Chapter 38 friends gathering

Lao Jin knew that Huiyin was not only obsessed with architectural research, but also had outstanding achievements in poetry creation.Lao Jin likes Huiyin's poems very much. Every time he reads them, he will talk about his feelings to Huiyin, affirm Huiyin's creation, and encourage Huiyin to continue writing.Therefore, not only did he not feel dissatisfied with Huiyin's dissatisfaction, but he readily agreed with it. Every Saturday afternoon is the time for Huiyin, Sicheng and friends to gather.Because Jin Yuelin is single and no one disturbs him, the party is usually at Jin's house, sometimes at Sicheng's and Hui Yin's house.

Jin Yuelin and the Liang family lived in the same courtyard.The Liang family lived in the large courtyard in front, and Lao Jin lived in the small courtyard behind.The front and back yards are separate houses. The backyard is small and there are no trees.Jin Yuelin planted a Yaohuang tree and planted it in a large special wooden box, which could be lifted by a few people.In mid-spring, Yaohuang flowers are in full bloom. Lao Jin regards the largest south room as a living room. There are eight large bookshelves against the north wall in the living room, and most of the bookshelves are English books.On the south side of the living room, there is a circle of sofas, and on the wall are ink and wash landscapes by Uncle Deng.

Lao Jin has a foreign driver and a chef who can cook Western food.At his place, friends drink coffee and eat ice cream.The coffee was specially ordered by the chef to be made according to the tastes of his friends.Because Lao Jin is from Hunan, his friends jokingly called this place "Hunan Restaurant". People who often come here to attend gatherings include Zhang Xiruo, professor of political science at Tsinghua University, Deng Shucun, professor of philosophy, Chen Daisun, professor of economics, Qian Duansheng, an expert in international politics, Tao Menghe, director of the Institute of Social Research, Li Ji, director of the Institute of Archeology, and professor of Peking University. , writer Shen Congwen, Xu Zhimo will come on Saturday afternoon if they don't return to Shanghai.

Lao Jin is proficient in English and is used to thinking about philosophical and logical issues in English, but he has been deeply immersed in traditional Chinese culture.He has a high appreciation for Chinese landscape paintings and loves Peking opera. He has many records of famous Peking opera actors in his home collection, and he can sing well.He also likes the game of fighting crickets, which he believes involves technical, artistic and scientific issues. Political scientist Zhang Xiruo, who studied at Columbia University and London University in his early years, is a very straightforward and principled person.Friends say his character is "totally Western".He insisted on "telling but not writing", and only wrote one political science paper "The History of Sovereignty" in his life, but he was respected by the professors at Tsinghua University for his knowledge and character.

Chen Daisun is a tall, serious and unsmiling economist.Qian Duansheng has a strong interest and clear views on international issues.Li Ji studied anthropology and archaeology at Harvard University, and was leading the excavation of the Yin Ruins by the Institute of Archeology of the Academia Sinica during this period. The novelist Shen Congwen is a frequent visitor to the Liang family.The Xiangxi style novels he created brought a fresh and powerful wind to the literary world at that time.Lin Huiyin likes the style of Shen Congwen's novels and the characters in his works very much, although the life described in these works is so far away from her life.

This is an excellent group of intellectuals.Most of them were born in gentry families, and their family background made them familiar with scriptures since childhood, and they had a profound foundation in Chinese studies.In his youth, he accepted the baptism of the "democracy" and "scientific" thoughts of the May Fourth Movement.They went out of the country, determined to use scientific methods to study China's past and present, and expected China to embark on the road of modernization as soon as possible.The specific time and space longitude and latitude have made them. They have learned both Chinese and Western cultures, well-versed in both ancient and modern times.