Chapter 32 the night before

Winter and spring came to Tsinghua Garden together. In 1948, the anti-hunger and anti-civil war waves were in the ascendant. On November 6th, the school started a general strike. Hunger forced the gentle professors and students to no longer be silent. They posted their declaration on the Democracy Wall: In the past few months, apart from the general poverty, the three Food was not given, children cried hunger and cold, some became insane and even crazy, some took poison, and some committed suicide by jumping off the building. . . . We now have nothing to do but to take positive action to bring about the government's acceptance.

The entire Tsinghua Park boiled like never before, and even the boilers that boiled water had a slogan: "The fire said: burn the fascist bacteria to death!".The teachers, students and staff of the school frequently held lectures, and for the first time shouted the slogan: "Only by resisting can we survive". At the same time, the Peking government's suppression of students also began.They arrest progressive teachers and students in schools with impunity.The police station also organized the "People's Service Brigade" of the Haidian government. These were strong men who were arrested door-to-door by the security chief, and each was given a wooden stick, known as "stick soldiers."After the Beiping Special Office issued an order to arrest progressive students, the Tsinghua Campus was surrounded by reactionary military police and "stick soldiers" for several days, and the secret agents wrote on the wall outside the west school gate: "Destroy the hidden bandits of knowledge" in large characters. .On the day the campus was besieged, the source of food and vegetables in the Tsinghua campus was cut off, and the students and professors living in the campus lived on only a little pickles and a few peppers.

The miracle of life returned to Lin Huiyin again.The nephrectomy went well, and the body is slowly recovering after the operation.However, she was excited by the contest between light and darkness in front of her, and couldn't calm down.During the day, students from the "Folk Dance Club" performed "The White-haired Girl" and "Brothers and Sisters Opening up Wasteland" in the small square of Shengyin Academy, and at night, spies and "stick soldiers" went through the halls to arrest people. One night in the middle of the night, a few guys with oil paint on their faces and wearing black clothes brought a few "stick soldiers" into Lin Huiyin's house at No. 12 Shengyinyuan, knocked on the door loudly, and shouted, "Catch the bandits, catch the bandits." Communist Party".

Lin Huiyin jumped off the bed angrily, scolded them loudly, and drove them out. She and Liang Sicheng felt that the Jiang family dynasty was exhausted, and China was about to change drastically. From time to time there were artillery sounds in the distance, and the People's Liberation Army soldiers approached the city.The Kuomintang planes outside Beiping often came to Tsinghua Park to harass.Liang Si became worried about the ancient buildings in the old capital.He remembered that Zhu Gui said that historically, the palaces of the past dynasties changed every 500 years, and it seemed that the ancient city of Beiping was doomed.One day, Liang Sicheng came out of the I-shaped hall after holding the temporary school committee meeting, and was caught in a plane bombing. The bomb landed on the side of the small bridge not far from Liang Sicheng. With a bang, the shrapnel whistled past Liang Sicheng's ears Fortunately, it was unscathed.Back home, Liang Sicheng talked about the adventure, and the whole family was in a cold sweat.But the baby said humorously: "It's still Daddy's fate. There are so many temples in the country, and thousands of Bodhisattvas are blessing you!"

The whole family laughed. From the end of November to the beginning of December, the Kuomintang authorities tried to force the colleges and universities in Peking to move south. On November 24, the inspector of the Ministry of Education came to Beiping and formally exchanged opinions on relocating the school with the presidents of Tsinghua University, Peking University and other national universities. Tsinghua Park launched a struggle against school relocation. Liang Sicheng also participated in the discussion of the relocation issue at the Tsinghua University Council.Back home, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin talked about the debate on moving the school at the meeting. Lin Huiyin said; "We are not China's White Russia."

One late night, Zhang Xiruo brought two men in gray military uniforms to Liang Sicheng's house.Zhang Xiruo introduced: "These two are the heads of the Liaison Office of the Political Department of the Thirteenth Corps of the PLA. They have something to ask for your help." The two soldiers saluted Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin and said: "Mr. Liang and Mr. Lin, we have heard that the two gentlemen are famous ancient architects in China. Now our troops are preparing to capture Beiping. In case of peace with General Fu Zuoyi Negotiations failed, so we had to be forced to attack the city. The head of the corps said that we should protect the ancient buildings as much as possible. Please mark the important ancient buildings on this map first, and delineate the areas where shelling is prohibited, so that the artillery fire can be avoided when attacking the city. ."

Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin were stunned for a moment. They held the hands of the two soldiers tightly and shook them vigorously: "Thank you! Thank you!" Looking at the military map spread out in front of them, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin's eyes were blurred, and the red pencil in their hands seemed to weigh a thousand catties.They circled the map very solemnly. When they parted, the two soldiers said to Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin: "Peking will soon return to the hands of the people. These ancient buildings are the treasures of Chinese culture. Please don't worry, gentlemen. Even if we bleed and die, we must ensure that we will not hurt you." It's brick by brick."

Zhang Xiruo left with the two soldiers. Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng stayed up all night. The next day, two more students mobilized them to stay. Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin immediately said heartily: "Don't worry, we will not leave. We will welcome liberation together with you." At noon on December 13, the sound of cannons was getting closer and closer, and the booming sound shook Tsinghua Garden.The school announced the suspension of classes, and the teachers and students rushed to tell each other: We will be liberated! On the 15th, the People's Liberation Army entered Haidian, and Tsinghua University was liberated.A few days later, a solemn notice from the Political Department of the Thirteenth Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was posted at the school gate:

For the sake of announcement, I found out that Tsinghua University is one of the institutions of higher learning in northern China. All personnel of our military, government and civilian agencies should be strictly protected in accordance with the established policy of our party and our army to care for and attach importance to cultural education, and no disturbance is allowed. It is hoped that The school authorities and all the students will carry out education as usual, study with peace of mind, and maintain order in the school.This announcement is hereby made public! this cloth Liu Daosheng, Director of the Political Department

December 18th, thirty-seventh year of the Republic of China Lin Huiyin let the baby support him to the west gate and read the notice. With tears in his eyes, he murmured: "It's really liberated!" After the People's Liberation Army stationed in Tsinghua University, they nervously made preparations before the siege. They tied up ladders and practiced street fighting, which attracted many teachers and students to watch. In January 1949, Peking was liberated peacefully.Waiting for the New Year outside the window, I was finally greeted by bursts of lively firecrackers into the newborn Peking.

Then, the High Command issued an order to carry the revolution through to the end, and millions of troops marched southward to liberate the whole of China.The Party Central Committee knew that Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin were experts in the study of ancient architecture and were most familiar with the situation of ancient architecture in the country. In order to protect the cultural heritage during the war of liberating China, they sent people to Tsinghua University to find Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin again. Liang Sicheng immediately summoned some teachers and students of the Department of Architecture, and mobilized everyone to jointly collect architectural-related documents and records based on the materials he obtained during his years of investigation.Everyone worked day and night, from flipping through books, searching for information, to engraving steel plates, folding paper pages, and binding, just like producing the seven-volume journal of the Construction Society. A Brief Catalog of National Important Cultural Relics and Buildings. In this brief catalog, the ancient buildings that will be protected at the first level include Beiping City, the Forbidden City, Dunhuang, Yungang, Longmen Grottoes, and the Confucian Temple in Qufu, Shandong, etc.There are four small circles on the head of the entry, and everyone jokingly calls it "four-star general".Followed by three small circles, and so on.There are more than 450 entries in total, and the nearest 200 are important circles.The detailed location, nature of cultural relics, construction and reconstruction years, as well as special significance and value are attached to the entry. Lin Huiyin reviewed the entries in the book one by one.And it is recommended to specifically point out in the description: "The main purpose of this brief list is to protect cultural relics when the People's Liberation Army is fighting and taking over." This pamphlet was published by the Library and Cultural Relics Office of the North China Higher Education Commission in June 1949, and distributed to all the liberation troops. It became the instruction and basis for the troops to fight north and south during the liberation war and protect cultural relics from destruction in the war. In the spring of this year, liberal arts students from various universities in Peking participated in the southward work group, and Baobao and Zhang Xiruo's daughter Zhang Wenying also signed up to participate. When the baby left home, teachers from the Department of Architecture came to Liang's house to see her off.The baby was wearing a thick cotton military uniform with rough stitching, a belt around the waist, and a gray military cap on his head.The younger brother ran before and after, holding a camera and taking pictures of people. At such a time, everyone was surprised, how could Lin Huiyin be willing to let her only daughter leave her side?And this departure will mean goodbye forever. Among the seeing off crowd, Lin Huiyin told the baby eloquently, as if the baby was going on a short trip. The baby hugged and bid farewell to his parents, shook hands with everyone with a smile, and boarded the car surrounded by his female companions. The sound of farewell firecrackers exploded the vigorous "Welcome Spring" on the campus.