Lin Huiyin and Bing Xin did not interact with each other, as the modern writer Li Jianwu said, the two of them "are both friends and enemies at the same time." ”
Of course, the idea of friends is relatively old.
Both are natives of Fujian and met while studying abroad. At that time, Lin Huiyin's boyfriend was Liang Sicheng, Bingxin's partner was Wu Wenzao, and Liang Sicheng and Wu Wenzao were Tsinghua's roommates, and Lin Huiyin and Bingxin certainly had the opportunity to become good friends.
In fact, during the outing in the United States, the two people also left the only group photo, and everything looked so harmonious and beautiful.
However, the boat of friendship overturned. We don't know exactly where it is. The most widely circulated saying is that because of Bingxin's "Our Wife's Living Room".
"Our Wife's Living Room" depicts a woman who loves to be out of the limelight and works hard, and this woman is surrounded by a circle of men with the aura of a poet, philosopher, painter, and scientist, and a woman who almost easily "plays" with men between the palms of her hands.
After the publication of "Our Wife's Living Room", it caused a lot of waves in the literary world. In particular, Lin Huiyin has become the focus of attention.
At that time, she and Liang Sicheng often invited friends in their apartments, including novelist Shen Congwen, economist Chen Daisun, political science professor Zhang Xiruo, and logician Jin Yuelin. In terms of personality traits, these invitees can almost be seated with the men in "Our Wife's Living Room".
The saying circulating on the Internet is that Lin Hui, because he loves to be in the limelight, Bing Xin feels unhappy, so he writes an article to criticize and ridicule.
Jin Yuelin, one of the parties involved, believes that the novel "also has another meaning, and this other meaning seems to be that the Chinese young grandmothers of the 30s seem to have a kind of 'ignorance of the hatred of the country'" problem.
We don't know what the situation is. However, after seeing the novel, Lin Hui, because it was impossible not to be moved, she was far away in Shanxi to do cultural relics investigation, and directly gave Bingxin a pot of Shanxi old Vinegar. The meaning of this, you can imagine.
The beams of the two men seemed to be so knotted.
However, before "Our Wife's Living Room", there was a prelude to this matter.
In 1933, Shen Congwen published a novel, Suicide. The novel was nothing, but it was read by a pedantic university professor, who took a seat, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and even made a big fuss.
Shen Congwen believes that all your unpleasantness is self-inflicted and has nothing to do with my works.
After Lin Huiyin learned of this, as a friend, she very much agreed with Shen Congwen's views and wrote an article of solidarity. Presumably, the meaning is that the phenomenon of society is there, so why not let people say it?
As soon as Lin Huiyin's words fell silent, Bingxin's "Our Wife's Living Room" came up.
However, the incident of Shen Congwen's "Suicide" novel should not be the beginning of two people's discord. As early as 1925, Bing Xin wrote an article called Lin Hui, who was the fiancée of Liang Sicheng, a good friend of my boyfriend Wu Wenzao.
To be sure, after the "Our Wife's Living Room" incident, the two people went farther and farther away, even when the two were in Kunming, there was no intersection.
You know, at that time, the two stayed in Kunming for 3 years, and the distance between them was only 10 minutes walk. The depth of the estrangement between the two is evident.
The estrangement between BingXin and Lin Huiyin may have been planted at the beginning.
Bingxin's father, Xie Baozhang, was the founder of the Yantai Naval School, and his mother, Yang Fuci, was a "cultured wife and mother." Bing Xin's reading since he was a child began with the Four Books and Five Classics, and he was conservative in his thinking. Manifested in the concept of gender, it is traditional and rigorous.
Lin Huiyin's father, Lin Changmin, served as the chief justice of the Duan Qirui government, and Lin Huiyin's mother, He Xueyuan, was a typical old-fashioned woman with almost no culture.
Due to the early death of his sister, Lin Huiyin was favored by his father. Lin Changmin often took her out, especially in European countries, and Lin Huiyin came into contact with a lot of Western culture. Although Lin Huiyin's growth is "wearing old shoes", he has taken a "new road", which is western as a whole.
When we look back at the above past events and look at the water and fire of the two people, it seems that everything is understandable.