You are the April day on earth by Lin Huiyin, the first talented woman of the Republic of China
I say you are the April day on earth,
Laughing lights up the four winds;
Lightness of spirit in the light and colorful spring intertwined with the change of dance.
You are a cloud of smoke in the early days of April,
The dusk blows the softness of the wind,
The stars are flashing unintentionally,
The fine rain is sprinkled in front of the flowers.
That light, that graceful, you are,
The crown of fresh and beautiful flowers you wear,
You are innocent, solemn,
You are the full moon night after night.
After the snow melted the piece of goose yellow, you are like;
Fresh first buds of green, you are;
Tender joy
The water floating in the white lotus in your dream expectation.
You are the blossom of a tree,
It is the swallow murmuring between the beams,
---- You are love, warmth, hope,
You are the April day on earth!
This poem was published in 1934 in Xuewen, the exact time of writing is unknown. About this poem, there are two ways of saying: one says that it is for mourning Xu Zhimo, to express the nostalgia for his dear friend, we can understand a spot from the TV series "April Day on Earth"; one says that it is for the birth of his son Liang from the commandments, to express the heart of the son's hope and the son's birth to bring the joy of it, which is more likely; however, we can completely put down these arguments, because the poem is really a piece of extremely excellent piece of work, and its value does not need anything external to support it. So when the poet died, Jin Yuelin and other close friends **** the same to the poet inscribed a couplet like this: "A poetic thousand waterfalls, ten thousand years on earth in April."
The charm and excellence of this poem does not lie only in the beauty of the mood and the purity of the content, but also in the purity of the form and the splendor of the language. This poem can be said to be the perfect embodiment of this principle, the jump of words and rhythmic harmony almost reached the extreme.
April, the season of trekking; April, the spring of the year, is the prime season of spring. April, the most precious season of the year, as the first love fleeting. In such a season, the poet wants to write down the love in his heart, write down the mood of the season. The poet compares this spring scenery to the "you" in his heart. What kind of spring scenery is there in such a season?
The world with a little smile, the gentle wind is its confession, its charm. It is light, dancing light colorful spring in a thousand ways. In the world of all things recovered, everything is leaping to grow, floating dense breath. In the misty heaven and earth, clouds of smoke are the scene of recovery. After dusk comes, the warm and cool night to take advantage of such a time to show their charm. Three or two points of starlight intentionally or unintentionally flickering, and the garden slightly dancing flowers whispering, as in the breeze and rain in the scene: light and soft, colorful and with bright colors. The full moon rises, innocently and solemnly saying "you" of solemnity and purity.
Such an April, such as Su Dongpo penned the Jiangnan spring scenery: "Peach blossoms outside the bamboo three two branches, the spring river water warm ducks know first. Artemisia full of reed buds short. It is the time when the river dolphin wants to go up." Spring colors in Du Fu's writing: "Two yellow orioles singing kingfishers, a line of white herons in the blue sky." It is also like the spring scenery written by Du Shenyan: "The clouds and the sun rise from the sea, and the plum and willow cross the river in spring. The yellow bird is prompted by the gentle air, and the clear light turns to green apples." That goose yellow, is the first release of life; that green, contains infinite vitality. That tender life, fresh scenery, in such a season flooded with sacred light. This sacred and the holy water in front of the Buddha, as clear, clear; and the white lotus in the heart of the Buddha, as beautiful, with the light of love. In such a season, "You" have transcended such a season. "You are the blossom of a tree, the swallow flying with spring, beautiful and light, with love, warmth and hope.
