Since Mr. Sun led a group of benevolent people to carry out the revolution in 1912, the feudal imperial system that ruled China for more than 5,000 years finally withdrew from the torrent of history, and a new era came. It was a turbulent time, with warlords divided and war-torn, and the toiling masses having just been slightly liberated from the feudal system and entering a war-torn era. In the face of powerful foreign invaders, China, which had been paying reparations for the continuous cession of land in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, was unable to resist at all, and Western capitalism and even the small countries in East Asia wantonly oppressed and enslaved Chinese people on the mainland, and the people's lives were miserable. This period of history in the modern Republic of China is full of turmoil, but there have also been a large number of popular people. They are in the midst of history, writing this history with their own ups and downs, they are full of this history but they do not know or grasp the direction of this history, and even they are unable to change the luck of their own families. This also affirms that the descendants of some big figures in the Republic of China can only float and sink with the customs. Some historians once proposed that in the face of this not too long history, we must uphold sympathy and understanding, because only by holding such a point of view can we more objectively look at the people and things in this history, and such a position of governing history can enable future generations to evaluate this history from a fairer perspective, rather than to extreme beautification or ugliness. There has always been such a saying on the Internet, that is, the Modern Republic of China period is a period of romanticism, how magnificent the literati and inkers produced in this era are, their precious friendships, poignant love and family affection related to the rise and fall of glory and disgrace, etc., let us posterity sigh for the helplessness of their times, and envy their thrilling stories in turbulent times. The Republic of China era can be said to be an extremely feudal era, but on the contrary, we can also evaluate it as a very democratic era. That is because the Republic of China era was a transitional era in China from the feudal era to modern society, it was feudal because people's traditional ideas were too deeply rooted, and it was democratic because western advanced ideas were constantly spreading in China. Therefore, at that time, there were a large number of such people, who were baptized by foreign ideas, who constantly discovered the true meaning of their freedom in their own exploration, who wrote books and educated people, and who spread such a spiritual freedom to the land of the motherland. Among them, there is such a strange woman of the Republic of China, she was born noble, rich in knowledge, and wrote works that once sensationalized the country, but she was not only talented but even looked like one of the best at the time, and even known as the "national goddess" of the Republic of China period, and her love story was once talked about by people, so who is she?
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Who is she
Lin Huiyin, born in 1904 in southern Fujian, China, is a Han Chinese girl. Her original name "because" took "sound", she was the first daughter in the family, from a young age to be smart and clever, the whole family regarded her as a pearl in the palm of her hand, and she lived happily from an early age. At the age of five, her aunt taught her knowledge and initiated learning. After three years, the family moved to Shanghai, then an international city in China, and attended the Patriotic Primary School in Hongkou. In 1914, the ten-year-old Lin Huiyin followed her grandfather to Beijing, where she lived with her father, who was serving in the Beiyang government in Beijing at the time, in the former imperial princely factory, and entered the Beijing Peihua Girls' High School held by the capitalist Church of England in China at that time.
Lin Huiyin
In the twelfth year of the Republic of China, Lin Huiyin and a group of progressive young people who were very famous in China at that time founded a society in Beiping, and often led the organization and participation in some cultural activities of this society, including participating in a world-famous poetry stage play. At that time, because of her beautiful dress and fluent English, it was a sensation in the literary and artistic circles of the Republic of China at that time.
Later, under the arrangement of his family, he went abroad with Liang Qichao's son Liang Sicheng, and they studied together in the United States for three years, because the architecture department where they were studying at that time did not admit female students, so the situation forced them to register their personal information at the art academy next door. Because she aspired to be an architect from an early age, she studied art while studying the main courses in architecture, and successfully obtained her degree after a few years of serious study. She also likes to write poetry and books, and is a famous poet and writer in the Republic of China period.
Lin Huiyin's ancestors were a large household in Zhejiang during the ancestral period, and his grandfather's name was Lin Xiaoke, who was a member of the Qing Dynasty and had previously served as an official in many places in Zhejiang. She also has an uncle of the same ethnic group, who was captured and sacrificed by the warlord leader in an uprising led by Mr. Sun, he is Lin Juemin, he prepared the suicide note written to his wife before the uprising, he explained the righteousness of the family and the country and his apologies to his wife, so that we future generations can mourn that they are in such an era when they read it again. Her father was Lin Changming, a well-known political figure during the Republic of China period.
