Chapter 17 17

Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin returned to Beiping from Shenyang to settle down. At first, they stayed at the home of Sicheng's elder sister in Xizhimen for a while, and soon moved to Miliang Hutong in Dongcheng.Hu Shi, Fu Sinian, and Chen Yuan lived in this alley.Later, they felt that the house was cramped, so they rented No. 3 Beizongbu Hutong.No. 3 is a two-entry courtyard house, with about forty rooms large and small.It's also in Dongcheng, near Huangchenggen.There are lilac, crabapple and lantana trees planted in the courtyard, and the inner and outer courtyards are separated by a hanging flower gate.In the living room in the courtyard, the usual window lattice paper has been replaced with more transparent glass, allowing the sunlight to fill the ground.The couplet written by Liang Qichao, "Clear water produces hibiscus, and natural carvings" hang on the wall, which is particularly eye-catching.The desk under the northwest-facing window is very large, and there are brushes and inkstones that Lin Huiyin likes to use, next to the bookshelf, which is filled with Chinese and foreign books.Usually here is very quiet, very elegant.

The home in Shenyang is simple, living in No. 3 Beizongbu Hutong, Lin Huiyin really became a housewife.The family employs two cooks, two nannies, a coachman, and a footman in charge of the study.She had to deal with the trivialities of the life of her husband, mother, children and servants.Fei Weimei said, "She is actually a prisoner of these ten people." ("Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin" by Fei Weimei) She was the eldest sister-in-law in the Liang family and the elder sister in the Lin family. She often had younger siblings come to eat and live, and sometimes had to adjust the housing.She drew a picture of the beds, and there were seventeen beds arranged in each bedroom, and each bed marked who was going to sleep.She has to prepare seventeen sets of bedding (there is also a coachman who has to stay at someone else's house), and she has to prepare their breakfast and tea.

Lin Huiyin lamented that housework interfered with her drawing or writing articles, but whenever a servant asked for instructions, she immediately put down the sketches or articles and came to ask.Sometimes she had to take care of things other than No. 3. Chen Ma reported that there was a big hole in the roof of the neighbor next door, and the tenant could not repair it by herself, so she begged Lin Huiyin to intercede with the landlord.This neighbor was an old resident who rented as early as the Qianlong period. According to the lease rules, he still paid the rent of two hundred years ago, and the three rooms still cost fifty copper coins.Lin Huiyin couldn't laugh or cry, so he paid for the repairs on behalf of his neighbors.Compared with her mother who is incompetent but loves to manage things, although she is afraid of managing things, she is able to manage them, and actually manages a lot.

In the summer of 1932, Lin Huiyin gave birth to another boy, named Congjie, hoping that he would follow in the footsteps of Li Jie in the study of architecture in the Song Dynasty.Liang Congjie was born in Xiehe Hospital, and Lin Qiaozhi, a fellow Fujianese, delivered him.To this day, the hospital’s archives still contain the English records handwritten by Dr. Lin, with the print of Cong Jie’s little feet printed on it.Liang Congjie in No. 3 Beizongbu Hutong is too young. Except for remembering that the trees in the yard are much taller, he no longer has any other impressions. Even his mother's beautiful appearance when she was young is vaguely close to nothing.Liang Zaibing is a little older, but he still remembers many warm and trivial things.The impression of her mother's careful care of her when she was sick is especially unforgettable.From the nanny's room to the mother's bedroom, her mouth was dry and she should not drink more water. The mother fed her in small drops during the day, and put the small teapot on the bedside at night, and told her to take a small sip when she couldn't bear it.Every time she sips tea, she always sees her mother watching her movements, and Lin Hui can't sleep all night because of her daughter.

No. 3 Beizongbu Hutong was not always warm. During the days when Lin Heng, the half-brother of the same mother, lived there, there was an awkward atmosphere in the house.Lin Huiyin's mother was not broad-minded, and the old man made no effort to hide his dissatisfaction with Lin Heng.Lin Huiyin comforted the innocent younger brother and made him feel the warmth of his sister's care to make up for his mother's inadequacy.For some trivial matters, Lin Huiyin was often exhausted after a day.Eldest sister Liang Sicheng's daughter lived with her, and she did not inform her parents in advance, which aroused the anger of the elder sister.The eldest sister came to the door in the middle of the night to take her daughter away, but the daughter cried and refused.The eldest sister even said, you like to run to your uncle and aunt's house so much, why don't you ask your uncle and aunt for tuition fees?Lin Huiyin was so angry with the elder sister's nonsensical words that she couldn't speak, but Lin Huiyin couldn't have the same knowledge as her.Before leaving, the eldest sister also declared that her daughter would be infected with radical concepts of marriage and love here. Some people are so radical that they don't even believe in marriage.This is an insinuation, satirizing Jin Yuelin who often comes to Liang's house but does not want to get married.

