Chapter 2 1

Lin Huiyin was originally from Min County, Fujian Province, today's Fuzhou.Pushing forward, the ancestral home is Henan.And she said that Hangzhou is "half of her hometown" ("Commemorating the Fourth Anniversary of Zhimo's Death"), because she was born in Luguan Lane, Hangzhou, the residence of her grandfather Lin Xiaoxun.Grandfather named her after the word "Huiyin", and the poem said: "Siqi Daren, the mother of King Wen. Simei Zhou Jiang, the wife of the Beijing family. The big Si's heir Huiyin is Bai Sinan." ("Daya? Si "Qi") The meaning of the old man is that Lin Huiyin should inherit virtue.Then bring out the grandson Mantang, she is the firstborn of the grandfather's eldest son, and she is another girl.

It is said that Lin Huiyin's appearance was inherited from her grandparents. She has divine eyes like her grandfather, and her pretty face like her grandmother.For this reason, she was especially doted on by her grandmother, who didn't want Lin Huiyin's mother to take care of her, and put her in her bedroom around her knees.At that time her father was studying abroad, but several married aunts still took their children back to their natal home from time to time. She played with her cousins ​​all day long, and her childhood was not lonely at all.After seven years of joy, Lin Huiyin moved to Shanghai with his grandfather at the age of eight; he went to Beijing with his grandfather at the age of ten before coming to his father's side.Grandfather died this year.

The female writers of the May Fourth generation were almost all daughters of officials. The earliest Chen Hengzhe was like this, Bing Xin, Lu Yin, Feng Yuanjun, Su Xuelin were all like this, and Ling Shuhua was even more wealthy for generations.Although Lin Huiyin was a few years younger than Bing Xin and the others who became famous in the 1920s, she officially entered the literary world in the 1930s, although she was a generation late, but she also came from an official background.Grandfather Lin Xiaoxun, courtesy name Boying, was the 111th Jinshi of Ji Chou Division 2A in the 15th year of Guangxu in the former Qing Dynasty (1989). He was in the same discipline as Kang Youwei, and was awarded the editorship of the Imperial Academy.

The Lin family of Minhou in Fujian is a prominent family, but Lin Xiaoxun's branch has declined and has become a commoner, and he himself really started from humble beginnings.Lin Xiaoxun was a teacher of a wealthy family when he was young, and he no longer has the life of a pampered son.Lin Changmin recalled: "Father, don't just learn from other people's tutors. His annual income is only tens of thousands of dollars, and his family is poor." When Lin Xiaoxun bought a pear, his children couldn't satisfy their hunger, so they had to cut it into slices and share among them.

Lin's turning point began when Lin Xiaoxun passed the Jinshi examination.Up to now, the descendants of the Lin family have kept a family photo, which was taken in the official residence in Hangzhou, and Lin Xiaoxun was serving as the county magistrate in Zhejiang.The photo was taken around the 20th year of Guangxu, that is, the last years of the 19th century.The location should be the backyard of the county magistrate's yamen. The lower floor is paved with blue bricks, and the upper branches and leaves are sparse. It seems that it intends to avoid wealth and rank and approach elegance.In the photos, the males wear long gowns and mandarin jackets, and small caps with melon skin; the females wear large jackets with side-fronts and green satin caps on their foreheads.Although it is in Qing Dynasty attire, it looks like it is not far from the Republic of China.The two generations of the Lin family in the photo above, including the daughter-in-law and son-in-law, have a total of thirteen people.The descendants of the Lin family had indicated their identities one by one, and two males whose identities were unknown put question marks.The eldest son, Lin Changmin, is the third from the right. Compared with his brothers, his appearance is particularly clear, and he is most similar to Lin Xiaoxun.Lin Huiyin is not in the photo, and her father Lin Changmin did not start a family until a few years later, so naturally he did not catch up.

Lin Xiaoxun was a Beijing official in the Imperial Academy, and the official entertainment expenses were too high, and his family was very poor, so he wanted to let it go.There is a shortcut to the outside world, as long as you deliberately write a wrong word in the annual screening examination of the Imperial Academy, the examiner will understand that this person wishes to leave the capital.Lin Xiaoxun acted according to the law, and went to Jinhua, Xiaofeng, Renhe, Shimen, and Haining counties in the Hangzhou area, where he served as the governor, and finally acted as the magistrate of Hangzhou.

Lin Xiaoxun, who has become an official, still has a bookish look despite the black veil on his head.At the end of the 20th century, folks in Shimen, Zhejiang discovered a couplet written by Lin Xiaoxun: Book front reveals cold green Jane wet Ink Flower Runxiang Zihao Yuan The couplet is the portrayal of Lin Xiaoxun's life as an official.Perhaps it was this kind of experience and temperament that helped Lin Xiaoxun break free from the quagmire of feudal ideology.He himself has studied skills and is familiar with medical skills, showing a pragmatic tendency.The magistrate does not imprison his family members with the dogma of "no talent is virtue". His wife, Mrs. You, loves classics and is good at calligraphy.Children's education does not discriminate between genders. Daughters are still enlightened along with boys, and all of them can recite poetry and write in the future.The courses set up by the family school, of course, invited Lin Qinnan, a master of Chinese studies, to explain and analyze the Four Books and Five Classics, and even hired the new school celebrity Lin Baishui, who not only introduced astronomy and geography, but also gave a detailed overview of overseas, and even recruited foreign teachers Hua Huide (Canada), Saga Zhi (Japan) came home to teach English and Japanese.Although the atmosphere in the late Qing Dynasty gradually opened up, it is rare for grassroots officials to be so new and old, and to learn both Chinese and foreign.

Lin Xiaoxun's enlightenment also benefited the descendants other than his direct descendants. In addition to his own children and nephews from his hometown in Fujian, those who entered the Hangzhou family school were enlightened. Lin Yinmin who was born in the first place, and Lin Zhaomin who organized an uprising to recover Fujian.Lin Xiaoxun also funded and sent Jiang Baili, who had a foreign surname, to study in Japan. Jiang later became a famous military educator during the Republic of China. After the 1911 Revolution, those former Qing officials returned to their hometowns to buy land to protect their old age, but Lin Xiaoxun lived in Shanghai, a newly opened port, and invested in the Commercial Press to help the modern publishing industry, which has always been out of the ordinary.

The descendants of such an enlightened family are expected to follow the trend of the times.