Chapter 22 professional book from father

Hu Shi went on to say that the wedding that day was held in Beihai Kuaixue Hall, and there were more than 100 relatives and friends at the banquet.Leaning on crutches, Liang Qichao scolded the newcomer: "Xu Zhimo, you are impetuous, so you have no achievements in learning; you are not dedicated to love, so you get divorced and remarried.... In the future, you must correct your past mistakes and start anew. Be a man!" Liang Qichao's precepts made all relatives and friends look at each other in dismay. Hu Shi's narration made Huiyin and Sicheng feel as if they were there.They knew very well that this was indeed the old man's consistent style of conduct.Just thinking of Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman's embarrassment at that time, I couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic.

... That night, Huiyin just lay down.Afraid of the cold wind, she got up again and closed the window.After a while, I heard the sound of sand being thrown on the glass. It turned out that it was Sicheng standing by the grass and waving to her.She hurried downstairs, and Sicheng whispered in her ear: "Happy birthday!" Then he handed a round and heavy object to her hand.Only then did Huiyin remember that tomorrow, June 10, is his birthday. Sicheng took Huiyin's hand and walked slowly on the path.Huiyin rubbed the gift in his hand under the street lamp, and saw that it was an antique bronze mirror.

One side of the bronze mirror is inlaid with a round glass mirror, and the center of the other side is a symmetrical two flying apsaras relief patterns fluttering on the sleeves. The outer circle of the flying apsaras is surrounded by cursive pattern carvings, and clear writing is evenly cast beside the patterns: "Huiyin's self-examination and thinking become self-engraving and casting metaphors for its crystal clearness." Seeing Huiyin's infatuation, Sicheng said happily: "How about it? Can it be fake?" He told Huiyin that this was in his studio at the Academy of Fine Arts. He spent almost a week of spare time carving, casting, It is made after foundry and antique treatment.After it was finished, he deliberately asked a professor who studies the history of oriental art to identify its age.The professor did not understand Chinese, and Sicheng refused to let him look at the other side. He said suspiciously: "From the design, it looks like an item from the Northern Wei Dynasty, but I have never seen such a text. Sorry, I can't help you. "Finally, the professor knew the truth, saw Sicheng and said: "Hey! Mischievousimp (naughty ghost)!"

As soon as June passed and graduation was imminent, Huiyin and Sicheng faced a choice about the future.Their studies are outstanding.Especially Sicheng, two of his design schemes have won the gold medal of the academy, which is also rare in the history of the academy.As for where they will go after graduation, they can choose to return to their home countries or continue their studies.They also received invitations from Professor Clay's architectural firm, and they can have good jobs right out of school.All of this is a dream for others, but they feel a little disturbed.Sicheng wanted to do research on the history of Chinese architecture, but he was unable to do so due to the lack of information; although the work in an architectural firm pays a lot of money, he worried that the repetitive work without creativity would make people full of ingenuity .It is their hope to return to China after graduation, but they are concerned about the social turmoil in the country and the people's livelihood, so they don't know whether what they have learned will come in handy.

Liang Qichao sent a pottery version of "Building French Style" with the letter.This is a special book on ancient architectural technology compiled and compiled by Li Jie, who was the minister of the Ministry of Industry in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is an official architectural design and construction book in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is similar to today's architectural design manual.Huiyin and Sicheng were pleasantly surprised, but found that this book uses the vocabulary of craftsmen in the Song Dynasty, which reads like a heavenly script and cannot be deciphered.However, there is such a monograph on architecture in the Northern Song Dynasty. Doesn’t it mean that ancient Chinese architecture is really worth studying?

In 1927, Lin Huiyin graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.She chose the Yale School of Drama to study stage design.In the same year, Liang Sicheng received a master's degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and applied to enter the Graduate School of Harvard University to study for a doctorate in oriental art.