"Night Reading" National Day column
The last issue of "I Have a National Soldier, the World Is Unmatched",
In the name of Le Dai Yun,
Wish everyone:
What is said is as the strings are listenable, and what is done is like a dark dive,
The experience is like a cloud of beauty.
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In other words, who is Le Dai Yun?
Pioneers of the discipline of Comparative Chinese Literature,
Professor, Department of Chinese, Peking University,
It is a title that carries her lifelong love and pursuit.
90-year-old sir,
It is a sign of the length and thickness of her life from the depths of history.
Le DaiYun recent photo from "My Family, My Country"
Ji Xianlin used "strange woman" to describe her,
"She is still frank and frank, almost naïve;
Doing things is still drastic,
Never be shy, never make small moves...
A collar of green gangs, ten years of bench cold, a stay is a lifetime.
I think what is most needed in China today
It's this spirit, this bit of backbone. ”
02
Odd Woman,
"Odd" has been low-key for decades.
For Wang Ning, the host of "My Family and My Country",
It was a great honor to be able to interview Mr. Le Daiyun.
Like many of her media peers,
Wang Ning also ate the "closed door soup" here.
However, in order to invite Mr. Le to be interviewed,
It took her more than two months.
Sincere invitation text,
It's ready to be written as a short story.
In academia,
Le Dai Yun is notoriously reclusive,
The way to dive is her principle of being a human being that has remained unchanged for decades.
So Sir was very low-key and refused many reports for interviews.
03
"Odd" is surprisingly valuable in experience.
The life of Le Dai Yun,
Intersect with many modern and contemporary cultural celebrities,
Casually taking out an experience has aroused the envy of today's literary youth.
Reading her is also reading the style and bones of the literati of the past.
For example —
When Le Daiyun was studying at Peking University,
Among those who gave her lessons were Shen Congwen and the abolition of the name.
Because of an essay on the entrance exam "Light Rain",
Received Shen Congwen's praise as "a work from the heart",
She was transferred directly from the Department of Foreign Languages to the Department of Chinese.
She said that Mr. Shen has always been
Change our article word by word,
Get the praise of the gentleman, just like the holiday,
It was unforgettable for days.
1951 Le Daiyun University era
Le Daiyun has worked with Ji Xianlin and Qian Zhongshu,
When China's first comparative literature society was founded,
Ji Xianlin as the president, Qian Zhongshu as the consultant,
Le Daiyun is the secretary general, and she calls herself a pawn.
In her eyes, Mr. Ji is generous, benevolent and affectionate,
With an innocent child's heart,
But sometimes the move is jaw-dropping:
When the door is unlocked,
Mr. Ji, who is nearly 85 years old, did not think of calling for help.
Instead, he jumped down from the window sill nearly two meters high,
Complete the "Self-Help Miracle"!
Ji Xianlin and Le Dai Yun
And --
She has worked with economists, demographers,
Ma Yinchu, the old president of Peking University, has been a neighbor for many years.
Le DaiYun said that the most unforgettable thing is that
President Ma's deep concern for the destiny of the country and the nation,
He thinks all the time
The weakness of national strength and the poverty of the people.
Maybe many people don't know -
Le Daiyun's husband,
It is the important philosopher Yuichisuke,
A generation of academic masters, known as one of the "Harvard Three Masters"
Tang Yongtong is his father-in-law.
(The other two "Harvard Three Masters" are Wu Mi and Chen Yinke)
Young Le Dai Yun and Yu Yi Jie
In the impression of Le Dai Yun, Mr. Tang Lao
In any situation, it is quite Confucian,
It always reminded her of the warm and beautiful jade that the ancients said, "even if it is warm".
The mother-in-law is elegant and beautiful, especially patriotic,
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he donated all the gold and jewelry he had saved.
Mr. and Mrs. Tang are very fond of this filial daughter-in-law,
Saying that she was "a man with straight eyes and a blessed look!" ”
04
Le Daiyun, "National Treasure of Peking University".
Mr. Le,
"Odd" in her personal experience in the crowd of sages,
Also "odd" in her own legend.
1950 Lottie Cloud at the World Student Congress
Le Daiyun has participated in the Peking University Drama Art Society and the Folk Dance Club,
Because of academics and other talents are outstanding,
When he graduated that year, he almost became the secretary of the mayor of Beijing.
At the age of 19, as a delegate to the World Student Congress,
Visit the Red Flag Rolling Soviet Union,
The chances of that time made it possible for her to become a diplomat.
However, she chose to stay at Peking University to concentrate on her studies.
He has danced on a high place, and he has also sang at the bottom of the valley—
For more than ten years, several times in the decentralization of labor,
Le Daiyun worked as a pig, a guy, a donkey herder, and a bricklayer.
And she, every day, drives the piglets and sings in the mountains and forests;
When possible, take a small dictionary and memorize the words in the field.
"In the midst of the great waves, neither joy nor fear",
This is Ji Xianlin's motto, and she has reached such a state of mind.
Le Daiyun in front of the library of Peking University
What has never changed is --
Devoted to learning, love comparative literature.
It is often said that "everything is rested in middle age",
And for the 50-year-old Le Dai Yun, the literary cloud accumulated in the past,
is contributing to a pound-thin and colorful sunset,
It belongs to her life, and it also belongs to the cause of Chinese literature.
