"How I miss the scenery and characters who lived in the south of Beijing as a child!"
——Lin Haiyin
Lin Haiyin (March 18, 1918 – December 1, 2001), real name Lin Hanying, was a contemporary Chinese female writer from Toufen Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan, whose ancestral home was Jialing, Guangdong.
Born on March 18, 1918 in Osaka, Japan. In 1934, he was admitted to the Peking Journalism College. In 1937, after graduating from the Peking Journalism College, he became a reporter and editor of the World Journal. In 1955, the first collection of essays, Holly Tree, was published. In 1956, he won the second Rotary Literary Prize.
In 1959, he published his first novel, Xiaoyun. In 1960, he published the novel collection "Old Things in Seongnam". In 1972, he published the essay collection "Window". In 1988, he published the essay collection "The Head of the Family". In 1998, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 3rd World Congress of Chinese Writers. In 2000, he published the essay collection "Guest America" and "Night Reading in the Window".
He died in Taipei in December 2001 due to illness.
Seongnam Old Things
In the late 1920s, Lin Yingzi, a six-year-old girl, lived in a small alley south of Beijing. Xiuzhen, a "crazy" woman who often stands at the mouth of the alley looking for her daughter, is a friend of Hideko's.
Xiuzhen once secretly fell in love with a college student, Si Kang, and then Si Kang returned to his hometown and never returned. Xiao Guizi, the daughter born to Xiuzhen, was sent by her family to the foot of the city wall and did not know where she went. Eiko is very sympathetic to her, so she agrees to help Xiuzhen find Xiao Guizi.
Eiko inadvertently discovers that Yu'er's life is very similar to Thata's, and finds the green mark behind her neck, and rushes to take her to find Xiuzhen. After Xiuzhen and her daughter, who has been separated for six years, she immediately takes Yu'er to find her father. But in the end, the mother and daughter died together under the train while catching the train. Hideko had a high fever, was in a coma for ten days, and almost lost her life...
spring breeze
"Spring Breeze" tells the story of a female principal.
She has achieved success in running a school, and has countless rains, but she is unable to do anything in marriage, causing her weak husband to build another love nest in the middle of the country and raise a well-behaved little daughter...
Ye Shitao once commented, "Lin Haiyin likes to describe many women of the new and old eras who are struggling in the shackles of the old morality and ethics. Most of the storyline of the novel revolves around the family, women, the elderly and children, and she has a clear critical social consciousness, but her slender female writer's unique psychological exploration makes the critical consciousness hidden, making her novel have a gentle appearance. ”
Xiaoyun
"Xiaoyun" is one of the few famous novels by Lin Haiyin, who describes the story of Xiaoyun, a high school graduate girl who has been dependent on her mother since childhood, as a tutor and falls in love with the host.
In the pen, Xiaoyun is delicate, sensitive and physically weak, but he does not lose his yearning and pursuit of beautiful love and marriage. But in the face of that marriage combination, although it did not have any love component, her pure love still seemed pale and weak, fleeting.
In addition to "Xiaoyun", this book also includes Lin Haiyin's novella classics "Evening Qing" and "Meng Zhu's Journey".
Beiping Comic Pen
"Beiping Manbi" mainly writes that Lin Haiyin spent his happy childhood life in Beiping (old Beijing).
It mainly depicts the autumn of melon and fruit streets, the tea house in the opera garden, the Huabiao of Tiananmen, the pine forest of the Taimiao Temple, the corner tower of the Forbidden City, and the five peaks of Jingshan Mountain. In addition to this article, the book also includes many classic essays by the author, covering the author's perception of life, memories of childhood, and miscellaneous memories of teachers and friends. And for Lin Haiyin's Life in Beiping and Taiwan, it is involved.
The book "Beiping Manbi" is not only a portrayal of the author's childhood life, but also a portrait of the life of the common people in Beijing, and it is also her most influential work. He was selected as one of AsiaWeek's "Top 100 Novels of the twentieth century Chinese". In 1999, it was included in the list of "100 Excellent Chinese Literature Books in 100 Years" jointly initiated by the People's Literature Publishing House and beijing book building.