&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203; Today, the topic of Mr. Ye Jiaying, 95, donating another 17.11 million has been posted on the microblog hot search, which has attracted the attention and hot discussion of many netizens. However, some people wonder why Ye Jiaying, 95, should donate her life savings to Nankai University? Who is Ye Jiaying? This article brings you Mr. Ye Jiaying's personal data and life experience. Let's learn about it.
According to the Alumni Association of Nankai University, Ye Jiaying, director of the Institute of Chinese classical culture of Nankai University, donated 17.11 million yuan (RMB) to Nankai University again this year.
On May 12, at the 2019 (expanded) meeting of the Sixth Council of Nankai Alumni Association and the sixth global Nankai Alumni Association President Forum, Nankai University received a total donation of 33.94 million yuan.
In June 2018, at the Nankai Alumni Association, Mr. Ye Jiaying, a 94 year old Chinese classical culture expert, donated all his property to the education foundation of Nankai University to set up the 'Jialing fund' to support the research of Chinese traditional culture.
Last year, he donated 18.57 million yuan. This year, Mr. Ye Jiaying donated 17.11 million yuan again. At present, he has donated 35.68 million yuan in total.
Why give your life savings to Nankai? She said & hellip& hellip;
Ye Jiaying was born in 1924 and is a Canadian Chinese. In 1990, he was awarded 'academician of the Royal Society of Canada'. On March 25, 2016, he won the 'Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese people in the world'.
Ye Jiaying was born in a genuine scholarly family in Peiping. She has a family nature of Ye henaran and is of the same origin as Nalan Xingde, a famous poet in the early Qing Dynasty.
Before the age of ten, Ye Jiaying had been educated by her parents at home, reading classics, and thus began to bond with poetry. A few bamboos in front of the window and a few chrysanthemums under the steps have become the objects of her singing. When many people began to learn to read, she has been able to write the poem "it's difficult to fly several times and turn over the dance clothes list in the evening wind" to the autumn Butterfly in the yard. However, such a peaceful life was soon destroyed by the war. In 1937, the beacon fire in Wanping City not only covered the Lugou Bridge, but also shrouded a shadow over China. In less than a month, Beiping fell.
Had it not been for the war of resistance against Japan, Ye Jiaying might have become a doctor and completed her studies in the medical school of Peking University, but she finally chose the Chinese Language Department of Furen University. In addition to her heartfelt love for Chinese culture, a very important reason is that Furen university is a missionary University and is not controlled by the Japanese puppets, There are also a group of moral teachers teaching there.
▲ photos of Ye Jiaying in her youth
As a teacher's favorite student, Ye Jiaying has high hopes. After graduating in 1945, Gu Sui, her mentor, wrote in his message that she hopes that she can surpass the blue and create her own school on the basis of her master's tolerance, just like Ma Zudao, a Zen master in the Tang Dynasty. " After "Dharma", Ye Jiaying should have started her own way of "preaching Dharma", but the hurricane of the times tightly wrapped her and blew her away.
In 1948, because her newly married husband worked in the Navy Department of the national government, Ye Jiaying had to accompany him to retreat to Taiwan with the defeated national government. Standing on the deck, Ye Jiaying looked at the rolling waves behind her, filled with melancholy.
After arriving in Taiwan, Ye Jiaying became a teacher teaching classical literature. Because of the amazing charm of Ye Jiaying's teaching poetry, Ye Jiaying was invited by many foreign universities to explain Chinese classical literature to European and American Sinology researchers.
However, Ye Jiaying always has a regret in her heart. She teaches in English abroad, which makes her unable to express the beauty of Chinese poetry incisively and vividly. She hopes to return to her motherland and her hometown. Later, Ye Jiaying, who settled in Canada, finally got a turn and returned to her long lost motherland. She always felt that she should do something for her country.
In the late spring of 1978, Ye Jiaying applied to return home to teach.
In 1979, her application was approved and she returned to teach in the Chinese Department of Tianjin Nankai University for three months.
