生命的烤火者：杨绛传

This book introduces Yang Jiang without using any skills. The author describes the one-hundred-year long elegant life of Ms. Yang Jiang with delicate and fresh writing style, presenting vividly the wise youth of Yang Jiang, warm family education, diligent school life, and the deep love and harmonious marriage lasting over half a century between her and Qian Zhongshu. Comparing with other biographies, the book focuses more on defining the unique qualities of Yang Jiang: her toughness and optimism in the flames of war, her calmness and rationality in the ten-year riot, and her generosity and tolerance in the long marriage. It allows readers to understand the reasons behind her growing up from a young girl to a generation celebrity lady of full integrity. The legendary life of Yang Jiang can not only inspire women readers to think about their destiny and life experience, but also provide some consolation and healing. Readers are also allowed to learn her bravery, persistence, tenacity and liberality to be a calm woman, and realize internal peace and severity.