**10,000 Fans Incentive Program In a 2007 lecture, a ninety-year-old man predicted that China would rise in 2020. This ** has aroused widespread attention on the Internet, and people have a strong interest in Ms. Ye Man, who is known as the "Master of Chinese Studies".
Sadly, Ms. Yeman passed away in 2017. She had high hopes for Chinese students at Wenxian College, hoping that they would be able to welcome international students from all over the world when the country became stronger, but also warned them not to study only traditional Chinese culture while studying in the United States, but to learn more about the world.
Ye Man was born in a turbulent era, and her family invited an enlightenment teacher for her education, but she returned home to continue her studies because the textbooks were boring.
Beiyang ** took back Qingdao Salt Industry after World War I, and Liu Junman was appointed as the general manager of Qingdao Yongyu Salt Industry Company because of his outstanding salt making technology, and his family moved to Qingdao. Ye Man started school at the age of ten, and was pursued by boys in junior high school because of his excellent grades and liveliness.
The director of discipline was very angry about this and gave her a special punishment. According to the campus rules at the time, one more minor demerit would result in expulsion. Ye Man felt very aggrieved and cried to his father Liu Junman.
Liu Junman told her that if she thinks she is right, then no matter what blow she encounters, she can't easily admit defeat. This sentence was deeply engraved in Ye Man's heart, she lived in the United States for many years, and resolutely refused to join foreigners, until she really couldn't, she chose to become a Chinese-American.
Ye Man has lived in the United States for many years, but he has always been concerned about the motherland, especially Chinese culture. After returning to Peking University, she constantly encouraged the students to study Chinese culture hard, and asked the students a question: Have you ever learned about the modern history of China, where countless humiliating treaties were signed?
Her love for Chinese culture comes from the influence of her father, Liu Junman, who graduated from Beijing Normal University, attaches great importance to her education in Chinese culture, and the relationship between the two is also very deep.
When teaching students, she asked everyone: Do you all want to go to the United States? Do you think American culture is the highest in the world? How many years has the United States been founded? Ye Man hopes that students can better understand and appreciate their own culture, and at the same time, they can learn and learn from other cultures, and constantly enrich their knowledge and horizons.
Ye Man's relationship with religion stems from her deep thinking about life and death. When she was in high school, her friend Liu Junman died suddenly, which brought a huge blow to Ye Man. She began to think about the meaning of life and death, and in the process, her first contact with religion was born.
In 1935, at the age of 21, Ye Man completed his last year at the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University, preparing to take the college entrance examination. Her college entrance examination aspirations are Tsinghua University, Peking University and Beijing Normal University, and her alma mater is said to be able to go directly to Tsinghua University, but it requires excellent math scores.
Ye Man took the exam with great expectations, but the results did not go her way. She won the first place in the Department of Chinese Literature and entered Beijing Normal University. Fifty years later, a teacher at Tsinghua University accidentally checked the archives of that year and asked Ye Man at a party in Los Angeles why he was admitted to Tsinghua University but did not report it.
Ye Man never thought that he would be admitted to Tsinghua University, but history is so full of surprises. She is the only student in the history of Tsinghua University who has been admitted but has not registered to report.
While she was listening carefully to Professor Yu Pingbo's speech at Beijing Normal University, a female student from Peking University panted and knocked on her window and said that Mr. Hu had asked her to go back. Ye Man was very puzzled, who is Mr. Hu?
It turned out that he was Mr. Hu Shizhi, Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities of Peking University. Ye Man was shocked because her math score was almost zero, while her Bahasa and Essays scores were 99 and 100, respectively, one of which recounted her father's death.
By chance, Hu Shi read Ye Man's article and praised it greatly. Knowing that Ye Man went to Beijing Normal University because he was not good at mathematics, Hu Shi spared no effort to ask someone to tell Ye Man that Peking University was willing to accept her as a probationary student.
