I believe that many people will not be unfamiliar with the name lin Huiyin, and in the pen of those well-known Authors of the Republic of China, they can always hear stories about her explicitly or implicitly. But perhaps not many people really know much about her appearance, after all, in that era, the tools that could be used to shoot photos were not as rich and diverse as they are now. Since ancient times, the mainland has had the "four beauties" of sinking fish and falling geese and closed moon shy flowers, they are: Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Sable Cicada, and Yang Yuhuan. In the Republic of China period, there were also a few "four beauties" that everyone unanimously recognized.
Lin Huiyin is one of them.
You should know that in that era, few people would do facial plastic surgery, and P-chart technology is a product of modern society, if you can make everyone unanimously approve of the face under such circumstances, it must be beautiful. How beautiful was Lin Huiyin when he was young? After reading this set of out-of-print black and white old photos, you will understand!
A rare beauty billet from childhood
Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in 1904, Lin Huiyin lived with her grandparents until she was 8 years old, and as she grew older, her father Lin Changmin took her with him to take care of her. In 1920, under the influence of her father's work, Lin Huiyin began to travel to Europe with her father, in that era, there were only a few people who could achieve such an experience, but not to mention that Lin Huiyin was still a woman, which showed that her family was really well-off, and her father was also very careful about her education. Eighteen changes in the female university, at this time, Lin Huiyin has completely faded the baby fat of her childhood, exquisite facial features, brilliant as spring flowers, as bright as the autumn moon, as if she has become a young girl.
A few emotions Are divided
When Lin Huiyin settled in London, he met her landlady, a designer who graduated from the University of London, and the two of them often went out at that time, and it was also influenced by this landlord, Lin Huiyin aspired to become an architect. The heart of loving beauty, everyone has it, beautiful and talented girls, always easy to attract attention, because of his father's relationship, Lin Huiyin met Xu Zhimo, who was a disciple of Lin Changmin at that time.
At this time, Xu Zhimo was in a confused period of life, he did not know the future, and the arrival of Lin Changmin made his life change slightly, he was able to enter cambridge university to study, and here he and Lin Huiyin had more understanding. Gradually, the two were attracted by each other's talents, and because of getting to know Xu Zhimo, Lin Huiyin developed a strong interest in new poetry, and during the opening of the Crescent Moon Society, he often appeared on stage to perform the poetry drama "Zidra", and the two people who came and went frequently and had common hobbies quietly arose between the two who admired each other.
Therefore, one of her representative works, "You Are the April Day on Earth", is also considered by many to be a modern poem she wrote to Xu Zhimo. However, the inexplicable relationship between the two did not bear fruit, because Xu Zhimo was already a husband with a wife at that time, although he proposed a divorce to his wife shortly after he knew Lin Huiyin, but Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin eventually parted ways.
In 1921, Lin Huiyin met Liang Sicheng when he returned to China once, and three years later, the two went to the University of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to study together, because the architecture department at that time did not accept female students, Lin Huiyin registered the art department, and transferred to Yale University in 1927 to study stage design. In 1928, after graduation, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng married, and in August of the same year, the two returned to China and were employed together in the Architecture Department of Northeastern University. Shortly thereafter, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin had a son and a daughter of their own.
After returning to China to settle down, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng always liked to hold various salon gatherings at home in their spare time, almost every week, at this time, the philosopher Jin Yuelin, who often visited, became their guests, and the like-minded three people had some friendships when they came and went. And because of the closeness of the relationship between the three people, whenever Liang Sicheng and Lin Hui quarrel, Jin Yuelin, who lives next to them, will become a peacemaker between them, and they are always willing to find Jin Yuelin to judge the emotional world between them.
It is rumored that Jin Yuelin and Lin Huiyin gradually developed feelings at that time. And Jin Yuelin never married, which also added a more mysterious color to this rumor. Many people have mixed reviews of Lin Huiyin's three emotional experiences, but a thousand readers will have a thousand Hamlets, some people will agree and some people will criticize, no one can really determine whether Lin Huiyin's practices of love are right or wrong, and the same person will not be loved by everyone.
Talented, outstanding contribution
Lin Huiyin not only has a special love for architecture, but also for literary creation, since 1931, her first poem "Who Loves This Endless Change" was published in the second issue of the Poetry Journal, and in the following years, she published a number of works, most of which were poetry. Since 1930, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng have traveled to almost every city in China and inspected tens of thousands of ancient buildings, and it is precisely because of this behavior that many ancient buildings have been protected during the War of Resistance.
Because of their work, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng's sons and daughters also lived a life of displacement with them. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Lin Huiyin caused a recurrence of lung disease due to her harsh living environment and wandering life, but during this period, she still spent the night reading and consulting relevant materials for her favorite architectural career. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, life has stabilized somewhat, lin Huiyin has published a number of poems, and compiled the "National Catalogue of Cultural Relics Protection", and she was also hired as a first-class professor in the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University.
Not only that, in 1951, the then 47-year-old Lin Huiyin, because he wanted to save the traditional craft of cloisonné that was on the verge of being closed, joined hands with a number of art masters to design a number of novel patterns with national styles, which were unanimously recognized by the participants. In the years that followed, Lin Huiyin translated and wrote a number of books on architecture, using what he had learned and seen to provide reference for national construction.
But at the same time, when Beijing began to brew a large-scale demolition of ancient buildings, she also had a disagreement and fierce dispute with Wu Han, who was then the vice mayor of Beijing, because of her own ideas and insistence, and then her condition deteriorated sharply, and she refused to take medicine for treatment. At this time, Lin Huiyin, who was bedridden, had long lost the beauty of her youth, but she had another charm, that is, a kind of dedication to her favorite career and the precious precipitation left by the years in her over the past few decades.
Although her emotional story is controversial and mixed, but after all, feelings are an extremely private and personal thing, and the dark tide between them and the details between the two cannot make outsiders see them one by one, nor can they explain clearly, but can only be a mystery of public reason and reasonableness. In 1955, at the age of 51, Lin Huiyin left this world forever, and under her tombstone there was a piece of Han white jade engraved with beautiful wreaths, and the creator of this White Jade was herself, which was originally a sample she tried to carve for the monument of the People's Heroes in front of Tiananmen.
brief summary:
This seems to be a recognition of her contribution to the motherland by the masses of the people, and it is also a satisfactory end to her pursuit of the profession she loves. Whether or not she has done anything wrong in her own emotions, her dedication to the construction of her life, the literature she loves, the dedication she has made, is worthy of praise.
Everyone's experience and life from childhood to adulthood are different, which also creates people to have completely different views and judgments about the same events and the same problems, looking at the side of the ridge, far and near are different, which is like some people love milk tea, some people love coffee. No one in this world is perfect, but if you have less colored glasses and more objective rationality, you may see different results.