Lin Huiyin is a famous Chinese architect and writer, the first female architect in China, and also known as the Chinese generation of talented women by Hu Shi. In the early thirties, she and her husband Liang Sicheng used modern scientific methods to study ancient Chinese architecture and became pioneers in this academic field, and later gained great academic achievements in this area. From the early thirties to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, in a few years they traveled to 15 provinces and more than 200 counties in China, and surveyed more than 2,000 ancient Chinese architectural relics in the field. Their work laid a solid scientific foundation for the study of ancient Chinese architecture, and wrote more than two dozen essays, preface and postscripts on architecture, and some of them were co-authored with Liang Sicheng. In literature, she wrote a lot of works in her life, including essays, poems, novels, plays, translations and letters, all of which are masterpieces, among which the representative works are You are the April Sky on Earth and the novel Ninety-nine Degrees in the Middle. In addition, after 1949, Lin Huiyin had done three great things in art: the first was to participate in the design of the national emblem. The second was to remodel the traditional cloisonné. Thirdly, she participated in the design of the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square, making great contributions to the nation and the country. Unfortunately, her ambition was not fulfilled, and she passed away in the morning of April 1, 1955, at the age of 51, after a 15-year battle with illness.
Early life
In 1916, she attended Peihua Girls' High School in Beijing, run by the Church of England.
In April 1920, she traveled to Europe with her father and was influenced by her landlady architect in London to study architecture. During this time, she also met her father's disciple, Xu Zhimo, and became interested in new poetry.
In 1921, she returned to China with her father and continued her studies at Peihua Girls' High School.
In 1923, Xu Zhimo and Hu Shih founded the Crescent Society in Beijing, and Lin Huiyin often participated in the literary activities organized by the Society.
In April 1924, the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore visited China, and Lin Huiyin, together with Xu Zhimo and Liang Sicheng, accompanied Tagore on his tour of Beijing. Tagore wrote a poem for Lin Huiyin: The azure of the sky, in love with the turquoise of the earth, the breeze between them sighed "Ai!"
In June 1924, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng went to the United States to study architecture.
In September 1924, the two men entered the University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts together, starting with the third-year program. Liang Sicheng was enrolled in the Architecture Department of the School of Fine Arts, and because the Department of Architecture did not accept female students, Lin Huiyin was enrolled in the Department of Fine Arts, where she registered under the English name "Lin Phyllis Whei-Yin". However, she still took the main courses in the architecture department and realized her ambition.
On September 20, 1925, Lin Huiyin's picture appeared on the front page of Shanghai's Pictorial Times, No. 268, with her portrait on the front page.
In the summer of 1927, after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts, she enrolled in the Yale School of Drama for six months to study stage art design.
In the 17th year of the Republic of China (1928), Lin Huiyin accepted Liang Sicheng's proposal of marriage, and after the wedding, they traveled together to Europe to study European architecture.
In August 1928, the couple returned to China together and were employed in the Department of Architecture at Northeastern University. Lin Huiyin went back to Fuzhou to visit her family before her appointment, and was invited by Fuzhou Normal School and Yinghua Middle School to give lectures on "Architecture and Literature" and "The Art of Landscape Architecture". She also designed the Fuzhou East Street Literary Theater for her uncle Lin Tianmin. In the following year, he went to Northeastern University to give lectures on the History of Carving and Decorating and specialized English.
In October 1931, Lin Huiyin published her first poems under the name "Lin Huiyin" in Poetry Magazine No. 3, and from then on, Lin Huiyin became "Lin Huiyin".
Architectural career
During the 15-year period from 1930 to 1945, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng investigated 2,738 ancient buildings in 190 counties, and many of them were recognized nationally as well as internationally through their investigations, and henceforth protected. For example, the stone bridge in Zhaozhou, Hebei, the wooden pagoda in Yingxian, Shanxi, and the Buddha's Light Temple in Wutai Mountain. [8]
In 1931, Lin Huiyin was employed by the China Construction Society in Beiping. In the following year, she designed the Geology Hall and the Gray Building student dormitory for Beiping University. In the following years, she went into the provinces of Jin, Hebei, Lu, Henan, and Zhejiang for many times, investigated and surveyed dozens of ancient buildings, and published papers and survey reports on architecture alone or in cooperation with Liang Sicheng, such as On Several Characteristics of Chinese Architecture, Miscellaneous Records of the Architecture of the Flat Suburbs, and Chronicle of the Investigation of Ancient Buildings in Jinfen, and wrote an introduction to the book Qing Style Construction Rules signed by Liang Sicheng.
