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He studied ancient poetry at the age of 5, published a personal poetry collection at the age of 10, was admitted to Peking University at the age of 14, and was promoted to the youngest professor of Harvard history at the age of 35.
Former US President George W. Bush couldn't bear to admire: she is really a great Chinese talent!
At the age of 28, she married her husband who was 25 years older than her "ancient Chinese poems", how did she live later?
They all say that she is a "Harvard legend"
Tian Xiaofei, a talent who was fought for by Harvard University and Princeton University in the United States because of her talent, olive branches everywhere, praise everywhere, in the American literary circle in 2005, everyone knew that there was a talented woman in China.
Speaking of Tian Xiaofei's relationship with literature, it is inseparable from her parents' education.
Tian Xiaofei's parents are actually literary workers, and the influence of work makes Tian Xiaofei particularly sensitive to words, and at the age of 5, he opened his mind to poetry and felt the joy of writing poetry.
And every weekend, in this family soaked in the atmosphere of words, the poetry competition has also become a family fun, and it is also in this kind of training that Tian Xiaofei's understanding of poetry has become more and more thorough.
Ten-year-old Tian Xiaofei published a personal poetry collection, and the title of "talented girl" began to enter Tian Xiaofei's life because of this ten-year-old personal poetry collection.
is probably due to talent, Tian Xiaofei's talent is amazing all the way on the way to study.
In 1985, 14-year-old Tian Xiaofei passed the strict interview of Peking University.
became famous at a young age, and entered Peking University at the age of 14, and Tian Xiaofei's label naturally changed from a "talented girl" to a "prodigy".
There are applause and flowers everywhere, but Tian Xiaofei doesn't care too much about the name of the outside world, but has her own small world.
Tian Xiaofei's world is full of literature, especially poetry, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book, who forgets to sleep and eat, and it is difficult to distinguish between books.
Tian Xiaofei, who entered Peking University at the age of fourteen, is still a minor, and an article "Thirteen-year-old Encounter" is a gift from Tian Xiaofei to the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the campus of Peking University, and it has also become a coronation of Tian Xiaofei's talented female label.
The talent is always the same, and this article was later included in domestic middle school textbooks.
Tian Xiaofei graduated from Peking University in 1989, but how could Tian Xiaofei, who is still eager for knowledge, stop herself, go out to study, go out to collect style, to see the bigger world, and to seek the collision between words.
Tian Xiaofei came to the United States, but who would have thought that this young girl, who was first unpopular when she came to the United States, would become a sensation in the American literary circle in 2005?
The youngest professor of history at Harvard
Others are eighteen years old and in the first year of college, but Tian Xiaofei happened to graduate from college in four years, and Tian Xiaofei's life can be expected to fill Tian Xiaofei's life in the future.
Reading poetry and being a Chinese face, Tian Xiaofei has a self-contained elegant temperament, which is amazing when Tian Xiaofei is familiar with Chinese culture, Tian Xiaofei met a fanatical "China fan".
Yuwen Suoan.
It sounds like a Chinese name, but it's actually a professor at Harvard, who loves Chinese culture, so he named himself Yuwen Suo'an.
And the encounter between the two is also quite a glimpse of "everyone is looking for her thousands of times, and suddenly looking back at the person is in the lamplight".
Tian Xiaofei loves poetry, and when she wrote "Two yellow orioles singing green willows, a line of egrets in the sky" at Harvard, the man in the crowd who suddenly faced the upper and lower half of the poems was Yuwen Suo'an.
It is also because of this that the two met, at this time, Yuwen Suo'an is a professor, Tian Xiaofei is a student, and the two did not have a friendship beyond the teacher-student relationship, but cherished each other as rare bosom friends.
From Li Bai to Du Fu, from Bai Juyi to Ouyang Xiu, from the Tang and Song dynasties to the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, in short, as long as it comes to ancient Chinese poetry, the two have a harmonious conversation.
However, Tian Xiaofei is about to graduate and will eventually leave Harvard, but Yuwen Suoan bluntly said that he fell in love with this talented Chinese girl.
But in Tian Xiaofei's view, marriage is not child's play, and Tian Xiaofei chose to refuse.
Only when the two met because of ancient poems, the two only used their mailboxes to send messages to each other, and it was also at this time that Yuwen Suo'an was more sure that he was more in love with Tian Xiaofei.
rewrote an ancient poem to express his love to Tian Xiaofei, and in January 1999, the two officially held a wedding in New York, USA.
After marriage, the two continued to use poetry as a companion, exchanging their thoughts and feelings about poetry through the mailbox every day, and their lives were about each other and academic research.
But in the end, one worked in Boston and the other worked in New York, Tian Xiaofei began to apply for a lecturer at Harvard, and the two basically did not think about having children, and in their opinion, working 10-12 hours a day can make a day not be wasted.
The cultivation of literary literacy, the collection of styles everywhere, and the collision between Tian Xiaofei's years of attainments and Western culture have made her have her own unique style in literary research.
In 2005, Tian Xiaofei's work "Ochre City" caused a sensation in the entire American literary circle.
In 2005, Tian Xiaofei was admitted to Harvard as an associate professor.
Just after being promoted to associate professor, many universities in the United States are still willing to extend an olive branch to Tian Xiaowei, and Princeton University in the United States even threatened that as long as Tian Xiaofei is willing to come, she can be called a tenured professor and given a particularly rich annual salary reward.
Tian Xiaofei has become a celebrity in the American literary circle, and everyone knows that there is a writer with a Chinese face who has set off a trend in the literary circle.
At the same time, "Chinese culture" has become a favorite in Western literary circles, and in 2008, Tian Xiaofei opened lectures everywhere to promote Chinese culture.
is still on the road of promoting Chinese culture, and Yuwen Suo'an, a fanatical "China fan", is Tian Xiaofei's best helper.
In December 2023, Tian Xiaofei was interviewed by domestic media to explore the mixing of "Eastern" and "Western" cultures, as a professor of Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Studies at Harvard University, Tian Xiaofei has done too much to spread Chinese culture.
With Chinese faces, Chinese literature, sweeping the Western market, in Tian Xiaofei's view, the outside world evaluates himself as a "first-class scholar", but Tian Xiaofei is particularly modest, in his view: first-class scholars are a lifelong thing, and in a few years, a book cannot represent anything.
Continuing to devote herself to literary research is Tian Xiaofei's pursuit, and now Tian Xiaofei is fifty-three years old, and Yuwen Suo'an around her is a common devotee on her literary road.
Resources:
The Harvard Legend of a Talented Woman, Procuratorial Situation, CNKI
Tian Xiaofei: A first-class scholar is a lifelong scholar - China Business News, CNKI
Interview with Tian Xiaofei: Throughout history, "Eastern" or "Western" cultures are the result of mixed hybridization - The Paper