In the fierce social turmoil in the 1930s, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng always adhered to the creed of not intervening in political movements, but political movements had to affect this quiet courtyard. The students who demonstrated on "December 9th" were chased and suppressed by the military and police, and some were beaten to death.Lin Heng, who is studying at Huiwen Middle School, participated in the parade. More than ten hours later, he still hasn't returned home.Lin Huiyin anxiously called everywhere to inquire about his brother's whereabouts, while Liang Sicheng drove to hospital after hospital and searched among the injured students, but Lin Heng was still nowhere to be seen.They didn't get the news until midnight. Lin Huiyin drove to a secluded alley in Xicheng to pick up his brother.No. 3 Beizongbu Hutong became the reception station and refuge for students marching into the city. A student was cut with a machete and his face was bleeding, and Lin Huiyin quickly bandaged him for first aid.Liang Sicheng's fifth sister, Liang Siyi, got along best with Lin Huiyin. She served as the captain of the "Chinese National Liberation Vanguard" at Yenching University and the leader of the parade.After Liang Siyi learned that she was on the blacklist, she ran to the house of her eldest brother and sister-in-law that night.Both Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin felt that Fifth Sister should flee Peiping immediately.Lin Huiyin permed her hair overnight with tongs, put earrings on her, put on makeup, and put a silk cheongsam on her.With such a dress, college students instantly become fashionable "young wives".Lin Huiyin hid the "young grandma" in the car, and Liang Sicheng escorted her all the way to the railway station and put her on the train going south.Before leaving, I told Si Yi that there was bad luck on the way, and I sent them a telegram to report the news. I will send a congratulatory message when I am safe, and a condolence message if there is an accident.As a result, Lin Huiyin received a telegram of "Congratulations on the joy of Nongfu", and three days of anxiety fell to the ground.

The architecture we are talking about today was called construction in the past, and the Department of Architecture at Tsinghua University founded by Liang Sicheng in the late 1940s was called the Department of Construction. In 1929, at his own expense, Zhu Qiqian established the "China Construction Society" in Beiping. It was originally an academic group aimed at studying architectural literature, but was later renamed from "Society" to "School Society" to strengthen the investigation of architectural practice.At that time, Zhu Qiqian was the president of the society. Zhou Yichun, a member of the society and the former president of Tsinghua University, made a special trip to Shenyang to mobilize Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin to join his team.Liang Sicheng was very hesitant at first. On the one hand, he was reluctant to give up the Department of Architecture of Northeastern University, which was built by himself, and on the other hand, he was hindered by Zhu Qiqian's poor reputation.

Zhu Qiqian was an old-fashioned bureaucrat. He used to be the prime minister of the state. Together with Zhao Bingjun, Chen Huan, and Liang Shiyi, he supported Yuan Shikai's restoration and took charge of the affairs of the enthronement ceremony.However, Zhu Qiqian is still an enterprising bureaucrat. During his tenure in the Senate of the National Assembly, he worked on the construction of Zhongshan Park and developed a strong interest in ancient architecture.He accidentally discovered Li Jie's architectural work "Building French Style" in the Jiangnan Library in Nanjing. Since then, he has determined to devote his financial resources and efforts to the organization of ancient architecture research for the rest of his life.In his book "The Origin of Chinese Construction Society", he realized that "the world is now in great harmony, and the material is evolving. This is a big matter, and it cannot be discussed openly with the world's famous academics unless it is studied systematically from a scientific perspective."At the same time, I deeply feel that ancient Chinese architectural literature is in great danger of extinction, and talents are urgently needed to discover and promote it.He founded the society for the purpose of "making great achievements in learning without learning, and applying the talents of the group".

