One | Father
That year, young Liang Sicheng met young Lin Huiyin.
What is "green plum bamboo horse", what is called "door to door", what is called "good couple Tiancheng", probably used to describe such an encounter...
Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin (restored by AI)
Liang Sicheng's father, Liang Qichao, was one of the famous Enlightenment thinkers, politicians, masters of traditional Chinese studies, and instigators of the Penghu Reform Law in modern China.
Lin Huiyin's father is Lin Changmin, the chief justice officer of the Beiyang government, and her uncle is Lin Juemin, one of the seventy-two martyrs of Huanghuagang who once wrote the "Letter with His Wife"...
Their family lineage, talent, knowledge, and appearance are so matched, it is simply a pair of people made in heaven...
Liang Qichao
Lin Changmin
However, when Lin Huiyin was 16 years old, he met xu Zhimo, 23 years old...
Xu Zhimo launched a crazy pursuit of Lin Huiyin, and he wrote in a letter to his mentor Liang Qichao: I will visit my only soul mate in the vast sea of people, and I will get it, I am fortunate, I can't, I am destined...
Lin Huiyin and his father Lin Changmin
In the spring of 1924, the great Indian poet Tagore visited China, and Lin Huiyin and Xu Zhimo were arranged to become translators during Tagore's time in China...
In the process of getting along, Tagore seemed to perceive the entanglement of these two young people, and when he was parting, he wrote a poem to Lin Huiyin: the blue of the sky, the love of the turquoise of the earth, the breeze between them, sighing, hey.
Lin Huiyin Tagore Xu Zhimo
In the end, Lin Huiyin chose the latter between the mercurial Xu Zhimo and the down-to-earth and square Liang Sicheng...
At the end of 1924, under the arrangement of both fathers, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin went to the University of Pennsylvania to study, Liang Sicheng entered the Department of Architecture, and Lin Huiyin entered the Department of Fine Arts.
These two young Chinese people, who came from extraordinary backgrounds, worked hard and had excellent grades, and most of their coursework was "outstanding" comments.
Just a year and a half after Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin went to study in the United States, Lin Huiyin's father died of being involved in the northeast warlord civil war...
Liang Qichao wrote in his letter to Liang Sicheng:
Today the newspaper came out of terrible news, I can't bear to tell you, and I can't help telling you, you have to be twelve points calm, not because the stimulation is too dramatic, causing injury to your body...
Huiyin suffered this misery, the only partner, the only comfort, only by you...
Under the persuasion of Liang Qichao, Lin Huiyin gave up his plan to return to China to mourn, but stayed in the United States and completed his studies with Liang Sicheng...
Lin Huiyin took a photo with his father
In his letter dissuading Lin Huiyin, Liang Qichao wrote:
Man is born with sorrow, knowing that he has no choice but to live in peace.
You know, I am a person with strong feelings, but after a certain period of time, I can always use reason to suppress it, so I will not be affected by feelings, ruin my body, hinder my career, this point, although you are not easy to learn, but you must not study hard...
During his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Liang Sicheng received rigorous basic training in becoming an architect, and after systematically studying the history of Western architecture, his attention began to turn to the history of Chinese architecture that was almost blank.
In 1927, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin graduated from Penn University, Liang Sicheng went to Harvard University's School of Humanities to continue his studies, and Lin Huiyin chose Yale University Stage Set Art...
At the beginning of 1928, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin registered their marriage in the United States, and they were about to embark on a journey back to China...
Before leaving, his father Liang Qichao wrote:
Now the difficulty of finding karma is not what you expected, so while I am planning for you, I remind you to have enlightenment first, even if you cannot get a fair career when you return to China, you do not have to be disappointed and depressed, disappointment and frustration are the most terrible enemies in our lives, and we need not allow it to invade for life...
I am very happy mentally, from the "little one" in my arms, after all kinds of disasters, a child plate to an adult, the character and learning are still a bit out of breath, I see that I am about to conclude a happy marriage, and I will soon return to my arms, how unhappy...
Liang Qichao's family photo | The vast majority of fathers in that era were extremely dignified and not too close to their children. But judging from Liang Qichao's tight grip on the young Liang Sicheng's small hand, Liang Qichao, who is famous all over the world, is actually a gentle father.
However, at this time, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin did not know that at this time, the life of his father Liang Qichao was about to come to an end...
