Lin devoted himself to the study of ancient buildings, and of course he got rich returns. Lin is the first female professor of architecture, the first female architect and the only female architect to reach the peak of the Temple of Heaven in China. . Without Lin's dedication, Liang Sicheng's achievements are unimaginable. He frankly admitted: "I can't help but thank Yin Hui, who supported me with great self-sacrifice." Lin is not only her husband's assistant, she always stands on the same platform with Liang Sicheng to discuss and cooperate. A poet thinks that Lin is actually the source of his (Liang Sicheng) inspiration. (Bian Wen's article "Inside and Outside the Window: Recalling the Forest") Liang Sicheng and Lin often argue over a point of view or even a sentence. In the history of modern architecture in China, Liang Helin has always said that you and I are inseparable.
Ordinary people may only feel the extraordinary talent from Lin's literary works. In fact, her achievements in the field of architectural research are equally outstanding. It was she who first keenly noticed the handwriting on the beam of Beixing Temple, which provided strong evidence for confirming the age of the temple. When the train to Taiyuan passed Yuci, she just glanced out of the window and noticed the abnormality of Yuhua Palace in the distance. Later investigation results confirmed that it was a building built in 1008 in the early Song Dynasty, and it was an important example of simple structure in ancient architecture, which reflected the transition of China's architectural style from Tang Dynasty to Song Dynasty and had a very special position in architectural history.
Lin's literary talent enables her to write her easily boring architectural papers vividly and with literary grace, and some chapters can be read as essays. For example, a brief review of ancient buildings with gold powder begins:
Go to Jinfen in the summer vacation. Outside Fenyang, there are valleys, roads and rivers, which is an excellent place for mountain friends to escape the summer. According to the foothills of Beibiao Mountain, because of the "horse running to the divine spring", this spring kicked the spring under its hoof from Song Taizong to save the thirsty armed forces, and it has not stopped so far. For thousands of years, dozens of mills along the river provided power until the electric mill established the center of Shanxi flour industry in Pingyao. This endless stream of clear water began to idle, leaving only a tortuous picture. Since the grinding of wheels died down, the empty mill has become a summer house for many foreigners.
Speaking of China people's summer resorts, Beidaihe, Guling and Moganshan, which place is not a world opened by foreigners ... So Yudaohe is no exception. In fact, except for a professor who married an English wife and us, all the people who spent the summer in Yudaohe last year were foreigners who preached in the interior of Shanxi, so it can't be said that it is a place for China people to spend the summer. In those short ten days, people have a great feeling of "how few people are".
Taking Fenyangyu River as the base point, I traveled to surrounding counties for many times, stopping at eight counties, including Taiyuan, Wenshui, Fenyang, Xiaoyi, Jiexiu, Lingshi, Huoxian and Zhao Cheng, among which Jiexiu and Zhao Cheng are more than 300 miles apart. Because Tongpu Railway is exploding mountains and under construction, many sections have been destroyed, so in fact, most of them are walking, and the smell is particularly strong. Eating and raining, two weeks of hard and simple life, compared with ordinary cities, there are at least two centuries of differences.
Liang Sicheng has the steady style, rigorous thinking and practical spirit necessary for scholars, but in all fairness, he is obviously inferior to his wife in talent and intelligence. The manuscript drafted by Liang Sicheng can only be published after being revised and polished by his wife. Many flashing sentences in Lin's article are the finishing touch. It is no exaggeration to say that after Lin's death, Liang Sicheng could never write as wonderful and beautiful articles as before.
Lin discovered with the poet's eyes that the hard and cold buildings contained "poetry" and "painting". She said that in her eyes, "no matter which towering ancient city building or the soul of a fallen temple foundation, it is telling and even singing invisibly, and time is unreliable; From the story of Wen Ya children to the killing of rivers of blood. " So she put forward an architectural concept "architectural meaning" (see Miscellanies of Suburban Architecture), which injected humanistic color into architectural research. This is a unique and important achievement of Lin in architecture. China's ancient sages, giants of the European Renaissance, were able to gallop in the two fields of art and science, and even radiated the brilliance of both fields at the same time in a certain achievement. Lin inherited their legacy.