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Burnt bread twist flowers, lamb buns... Step into the memories of Taiwanese writer Lin Haiyin in Seongnam

author:Beijing News Network

In the first batch of cultural relics building revitalization and utilization projects recently announced in Xicheng District, Jinjiang Guild Hall will be transformed into Lin Haiyin Literature Exhibition Center. Jinjiang Guild Hall is located in Nanliu Lane outside Xuanwu Gate, formerly known as Jinjiang Yiguan, donated by Wan Zhengse (also known as Wan Zhong'an), a quanzhou native and admiral of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty. At the beginning of the construction, there were five north rooms, three south rooms and three east and west rooms, two doors and shadow walls, moon doors, and three large locust trees planted in the courtyard.

Burnt bread twist flowers, lamb buns... Step into the memories of Taiwanese writer Lin Haiyin in Seongnam

Xiao Yingzi in the movie "Seongnam Old Things"

The little world witnessed the love affair between Fujian and Taiwan

The guild hall is a special social organization for fellow villagers to live in the capital, and was originally established by the officials and gentry of the local capital to raise funds or donate funds to facilitate the local people to go to Beijing for the test. With the increasing number of people entering Beijing to report for duty and serving as officials in Beijing, the functions of the guild hall have become more and more abundant, and gradually developed into a place for mutual assistance and friendship in Beijing, the so-called "friendship of Dun family and harmony, the joy of Su Sangzi". Every New Year's Festival, the guild hall often holds various activities to worship the gods and sages. In the eyes of the townspeople, the guild hall is their "hometown" in a foreign land, and the lights in the museum comfort the lonely hearts of many people who have wandered in Beijing.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Fujian's imperial examinations were developed, and all provinces, prefectures, and counties built guild halls in Beijing. In 1943, Li Jingming compiled a "Chronicle of the Minzhong Guild Hall", which was a collective name for the Fujian Guild Hall in Beijing at that time, a total of 22, and the Jinjiang Guild Hall was one of the eight county halls. In the sixteenth year of Qing Guangxu (1890), The Jinjiang national Wu Lu High School champion, the museum hung a "Zhuangyuan plaque".

If measured only from the perspective of architecture, Jinjiang Guild Hall is bland. However, if we trace back to history, since its completion, it has become an important gathering place and a common spiritual home for Jinjiang people who went to Beijing to do business and catch up with examinations. At the same time, because the Quanzhou area to which Jinjiang belongs has a close relationship with Taiwan, this small world has lived in famous Taiwanese people such as Lian Heng and Lin Haiyin, which is an important witness to the love between Fujian and Taiwan.

Lian Heng completed the "General History of Taiwan"

In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), when the Eight-Power Alliance invaded Beijing, Wu Lu and another Taiwanese jinshi, Ye Tiyan, whose ancestral home was Jinjiang, lived in the Jinjiang Guild Hall. The two personally experienced the fall of the Beijing Division, and together recorded the tragic perception through poetry, expressing the hatred of the homeland: "The Nine Gate Tiger Brigade is like a forest, and the soldiers and guards are company camps. The poisonous flame red urged Luan to come out, and the cloud black pressed the emperor Jingyin. The airborne thief song Shu Ce, who hugged the river ancestral heart. The sound of autumn in the night is even more depressed, and the empty garden is covered with leaves and anvils. "It has left a vivid memory of the Chinese scholars of that era who faced the national disaster."

It is impossible to talk about Jinjiang Guild Hall without mentioning Lian Heng. Lian Heng, formerly known as Lian Yatang, WuGong and Jianhua, was born in 1878 in Tainan, Taiwan. After the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in 1895, all Taiwanese people were forcibly admitted to Japan. In 1897, Lian Yatang entered St. John's University in Shanghai. In the spring of 1913, he went to Beijing to participate in the election of overseas Chinese to the National Assembly, during which time he lived in Jinjiang Eupkan. Because he was ashamed to be a "submissive" to Japan, he and several Taiwanese scholars applied to the Beiyang government for the restoration of Chinese nationality and name change: "I am willing to restore (restore) the nationality of the Republic of China and abide by all the laws of the Republic of China." After obtaining approval, Lian Ya Tang changed its name to Lian Heng.

