From 193 1 to 1946, I participated in the investigation of ancient buildings in China, covering Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places.
1946, he served as a professor in the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University, teaching the course "Architectural History of China" and offering special courses such as "Residential Overview" for graduate students. 1949 participated in the design of China people's * * * and national emblem; 195 1 designed ornamentation and relief patterns for the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square; 195 1 investigated the production technology of cloisonne, designed a number of new cloisonne patterns with national style, and personally participated in the test.
1950, member and engineer of Beijing Urban Planning Commission. 1953 was elected as the member of the first Council of China Architectural Society, the editorial board of Architectural Journal and the member of China Architectural Research Association.
The projects involved in the design include geological museum of Peking University and the student dormitory of Grey Building. Yunnan University Student Dormitory and Tsinghua University Teacher Dormitory. Decoration project of Huairentang in Zhongnanhai, etc.
The architectural papers mainly include Several Features of China Architecture, Miscellaneous Notes on Boxer Architecture (co-authored with Liang Sicheng), Introduction to Chapter 1 of Qing-style Building Rules, Overview of Gold-dust Ancient Buildings (signed by Lin and Liang Sicheng), and Discussion on the Architectural Age Identification of Tianning Temple (signed by Lin and Liang Sicheng).
Her literary works mainly include dozens of poems such as Who Loves the Same, Laughter, Qingyuan, One Day, Passion, Daydream and Fantasy. The drama "Mei Zhen and them"; The short story "Embarrassment". Ninety-nine degrees, etc Prose "Out of the Window", "A piece of sunshine" and so on. People's Literature Publishing House published Poems of Lin (1985); People's Literature Publishing House and Hong Kong Sanlian Bookstore jointly edited and published Lin (one of the selected works of modern writers in China).
Lin is a talented woman in China architecture in the 20th century.
In 1930s, Lin lived in Buhu, Dongcheng District, Beijing. At the same time, her living room is called "Mrs. Living Room". At that time, a group of literary masters, including Zhu Guangqian, Liang and Jin, often gathered here to have a cup of tea, have some snacks and talk about literature and art all over the world, ancient and modern, at home and abroad. Lin has always been the most active figure in Madame's Living Room. Her eyes sparkle because of this spirit when she reads poems and debates. Friends are an important part of Lin's life, and her Excellence is also due to their appreciation and encouragement.
Writer Xiao Gan met Lin in The Lady's Living Room. It was 1930, when Xiao Gan was editing the journal China Briefing with An Lan from the United States. Introduced by his teacher Yang Zhensheng, Xiao Gan visited Shen Congwen. After this meeting, he wrote an exclusive interview with the topic "An Outstanding Humanitarian Satire in China Today", which was published in China Briefing. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/933, Xiao Gan sent his first novel Silkworm to Shen Congwen for comments. At that time, Shen Congwen was compiling Ta Kung Pao Literary Supplement. He made some revisions to Xiao Gan's manuscript and published it, which benefited Xiao Gan a lot. Xiao Gan's manuscript is now on display in China Museum of Modern Literature. On that day, Xiao Gan, a third-grade student in yenching university, wore a brand-new blue gown and came to the "Mrs. Living Room" with Shen Congwen. Xiao Gan has long heard that Lin's lung disease is very serious. In her imagination, she should look sick. Who knows that when he saw Lin, he couldn't help but stay. I saw her wearing a cycling suit. She looked beautiful and moving, like an athlete. It turns out that she often goes riding in clubs run by foreigners with her friends. The first sentence Lin Yinhui said to Xiao Gan was: "You write with emotion, which is rare." This gave Xiao Gan great encouragement. Shen Congwen often goes to the Lins' home. He grew up in western Hunan and has a very rich life foundation. Lin likes his works very much, because there are strange plots and special characters in them, which she has never heard of. When Shen Congwen meets anything, he will also go to the Lins for comfort. One day, Shen Congwen almost rushed to the Lins in tears and said that his wife had gone to Suzhou's maiden. He writes to his wife every day, but he doesn't understand. Lin believes that this is life, and life should have joys and sorrows. Lin met Shen Congwen and Xiao Gan in her living room, but after her death, teachers and students turned against each other, which she never expected.