Therefore, every holiday, Ye Jiaying always returns to China from Canada to give lectures everywhere without any reward. Mr. Ye Jiaying always stands when giving lectures. One stop is a few hours. It has been like a day for decades. Even in her 80s, it has never changed. She said that this is to express her respect for poetry.
Over the next 20 years, she appeared in dozens of colleges and universities such as Nanjing University and Fudan University, teaching Chinese classical poetry free of charge.
In 2002, Ye Jiaying obtained a long-term residence permit in China.
On October 17, 2015, the 'Jialing school' built by Nankai University for Ye Jiaying was officially opened, and Mr. Ye settled in Nankai park.
However, as the years grew, although the enthusiasm in her heart did not decrease, Ye Jiaying had to gradually reduce the number of lectures. She was deeply thinking about how to better inherit Chinese culture and let future Chinese people enjoy the beauty of poetry.
On the official website of Nankai Alumni Association, the University published a recent self-report to Mr. Ye, "my relationship with Nankai University":
Mr. Ye told the story of his return to teach. He has been teaching in Nankai for 40 years. Referring to his experience as director of Nankai Institute of Chinese classical culture, Mr. Ye said:
In 1993, Nankai University established the Institute of Chinese classical culture and hired me as its director. At first, the Institute had no office, no classroom, and no funds. It had to borrow an office in Dongyi building to work. Later, Mr. Cai Zhangge, an industrialist who was enthusiastic about Chinese traditional culture in Vancouver, heard about this situation and funded the establishment of a building combined with the College of Arts for the Institute.
In order to express my gratitude to Mr. Cai and Nankai University, I also decided to donate half of the pension I received from abroad, US $100000 (about RMB 1 million at that time), to the Institute to set up a scholarship.
In 2000, I was invited to attend the International Conference on CI held by the University of Macao. At the banquet after the conference, I attended the banquet with Macao industrialist Shen binghe and his wife. Mr. Shen made an impromptu donation to the Institute and soon remitted one million yuan by mail from Macao for the purchase of books and equipment. Since then, the work of the Institute has been carried out smoothly.
In recent years, Mr. Shen binghe and Ms. Liu Heren, a Canadian overseas Chinese, have donated one million yuan each to build a Jialing school for me in a joint venture with Nankai University. I really appreciate it.
As I said, I don't want a private house, but I want a lecture place, just like the ancient academy, where I can give lectures, hold meetings and study. Now that the school has been built, I have shipped back all the recordings, videos and research materials of my lectures abroad in 150 cartons. I hope I can have a short time to help poetry loving students and friends sort out these recordings and videos.
In June 2018, I donated 18.57 million yuan from the sale of two properties in Beijing and Tianjin to Nankai University Education Foundation. I will also donate my royalties and remuneration to Nankai to support the research of traditional culture.
I am very grateful to Nankai University for giving me the opportunity to realize my wish of "what can a scholar do to serve the country and unforgettable poetry, Sao Li and Du soul" in Nankai park.
Mr. Ye's later life distressed netizens, but she said that 'poetry is accompanied' does not need to be accompanied
He donated tens of millions, but his life was extremely frugal. In 2018, a CCTV documentary described Mr. Ye's later life.
Mr. Ye, who is 90 years old, now lives alone
After slipping ten years ago
Just hired a nanny
But only responsible for cooking and cleaning during the day
Someone loves you
I think Mr. Ye is lonely in his old age
Others retorted
There are poems and books and sufficient spirit
She will never be alone
A bowl of food, a ladle of drink, and a humble alley
Her choice of life is unimaginable
Why did she do that
What is she after
She said
I have poetry as my companion, and I don't need someone to accompany me
Mr. Ye Jiaying once said
Thirty years have passed, and it is the beginning of the heart not to be polished and dyed
This life is accompanied by poetry
Put your life into it
In 2017, Mr. Ye Jiaying stepped on the stage of the reader and told his story.
She expressed all her joys and sorrows in her poems
Books gather, disperse and change & hellip& hellip;
Compared with material wealth
What is it?
Salute again!