Scholar at Harvard English as "The Analects of Confucius"

Yu Dan in Chinese Chinese speaking the Analects, a visiting scholar at Harvard University Associate Professor Dr. Yan Wenjiang of Western political, English to local professors and judges to explain "The Analects of Confucius". In early June of this year, he returned to Chongqing to a short stay, tells the wonderful story of the scenes in the United States to spread Chinese culture to the reporter. June 11, he has returned to the United States.



Talk about humility



To persuade the American high school students in Hong learn Feng



Yan Wenjiang 43-year-old, Western political and administrative Law School Associate Professor, PhD. At 10:00 on the June 5, in Chongqing, the first floor of the Hotel cafe "The Analects" in the United States granted to reporters about his eloquent, "Americans want to understand Chinese culture, but too few channels ......



The end of August last year, he began at Harvard University, one-year visiting scholar, in addition to the completion of the Law topics, after-school study the spread of Confucian thought in the United States "and to explain the" Analects "around the lectures object professors, high school students, judges, etc..



December 1, 2011, Yan Wenjiang stresses "The Analects of Confucius" in the Cambridge Latin High School. He said Confucius good learning attitude was "seeing someone who is not virtuous and self-examination also." And "three rows, must be my teacher. Choosing the good from it, their bad instead . "This is a humble and inclusive, at any time to absorb other people's strengths.



American high school students on respect for individuality, humility difficult to understand. Yan Wenjiang they cited a lot of heated discussions in the United States Xifeng words: "9-year-old-read 20-year-old to the summit, to my intelligence and ability to push forward the three hundred years, pushed back three hundred years, a total of six hundred years there will be no second person over. "said Yan Wenjiang, Xifeng China was ironic, her ability and too different, Confucius resolutely opposed to such a shallow and arrogant. American students in the belly laugh, that Confucius claims of scholarship and a man to be humble.



Yesterday, the American high school student Betty (BETTY), by e-mail, told reporters, Dr. Yan easy to understand explanations so that they like the Chinese Confucian classics.



Said filial piety



"Judgment at Nuremberg" women lawyers to listen to crying



January 11 this year, in an office of the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Yan Wenjiang English speak of filial piety, "" The Analects of Confucius.



In the afternoon, he dressed in the United States to the former wife in the Three Gorges Square store to buy him a suit in the "classroom", the "student" is a bit gray-haired old lady.



His fluency in English speaking Confucius on filial piety: "life, things with propriety; death, burial ceremony, the sacrificial ceremony." Student "eyeing him. He changed the subject for example, Xiangtan, Hunan University students Luogui Hong, is a very filial girl, carrying her rented near the school about six square meters house to take care of the mother suffering from heart disease, even though outside the sun brilliant, but the house still smells of stale school side to take care of my mother, the girls side. Talked about this, he found the crutches gray-haired "student" tears Angela kept wiping away his tears.



This special "student" is a legal anthropologist Professor Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 88-year-old Sally FALK MOORE, famous. In 1946, she participated in the Second World War the famous "Judgment at Nuremberg" was involved only women lawyers. Despite his advanced age, but her "The Analects" of considerable interest and was invited Yan Wenjiang granted to her alone.



After listening to nearly an hour to teach her a thumbs-up, and praised the vivid Yan Wenjiang class "image, tear-jerking".



The old professor, said she lived alone in a two-story suite. It comes to listening Yan Wenjiang filial piety, she exclaims, "The Chinese culture is very warm, the elderly are respected, young and old to live with a very harmonious atmosphere, which is a kind of filial piety." Her daughter claimed that the American concept of filial piety is independent, based on respect, do not focus on the maintenance, "to live with the uncomfortable." children only "come take a look at."

Wisdom of



Touch the bell identified Pirates of the wonderful solution of Confucian thought



Yan Wenjiang memories, the most intense, HOPE church in Boston on March 11 this year, speaking of Confucius spirits concept of wisdom that class.



First example, he stresses the "touch the bell identified the Pirates of the story, said that the ancient Chinese magistrate called the statements of ancient, identify thieves, with a large cloth" Divine Bell "enclosed, quiet people in the above coated with ink, the suspects followed reached into the curtain to touch the bell, the results of only a hands-free ink, the statements of ancient they determine he is the thieves. When the audience appreciation for the wisdom of Chen magistrate Yan Wenjiang immediately throw the question: suspects and the magistrate believe that the world of ghosts and spirits  The speaker has some nodding, some shook his head. So he began spirits concept of Confucius, "Confucius spirits is a calm, rational manner, and his attention to the wisdom, not superstition, but I hope to get protecting."



Yanwen Jiang said that in the face of that special occasion and special audience, and his the trepidation lectures, do not know what the response. Until the next day, saw the convener of the SCOTT turn to evaluation, and his hanging in the heart can settle down. One of them wrote, "Please thank him for his lectures gave me the impression too deep, I particularly appreciate his analysis of Confucianism, as well as the way of reasoning through the case."