On 1932, Lin and Liang Sicheng met American friends Fei Zhengqing and Wilma, who happened to live in the same alley. Fei Zhengqing said: "China has a great influence on us, and Mr. and Mrs. Liang have played an important role in our life experience in China." Sometimes, when Mr. and Mrs. Fei Zhengqing go to Liang's home together, they see Lin and Liang Sicheng reciting China's classical poems in the "madam's living room". The cadence and methodical tone fascinated the guests. In addition, they can compare China's poems with those of British poets Keats, Tennyson or American poet Vachel Lindsay. Fei Zhengqing once talked with them about Harvard Square, artists and exhibits from new york, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and the baggs campus of Cambridge University. Because Wilma has a hobby of repairing rubbings, he and Lin have more in common.
Investigation and discovery of architecture in Tang Dynasty
Liang Sicheng's Example of Qing Architecture 1932 was published in March, but it was not published by China Architecture Society until 1934. In addition to writing an introduction to the book, Lin also spent a lot of energy adding, deleting and modifying the manuscript several times from beginning to end, as well as shooting and selecting photos. Liang Sicheng wrote in the preface: At least, she is half the author of this book. Lin is an archaeologist, but she has made great achievements in this science by combining scientists' meticulous thinking, historians' philosophical thinking and writers' and artists' passion. At that time, most of Liang Sicheng's papers and investigation reports were polished by her, so later Liang Sicheng often told people that most of the "eyes" in his articles were "touched" by Lin.
At the beginning of 1935, the Nanjing government decided to repair and maintain the Confucius Temple in Qufu, Shandong. Liang Sicheng visited the Confucius Temple in Qufu and worked out a restoration plan. Just then, Lin's tuberculosis recurred. The doctor in the hospital asked her to stay in bed for three years, but Lin only promised to rest for half a year. Every day, besides sleeping, Lin writes. In February, the poem "Yi" was selected as the China Literary Yearbook edited by Yang Jinhao and published by Shanghai Beixin Bookstore. /kloc-in June, her poem "Hanging Wade" was published in the 6th issue of Volume 7 of Literature and Art Monthly. Her novels Lv Zhong, Ji Gong, Poems on the Bell Tower and essays commemorating the fourth anniversary of Xu Zhimo's death were published in Ta Kung Pao Literary Supplement. In addition, she also wrote a poem "Inspiration", which was unpublished before her death, and was later included in the Collection of Poems of Lin published by 1985. 1936 In May, Lin felt that he had recovered, so he went to Luoyang with Liang Sicheng and visited the Longmen Grottoes with Chen Mingda. Then I visited Guan Yu's tomb in the southern suburb of Luonan, visited many Song pagodas in Kaifeng, and visited Dai Temple at the foot of Mount Tai in Tai 'an, where the emperor offered sacrifices.
The Japanese once asserted that there were no wooden buildings of the Tang Dynasty in China. To see the wooden buildings in the Tang Dynasty, people can only go to Nara, Japan. However, Liang Sicheng and Lin believe that in a place as big as China, there will definitely be wooden buildings in the Tang Dynasty. They went to the library to look up a lot of information and made a great discovery. In the Catalogue of Dunhuang Grottoes written by French sinologist pelliot, the study of two murals in the Tang Dynasty attracted their attention. These two murals depict a panoramic view of Wutai Mountain, a Buddhist holy place, and indicate the names of the temples. Liang Sicheng saw a book "Records of Liang Qingshan (Wutai Mountain, Shanxi Province)" in Beiping Library, which contained the records of Koji Boogu. Liang Sicheng and Lin estimated that due to the inconvenient transportation, there are not many pilgrims here, which is more conducive to the preservation of ancient buildings. They decided to take a chance.