Old photos
At the age of 24, after returning to China, Lin Huiyin entered the architecture department of a university in China, that is, teaching at a university in the three eastern provinces. In the same year, he accepted invitations from many schools in the South to give lectures on the profession of architecture at these schools. In addition, she also participated in discussions with one of her uncles and designed a literary theater in Fuzhou, and the following year, she worked as an English lecturer in the English Department of Northeastern University, teaching students professional English.
Beginning in 1930, Lin Huiyin and her husband Liang Sicheng traveled to 15 provinces and nearly 200 counties and cities in China to investigate, survey, and paint 2,738 ancient chinese buildings, a huge project couple who lasted for 15 years. It is precisely because the couple has worked hard for many years to make several ancient buildings in our country known to the world, the Chinese government and the international community, so that our country has begun to attach importance to the protection of such buildings, and we can see these beautiful architectural complexes on the land of China now.
When Lin Huiyin was 27 years old, she worked in a construction-related unit in Beiping, and the following year, she led and participated in the design of the Earth Material Hall of a university in Beiping at that time, which is still intact to this day. In the years since, she has traveled to Shanxi, Hubei, Shandong and other places many times, conducted field surveys of some ancient buildings in the local area, independently or in cooperation with her husband, published many research reports and papers on related architectural aspects, and also wrote an introduction to a book on the analysis of Qing Dynasty architectural construction written by Liang Sicheng, which has always been an essential book for us to discuss and study ancient Chinese architecture.
Portrait of Lin Huiyin
In September of the year of the founding of new China, she worked with a number of university teachers to design the national emblem of our country, and she devoted all her life's knowledge to this major work. Finally, in June 1950, the design was successfully completed and selected by the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the national emblem we see now is designed in this way.
A year after the establishment of China's emerging regime, Lin Huiyin, then 46, was specially invited to a cppcc meeting and was designated by the authorities at the time as an engineer for the Beijing Modern Metropolis Program. Three years later, she became the head of our National Architectural Society, and also served as the editor of a magazine that focused on construction, and was later invited to the Wen Dynasty. Another year passed, and Lin Hui, 51, died of illness.
Her "gossip"
During the modern Republic of China, there were many talented women, but compared with Lu Xiaoman, Zhang Ailing and others at that time, Lin Huiyin's ability may be more comprehensive, and even his life experience was luckier than many excellent and well-known women at that time. She organized a society with many literati, and she was not only one of the first women to join the society, but also had great achievements in literature, drama, architecture, etc. She almost represents the female literati of that era, with a beautiful face, extraordinary talent, even the emotional aspect is so pure, beautiful, as if like a princess in a fairy tale, happy and sweet.
Xu Zhimo and Zhang Youyi
In London, England in 1921, Lin Huiyin, who was only 16 years old at the time, met a person when he was traveling in Western countries, and that person was Xu Zhimo, who had been criticized all his life. At that time, Xu Zhimo was elegant and handsome, spirited, knowledgeable, and had a very big personal charm, Lin Huiyin was deeply confused by him, and Xu Zhimo also admired Lin Huiyin, who was beautiful and talented. Therefore, after knowing each other, the two often used letters as a medium to discuss study works, etc., during which Xu Zhimo also wrote her many sweet love works. In the tenth year of their acquaintance, Xu Zhimo produced a prologue, in which it is said that his poetry inspiration was only really stimulated after he met Lin Huiyin, and before the two knew each other, his writing direction was completely incompatible with poetry.
Later, after returning to China, they often participated in literary and artistic activities together and had close contacts. At the age of 19, a well-known Indian poet visited China, Lin and Xu translated for him, and after the visit, the foreign poet went to the next country, and Xu Zhimo followed the poet. Lin Huiyin also went abroad with Liang Sicheng to study under the paving of his family. Four years later, the two said goodbye, the situation has changed greatly, Lin Hui has a husband because of Luo Shi, and Xu Zhimo is married again.
When Lin Huiyin recalled in the final stage of her life, she said that Xu Zhimo's infestation with her literary understanding was very huge, and it can even be said that Xu Zhimo brought her into the road of literature. Lin Huiyin later said that the Lin Huiyin that Xu Zhimo loved might be just a person he imagined, and this was only based on a romantic fantasy of a poet, and the perfect "Lin Huiyin" in Xu Zhimo's heart was not herself at all.
