On June 10, 1904, a girl was born in the quaint house of the Lin family in Luguan Lane, Hangzhou. At this time, her father was not watching over her, but her mother was in this family. Not to be favored.

In 1909, five-year-old Lin Huiyin came to live with his aunt Lin Zemin. Lin Zemin was a noble lady in the late Qing Dynasty. She received private school education since she was a child. She was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and was also good at poetry, lyrics and songs. After people. Under the influence of this well-educated, gentle and elegant aunt, Lin Huiyin fell in love with reading and practicing calligraphy.

A well-behaved and sensible child, his childhood was not a simple and happy one. His mother, He Xueyuan, was complaining because she could not get the love of her husband and the recognition of her family. Her cold personality pushed the Lin family master further and further away. The repressive and pathological family environment placed young Lin Huiyin on the back of a heavy burden imposed by adults.

However, for this girl, her father gave her a high IQ and talent, coupled with her love for books, which made her life full of charming colors, evocative and inspiring. .

His father is the most important man in Lin Huiyin's life, and Lin Huiyin is the only person in that family with whom his father can communicate.

Here we have to say that Lin Changmin is a good father. He has a cheerful personality and is very talented. He especially likes to play with children. His favorite is undoubtedly his eldest daughter Lin Huiyin.

When Lin Huiyin was ten years old, his grandfather passed away. His father was away from home all year round. The two wives at home could not take care of anything, so the ten-year-old lady was responsible for all the big and small things in the family. Taking charge. It can be seen from her father's reply to her that he regarded her as a friend who could be trusted and relied on.

But how unfair is this to a ten-year-old girl? Inadvertently, Lin Huiyin's childhood and innocence were handed over to that family.

In 1914, Lin Huiyin’s family moved to Beijing. From the dense water town in the south of the Yangtze River to this noble imperial city, Lin Huiyin felt the vicissitudes and weight connected with history. Although he was sentimental, he was also very strong. . Since her grandfather passed away, home has become a woman's battlefield, and the only thing that allows her to relax is reading. This is her paradise. In this world, she can temporarily forget the fights between you and me without the smoke of gunpowder, and become the real Lin Huiyin. ?

The teaching in the church school was bilingual, which is now popular, which gave Lin Huiyin a brand new experience. Natural science and history and geography broadened her knowledge, and music and art courses cultivated her artistic sentiment. Her keen sense of beauty was integrated into her unique insights into architecture in the future. The most important thing was her learning of English, which allowed her to enter a completely different cultural world, and she wandered in it tirelessly throughout her life.

In 1920, Lin Changmin went to Europe to inspect Western constitutional systems, and he took Lin Huiyin with him. The main purpose of this trip was to increase his knowledge and receive more advanced education and cultural influence. Secondly, it was to avoid people's physical and mental Tired of petty family disputes.

When her father went to the European continent for a meeting, 16-year-old Lin Huiyin had to stay alone. During this period, she read a lot of books, and she dabbled in novels, poems and dramas by famous writers one by one, and She often participated in her father's various entertainment events as a hostess, and thus came into contact with many cultural celebrities, which laid a solid foundation for her later literary creation.

This experience was the best gift her father gave her, which laid a solid foundation for her rich and wonderful life.

In London, Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin’s father, Lin Changmin, became close friends as soon as they met. Later, Xu Zhimo often went to Lin’s house to drink tea and chat, talk about politics and poetry, and thus got to know Lin Huiyin. Lin Huiyin, who was in her prime as a young girl, seemed to have just walked out of a misty and rainy southern alley, and Xu Zhimo was instantly impressed by her.

The appearance of Xu Zhimo was undoubtedly happy and sweet for Lin Huiyin. After changing the gloomy color of the past, her eyes became brighter and brighter. There were too many similarities between them. The dream-like reality made the somewhat vicissitudes of the girl's heart begin to feel warm and soft.

However, at this time, Xu Zhimo was already a husband and a father. This fact was an unavoidable existence between the two people, just like an originally harmonious and beautiful song, at the end, A discordant note emerged. Even though Xu Zhimo later divorced Zhang Youyi, he still could not save the ending of their breakup.