1June, 937, Liang Sicheng, Lin, Mo and Ji Yutang took the train to Taiyuan. After that, take the bus, change to ride a mule halfway and head for Wutai Mountain. On the steep mountain road, sometimes even the animals refused to move forward, so they had to pull the donkey. After walking for two days, I arrived at Beikeji, 60 miles northeast of Wutai County. I saw the wooden structures, clay sculptures, stone carvings, murals and ink marks of the Tang Dynasty there, as well as the Wei (or Qi) Tang tombs and stone carvings inside and outside the temple, all gathered together and lined up. This is a treasure among China's historical relics.
Liang Sicheng described their situation in Beikeji in detail in the article Looking for Ancient Buildings. He said that they started a careful investigation the next day. The bucket arch, beam frame, caisson and carved column foundation have all been carefully investigated, and the characteristics of the late Tang Dynasty have been clearly demonstrated, both individually and collectively. When they climbed into the dark space above the algae well, they saw a roof structure there, using double "main rafters" (to borrow the term of modern roof truss), which was only found in Tang Dynasty paintings. There are thousands of bats living in this "attic", and they gather on the roof purlin, so that he can't find the date that may be written on it. Besides, there are bugs in the wood, and Qian Qian definitely eats bat blood. They wear thick masks to cover their noses and mouths, and spend hours measuring, drawing and taking pictures with flashlights in the dark and unbearable polluted air.
On the third day of working in the mourning hall, Lin noticed the faint handwriting under a beam. The impact of this discovery on everyone is like an electric shock. Nothing is more gratifying than the date actually written on the temple beam or engraved on the stone. When everyone was busy setting up scaffolding in the Buddha statue to clean the beam and check the nearby inscriptions, she leaned her head back as far as possible, trying to identify the words on the beam from different angles. After some efforts, I recognized some vague names, and Lin had a long official position in the Tang Dynasty. The most important one is the rightmost beam. At that time, it was faintly discernible: "Ning, a Buddhist temple master and apprentice." The stone pillars in front of the outer steps are carved in the 11th year of the Tang Dynasty, which is equivalent to 857 AD. After returning to Peiping, Lin met Zhu Ziqing and Xiao Gan and described the inspection to them with great interest. Beijujitang, discovered by Lin and his companions, was the oldest known wooden structure in China at that time.
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/kloc-in the autumn of 0/948, a girl named came to Lin's house. She is not tall, with an oval face and regular features. Lin died in 1955 and married Liang Sicheng in 1962.
1948 After graduating from high school, Zhu Lin and her boyfriend Cheng Yingquan came to Tsinghua University. Cheng Yingquan teaches in the Department of Architecture, and Zhu Lin wants to study in a preparatory class. Introduced by Cheng Yingquan, he visited Lin. As soon as she entered the door, she heard a violent cough from inside. Lin asked about college entrance. Zhu Lin said he couldn't get in. He thinks math, chemistry and Chinese are ok, but the most difficult thing is English. Lin smiled and said, "You are the opposite of our children. They are all afraid of math. Why are you afraid of English? " She told English that it was not terrible, and then Lin talked about the history of Beijing and the Summer Palace. She said: "The front mountain of the Summer Palace is too tacky, and the essence of the Summer Palace lies in the back mountain. Shen Congwen now lives in a humorous garden. You can go to him and ask him to be a guide. "
Because Tsinghua didn't have a preview class, Zhu Lin had to review by himself, and sometimes he went to listen to lectures on the history of western architecture given by Liang Sicheng and several other professors. Knowing this, Lin decided to teach English alone and made it a rule to go to class every Tuesday and Friday afternoon. Lin is very strict in class, which makes rapid progress. Lin's health is getting worse. When winter comes, there must be heating in the room, so Liang Sicheng burns heating for Lin every day. This is a very tiring job. It is necessary to control the temperature when adding coal and pouring slag in the big stove. Liang Sicheng dare not give this job to others. Besides, he gives Lin injections regularly every day, including intramuscular injection and intravenous injection, while Liang Sicheng is a metropolis. In order to make Lin sit comfortably, Liang Sicheng arranged various cushions and washers for her. Zhu Lin saw this scene and thought: What a good husband he is!