Beijing opera
They have witnessed the Western definition of love and yearned for it, and they have listened to the wishes of their parents to marry Zhu Chen. Because of the same hobbies, the feelings have always been very harmonious, and in the life after marriage, Liang Sicheng also cherished her. Lin Huiyin not only has the unique romantic feelings of a poet, but also has an extremely high desire for knowledge and exploration of Yu Science. After their marriage, the couple went to Shanxi Province to investigate ancient buildings, and in the process they had a lot of discoveries, which not only made many national-level ancient buildings in Shanxi that were not discovered go to the whole country or even to the world, but also provided a basis for the study of Chinese architectural history.
After graduating from Tsinghua University in 1914 and returning to China after traveling to many Western countries, Jin Yuelin served as a lecturer at Peking University and Tsinghua University, where he also had great achievements in philosophy and was also a well-known philosopher and logician at that time. He hadn't married anyone else until his death, perhaps because he only loved Lin Huiyin.
Mr. and Mrs. Lin Huiyin often held small reading parties at home, and neighbor Jin Yuelin came almost every time. They have the same life experience, cultural knowledge, the three of them are like-minded, the feelings are extremely strong, it is worth noting that Jin Yuelin and the couple have always lived in an alley. Since he knew Lin Huiyin, he recognized her talent, so he also cherished this woman very much, and Lin Huiyin also respected and loved him, and it can be said that there is a kind of divine friendship between the two of them. Jin Yuelin's feelings for Lin Huiyin have never exceeded, and he has always been with the couple as a friend and confidant.
Mei Lanfang
When Lin Huiyin was 29 years old, there was a short story published in a well-known newspaper at that time, this novel was called "Silkworm", Lin Huiyin paid attention to this author because of his mature writing skills after seeing it, he was Xiao Qian. After that, Lin Huiyin contacted the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, got Xiao Qian's contact information from the editor-in-chief and successfully invited him to his home. It is because of the sympathy between literature that the two of them slowly became acquainted, and the relationship became closer and closer.
In the third year, Xiao Qian became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper that published his novels because of his outstanding work performance. During his time at the newspaper, Lin Huiyin has always compared himself to his "hardcore fans." The two of them also often discussed writing during tea parties. After that, Xiao Qian was promoted to work in other cities, and for the cause he loved, he constantly established new sections in the newspaper, and his various breakthroughs and innovations in the newspaper were strongly supported by Lin Huiyin, who not only responded to his work, but also participated in it herself. In Xiao Qian's working career, it can be said that he has received many guidance from Lin Huiyin.
Xiao Qian and Lin Huiyin last met at the Chinese cultural representative meeting four years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, when they arrived at the venue, the two saw each other from a long distance, and after approaching, Xiao Qian held Lin Huiyin's hand, and when he arrived in the Republic of China, the old title of the Republic of China affectionately called her "Miss", Lin Huiyin was a little shy at that time and said: "People are old and yellow, don't be called Miss." Xiao Qian also laughed, and he said to Lin Huiyin that as long as people's spirit does not grow old, it will always be young. After a brief retelling, the two discussed literature again, as they had done many years ago.
Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng
Two years had passed since the last meeting, and Xiao Qian was sad for a long time when he received the news of Lin Huiyin's death. In the 43 years after Lin Hui's death due to illness, the elderly and sick Xiao Qian accepted the invitation of a publishing house in Beijing to write a preface to their upcoming "Lin Huiyin Anthology", which could only be written by others because he was seriously ill in bed, and this preface also became Xiao Qian's last work in the world, and Xiao Qian wrote his name correctly at the end of the article.
Just like the above depiction, Lin Huiyin was almost a perfect woman, but such a talented woman was hated by Qian Zhongshu, a literary master who was a neighbor at the time. Under normal circumstances, literati with the same cultural background and no low attainments should be sympathetic to each other, see each other and hate each other late, Lin Huiyin and many people can become friends and confidants, but they can't get along with Qian Zhongshu alone, in fact, this is also a reason.
