Chapter 24 Travel to Europe after marriage

Like countless Chinese parents, Liang Qichao "hopes for his son to become a dragon", but his love for children has both traditional characteristics and modern awareness. In life, he cares for his children in every possible way; spiritually, he guides them in a persuasive and persuasive manner; in academics, he demands high standards from them.He treats children equally and democratically, respects their choices about life and career, and provides all possible conditions for their success.His omnipresent ideological and emotional power subtly leads the life path of the next generation of the Liang family.The letters he wrote to his children are our window into the spiritual world of that generation of scholars.

When Liang Rengong wrote these letters to his beloved children, he was seriously ill.Due to blood in the stool, he underwent surgery at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in early 1926, and his right kidney was removed. After the operation, the cause of the disease was not found out.But he has always treated diseases with a very optimistic attitude, and he "reports good news but not bad news" to his children.As always, he reads, writes, and studies, and has made many long-term writing plans. February 12, 1928, almost the Spring Festival.Liang Rengong, who returned home from the hospital for the New Year, wrote to Sicheng with a letter full of concern and love:

Sicheng, I got a telegram from my sister, knowing that you are planning to hold a wedding in March, and I can give you 5,000 national currency or 3,000 U.S. dollars. I have told my sister the details.In this year, it is quite difficult to spend such a large amount of money, but this is what your knowledge is about, and I will always fulfill your responsibility before I can fulfill my responsibility. ... I sent over a dozen business cards today, you can take them with you when you visit various embassies in Europe.It would be more convenient to vote for me, greet them, and ask them to say hello.You have to use the embassy as a communication agency in Europe, otherwise you will not get a word from your family within a few months.After you arrive in Europe, you must send more letters from home (postcards are best) to let me know how you are going.

In March 1928, after five years of falling in love, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng held their wedding ceremony in Ottawa, Canada.At that time, Sicheng's brother-in-law Zhou Xixian was here as the consul general of the Chinese embassy in Canada.Because there are no Chinese-style wedding dresses available in Canada, and Huiyin is unwilling to wear a stereotyped Western-style wedding dress, she designed a cheongsam-style dress by herself, especially the headgear, which is even more ingenious. The sides of the crown-like hat, The long veil hangs down, which is both classical and full of national sentiment.The tassel in the middle of the hat is beautiful and unique.This may be the first creative attempt of the "ethnic form" that she pursued all her life.

After marriage, they embarked on a journey in Europe.They came to Paris.The last time Huiyin went to Europe with her father, she was a little girl.The scenery of different countries intertwined into a colorful color in memory.Traveling with Sicheng this time, many famous buildings have been restored from textbooks, magnified, and brought closer together. There is a kind of intimacy of "learn the new by reviewing the past". It is the bright spring in Paris.After a cold and wet winter, it seems that the whole of Paris has come to the sunshine of spring.On both sides of the wide Champs-Elysées Avenue, the tall trees burst into new green, and the sunlight jumped among the sparse branches and leaves, casting mottled light and shadow all over the place.

Next to the Luxembourg Gardens, there are open-air bars next to each other. Some people are drinking coffee and reading newspapers, some are sipping wine, and several young people who look like college students are talking about something. Books and handouts are piled casually on the dining table.Those must have been artists who had just come out of the studio, their clothes still had paint and oil stains on them.A bar played brisk waltz music, someone danced to the music, a couple of lovers kissed, as if there were only two of them in the world... Huiyin took Sicheng's arm for a walk, and she couldn't help sighing: "How wonderful, they seem to only live in the happiness of the moment, for spring, for music, for love..."

Sicheng turned his head and whispered in Huiyin's ear, "I also feel very happy. It's because of you that I have this moment."