On March 16, 1928, Liang Qichao underwent renal resection surgery at Union Hospital due to uremia, and due to the work mistakes of the medical staff, the chief surgeon removed Liang Qichao's healthy right kidney...
However, considering that Western medicine started in China at that time, the people had quite doubts about Western medicine, and Liang Qichao on the hospital bed hid this matter in order to promote the popularization of Western medicine in China and to maintain the reputation of Western medicine and Union Hospital...
On January 19, 1929, Liang Qichao died of illness at the age of 56 in the Union Hospital, buried in the suburbs of Beiping at that time, in the Ginkgo Pine Park of the Beijing Botanical Garden.
The mausoleum was designed by Liang Sicheng, there is no tall tomb mound, no long inscriptions, and even Liang Qichao's life deeds are not mentioned at all...
| Buddha
In the autumn of 1928, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, who returned to China, rushed to Shenyang to teach at Northeastern University.
At this time, the Department of Architecture of Northeastern University has just been established, there are students without teachers, 27-year-old Liang Sicheng is the head of the department, and there are only two teachers in the whole department, he and Lin Huiyin...
You know, in that era, a Chinese architect who returned from studying in the United States was extremely rare, and it can be said that he was very valuable...
But Liang Sicheng has another plan...
The more he studied the history of Western architecture, the more he was saddened by the decline of classical Chinese architecture, and he even had such a worry: in time, the land of China will be full of Western architecture...
To this end, Liang Si became the Department of Architecture of UTokyo university to write down the idea of running a school: tracing back to the Europeanization of the East, the Chinese people compete for foreign style, where the daily use of the needs, do not take the Western as the standard...
And the art of building in our country is also tragic at this time...
Western-style architecture is very popular with the Chinese people because of its convenience in use...
In view of this, the basic goal of this department is to save this unfortunate phenomenon...
In the summer of 1931, after teaching at Northeastern University for three years, Liang Sicheng left Northeast China and moved his family to Beiping.
At that time, Beiping, Shanghai, Tianjin and other cities became an active stage for Chinese architects returning from studying abroad, and Western buildings rose up one after another, and architects paid a lot of money.
But Liang Sicheng turned away from the hustle and bustle, and he returned to his study, ready to start from scratch and study the history of Chinese architecture...
When studying in the United States, Liang Sicheng found that the history of Western architecture was orderly, clear and orderly...
But in the history of world architecture, there is no place for Chinese architecture...
The construction skills of Chinese architecture are all passed on by word of mouth by teachers and apprentices, and the written records are almost blank, not to mention the scientific records and inheritance...
Liang Sicheng decided to change all this...
Therefore, he started from the Qing Dynasty architecture, from the teachers and craftsmen in Beiping, Liang Sicheng touched the mysteries of ancient Chinese architecture little by little...
What is a bucket arch?
What is a Golden Pillar?
Liang Sicheng took the book, little by little to consult the old craftsman, slowly figured it out...
In 1934, Liang Sicheng published his first monograph: "Qing Dynasty Construction Rules"
Lin Huiyin wrote the introduction to the first chapter of this book, and in the long journey they will spend their lives exploring the history of Chinese architecture, this book is only a small step...
However, for the travelers who are about to travel, as long as they take this step, they are no longer wandering, just taking care of the wind and rain...
We know that in China's long history, the dynasties have changed, kings have been defeated, and countless ancient Chinese buildings have been destroyed in wars after war.
In Liang Sicheng's time, Japanese scholars regarded the preservation of Tang Dynasty architecture in Japan as a great honor, and they declared: There are no Tang Dynasty wooden buildings in China...
However, Liang Sicheng firmly believes that in a quiet corner of the land of China, there will be a Tang Dynasty wooden building, which is quiet, fortunate to have escaped the war, avoided natural disasters, and stood firm...
At this time, it was in the early stage of the outbreak of the Japanese war of aggression against China, the land of China was in chaos, bandits were rampant, and dangers were everywhere...
In this wilderness of soldiers and bandits, there are several scholars who walk very discordantly, with their own covers and rolls, carrying measuring instruments, they are Liang Sicheng and his wife and the Chinese ancient architecture investigation team...
Lin Huiyin described the situation of the inspection in a family letter: children scrambling to squeeze and watch us take pictures, Mr. Teaching helped us expand the inscription... Almost fourteen hundred years, ah, fourteen hundred years, we are all proud together...
