Author: Lao Tan, Source: Tang Poetry song poetry ancient poems (ID: tsgsc8)
Probably no one would have expected that poetry lovers would have a place in the cinema. The smoke of the National Day Golden Week has passed, and when everything is silent, it may be the last chinese poet to quietly walk on the screen.
Recently, a documentary called "Water Moon in Hand" was released, telling the story of Contemporary poetry ye Jiaying.
In the era when traffic is king, it seems that no one wants to pay attention to an old man who is "old because of ugliness", even if this old man has maintained throughout his life, is the most precious treasure in China.
Mr. Ye Jiaying once said: "The good things I know have not been passed down, and I am sorry for the ancients, and I am sorry for the comers." ”
This "good thing" is traditional poetry. Elder Ye spent his whole life waiting, preaching, and carrying forward, which was a morality only possessed by the gentlemen of the ancients, and poetry was like a beautiful person who had left his ancestors alone, "If there is a person who is on the side of the heavens, he is loyal to the clothes and believes in the clothes." ”
Because of this, Ye Jiaying deserves the title of "Sir". In modern China, there are only a few people, such as Song Qingling, Lin Huiyin, Yang Dai, and others, who are still alive, only Ye Jiaying.
Today, sir is also ninety-six. In the middle of summer in 1924, the city that was still called Beiping at that time gave birth to a baby girl.
When the baby girl was born, there was no strange phenomenon in the heavens, but the lotus flower just opened at that time, and when the wind swung the lotus leaf, the baby's first cry also spread. The parents decided to call the baby's breast name "Lotus".
▲ Ye Jiaying and her brothers' childhood group photo
To be able to live in such a family, Holl is lucky enough. Her family is very prominent, its ancestors are the Mongolian Yehenara clan, in modern Chinese history, the Yehe family has emerged two celebrities, one is Cixi, the second is the most famous Manchu Qing poet, there is no one, his name is Naran Zhide.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, He'er's grandfather simplified the family name to "Ye", and then he gave his granddaughter a scientific name, that is, Jiaying.
The Ye family ancestors have been readers for generations, which can be called a family of scholars, thanks to which Ye Jiaying can get a good education.
Li Qingzhao and her husband Zhao Mingcheng have the story of "gambling books and pouring tea" passed down through the generations. Ye Jiaying's parents also respected each other, her father often recited ancient poems loudly in the courtyard, and her mother lived in the boudoir, holding books in her hands and singing in a shallow voice.
Since childhood, how could Ye Jiaying not love ancient poetry?
When she was three years old, her father began to teach Xiao Jiaying to read and write, and her grandfather was an old-fashioned and old-fashioned scholar who opposed women entering the new-style school, so he specially hired a tutor for the children to teach ancient classics such as the Analects.
Ye Jiaying's tutor is her aunt. In the academy, they wanted to teach the gift of life, and on the day of enlightenment, Ye Jiaying also prostrated to Confucius's tablet, Jiaying was a quiet and obedient woman, and she was not tired of such red tape.
The Dao Dao was always illusory, and although she could skillfully recite the entire analects of the Analects, she was young, but she did not understand its meaning. But the Analects are like a pot of fine wine, and when the time comes, the aroma is fully revealed. Ye Jiaying later said that the profound philosophy and wisdom contained in the Analects, including the discourse on poetry, had a profound impact on her writing and lecturing.
In addition to schoolwork, Ye Jiaying was also obsessed with poetry, and her grandfather encouraged her to write some small poems. Ye Jiaying began to compose poems at the age of 11, and the earliest surviving poem today is "Autumn Butterfly", which she wrote when she was 15 years old:
Several times it was difficult to fly, and the evening wind flipped the dance list.
Three autumns and one sleep, solemn dreams, full of new frost and cold moon.
This little poem is fresh and elegant, without the sentimentality of a little girl. Today, professors in Chinese departments are also difficult to write.
Before the founding of New China, the illiteracy rate in Our country was as high as 80%, but all those who could read and hyphenate had good knowledge. The Chinese script, which has been passed down to today, is more of a tool and has lost the attribute of a great power.com. This is due to the progress of the times, and it is also the sadness of the times.
From the beginning of the first poem, Ye Jiaying's poetry road has been broadened, 18 years old is her most prolific year of creation, it is the year she wrote more than 40 poems, you know, so far, Ye Lao has a total of more than 500 poems passed down.
In 1941, at the time of the Japanese chaos in China, in the middle of the summer of that year, Ye Jiaying applied for the Department of Chinese Literature of Peking Fu Jen University. One of the most important reasons she chose this university was that Fu Jen University was a church university and was not controlled by the Japanese.