This year, during his visiting scholar at Harvard University,
A course called "Comparative Literature",
Let her be on "Chang Ming Guo Essence, Melt New Knowledge"
With a deeper understanding and touching the soul:
Le Dai Yun's greatest wish became,
Bring beautiful Chinese literature to the rest of the world,
Let the people of all countries appreciate the beautiful Chinese culture,
Learn about China.
Le Dai Yun is teaching European and American students
Deeds speak louder than words, and Le Daiyun is in front,
"Sound the gong to open the road and clean the venue",
Teach to write books, study rules, and from then on,
Peking university
With China's first comparative literature research institute;
China has its own Society of Comparative Literature;
There are one university after another in the country
Comparative Master of Arts, Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Training Programs;
Chinese scholars began to hold important positions in the International Society of Comparative Literature;
And Chinese comparative literature has also become the study of the entire humanities
an active and important discipline,
It has gradually gained influence in the world discipline.
The present recognized, comparative literature,
Le Dai Yun "both opens up the atmosphere and is also a teacher".
A collection of some of Le Dai Yun's books and books
This is a gift designed by students to celebrate her 80th birthday
05
When legend meets legend
In 1952, Le Dai Yun married Yu Yijie.
In the words of Mr. Le,
There are two more birds on the shore of the unnamed lake.
1952 Wedding photo of Yuichisuke and Lok Dai Yun
Can you imagine?
It has nothing to do with material things and commitments, only about the authenticity of love:
The two men's promises were a few small grasses.
Mr. Le remembers that it was the turn of spring and summer, and the sun was warm,
The subtle Yuichisuke picked a few small grasses and put them in her pocket,
"He never said anything like I love you,
But these little grasses are already very moving,
At least with the feeling of agreeing with each other. ”
Mr. Tang has always recalled, or emotional,
"I really appreciate her reasons,
It's that she's very engaged in her work and passionate about everything she does.
She was so moving, so passionate. ”
Mr. Tang is polite and elegant, Mr. Le is straightforward,
The two complement each other's personalities and are intoxicated with academics together.
There have also been strong winds and waves, and there have also been meat and vegetables.
It's a little different from most people's view of marriage and love.
Mr. Le shared the secret of long-term marriage as,
"It's about keeping the difference.
Don't try to erase the difference,
It's the same for both of them, and that's not possible.
Then there will be no difference, no characteristics.
There is no difference in life, especially no taste. ”
"Special taste" has been mixed with each other for sixty years,
In 2014, Mr. Tang passed away,
The unnamed lakeside gods and immortals were scattered.
Their love: love for a lifetime, or too short.
"Odd Woman" advice to women
Professor He Guimei of the Department of Chinese of Peking University said,
Le Dai Yun is a symbol of a generation of Chinese intellectuals,
The symbol of a generation of Peking University people is also a symbol of a generation of Chinese women.
1988 Lottieyun and her friends Caroline and Wina in Boston
What kind of traits do women need to have,
Can she be happy?
Riding the waves in the flood of history, with a generous smile,
Le Dai Yun gently gives women happiness,
Made the simplest annotation - independence,
"You should have your own opinion, you don't live on others."
"Including educating children."
"Why not?" In the face of the unknown,
Le Dai Yun often asked young students this way,
She herself is more like a young man who dares to think and dare to do.
She is not in favor of the traditional "male outside the female protagonist",
"It is still 'outside the common master, inside the common master', which is more reasonable."
Mr. Le laughed and said that his pursuit of independence is like a mother,
"More brave, more resolute".
1933 Two-year-old Le Dai Yun with her mother
Yes, ninety years,
She did not pride herself on being rich,
Have not been complacent with Peking University honors students,
I have not boasted about being a "student of Ji Xianlin",
Never belittled by "Yuichisuke's lover",
She, who had only done her, was as beautiful as her name.
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Odd woman, odd in the "pattern".
Wang Ning, the host of "My Family, My Country"
In this way, I shared my feelings after the interview:
The most intuitive shock that Mr. Le Daiyun gave me was the great energy in her small body. She shouldered the banner of comparative literature at home and abroad, and as an important sage force in the world, she called for the understanding and symbiosis of different cultures and avoided catastrophic cultural and armed conflicts. For decades, he has devoted himself to the connection of Chinese roots to global genealogies.
She thinks about big questions: how to gather the internal cohesion of the people, and how to use words that the world can understand to spread Chinese wisdom and tell cultural self-confidence. She not only finds problems, but also strives to put them in a wider world, seeking the closest to the right end.
She cares about the little people: using the benevolence of Daji to broaden the thickness of intellectuals' critical consciousness, and using non-sleek empathy and angular practice to accommodate the width of personal destiny and the development of the times.
Condensed odd woman Le Dai Yun's life, she,
Strange in extraordinary experience, strange in learning,
Odd in the concept of superiority, odd in the mastery of the truth,
Even more peculiar in her as a woman,
A "pattern" of Chinese intellectuals.
Not confined to triviality, not attached to fame and fortune,
She takes the big picture of the nation, the country, the history, and the world.
Come to jingwei's own life,
The foothold is concrete and vivid,
So, every step is moving,
Step by step, become a legend.
In the name of Mr. Le Dai Yun,
Once again, I wish you:
Wen 丨 CCTV News "Night Reading"
The information refers to the "My Family and My Country" program of 丨 Main Station and the handwriting of the host Wang Ning
Ninety Years of Vicissitudes: My Literary Path (by Le Daiyun)
Illustration | Synthesized from the program "My Family, My Country", Peking University
Cover art | Visual China
Producer 丨 Ma Wenjia Editor 丨 Wang Ruolu