On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Liang Sicheng's death, her daughter Liang Zaibing wrote a book to remember her parents fondly

"Parents always lead us to feel the beauty of the world"

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Liang Sicheng's death, her daughter Liang Zaibing wrote a book to remember her parents fondly

In 1949, Liang Zaibing took a group photo with his parents before going south. Liang Zai Ice courtesy of the picture

"It's been 50 years since Daddy left me. But in my mind, he is still the naughty and funny 'ageless' father."

January 9 marks the 50th anniversary of Liang Sicheng's death. Recently, Liang Zaibing's memoir "Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin - My Father and Mother" written and published in the first person for the first time recalls his parents' sincere and fiery love for the country, nation, career, friends and children with a unique daughter identity and family perspective, and tells their life of investigating, studying and protecting ancient buildings

In the summer of 1946, the Liang family's southern crossing ushered in the return of the north, and a stable life came to Tsinghua Garden after 9 years. One day, 17-year-old Liang Zaibing and his mother Lin Huiyin took two tricycles one after the other, passing the "Jin'ao Yuxiao" bridge in front of the Beihai, Lin Huiyin suddenly shouted to Liang Zaibing in front of him: "Liang Zaibing looks back!" ”

Liang Zaibing, who is now a year old, still remembers looking back, "Under the sunset, the colorful 'Golden Ao Yu'ao' Bridge is staggered with the semi-circular Tuancheng City Wall, which is very beautiful!" Unfortunately, I didn't have a camera that could leave this picture forever. ”

Now that Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng have been dead for many years, the "Jin'ao Yuxiao" bridge has also been replaced by another bridge in the reconstruction of Beijing City. Liang Zaibing's first memoir, "Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin - My Father and Mother", written and published in the first person, recalls the sincere and fiery love of his parents for the country, nation, cause, friends and children with a unique daughter identity and family perspective, and tells their life of investigating, researching and protecting ancient buildings.

"There are many books on the market now about Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, and the special feature of this book is that it comes from their close relatives, with a unique perspective, and some of the photos, the Liang family letter and Liang Zaibing's diary are all published for the first time." The responsible editor of the book, Yi Na, told reporters.

Talking about dear father and mother, Liang Zaibing will still be excited. "I can feel that she misses her parents so much that she often cries as she speaks, or falls into thoughts and is silent for a long time." Liang Zaibing's daughter, Yu Kui, the author of the book, said.

In Liang Zaibing's memory, there is Lin Huiyin pulling her young woman to pace in the courtyard; there is the ancient building negative soaked in the bath basin at home; there is Liang Sicheng painting with her hand, a few strokes, the trees and houses in the courtyard jump on the paper; there are crowded cars to Kunming after the outbreak of the War of Resistance, Lin Huiyin instructed her to look at the scenery along the way; when she was trapped in Lizhuang, Liang Sicheng took her to the town to sell Parker pens and watches; there were red and gold national emblem patterns placed everywhere in the home after the founding of New China... In her mind, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin are architects and parents who give their children a lot of love.

January 9 is the 50th anniversary of Liang Sicheng's death, "It has been 50 years since Daddy left me. But in my mind, he is still the naughty and funny 'ageless' father. Liang Zaibing said.

In Liang Zaibing's home, there is still a group photo of her mother when she was an infant. Lin Huiyin in the photo, beautiful, warm, facing his daughter's expression is full of love. In his later years, Liang Zaibing would also look at the photos and sigh to his family: "How beautiful my mother is!" ”

"We should be brave when we do Chinese"

"Baby, mom doesn't know how to tell you a lot of things, and now I'm going to tell you one by one..."

This is the beginning of Lin Huiyin's july 1937 letter to his daughter. At that time, she and Liang Sicheng and others had just finished their investigation of ancient architecture in Wutai Mountain, Shanxi, and found the Foguang Temple in Wutaishan Dou Village, and through detailed surveying and mapping, they demonstrated that the Foguang Temple was built in the eleventh year of Tang Dazhong (857 AD). Liang Sicheng's belief that there must be a Tang Dynasty temple in China was confirmed here.

However, during their expedition, the July 7 Incident broke out.

After returning to Beiping from Shanxi after many twists and turns, Lin Huiyin wrote a letter to Liang Zaibing in Beidaihe, in which she drew a road map for the expedition and return journey, and also specially marked the Yanmen Pass they passed, and left a line of small characters next to it: "Ask the second brother (the son of Liang Sicheng's sister Liang Sishun) to tell you the story of Yang Liulang of Yanmen Guan." ”

"Reading my mother's line tips today, I can still feel her mood and intentions at that time." Liang Zaibing believes that her mother was not only encouraging her, but also encouraging herself.

