1987, Bing Xin recalled this exchange and spoke highly of Lin: "1925, I met Lin in American wild house. At that time, she was the fiancee of Liang Sicheng, a good friend of my boyfriend Wu Wenzao, and the most beautiful female writer I have ever seen. Later, I often saw her poems in New Moon, which really looked like a person. "
It should be said that the beginning and the end are not bad, but the middle process is not wonderful. Everyone knows that Bing Xin's "Our Wife's Living Room" is suspected of satirizing Lin. Today, this novel is a guide to 13 to understand a passage: "Under the window is a short bookshelf with a small collection of foreign poems and essays neatly arranged on it.
There is a set of gold lettering, which is thought to be the complete works of Shakespeare from a distance, but it is Thomas Hardy from a close look. Our wife sneered and said,' Shakespeare, an old man, who has the patience to look at those people!' The person who asked blushed. There are some poems by E.E. Cummings and novels by Aldous Huxley. The questioner has never heard of these names and is afraid to read any more. "
The atmosphere, character background and identity inside are too similar to Lin. Even, the "wife" inside has a daughter named Binbin, and Lin's daughter is called "Zaibing". Li Jianwu once said that Lin himself read the novel and sent an altar of vinegar to Bing Xin.
Many people give high-fives to Lin's practice, and basically think that Bing Xin is jealous of women. However, Qian Zhongshu's Cat is very similar to this one, and it also describes a vain and melodramatic "wife" who likes to convene ministers under the skirt by opening a salon. Bing Xin's perception and cognition of forest may be very common at that time.
It is not so much jealousy as disgust. Although the atmosphere at that time was open, for example, Ding Ling had moved in with Hu Yepin at 1924, and then invited Feng Xuefeng to live together. In 193 1, Xiao Hong also experienced many emotional twists and turns. However, people's understanding of equality between men and women is still superficial, even some famous and accomplished literati are no exception.
Qian Zhongshu and Bing Xin are not frequent visitors to Lin Salon. What they describe is only their imagination of this salon. They can't believe there will be friendship between men and women.
I don't believe that men and women can talk about something valuable together. With a certain dull impression, it is subtle flirting, jealousy between men and all kinds of bad feelings between men and women. In short, a group of vain men and women staged a series of boring dramas.
But in fact, Lin's salon is by no means like this. Li Jianwu once described Lin's performance at the salon like this:
She lacks feminine delicacy. She is interested in any issue, especially literature and art, and has an instinctive and direct perception. Grow rich and have a bumpy fate; Self-cultivation allows her to hide her enthusiasm inside, but enthusiasm is the pillar of her life; She likes to argue with others-because she loves the truth, but she is lonely, lonely and depressed, and always expresses her sadness with poems.
Everyone bowed their heads and spoke in front of her. There was a sudden silence at the banquet. Liang shut up as soon as he entered the room, because they found the versatile lady present. Yang Jinfu smiled and said, "Gong Chao, why do you eat all your food?" Gong Chao put down his chopsticks and pointed eloquently at the emblem. A guest smiled and said, "Gong Chao, if Yin Hui is not here, I will only hear you." Gong Chao protested: "No, there is Dai Zong."
Is Lin, who likes to talk big, a bit like Shi Xiangyun? If she were a man, would anyone imagine and talk about her salon like this? In the final analysis, all kinds of criticisms of Lin are distrust of women's knowledge, believing that women can only attract others with sexual charm. Sadly, this kind of imagination is sometimes even out of the same sex.
Bing Xin also talked about Xu Zhimo's emotional problems, saying: "Zhimo is a butterfly, not a bee. The advantage of a woman is loss, and the disadvantage of a woman is to make him sacrifice." Not to mention this is a bit of a femme fatale, but which woman did Xu Zhimo "sacrifice" for? Love is the interaction and collision between life. There was a woman in ancient times who "tried her best to rest all her life and have a good day".
Jia Baoyu in a dream of red mansions will feel that as long as the woman he loves tears for him, he will die a fair death, and everyone has his own value judgment. It is unwise and impolite for Bing Xin to judge others' feelings at will.
