1June, 904, Lin was born in a blue brick building in Hangzhou Lane. His father, Lin Changmin, was a senator, justice and chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee of the State Council, and was a famous constitutionalist in the early years of the Republic of China.
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1June, 904, Lin was born in a blue brick building in Hangzhou Lane. His father, Lin Changmin, was a senator, justice and chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee of the State Council, and was a famous constitutionalist in the early years of the Republic of China. /kloc-when he was 0/4 years old, Lin met Liang Sicheng, the son of Liang Qichao, a social celebrity and father friend at that time. 16 years old, my father went to Europe for investigation and travel, and lived in London for one year. Influenced by female architects nearby, he decided to study architecture in the future. During his stay in England, he followed his father into social circles including H.G. Welsh, E.M. Foster, A. Willie, T. Hardy, B. Rothschild and K. Mansfield, and met Xu Zhimo who was studying in England at that time. After returning to China a year later, Liang Sicheng and I became closer and closer. 1923, Xu zhimo and others established the crescent society in Beijing, and Lin and Liang Sicheng became members of the society. 1924 can be said to be the year when Lin began to make his mark in the upper cultural and social circles. That year, Nobel Prize in Literature-winning Indian poet Tagore visited China at the invitation of Liang Qichao and Lin Changmin. The literary world held a welcome party on the lawn of the Temple of Heaven. Lin was Tagore's translator. At that time, the media reported: "Miss Lin is gorgeous as a flower, walking arm in arm with the old man, and Xu Zhimo in a white robe is on a desert island, like a picture of three friends in Zhu Mei."
What makes Lin and Xu Zhimo more public is that on May 8 of that year, Crescent Society held a party in Peking Union Medical College Auditorium to celebrate Tagore's 64th birthday. Lin starred in Tagore's lyric drama Zidra, Lin played Princess Zidra, Xu Zhimo played Madana, the goddess of love, Fasentan, and Liang Sicheng served as a set designer. The next day, the Morning Post reported that the performance was unprecedented. "Ms. Lin's attitude is both disgusting and wonderful."
This experience made the romantic Xu Zhimo turn his good impression of Lin in England into a love affair that he couldn't stop. Which one Lin chose was probably an excellent conversation material for some people at that time, and it was also the result of the keen detective of tabloid lace.
But just one month later, Lin and Liang Sicheng went to the United States to study together. Both Liang Lin chose the architecture department of Pennsylvania State University, because the architecture department of Pennsylvania University didn't recruit girls at that time. Lin transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts, but her major was architecture.
From 65438 to 0927, Lin graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree, and Liang Sicheng graduated from the Department of Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania with a master's degree. After graduation, Lin entered a stage art design studio of Yale University to study dance beauty design, while Liang Sicheng worked as an intern in a famous American architectural firm at that time. 1928, Lin and Liang Sicheng got married in the Consulate General of China, and Liang Sicheng's brother-in-law is the Consul General.
The differences between modern ladies and ordinary new women are similar on the surface, but they will show some differences when choosing marriage, especially in the ordinary and long marriage life. They may not lack passion, but the former lasts and the latter makes public; They all long for romance, but the former includes romance in ordinary daily life, while the latter is often accompanied by more conflict and drama. If Lin is the latter, it is hard to imagine whether Tagore will be involved in a love triangle or put on a stormy romantic tragicomedy after she leaves.
However, she is Lin, and her family background and upbringing make her the wisest choice. Between the romantic poet and the future down-to-earth architect, she chose the down-to-earth one. Between enjoying instant vanity and pursuing intellectual ideals, she chose her studies and ideals. She knows very well that "Xu Zhimo loves not the real me at that time, but the forest he imagined with the poet's romantic feelings, but I am not the person he thought" (Liang Congjie: April Day suddenly fell on earth). With this choice, she didn't become a new woman who made a living by writing and suffered from it, like Ding Ling, Shi Pingmei or Lu Yin of her contemporaries, starting with the pursuit of free love and then fighting for it. She stepped into the ordinary life of a housewife, but she became the most extraordinary woman in the cultural circle of Beijing School.
The Wife's Living Room: A sitcom of Beijing School Knowledge
A few days later, I received a letter from Mr. Shen (Shen Congwen) to the effect that an extremely clever lady took a fancy to your article "Silkworm" and invited you to her house for tea.
On Saturday ... I followed Mr. Shen from Daziying into the famous "Lady's Living Room" in Zongbu Hutong. It was the first time I saw Lin.
Before I went, I heard that this young lady had a serious lung disease, and then the lung disease was as terrible as today's cancer. I thought she must be half-lying in bed in her pajamas to meet us, but that day she wore riding clothes and talked a lot, quickly and excitedly. Not only did Mr. Shen and I not interrupt, but even Liang Sicheng and Jin here just sat on the sofa, smoking their pipes and nodding their heads in appreciation. She didn't mention a word "sick" at all.
Since then, I have often seen her at Mr. Zhu Guangqian's "poetry recital" and followed everyone in calling her "Miss", but she is not the kind of Miss Jiao who can only giggle, but a critic with profound knowledge, quick thinking and sharp language.
The above excerpt is from Xiao Gan's Preface to the Forest, in which he mentioned the scene when he first saw Lin. Because this kind of leisure was too personal and niche in the social environment at that time, it inevitably made people feel like a sitcom describing a certain type of intellectuals in China in the 1930s.
