Once, Yang Lan visited the Liang Sicheng Memorial Hall, pointed to Lin Huiyin's ** stepping on the beam, and couldn't help but ask Liang Congjie: "Your mother is wearing a cheongsam, how dare she climb such a high beam?" Liang Congjie's face suddenly changed, and he only replied to Yang Lan coldly with only 7 words.
In fact, Lin Huiyin was not surprised to climb the beams of the house in a cheongsam, and she herself once proudly joked to her friends: I am the only woman wearing a cheongsam on the roof of an ancient building in ancient and modern times.
Lin Huiyin said that it was easy, but the effort behind it was extremely difficult.
In the thirties of the last century, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng came to Hebei to inspect Kaiyuan Temple in Zhengding County.
In the face of the thousand-year-old temple, they were extremely excited, Liang Sicheng was about to climb up, but was stopped by Lin Huiyin, she said: "This is an ancient building 1400 years ago, and the beams and pillars are likely to not be able to bear your weight, so let me come!" ”
Liang Sicheng disagreed at first, thinking that it was too dangerous, but in order to protect the ancient building from damage, Liang Sicheng finally agreed to let her go up, and repeatedly told her to be careful, not to be reluctant.
So, Lin Huiyin pulled the cheongsam to his knees, followed the ladder, and carefully climbed up the beam.
When the investigation work was successfully completed, Lin Huiyin stepped on the beam frame of the bell tower of Kaiyuan Temple, and showed a knowing smile to Liang Sicheng below, Liang Sicheng hurriedly took pictures and recorded, this is the origin of Yang Lan's **.
Lin Hui climbed the beam of the house regardless of the danger to investigate, in addition to protecting the ancient buildings, there is another reason.
In 1936, when Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng went to Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province to inspect the main hall of Foguang Temple, they were pleasantly surprised to find that Foguang Temple turned out to be a wooden building in the Tang Dynasty.
However, this conclusion was opposed by the Japanese architectural historian Sekino Sada. He investigated ancient buildings in China for 10 years and asserted that there were no Tang Dynasty wooden buildings more than 1,000 years old in China.
In order to refute this objection with favorable evidence, the two of them decided to conduct a further investigation of Foguang Temple again.
But the result was disappointing, they got nothing. At the moment of desperation, Lin Huiyin suddenly found that there seemed to be words on the beam.
So he quickly set up a ladder and climbed up the beam, gently wiped the dust off it, and sure enough, he saw the inscription on it.
Lin Hui was overjoyed, compared this inscription with the inscription in front of the main hall, and finally concluded that Foguang Temple was indeed built in the 11th year of the Tang Dynasty, and fiercely fought back against the self-righteous Japanese scholar and won glory for China.
After this incident, Lin Huiyin would climb up to take a look at any ancient building when he inspected it.
Of course, Lin Huiyin took the initiative to climb the beam of the house to investigate, and he also had a deep love and consideration for his husband Liang Sicheng.
Liang Sicheng was involved in a car accident in 1923, resulting in a fractured left leg and a spinal injury. Due to the limited conditions at that time, Liang Sicheng was left with a lifelong disability: his left leg was 1 cm shorter, his vertebrae were bent and hunched, and he needed to wear an iron device to support his back, which weighed 10 kilograms.
Lin Hui understood Liang Sicheng's difficulties too well, so he volunteered every time and took the initiative to take on the task of climbing the beam.
All this stems from the sincere feelings of an outstanding architect and archaeologist, who has a love and dedication to the revitalization of China's architectural industry.
The reason why Yang Lan's question made Liang Congjie's face change greatly was not because he was unhappy with the question itself, but because he believed that the outside world often only paid attention to Lin Huiyin's elegant figure in a cheongsam and her elegant affair with the literati.
And the real Lin Huiyin is the woman who shuttles between ancient buildings, is not afraid of hardships and dangers, and makes great efforts to protect and record the national cultural heritage.
Therefore, he replied coldly with 7 words: "The Liang family's secrets, don't leak it!" ”
In fact, there is no secret, this is just a polite and perfunctory sentence from Liang Congjie.
If there is, it is a patriotic heart that prompts Lin Huiyin to dare to wear a cheongsam to climb the beam!
From 1930 to 1945, China was at war. Lin Huiyin and her husband Liang Sicheng ran around regardless of the danger to their lives, just to protect the ancient buildings of our country.
They worked tirelessly, experienced wind, frost, rain and snow, ate and slept in the open air, spanned 15 provinces, footprints all over the place, conducted a detailed investigation of more than 200 ancient buildings, and hand-painted more than 2,000 ancient architectural drawings with international standards, which can be said to be indispensable.
Lin Hui is beautiful because of the sky, she likes to wear cheongsam, but this does not affect her love for the motherland and career.
This woman wearing a cheongsam on the roof of an ancient building suffered from a serious lung disease in the midst of the upheaval, and once lay in a hospital bed for six years.
However, she had to race against time, and she supported her body to assist her husband Liang Sicheng, and compiled and published the groundbreaking book "History of Chinese Architecture", which made indelible contributions to the vigorous development of China's architectural industry.
This perseverance and love is the most beautiful footnote in Lin Huiyin's life.