In the summer of 1937, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin entrusted their 8-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son to Liang Sicheng's eldest sister to take care of them, and went to Shanxi for the third time.
After years of ancient architectural investigation, although it is quite fruitful to discover the great buildings of the Liao Dynasty such as jixian Dule Temple and Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, a question has always haunted Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin: Is the tang dynasty wooden architecture really extinct in China?
In the past six years, every time they travel, they have prayed in their hearts: let the miracle happen, let us discover a Tang Dynasty wooden building!
Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin rode a mule and walked on the steep mountain road for two days, and they finally came to the bean village at the foot of Wutai Mountain...
It was a brilliant twilight, and they saw ahead, in the afterglow of the setting sun, a temple, shining with dazzling light...
The handwriting on the plaque of the main hall, which has been immortalized after thousands of years of wind and rain, is still clearly visible: Buddha's Light True Rong Zen Temple.
Liang Sicheng wrote in his handwriting: The bucket arch is huge, powerful, simple, far-reaching, casual glance, its extremely ancient standing discernment...
They climbed into the temple from the gap under the eaves...
Liang Sicheng recorded:
The dust accumulated on the beam was a few inches thick, and when we stepped on it like cotton, we visited it with a flashlight and saw that the purlin had been occupied by bats, and hundreds of flocks were crowded on it, unable to be expelled...
When taking pictures, bats see the light and fly, the filth is unbearable, and there are thousands of bed bugs in the wood, probably eating bat blood, working until they are bitter...
Is this a Tang Dynasty wooden building?
Although it is highly likely that this is a Tang Dynasty wooden building from the regulations and craftsmanship, they still have to find tangible evidence...
After a few days of cleaning, the bats were driven away, the dust was swept away, and the true appearance of the hall thousands of years ago gradually appeared...
Lin Huiyin found faint ink marks at the bottom of the beams in the hall...
This proves that Foguang Temple was built in 857 AD, that is, the eleventh year of Tang Yizong's great middle school, and it is a real Tang Dynasty wooden structure.
Foguang Temple today (Image source: Visual China)
The discovery of Foguang Temple broke the assertion of Japanese scholars that there were no wooden structures of the Tang Dynasty and its predecessors on the land of China.
The discovery of Foguang Temple is also the most brilliant day on the road of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin's life, after which, their fate will take a sharp turn...
At this time, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, who were immersed in the extreme excitement of discovering the Foguang Temple, did not know that the outside world had collapsed and the land of China was burning with flames of war...
On July 7, 1937, the Japanese war of aggression against China broke out in full swing...
A few days later, Lin Huiyin wrote in a letter to his daughter:
Baby, mom doesn't know how to tell you so many things...
If the Japanese want to come and occupy Peiping, we are all willing to fight with them, then you have to follow the great aunt, and now we Chinese to be brave, not afraid of anything, and determined to do anything...
In the past seven years, Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin and their team have walked on the land of China, full of thorns, step by step, until the Buddha's light appeared, and when the dream came true, nightmares and bad luck followed...
This night changed the fate of all Chinese, and also reversed the direction of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin's lives...
Three | exile
Shortly after the Lugou Bridge incident, Peiping fell, and Liang Sicheng's expedition team was forced to evacuate and move.
Before leaving, they deposited seven years of research results, surveying and mapping drawings, photo negatives, etc. in the underground vault of the foreign-funded bank in the British Concession of Tianjin.
Once a quiet and rich life, in an instant, it became a few pieces of luggage with bumps, rumbling cannons, universities around the world, or moving west, or crossing south, have shifted to the rear...
Professors, students, the elderly, women, children...
Boxes of books, bags of instruments, even cattle...
All of this, converging into a tide of suffering, slowly spread across the land of China...
Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, dragging luggage, serving the old mother, holding the child, became part of this tide...
They fled from Beiping to Changsha, made some repairs, and then traveled to Guizhou, arrived in Kunming, Yunnan, and half a year later, set off again and arrived in Lizhuang, Sichuan...
Lizhuang, at that time, was a small place with no name on the map, with a population of only more than three thousand people...
Overnight, nearly 10,000 people suddenly poured in, including more than a dozen cultural research institutions such as Tongji University and Jinling University Literature Research Institute...
