Chapter 61 closest friend

After Chen Zhongying and Chen Yu compiled Lin Huiyin's collection of poems and essays, they took them to Jin Yuelin to have a look.Chen Zhongying wanted to ask him to write an article about Lin Huiyin to attach to the book, but Jin Yuelin refused to speak for a long time. "Time passed by second by second," Chen Zhongying wrote, "I couldn't explain his expression at that time, I could only feel that half a century of emotional turmoil was rapidly steaming and rolling on his face. Finally, he said a word After a while, he told us unequivocally: "All my words should be said to her, I can't." He paused, looking more sacred and solemn, "I don't have the opportunity to say to her, I don't want to talk to her." I would like to say it, but I don’t want to have such words!' After he finished speaking, he closed his eyes, lowered his head, and fell silent."

In the mid-1980s, Jin Yuelin wrote some essays about the past, one of which was "Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin are my closest friends". He wrote: Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin are my closest friends.From 1932 to the summer of 1937, we lived in Beizongbu Hutong.They live in the front yard, the big yard; I live in the back yard, the small yard.The front and back yards are all single-family.In the 1930s, some friends had meetings every Saturday, and these meetings were held in my small courtyard, because I was a bachelor.I ate foreign vegetables at that time, and besides hiring a rickshaw puller, I also hired a Western-style chef. The "Saturday Meetup" drink is coffee ice cream, and the coffee is made by my chef to the strength I request.Except for breakfast at my own home, I moved most of my lunch and dinner to the front yard to eat with Liang's.This kind of life was maintained until the "July 7th Incident".After the Anti-Japanese War, whenever I had the opportunity, I lived in their house.When they were in Sichuan, I went to their house more than once.Once I spent my rest year at their home in Lizhuang.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, when they lived in Xinlinyuan, I still lived together. Later they moved to Shengyinyuan, and I separated.My current family is still living together with Liang Jin.It's just that although I still have no descendants, I have lost the precepts.

Liang Congjie and I live together now, which is the continuation of Beizongbu Hutong. When Jin Yuelin wrote this essay, he was nearly ninety years old and could no longer take care of himself in daily life.Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin and his relationship continued to the next generation, and accompanied him through his life. In March of Yangchun in 1932, Liang Sicheng's "Regulations on Construction in the Qing Dynasty" and "Calculation of Construction" were completed, and Lin Huiyin's "On Several Characteristics of Chinese Architecture" was also published in "China Construction Society Journal".This is Lin Huiyin's first architectural research paper, and it is also her programmatic summary of Chinese architectural art.

When writing this thesis, the reaction of pregnancy caused her to leave the desk and drawing board very pale.But the idea of ​​the whole article, including the drawing of many legends, was completed very smoothly and smoothly. To this day, when we read this highly professional paper, we still cannot help but admire Lin Huiyin's ability to control the materials in one go.It is not enough to explain such a smooth pen and ink with talent and aura, it is really the result of long-term hard work and understanding. This is an unprecedented undertaking, because no one in China has ever written its own architectural history, so naturally there is no catalog of ancient buildings. It's based on feeling and luck.

Liang Sicheng, who experienced all this for the first time, did not expect that in the next few years of field trips, he and Huiyin would get used to such "travels", which is not surprising.