Lin arranged his first marriage. At that time, Zhu Lin received a letter from her parents asking her to marry Cheng Yingquan as soon as possible. In order to prepare for the wedding, Zhu Lin is going to sell her jewels. I didn't know how to let Lin know about it, so I said to her, "The Construction Society has a special fund to support young students. You can use this money first and pay it back later. " He said, and handed the passbook to Zhu Lin. The next day, when Zhu Lin went to the bank to withdraw money, he found Liang Sicheng's name written on it. In the future, whenever I want to pay back the money, Lin always changes the subject. It was not until the "Cultural Revolution" that I realized that the Institute of Architecture had already closed down the money that Lin gave her. It was actually Lin's own money!
1948 12 13 the PLA entered the Tsinghua campus in the suburbs of Beijing and advanced towards Beiping city. Late one night, my old friend came to Lin's house with two soldiers. It turns out that they are the heads of the liaison office of the political department of the 13 th Corps of the People's Liberation Army. The visitor came straight to the point and said, "Professor Liang, I am entrusted by the siege troops of the People's Liberation Army. I would like to ask you for advice. What famous buildings and cultural relics need to be protected in the city? Please mark their position accurately on this map so that our army can avoid it when attacking the city. " Liang Sicheng and Lin were deeply moved. Liang Sicheng not only accurately marked the location of key cultural relics in Peiping on the military map of Peiping, but also took out the National Catalogue of Architectural Cultural Relics recorded when leading students to collect ancient architecture documents, handed it over to the PLA cadres and explained it in detail. Later, the military map of Beiping became a key cultural relic map of Beiping, which was hung on the wall of Mao Zedong command post in Xibaipo.
After liberation, Lin was employed as a first-class professor in the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University, and participated in the design of the national flag, national emblem and monument to the people's heroes with Liang Sicheng. At that time, art troupes often went to universities to perform. Zhu Lin had never come into contact with those yangko that showed farmers, and felt it was very fresh, so he told Lin. Lin is very interested in. Once, Tsinghua University staged a large-scale Yangko opera "Revenge of Blood and Tears". Lin insisted on going after learning about it. I had to leave a seat for her, but Lin just walked a few steps away from home, coughing and breathing, so I had to go home and lie down.
In the early 1950s, the leaders of Beijing Municipal Committee decided to demolish a large number of city walls and towers. People remember that Liang Sicheng had made a painful struggle for this, but Lin did his best. By 1954, Lin was terminally ill, and she was still dragging her trembling body to argue with the leaders of the municipal party Committee at that time. She said to them with emotion, "What you dismantled is a real antique with a history of 800 years. In the future, you will regret it sooner or later What you want to build then is a fake antique! " History has proved that everything she said is right.
Lin died on April 1 day, 0955, at the age of 5 1 year.
Since 1930s, Lin has enjoyed a high reputation in both poetry and architecture. Her talent, beauty and love legend are well known by the TV series April Day on Earth. The criticism of scholars and relatives that the play is far from historical facts has aroused the interest of readers at home and abroad.
Memories Outside the Window is the first album in China where many people recall Lin. It contains nearly 30 articles by famous writers, architects, relatives and students, and records her extraordinary close friendship with Liang Sicheng, Xu Zhimo and Jin and her dedication to the cause from different angles.
Coincidentally, almost everyone who has been to the Lins' home especially appreciates her famous "living room".
The hostess's tea party for Xiao Gan, a young literary artist, was "like a whip on the hind leg of a fledgling pony." In order to maintain such a healthy and vivid life, in the 6th issue of China Writers and Artists in 2000, Liu Xiaoqin specially collected the memories of Living Room of different majors, different ages, different nationalities and different times into an article, leading readers to "walk into Yin Hui's living room".
You will find that when "truth" is not recorded for the sake of unreality, the past speaks for itself.
Here are some excerpts.
