One day in 1948, Lin Huiyin, the first female architect in Chinese history and a well-known writer, was introduced to a woman more than 20 years younger than herself.

One day in 1948, Lin Huiyin, the first female architect and well-known writer in Chinese history, was introduced to a woman who was more than 20 years younger than herself. The other party's name was Lin Zhu. He was twenty years old. He had just arrived in Peiping and was preparing to take the college entrance examination.

Lin Huiyin, who was friendly and gentle as jade, asked with concern how Lin Zhu's grades were. When she learned that the other party's English was not ideal, this talented woman who had studied abroad and traveled to many countries immediately said that she could help Lin Zhu with English tutoring. In this way, during that time, Lin Huiyin became Lin Zhu's English teacher.

Lin Huiyin

However, Lin Huiyin at the time should not have thought that more than ten years later, in 1962, seven years after he passed away, that student at that time actually married his husband Liang Sicheng. This is not over yet. After entering the 21st century, with the increasing development of mass media, Lin Zhu, who is already old, began to frequently accept interviews from various media, talking about the past events between himself, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin. Not only that, she also wrote and published many books, one of which was called "Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin and Me"...

Lin Huiyin declined Xu Zhimo and chose Liang Sicheng

In October 1920, Xu Zhimo, who was 23 years old at the time , came to the UK across the Atlantic from the United States, and went to London School of Economics and Political Science for further study.

Originally, Xu Zhimo came to the UK because he wanted to study under the famous philosopher Russell . However, due to unexpected changes in Russell's personal life, the Chinese student's wish came to nothing.

However, just when Xu Zhimo was depressed about this and confused about his next step, he met Lin Changmin who was traveling here.

As a famous politician and diplomat in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Lin Changmin had a wide network of contacts. Under his introduction, Xu Zhimo met a British writer, and on his recommendation, he entered the Royal College of Cambridge University (then known as Cambridge University) with the qualification of a special student.

But what made Xu Zhimo even more excited at this time was that he also met Lin Changmin's daughter, Lin Huiyin.

Lin Huiyin was only 16 years old at the time. This time she came to Europe with her father and began a life in a foreign land.

Lin Huiyin

Xu Zhimo, who was 7 years older than Lin Huiyin, quickly fell in love with this beautiful and charming girl. As the relationship between the two became closer, Xu Zhimo began his passionate pursuit of Lin Huiyin.

After entering Cambridge University, although Xu Zhimo majored in political economics, he was gradually influenced by European and American romantic and aesthetic poets and began to write new poems.

Many of the poems Xu Zhimo wrote during his time in Cambridge were related to Lin Huiyin, his lover at the time. Works such as "Listening to the Qin on a Moonlit Night", "Youth's Miscellany", "The Breeze Broken the Dream of Spring" all express Xu Zhimo's various ideals on love and life.

From this point of view, Xu Zhimo is not only handsome, but also full of talent. He wrote these sincere words for Lin Huiyin. Logically speaking, as a young girl, Lin Huiyin should be tempted.

However, in fact, although Xu Zhimo was young at the time, he was already a father...

It turned out that as early as 1915, 18-year-old Xu Zhimo, under the arrangement of his parents, had sex with 15-year-old Zhang Youyi is married. In that evil old society, they, like countless young men and women, completed their major life events in a daze.

In 1918, their first child Xu Jikai was born. In the same year, Xu Zhimo went to the United States to study, leaving his wife to take care of his son in China.

And just when Xu Zhimo met Lin Huiyin and started his passionate pursuit of her, news soon came: his wife Zhang Youyi was pregnant again...

With his wife and children on one side, and Lin Huiyin who he loved deeply on the other, Xu Zhimo almost The choice was made without hesitation: asked Zhang Youyi to have an abortion immediately and filed for divorce from her.

Faced with such a husband, Zhang Youyi was full of grievances and refused. Xu Zhimo left without saying goodbye and was never heard from again.

Xu Zhimo

Seeing that her delivery date was approaching, Zhang Youyi had no choice but to seek help from her second brother Zhang Junmai. Later, she first went to Paris, then to Berlin , and finally gave birth to the child.