Ye Jiaying's final ability to take poetry as her own business seems to be in the dark, and she is destined to be destined.
Fate, however, gave her a slap in the face at this time. Just when Ye Jiaying started school in September, her mother died of uterine cancer.
At that time, Ye Jiaying was only 17 years old, such as the age of flowers, how could she withstand the parting of life and death? At that time, his father was not around, and there were two younger brothers in the family. Fortunately, her uncle's family was still there, and they shared the pressure for Ye Jiaying and told her to concentrate on studying.
Some people can share the pressure of life; who can tell the pain of losing their mother?
Poetry can be. When the wanderer who left home returned home, he found that the old mother of Gaotang had become ancient, and there was nowhere to express his fist and filial piety, and he could only pin his hopes on poetry, crying word by word, and tears by blood:
Night rain Xiaoxiang lights dim, Qingming season bird sound,
The wounded soul is the most family thousands of miles, and the tears look at the high hall less than one person.
It was the old work of the Tang Dynasty, and Ye Wanying probably felt that the story that had lasted for a thousand years seemed to happen in front of her eyes, and the power of empathy was the most powerful. She also imitated the ancients, sprinkling out the "Eight Poems of the Weeping Mother":
Originally a pearl palm upper body, it is now haggard and dusty.
Desolate and unsent, paper-cutting summons the mother.
Fate is the most joking, taking away her mother and giving her a good teacher. In the fall of 1942, Ye Jiaying entered her sophomore year, and that semester, he met a Chinese language teacher who taught "Tang and Song poetry."
▲ Ye Jiaying (second from right) and teacher Gu Sui and classmates take a group photo
The teacher's name is Gu Sui, self-proclaimed Bitter Water, Mr. Gu Sui has learned a lot, the subset of classical history includes Zen, he is widely involved, and he also has a lot of research on Western scholarship, and in the literati circle at that time, the name of "Bitter Water Word Man" was known to almost everyone.
At that time, the professors were able to give lectures that were not limited to the teaching materials, and they could play more freely and freely. In the past, Chen Yinke, the "master of traditional Chinese studies," never brought teaching materials to class, but when he went to class, he learned from the side, and even had the principle of "three no's" circulating in the rivers and lakes.
The same is true of Gu Sui's lectures, he often improvises in the classroom, touches the class and bypasses, talks about the poetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties, never deeply investigates the poetry one by one, but cuts to the heart of poetry. But gu sui rarely talked about the knowledge that could be found in the books, but what he really spent effort on talking about was the exquisite words of poetry that he could understand and understand.
At that time, students did not have the habit of taking notes in class, and Ye Jiaying took notes every time she went to class, and never let go of a word. Because of this, Gu Sui university asked questions, in order to be retained.
Gu Sui was also deeply pleased to be able to meet such a student, and in his letter to Ye Jiaying, the teacher sincerely wrote: "If there is a law to pass on in bitter water, as of today, all the laws have been fulfilled." ”
This is a teacher, giving students the highest evaluation, a lifetime can have such a teacher-student friendship, Gu Sui himself can also smile at the Nine Springs.
Ye Jiaying's life was originally a life of upheaval and displacement. After graduating from college, she began a new life, and suffering, pain and wandering were the main themes of her later life.
Mr. Ye is well versed in the love of children in ancient poetry and envies the classic talents and beauties, but she has never really fallen in love in her life.
Just like the most traditional Chinese woman, her life is never chosen by herself. I know my husband; I live in the south to Taiwan; I am imprisoned by the white terror; I have given birth to and raised two daughters, and I am busy cooking and miscellaneous work; my family moves to Canada, my husband does not work, my father is old, my daughter is still young, and everything depends on Ye Jiaying's independent support.
Every step is a forced choice, related to the general trend of society, connected with the pulse of the times, but has nothing to do with oneself.
Regarding the various tribulations, the author is willing to brush them over. Life is hard, but she has a loving mother, a mentor and a daughter, and in a foreign country, she also has poetry as a companion. Needless to say, the focus of her work is to tell the beauty of poetry to those foreign students.
Ye Jiaying never thought that she was a strong person in life, she was not a great talent in the world, and what Mr. Ye upheld was the "beauty of weak morality". As a human being, deeply in suffering, we must also have some perseverance and persistence.
Although living in the 21st century, Mr. Ye has the virtue of an ancient gentleman, and when she becomes famous, her first thought is to scatter her family wealth, return to her homeland, and use her own meager efforts to promote poetry.
Because she knew that the ten fingers were fiddling with the blue waves, holding up a pool of clear water in the pond of the homeland, the bright moon in her hometown would be reflected in the palm of her hand.
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