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95 year old Mr. Ye Jiaying donated 17.11 million more personal data of Ye Jiaying

On May 12, at the 2019 (expanded) meeting of the Sixth Council of Nankai Alumni Association and the sixth global president forum of Nankai Alumni Association, Nankai University received a total of 33.94 million yuan. Ye Jiaying donated all her life savings, which is admirable!

In June 2018, at the Nankai Alumni Association, Mr. Ye Jiaying, a 94 year old Chinese classical culture expert, donated all her property to the education foundation of Nankai University to set up the 'Jialing fund' to support the research of Chinese traditional culture.

Last year, she donated 18.57 million yuan. This year, Mr. Ye Jiaying donated 17.11 million yuan again. At present, she has donated 35.68 million yuan in total.

Why do you give your life savings to Nankai;

Ye Jiaying was born in 1924 and graduated from Beijing Furen University in 1945. She is a Chinese Canadian. In 1990, he was awarded "academician of the Royal Society of Canada". On March 25, 2016, he won the "lifelong achievement award of influencing Chinese in the world".

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. Over the next 20 years, she appeared in dozens of universities such as Nanjing University and Fudan University, teaching Chinese classical poetry for free. In 2002, she was granted a long-term residence permit in China. On October 17, 2015, the 'Jialing Academy' built by Nankai University for Ye Jiaying was officially opened. Mr. Ye settled in Nankai garden.

China Youth Daily (ID: zqbcyol) noted that on the official website of Nankai Alumni Association, a recent autobiography of the school to Mr. Ye, "my relationship with Nankai University" was published

Mr. Ye has been teaching in Nankai for 40 years. Referring to Ren Nankai's experience as director of the 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, so it could only borrow an office in Dongyi building to work. Later, Mr. Cai Zhangge, an industrialist in Vancouver who was enthusiastic about Chinese traditional culture, heard about this situation and funded the establishment of a building for the institute that was integrated with the College of Arts. In order to express my gratitude to Mr. Cai and the Nankai University, I also decided to donate half of the pension I received from abroad - 100000 US dollars (about 1 million RMB at that time) to the Institute for setting up a scholarship.

In 2000, I was invited to attend the International Conference on Ci Poetry held by the University of Macao. At the banquet after the conference, I shared the banquet with Mr. and Mrs. Shen binghe, a businessman from Macao. Mr. Shen made an impromptu offer to donate money to the Institute, and soon sent one million yuan from Macao by mail 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, an overseas Chinese from Canada, have donated 1 million yuan each to jointly build the Jialing school for me with Nankai University. I am really grateful. As I said, I don't want private housing, but I want a place for lectures, just like ancient academies, 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 overseas lectures in 150 cartons. I hope I can have a short time to help students and friends who love poetry 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 the education foundation of Nankai University. I will also donate my royalties and remuneration to Nankai University to support traditional culture research.

I am very grateful to Nankai University for giving me the opportunity to realize my wish of "what is the way for a scholar to serve his country, and to remember Li Du's soul" in Nankai garden.

In her old age, netizens are distressed, but she says that she doesn't need to be accompanied because she has poetry

Donating tens of millions, but living extremely thrifty, in 2018, a CCTV documentary once told about Mr. Ye's later life.

At the age of 90, Mr. Ye lives alone now

After slipping ten years ago

Just hired a babysitter

But only responsible for cooking and cleaning during the day

Some people are distressed

I think Mr. Ye is lonely in his later years

Others retort

There are poems and books in the belly and plenty of spirit

She will never be alone

One food, one drink, one house

Her choice of life is incredible

Why did she do that

What is she after

She said

I have poetry as my companion

You don't need company

Mr. Ye Jiaying once said

It's the original intention that we should not wear and dye after 30 years of experience

This life is accompanied by poetry

Let's devote our whole life to it

In 2017, Mr. Ye Jiaying stepped on the stage of the reader to tell her story.

In her poems, she talked about all kinds of joys and sorrows

The books are all scattered and changeable & hellip; & hellip;

Compared with material wealth

What is it?