In the letter, Lin Huiyin explained the July 7 Incident in this way: "Now I want to tell you what the Japanese are doing with us this time, you know that they always want our North China region, and this time they will send a large army to fight us for a small matter," and said firmly, "We hope that things can be finished without fighting, but if the Japanese want to come and occupy Peiping, we are all willing to fight." ”

At this time, Lin Huiyin did not know what kind of hardships and destruction she and her husband's career, family and body would experience after the war began, but she seriously told her daughter, who was only 8 years old, "I think that now we should be brave as Chinese, not afraid of anything, and determined to do anything..."

Soon after, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng left the relatively comfortable life in Beiping and embarked on the road to the south with their young daughter Liang Zaibing, son Liang Congjie, and Lin Huiyin's mother. They first traveled from Beiping to Changsha, stayed for two months, then went to Kunming, and then moved to Lizhuang. Along the way, they experienced the shadow of poverty and illness, and even death.

In Changsha, Liang Zaibing felt for the first time that the family's life had completely changed, there was no courtyard and flowers and trees, no single-family residence, no cook and nanny, parents had to cook by themselves, wash, clean, take care of children, "for the father and mother who are not used to and are not familiar with housework, this is of course a very hard job", but what surprises Liang Zaibing is that his parents rarely complain about it, "Father and mother immediately began to learn to do housework, and often ridiculed each other. Life suddenly becomes bitter, but the family is still interesting and happy."

In January 1938, after arriving in Kunming, the fatigue of the journey and the local moisture made Liang Sicheng suffer from severe arthritis, and his spine problems worsened, and he could not lie flat on the bed, but could only sit on a canvas soft chair day and night. During this period, American universities and museums wrote to invite him to visit and lecture in the United States, but "my father was unwilling to leave his country at this critical moment of national survival, even if temporarily..." Liang Zaibing wrote in a commemorative article commemorating the 85th anniversary of Liang Sicheng's birth. In the autumn of 1939, Liang Sicheng, who had just recovered from a serious illness, led a team with Liu Dunzhen to western Sichuan to start a new round of fieldwork.

In Lizhuang, where there is a lack of medical treatment and poor conditions, Lin Hui did not retreat due to a high fever of 40 degrees Celsius for several consecutive weeks, Liang Zaibing got up in the morning, often saw many sweaty towels hanging in front of her bed, although she eventually survived, but Lin Hui lost her health and needed to stay in bed for a long time, but she improved slightly, so she continued to assist Liang Sicheng in architectural research.

After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liang Congzhi talked to Lin Huiyin one day about the dangerous situation in which the Japanese army captured Dushan in Guizhou in 1944, and Liang Congzhi asked Lin Huiyin what he planned to do if the Japanese really invaded Sichuan. Lin Huiyin thought thoughtfully: "Chinese students always have a way back, isn't it the Yangtze River at our doorstep?" Liang Cong's admonition was urgent: "I am studying alone in Chongqing, then you will not care about me?" Lin Huiyin shook his son's hand, as if apologizing, and whispered, "If you really want to reach that step, I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of you!" The awe-inspiring atmosphere contained in this bland tone made Liang snatch from the tears of the commandment.

"We were all wounded and suffered from a terrible ordeal... We have not only experienced life, but also been tested by hard life. Our bodies have been seriously damaged, but our beliefs are the same..." In February 1946, Lin Huiyin, in a letter to his American friend Fei Weimei, described the feelings of reuniting with old friends after the war, which was so similar to "I think we should be brave now when we do Chinese."

"Embark on an extraordinary path of architectural life"

Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin's feelings for the country and the nation are integrated with their pursuit in the field of architecture. As a generation of masters in the field of Chinese architecture, as early as the period of studying in the United States, they were determined to return to China to study the history of Chinese architecture.

When I was studying at the University of Pennsylvania, a professor asked Liang Sicheng, do you have any works or research on the history of architecture in China? This made Liang Sicheng aware of the gap in Chinese architectural research. In his sophomore year, Liang Sicheng received an ancient architectural book "Constructing the French Style" sent by his father Liang Qichao. Liang Sicheng was surprised and distressed, surprised that as early as the beginning of the 12th century, China had such a complete book of architectural techniques. What was distressing was that this work was as incomprehensible to him as a heavenly book at that time.