In the spring of 1914, in order to revise the Overseas Chinese Chronicle, Lian Heng entered the Qing History Museum to read and copy the qing court's archives on the establishment of Taiwan as a province, and finally completed the "General History of Taiwan" in 1918, ending the history of "Taiwan for three hundred years without history". In 1933, Lian Heng returned to the mainland, ye fell back to his roots, and died in Shanghai in 1936. Lian Heng's restoration of nationality and name change has been preserved in the Second Historical Archive of China in Nanjing. In 2005, when Lien Chan, the grandson of Lian Heng and then chairman of the Kuomintang, visited the mainland, Hu Jintao, then general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presented him with copies of this set of archival materials. Compatriots on both sides of the strait are thicker than water, and their roots are linked, and even though they have been separated for a short time, a group of Taiwan scholars, represented by Lian Heng, are concerned about their homeland and have made their life choices at the turning point of history.

History is sometimes full of coincidences. In March 1922, Mr. and Mrs. Lian Heng traveled from Taiwan to Shanghai on a boat called "Dayang Maru", where they met a family surnamed Lin. Her father's name was Lin Huanwen, and her daughter's nickname was "Yingzi", and she was Lin Haiyin, who later wrote "Old Things in Seongnam".

Burnt bread twist flowers, lamb buns... Step into the memories of Taiwanese writer Lin Haiyin in Seongnam

| Jinjiang Guild Hall, which is not amazing in appearance

Lin Haiyin's seongnam memory

Lin Haiyin, whose original name was Lin Hanying, was born in Osaka, Japan in March 1918 in Miaoli County, Taiwan, when her father, Lin Huanwen, was doing business in Japan. In 1920, Lin Huanwen came to Beijing and began to work for the Japanese newspaper "Jingjin Shimbun", and later served as the head of the Japanese section of the Beijing General Administration of Posts and Telecommunications. In 1922, Father Lin returned to Taiwan and took his family through Shanghai to Beijing, so he met Lian Heng and his wife on the ship.

After the Lin family came to Beijing, they successively lived in yongchun hall in Quan County, Chunshu Hutong, south of the city, Jiaoling Hall on Hufangqiao Street, and Liangjiayuan. In 1930, Lin Huanwen unfortunately died of illness, and the Lin family, who had lost their financial resources, could not afford to rent a house outside, and the following year, the young Lin Haiyin had to move into the Jinjiang Guild Hall with her mother and six younger siblings. Since Haiyin's mother's ancestors were relicts from Fujian to Taiwan, they also had the status of fellow villagers and were able to live in the museum for free.

Jinjiang Guild Hall has a strong southern Fujian style, Lin Haiyin's daughter Xia Zuli introduced in "Following the Footsteps of My Mother - I Write Lin Haiyin's Mental Journey": "Jinjiang Guild Hall is the most frequented place for Fujian villagers in Taiwan, Jinjiang Guild Hall does not belong to the Beijing society at that time, nor does it belong to Taiwan, nor does it belong to Japan, and the people in the guild hall are more homogeneous, so they take good care of each other." And they are full of Fujian villagers in Taiwan, many people talk in Hokkien, the lights in the room are very bright, very warm, and there are many flowers planted in the front yard of the Lin family... This small courtyard, which was at the time a gathering place and shelter for villagers in Beijing, Taiwan and Fujian, at least had warm lights and a kind hometown sound. ”

It is precisely because of the existence of the Jinjiang Guild Hall that although the Lin family, who has lost the pillar of the family, has a hard life, there are many Hakka friends who speak Hokkien dialects, and the strong friendship has discharged a lot of loneliness for them, and also laid the basic perspective of Lin Haiyin's observation of Beijing and the narrative tone of writing.

Lin Haiyin studied at Changdian Primary School, Chunming Girls' Middle School, and Beijing Journalism College, and after graduation, she worked as an intern reporter for The World Journal and grew into a "Taiwanese girl" with "Beijing rules". In 1939, she married her colleague Xia Chengyao and moved into the Xia family on Yongguang Temple Street, but it was only five minutes away from her mother's house in Nanliu Lane.

