye was the person who guided me into the hall of Chinese poetry", and he recalled that when he was studying at National Taiwan University, he often skipped classes from the Department of Foreign Languages to listen to Mr. Ye's classes.
On Ye Jiaying's 94th birthday, Bai Xianyong took "Peony Pavilion" to Celebrate His Birthday in Nankai
After decades of teaching, peach and plum are all over the world, Ye Jiaying sold two real estates in Beijing and Tianjin in the later years of her life, and donated her own writing fees and royalty income, donating a total of 35.68 million yuan, and setting up a "Jialing Fund" at Nankai University, which made her leave a strong mark for traditional culture.
In an interview with the Beijing News, Ye Jiaying said that the director's "water moon in hand" is very poetic: hold up the water, there is a reflection of the moon in the water; but it is not the real self, just a shadow in the water.
Ye Jiaying, who is it?
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The original intention that has not been forgotten
As many people know, Mr. Ye has the status of an expert in the study of classical Chinese poetry, and has been employed by many universities such as National Taiwan University and Harvard University to teach; she is the only academician of Chinese classical literature of the Royal Society of Canada, and the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 2015-2016 "Impact World Chinese Award".
But floating and sinking, fame and fortune, are not what she pursues. These titles are not enough to summarize her ups and downs.
When Ye Jiaying (center) is three years old, she is photographed with her brother-in-law Li Tang (left) and her eldest brother Ye Jiamou (right).
In 1924, Ye Jiaying was born in Beijing into a family of scholars, a descendant of the Yehenara clan. After the outbreak of the Japanese war of aggression against China, in the face of the fall of Peiping, Ye Jiaying wrote a sad poem: "The wind in the night shook the big city, and the sad and mournful horns were unbearable."
In 1948, Ye Jiaying went south to Nanjing to get married, and soon moved to Taiwan with her husband, where she lived for eighteen years
During the Japanese occupation, her mother died unexpectedly due to surgery; shortly after graduating from university, the Liberation War broke out; and after going south to Taiwan, her husband was politically persecuted for the White Terror. In the middle of the last century, Ye Jiaying taught at National Taiwan University, Fu Jen University, and Tamkang University.
In 1969 she moved to Vancouver, Canada, where she was appointed tenured professor at the University of British Columbia.
In 1978, hearing that China had resumed the college entrance examination, Ye Jiaying, who had been teaching in Canada for many years, applied to the Chinese government to return to China. A year later, she received a letter from the Chinese Ministry of Education approving her return to China to teach, arranging for her to go to Peking University to teach first, and soon after, at the invitation of Mr. Li Jiye, she went to Nankai.
Since 1979, she has used her vacation to return to China to lecture every year. In 2013, due to his old age, he could no longer travel across the ocean, and decided to officially return to China and settle in Nankai.
In 1987, Ye Jiaying opened a series of lectures on Tang and Song dynasties in Nankai
She devoted her life to the teaching of classical poetry and received praise for "regenerating" classical poetry in contemporary times. On her 90th birthday, Wen Jiabao, former premier of the State Council, sent her a congratulatory letter, in which Wen Jiabao praised her for her pure heart, noble ambition, poetry gives people strength, and "how difficult, true and aesthetic life will educate future generations." ”
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Lines of poetry that comfort a lifetime
Mr. Ye said: "In fact, I have experienced a lot of suffering and misfortune in my life, but in the eyes of outsiders, I have always maintained an optimistic and calm attitude, which has a lot to do with my love of classical poetry. ”
"It is a great pity that some young people are now blinded by a momentary short-sighted utilitarianism and materialism and can no longer recognize the function of poetry in improving the human heart and quality. How to make up for this regrettable thing has been a big wish of mine over the years. ”
When he settled in Taiwan, her husband was imprisoned for ideological problems. Ye Jiaying held her young daughter in the living room of a friend's house and wrote down "Leftovers caress the daughter in her arms, and swallow tears late at night." For the sake of her father and two daughters who read, she worked hard to maintain the whole family and endured with great patience.
In 1956, he taught Sunday school in Taipei
Wang Anshi's "Picking Up the Cold Mountain" lifted her out of her misery. The phrase "All sentient beings create many karmas, and each has a chance to smoke" is like drinking with a stick. She told herself that she would kill the spiritual feeling completely, and if she killed it, she would no longer be bothered by it.
In 1969, Ye Jiaying and her father went to Harvard to teach poetry
In 1969, Ye Jiaying and her family moved to Vancouver, Canada. On March 24, 1976, the eldest daughter Yan Yan and her son-in-law Yongting died in a car accident at the same time, which once again dealt her a heavy blow. After taking care of the aftermath of her daughter and son-in-law, she closed the door, cried every day, and wrote 10 weeping poems.
"There have been several times in life, the wind and rain have forced people to come for a lifetime", "Weeping wu'er bowed down to mourn, what is the exhaustion of a lifetime", she lamented the unfairness of fate and reflected on the meaning of the life of labor.
