The current situation of Yang Xianyi s children, Yang Xianyi s legendary life

Yang Xianyi is a translator and poet with the name of Laling.

Yang Xianyi's experience is legendary. He was born in Tianjin in 1915, the son of his father, Rolling Qin, and several uncles, who had studied in many countries.

In 1934, Yang Xianyi went to London to study, and in 1936 he entered Merton College, Oxford, where he studied ancient Greek and Bila Roman literature, medieval French literature, and English literature. During this period, he traveled to Europe with Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang and his wife, and several translators.

At Oxford University, he met Dai Naidie, an English girl born in Beijing. In 1940, they returned to China together, and a few months later, they were married in Chongqing.

In 1990, Yang Xianyi wrote an autobiography in English. In 2001, the book was translated back into Chinese and published.

Dai Naidie died in Beijing in 1999 at the age of 80. Ten years later, Yang Xianyi also died in Beijing in 2009 at the age of 95.

According to the autobiography "Memories of the Year of the Leaky Ship and Wine", he was born on the 27th day of the winter month of the Jiayin year, that is, on January 12, 1915 in the Gregorian calendar; The lunar calendar is still the winter of the Jiayin year (1914), and the Spring Festival of the Yimao year (1915) has not yet arrived. Her younger sister Yang Yi is also a translator. In 1982, Yang Xianyi initiated and presided over the "Panda Book Series", which aimed to fill the gap in the West's understanding of Chinese literature, and reopened the window of communication between Chinese literature and the outside world.

In this series, there are not only classical Chinese literary classics such as "The Book of Poetry", "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Mirror Flower", but also "Furong Town", "Heavy Wings", and modern and contemporary Chinese literary works by Ba Jin, Shen Congwen, Sun Li, Xin Fengxia, Wang Meng and others.

In addition, he also wrote the English autobiographical "White Tiger Star Follows the Order", the Italian translation of the book is called "From the Rich Young Master to the Party Member Comrade", and the Chinese translation is "The Leaky Boat Carries Wine and Reminiscences", which was published by Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House in April 2001 as a "Hundred Years of Life Series", translated by Xue Hongshi, and printed 10,000 copies.

At 6:45 a.m. on November 23, 2009, the famous Chinese translator, expert on foreign literature, cultural historian and poet passed away at the Beijing Coal General Hospital at the age of 95.

Yang Xianyi, whose ancestral home is Liangji Village, Baoji Town, Xuyi, Huai'an (now Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province), is a famous Chinese translator, expert in foreign literature research, and poet. Yang Xianyi and his wife Dai Naidie have cooperated in translating many Chinese historical masterpieces such as "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "The Outer History of Confucianism", which have been well received abroad and have had a wide impact.