Ye Jiaying: I have been teaching in China for 40 years, but I haven't left any savings. I am willing to stay poor and keep company with ancient poetry. What happened afterwards?

A rich nature, if you don't feed other hungry people, you will wither. -romain rolland

Some people, in a limited time, release unlimited greed, and finally accomplish nothing and leave in a daze; Some people, in a very short period of time, use all their abilities to help others and bloom themselves like fireworks. When she is about to say goodbye to this world, although the cumin is exhausted, it can leave a lasting fragrance.

She is the kind of person who is willing to sacrifice herself for others. Her early life was bumpy, and after a slight improvement, she began to return to the embrace of the motherland. Over the past 40 years, she has donated her life savings of 35.68 million yuan to strangers, but she is willing to remain uncorrupted and have no worries about food and clothing.

Give everything to make the world a better place.

On June 3rd, 20 18, Nankai University, a famous university in China, was holding the 6th Board Meeting of Alumni Association and the 5th Global Forum of Presidents of Nankai Alumni Association. In this activity, many alumni who have left Nankai University for many years will not only come back to miss the campus, but also do what they can for the school.

For example, Ye Jiaying, a female teacher who has been teaching in Nankai University for many years, generously donated18.57 million RMB in this activity. It is used to support Nankai University Education Foundation to set up Jialing Fund and provide some research funds for its teachers and students.

More than that, from 2065438 to May 2009, she donated RMB1710/10,000 to Nankai University again, plus the previous donation, a * * * donated RMB 35.68 million to Nankai University.

What is even more touching is that Ye Jiaying's donation is not a part of her wealth like many rich people, but her life savings. Before donating, she collected all her manuscript fees, salary and real estate savings, and then donated them in two installments.

You know, the wealth of 35.68 million yuan is enough for a person to live a carefree life, even extravagant food and clothing. But she resolutely gave everything she had and donated her wealth to so many strangers she didn't know. What a broad and open mind it is, and how much selfless dedication it contains.

Ben is the proud son of a scholarly family.

Ye Jiaying, a Beijinger, 1924 was born in a scholarly family in July, and he was immersed in a rich atmosphere of scholarly prose since he was a child. Because parents and relatives are extremely knowledgeable, they decided to let Ye Jiaying go to a "private school" at home.

Although at home, Ye Jiaying lives in a "closed management" private school, which is 100 times stricter than at school. While others are playing games and frolicking in the yard, Ye Jiaying must do his homework and write poems under the strict supervision of his parents. For a child, such a childhood is undoubtedly boring, but it is enviable.

Of course, it is precisely because of her parents' unique and strict training that Ye Jiaying laid the foundation for her poetic career, which made her far superior to others at an early age, and made her stand out in her youth and become a poetic leader for the rest of her life.

With a solid foundation in Chinese studies since childhood, she was easily admitted to Fu Jen Catholic University, which many local people yearned for, and was appreciated by Gu Sui, a master of Chinese studies. Thanks to her unremitting efforts and the efforts of her tutor, Mr. Gu Sui, Ye Jiaying once became a talented woman envied by everyone in the school.

Ye Jiaying's first half of his life looks so enviable because of his excellent birth conditions and excellent research on Chinese studies. However, no one would have thought that it was such a favored son who started a bleak life after marriage.

I don't know that life is bleak and she has to bear it herself.

If Ye Jiaying's well-bred childhood is enviable, then the next time will be like purgatory, which will torture her to pieces.

1937, a nightmare war broke out, claiming countless lives, losing his father who had high hopes for Ye Jiaying and the backbone of the whole family. Four years later, my declining mother also left Ye Jiaying, leaving Ye Jiaying and her younger brother behind. However, it is even more regrettable that this is only the beginning of bad luck.

After being introduced to Zhao, he felt guilty about losing his job and promised to commit suicide. At first, Zhao, as an intellectual, married a talented woman and was regarded as a match made in heaven by others.

However, after Zhao was arrested and imprisoned for inexplicable involvement, it was like a different person after he was released from prison again. Not only did he criticize Ye Jiaying for no reason at ordinary times, but he even fought. Moreover, after Ye Jiaying gave birth to his second child, he ran away from home directly because he was not a boy.

Alone, Ye Jiaying and her two immature daughters tried to commit suicide, but she couldn't bear to leave her starving children. I began to pay attention to my favorite poetry research and taught at Taipei Girls' Middle School.

Luck has changed, but she is willing to stay poor.

With the increasing popularity of poetry, Ye Jiaying became a unique Mazu Taoist, as teacher Gu Sui expected. 1966 Because of the exchange program between Taiwan Province Provincial University and American universities, as a teacher of Taiwan Province Provincial University, she got the opportunity to exchange in the United States.

In foreign countries, although Ye Jiaying is full of talents, due to language differences, a large number of international students simply don't understand it. Even if they are invited to translate, they will only make a mess of the original extensive and profound Chinese studies.

In order to better spread the traditional culture of the motherland to the world, Ye Jiaying decided to give lectures in English. Suffering from almost forgetting all the English knowledge in college, she squeezed out all the rest time to recite words and remember grammar.

At this time, she was 45 years old and her memory was not as good as before, but she didn't want to give up. When all the people in the library have left, Ye Jiaying is still trying to translate the ancient poems used in class into authentic English.

Finally, many good things happen. With continuous learning, Ye Jiaying learned a lot from Caton's English ancient poetry class, and translated every ancient poem well.

Because she was one of the few teachers who could teach English translation of ancient poems to foreign students at that time. So he became famous abroad, became a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and Harvard University, became a tenured professor at Columbia University and settled here.

No matter how good the foreign conditions are, it is a foreign land after all. So when 1974 had the opportunity to return to China, Ye Jiaying resolutely gave up the excellent living conditions abroad and chose to return to China to teach at Nankai University.

In order to express his yearning for the motherland for many years, Ye Jiaying wrote a poem "A Journey to the Motherland" in one breath when he returned to China. "I have been away from Wan Li for 30 years, and I am homesick all the time. I came back from heaven with tears in my eyes and ecstasy in my heart ..." Every word of this poem makes us feel a person's homesickness in a foreign land.

From 65438 to 0989, Ye Jiaying retired, but her love for poetry was not halved. So she began to participate in relevant forums and lectures in various places, and still spent a whole semester every year, engaged in teaching work in China, and devoted herself to the inheritance and dissemination of China's traditional culture.

By the 2nd/Kloc-0th century, Ye Jiaying had been a teacher for forty years. During this period, she was well paid and paid for participating in various activities, but she just lived an indifferent life.

A small room, simple meals and simple meals, all the necessities of life are very simple. When someone asked her why she donated all her property without leaving any money for herself, she replied, "I have China's poems as my companion, and I am not alone." .