You are the April Day on earthThe third stanza describes the picture as follows:
In the spring color of Jiangnan, she is like a nimble dancer, lightly traversing through the sunshine of the willow wreaths, with a smile like a flower, delicate and charming. Her smile rippled in the spring breeze, like a blooming flower, carrying the freshness and slight coolness of early spring in Jiangnan. Everything around her became spiritual and beautiful because of her.
Original text: I say you are the April day on earth; laugh ringing lit up the four winds; light spirit in the light of spring colorful dance intertwined with change. You are the clouds and smoke in the early days of April, dusk blowing with the softness of the wind, the stars inadvertently flash, drizzle sprinkled in front of the flowers. That light, that graceful you are, the crown of fresh and elegant hundred flowers you wear, you are innocent, solemn, you are the full moon night after night.
After the snow melted that piece of goose yellow, you like; fresh first buds of green, you are; tender joy, water light floating in your dream expectation of white lotus. You are the blossom of a tree, the swallow murmuring between the beams, - you are love, warmth, hope, you are the April day on earth!
Lin Huiyin's extant poems, of which there are more than fifty, are by and large as individualistic and distinctive as "You are the April Day on Earth". Reading her poems, essays and even novels, there is no sense of distance at all, as if the author is right across the street - she likes to use the word "you" in her works, always reminding you to pay attention.
Reading her works is like having a conversation with her, like being in her salon, where Lin Huiyin's logical and thoughtful words seem to ring in your ears. She was also very strict in her diction, using English words in many of her works in order to express her ideas accurately. Similarly, her syntax is varied and Europeanized to convey her ideas.
About the Author
Lin Huiyin (1904-1955), formerly known as Huiyin, was a native of Minhou, Fujian Province, and was an architect, writer, and one of the poets of the New Moon School. She was born in 1904 in Minhou, Fujian, into a family of bureaucratic intellectuals. His father, Lin Changmin, studied in Japan in his early years and was a member of the New School.
In 1916, she was admitted to Peihua Girls' High School in Beijing, and from April to September 1920, she went to Europe with her father, Lin Changmin, and traveled to London, Paris, Geneva, Rome, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Brussels, etc. In the same year, she studied at St. Mary's Girls' School in London, and met with Xu Zhimo, who was a student at the London School of Economics, and in 1921, she returned to China and resumed studying at Peihua Girls' High School. 1923, she took part in activities of Crescent Moon Society.
In 1924, she studied in the United States and enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Fine Arts, where she took courses in architecture and graduated with a bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1927. In the same year, he was admitted to the Yale School of Drama, where he studied stage art design in the studio of Prof. G. P. Parker.