Near Lizhuang, there is a place called Moon Field, which accepts Liang Sicheng's family, where they will spend six years of the War of Resistance...
Shortly after arriving in Lizhuang, Lin Huiyin's old disease tuberculosis recurred, and after six years of living here, she will spend on the sickbed...
In addition, Lin Huiyin's younger brother Lin Heng sacrificed his life for the country in the air battle with the Japanese Kou...
Her condition is getting worse...
She wrote a poem for her brother: Brother, I have no language suitable for the times to mourn your death... You're walking too early, too early, brother...
The life of being bedridden for a long time is boring, monotonous and sad, but Lin Huiyin still adapts to such a life in a romantic way...
She also wrote poems for bedridden days:
Today for twelve hours, it was my twelve guests, each of whom came and went, and finally the sunset dragged the shadow away...
Twilight crept in and sneaked in curiously, and I said: Friend, I won't tell you about it this time...
Days, it is really difficult, Lin Hui can not get out of bed for many years, Liang Sicheng took care of all the housework, once a big lady, once a famous man, was forced to the four walls of the family, no rice under the pot, desperate situation...
As a result, the famous historian Fu Sinian really couldn't stand it, and he secretly wrote a letter to the government to bring some financial aid for the Liang Sicheng brothers...
Fu Sinian wrote in the letter: I have never loved to ask for people, but the descendants of Liang Rengong (Liang Qichao), whether in character or knowledge, are all first-class figures in China and internationally renowned people.
Although his life was difficult to this point, Liang Sicheng calmed down, picked up a pen and paper, and began to write his long-planned: "History of Chinese Architecture"
Bedridden Lin Huiyin volunteered to do the collation of ancient documents for Liang Sicheng, unexpectedly, in the process of sorting out ancient documents, Lin Huiyin was deeply fascinated by Han Dynasty culture...
Liang Sicheng wrote in a letter to american friends: HuiYin has been deeply trapped in the Han Dynasty, can not extricate herself, she is now in a personal relationship with the Han Dynasty figures, what Han Dynasty emperors, empresses, civil and military officials, their likes and dislikes, she talks about the head is the Tao, as if talking about her neighbors...
Mr. and Mrs. Jin Yuelin, a neighbor and good friend of Mr. and Mrs. Liang Sicheng, also wrote in the letter:
Hui Yin is already immersed in the Han Dynasty, and no matter what you talk to her about, she can't help but jump back to that distant era...
We find that if we want to get her attention, we have to compete with the gentlemen and ladies of that distant era...
We can only hope that when her soul occasionally drifts back to the twentieth century, it will bring us back some amazing news...
At the end of 1942, the American sinologist Mr. Fei Zhengqing went to Lizhuang to visit Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin...
Years later, Fairbank wrote in his memoirs:
If Americans had been in such a situation, they would have abandoned books long ago and made another living. But our Chinese friends, while accepting the living conditions of the peasants, are still committed to their academic research.
Even in the days of hunger and cold, Liang Sicheng and his team still printed on the local slate of Lizhuang and published two issues of academic journals...
In this issue, he published an article titled "Why Study Chinese Architecture," in which he wrote:
Studying Chinese architecture can be said to be a work against the times. In recent years, China has tended to westernize in the midst of drastic changes, and society has destroyed ancient Chinese architecture.
Unless we do not respect the splendid culture of this ancient country, if there is a determination to revive the country and the nation, we cannot ignore the study of Chinese architecture...
In 1944, on the eve of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liang Sicheng left Lizhuang and went to Chongqing to serve as the deputy director of the War Zone Cultural Relics Preservation Committee.
During this period, Liang Sicheng compiled a catalogue of cultural relics protection, and every name on this catalogue is the favorite in his heart...
A few years later, this catalogue also became the prototype of the New China National Cultural Relics Protection List...
Liang Sicheng also compiled a list of cultural relics and buildings for the US 14th Air Force in North China and coastal provinces, and marked them one by one on military maps to avoid war damage as much as possible.
He also solemnly marked the ancient capital of Japan, Kyoto and Nara, on the map...
| Return
In July 1946, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin ended their nine-year exile and moved their family back to Beiping...
At this time, Lin Huiyin's body was becoming weaker and weaker, and the doctor warned that her life was less than five years...