In this way, Ye Man was "invited" back to Peking University by Hu Shi. However, Ye Man was not interested in her economics major classes, but often skipped classes to listen to literature classes such as Hu Shi, Wen Yiduo, Qian Mu, Jiang Menglin, and Tao Xisheng, and listened to them fascinated.
As a result, her literary notes became a must-have for others to borrow for exams. Decades later, Ye Man can still vividly recall the scenes of these teachers in class. She described Wen Yiduo's speech as like composing poetry, and although Qian Mu did not bring textbooks or make board books, she trained her note-taking speed.
At that time, Ye Man had been actively involved in political activities, but in 1946 Wen Yiduo was secretly killed by Kuomintang agents, which made her deeply disgusted with reactionary rule.
Since then, she only talks about learning and no longer participates in politics.
In 1937, the National Changsha Provisional University (later known as the Southwest Associated University) was formally established.
After graduation, Ye Man was hired as an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Fu Jen University, and Tian Baodai was admitted to the civil service of the Kuomintang. In 1945, Tian Baodai was sent to the United States as a diplomat, and Ye Man also followed her husband to a foreign land, which was more than 30 years, and then came back in 1987, when Chiang Ching-kuo allowed veterans to return to the mainland to visit relatives.
Decades later, Ye Man returned to Chinese mainland and taught all his life's learning to students in various colleges, hoping that they would study hard and keep the excellent "genes" of Chinese culture.
A hundred years later, Ye Man hopes to actively promote Chinese culture through the form of "One Hundred Years and One Hundred Cities, Ten Thousand Miles of Chinese Studies", so that Chinese culture can be carried forward and spread to the world all over the world.
In the process of living abroad, Ye Man and her husband traveled to the United States, Japan, Saudi Arabia and other countries, gained an in-depth understanding of the world's three major religions, and gained more understanding of the deep philosophies of life, nature, and destiny.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan's "diplomatic relations" became increasingly estranged, and Tian Baodai and Ye Man gradually became idle and no longer ran around. However, what made Ye Man feel unbearable was that the Taiwanese Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek still adhered to the illusion of "** mainland", and even carried out cultural infiltration in intellectual circles.
Every time I come to Taiwan with a class reunion from Peking University, it is inevitable that topics such as "international and domestic current affairs" will be involved. However, Ye Man was outraged by these ridiculous remarks, and she decided not to participate in such discussions, "* Mainland fantasies, let them make trouble, we just have to read hard".
Ye Man decided to devote himself to the integration and sorting of the three cultures of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Just as she was working at this time, she became acquainted with another master of Chinese studies, Nan Huaijin. Nan Huaijin has been extensively involved in group books since he was a teenager and is very knowledgeable.
After the end of World War II, he chose to avoid politics and devoted himself to the study of Buddhism and Taoism, which achieved fruitful results. Before visiting Nan Huaijin, Ye Man knew that Nan Huaijin had no good feelings for female visitors, so she decided to give him a disadvantage and let him see the power of women.
The first time they met, Ye Man asked Nan Huaijin an esoteric question: "Where does life come from and where does death go?" Nan Huaijin asked her rhetorically, this question was heard by **.
Ye Man's relationship with Buddhism began with the joint study of the Lengyan Sutra, and in later years, she wrote more than 30 books to promote Buddhist classics such as the Lengyan Sutra, the Heart Sutra, and the Diamond Sutra.
As Ye Man deepened her knowledge and gained a deeper understanding of traditional Chinese classics, she realized that a new generation of young people in Taiwan was losing their cultural roots, and she became anxious.
This anxiety gave birth to an idea for her: to spread the seeds of Chinese culture in a place far away from the mainland, so that more young people can understand that their roots are in the mainland and their culture is also in the mainland.
After the 70s, she and her husband founded Wenxian Academy in the United States to explain the Four Books and Five Classics and other Taoist and Buddhist classics to international students for free.
She is very saddened by this, because the younger generation knows very little about their own national cultural classics, even though Peking University, Southwest Associated University, Fu Jen University, etc., where she once studied and worked, are all academic palaces with many masters, and the new generation of students do not even know about China's modern history.