In May 1936, Lin Huiyin's health improved a little, and Liang Sicheng went to Henan to study. arrived in Jinan in the second half of June. [8]
In the summer of 1937, she discovered one of China's oldest wooden structures, the Great Hall of the Buddha's Light Temple, built in the Tang Dynasty, in the Wutai Mountain area of Shanxi.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng moved to Changsha with the Construction Society, and then to Kunming in January 1938, where they lived in a mansion called "Zhi Yuan" on Ru Jin Street. The first research carried out by Mr. and Mrs. Liang Sicheng was to investigate the ancient buildings in Kunming. Liang Sicheng went out for years to investigate, Lin Huiyin stayed in Xingguoan to preside over the day-to-day affairs, not only responsible for the children's care and teaching, but also to organize a large number of drawings and textual information.
October to November 1938, by Lin Huiyin, Liang Sicheng investigated by the Yuantong Temple, the Lord of the soil temple, Jianshui Guild Hall, East Temple Pagoda, West Temple Pagoda, Zhenqing Guan Hall, the Golden Temple, and so on about more than 50 of Kunming's major ancient buildings. [9]
In 1940, she moved with Liang Sicheng's work unit, the Academia Sinica, to Li Zhuang near Yibin, Sichuan, where she lived in a low, dilapidated farmhouse.
The upheaval of life and the harsh material conditions caused her lung disease to recur. During this period, she did not produce many literary works, and in some of her poems, confusion, despondency, bleakness, and melancholy had replaced the quiet, ethereal, clear, and graceful tone of the pre-war period. In the poems, the sentiment of caring for the future and destiny of the motherland is revealed at times.
After the victory of the war, Lin Huiyin's family returned to Peking in August 1946, where she worked as a designer for the Tsinghua University. Soon after, she designed faculty residences for Tsinghua University and accepted design assignments outside the university.
In May 1948, she published nine Miscellaneous Poems in Sickness in the Literary Magazine. At the end of the same year, the suburbs of Beiping, where Tsinghua University is located, were liberated, and the People's Liberation Army surrounded the ancient capital of Beiping. Mr. and Mrs. Lin Huiyin thought that countless ancient buildings in the city might be destroyed in the war, and they were so worried that they couldn't sleep or eat.
In early 1949, a surprise visit by two PLA representatives, who demonstrated a protective attitude toward important cultural relics and monuments, allowed them to dispel their misgivings about the ****anufacturing party and, at the request of the PLA, to prepare a Catalogue of National Cultural Relics and Ancient Buildings. This book later evolved into the National Catalog of Cultural Relics Protection.
In 1950, Lin Huiyin was invited to participate in the second session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and was appointed as a member of the Beijing Municipal Urban Planning Committee and an engineer, where she put forward the idea of constructing a "city wall park".
In 1951, at the age of 47, Lin Huiyin in order to save the traditional craft of cloisonné on the verge of closure, sick and Gao Zhuang, Mo Zongjiang, Chang Shana, Qian Meihua, Sun Junlian in-depth factory to do research and design a number of national style novelty patterns, for the "Asia and the Pacific Regional Peace Conference", The "Soviet Union Cultural Delegation".
In May 1952, in anticipation of the upcoming construction climax, Liang translated the book "Reconstruction of Areas Destroyed in the Soviet Union's Patriotic War", which was printed by the Shanghai Longmen Bookstore, and provided a reference for national construction. At the request of New Observations magazine, he wrote a group of articles introducing Chinese ancient architecture, such as Zhongshan Hall, Beihai Park, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Yonghegong and Forbidden City, etc. In the 1950s, Leung was criticized several times for advocating the use of new buildings as traditional forms such as big roofs, and for preserving the ancient city of Beijing.