Zhu Qiqian was so profoundly aware of righteousness and thirsty for talent, Liang and Lin finally decided to return to Peiping after careful consideration.Zhu Qiqian found more than a dozen old court houses in the West Veranda for the academy in a corner of the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square as office space.Liang Sicheng served as the director of the research department of the society, under the president and above everyone else.Lin Huiyin's job is school management.In 1932, the Academy of Construction invited Liu Dunzhen to be the director of the literature department, focusing on literature research, and Liang Si became the director of the French department, focusing on field inspections.Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin realized Zhu Qiqian's great wish, and Zhu Qiqian accomplished Liang Lin's career.The couple were very grateful to Bole, and Liang Sicheng expressed his gratitude to him in the preface of "Regulations of Qing-style Construction" published in 1934: "If there is no opportunity and convenience for me to study, Mr. Even if the completion of this book can be realized, it may be delayed for many years." The words are what Liang Sicheng said, and they are actually the common aspirations of the couple.Lin Huiyin not only cooperated tacitly with her husband in the actual research, but also wrote the first chapter "Introduction" that governs the whole book.

According to Lin Zhu's statistics, during the period when the Academy of Architecture was in Beiping, in addition to surveying and mapping more than 60 important buildings in the Forbidden City, Andingmen, Fuchengmen, Dongzhimen, Xuanwumen, Chongwenmen, Xinhuamen, Tianning Temple, and Prince Gong's Mansion in the city In addition, he also left Beiping to survey 137 counties and cities, surveyed 1,823 ancient buildings, palaces and houses, surveyed and mapped 206 groups of buildings in detail, and completed 1,890 drafts of surveys and drawings. eighteen. (Lin Zhu's "The Confused Master Liang Sicheng")