Her husband Tian Baodai was also the top student in the general education of Peking University that year, and the teachers who taught were all literary giants who were later recorded in history, and all of them were full of wealth.
Ye Man was full of emotion, and the comparison with these young people made her saddened by the loss of Chinese classics. In 1987, Chiang Ching-kuo allowed veterans to return to the mainland to visit relatives, and Ye Man finally had the opportunity to embark on a journey back to China.
Ye Man made a large number of academic friends in the Buddhist academic field, and was also invited to return to Peking University to teach the new class of young people. Since then, it has become her regular itinerary to visit relatives in the mainland every year.
During this period, the continent's economy began to flourish, and after the eighties, it returned to the world stage at an astonishing rate. The huge changes made Ye Man sometimes in a trance, as if the poor and backward old China had never appeared.
In 2007, Ye Man, who had settled in Beijing for a year, said the famous ** sentence to the interview camera: As long as we get peace and stability, China will be extremely strong.
Even though I passed away in 2020, you are still alive and witnessing China's development. The greatness of our Chinese culture does not need to be manifested by robbing others, but by creating great results with our hands. "
When he was young, Gu Hongming deeply admired Western civilization, but when he actually set foot in Western countries and witnessed the miserable and desolate life of ordinary workers and peasants, he began to doubt the so-called advanced culture.
From then on, he firmly became an "old antique", and opposed Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi and others in the New Culture Movement. However, Gu Hongming has actually recognized the best of traditional Chinese culture, and he praises the Chinese for being naturally intelligent and kind, indisputable, but also resilient and inviolable.
Ye Man also saw this, so she insisted on retaining her Chinese nationality while living in the United States. It was only when conditions did not allow it that the U.S. green card was finally accepted.
When confronted with questions from Peking University students, Ye Man asked them rhetorically: "The United States was founded in 1776, do you think their culture is the best in the world?" ”
Ye Man, a passionate educator, has held academies in Taiwan and the United States, mingled with Buddhists, rebuilt the Yunju Temple, traveled to the Tianshan Mountains and Rehe, and traveled almost half of China.
After returning to the mainland, she sold her house in Los Angeles and borrowed a large auditorium from the ** Academy of Fine Arts as a place for teaching. Her course content covers the enlightenment readings of her generation, including the Three Character Classic and the Thousand Character Text.
She said with emotion that although she left the mainland in her early years and worked as a foreigner for decades, she has always had a deep love for the motherland in her heart. Therefore, she moved the Wenxian Academy, which she established during her time in Taiwan, to the mainland, and actively invited those high-ranking scholars who were hidden in society to give lectures.
By learning the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", students can complete the enlightenment education of Chinese culture, and the rest of the content can be slowly mastered in the following study.
Ye Man has devoted her life to spreading the culture of Chinese culture, and although she has passed away, her spirit is still alive in people's hearts. The Wenxian Institute and the Confucius Institute are promoting Chinese culture around the world, and more and more young people are beginning to love and study ancient books.
Many scholars are still promoting traditional culture through lectures and other means. Ye Man has predicted that as long as security and stability are provided to the Chinese people, China will become strong by 2020.
Although she did not see this scene with her own eyes, every Chinese living in 2020 did. That was after the epidemic, China became the only country in the world to achieve positive economic growth, which is the best response to Ye Man's prediction.
In 2021, the United States and China held a high-level strategic dialogue in Anchorage. ** In the face of the unreasonable provocation of the US side, he resolutely said: "You are not qualified to say that you cannot talk to China from a position of strength. ”
This famous saying, which was later widely disseminated, shows the resoluteness and firmness of China's diplomacy. The powerful China that Mr. Ye Man once looked forward to in 2020 has now been shown to the world with a new attitude.
China has made remarkable progress in the fields of economy, science and technology, and culture, and has become an indispensable and important force in the world. Let's look forward to a stronger and more confident China!