After this difficulty, Ye Jiaying suddenly realized, "Building everything on a small family and a small self is not an ultimate pursuit and ideal. In 1978, she began applying to the Chinese government to return to China to teach.
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In this life, Xu Poetics
Ye Jiaying arranged the many names she had acquired in her life, such as scholars, teachers, and poets, saying that most of her life was spent teaching, so first of all teachers, and everything else was ranked behind.
"I was born to be a teacher." Ye Jiaying said. From graduating from college in 1945, she stood behind the podium for 70 years.
Jialing College, Nankai University
When she first returned to Nankai, Ye Jiaying spoke poetry during the day and speeches at night, and the hall was full of people. She wrote the sentence "Talk about poetry day and night, and all beings become obsessed with me."
Poetry is almost the whole of Ye Jiaying's life, especially now that she is alone in old age, lecturing young people has become the most willing thing she wants to do. Whenever someone invited, she gladly went. For more than 30 years, she has been invited to give lectures at dozens of universities in China, and has given hundreds of lectures on classical poetry.
When asked why, at such an advanced age, he insisted on promoting the recitation of ancient poems, Mr. Ye said: "Because I feel sorry for young people." In the past, I used to talk about criticism and appreciation in my classes, but I didn't teach chanting. After modern times, chanting was considered a decadent and lonely culture, and it was gradually not promoted. After leaving Taiwan, I felt it would be a pity if chanting was cut off. Without leaving an orthodox chant, I feel sorry for the next generation of students. ”
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In the language of music, teach the sons of the country
Ye Jiaying believes that chanting is an important form of inheriting classical Chinese poetry. The ancients paid attention to "chanting into writing", and ancient Chinese poetry began with chanting:
"Teach the sons of the country in the language of music, xing, Tao, irony, recitation, speech, and language." From the "Zhou Li", the music language is an important part of the aesthetic education of the children of the ancient nobility. From the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, our learning began with chanting. Chanting is an important way to learn classical poetry, and the experience it brings is the basis for a deep understanding of ancient poetry. ”
Ye Jiaying, who has lived abroad for many years, stressed that only China has chanting, and literature in other countries does not. English poems are recited, read aloud, and pronounced in light and heavy tones, but they are not recited in tune like this. So they translate chanting as chanting, which is not accurate because chanting is actually a Buddhist chant, unlike the chanting of poetry.
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When the poem is added to the rhythmic tone, it is not only better to remember, but also one step closer to the emotional world of the author.
For example, Li Bai has a small poem called "Remembering Qin'e", which we can read like this:
"Remembrance of Qin'e" | Li Bai
Yè, Qin E's dream breaks Qin Louyue.
Qin Louyue, annual willow color, Baling wound farewell (bie four sounds).
Leyouyuan Shangqing Autumn Festival (jie four sounds), Xianyang Ancient Road sound dust (jue four sounds).
Sound dust extinction (jue four sounds), west wind remnants, Han Family Lingque (que four sounds).
There is a woman in Qindi, she is on a small building, and when she wakes up at night, she misses this person." "Pharynx" is the sound of whimpering, the sound of blowing. "Every year when the willows are green, The baling hurts", every year when the willows are green, I think of the loved one who was sent away in Baling, and we bid farewell on the Baqiao.
Leyouyuan was a plateau south of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, and many people said that they could see the entire Chang'an City when they climbed Leyouyuan. "Leyouyuan Shangqing Autumn Festival (jie four sounds)", the miserable autumn festival on Leyouyuan has arrived again, "Xianyang Ancient Road Sound Dust (jue four sounds)", but the person I sent away, the person who walked from the Xianyang Ancient Road, the news was cut off.
What's left now? "The west wind is still shining, the Han family is lingering", only in the autumn wind, the sunset sun shines on the tower of Chang'an City.
This is a wonderful word of the Tang Dynasty, but this word is rhymed with sound, and it must be read in and out of the sound to convey its sadness and the beauty of the tone.
"A complete poem, it has the beauty of glyphs, sounds, and meanings, and you can't remove it from one aesthetic quality." Ye Jiaying, an expert on classical Chinese poetry, said.
Handwriting of Mr. Zhou Zumo
Today, the 96-year-old Mr. Ye is still working hard to make poetry enter the lives of more children and young people. Her greatest wish is to tell the next generation of young people about her experience of life in poetry, and to continue the tradition of Chinese chanting and pass on the true chanting to future generations.
"I want to leave the soon-to-be-lost chants to the world before I leave, to the true lovers of poetry."
Now, the audio column of Ye Jiaying's "Ye Jiaying's Poetry Lessons for the Chinese People" by classical poetry research scholar has been read online in the triptych!
Different from the simple reading of poems, Mr. Ye will systematically explain the method of poetry chanting, select 249 ancient poems of the Tang and Song Dynasties and 86 Yuanqu of the Song Dynasty, from the appreciation of the beauty of sound rhymes to the reading of the connotations of poetry, to complete our understanding of the true taste of the soul of poetry.