After Lin Huiyin gave birth to his son Congjie, his health improved obviously, and he tried to go out with Liang Sicheng for inspection.In five or six years, Lin Huiyin's footprints covered six or seven provinces, and he went out for a long-distance trek almost once in less than a year.She even went to Yao County, which is not far from Gansu in the northwest, and Xuanping, which is near Fujian, in the southeast.Badachu in Beijing, Huayan Temple, Shanhua Temple and Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi; more than 40 temple halls in Taiyuan, Wenshui, Fenyang, Xiaoyi, Jiexiu, Lingshi, Huo County, Zhao County, Zhengding Longxing Temple in Hebei, Sanqing Palace and Yunyan Temple Pagoda in Suzhou, Liuhe Pagoda in Hangzhou, Tianning Temple in Jinhua, and Yanfu Temple in Xuanping; Fanta, Iron Pagoda, and Dragon Pavilion in Kaifeng; A county, including Licheng Shentong Temple and Tai'an Dai Temple, as well as the old Chief Secretary's Office in Xi'an, and the Yaowang Temple in Shaanxi, left Lin Huiyin everywhere.This is a very long journey.Liang Sicheng made a special note when he wrote the preface to "Regulations on Construction in the Qing Dynasty": "The work shared by my wife Lin Huiyin on this book, except for the 'Introduction', has been added, revised, and deleted several times since the beginning and after it was finished. In terms of the filming and selection, and the distribution of the plates, I really can't point out the division of labor between each other, and finally more careful proofreading, additions and deletions. So at least she is the author of half of this book." Their last survey in the north was also the most brilliant one, the discovery of the wooden Foguang Temple in Mount Wutai.The ancient buildings in the West are basically made of stones, which can withstand the erosion of wind and rain, and the destruction of thunder and fire, so many of them have survived to this day.Chinese houses are mostly built of bricks and wood. At that time, it was not known whether there were still wooden buildings in the Tang Dynasty.The Japanese once threatened that the only way to see such a building is to go to their Nara Castle.Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng were determined to find the wooden structures of the Tang Dynasty in China, but this is not easy!Old China did not have a catalog of buildings, and looking for them all over the country was tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.However, where there is a will, there is a way, and after hard work, they finally discovered the precious Foguang Temple.In the early summer of 1937, Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin and colleagues Mo Zongjiang and Ji Yutang set out for Wutai Mountain. The mountain road was narrow and rugged, so they had to ride pack mules slowly.Later, when even the mule refused to go, he had to get down and lead it on.After staggering for two days, they suddenly saw the magnificent palace shining golden in the setting sun at dusk, and then looked closely at the far-swinging cornices, huge bucket arches, column caps, doors and windows, all of which looked like the superb craftsmanship of Tang Dynasty craftsmen. craft.The excitement of discovery immediately made everyone's exhaustion disappear without a trace.Science can't just rely on intuition. After the excitement, they need to prove it hard.Lin Huiyin climbed up the high-hanging ridge purlin of the main hall to search for possible textual evidence. Usually, the construction year is written there, which is really difficult and dangerous.It was pitch black above, and when I turned on the flashlight, I saw that the purlins were covered with hundreds of bats, and they couldn't get rid of them.Inadvertently, when taking pictures, the spotlights flashed and scared the bats into the air. Unexpectedly, the ground was crowded with densely packed bedbugs.In the first few days, they kept climbing up and down, dealing with bats and bedbugs.Finally, Lin Huiyin vaguely discerned ink stains on the bottom of the two-foot-high girder.After struggling to recognize it for a long time, I only saw one line of words: "Female disciple Ning Gongyu", and the rest were still blurred.It took another two days to build a bracket to wash away the thick dirt accumulated on the beam. Lin Huiyin was the first to go up, and it took three days to read all the inscriptions on the beam.It turned out that Ning Gongyu was the female benefactor who donated money to build the Buddhist temple. The main hall was built in the eleventh year of Dazhong in the Tang Dynasty, that is, in 857 AD.It is the earliest extant wooden structure building discovered in China!From then on, we don't have to go to Japan to see other people's things.Everyone's ecstasy is self-evident. It is the moment when the sun sets, and the courtyard in front of the hall is full of splendor.They took out the emergency biscuits, milk and canned sardines, and celebrated with all they had, without worrying about running out of food tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. The life of visiting ancient buildings in the field is hard, and they often worry about running out of food. They are lucky if they can get a bowl of dark noodles in the backcountry.In the days when the traffic was very underdeveloped, traveling was also a test for people.Everything depends on primitive carts and donkeys. The wind and dust blows in the face, the bumps are bumpy, and the destination is usually in a very remote mountain wilderness.The study notes of a certain day of the academy recorded: "The heavy rain came suddenly at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and the horse we were riding on was still stunned. I got off the horse and walked. It took less than five minutes without a thread of dryness. If you travel about three miles, you will get a small temple temporarily. Avoid." Another day recorded: "walk three kilometers to the small temple next to the mountain. The rain stopped at six o'clock. The torrent in the ditch is surging. I can't move forward tomorrow. I will go down the mountain and stay in the ancestral hall of Zhou's family in Dashe village. I run around all day long. I only got three steamed buns (one for each person), and at night I was attacked by bedbugs and mosquitoes, so it was very painful not to be able to sleep.” It can be seen that it is not too bad luck to be able to sleep in a big car shop sometimes, but every person who wakes up in a big car shop is covered in lice .The difficulty of the investigation also lies in the risks. They have to beware of bandits on the way; when they arrive at the inspection site, measure the ancient temples and pagodas, and climb to the top that has been eroded by wind for hundreds of thousands of years, there is a possibility of falling at any time.Liang Sicheng recorded: "Today, when the work was about to be finished, there was a sudden 'unforeseen storm', around 5:00 p.m. on a sunny day, violent storms, thunder and lightning. We were on the top beam, and we couldn't help but feel our own Dangerous. Not only is it on the 280-foot-high wooden frame that is nearly a thousand years old, but it is also close to the top of the tower under the iron phase wheel, so it is not likely that Mother Wind will be particularly friendly." These difficulties are not easy for ordinary people, but Lin Huiyin, a delicate lady and a tuberculosis patient, has withstood the baptism of hardship.I can't believe that she will be like a man, eating wind and rain, climbing beams and pillars.It was in such a situation that Lin Huiyin showed her perseverance, fortitude and dedication to ideals.Searching through all her texts about inspecting ancient buildings, we can't find a single word of her complaining about the harsh working environment.The following confession overflowing from the bottom of my heart is as bright as the sun: We have traveled a lot because of visiting ancient sites; under various circumstances, we feel the ups and downs of the past and the present.Reading a stele in the grass, accidentally bumping into a Bodhisattva's hand and smiling among the piles of bricks can all arouse some unusual feelings.The various romantic locations in the countryside are beautiful and innocent; the characters in the middle maintain honest and bright colors, the old ones are holding on to crutches, and the young ones are bare-chested. All along the road are their bright eyes and smiling faces.We who came from the city of Peiping looked east and walked west, with the setting sun on our backs, it was like falling into another world!The clouds, the sky, and everything between us seemed to be lost.When I am happy, I laugh happily, and the laughter spreads all the way to the river and the mountain, maybe in some forest or village!I feel a kind of flatness, perhaps vastness, stretching out just parallel to the ground, and the edge of the feeling, and the edge of the earth, are always stretching forward... ("Shanxi Communication")