"Since then, cracking this book of heaven has become Daddy's dream and pursuit, leading him to a path full of thorns but wonderful architectural life... From this, Daddy had a strong desire to study the history of Chinese architecture. Liang Zaibing introduced.

Since then, the lives of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin have never been separated from Chinese architecture. In the summer of 1928, they returned from studying in China, and in the autumn they went to Shenyang and founded the Department of Architecture of Northeastern University. In 1931, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin returned to Beiping and joined the China Construction Society. At that time, Japan had invaded and occupied northeast China, and north China was also shrouded in the shadow of war. According to historical experience, every war, ancient buildings have to suffer, so the Construction Society has stepped up its investigation, they hope that if these ancient buildings are unfortunately destroyed in the future, at least some information can be left.

At that time, soldiers and bandits were rampant, transportation was backward, and many ancient buildings with inspection value were scattered in the poor and remote areas of those difficult conditions in north China, but Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin and the entire construction society exchanged various means of transportation, and even rode mules, and in 6 years, they traveled to more than 200 counties in 15 provinces and surveyed more than 2,700 ancient buildings.

When his parents went out to investigate, young Liang Zaibing liked to move a small stool and sit at the door of the courtyard waiting for his parents to return. At a young age, she already vaguely felt that her parents had a wider world, a world much bigger than this small family, "I had this feeling when I was very young, our family is just a corner of their big world." 」

Liang Zaibing still remembered that in Lizhuang, due to back pain, Liang Sicheng found a vase to support his chin when drawing; in order to resume the publication of the "China Construction Society Journal", there was no printing equipment, Liang Sicheng and they carved their own wax plate lithographs, and the whole family, including Lin Huiyin's mother, participated in it, bound into a book with one stitch and one thread; there was no funds to do another field expedition, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin put all their efforts into combing through the results of their previous investigations and wrote a "History of Chinese Architecture" with modern and innovative ideas...

Some scholars describe Liang Sicheng as "a martyr who summed up his research on the history of Chinese architecture as a martyr." ”

During his stay in Changsha during the Anti-Japanese War and migration, what impressed Liang Zaibing the most was that at the end of each gathering with friends, Liang Sicheng led everyone to sing the "March of the Volunteer Army": "There are men and women in the 'Song Wing Team', and his father is the 'band conductor', and he is as serious as he was when he conducted the Tsinghua Xuetang Student Military Orchestra..."

Many years later, the "March of the Volunteer Army" appeared again in the common life of Liang Sicheng's father and daughter, and on September 29, 1949, Liang Zaibing, who was the editor of the Siye Branch of the Xinhua News Agency in Hankou, received a letter from Liang Sicheng, in which he participated in the first CPPCC meeting: "Regarding the selection of the national anthem, Uncle Zhang Xiruo and I can boast of a lot of credit, that is what I first proposed, and many people have that meaning... Some people advocate changing the word, I don't think it is necessary... My claim was triumphantly adopted. Before the meeting adjourned that night, we sang the first 'national anthem' loudly around Chairman Mao, and we were very happy and excited. That was the most memorable step. ”

Liang Zaibing recalled, "When I saw this, I immediately remembered the scene in Changsha directing us to sing this song, and I couldn't help but get excited. ”

Not only the national anthem, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin both threw themselves into the construction of new China with great enthusiasm at that time. At the end of June 1950, Liang Zaibing was transferred back to the Xinhua News Agency in Beijing from the Siye Branch, when she had been away from home for more than a year, "My mother wrote to me all day, urging me to go home, and I missed it so much." However, when Liang Zaibing returned to his home in Tsinghua Garden, Lin Huiyin, who was fully involved in the design of the national emblem, did not show special surprises for his daughter's return home, "I felt like I was just going to the street to buy something", Liang Zaibing described.

Not only that, when he returned to his home after more than a year of absence, Liang Zaibing was surprised to find that the sofa, table and chair at home were full of red and gold national emblem patterns, as if the home had become a huge national emblem "workshop". In Liang Zaibing's memory, "During that time, Daddy and Mom were engrossed in their work all day, as if they had forgotten everything else for a while... I think mom has completely forgotten that she is a seriously ill person, and people around her often don't treat her as a patient..."

Later, in the face of the national emblem on Tiananmen, Liang Zaibing had a different mood from others: "In that red there is the painstaking efforts of his parents, and in that gold there is also the glory of his parents' hearts." ”

"Daddy and Mommy are one"

In Liang Zaibing's view, Lin Huiyin, who is brilliant in front of people, and the role behind the scenes cannot be ignored. "In the common career struggle with her father, there are many jobs that she has participated in and made significant contributions, and sometimes she is just an outsider, often without titles and no name, but she is an indispensable and even soul figure in her father's team."

