Chapter 71 Their combination is irreplaceable

During the nearly one-month trip to Shanxi, Sicheng and Huiyin got along with Fei Zhengqing and Fei Weimei day and night.They discussed the daily itinerary together, trekking on the winding mountain road together, and the Fairbank and his wife even learned simple surveying and mapping.Such close contact is the most convenient for in-depth understanding of each other. At first, Fei Weimei couldn't adapt to Lin Huiyin's ups and downs.It often happened that Lin Huiyin was in a bad mood because of her exhausted physical strength and harsh environment. She complained and criticized the backward society, cursed the bad roads and weather, and laughed at Yan Xishan's ridiculous narrow-gauge railway in Shanxi... There were also those porters who ignored their inspection plan and declared that they had to stop to rest and eat every three hours, and the humble monks who tore off the temple murals and sold them to foreigners for a small amount of money... All these made Huiyin react emotionally.The gentle and meticulous Fei Weimei often doesn't know what to do when facing the emotional Lin Huiyin. She feels that this impetuous and excited Huiyin is completely different from the happy and elegant Huiyin.She seemed to have to exhaust her emotions to the extreme to restore her calm.When she was disturbed, all her thoughts and thoughts were disturbed; when she was sad, her heart was filled with sorrow; of course, her joy when she saw a beautiful scenery and discovered a precious building was equally strong and infectious.

As we get along with each other for a long time, our understanding gradually deepens.Fei Weimei felt that Lin Huiyin was like a charged cloud, engulfing the current in the air and emitting dazzling sparks.If there are no these characteristics in her character, then Lin Huiyin will not be Lin Huiyin, but only an unreal and ethereal phantom. The one who knows Huiyin best is of course Sicheng.Whenever Huiyin reacted violently, Sicheng focused and unswervingly followed the established plan.His open-mindedness, tolerance and humor are the best sedatives, and soon, Huiyin's disturbed mood will return to calm.As always turn excitement into action.

If we use the Chinese ancient architecture that Sicheng and Huiyin have been obsessed with throughout their lives to describe their combination, then Liang Sicheng is the solid foundation and beams and columns, and the grand structure and support; while Lin Huiyin is the flexible cornices and exquisite carvings , Hollow doors and windows and beautiful appendix.One of them is thick and solid, and the other is light and flexible.Thickness gives people the burden of the mission, and lightness gives people an aesthetic feeling of elegance and change; the heavy connotation shows the profound, magnificent, noble and pure realm, and the lightness of the rhythm expresses the desire to break free from shackles and soar upward.Lightness alone cannot carry eternal value, and thickness alone cannot show the grace of art.

Their combination is irreplaceable. The common itinerary enabled the Fairbanks to have a deeper understanding of Sicheng and his wife and the significance of their work.Fei Weimei, who originally loved art, became fascinated by the study of ancient Chinese architecture.In the following years, her vision for the reconstruction of Wuliang Temple in Shandong, China, made her famous in the American architectural circles.The "Altar of "Wuliang Temple"" she wrote based on this was published by Harvard University, and Sicheng and Hui were overjoyed by it.The close friendship of the two families lasted throughout their lives.

In October 1934, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin went to Hangzhou to inspect and draw up the reconstruction plan of Liuhe Pagoda at the invitation of Zeng Yangfu, director of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Construction.The Six Harmonies Pagoda was built in the third year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was built by King Wuyue to suppress the turbulent Qiantang River tide in August every year. A classic in timber construction. After completing this work, they went to several counties in southern Zhejiang to inspect ancient buildings, and they realized that it had been more than a month since they left Beijing.