The extensiveness of characters
Before the Anti-Japanese War 10 years, there was a tea party at Mr. Jin's house every Saturday afternoon. Before the Anti-Japanese War, Mr. Jin lived in Beijing for six or seven years in a small courtyard in Dongbei Zongbu Hutong. This house has two houses. Mr. Liang Sicheng and Mrs. Lin Yinhui live in the front yard. Mr. King lives in the backyard. He often invites friends to his house for tea on Saturday afternoon. Over time, this has become a habit. Every Saturday afternoon, he prepares some refreshments to wait for his friends at home, and friends often visit him as uninvited guests. Some of them are regulars, some are rare visitors and some are strangers. Sometimes there are special guests he invites on a whim. I am one of the regular customers. Of course, academia is the most frequent place to go. Of course, in academic circles, colleagues from Peking University, Tsinghua and Yanjing are the most. But students are not excluded. I remember once or twice when I was a frequent visitor, I met some female classmates in yenching university.
Ms. Han is one of them. She is a China writer and now she often visits China. There are also foreign scholars in academia. I once met Dr. Walter B. Cannon, president of Harvard University, said at his Saturday tea party in the 1930s. Accompanied by his daughter Wilma and son-in-law Fei Zhengqing, they are also frequent visitors to Kim Jong-un's home. In addition, his guests were literati, poets and literary and art circles in the Pingjin area at that time. Once, at his tea party, I met several young actors who made their mark in the theater at that time. Another time, I met some old people who played cricket. The universality of characters is the characteristic of this tea party.
(Chen Daisun's "Recalling mr jin yuelin")
This is not gossip.
I first met Lin on a Saturday afternoon in early October. After Mr. Shen Congwen published my novel Silkworm in Ta Kung Pao Literature and Art, he wrote that an extremely clever lady liked my novel very much and invited me to her house for tea.
That day, wearing a newly washed blue gown, I rode to the Shenyang family in Daziying first, and then stepped into the famous "Mrs.' s living room" in the hutong of North General Manager with Mr. Shen.
I heard that Yin Hui has a serious lung disease and often has to stay in bed. But she doesn't look like a patient, wearing a riding suit. She often goes riding with Fei Zhengqing and his wife Wilma (that is, Wilma, editor's note) to the foreigners' club. The first thing she said to me was: "You wrote it with emotion, which is rare." Gave me great encouragement. It is difficult for others to cut in when she is talking. Not to mention Mr. Shen and me, even Liang Sicheng and Jin just sat on the sofa, snapping their pipes and nodding their heads. Yin Hui's talkativeness is by no means the gossip of married women, but is often a knowledgeable, insightful and sharp criticism. Later, I often thought: What a wonderful book it would be if this young lady had a boswell by her side like Dr. Johnson in England in the18th century and recorded her witty and interesting words one by one! She never beats around the bush and is ambiguous. Such pure academic criticism has never been disliked by anyone. I am often moved by Yin Hui's extraordinary artistic understanding.
(Xiao Gan's "A Generation of Talented Women Lin Yinhui")
The center of the party
During the time when we first arrived in Beijing, Yin Hui often took us to friends' parties. We were welcomed by Lao Jin, and others talked, whispered and laughed in Chinese when telling stories, tolerating our existence as "foreigners". When Fei Zhengqing became a teacher in Tsinghua in the second year and we were fluent in Chinese, we were no longer outsiders.
On Saturday afternoons, Lao Jin's parties are often moved to a China restaurant for meetings. One night was particularly unforgettable. On that occasion, Yin Hui told her friends an unusual story at the dinner table. In Liang's messy living room, something always happens, especially the loyal maid, who often goes in and out to tell some troubles and ask her to make up her mind. Every trouble, whether it happens at home or next door, should be solved according to the reason.
Yin Hui's story begins like this: One day, Chen Ma came in in a panic and said that there was a big hole in the roof of his neighbor who lived on the west edge of Liangjiagao fence. She said that the tenants there were too poor to repair the roof and begged Yin Hui to intercede with the landlord. As usual, Yin Hui immediately put down what he was doing and went to investigate the matter himself. After talking to the landlord, she found that the tenant lives in three rooms and only needs to pay 50 copper coins (10 cents) a month. The landlord said that the ancestors of the tenants now rented the house during the Qianlong period 200 years ago and paid a fixed rent every month. As the same family has been living there, according to the law of China, the landlord can't raise the rent. Yin Hui told the story vividly and in detail, and finally ended it with Yin Hui donating a sum of money to the landlord to repair the roof. We laughed and applauded. "You explained to us that the past Beijing still exists impressively, and the emblem is really yours!"
