Yang Jiang: a Review of the Times

Guide--

in the middle of 15 years, I bought Yang Jiang's book to read, and after reading it, I was completely conquered by Yang Jiang.

I have always liked people who are diligent, steadfast, kind and kind. If they are above their character and can specialize in profound knowledge and skill, once I meet such people, I will definitely ask them to be friends, and I must be more close if I can't do it.

and Yang Jiang is such a person.

  Yang Jiang

I know that Yang Jiang read Lao Wang when she was a student. When I was a student, I was always numb to the articles in the textbook. Neither Yang Jiang nor Lao Wang impressed me deeply. She attracted my attention or after I read Qian Zhongshu's Fortress besieged.

in the appendix to Fortress besieged, she described the protagonist Sun Jou-chia in the book as follows: "she is highly educated, but she is not good at it, but she is not stupid; she is not a beauty, but she is not ugly; she has no interest, but she has her own opinions." Her greatest success was marrying a Fang Hung-chien, and her greatest failure was marrying a Fang Hung-chien. The clever and gratifying thing about Sun Jou-chia was that she was able to draw Mrs. Wang's "summary": red fingernails and red lips. A young woman who envies, envies and despises herself will have such bitterness. "

this comment went deep into my heart, and I remembered Yang Jiang all of a sudden.

about the siege, she also has a well-known saying: "the people around the city want to escape, and the people outside the city want to rush in." Whether it is marriage or career, most of the wishes of life are like this. " Yang Jiang has an exquisite heart for marriage and world affairs.

Xia Zhiqing, a literary theorist, once praised their marriage in this way: "throughout the 20th century, there is no other couple in Chinese literature who are as talented as Qian Yang and his wife, who work well and enjoy high reputation in their later years."

in March 1932, four students, including Yang Jiang and Sun Ling, went northward to study. Fei Xiaotong sent them to Yan University to take the loan exam. As soon as the exam was over, Yang Jiang was going to visit her old friend at Tsinghua University, and Sun Ling was also going to Tsinghua to visit her cousin, Qian Zhongshu. In the evening, Sun Lingtiong and his cousin went to the student dormitory of Tsinghua University to pick up Yang Jiang back to Yan University, which contributed to the first meeting between Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu.

Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu

Yang Jiang described Qian Zhongshu in her first impression as Qian Zhongshu. She said that Qian Zhongshu "is' blue and deep and beautiful 'between her eyebrows, thin and scholar-like." "wearing a blue cloth coat, a pair of woolen shoes and a pair of old-fashioned glasses, they are not 'personable' at all." Soon after that, Qian Zhongshu, who did not look "personable" at all, gradually entered Yang Jiang's life.

the combination of Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu is not only reflected in the perfect match, but also in their personal interests.

before confirming the love relationship, Qian Zhongshu expressed his heart to Yang Jiang: "I don't have much ambition. I just want to contribute my whole life and do knowledge." Yang Jiang thought, "this is quite similar to my interests." This prompted them to determine their relationship; after marriage, Yang Jiang spontaneously agreed with her husband's spiritual world: "as the wife of Zhong Shu, I am contaminated with all the books he reads, because the two inevitably have to exchange ideas." "our literary 'communication' is the basis of our friendship. We have learned from each other, and it is a pleasure and fun to communicate with each other. "

this harmony, both material and spiritual, complement each other.

I often think that there will not be two people who happen to fit perfectly in the world. No matter how congenial character is, there will always be disagreements and occasional differences. Therefore, it becomes more and more valuable to be able to understand each other and communicate with each other when we encounter differences. At this point, Yang Jiang learned the words and deeds of his parents, inherited the good qualities of the previous generation in marriage, and used them reasonably and skillfully in his own life.