Obviously, Liang Sicheng holds the same view. In 1946, the preface to his life's most important academic achievement, The History of Pictorial Chinese Architecture, described The unparalleled importance of Lin Huiyin to him and his architectural career. "I want to thank my wife, colleagues, and old classmates Lin Huiyin. For more than two decades, she has been relentlessly contributing to our common cause. From the time we were studying in the architecture department of the university, we worked for each other's "hard work", and later, in most of the field investigations, she accompanied me, made many important discoveries, and measured and sketched many buildings. In recent years, although she has been seriously ill, she has maintained her natural agility and perseverance; in the difficult days of the war, the academic spirit and morale of the Society of Construction have been maintained, mainly thanks to her. Without her collaboration and inspiration, neither the writing of this book nor any of my research efforts on Chinese architecture would have been successful. ”

Liang Zaibing has a sentence that accurately describes Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin as inseparable in their careers and feelings, "Father and mother are one."

This sentence says that Liang Sicheng's choice of architecture at the beginning was related to Lin Huiyin, and it can even be said that Lin Huiyin guided him to identify the field of architecture. In Liang Zaibing's memory, "Daddy and Mom always have endless topics together, and they are often interested enough to 'hang aside' our children."

This sentence refers to Liang Zaibing's memory of the westward migration road, although the trip is tense and full of difficulties, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng cooperate tacitly, "for example, when packing luggage, the two of them cooperate, and soon they can beat a large bag of futon pillows into a strong cover roll, and then wrap it up with tarpaulin."

This sentence refers to the Kunming in Liang Zaibing's memory, in order to create conditions for Liang Sicheng to go to western Sichuan to investigate, Lin Huiyin sat in charge of the daily work of the construction society. At the same time, she also reads, consults, and takes notes extensively, preparing for the research of the Construction Society.

This sentence refers to Li Zhuang in Liang Zaibing's memory, and in the most difficult days, Lin Huiyin said to Liang Sicheng over and over again: "The Construction Society must persist!" In order to take care of the seriously ill Lin Huiyin, Liang Sicheng learned to inject intravenously.

This sentence is said that in Liang Zaibing's memory, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Tsinghua University hired Liang Sicheng to preside over the preparation of the Architecture Department of Tsinghua University, but not long after the Liang family returned to Beiping, Liang Sicheng went to the United States to investigate, and was invited to lecture at many universities, and later discussed the design of the United Nations Building with the architects of other countries in the world. The work of organizing the Architecture Department of Tsinghua University fell to Lin Huiyin and a group of young teachers, "At that time, I was often around my mother, and I felt that she was doing her best to do this", "From trivial administrative affairs such as tables, chairs, benches, to academic issues such as teaching architecture courses to beginners with strong professionalism, my mother was all involved."

On the evening of March 31, 1955, Lin Hui was critically ill, and in the hospital, Liang Zaibing witnessed his parents' farewell. "When the nurse brought Daddy over, he sat in front of Mom's bed, took Mom's hand and cried bitterly, I had never seen Daddy cry like this in my life, and he kept murmuring as he cried, 'Suffer, emblem, suffer, you are really guilty!' ”

"At that moment, I felt that their relationship was so close that at this moment of their life and death, no 'outsider', not even me, could disturb them..." Many years later, Liang Zaibing described the feelings at that time.

"It's nice to be loved so meticulously."

In August 2021, shortly after the launch of the "Dongliang - Liang Sicheng 120th Anniversary Documentation Exhibition", the letter lin Hui wrote to Liang Zaibing after the July 7 Incident was on Weibo hot search. Everyone was touched by Lin Hui's feelings of home and country, but also sighed for the strong love for her daughter that flowed between her words.

In such a tense period, Lin Huiyin's letter to her daughter was still patient and meticulous and full of care, she told the return trip of the Shanxi expedition and the Japanese invasion of China one by one, and instructed her daughter, "You are a child, now the most important thing is to be in good health, to study well, and other things do not matter." Now that you are at the beach, you will play happily", "Please ask the eldest sister (Daughter of Liang Sishun) to help you learn to swim." If you can learn to swim, this summer escape by the sea will be more interesting", and still remember "you want clothes and books to send here".