Yin Hui's living room faces south, and the shining sun shines in. It is often crowded with people like Lao Jin's Saturday "home party", and all kinds of people come to the door. In addition to the children and servants running around, there are relatives from all walks of life wearing clothes. Liang's nieces, all in college at that time, liked to bring their classmates to this lively home. They often meet some famous contemporary poets and writers here. They admire Yin Hui's works and are fascinated by Yin Hui's personal charm. Lin is so talented that Xu Zhimo once said that she is "Mansfield of China". )
I often go to Liangjia by bike or rickshaw in the dark. The double doors with red paint were locked, and the servant opened the entrance door of the yard, so I went through the inner garden to find Yin Hui. Sit down in the comfortable corner of the living room and make two cups of hot tea. We can't wait to tell the stories and thoughts we have reserved for each other. We sometimes analyze and compare the different values and lifestyles between China and the United States, but then we will turn to literature, art, adventure and many other common interests and talk about friends that the other side doesn't know.
The talented poet Xu Zhimo is certainly one of them. She talked to me about him from time to time and never stopped thinking about him. I often think that if we talk about all kinds of topics in fluent English with passion, it may be the echo of the vivid dialogue between Xu Zhimo and Lin. I don't think she will ever forget him. When she was a little girl, Xu Zhimo in London opened a wider world for her and guided her to understand the subtleties of English literature and English.
Philosopher Jin, a friend of Xu Zhimo, is called "Laojin" by everyone. In fact, he is a member of the Liang family and lives in a small house next door. There is a small door in Mr. and Mrs. Liang's living room, which goes through "Laojin's small yard" to his home. He often goes in through this door to attend Mr. and Mrs. Liang's party. On Saturday afternoon, when Lao Jin and his old friends got together at home, the flow reversed. At this time, Mr. and Mrs. Liang crossed his small yard, went into his back room and mingled with the guests, who were also their close friends.
This group of people are close colleagues of Lao Jin in the university, including two political scientists. Zhang Xiruo, a principled, straightforward and impressive person; Qian Duansheng, an analyst with Sharp China Government, is very interested in international affairs. Chen Daisun, a tall, noble and unsmiling economist. There are also two elderly professors who are outstanding in their respective fields: Li Ji, an anthropologist and archaeologist from Harvard, led the team of Academia Sinica to explore the Yin Ruins in Anyang; Tao Menghe, a sociologist, studied in London and is currently the director of the Institute of Social Studies, Academia Sinica. Like architect Liang Sicheng and logician Lao Jin, these people are modernists. Modernists who are determined to study China's past and present by scientific methods. On Saturday, some of their wives will also attend and participate in a lively conversation.
Every old friend will remember how Yin Hui monopolized the whole conversation endlessly.
Her talkativeness is well known, but surprisingly, she is also good at writing, and her conversation is as creative as her works. From witty anecdotes to keen analysis, from wise suggestions to sudden anger, from crazy enthusiasm to deep contempt, she will always be the center of the party. When she talks about Kan Kan, her admirers are always fascinated by the incisive warnings generated from her unrestrained inspiration.
(Liang Sicheng and Lin of Wilma)
Liangjiade tea party
Because the preparatory class in Tsinghua was closed, Lin decided to help me with my English personally, and made it a rule to have classes every Tuesday and Friday afternoon. I am both happy and worried, because I really welcome to have such a good teacher to tutor me. At the same time, I can see that she is very strict, and she will criticize things she is not satisfied with, and her language is sharp. I'm afraid she will inevitably be criticized in the future.
Every time after class, Mr. Lin will invite me to have tea with him. It is Mr. and Mr. who often come to Liang's house for tea. Mr. and Mrs. Zhou Peiyuan and Mr. Chen Daisun often get together. Others are mostly professors from Tsinghua and Peking University, and several young teachers from the Department of Architecture are also frequent visitors. Rain or shine, Mr. Wang always arrives at Liangjia at 3: 30 every day. As soon as he arrived, he began to read all kinds of books to Mr. Lin, mostly in English, including philosophy, aesthetics, urban planning, architectural theory and Engels' English works. They often talk while reading.