During this period, Xu Zhimo knew about his wife's movements, but he never cared about her. It was not until Zhang Youyi gave birth to his second son, Xu Desheng, in 1922 that he hurried to Berlin, took a divorce document that had been written, and asked his wife to sign it.

In this regard, Zhang Youyi would like to seek the opinions of her parents first. However, Xu Zhimo urged her to sign quickly because Lin Huiyin was about to return to China with his father.

Finally, Zhang Youyi, who had completely lost all illusions about her husband, agreed to divorce, and Xu Zhimo finally regained his freedom.

However, Lin Huiyin chose to leave Xu Zhimo without saying goodbye when he returned to China. Although Xu Zhimo also returned to China in October of the same year and maintained contact with Lin Huiyin, this beautiful lady never accepted the great poet Xu.

In 1923, Xu Zhimo's teacher Liang Qichao, a famous politician and reformer in the late Qing Dynasty , wrote a long letter to the student, earnestly advising him to "never allow others' pain to harm your own happiness."

In his reply to the teacher, Xu Zhimo defended himself: "I will visit my only soul mate in the vast sea of ​​people. I am lucky to find him; if I don't, it is my fate. That's all."

1923 In March 2016, Xu Zhimo initiated the establishment of Crescent Society . Afterwards, he and Lin Huiyin organized activities of the Crescent Society and performed plays together. In addition, there were also correspondence between the two.

In 1924, the famous Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore visited China, and Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin served as translators for him. Later, Xu Zhimo accompanied Tagore to Japan, while Lin Huiyin studied in the United States with his early acquaintance Liang Sicheng (son of Liang Qichao).

Time flies, when Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin met again, it was already several years later. During this period, Lin Huiyin accepted Liang Sicheng's proposal, and Xu Zhimo also married Lu Xiaoman. This pair of talented men and beautiful women are destined to be together.

In November 1931, when he learned that Lin Huiyin was going to give a speech on Chinese architectural art to foreign envoys at the Peking Union Auditorium, Xu Zhimo decided to go and support him.

That morning, he took a seven-seater plane from Nanjing. Unfortunately, Xu Zhimo, who was only 34 years old, died when the plane accidentally hit Kaishan in Jinan and crashed in heavy fog.

Lin Huiyin, Rabindranath Tagore and Xu Zhimo

After Lin Huiyin learned the sad news, he was deeply saddened and wrote two articles to commemorate this old friend. Many years later, she once said to her children: "What Xu Zhimo loved at first was not the real me, but the Lin Huiyin he imagined with the romantic emotions of a poet. In fact, I am not that kind of person. "

Xu Zhimo once wrote a poem called "accidentally" to Lin Huiyin: "I am a cloud in the sky, occasionally projected in the center of your wave - you don't have to be surprised, let alone be happy. ——In an instant, the trace disappeared. You and I met on the sea of ​​​​darkness. You have your direction, and I have mine. It’s better if you remember it, but it’s better if you forget the light that shines on each other during this encounter! This poem is a portrayal of Xu Zhimo's feelings for Lin Huiyin.

Like-minded couple, deep love

On March 21, 1928, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin held their wedding at the Chinese Consulate General in Ottawa, Canada. The newlyweds then embarked on a special "honeymoon" - traveling to various parts of Europe to visit various ancient buildings.

html Before 2004, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin came to the United States together to study architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Liang Sicheng successfully entered the Department of Architecture, but Lin Huiyin ran into trouble.

It turns out that at that time, Penn's Department of Architecture did not admit female students. Faced with this situation, Lin Huiyin decided to change to the art department. While in college, she took all courses in the Department of Architecture and achieved her goals in another way.

In this way, after the wedding, the couple embarked on a journey around Europe.Soon after, they returned to China and were employed together in the Department of Architecture of Northeastern University.

Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin

From 1930 to 1945, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin traveled to various parts of the country and conducted on-site inspections of 2,738 ancient buildings in 190 counties. With their efforts, many ancient buildings have been recognized and protected throughout the country and even the world. Shanxi Yingxian Wooden Pagoda , Wutai Mountain Foguang Temple, Hebei Zhaozhou Bridge, etc. are among them.

In 1931, the couple returned to Peiping and both entered the Chinese Construction Society. In the following years, Lin Huiyin not only designed the geology museum and student dormitories for Peking University , but also published "On Several Characteristics of Chinese Architecture", "Miscellaneous Records of Pingjiao Architecture", "Jinxi "A Survey of Fen Ancient Buildings" and other papers and survey reports.

In July 1937, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which shocked China and foreign countries, broke out, and Japanese militarism began a full-scale invasion of China. Liang Sicheng and his wife, who did not want to be exploited by Japan, arrived in Kunming in January 1938 to continue their professional research.

During that time, Liang Sicheng went out for inspections, while Lin Huiyin stayed behind. She not only has to take care of and teach the children, but also sort out a lot of written materials and draw drawings.

In 1940, Liang Sicheng and his wife moved to Lizhuang, Yibin, Sichuan, and lived in a low and dilapidated farmhouse there.

Lin Huiyin’s health is not good to begin with. The long-term hard life of displacement caused her lung disease to relapse and she could only stay in bed for a long time. Even so, Lin Huiyin still did not bow to fate. She read through a large amount of literature on her hospital bed, often working late into the night. In the literary works of the time, Lin Huiyin showed his concern for the future and destiny of the motherland from time to time.

Lin Huiyin and two children

Finally, in 1945, the Anti-Japanese War ended victoriously. In August 1946, Liang Sicheng and his family returned to Peiping. Soon after, Lin Huiyin designed a teacher's residence for Tsinghua University .

As the Liberation War deepened, at the end of 1948, the suburb of Peiping where Tsinghua University was located was liberated. Seeing that the city of Beiping was about to be invaded by war, Liang Sicheng and Lin Hui were worried about the countless ancient buildings in the ancient city and had trouble sleeping and eating.

Just when they were at a loss, in early 1949, two representatives of the People's Liberation Army suddenly appeared at the home of Liang Sicheng and his wife. It turned out that they were assigned by their superiors to protect the important cultural relics and historic sites in Beiping City.

Liang Sicheng and his wife were overjoyed and carefully marked it on the map. At the same time, they began to eliminate their doubts about the Communist Party and believed that it was a civilized force that respected history and ancient architecture.

Soon after, the two compiled the "National Cultural Relics and Ancient Buildings Catalog" at the request of the People's Liberation Army. The later "National Cultural Relics Protection Catalog" was based on this.

In September 1949, on the eve of the founding of New China, Lin Huiyin and ten other people participated in the design work of the national emblem . In order to complete this significant task, she devoted all her life's learning to it.

Finally, hard work paid off. In June 1950, their design was selected as the national emblem by the Second Session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

In October 1949, the People's Republic of China was founded, and the land of China entered a new era. In the new historical period, both Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin devoted themselves enthusiastically to the construction of New China.

Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin

In 1950, Lin Huiyin was specially invited to attend the second session of the First National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and was also appointed as a member and engineer of the Beijing Urban Planning Commission.

As early as 1949, the Beijing Urban Planning Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference solicited design proposals for the Monument to the People's Heroes from across the country. In May 1952, Lin Huiyin, who participated in the design work, was appointed as a member of the Construction Committee of the Monument to the People's Heroes.

During the design work of the Monument to the People’s Heroes, Lin Huiyin often became the actual leader of the design team. She put forward principled opinions on the overall shape and structure of the monument.

Not only that, the main architectural layout of the famous Beijing Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery was also designed by Lin Huiyin.Later, it became the resting place of many revolutionary martyrs.

However, due to long-term hard work and poor health, Lin Huiyin's condition recurred and became more serious. On April 1, 1955, she died of illness in Beijing Tongren Hospital at the age of 51.

