Quotes:
I don’t argue with anyone, and I don’t disdain anyone. I love nature, followed by art. I bake the fire of life to keep warm. When the fire dries up, I am ready to leave.
People who are surrounded by the city want to escape, and people who stand outside the city want to rush in. Whether it is marriage or career, most of the desires in life are like this.
A person can condense into a stone, lurk to the bottom, and let time rush through the body like water. He only knows that he is in the water and is unaware of the current.
Story:
Yang Jiang was born on July 17, 1911. Entering the summer of 2010, she will be a centenarian. The personality of this 100-year-old scholar can be summarized in 16 words: work seriously, be low-key, strive for self-improvement throughout his life, and ultimately be self-disciplined.
As early as the early 1990s, Qian and Yang planned to donate all their royalties to their alma mater. Who should the scholarship be given to? To the poor children who are admitted to Tsinghua University! What is the name of it? I will never name it after myself, so it will be called "Good Study Scholarship" (when I was the English editor-in-chief of the "Central Library" with Mr. Qian) The library journal has the same name).
On September 7, 2001, Yang Jiang signed a "Trust Agreement" with Tsinghua University in the name of the three members of his family. The cash donated at that time was 720,000 yuan; by August 2008, the principal and interest had appreciated to 6.3 million yuan. By the spring of 2010, it was already over 8 million yuan.
Qian and Yang lived a frugal life, but in various special periods, countless young and middle-aged students were supported by them. During his lifetime, Mr. Qian once laughed at himself and said: "I was born with the bones of a poor scholar." Compared with today's RMB 8 million donation, this is really a huge difference.
Poor young people who have won the "Good Study Scholarship" continue to write letters of thanks to Mr. Yang. These award-winning young people were all moved when they saw the simple furnishings of Mr. Yang's home.
Mr. Yang said: "People's pursuit of realm and ideas, whether they are 'metaphysical' or not, are always different."