In recent years, a clear stream has suddenly emerged in various entertainment industry gossip, and a hot search of "Ye Jiaying's naked donation of 35.68 million yuan" has exploded the circle of friends, Weibo and other major news media, which has also made a low-key old man suddenly catch fire overnight.
Who is she? Why is it so rich? Why donate? Why Donate Naked?
01 A talented woman soaked in the fragrance of books
In July 1924, Ye Jiaying was born in a family of scholars, her father and grandfather both graduated from well-known universities, and her mother also came from a family of scholars, graduated from Normal University, and children born in such a family were destined to be friends with books.
When Ye Jiaying was three years old, her parents asked her to learn cultural knowledge by recognizing and endorsing words, and from the age of six she studied the Analects with her tutor, and at the age of nine, she was taken to the school by her father to study, and was successfully admitted to Duzhi Primary School. Ye Jiaying's love for poetry has been traceable since this time, and her subsequent success is inseparable from the tireless teaching of her parents and family.
She accepted the good traditional Chinese culture, the influence of the excellent environment and the strong interest in poetry, prompting her to write her own poems and fill in words around the age of ten. A year later, she was admitted to Beiping Girls' High School.
In 1941, at the age of 17, Ye Jiaying was successfully admitted to the Chinese Literature Department of Fu Jen University, specializing in classical literature, which was not easy in the era at that time, and how many people longed for it.
At the age of 17, she is in her youth, beautiful years, young and vigorous, always full of infinite interest and enthusiasm for ancient poetry, loving ancient poetry is like loving life, ancient poetry makes her full of spirit, so that she can not forget for a long time.
But the weather was unpredictable, her father broke off contact with his family because of the war, her mother was too sad to be hospitalized due to illness, and unfortunately infected with complications during surgery, and she could not rest assured of her child during the hospitalization.
Insisting on going home to take care of the children, but unfortunately died on the train, Ye Jiaying did not even see the last side of her mother, and the death of her mother became an irreparable regret in Ye Jiaying's life.
After the death of her mother, she was full of grief, and since then, she has been in pain every time she thinks about it, and she has to endure her grief and write eight "Weeping Mother Poems" in succession to mourn her late mother. After that, she chose to live with her uncle, aunt and two younger brothers.
At that time, the situation was not good, there was turmoil everywhere, she had the help of her aunt to continue to go to college, she was sent by the society that was not happy at that time, and her patriotism was burning.
02 Talk only about poetry and not about love
Ye Jiaying loves poetry to the point of obsession, she can go a day without eating but not reading poetry for a day. She is talented, can export chapters at any time, and the poetry is wonderful, and every poem she writes is a sense of truth, and every sentence is moving.
In her world, ancient poetry is the most beautiful thing, and she is the follower of ancient poetry throughout her life.
She swims in the ocean of ancient poetry, she loves it incomparably, her heart is full and plump, and Ye Jiaying, who is immersed in the poetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties, knows her mentor, Gu Sui.
Ye Jiaying's master Gu Sui's study of poetry is very thorough, and his achievements in classical poetry are very high, coupled with the similarities between his and Ye Jiaying's experiences, so the two masters and apprentices see each other and hate each other late, and they are particularly close to each other, and they spend all day exploring classical poetry and praising the subtlety of ancient poetry.
Gu Sui
When Ye Jiaying was in school, she often went to listen to Gu Sui's classes, and even after graduation, she would still rub the teacher's class from time to time. Ye Jiaying is extremely serious about poetry, and Gu Sui's knowledge about poetry will be carefully recorded word for word, so as not to be overlooked. Gu Sui is also a mentor and friend of Ye Jiaying, and he often praises Ye Jiaying, saying that she is a genius in poetry.
During her life and study at Fu Jen University, Ye Jiaying was always alone, her life was very simple, there was nothing but poetry, and she was also very satisfied with such a life. Although Ye Jiaying has always been alone, there are still many boys who are attracted to her.
Fu Jen University
Ye Jiaying is delicate in appearance, outstanding in temperament, talented and unique, many boys write to her, she has not read or replied to a letter, her cousin once said that she is too self-sufficient, she never cared about these small love, but replied: "As long as there is the company of poetry, I will be satisfied."
Ye Jiaying did not care a little about the outside world and the love between men and women, did not talk about a love affair, she was fully engaged in poetry, as if time was dedicated to ancient poetry.
However, everything came so unexpectedly, just when Ye Jiaying felt that she was accompanied by poetry all her life, the people around him introduced him to an object, the appearance of this person, rewriting the fate of Ye Jiaying's life, he was - Zhao Zhongsun.
Zhao Zhongsun had seen Ye Jiaying's photo and was deeply attracted to her. He exhausted his pursuit of Ye Jiaying, but even so, Ye Jiaying still did not have the slightest feeling for him.