At that time, intellectuals were a minority in society and spiritual aristocrats, and women with good education and outstanding appearance like Lin were rare. She admits that she was brought up with bicultural education. English is an internal way of thinking and expression, an inspiration and a complete cultural world for her. The integration of Chinese and western cultures has created a "cultural forest emblem". She is a poet and has written dozens of poems in her life. She is obviously influenced by Xu Zhimo in her poetry creation, but she has her own characteristics. Architect Liang Sicheng once told her students that Lin painted all the finishing touches in her works. But she is not entirely a poet or an architect. Lin is such a multi-faceted and multi-faceted culture, which can be integrated into the male-dominated Beijing intellectuals at that time, and her interaction with them constitutes a very unique landscape.
At that time, there were poets from Crescent Society, editors and authors of Morning Post Supplement, and of course, friends and relatives of Lin and Liang Sicheng in academic circles. Most of these people were deeply influenced by China's traditional culture in their youth, and they were exposed to the May 4th democracy and scientific knowledge when they were young. They went abroad to study and were nourished by western culture. Intellectuals in ancient and modern times, as a special group, have a profound understanding and attainments of China's traditional culture and a good understanding and mastery of western culture. What they are talking about is nothing more than knowledge and art. Compared with the public intellectuals who participated in the tide of social change, they are less intense and more leisurely. However, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the members of this group either stayed in the National The National SouthWest Associated University in Yunnan, or stayed in the mountain city of Chongqing, or stayed in Yibin, Sichuan. They are unmoved by material desires and don't go with the flow, but they stick to their inner purity in difficulties. That kind of indifference makes people see a kind of spirit, verve and verve different from impetuous and glaring at King Kong. Whether wearing a robe, jacket or suit, it also feels like a yellow bell and a mainstay, with a golden stone temperament.
Liang Congjie once recalled that Liang Sicheng and Lin followed the scene of building a cooperative in Lizhuang to avoid Japanese bombing. Liang Congjie chatted with his mother and asked, what would you do if the Japanese called Sichuan? Lin particularly calmly replied: Don't China scholars have an old road? Isn't the Yangtze River right in front of our house? In fact, she showed the integrity of traditional intellectuals. Liang Congjie later said: When I looked at my mother, I felt that she was not the mother I knew. She seems to be a different person, so detached in the face of death. Weimar's description of the memorial forest reflects the perseverance of such intellectuals:
Kunming was bombed by enemy planes, and the Lin family and members of China Construction Society moved to Lizhuang, Nanxi County, Sichuan Province. At this time, it was in the middle and late period of the Anti-Japanese War, with high prices and lack of materials. Because of the recurrence of lung disease, Lin Hui can't even buy medicine, and even rely on the support of friends to maintain daily family expenses. Her health is seriously damaged. She is often bedridden with fever, but Lin is not lazy. She read through the twenty-four histories in her hospital bed and accumulated rich materials, which helped Liang Sicheng write the Architectural History of China, which was the first time that China people wrote the architectural history of their own country.
Career dreams and marriage feelings complement each other.
There are many camel gangs in the station square. This is the first time for Lin to see large groups of camels, hundreds of camels, bimodal and unimodal, ochre and white, teams pouring in and teams passing by. The sky is low, the camel is tall and proud, and the huge iron bell under its neck rings sadly in the sunset in September. It's like an ancient song from a distant time ...
This is 1933. Liang Sicheng and his like-minded wife Lin set foot on the land of Shanxi for the first time and just left Datong Railway Station. Dynamic scenes are described as Hollywood classic western blockbusters. I think the color of the picture should be golden yellow. This is precisely the most wonderful and textured part of Lin's life.
The author of Biography of Lin said that Liang Sicheng studied architecture because Lin likes architecture. Architecture is the cause of both husband and wife, and it is also the basis of emotional communication.
From 1930 to 1945, their husband and wife traveled all over the country 15 provinces, more than 200 counties, and surveyed more than 200 ancient buildings. Many ancient buildings have gained the understanding of the world and the whole country through their investigation and have been protected since then. For example, there are stone bridges in Zhaozhou, Hebei Province, wooden pagodas in Yingxian County and Wukeji in Wutai Mountain. It is precisely because of several visits to Shanxi's ancient buildings that Liang Sicheng solved the structural mystery of China's ancient buildings and completed the interpretation of "architectural style".
Lin has both the aesthetic feeling and imagination of poets and the meticulous and pragmatic spirit of scientists. Lin, Liang Sicheng of Shanxi Construction Society and their colleagues have not only made great contributions to scientific research, but also made many national treasure ancient buildings buried in Shanxi wasteland go global and become known to the world. Lin observed the carvings, patterns, lines and patterns of ancient buildings in detail. Her research on decorative patterns, lines and patterns of ancient buildings played a role in her design of the National Emblem of China and the Monument to the People's Heroes.
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After human beings entered the history of civilization, women have been submerged in the black hole of history. The liberation of women is much longer than the loss of matriarchal system-the worldwide failure of women. On the road of women's liberation, China started more than 200 years later than the West. However, this does not affect the depth of self-awakening and the quality of self-realization of female dreamers in China in the 20th century. Quite a few of them flaunt their independent character in the form of new literature, which makes us see a beautiful life different from the traditional "ivory color" and full of youth and times. Lin should be a very special one in this group. In the face of such a woman, if we still want to pester her emotions, then the philosopher Jin is said to be sincere in staying unmarried for life, which can best explain her mood. If we still want to remember her talent, then her poems and essays, as well as the works she completed with Liang Sicheng, are not enough to show the whole of her talent, because those witty words full of intellectuality and spirituality are absolutely famous all over the world; If we want to remember her elegance and the ego that intellectual women can't bear to give up, then the living room of the wife who stays in Xiao Gan's memory and Bing Xin's novels will always be a stage full of golden mean associations. If we have to remember her persistence and sincerity, then her life's illness and the numerous ancient temples in the wilderness accompanied by Liang Sicheng's inspection are enough to prove that she cried for the death of those relatives and friends and that she is indeed a rare real woman.