After Lin Huiyin passed away, she was buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery designed by herself. Her own tombstone was designed by her husband Liang Sicheng. It has a white marble wreath and the words "Grave of Architect Lin Huiyin" written in the unique font of the China Architecture Society.

Liang Sicheng remarried and everyone around him betrayed his relatives and left.

In 1962, seven years after Lin Huiyin died of illness, 61-year-old Liang Sicheng married 34-year-old Lin Zhu as his wife, despite everyone's opposition. And this Lin Zhu was once a student of Lin Huiyin in his early years.

In 1928, Lin Zhu was born in Fuzhou, Fujian. During his childhood, he moved to many places with his parents and finally settled in Kunming. After the Anti-Japanese War ended in 1945, the family prepared to move to Shanghai.

When Lin Zhu was going to school in Kunming, there was a teacher named Cheng Yingli . When Teacher Cheng learned that his student was going to Shanghai, he entrusted his younger brother Cheng Yingquan, who happened to be going to Shanghai from Kunming at that time, to take care of each other with Lin Zhu's family.

During this trip, Lin Zhu’s father took a fancy to Cheng Yingquan and thought he was a good guy. As a result, he began to match up Cheng Yingquan with his daughter Lin Zhu.

On the left is Lin Zhu

In 1948, Cheng Yingquan went from Shanghai to Peiping and entered the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University to teach. Lin Zhu went with him. There, Cheng Yingquan won Liang Sicheng's trust and became his valued assistant.

At this time, Lin Zhu was just 20 and preparing to get into university in Peking. However, due to poor grades, she was not admitted to the university.

Not long after, Lin Zhu met Liang Sicheng and his wife under the introduction of Cheng Yingquan. According to Lin Zhu’s recollection, when Lin Huiyin learned that her English score was not good, he offered to help her with tutoring. In this way, Lin Zhu and Lin Huiyin got closer and closer.

Decades later, when Lin Zhu recalled Lin Huiyin back then, he was still amazed: "She was so erudite, so talkative, and so beautiful that I was intimidated and worshiped from a distance"...

In the end , despite Lin Huiyin’s guidance, Lin Zhu still failed to enter any university. In the early 1950s, at her father's urging, she and Cheng Yingquan got married, with Liang Sicheng serving as the officiant.

So, relying on her husband's relationship, Lin Zhu, who had no higher education, became a secretary in the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University. The two had a pair of children.

However, as Cheng Yingquan was classified as a rightist because of his views, Lin Zhu, who was implicated, immediately chose to divorce and took the two children away and changed their surname to Lin.

Time passed day by day, and Lin Zhu, who raised two children alone, had a very difficult life.

In April 1962, Lin Zhu met Liang Sicheng again. She offered to help Liang Sicheng organize the information and obtained the other party's consent.

At this time, Liang Sicheng's children were all married and had families, and they were living alone. The two develop a close relationship as Lin Soo often stays late at his house.

More than a month later, Liang Sicheng and Lin Zhu decided to get married. Before this, the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University talked to Cheng Yingquan and asked whether he and Lin Zhu might remarry, but Cheng Yingquan firmly denied it.

Although Liang Sicheng's children did not object to their father's remarriage, they, like Liang Sicheng's friends, firmly opposed his union with Lin Zhu. Shen Congwen once said: "Lin Zhu just loves money"; Zhang Xiruo, who had a close relationship with Liang Sicheng, told this old friend that if Liang insisted on marrying Lin Zhu, he would break up with him. Later, Zhang Xiruo really did what he said.

In the end, Liang Sicheng married Lin Zhu despite the opposition of those around him. In January 1972, he died of illness in Beijing at the age of 71.

Liang Sicheng and Lin Zhu

Decades later, Lin Zhu, who was already old, suddenly began to receive frequent interviews with the media, talking about the past with Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin. Not only that, she also wrote many related books. The most famous among them is undoubtedly "Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin and Me".

In those few years, Lin Huiyin's love life became a hot topic among many people. Many of the "details" come from Lin Zhu's words in the book.

I wonder what Lin Huiyin would think about this if he knew anything about it.