Liang Sicheng wrote a letter to Mei Yiqi, president of Tsinghua University, in which he said: The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is coming to an end, The destruction of Chinese cities is enormous, post-war reconstruction is imminent, and the country needs a large number of construction talents...
Liang Sicheng suggested that Tsinghua University set up a department of architecture and volunteered to serve as the head of the department of architecture...
In the autumn of 1946, the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University opened as scheduled, with a total of 13 students...
Since Liang Sicheng was invited to lecture in the United States, the first semester was taught by Wu Liangyong, and Mr. Wu and Lin Huiyin on the sickbed jointly formulated the curriculum...
Mr. Zhu Zixuan, a student of that year and now a professor at the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, recalled the scene when he met Lin Huiyin, he said: The gap between Mr. Lin's temperament and the actor who plays her in the TV series is still relatively large...
He also said: Mr. Liang Sicheng is very capable of speaking, but when Liang Lin is together, the center is still Mr. Lin...
Because of This passage of Mr. Zhu Zixuan, I went to check the actor who once played Lin Huiyin...
There are three in total: Zhou Xun played Lin Huiyin in the TV series "April Day on Earth", Yin Wei played Lin Huiyin in the TV series "Tianxingjian", wu Jinyan played Lin Huiyin in the movie "No Questions Asked"...
Among them, Zhou Xun's version is the most famous, I think Mr. Zhu Zixuan's "still far away" probably refers to this version...
Lin Huiyin, played by Zhou Xun, in "April Day on Earth"
At the same time, Liang Sicheng came to Yale University in the United States to tell the history of Chinese architectural art...
20 years ago, he was just an international student under the podium, and 20 years later, he is the first Chinese scholar to tell the history of Chinese architecture on the pulpit of Western universities...
During his stay in the United States, Liang Sicheng held a photo exhibition of Chinese architecture, gave two academic lectures on Tang and Song Dynasty sculptures and architectural discoveries, was awarded an honorary doctorate by Princeton University, and was also invited to participate in the design of the United Nations Headquarters.
In 1947, Liang Sicheng left the United States and returned to China.
In the past two years in the United States, Liang Sicheng has promoted traditional Chinese architectural art to the world...
This is the first time that traditional Chinese architecture has been integrated into the history of world architecture in a systematic, scientific and detailed way, just like the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, which finally flowed into the sea after meandering for thousands of miles...
At the end of 1947, Liang Sicheng returned to Beiping and stood on the podium of the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University...
At this time, although Liang Sicheng was only 46 years old, his work and life had been displaced for many years, which greatly damaged his body...
His waist can't stand up straight, and he has to wear a "steel vest" inside his suit...
His teeth have fallen out of half, and he has to go to great lengths every morning to put on dentures...
But when he was in class, his waist was straight, his suit was leather, his white shirt was spotless, his beard was hanging clean, and his hair was combed in a neat way...
This was a necessity for a role model, and it was also the dignity that the intellectuals of that era valued greatly...
In addition to the decency of appearance, Liang Sicheng is more careful to maintain the decency of reputation...
Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin's son Liang Congjie, who loved art design since childhood and had excellent grades, fell behind by two points when applying for the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University...
Many years later, Liang Congjie still regretted this, and told reporters: Just two points, my father is the head of the department, but he did not say a word... Heck, I still blame myself for not being out...
Wu | Gu cheng
In December 1948, on the eve of the founding of New China...
A leader of the People's Liberation Army went to Tsinghua University to ask Liang Sicheng for advice, and later Liang Sicheng wrote in an article: He said that if he attacked Peiping, he would try his best to avoid destroying cultural relics and buildings.
This incident made Liang Sicheng very moved, he said: When I read Mencius's two sentences "Eat pot pulp to welcome the king's master" in my childhood, I concretized in my mind that day.
On January 31, 1949, Peiping was peacefully liberated, and Liang Sicheng's beloved ancient capital was unscathed...
After the founding of New China, Lin Huiyin led the relief pattern design of the Monument to the People's Heroes...
Liang Sicheng presided over the compilation of the "Compendium of Important Architectural Relics in China", their research and investigation in the past twenty years, finally came to fruition, he compiled 146 cities and counties in 22 provinces and 500-600 ancient buildings in this catalog...
The first city for the purpose of the simple purpose is: Beiping City.
The first item is: all of Beiping City.