"It's good to be loved so meticulously," a netizen lamented by tens of thousands of people.

The letter is also the most touching detail of Yina's editing process, "I almost burst into tears when I first saw the original of this letter, this mother is from the bottom of her heart to respect a child who is only 8 years old, and does not feel that she does not understand, but so seriously tells her what her parents are doing." 」 ”

Another letter from a father to his daughter was equally touching, that is, four months after Lin Huiyin's death, Liang Sicheng wrote to Liang Zaibing, that day was Liang Zaibing's birthday.

"Baby, I call you that again today because today is a special day, especially this year, and I haven't forgotten today. Twenty-six years ago today, at 2:10 a.m., I met you for the first time, and I heard your voice for the first time, although it has been a long time, and my memory is not too vague... I remember last year today, you made a phone call home, Mommy answered, when she forgot, then she remembered, remorseful, sad for half a day... Baby, I miss you so much today that Daddy loves his good daughter like that..."

Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin are the role models in Liang Zaibing's mind, and they are also a pair of loving parents. "The love they gave me was probably more and deeper than an average pair of parents... Daddy Liang Sicheng is my favorite 'old friend father', he always patiently listens to my feelings... My mother, Lin Huiyin, was the most important mentor and intimate friend in my life, and she always talked to our children with great interest and equality. ”

"In the imagination of many people, Lin Huiyin seems to be a goddess who does not eat fireworks in the world, but in fact, she is extremely understanding, good at taking care of relatives and friends, and is a good mother." Yu Kui told reporters.

The young Liang Zaibing was particularly attached to her mother, "Whenever I was sick, my mother would carry me to her bedroom and take care of me by herself... She had both the doctor's observation and judgment ability, the nurse's carefulness and her mother's thoughtfulness," Liang Zaibing recalled, once she woke up at night when she was sick and found that Lin Huiyin had not slept at all, and had been listening to her movements.

Not only that, "Before I became an adult, many of my dresses were sewn by my mother, and after I became pregnant, she personally prepared a large stack of baby clothes and small quilts. In the eyes of the world, women who are magnificent are still willing to express their love for their daughters with "loving mother's hand line".

Dongcheng Beizongbu Hutong No. 3 Courtyard is the first home in the memory of Liang Zaibing, who was born in the summer of 1929. When she was young, she still remembered many warm details of this home. She remembers her mother making rag dolls for her, first stuffing cotton into socks, bandaging it with cloth, and then drawing a "super cute" face on it; her father designed a children's room for her, and all the desk and bookcases in it were made by Liang Sicheng himself; her mother hugged her a kitten and asked her to name it, and she casually called it "Ming'erhao", and since then the cat has been called "Ming'erhao"; in order to help her overcome the psychology of being afraid of dogs, her parents gave her a small white dog and named the dog "Ice Dog" to emphasize that this is Liang Zaibing's dog...

On the way to the southwest, amid the gunfire and difficulties, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin still tried their best to make a pair of children happy. In the simple hotel, Liang Sicheng taught the children to look at the map and identify the towns and mountains and rivers they had traveled along the way; in Huang County, Guizhou, Lin Hui was suddenly infected with pneumonia and had a high fever for two weeks, Liang Sicheng single-handedly supported the life of the whole family, he supported the life of the whole family every day, he supported a small stove every day to boil medicine for his wife, took care of his seriously ill wife, on such anxious days, he saw two children stuffy, so he took them to the river every day to "play water". Liang Zaibing still remembers Liang Sicheng's beautiful gesture of jumping up and throwing stones, "A small boulder flew from his hand to the center of the river, and fell on the surface of the water and jumped up one or twenty times." "My brother and I ran and jumped with daddy, forgetting for a moment the embarrassment and hardship of the road."

In the suburbs of Kunming, housing conditions are poor, but in Liang Zaibing's memory, no matter what kind of simple house he lives in, Lin Huiyin will try to beautify it as much as possible. "I think my mother is really god, how can she suddenly make such a small broken room so comfortable and cute."

During Liang Sicheng's expedition, Lin Hui took on all the housework alone, and even carried back the family's dishes for a week on the market day, but for Liang Zaibing, the days in the countryside of Kunming were a happy time. In the diary she left behind at that time, almost every article ended with "I am very happy!" Many years later, Liang Zaibing realized that it was her mother's hard work that allowed her to have a happy childhood in the difficult years.

