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I said you are an April day on earth
Laughter lit up the wind on all sides
Dancing and changing in the light of spring
You are the clouds of smoke in the early days of April
The softness of the wind blowing at dusk
Hoshiko inadvertently flashes Drizzle sprinkles on the flowers
That light that lou ting you are
The crown of fresh flowers you wear
You are naïve and solemn
You are the full moon of the night
……
You are a tree of flowers
It was Swallow whispering between the beams
- You are love, warmth, hope
You are the April day on earth!
------ "April Day on Earth"
This poem written by Lin Huiyin to her son is her most prestigious text. This poem is particularly beautiful in the documentary "Liang Sicheng Lin Huiyin". "Liang Lin" uses eight episodes of length to tell the life of the two people. The titles of the single episode are "Father", "Heavenly Book", "Buddha's Light", "Exile", "Tragic Victory", "Glory", "Choice", "Ancient City", and the names of the eight episodes are also the keywords that string together Liang Lin's life.
A documentary full of Lin Huiyin's unique poetry from beginning to end, quietly telling the life of the two people in the background of the big era and their insistence on scholarship. Because the characters are very accomplished in terms of cultural attainments, the texts and letters of Liang Lin and their related relatives and friends are laid out throughout. Taking us into the world and heart of the two people, it is deeply moving.
The documentary tells us in chronological order about the people and things that Liang Lin and Liang Lin have experienced in their lives, the choices they have made, and the achievements they have achieved. Both have prominent family lineages, both have quite accomplished fathers (Liang Qichao and Lin Juemin), study and love the common profession - architecture, study abroad together, and then return to China as relatives, jointly engaged in the establishment of the Chinese Architecture Department and the study of Chinese architectural history, until the end of their lives, they are family, comrades-in-arms, and professional partners. They have a common American friend, a Chinese friend, two people as a whole, together completed a great cause, made history for the Chinese building system, and became the pioneer and founder of the Chinese architectural education system. The two men's lifelong explorations and achievements revolve around ancient Chinese architecture.
(Lin Huiyin and his father Lin Juemin)
"At that time, China had a long history of architecture, but it did not produce its own architecture and architectural education, and China had a high degree of ancient civilization, but it did not produce a scientific knowledge system for a long time. A generation of newcomers who have studied in both China and the West have stepped onto the stage. In 1931, Liang Lin and the two returned to Beiping, and the thirty-year-old Liang Sicheng was ambitious to write a complete history of Chinese architecture, "This choice will achieve an eternal glory in the history of our national architecture." And his own life is therefore doomed to hardships and ups and downs. ”
(Liang Sicheng)
Beginning in 1931, while building the earliest Chinese architectural system for China, the two traveled all over China to explore the ancient buildings scattered throughout China at that time, and traced the history of Chinese architecture to the Tang Dynasty. Many famous representatives of ancient Chinese architecture, such as the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda that we know today, were discovered by Liang Lin and his wife and systematically sorted out and recorded in writing. In the summer of 1937, Liang Lin and his wife at the Foguang Temple on Mount Wutai pulled the existing evidence of Chinese architecture to the Tang Dynasty (857 AD).
The documentary describes the scene at that time: "Liang Sicheng used the "consultation surprise" to describe their mood when they entered the main hall of Foguang Temple. The hall is only one floor, the arch is huge, powerful, simple, far-reaching eaves, a casual glance, its extremely ancient and distinguishable, but will it be the oldest building known so far? The bottom of the sloped hall is like an empty pavilion, dark and lightless, and it is only climbed through the gap under the eaves. The dust that existed on the upper area was a few inches thick and stepped on like cotton. We visited with flashlights and saw that the purlins had been engulfed by bats, and hundreds of swarms were crowded on them, unable to be expelled. When taking pictures, bats are shocked to see the light, and the smell is unbearable, and there are thousands of bed bugs in the wood, probably eating bat blood. Work to the bitter end. We worked for a few days before we saw ink on the bottom of the beams in the temple. Finally, an important text inscribed under the beam was found, proving that Foguang Temple was built in 857 AD, during the tang dynasty, which was a great discovery. ”
"This day is the most glorious day on the road of the two people's lives, but it is also this day that the fate of the two has been reversed." The "July 7 Incident" broke out, and from then on, like all the Chinese at that time, they began their exile in September 1937, which was 9 years. The family traveled to Kunming, Longtou Village, and Lizhuang in Sichuan Province, experiencing all kinds of difficulties during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. That is, from the beginning of exile, Lin Huiyin became a patient, bedridden for many years, and lung disease never left her. During the exile, they encountered the difficulties of life and the death of their relatives in the war, but the flame of scholarship has never been extinguished, and Liang Sicheng completed the writing of the "History of Chinese Architecture" during the years of war and exile.
In 1946, after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liang Lin returned to Beiping and established the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University. In the same year, Liang Sicheng traveled to the United States, becoming the first Chinese scholar to systematically preach Chinese architecture on the world stage.
(Lin Huiyin and the first batch of students of Tsinghua University Department of Architecture)
"For the first time, our antiques were displayed in front of the world. (Liang Sicheng) he himself is modest, saying that I have some creativity, I am nothing more than a scientific collation of Chinese architecture. Therefore, we say that China's ancient architecture was in a state of chaos in the past, and it was not clear, but it was scientifically sorted out by the older generation of scholars and displayed in front of the world with a clear appearance, so that our oriental cultural treasure would whisk away the dust on our bodies and reappear in the forest of world culture. "---- Lou Gyeongseong
In 1948, Peiping was peacefully liberated; Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin presided over the design of the Monument to the People's Heroes and the national emblem, and devoted great enthusiasm. In 1950, the Liang Chen Plan for the construction of the ancient city of Beijing was proposed. Lin Hui died of illness in April 1955, and Liang Sicheng died in January 1972. Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin spent their lives in the ups and downs of the background of the big era, and their academic pursuit of Chinese architecture has been from beginning to end.
Liang Sicheng sincerely replied to the praise given to him by the world: "For a curious person who has just spent too much time and energy to pursue, and perhaps just to satisfy his leisure, such a reward is too high!" ”
(Photo of Liang Sicheng Lin Huiyin working at the Temple of Heaven Prayer Hall)
In the documentary, as with the academic pursuit of the two from beginning to end, through the beginning and end, there is also the transnational friendship between Liang Lin and the American scholar Fei Zhengqing Fei Weimei, mutual assistance in life, and mutual support in professionalism. The entire documentary uses 13 years of correspondence between the two families to string together Liang Lin's own narrative of their own living conditions in various stages. Lin Huiyin's letters and poems are scattered in various time periods of the documentary, appearing at the most appropriate time, and reading it can feel her attitude towards life, optimistic and flexible, very vivid and touching, very beautiful.
(Liang Lin and Fei Weimei)
The film ends in Fairbank's recollection: "Our closest friends in China (or anywhere in the world) are Liang Sicheng and his wife, Lin Huiyin, two people who combine Eastern and Western cultures. ”
I said you are an April day on earth
Laughter lit up the wind on all sides
Dancing and changing in the light of spring
……
When and when
The heart can really understand
The distance of this time
The age of the mountains and rivers
……
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