1927, 26-year-old Liang Sicheng received his bachelor's and master's degrees and went to Harvard University to study architectural history and study ancient architecture in China. The following year, he married Lin at the Consulate General of China in Ottawa.
After returning to China, Liang Sicheng taught at Shenyang Northeastern University, where he founded the first architecture department in the history of modern education in China. 1929, Liang Sicheng returned to Beiping from the northeast, and named himself and Lin's daughter in memory of his late father Liang Qichao's "ice drinking room".
Liang Sicheng devoted himself to the research and protection of ancient buildings in China in his later years. He is an architectural historian, educator and architect, and is known as the father of modern architecture in China. Liang Sicheng was an academician of Academia Sinica (1948) and a member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of China Academy of Sciences, and participated in the design of the Monument to the People's Heroes, National Emblem of the People's Republic of China and other works.