Yang Jiang's mother was born in a business family and was nicknamed Xibao. After she married Yang Jiang's father, Yang Yinhang, her husband changed her name to Tang Xuyi. Tang Xushi is kind and good at housework. Whether she lives alone in her hometown to take care of a large family or goes north with her husband, she takes good care of the whole family and manages the housework in an orderly manner. In the eyes of the children, the mother can do anything. As for the relationship between her parents, Yang Jiang once recalled that her parents had never had a fight, like a friend.Talk about everything. "three of our sisters are married, and all of them are good wives. We are all ashamed that we are not as kind and considerate to our husbands as our mothers are to our fathers. "

this harmonious family atmosphere and exemplary relationship between husband and wife set an example for Yang Jiang when she was young and made her try her best to be considerate and omnipotent in her marriage.

but Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu have quarreled.

Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu had a dispute on a ship going abroad. Because of a French pronunciation of "bon", Yang Jiang thought that Qian Zhongshu's accent had a local accent, but Qian Zhongshu was not convinced. They hired a French lady who knew English on the same ship as the referee and ruled that Yang Jiang won. However, those who lose are unhappy, and those who win are naturally not happy. Both of them found it very boring, so they agreed that "you might as well disagree with each other in the future, and there is no need to seek common ground." But over the next few years, the two men would discuss things together and decide after consultation that they did not rely entirely on Qian Zhongshu or Yang Jiang.

the cause of another dispute is the appointment of Qian Zhongshu.

at that time, Qian Zhongshu worked in Tsinghua University, and his father suddenly wrote to him, asking him to quit his job and go to Lantian normal School. He was quite distressed, but he dared not go against his father's wishes, not to mention that his family all advocated letting him go to Lantian. When he went home to discuss the matter with Yang Jiang, Yang Jiang thought, "No matter what, he should not go. He should explain to his family why he should go improperly." After that, Yang Jiang told her father what had happened, hoping to hear what her father had to say, but her father was expressionless and did not say a word.

her father's silence made her think deeply. Yang Jiang suddenly realized that "a person's provenance is a major event in a lifetime. When it is up to me to make up my mind, I can only state my truth and should not interfere. In particular, I should not force him to rebel against his parents." After understanding this truth, Yang Jiang respected and accepted Qian Zhongshu's choice from the bottom of her heart.

as we all know, Qian Zhongshu has a sharp style of writing, and the commentators often hit the nail on the head without showing mercy, while Yang Jiang's personality and smooth understanding are often kind to others and complement each other in character, so that the two can enjoy and enjoy themselves even in the most difficult years.

Zheng Tusheng once said: "Mr. Yang Jiang is more considerate than Mr. Qian Zhongshu not only in life, but also in dealing with the cultural circles. Mr. Qian often says something according to his own temperament and preferences, but Mr. Yang is very gentle and is good at dealing with all kinds of occasions and situations. "

at that time, before Qian Zhongshu left from Southwest Associated University, President Mei Yiqi sent a telegram asking him to stay, but the telegram was inexplicably missing, and it was a long time before he accidentally learned about it. After that, he transferred to work at Hunan Lantian normal University, where his father was with him, and stayed there for two years. During the summer vacation of 1941, he learned that Tsinghua would rehire him to teach at school, so he quit his job in Lantian and waited at home for the offer to arrive. This time, however, the letter of appointment is still late.

the experiences of these two inexplicable disappearances are so similar that the intelligent Qian Zhongshu immediately realized the reason. It is said that it is because of his arrogant remark: "Ye Gongchao is too lazy, Chen Futian is too stupid, Wu Mi is too arrogant." Arrogant as Qian Zhongshu, when Chen Futian finally came late to take him to teach, he politely declined on the grounds that he had not received the letter of appointment.

this refusal has trapped him and his whole family in Shanghai, and the lack of stable financial resources has plunged the family into poverty. Yang Jiang has no complaint about this.

in order to enable Qian Zhongshu and her daughter to live a slightly decent life without worrying about food and clothing, Yang Jiang worked as a middle school principal, a tutor for a rich lady, a substitute teacher in primary school, and wrote several well-known plays. These plays are very political, tell popular stories in the form of comedy, skillfully avoid the pressure from all walks of life in Shanghai at that time, and successfully come out.