It was only at that time that Xu Zhimo had passed away and could not go back. But Bing Xin's old friend Liang Shiqiu is not polite. 1984, Liang Shiqiu's students took photos of Liang Shiqiu and his second wife, Han Jingqing, to visit Bing Xin. Bing Xin said, "He just can't get through this life!"
Liang's students gave this feedback to Liang, and Liang Shiqiu said, "I, I passed her safely." Bing Xin is also broken.
However, mutual regret between old friends does not hurt a person's vitality. After Liang Shiqiu died, Bing Xin wrote a eulogy for him, and Han Jingqing went to Beijing to visit Bing Xin. Lin and Bing Xin have no such emotional foundation.
1940, in order to avoid the Japanese bombing, Lin, who lives in the suburbs of Kunming, wrote to his girlfriend Wilma, mentioning that Bing Xin wanted to "fly to Chongqing to be an official, and all his belongings had to be transported away by a registered truck made of connections, but now hundreds of people who really hold important positions are not allowed to travel because of limited gasoline. She must be too valuable to our country! "
Bing Xin has no theory about the value of the country. Just from the point that Bing Xin praised Lin many times after his death, Bing Xin is indeed a better person than Lin.
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Brief introduction of Lin
Lin's life, whether it is about her emotional entanglements with several literary masters, her literary talent, or even her outstanding achievements in architecture, has made her a legendary woman. About Lin's brief introduction, the discussion about Lin's life is even more heated.
Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Lin is the earliest female architect in China. She was named a talented woman because Hu Shi praised her as a "talented woman of China generation", which has been passed down to this day. Besides her best poems, Lin's literary works include letters, essays, translations, novels, plays and so on. However, literature is only a sideline of Lin.
From Lin's brief introduction, we can know that Lin had the opportunity to travel to Europe when he was a teenager, and some experiences in Europe made Lin firmly believe that he would devote his life to architectural research.
Taking this as a starting point, Lin completed the course of architecture, began to inspect, repair and rebuild ancient buildings around the country, and also served as the design and guidance of the masterpiece Monument to the People's Heroes. Lin's achievements in architecture are by no means comparable to those of ordinary people.
Although Lin often gives people the impression of being a gentle and honest woman in history, Lin's pursuit of architecture is very persistent.
In 1950s, China was faced with a situation of ruins. During this period, many scholars advocated that some ancient buildings should be completely demolished for the construction of new China, but Lin and her husband Liang Sicheng insisted on protecting ancient buildings and even argued with other famous scholars in public many times.
Although Lin made many achievements, his illness worsened again and again, and finally he died.
Brief introduction of bing Xin
Brief introduction of Bing Xin. ? Bing Xin, formerly known as Xie Wanying, took the pen name Bing Xin. Bing Xin's ancestral home is Changle, Fujian, and he was born in Fuzhou, Fujian. She is a famous woman writer, poet, writer and translator. He has served as honorary chairman of the Central Committee of China Association for Promoting Democracy, vice chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and honorary director of China Translators Association.
Bing Xin's works, including poems and essays, have a certain position and influence in the literary world, and are called "spring body" and "starry body" by contradictions. Let's take a look at the introduction of Bing Xin.
Bing Xin once dreamed that she could be a doctor to heal the wounded and rescue the dying, so she was admitted to the Science Department of Union Women's University, but later, influenced by the New Culture Movement and the May 4th Movement, she transferred to the Literature Department to study. During this period, she wrote a novel "When You Are Lonely and Poor" and a collection of poems "Spring with Stars".
In the Morning Post, Bing Xin published his first novel Two Families under the pseudonym Bing Xin for the first time. Because of the great reflection of social problems and the present situation in the works, it soon had an impact.
After finishing college in yenching university, Bing Xin went to the United States to study, specializing in literature. There, I also met my future husband, Wu Wenzao, and they became attached to each other.
Bing Xin chose to return to China after obtaining a master's degree in literature, and taught in several universities successively. Later, she married Wu Wenzao. After marriage, Bing Xin followed her husband to study in Europe and America and traveled to many countries in literature. During the Anti-Japanese War, Bing Xin wrote an article entitled "About Women" under the pseudonym of "Man", and later launched literary salvation movements in Chongqing and Kunming.
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People's Daily Online-Exposing the Disagreement between Bing Xin and Lin Yin's Lady's Living Room