He did not give up, stalked Ye Jiaying, even if he was transferred to Shandong for work reasons later, he did not give up the pursuit of Ye Jiaying, although the road from Shandong to Beijing was far away, Zhao Zhongsun would still secretly run to see Ye Jiaying, but Ye Jiaying was still unmoved, or insisted on only being with poetry for life.
"I may not have a job anymore". One day, Zhao Zhongsun suddenly came back to find Ye Jiaying and said. Ye Jiaying asked him why, and he didn't answer either, but just bowed his head and was silent. Ye Jiaying wondered if it would be because she ran back and forth to see herself and did not have a job, Ye Jiaying felt extremely guilty about it, and she blamed the reason on the delay in his work because he came to find himself.
Therefore, later, when Zhao Zhongsun proposed to her, she did not refuse. In fact, Ye Jiaying's heart is more out of self-blame and guilt for the man in front of her, and nothing else.
In 1948, Ye Jiaying was about to get married, and this sudden situation also cut off the relationship between master and apprentice. Her husband was from Nanjing, so in the winter, she and her husband went to Nanjing together, and it was this parting, and Ye Jiaying never saw her mentor again.
After living in Nanjing for a while, she moved to Taiwan with her husband, where she lived for nearly two decades.
At that time, Ye Jiaying was only 24 years old, and she still wanted to settle down and go to see her mentor Gu Sui, but her life in Taiwan was not peaceful, and she spent an extremely difficult time.
03 Flying misfortune
Because of Zhao Zhongsun's special status, he was arrested and imprisoned, and his wife was also dragged into the water.
At first, Ye Jiaying was going to be imprisoned in Taiwan, but in this way she would be separated from her younger daughter, and Ye Jiaying would not give up.
"I'm just a woman, with poor children, my husband is imprisoned, the children will starve to death sooner or later without relatives and for no reason, you will keep me here, I will not run away" Ye Jiaying pleaded bitterly to the police chief, perhaps the police chief was touched by the mother-daughter love in front of him, and finally agreed to Ye Jiaying's request.
Ye Jiaying was released from prison before her husband, and after she was released from prison, she had to take her infant daughter alone to seek a livelihood, but the vast Taiwan did not have a place for Ye Jiaying's mother and daughter.
When Ye Jiaying was worried about her livelihood, she remembered that Zhao Zhongsun had a distant relative that she might be able to rely on, so She had to take her child to seek help.
I didn't think that Zhao Zhongsun's relatives and family had a very difficult time, Ye Jiaying could only live in a narrow corridor with her children, but even so, Ye Jiaying was also very grateful to have a place to stay in this vast world.
After sending people to the fence for three years, Ye Jiaying finally waited for her husband, and she thought that she could have someone to rely on in the days to come, but at this time, Zhao Zhongsun was no longer the same as he was then.
No one knows what happened to Zhao Zhongsun in prison, after he was released from prison, his temperament changed greatly, his mood was very unstable, he often beat up Ye Jiaying without a word, Ye Jiaying had to go to school to teach during the day, and he had to come back at night to face the grumpy Zhao Zhongsun, and life was very difficult.
Due to the long-term physical and mental injuries, Ye Jiaying suffered from asthma at a young age, and after each overwork, her chest hurt like a pinprick, Zhao Zhongsun did not consider his wife at all, but has always blamed, but in such a family environment, Ye Jiaying's second daughter was born, and Zhao Zhongsun, who favored sons over daughters, became even more intense.
Ye Jiaying never thought that she would live such a "dark" day, and sometimes she would wonder if she would not be so tired when she left this world from now on, but when she thought of her two young daughters, she decided to live strongly.
04 Naked donations, revival of poetry
If the two daughters are the hope of Ye Jiaying's life, then poetry is the spiritual food for Ye Jiaying to live.
Ye Jiaying likes to write poetry, more like to teach and educate people, she once said, "I have been teaching and educating people for seventy years in my life, this is the only job I like to do, if there is a future life, I hope I can still become a teacher, teach students classical poetry", this is Ye Jiaying's favorite career, but also the basis for maintaining her livelihood.
Because Ye Jiaying's classes are so well received, many other local universities want to invite Ye Jiaying to teach.
Not only that, Ye Jiaying even received an invitation from the TV station to give a public lecture on the TV station, which shows that Ye Jiaying's lectures have her unique charm, and even her grumpy husband has changed his attitude in the past and proposed to watch Ye Jiaying's lectures with his daughter next time.
In 1976, Ye Jiaying's daughter unfortunately passed away, and Ye Jiaying, who had passed middle age, endured the grief of her widow and wrote ten "Weeping Women's Poems" to mourn, and she thought of a sentence once said by her mentor Gu Sui: "People should do a life cause with the consciousness of lifelessness, and live an optimistic life with a pessimistic mentality." So she became strong and took care of her daughter's affairs alone.
"Losing her mother in early years, meeting people in middle age is unladylike, and widowing her daughter in her twilight years", it can be said that Ye Jiaying's life is full of misfortune, and she finds that it is time to return to her homeland.