in 1943, as soon as her play "satisfactory" was staged, it was a great success and became popular all over Shanghai. Li Jianwu once praised Yang Jiang and said that in comedy literature, "the first milestone belongs to Zhu Dingxilin, which is well known to everyone." the second way I will happily point out that it is Ms. Yang Jiang. "

Qian Zhongshu is not only stubborn and outspoken, but also full of foolishness. People who do not know him well think that he is crazy and unrestrained, but in Yang Jiang's eyes, Qian Zhongshu's stupidity is an integral part of his nature. she not only accepts him like this, but also feels that these personality traits are "strange and chic".

he is crazy about his friends. Because Qian Zhongshu's classmate Xu Zhende paid attention to a female classmate in class, Qian Zhongshu drew a series of "Xu eye changes" in his notebook, which was quite popular among his classmates. Later, Xu Zhende returned home and was reunited with his old friends. When they talked about the past, they laughed.

he is crazy about his wife. When he was in love, he wrote a love poem for his wife: "A good article is sentimental, and the pink love is sad and heartbroken; in return, there is nothing else, and a thousand lines of tears are filled with bitterness." Although the love poem is good, Yang Jiang does not reply to him very much. Yang Jiang told him that he did not like to write letters. After listening to some complaints, he wrote a poem: "when there is no word in the later classics, he unexpectedly cherishes ink and gold." Later, when he wrote Fortress besieged, he still kept on thinking about this foolishness, and Tang Xiaofu, his favorite character in Fortress besieged, did not like to write letters.

when Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu were studying at Oxford, Qian Zhongshu took a nap and Yang Jiang posted at noon. Later, Yang Jiang fell asleep and woke up to find Qian Zhongshu taking advantage of it.Yang Jiang fell asleep and dipped her brush into full ink to draw a big flower face for Yang Jiang. As a result, Yang Jiang woke up as soon as she finished writing. Yang Jiang's skin was thin and almost broken until the ink marks were washed away. After this, Qian Zhongshu did not dare to play a prank again.

he is crazy about children. After having his daughter Yuan Yuan, he discussed with his wife, "if we have another child, which may be better than A Yuan, we will like that child, then how can we stand up to A Yuan?" Yang Jiang listened and sighed, "advocating the theory that a pair of parents have only one child, has never mentioned that parents have only one child in order to be single-minded in love."

he teased Yuanyuan, planting "mines" on his daughter's bed every night before she went to bed, burying all kinds of things such as mirrors, toys, inkstone brushes, and so on. "when his daughter screams, he will have Italian pleasure." This has almost become a daily game between father and daughter, and the two enjoy it.

Yang Jiang

Qian Zhongshu is even more unruly in daily chores and housework. Yang Jiang is his assistant in life and his support in the material world. Born in a large family, Qian Zhongshu was only responsible for studying hard and doing a good job in learning since childhood, and he knew nothing about the cost of food and clothing. Yang Jiang was also born a lady from a famous family, but under the influence of her mother who was good at running the family, she was good at taking care of household chores.

Yang Jiang works steadfastly and willingly, never complains or complains. In order to support her husband's academic research and creation of works, she silently undertakes the heavy burden of the family, burning coal, cooking and washing clothes, carrying water and chopping wood to do manual work, carrying all the housework, dating each other with respect, always smiling.

Qian Zhongshu's cousin Qian Zhonglu commented that Yang Jiang "is like a tent, covering all the people around her, and she protects against the wind and rain outside." Qian Zhongshu's aunt saw that although Yang Jiang was born as a lady of a famous family, she did not put on the airs of a daughter at all. on the contrary, she said with emotion, "you can go up to the hall and get down to the kitchen; you can swim when you enter the water, but you can jump out of the water." Brother Xuan (Qian Zhongshu's nickname) is a fool. " Later, my father-in-law was seriously ill and asked his mother-in-law, "who did you live with after I died?" Mother-in-law said, "live with Ji Kang." Yang Jiang's Wen Wanxian virtue is not only highly praised, but also won her more understanding and leniency.