The life of Nanliu Lane became the memory of her life, and later Lin Haiyin recalled: "Nanliu Lane is also a place of great significance in my life's residence, and the time is long, from the ten years of my fatherless growth process, through study, employment, and marriage, it is from here." My efforts, my hardships, my joys, my sorrows... It contains all kinds of emotions. ”

After many years of absence, Lin Haiyin can still depict the orientation map of Nanliu Lane in detail in his works, and readers are immersed: "Nanliu Lane is an alley with all directions, out of the north entrance, is the west gate of the Liuli Factory, my cultural area, to buy books, pens, ink and paper are all here... Out of the South Liu Lane South Exit, is the intersection of West Grassland, Wei Dye Hutong, Sun Park, is my daily life area, burnt cake twist flowers, lamb buns, oil and salt shops, mutton beds, pork bars, small medicine shops, and even bathhouses, pawn shops, dark clothes shops, etc., are to solve the daily life needs of the families in this area. Out of the West Grass Factory is Xuanwumen Street, my junior high school alma mater Chunming Girls' High School is on this street. Every time I see someone write about the Liuli Factory next to Nanliu Lane, Lin Haiyin feels very kind, "The scene of that place will float in his mind, and the warm current will flow through his whole body." ”

Lin Haiyin lived in Beijing for 26 years, most of which lived in the south of the city. In contrast to the majesty of the inner city palace altar temple, the south of the city seems to be excluded from this magnificent landscape. The geographical environment here is not good, a desolate smoke and grass, even if the street pattern, it is mostly a diagonal street, far from the square of the inner city, but these can not affect Lin Haiyin's feelings about it.

In August 1948, Lin Haiyin and her husband returned to their hometown of Taiwan with three children, and the parting plane hovered over Peiping, and the last unforgettable glimpse was the green glazed tiles of The Union Hospital, her heart trembling, "it is a taste of leaving for many years to nurture the nursing mother." In the years that followed, Beiping has always haunted her, reaching the deepest part of her life memory: "Peking that cannot be forgotten!" I've lived there for too long, like a tree taking root. Childhood, maidens, and women, spent half their lives there. Joy and sorrow, laughter and crying, that ancient city has poured out all my feelings, spring and autumn, how I am familiar with the seasons there! ”

In 1960, Lin Haiyin created a novel with strong autobiographical overtones in Taiwan, "Old Things in Seongnam", against the backdrop of her life in the south of Beijing. Through Xiao Yingzi's perspective, he depicts the Hui'an Pavilion in Beiping, the New Curtain Hutong, the Water Nest, the Buddha ZhaoLou in Luoma City, the "Qi Hua Gate" with a high city wall, the children who learn to play in Fu Liancheng, the people who pick up coal cores, those who change foreign fires, the singing boxes, and the sugar gourds. In 1982, the film of the same name based on the novel " Seongnam Old Things" was released, and Jinjiang Guild Hall began to be recognized by more people.

At the beginning of the movie, the old Great Wall, the crooked Lugou Bridge, a group of camels slowly walking over the bridge under the winter sun, accompanied by a slow and pleasant camel bell, is the slightly vicissitudes of "Farewell". This is The Beiping Castle in Hideko's eyes, and this is her childhood memory.

Lin Haiyin's childhood is long gone, the Jinjiang Guild Hall, which was once full of rich rural sounds, is no longer crowded, and the old locust tree in the courtyard is like a weathered elder, calmly watching the people coming and going. In July 2009, the Xuanwu District Government listed Jinjiang Guild Hall as a cultural relics protection unit in Xuanwu District. In 2010, the urban division of Beijing was adjusted, and Jinjiang Guild Hall became a cultural relics protection unit in Xicheng District. In January 2020, Xicheng District launched seven cultural relics revitalization and utilization projects, including jinjiang guild hall, and publicly solicited bids from the public. In April 2021, the results of the tender will be announced, and the Jinjiang Guild Hall will be transformed into the Lin Haiyin Literature Exhibition Center, where Lin Haiyin and her "Old Things in seongnam" will be continued.

(Original title: Jinjiang Guild Hall: The Spiritual Hometown of Fujian-Taiwanese people in Beijing)

Source: Beijing Daily Author: Wang Jianwei (Author Affilications: Institute of History, Beijing Academy of Social Sciences)

Process Editor: L019

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