Text/Xu Yongchao
When it comes to Lin Huiyin, many people are only talking about her emotional experience, thinking that she is an amorous talented woman who was born well, grew well, and married well, but she did not know that in her short 47 years of life, it was more turbulent and displaced, the country was difficult and family feud, the spirit of independence and self-determination, and the deep love for the motherland.
She is a truly independent woman, after deciding to study architecture, she resolutely came to the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, learned that the department of architecture does not accept girls, and then went to the department of fine arts, while taking all the courses of the department of architecture. Classmates commented on Lin Huiyin: "Her homework always gets the highest score, and occasionally gets second. She is quiet, humorous and humble, and never pays lip service to her good grades."
In 1928, Lin Huiyin returned to China with her husband Liang Sicheng and went to northeastern university to teach. In the summer of 1931, the couple came to Beiping to participate in the work of the China Construction Society. This is the first academic institution to study ancient Chinese architecture. After the September 18 Incident, their home in the northeast was lost, so they had to take their children and build a new home in Beiping.
At that time, the Japanese architectural community asserted that there were no Tang Dynasty wooden structures in China. After the couple's research, there may be Tang Dynasty architecture in the Wutai mountain area. So in the summer of 1937, Mr. Liang, Lin Liang and their colleagues went to the Wutai Mountain area to investigate.
After walking the rugged mountain road for two days, they were pleasantly surprised to find that there was a magnificent Buddhist temple in front of them, yes, it was foguang temple, a wooden temple built in the Tang Dynasty. Bathed in the splendid sunset, it stood in the middle of the wild mountains, looking so lofty. Everyone was very happy, and even years later, Lin Huiyin still remembered how they suppressed their excitement, climbed the ceiling of the great hall, and groped for measurements in the thousand-year dust and bed bug piles fanned by countless bats. In the face of the statue of "female disciple Ning Gongyu" in the main hall, Lin Huiyin's reverence was even more spontaneous, and he was eager to carve a statue for himself, allowing himself to accompany this pious Tang Dynasty woman and sit cross-legged in solemnity for another thousand years. At this time, the Lugou Bridge had not yet sounded the sound of gunfire.
After the July 7 Incident, the Liang couple rushed back to Beiping, and after preserving the research materials, began a difficult trek south to Kunming. While walking to Huang County, the border between Xiangqian and Qianqian provinces, Lin Hui fell ill. This illness made her body never recover. At the beginning of 1938, the family finally arrived in Kunming and temporarily had a place to stay. Kunming's "absurd and good scenery" made Lin Huiyin's mood much happier, and she wrote to her friend Fei Zhengqingli: "The sunshine here is always unusually bright, the sky is blue day and night, and the clouds flutter freely and comfortably."
Unfortunately, only three years passed, and in order to avoid Japanese bombing, in December 1940, they moved to Lizhuang in Yibin, Sichuan. Due to the humid and cold climate here, Lin Hui relapsed due to old diseases, high fevers during the day, night sweats did not stop, and more than a dozen sweat-soaked towels were often hung in front of her bed. In those days, it was really a disaster, and her third brother, Lin Heng, was unfortunately killed in the air battle with the Japanese army while flying an airplane. Lin Huiyin, who learned of this news, was devastated.
"Don't say who mistook you, the times cannot be measured, China still has to move forward, and the night is waiting for the day." Her "Crying Three Brothers Heng" can be described as a word of weeping blood.
Lin Huiyin, who longed for the dawn, was also ready to sacrifice, and his son Liang Cong asked his mother, what should the Japanese do if they came in, Lin Huiyin replied, Isn't the door to the yangtze river?
Liang Congjie later recalled: "I looked at my mother at that time and felt that she was no longer the mother I was familiar with, she seemed to have become another person, facing death, so detached." "
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the family returned to Beiping. Lin Huiyin, lying on a hospital bed, assisted Wu Liangyong in preparing for the construction of the Department of Architecture at Tsinghua University. She is a volunteer instructor and students don't get much of a face-to-face interview from her. The students admired her learning and spirit, and all admired Mr. Lin.
Lin Huiyin attaches great importance to independence. Jin Yuelin once praised her beauty, and she did not like it: "It is really annoying, what beauty is not beautiful, as if a woman has nothing to do, only worthy of decoration!" In the old society, although she had taught, published articles, and was famous, she was always regarded as "Mrs. Liang Sicheng", as a vase and decoration. After the founding of new China, she held many positions in an independent capacity. So she was full of gratitude to the people's power.
Her greatest contribution was the design of the national emblem and the Monument to the People's Heroes. In order to design the national emblem, Lin Huiyin led the design team of Tsinghua University to continuously draw and discuss, and the sofas, tables and chairs at home were filled with gold and red national emblem patterns. She completely forgot that she was a patient. At the meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on June 23, 1950, the national emblem pattern submitted by her was unanimously approved. Lin Hui, who attended the meeting as an observer, couldn't help but burst into tears. Then, she and Liang Sicheng participated in the design of the Monument to the People's Heroes, and the relief decoration on the base of the monument came from her idea. In order to design a series of wreaths on the base, it is repeatedly compared, repeatedly studied, and repeatedly depicted.
In 1955, Lin Huiyin died. When she left, it was a April day.