in March 1978, Yang Jiang's painstaking translation "Don Quixote" was finally published after decades of separation. This translation of 720000 words was the first version to be translated directly from Spanish into Chinese, and the first 100, 000 copies were soon sold out.

after the publication of Don Quixote, King Juan Carlos I and Queen of Spain visited China. Deng Xiaoping translated this as a national gift to each other and introduced Yang Jiang to the king and queen. She also received the order of the Great Cross of King Alfonso X from Spain, various invitations to visit, and numerous honors. However, all this fame and fortune is just a passing cloud in Yang Jiang's eyes. She calmly accepts the gift of fate after these efforts, and then continues to quietly immerse herself in reading and writing, "conscientiously volunteering to always do zero."

No wonder Qian Zhongshu personally gave her such an evaluation. He praised his wife as "the best wife and the most talented daughter."

Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang

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II. Unique combination of the three incompatible: wife, lover, friend

the title is Qian Zhongshu's inscription in the short story collection "Man, Beast and Ghost" to thank his wife Yang Jiang for her transcribing and proper collection of manuscripts during the war, which made the book successfully published after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

before Qian Yang, I could never find a second one.

this is probably the most happy and harmonious state of marriage. Can the wife, lover and friends coexist without conflict with each other, what kind of virtue and ability with orchid mind and wisdom quality can be easily switched and switched easily?

to be fair, most people in the world can't do it. But Yang Jiang did.

she is a wife and a helper in life--

A "nerd" like Qian Zhongshu, who is put into the tribulations of life and left to fend for himself, will probably be like sailing against the current. One day she will be overwhelmed by the trivialities of life and the indifference of human feelings, and eventually become a pity for her talent and knowledge. Lucky enough to meet Yang Jiang, he can still occasionally be a young child in the adult world, retain his literary skills, wield his talents, and leave masterpieces for history.

she is a lover and the beauty in her relationship--

when Yang Jiang was unmarried, there was an endless stream of admirers, such as: "when Yang Jiang dropped out of Tsinghua University, she was beautiful. More than 70 men asked to be partners, and those who loved Yang Jiang called Yang Jiang 72 evil spirits."?. But Yang Jiang was never proud of it. When she was middle-aged, someone praised her. She wrote to declare: "I am by no means a beautiful woman, a middle-aged woman. Xia Zhiqing has seen me. Go and ask him if you don't believe me." Beauty is another thing in the eye of the beholder. " "kind and beautiful girl" finally chose the silly Qian Zhong Shu knot as a good couple.

before the founding of New China, many friends invited them to either go abroad to work or teach in Taiwan, but Qian and Yang tried their best to avoid and politely declined these kind invitations. Qian Zhongshu wrote: "after all, people's experiences are connected with the people of the motherland." Yang Jiang spared no effort to support Qian Zhongshu's decision. She later recalled: "We are cultural people, love the culture of the motherland, love the literature of the motherland, and love the language of the motherland." In a word, we are stubborn Chinese people who do not want to be foreigners. We don't dare to be optimistic about ourselves.But we stayed quietly in Shanghai, waiting for liberation. " During this period, Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu took a trip to Hangzhou together, warm and sweet as a honeymoon.

in a relationship, empathy is not only reflected in the appreciation of each other's external conditions, but also in the agreement of the three values on vital matters such as right and wrong, which is the real cornerstone of happiness.

she is a friend and a literary confidant--

I saw a description of Qian Yang's daily life earlier: "Mr. Yang once said that when she and Mr. Qian were footing face to face at home at night, they liked to play a game-Yang Jiang spoke a Spanish word, Qian Zhongshu spoke an Italian word, or Qian Zhongshu spoke an Italian word. Yang Jiang spoke a Spanish word. Although they are highly knowledgeable, they are as happy as children when they play games. "at that time, after reading this description, I joked in my heart that high achiever's world was really beyond the understanding of mortals like me.