At the end of the seventieth century, Ye Jiaying resolutely submitted an application and chose to return to the mainland to live, of course, she still chose the teaching career she loved, but this time, she did not take anything.
As long as Ye Jiaying starts the class, even if the students squeeze their heads, they also want to go in to listen to the class, the school in order to control the number of people also specially distributed the class card, requiring students to hold the certificate to class, some students played a little clever, actually printed a fake certificate to go to class, Ye Jiaying cried and laughed after hearing it.
Ye Jiaying said that she had never been in love in her life, and she had never experienced true love, she obsessively loved ancient poetry, as if life and poetry were linked, perhaps, Ye Jiaying thought more and thought about it more, and she would not get married, and there would be no prison disaster behind.
However, in the future, this kind of thing is her own grasp of it, she has created a brilliant life in suffering, poured her pain and sorrow and happiness into poetry, and thus, the poems in her pen have become vivid and emotional. Poetry gave her the strength to start a wise life.
Some people will say that if you are alone, are you not lonely?
I think that for Mr. Ye Jiaying, those things that are already external are not important, she has ancient poetry in her heart, she is surrounded by Chinese classics, and her heart is full and abundant. In her you can see a kind of inheritance of the times, a kind of beauty precipitated by time.
Ye Jiaying not only teaches without pay, she also spends all her life savings on studying traditional culture.
In June 2018, Ye Jiaying donated 18.57 million yuan to the Nankai University Education Foundation, and in May 2019, Ye Jiaying donated another 17.11 million yuan.
Ye Jiaying gave a speech in Nankai
"Ye Jiaying naked donation 35.68 million" for a while this topic on the hot search, a number of media scrambled to interview Ye Jiaying, at first Ye Jiaying refused one by one, she donated not for fame and fortune, naturally will not care about these heat, but the people around her persuaded her to try to accept interviews, so as to promote China's excellent traditional culture, Ye Jiaying after careful consideration, this only agreed to the CCTV news "Face to Face" interview.
In the interview, the reporter asked: "At that time, you chose to donate a huge amount of money, did you think that it would cause such a high degree of heat now"? Ye Jiaying smiled lightly and said, "I donated it, I didn't expect this news to be exposed." Looking up and catching a glimpse of the materials prepared by the reporter for the interview, he said: "I want to come today to teach literature, and it seems that you are not interested in literature."
Yes, in this impetuous society, who else can be like Mr. Ye's literati bones, today, Mr. Ye Jiaying still adheres to the inheritance of ancient poetry, and looks for the spirit that fits this era in ancient poetry. She wanted the ancient poems to be passed on continuously.
When many people only pay attention to the huge amount of money donated by Ye Jiaying, Ye Jiaying only cares about learning, and this old man donated half of his life's wealth, but he was alone.
Living a life of coarse tea and light rice, the clothes are torn, you can still wear it with needle and thread, and the three meals are just some rice, green vegetables, steamed buns, etc., there is no big fish and meat, it is so light and light, but she has eaten half a life and done half a life.
Ye Jiaying never cares about these small things, what she cares about is the decline of traditional Chinese culture, even if Ye Jiaying is now older, but she still loves ancient poetry as much as she did when she was young, she will teach all what she has learned, seen and heard to future generations without reservation, she said, as long as there is such a person will hear, will be moved, and will be satisfied.
In 2020, the 96-year-old Ye Jiaying stepped on the podium that touched China: "Peach and plum are all over the world, inheriting a family, you discover the secrets of poetry, people sigh at your legend, you are the son of poetry, you are a gentleman of elegance" This is Ye Jiaying's award speech when she moved China to win the award, and this sentence also summarizes Ye Jiaying's life.
When receiving the award, Ye Jiaying said, "I have been teaching all my life, I have nothing to do except to become a teacher, and the next thing I can do is to pass on the literary creations such as classical poetry, words, and songs, and preserve the beautiful inheritance of our nation." ”
In the program "Readers", CCTV host Dong Qing once described her like this: "She is a white-haired gentleman, she is a child of poetry, she is a disseminator of excellent traditional culture, and she is also a guide for many young people to the world of poetry." Ye Jiaying has taught tens of thousands of students, but no matter how successful they are today, Ye Jiaying has always been an amiable and admirable "Mr. Ye" in their hearts.
How many times can a person be young in his life? Ye Jiaying dedicated her youth to her lover, to her children, to ancient poetry, to traditional culture, but never to herself.
Throughout Ye Jiaying's life, it can be said that she is unfortunate, but at the same time she is also lucky. Fortunately, she found the career she loved all her life, achieved great achievements, and became the guiding light for many young people who loved literature, unfortunately, her life was too bumpy, she was always alone and strong, and no one could rely on her.
To this day, the 97-year-old Ye Jiaying still remembers the teachings of her mentor in doing a "life cause", although she has never been kind to her in the past years, she still uses all her efforts to repay the world.
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