I love nature, followed by art.
My hands are warm by the fire of life,
The fire has gone out, and I'm ready to go.
-[English] Rand (translated by Jiang Yang)
This is the work of the English poet Walter Savage Lando in his later years. It is deeply loved by Jiang Yang and has been mentioned many times. It can be said that this is a portrayal of Mr. Jiang Yang's life.
Jiang Yang is a famous translator, writer and dramatist in China. He is proficient in English, French and Spanish. From 65438 to 0935, I went to study in Britain and France with my husband Qian Zhongshu. After returning to China, she taught in Shanghai Aurora Women's College of Arts and Sciences and Tsinghua University. After 1949, he worked in the Institute of Literature and the Institute of Foreign Literature of China Academy of Social Sciences. Her translation of Don Quixote is called a masterpiece of translation. It is the "Almighty Goddess" in everyone's mind and the "most virtuous wife and talented woman" in Qian Zhongshu's eyes.
Jiang Yang was born in a scholarly family in Beijing. When he was a child, he saw his father's eloquence and asked him for tips. His father replied, "Just read more books and read good books." Under the influence of his father, Jiang Yang developed a good habit of reading at an early age. Once, Jiang Yang's father asked Jiang Yang, "What will happen if you are not allowed to study for three days?" She said, "It's hard." "What if I don't let you read for a week?" That week was wasted. For her, reading is a habit just like eating. Jiang Yang said, "When I was young, I didn't think it was enough to understand life without reading. It was not until later that I discovered that if I don't understand life, I can't study. Your problem is that you read too little and think too much. "
Although I was in the turbulent period of the Cultural Revolution, I struggled with diseases and political struggles, and experienced ups and downs in my life, but I still maintained an indifferent attitude towards fame and fortune, detached from things and humble.
1997, her favorite daughter Qian Yuan died. 1998, her husband Qian Zhongshu died after four years of illness. Before she died, she fell into a deep coma and left a sentence when she was awake for a short time: "Jiang, live well." When two relatives left him one after another, Jiang Yang said sadly, "Zhong Shu has escaped, and I want to escape. Where can I escape?"? I have to stay in the world and clean the scene and do my duty. "
People who have never experienced life and death are not enough to talk about life. No matter how difficult and bumpy the fate is, Mr. Jiang Yang will always have a positive energy, and tell us what real power is with her legendary life.
Jiang Yang, 96, suffers from heart failure. She still insists on reading and studying, concentrates on writing, and goes to bed at 1 30 every night. In Towards the Edge of Life, she reviewed her life and asked herself: What was she born for? What is the most precious thing in the world? She wants to know what is left. What is waiting for her ahead?
When people are in their twilight years, their mentality is leisurely, and they express their opinions between the lines. Quite a few martyrs are heroic in their later years.
"After different degrees of exercise, a person will get different degrees of accomplishment and different degrees of income, just like spices. The more broken and thinner, the stronger the fragrance. "
There are poems in the belly, and the most important thing is that books can go far. Good skin will eventually grow old, and what supports itself is the richness and enrichment of the heart. Different flowers are gorgeous, but they look like a touch of gardenia, with their own strength and uniqueness.
Open the three of us and see a simple and happy family. Although the three of them are wandering in troubled times, they can live a poetic life. Words are full of deep happiness and childlike sense of humor, and you have to do interesting things with interesting people for a long time. Jiang Yang recalled: "Our family is very simple; The three of us are very simple; We have nothing to do with the world and we don't fight with others. We just want to get together, stay together and do what we can. "
The centennial speech said: "We were so eager for the waves of fate, and finally realized that the most beautiful scenery in life is inner peace and calmness. We were so eager for recognition from the outside world that we realized later that the world is our own and has nothing to do with others. "
The world belongs to itself and has nothing to do with others. Living high, like drinking water, is self-aware. It is good to know some things, so why explain them to the world? God will not concentrate all happiness on one person, and getting love is not necessarily rich; Being rich is not necessarily happiness; Happiness does not necessarily mean health; Having health may not be everything you want. Keeping a contented heart is the best way to temper and purify the soul. All happy enjoyment belongs to the spirit, and this kind of happiness turns patience into enjoyment, which is the victory of the spirit over the material. This is the philosophy of life.