In good faith



Praise Washington Slim kept a promise



On April 5 this year, Yan Wenjiang in the Oklahoma City University, said when speaking to school students Analects, Confucius requires people to be "faithful" is to talk about integrity, otherwise, "without faith, I do not know its also carts without Ni, car-free crossbar for yoking horses, its why the line of the holy  "means the crossbar, the Ni crossbar for yoking horses are driving the car key components, if lack of good faith, just as the car is missing these key components can not march people can not settle down.



Yanwen Jiang told the students, one of the first president of the United States, Washington 110 Slim rules, that is, "Do not do the things he did not grasp the complete, but to keep their promises" is a kind of integrity and moral. Students hear the lament that "all the great people have a common virtue."



Yan Wenjiang how difficult to understand classical Tell the Americans  He said with a smile, first to translate it into the public kept in the dark of the Chinese, and then the life of the language fluently translated into English. For example, he said, such as Confucius, "People without a letter, I do not know its." He translated: the If a person lacks trustworthiness, I do not know what s, / he can be good for. He said these words of Confucius in fact, stressed that the meaning of "good faith" (Trustworthiness), namely trusted.

Aspirations



"No wife I am today"



Far in the United States, Yan Wenjiang miss home, miss the most in Chongqing, his wife and children. The end of each lecture, he did not forget the audience to promote the beautiful hometown of Chongqing.



Yan Wenjiang choking back tears, said, "I can go today, the expense of the wife, the most grateful and most wronged person is also a wife without her, no I am today."



He still clearly remember the winter of that year, newly married to his pregnant wife, the belly of the four "alms" to help him contact the students to attend English tuition to raise English to foreign trade and economic toll. "Leaving that day, she will be 400 yuan toll handed my hand, the family did not leave a penny." Yan Wenjiang memories of the original situation, could not cry, "She gave me a delicious meal, let me on the train boiling water with hot to eat. "



Now in the Harvard campus, whenever the dead of night, to see his wife before he went abroad he was ready to underwear, socks, shaving knife, Iron Goddess of Mercy, nail clippers and peppers and other items, he almost moved to tears. He said he would like to bring things to his wife and children, but international shipping is too expensive, he tears the domestic tourists to help bring back the request to go travel to Chongqing from the domestic express delivery.



Story



Had to take the coal car into the city looking for foreigners to practice speaking



Yan Wenjiang in the United States can be fluent in English to teach the "Analects of Confucius, his English had also how to excel at it



FAN Hiu-lee wife revealed that her husband had to take the coal car to Chengdu to find foreigners to practice speaking. Yanwen Jiang graduated from the Department of English, Chengdu Teachers assigned to the the Jiangyou thick dam elementary school teacher. Memories to take the coal car to practice the spoken experience, he said calmly, then Saturday 22:00 to Chengdu by thick dam pulling coal cars, and every time he would first buy a pack of "show the world" cigarettes, and handed the doorman clear "relationship" pit-stop and he quietly to catch the last one compartment, curled up on the inside. Compartment beneath the PFA, his face covered with a thick layer of dust. 1:00 the next day to reach the Chengdu North Railway Station, he went to the dawn of the waiting room, pulled out a pocket-sized English-Chinese dictionary to start the word hungry, eat carry rations, hardship to the toilet red one cold water face.



After dawn, he went to the Jinjiang Hotel looking for a foreigner to practice speaking. Every time I see a foreigner, he boldly went up to chat with each other hello "to see the shape of his mouth, listen to the pronunciation in mind the usage, he said."

Behind the scenes



From a poor family students to scholars



Yan Wenjiang home in Xinjin County, Chengdu Ma Township, parents are farmers, poor family. His in Jiangyou thick dam elementary school colleagues, An Yuqi, when others are in the leisure, he has to work hard for.



His spoken English and teaching competence, and soon Chongqing, two outside the former president of Jingdong fancy. In February 1998, he and the same English teacher's wife transferred to the school the following year he received a Graduate Diploma of Western political correspondence.



In early 2000, he was admitted to a graduate of Western political, and graduated in 2003 stayed on to teach. In 2008, he graduated from JD began to apply for Harvard University visiting scholar. April 2011, the application is successful, and won the national scholarship. On August 22 the same year, he was removed to the coveted Harvard campus.



Turning to the husband, wife "studious, Ren Yi, Chi-kin" character evaluation.



Wife FAN Hiu-lee memories, husband of then graduate school in the Western political life force, and every day after school to earn more than 20 yuan income, the triangular monument drugs leaflets.



"There was a time, we were very poor, also can not afford to pay the sponsorship fee, the son of school driven out his wife, tears in her that, in the face of this situation, the middle of the night, the husband gets up and goes to the outside to go, she whispered to out . Suddenly, she saw the husband suddenly kneeling on the ground, broke down in tears, she ran to hugging him, the tears of the two are intertwined.