Lin is a legend, and Xiamen University Humanities Museum was established on the basis of his free donation of private collections. Those precious cultural relics that he painstakingly collected and accompanied him from place to place finally found a home in this museum.
As a scholar, Lin has made great achievements in cultural anthropology, archaeology, national history, folklore and other fields. He was the first to scientifically demonstrate the relationship between Taiwan Province Province and Chinese mainland's prehistoric nationalities and cultures, the first to study the ethnic minorities in Taiwan Province Province, and the first to explore the prehistoric archaeology and national history of Nanyang. He is one of the pioneers of anthropology in China.
In fact, establishing a museum is only the first step of Lin's anthropological development plan. He mentioned in a proposal that when conditions are ripe in the future, an anthropological research institute and an anthropological department can be established on the basis of museums to establish a complete system of departments, institutes and museums.
1984, Xiamen University was approved to set up the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Anthropology on the basis of the Museum of Anthropology, and added the only structural anthropology in the mainland at that time, realizing Lin's last wish.
During the 85th anniversary celebration of Xiamen University in 2006, the Anthropology Museum of Xiamen University will also be renovated and opened to welcome guests. It was identified as a provincial popular science education base. The reconstructed building covers an area of more than 2,000 square meters and will display thousands of collections.
A bronze statue of Professor Lin, the first curator of the Anthropology Museum and a famous anthropologist, will be placed in the museum. The bronze statue was created by a famous Shanghai sculptor invited by Xiamen University to commemorate this scholar who worked hard for the establishment of the Anthropology Museum of Xiamen University. 192 1 year, Mr. Wang founded Xiamen University, and Lin left his post and returned to Xiamen to apply for Xiamen University for one year.
1926 graduated from the first graduate sociology department of Xiamen University, and graduated from the school at that time.
He ranks first in the list of students and is the only one who graduated from liberal arts. After teaching at Xiamen University for one year, I went to study in the Philippines. Master of Anthropology 65438-0928. Come back from the Philippines.
Lin (1929), entrusted by academia Sinica, went to Taiwan Province Province during the Japanese occupation as a businessman, went deep into the mountains to investigate the Gaoshan people (then called Fan people), looked for cultural relics about their life and culture, and found Neolithic tools in Taipei Yuanshan. After being followed by the Japanese police, I only stayed in Taiwan Province Province for two months, and then wrote a book, The Primitive Culture of Fanren in Taiwan Province Province.
193 1 autumn, he returned to his alma mater, Xiamen University, and became a professor in the Department of History and Sociology, and later served as the head of the department.
1935, when he was teaching at Xiamen university, he went to the Gaoshan nationality area of Taiwan Province province for the second time in the summer vacation. Due to the surveillance of Japanese police, he only stayed in Taiwan Province Province for two weeks, and then returned to Xiamen University with dozens of Gaoshan cultural relics collected. The cultural relics he obtained at the risk of his life are precious materials for studying anthropology and Gaoshan culture, and have attracted attention from all walks of life. His description of songs, dances and music of Gaoshan people is fascinating.
1937 After the Japanese invaders occupied Kinmen, they took refuge in Nanyang.
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1953 Xiamen University established the Anthropology Museum as the curator, and later served as the deputy director of Nanyang Research Institute.
1958 February 13 died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage in the early morning. In his 58-year career, he spent 25 years in Xiamen University.
Professor Chen from Taiwan Province Institute of Xiamen University wrote that Lin was the first person in Xiamen University to study Taiwan Province Province. Xiamen University has made great progress in the study of Taiwan Province Province. In addition to Taiwan Province Institute, many professors from other departments also participated in this research. Professor Lin is the pioneer of the research on Taiwan Province Province in our school.
Chen also said that it is particularly commendable that Fan's primitive culture in Taiwan Province Province and some subsequent studies have a distinctive feature, that is, the same sex on both sides of the strait and the particularity of Taiwan Province Province. His research results strongly explain that "the Neolithic people in Taiwan Province Province should have migrated from the southeast of the mainland" and that "the Neolithic culture in Taiwan Province Province belongs to the system of the southeast of the motherland". At the same time, it also emphasizes that Taiwan Province Province has its "local characteristics". As early as 1934, Lin set up the museum preparation office to collect, excavate and sort out human specimens such as archaeology and national cultural relics in southeast and southeast China, and open them to the outside world for teaching reference of Xiamen University teachers and students and for outsiders to visit.
After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the forest belt was covered with precious cultural relics, and the whole family took refuge in Nanyang. Lin's daughter, Lin Huaming, said that her father didn't work for the Japanese, so she had no life. A European scholar wanted to buy cultural relics, but her father sternly refused. In order to avoid the entanglement of the Japanese, my father fled to a remote country, hiding his name and planting for a living. Father grows cassava with a hoe, and he can't even afford matches. He made a fire by knocking on stones, and the hardships of life reached unimaginable levels. 1945 When the Japanese invaders surrendered, my father said that if it was delayed for another half a year, I am afraid it would not last in my life. Father told us that even if you make a belt out of straw rope and tighten your stomach, you can't sell a cultural relic.
195 1 year, Lin donated thousands of cultural relics and books (one to dozens of volumes each) collected and accumulated throughout his life to Xiamen University, and suggested building a museum for mankind. In a proposal from 1949, he wrote: "The sponsor has been engaged in anthropology teaching for many years and deeply felt this demand. Since more than ten years ago, he has been interested in establishing an anthropology museum, and collected specimens at his own expense ... I saved the living expenses for traveling, collecting and purchasing, and planned to collect specimens from Nanyang and give them to the country on a small scale. Unexpectedly, due to the Japanese aggression, most of them fled to Nanyang, and Nanyang increased ... For example, Xiamen University set up a human museum and was willing to contribute. "
Wang Yanan, then president of Xiamen University, readily accepted his suggestion and reported to his superiors. 195 1 year, the Ministry of Education of the Central People's Government approved the establishment of the Museum of Humanities. Xu Beihong, president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, personally wrote the name of the museum. This is the first museum in Fujian Province and the first museum in China University. Later, it was listed as one of the famous museums in China by UNESCO.