Despite the increasing economic strain, Lin Huiyin still insisted on buying books for his children, but did not deliberately urge them to read any books, but let them read with interest. Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin also taught classic masterpieces to the children, Liang Zaibing still remembers the small courtyard in Kunming, Liang Si became her to explain "Zuo Zhuan", remembered Lin Huiyin on the sickbed, led her into the vast and rich literary world.

In Lizhuang, the life of the Liang family is almost to the point of exhaustion, Lin Hui is sick in bed, inflation makes the price of food more and more expensive, there is no rice under the pot, Liang Sicheng took Liang Zaibing to Yibin Town, the pawn seller's Parker pen, watch and some of Lin Huiyin's clothes, Liang Sicheng often joked: "We put this watch 'red-boiled' today, right?" "How about this dress 'stewed'?"

In those days, in a letter to Fei Weimei, Lin Huiyin ridiculed himself: "I am continuing to play a juggler who is an economic trickster, so that the whole family and some relatives and colleagues are more or less well taken care of." I had to keep sewing up the little clothes and socks that I could barely mend for Si Cheng and the two children... This is much more laborious than writing an entire chapter on the architectural development of the Liao, Song, and Qing dynasties, or trying to depict the capital of the Song Dynasty. ”

Liang Sicheng also described Li Zhuang's life in the letter, "Under the kerosene lamp, we make children's cotton shoes, light fires to cook, buy cheap coarse grains, we go back to the past, living like our parents when they were teenagers, but engaged in modern work." ”

What impressed Liang Zaibing most about such a life of poverty and even illness was his parents' "pleasure in suffering", "they often ridiculed each other", "rarely saw their sad faces", "they used everything they did to tell their children how to face the crisis, how to face the sudden changes in life, and how to stick to the love in their hearts".

After the peaceful liberation of Peiping, Liang Zaibing, a junior in peking university's Spanish department, decided to go south to join the army, but Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin did not agree at first, "My parents were very reluctant to let me go... My mother cried and cried very sadly", but the parents finally chose to respect their daughter's decision. Liang Zaibing remembered that Before leaving, Lin Huiyin came to see her with towels and other daily necessities, and sat on her bunk for a long time.

In this way, Liang Zaibing left her parents to go to society, and has been engaged in international reporting work at Xinhua News Agency for most of her life, but the love of her parents has accompanied her throughout her life.

"Often meets with daddy and mom"

Due to his health damage during the war, Lin Hui died of illness at the age of 51. However, for Lin Huiyin's untimely death in 1955, her children believe that it is a kind of happiness. "Compared with the ordeal that her father endured later, it is difficult to imagine if her mother were still alive, so it would be a blessing for her." Liang Zaibing said.

Whenever he thinks of his parents' life, Liang Zaibing is always unable to help himself. In 1986, the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University held a commemorative event to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Liang Sicheng's birth. On the day of the event, Liang Zaibing, who walked onto the podium, faced the warm applause from the audience, and tears came out of his eyes. Because, "Daddy finally got a fair evaluation, as well as people's understanding and love."

Later, more people knew about Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, but many people's interest was focused on Lin Huiyin's "feelings" that did not exist, ignoring the real her.

Yu Kui introduced that she and her family assisted her mother in publishing this book, and also hoped that people would know more about the real Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin.

Liang Zaibing first came into contact with Lin Huiyin's poetry in front of Li Zhuang's illnessbed, when she once copied her mother's poems into her own small book. Later, after experiencing many vicissitudes of the world, in 1979, Liang Zaibing and Liang Congjie were together and talked about their mother's poetry. At that time, Lin Huiyin had been dead for more than 20 years, and the poems he had copied by hand had long gone. However, when they began to recall their mother's poems, they memorized a poem in its entirety. They were both surprised and surprised that their mother's beautiful poems were so deeply engraved in their memories.

Since childhood, Liang Zaibing often followed her parents around the city of Beijing, and Liang Sicheng once took her up jingshan mountain and let her follow the central axis he pointed, looking from the four directions of east, west, south and north, overlooking the perfect layout and planning of the city.

"Parents always lead us to feel the beauty of the world." Liang Zaibing said.

After retiring, Liang Zaibing entered the world of her father and mother in another way, and she took "The Complete Works of Liang Sicheng" and retraced the path of her parents' inspection of ancient buildings. At the end of his memoirs, Liang Zaibing wrote affectionately: "People miss their loved ones and often meet them in their dreams. For me, walking through the streets and alleys of Beijing, or through ancient temples in the mountains, I often meet my father and mother unexpectedly. (Reporter Liu Mengni)

Source: Xinhua Daily Telegraph