Chapter 101 Return to Tsinghua University

In July 1946, the family of Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng returned north by plane. When the plane flew over Beiping, all the people on board rushed to the portholes on both sides. They eagerly and greedily identified this beautiful city that they had been thinking about day and night... Fragrant Mountain, Yuquan Mountain, Longevity Mountain, Kunming Lake... the hillsides In the small courtyard, there were people sitting around eating, some female relatives exclaimed, and then several women guessed about what they ate.It’s midsummer, and I must be drinking mung bean porridge, finely shredded mustard greens, and hot sesame sesame seed cakes... What a peaceful life! Someone wiped away tears.

In a blink of an eye, the plane arrived at Xijiao Airport, and Mr. Chen Daisun had already arranged a pick-up vehicle at the airport.Chen Daisun is a well-known economist and also has management skills. Principal Mei Yiqi appointed him to return to Tsinghua University in advance to prepare for the school's return to the north.Mr. Mei's arrangement was very necessary. During the Japanese occupation of Beiping, the army was stationed in Tsinghua Garden, the teachers' dormitory became a stable, and the school of "Shuimu Tsinghua" became a military camp; after Mr. Chen Daisun returned to Beijing, he quickly organized personnel to clean up the campus and make the school It has been restored as much as possible.

Huiyin and Sicheng's family drove into the city from Xijiao Airport. This is the road Sicheng used to go home and back on Sundays when he was studying in Tsinghua University when he was young. More than 20 years have passed, and the scenery on both sides of the loess road remains the same. Willow Yiyi.He excitedly pointed out to Huiyin and the children one by one——the pastry shop here is a time-honored shop with all kinds of pastries, the most famous ones are "crisp" and "broken edge furnace" pastries; It is an old-fashioned inn, with large characters written on the white powder wall, "Sihe old shop, Anyu merchants"; this is a carriage and horse shop, with a large yard, and there are many feeding troughs and horse-holding posts in the yard...The car is driving slowly. Enter the Archery Tower, enter the Urn City, and then enter the Xizhimen.Huiyin pointed excitedly to let Sicheng see that on the stone shelf next to the wall of the Xizhimen gate, the old wooden stake was still leaning there unharmed...

In a trance, Huiyin felt that everything he had experienced in the past seemed like a nightmare.But looking at it again, the childish children who left Beijing have suddenly grown into a big girl and a young man, Sicheng has pale hair on his temples, and he is even more sick and broken.The eyes are full of green hills, and there is no hair on the temples in the mirror.In any case, I finally returned to Peking again. This is the Peking I have been dreaming about since I left for ten years! Back in Peiping, Liang Sicheng was hired as the head of the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University.

When they were in Lizhuang, Sicheng and Huiyin discussed the work after the war.They thought that with the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the problem of post-war reconstruction would become very prominent. As architectural scholars, they should make their work on a more dynamic development path. From 1930 to 1945, Huiyin and Sicheng were mainly engaged in the research of ancient Chinese architectural art and Chinese architectural history. During the past 15 years, they traveled all over 15 provinces and more than 200 counties in China, surveying, photographing, analyzing and researching more than 2,000 ancient buildings and cultural relics.They believe that although there are still many topics to be studied in ancient Chinese architecture, from the perspective of architectural development history, they have basically clarified the evolution of architectural systems and historical origins in various periods, and outlined the context of architectural historical development. The study of ancient buildings can come to an end.The national reconstruction after the war urgently needed construction talents, especially architects. Therefore, before Southwest Associated University returned to the north, Liang Sicheng suggested to Mr. Mei Yiqi that Tsinghua University should add a School of Architecture, and first open a Department of Architecture in the School of Engineering.Mr. Mei Yiqi has exactly this intention, and they coincide with each other.

After returning to the north, Tsinghua University has since then had its own Department of Architecture.Liang Sicheng was the first head of the department.