the birth of Qian Zhongshu's Fortress besieged came from Yang Jiang's daily supervision. She was the first reader of his manuscript. After Qian Zhongshu finished writing 500 words a day, she gave the manuscript to Yang Jiang to read. Yang Jiang often laughed with delight. The two knew each other tacitly about the archetypes of the characters in the book. Yang Jiang urged Qian Zhongshu to create the next part after reading it. Yang Jiang's ardent expectation became one of the driving forces of Qian Zhongshu's writing.

two years later, the final version of Fortress besieged was published. as soon as the book was published, it caused a sensation in the academic circles. Qian Zhongshu praised his wife in the preface and said, "because of the constant supervision of Ms. Yang Jiang." blocked a lot of things for me, saved time, and was able to finish it with a penny of baht. This book should be dedicated to her. "

Yang Jiang, Qian Yuan, Qian Zhongshu

three. I miss the three of us alone

"our family is very simple; the three of us are very simple. We have nothing to ask for from the world, we have no contention with others, we just want to get together, stay together, and do what we can. When I encounter difficulties, Zhong Shu always bears them with me, and the difficulties are no longer difficult; with the help of A Yuan, no matter what is bitter and difficult, it can become sweet and smooth. If we are a little happy, we will become very happy. So the three of us had an unusual encounter.

now the three of us are separated. The past can not be retained, the dead can not be traced; the rest of this I can no longer find them.

when I read Yang Jiang's "the three of us", I was always moved frequently and my eyes were hazy with tears.

Yang Jiang's brush strokes are so light, like a cup of warm water. Reading her books is like drinking this glass of warm water, sitting on the ground and talking to her opposite.

A centenarian, time passes by, and the people around her go ahead of her one by one. She hides all her sadness or tears, and no one else can see them, but her feelings cannot be hidden, and there must always be an outlet for yearning, so she describes them faintly through a pen.

the more affectionate you are, the more restrained you are.

she wrote about the past and her old friends, like a big dream, an inn on the ancient post road, a boat moored by the river, a warm but vague hospital. In the dream, she wrote about the difference between her husband and her husband. "he is now deliberately walking slowly, asking me to see me off, gathering as much as possible, and turning a small dream into a long dream." I'd like to do that. Give me a ride, say goodbye and see each other again. Does parting lengthen, increase the pain or reduce the pain? I don't know. But the farther I went with him, the more afraid I was of never seeing him again. "

their only daughter, Ah Huan, died in the early spring of 1997. The relatives around him are gradually separated, dying years, dependent as a companion, life continues in time is particularly long, he is reluctant to leave her alone, so slowly go, let her slowly send.

in the early morning of December 19, 1998, Qian Zhongshu's condition began to deteriorate. When Yang Jiang was told by the doctor to get to bed, one eye of Qian Zhongshu was closed and the other was still waiting for his wife. She closed the eye for him and murmured in his ear, "Don't worry, I'm here!"

"the good things in the world are not strong, and the colored clouds are easy to disperse and the glass is brittle." At this point, the world is so big that she is left alone.

after Qian Zhongshu passed away, she was, as always, hidden in the spotlight of the times, setting up a Barrier in her heart to resist the storm of public opinion in the outside world, and quietly in reading, thinking, writing, setting up a "good reading scholarship," and many other things, full and busy, indifferent and undemanding. Like a short poem by the English poet Landau that she once translated, she still lives in a troubled world in Yang Jiang's way, independent, quiet and self-sufficient.

I don't argue with anyone

I don't disdain to argue with anyone

I love nature

followed by art

I love Yang Jiang. It's hard to find others to compare with Yang Jiang in the long river of history.

to me, she is a role model, a beacon, a guide and a living dream. I am not only glad that she extends from the rhyme of the Republic of China to the fashion of the 21 century, but also cherish her companionship with shadow, alone.

but after all, there is no simple happiness in the world. Happiness is always interspersed with troubles and worries. There is no eternity in the world. " She has always had a thorough understanding of herself and life.

I would like to follow her life-long example, adhere to the goodness and beauty of character, not afraid of hardship in self-shaping and the pursuit of life, in order to find my own way back to life, and finally have no regrets.