Hated by the great literary heroes
Lin Huiyin was a socialite at that time, from a very young age to receive a very high-quality enlightenment education, and when she was very young to go to Western countries early to study, at that time in the United States to hold a small cultural gathering is a trend, so in China, Lin Huiyin is very frequent to hold this kind of tea party, the location is located in her own home. At that time, Lin Huiyin would often invite people like Hu Shi and Jin Yuelin to participate in cultural salons and discuss literature. In the eyes of some relatively conservative cultural people at that time, women were very unorthodox around a large group of men, just like a female writer at that time did not like Lin Huiyin's practice very much, and even wrote a book to satirize her. Qian Zhongshu was a relatively traditional literati, and he also felt that Lin Huiyin was very unstable because he held such a small gathering of men all day.
Mr. Yang Dai
In fact, in my opinion, this is not a mistake, this is just limited by the times, if the small gathering held by Lin Huiyin is put in the present, it is a normal thing. At that time, women who could receive a high-level education were still a minority after all, and women in the literary world were also very rare, so there would be an embarrassing situation in which most of them were men in small gatherings.
No matter what era you are in, the beautiful love of the golden boy and the jade girl will always be concerned, and Lin Huiyin, who was praised as the "goddess of the Republic of China" at that time, not only married Liang Sicheng, who was prominent in his family and talent at that time, but also fell in love with Xu Zhimo, a famous talent in the capital, before marriage, and even let Tsinghua Professor Jin Yuelin not marry for a lifetime.
And it is this emotional entanglement is also another important reason why Qian Zhongshu does not like her, Qian Zhongshu feels that Lin Hui is too frivolous to look at feelings, in his own cognition, the treatment of lovers must not be half-hearted, and he also practiced it, his love with his wife Mr. Yang Dai throughout his life, the interaction between husband and wife are recorded in letters for posterity to read. The couple vividly explains what it means to take feelings seriously.
Qian Zhongshu and Yang Dai
Looking back at Lin Huiyin's feelings is too extensive, so he hates Lin Huiyin, which can be clearly seen from many of his works, he once wrote that Lin Huiyin was actually born particularly black, the rumors of white skin and beauty in the outside world are not true, and those moving eyes are also fake, the double eyelids are cut, and this behavior Qian Zhongshu is also too naïve. Perhaps in those days, such a statement would not be considered a violation of reputation, and if it were in modern society, such an act of slandering and vilifying others with words would certainly be regarded as a personal attack. But in that era, people may not think of so much, but just look at this kind of behavior as mutual contempt between writers.
Her contribution
Although Lin Huiyin only lived for 51 years, her contribution to the motherland in this life was as dazzling as a jewel.
In her lifetime, she has spent more than ten years walking through a large area of the motherland, just to see some of China's ancient buildings that have been forgotten by the world or buried by history, and she has published a number of relevant papers and research materials, and it is precisely because of her personal efforts with her husband that more than 2,000 traditional buildings in our country have been well preserved. Her own writings on architecture and the building materials she co-wrote with her husband also provide a valuable paper basis for future generations to study the history of Chinese architecture. Soon after the founding of the People's Republic of China, she was invited by the state to design a public cemetery for the burial of revolutionary martyrs, which is now Beijing's Babaoshan. In the final stages of her life, she dragged her body tormented by illness to conduct research work, only to save a traditional Chinese craft that was about to disappear from the world.
Lin Huiyin and his wife
If you have carefully understood this strange woman of the Republic of China, you will find that the first half of her life was really a rare happiness in the world, and few women in the war environment at that time could live as freely as she did in that turbulent era. Perhaps because the first half of her life was too sweet and happy, God would give her the torment of illness in the last stage of her life, and even until she died, she never saw her husband again.
End with regrets
Lin Huiyin fell seriously ill in her later years, even if she was tormented by pain, she never forgot to work and always stuck to her work position, but because her husband Liang Sicheng's work has not been smooth, she is too worried that she did not finish the last spring. When she was dying, her only wish was to see her husband again, but even this simple wish could not be fulfilled.
Lin Huiyin's wedding photo with Liang Sicheng
At that time, Lin Hui was lying on the hospital bed, and after recovering a little, she understood that her limit was coming, so she told the nurse on duty at the time that she wanted to see her husband, but the nurse refused on the grounds that it was too late. This nurse may not have thought that the day before was still in good spirits, and the person who could take care of herself in life would not be there the next day, if she could expect it, Lin Hui would probably not die with regrets. In this way, Lin Huiyin slept here forever, and she finally did not see her husband Liang Sicheng again.
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