Liang Jia starts drinking tea at 4: 30 every day. Mr. Lin is naturally the central figure of the tea party. Mr. Liang doesn't talk much. He always listens attentively and occasionally interrupts a sentence. His language is concise and vivid.
Whatever Mr. Lin talks about is fascinating and his language is lively. She often imitates some of her friends' speeches and learns them vividly. She once introduced herself to a student like Mr. Zhu and said, "I can sing (Zhu)." Cause a burst of laughter. Once, she introduced me to Mr. Chen Daisun and said, "This girl's hometown is Fuzhou, and she is from Shanghai. I have never been sure whether she is a Fuzhou girl or a Shanghai girl. " Then she learned the Kunming dialect: "Ambassador Yan Laite is a population (she was originally a population of Yunnan)." Made us all laugh.
She is knowledgeable. No matter what she talks about, she has rich content and her own unique opinions.
One day, Mr. Lin talked about the costume art of the Miao nationality, from the flower-picking patterns of the Miao nationality to the decorative patterns of buildings. She introduced the emergence and spread of the rolling grass pattern popular in ancient China. It is pointed out that China's grass-rolling pattern comes from India, while India comes from the Crusaders of Alexandria. She pointed to the embroidered homespun on the sofa and said that she bought it from a Miao girl at a high price. It turned out to be a pair of sleeves and trouser legs to be made on the wedding dress. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, pointing to Liang Hong, who was leaning on the sofa, and said:
"You see Sicheng, he is lying on Miao girl's trouser legs." I can't help laughing.
At this time, Duke Liang also told us anecdotes about his inspection in Sichuan and Yunnan. He said that when he was in Chuxiong, Yunnan, he was invited to a wedding banquet as the guest of honor. I saw a beautiful couplet on the door of my new house. The first part is "shake hands and make peace, treat each other as equals", and the second part is "Qi Xin sings free songs together". Then he smiled slowly and said, "the horizontal comment is:' love-essence-sincerity'." The guests all burst out laughing. He smiled and said:
"It's really ridiculous."
I remember one day at Liang's tea party, Lin told the guests about the culture of the land of abundance. Lin said that Liang Sicheng collected Sichuan folk proverbs along the way and recorded a thick book during his inspection of ancient buildings. Liang Sicheng said that during the trip, it was rare to hear the bearers who carried the bars talk in ordinary language, and almost all of them spoke in words. Two people lift the slide bar, the person behind can't see the road, so we should cooperate well before and after. For example, if there is a pile of cow dung or horse dung on the road, the person in front will say "a kite is flying in the sky", and the person behind will immediately answer "there is a pile of cow dung on the ground", so he will carefully avoid cow dung. Many roads in southwest mountainous areas are paved with stone slabs. After a long time, when the slate moves, it will accidentally slip and fall, or splash mud in the gap. At this time, the person in front will sing "live shake", and the person behind will immediately answer "step on the corner (jǒu)" and so on. Sometimes when I am happy, I sing folk songs sentence by sentence, with rich vocabulary and beautiful language. Liang Sicheng said:
"Although the bearers live in poverty, they have a sense of humor, and they will never miss any chance of happiness. If they meet a girl, they will play all kinds of jokes. If a girl is a little pockmarked, the front one will say' There is a flower on the left (right) side', and the back one will immediately be connected with' A little pockmarked is home'. "
Lin took it and said, "When you meet a powerful girl, you will immediately answer back and say' It's your mother'." Everyone laughed. Lin Yinhui added: "Sichuan proverbs and folk songs are really beautiful! With a little finishing, it can become a good poem and a good folk song, and it can be compiled into a slippery song. " It's a pity that the God of Life didn't give Lin time to finish this meaningful work.
I have never seen this notebook.
My teachers and I often listen to anecdotes and various incisive opinions and discussions at Liang's home. On the way home, we were deeply impressed by Mr. Liang and Mr. Lin's erudition and optimism. I have never heard them complain about illness or troubles in life.
Their old friend.