The article describes it this way: The most complete and greatest medieval city in the world, all of which is a whole design, symmetrical and uniform, and the boldness of the world is unmatched.
However, with regard to Beiping, Liang Sicheng's plan for the protection and construction of another administrative center in the western suburbs is very different from the renovation plan of the Soviet experts for the demolition and construction...
In that era, the decision-makers did not choose Liang Sicheng's plan, and a few years later, the former ancient capital of Beiping became the modern Beijing it is now...
So, what should the modern ancient city in Liang Sicheng's heart look like?
He said:
In the heart of the city," the ancient and magnificent buildings, the shade of the interstitial paths, the vestibules of the ya office, and the beautiful archways are more in line with The Chinese identity than those foreign-style fountains or monuments...
We should study the han que, the stone carvings of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the scriptures of the Tang and Song dynasties, the archways of the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as the deployment and carving of scattered stele pavilions, pan ponds, shadow walls, stone bridges, and Huabiao, and apply them wisely...
In fact, the destruction of ancient city walls has always been so...
London, Paris, Rome... After the victory of the revolution, the ancient city wall was demolished in a large area. Liang Sicheng wanted to keep the Beiping City Wall, which had survived until the last masterpiece of the 1950s...
Unfortunately, he still failed...
Lin Huiyin once said: You really demolished the antiques, and you will regret it in the future! Even if it is restored, it is only a fake antique at best...
Who would have thought that Lin Huiyin's words would become a proverb in 51 years, and in 2004, the YongdingMen City Tower was rebuilt on the original site and completed...
In the early morning of April 1, 1955, Lin Hui died of illness...
Lin Huiyin once wrote a poem called "Death is Comfort", there are these sentences: Life is a series of footsteps, as heavy as mud, death is the end, no longer hard...
This documentary "Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin", produced by CCTV, consists of 8 episodes, each episode is 46 minutes long, and the whole film is 368 minutes long, telling the story of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin's husband and wife in the torrent of the great era.
The film was broadcast on CCTV on October 17, 2010, douban score as high as 9.4 points, some netizens commented: Liang Lin and his wife's life legend, a sigh of the transformation of the old city...
For many viewers, the understanding of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin is mostly due to the emotional entanglement between them and Xu Zhimo and Jin Yuelin, as well as various rumors and gossip...
However, when the public devotes too much enthusiasm to their emotional lives, they consciously or unconsciously ignore their talents, their struggles, their pains and struggles...
As the narrator in the film says: Too many accounts and legends make Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin closer to us, but sometimes, it seems to be farther away...
Now, we stand at the time point of 2020 and look back at Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin in the 20s and 50s of the last century...
Their obsession and love for traditional Chinese culture, their concern and attachment to an ancient city, and their incompatibility with the times in which they lived...
Their joy and tears, their struggles and struggles, their enthusiasm and powerlessness...
All this is far more interesting than their emotional entanglement.
In the documentary, there is such a story...
During his study at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, Liang Sicheng always loved to hang out in the museum next to the Department of Architecture, and he accidentally found...
Two of the six stones in the tomb of Emperor Taizong of Tang were hidden in the Penn Museum...
Liang Sicheng told his father about this, and Liang Qichao sighed about it:
How will the Zhaoling stone horse go to the United States? If in other countries, the newsprint does not know how to make noise, in our country, even a person like me, if I do not receive your letter, I do not even know the shadow, sigh, sigh...
The "Salu Zi" and "Fist Hair" in the Zhaoling Liujun were broken up and packed into boxes and smuggled to the United States in 1914, and are now in the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (Image source: Visual China)
According to the recollections of classmates, during that time, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin often wandered in front of the Zhaoling Stone Horse, silently admired and stared...
At this time, they do not know that the second half of their lives will be closely connected with ancient Chinese architecture and cultural relics...
They will be proud, discouraged, rejoiced, angry...
They will also be criticized, praised, scolded, and left in history...
It turned out that Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin had those shining fragments of their lives: the sunset of foguang Temple, the book of fenbing under the kerosene lamp, the laughter on the sickbed, the crying under the ancient city wall of Beiping...
It turns out that all this has long been doomed in the dark...
From the time they were in their 20s, they fell hopelessly in love with their own country, loved the history and culture of their own nation, from that moment on, their fate and ending, has been doomed...