Remember Lin Huiyin's famous verse? "You are love, warmth, hope, and you are the April day on earth", this is not written by Lin Huiyin to Xu Zhimo, but to Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin's eldest son Liang Congjie.
Many people only know the story of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, but they do not know that their son is also very good, Liang Congzhi is the eldest son of the couple, learning is very good, when he was young, he was carefully taught by his parents, he studied at Peking University, if it were not for the influence of his father, Liang Congjie should not have divorced it.
Liang Congjie, son of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin. Like his father, Liang Sicheng, Liang Congjie also experienced two marriages. Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin had two children after marriage, a daughter and a son, and the daughter was named Liang Zaibing. Today we are mainly talking about Liang Congjie, but before talking about Liang Congjie, let's first talk about his parents, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin.
In real life, many people have the impression that university professors are generally very serious, right? If according to this label, Liang Sicheng is a typical university professor, he only lives for learning, and he is blunt, even if he offends people.
Liang Sicheng is a typical academic school of this kind of person, and may also be influenced by his father Liang Qichao, although Liang Sicheng does not have the depth of his father Liang Qichao's thought, but he has the same courage to pursue the truth as his father.
Northeastern University, where Lin Huiyin worked, was the first job of Liang Sicheng's teaching career, when Liang Sicheng agreed to Zhang Xueliang's invitation to go, but soon after going there, he offended people, and the relationship with colleagues was not good, so he had to return to Beiping, at first part-time, and then slowly became full-time, Liang Sicheng became a professor at Tsinghua University step by step, and even founded the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University, and in later days, Liang Sicheng has also been teaching at Tsinghua University
After introducing Liang Sicheng, let's go back to Liang Congjie, Liang Congjie's first marriage came from the order of his parents. In 1955, Liang Congjie married Zhou Peiyuan, a professor in the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University, and Wang Tilian, the "school flower" of Beiping Women's Normal University, Zhou Rumei.
Zhou Peiyuan and Wang Tilan were married in 1932, and the two had four daughters, and Zhou Rumei, as the eldest daughter, was loved by the couple.
At that time, Liang Sicheng and Zhou Peiyuan's family had a very good relationship, often interacting, and the children of the two families also grew up together from an early age, belonging to the legendary "green plum bamboo horse, two small no guesses". When the two were married, Zhou Peiyuan was already the provost of Peking University, but Liang Sicheng was still the director of the Department of Architecture at Tsinghua University, so it can be said that Liang Sicheng has been standing still, and this position has not changed at all compared with his position at Northeastern University when he just returned from studying abroad.
Later, something happened that had a great impact on the direction of Liang Sicheng's fate. Around 1953, ancient buildings in Beijing began to be demolished, and Liang Sicheng, as head of the architecture department at Tsinghua University, was very angry about this matter. And once a good friend, Zhou Peiyuan even presided over a conference to criticize Liang Sicheng's ideological transformation.
And Zhou Peiyuan's move also caused a great psychological blow to Liang Sicheng. Zhou Peiyuan not only became the vice president of Peking University, but later even sat in the position of president.
The father's affairs affected the son, and Liang Congjie had to divorce his wife Zhou Ruming because he was implicated by his father Liang Sicheng. Soon after, both of them also formed their own new families. The two of them had a son after marriage, and after the two divorced, the son followed his mother, and followed his surname, followed his mother's surname, named Zhou Zhibing.
Liang Congjie, who also graduated from Peking University and is also the founder of the non-governmental environmental protection organization "Friends of Nature", Liang Congjie once said two words in an interview with the media before his death to comment on the three generations of the Liang family, that is
"Three generations of our Liang family are losers"
"The greatest tragedy of our three generations is that we are faced with smaller and smaller choices"