Lin was born in a bureaucratic intellectual family in Minhou, Fujian. Father Lin Changmin studied in Japan in his early years. 19 16 entered Beijing Peihua Girls' High School, 1920 traveled to Europe with his father Lin Changmin, and entered St. Mary's Girls' School in London in the same year. 192 1 Returned to Peihua Girls' High School. 1923 participated in the activities of crescent society. From 65438 to 0924, he studied in the United States, entered the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Pennsylvania, and took architectural courses. 1927 graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree. In the same year, he entered the drama school of Yale University. /kloc-0 married Liang Sicheng in Ottawa, Canada in March, 928. After marriage, he went to Europe to inspect architecture and returned to China in August of the same year. In the early 1930s, Lin and her husband Liang Sicheng used modern scientific methods to study ancient architecture in China, becoming pioneers in this academic field, and later made great academic achievements in this field. In literature, she wrote a lot in her life, including essays, poems, novels, plays, translations and letters, all of which are excellent works. Her representative works include You Are April Day on Earth and the novel Ninety-nine Degrees.