In October 1921, Lin Huiyin and her father returned to China from London and continued to attend a church girls' middle school, thus kicking off her relationship with Liang Sicheng. She told Liang Sicheng, who was preparing to enter politics: Politics requires tempering , also requires talent. Throughout the ages, not many people have made a smooth political path. What interests me is architecture. This surprised 20-year-old Liang Sicheng: Building, you mean building a house? It's not just building a house. To be precise, it's called architecture or architectural art. It's a discipline that combines art and engineering. Lin Huiyin explained.

Lin Huiyin, who still had Xu Zhimo's place in her heart, began to think deeply. For her with passionate and delicate emotions, this was undoubtedly a difficult choice, and it also showed Lin Huiyin's inner skills. , to satisfy everyone, to take the overall situation into consideration, and to minimize losses, is her way of thinking about the problem.

The love between children is not enough for her. Perhaps the more important reason is that Xu Zhimo is not the right person.

In September 1924, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin went to study together at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the best universities in the United States. Soon, Liang Sicheng enrolled in the Department of Architecture, but Lin Huiyin could not successfully enter the Department of Architecture because she was a woman, so Lin Huiyin had to choose the Department of Fine Arts, which was related to the Department of Architecture, and took the main courses in the Department of Architecture.

God rewards hard work, and Lin Huiyin’s efforts soon paid off. Starting in the spring of 1926, she became a part-time teaching assistant to the professor of architectural design, and was a part-time teacher in this major during the academic year 1926-1927. On December 18, 1927, the engagement ceremony between Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin was held in accordance with traditional etiquette at their home in Beijing.

After Lin Huiyin’s father Lin Changmin passed away, Liang Qichao regarded Lin Huiyin as his own child and treated her with great tenderness and love. In March 1926, Liang Qichao fell ill and was hospitalized. After treatment, his condition did not improve. In remission, Liang Qichao died of illness on January 19, 1929, at the age of 56.

Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin jointly designed the tombstone for Liang Qichao. The tombstone is made of granite, simple and solemn, and without decoration.

Lin Huiyin lived an elegant and tasteful life. Literati from all walks of life were immersed in the cultural circle of the Republic of China. In the "wife's parlor" organized by Lin Huiyin, they talked about the past, the present, and life. Lin Huiyin shows off his talents, covering almost everything from witty sparseness to incisive analysis, from sage advice to sudden anger, from maddening enthusiasm to profound contempt.

This living room with the characteristics of an international club not only attracts many cultural elites, but is also a fascinating place for many budding literary youths. The most charming thing about Lin Huiyin is not that she can reflect her talents in communication. When she walks out of her wife's living room, she can, like a group of men, eat and sleep in the open air and conduct inspections in the wilderness.

In 1933, Lin Huiyin began her investigation of ancient buildings and went to the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi Province. In such a big city, Datong could not find a hotel where they could stay. This was the condition they were in at that time. . In the grottoes carved over thousands of years, they sketched and made rubbings. In the summer of 1934, the couple came to Fenyang in the Luliang area of ??Shanxi Province. In their eyes, every brick and tile was filled with love. The existence of life is also a poetic imagination.

On April 1, 1955, China’s first female architect completed her 51-year life. At the freshest moment of the day, when the world had just woken up and the morning dew had not yet evaporated, she left forever with her attachment to the world and reluctance to leave her lover. The elegiac couplet co-written by her lifelong friends Professor Jin Yuelin and Professor Deng Yizhe is eye-catching:

This is the best comment on Lin Huiyin’s life. The life of a talented woman is sealed in the human world by the seasons in April.

It took me a week to finish reading this book. The words are beautiful, the people are beautiful, and equally beautiful are the human spirit and emotions. There are many lovely and respectable characters in the article, which are incomparable. They are vivid and extremely agile. They each have their own personalities and talents. They have accepted the gifts of love and beauty given by God. Each of them is like an angel descending on the earth.

But it is also regrettable that each of them carries the mission entrusted to them by fate. While holding the passionate love in their hands, they also bear the pain of separation and the torture of illness. Fate did not let them go because of their beauty, but gave them more torture and more severe tests.

Perhaps because of this, people miss them deeply. The life of Lin Huiyin, a strange woman, was fixed on: the most beautiful April day in the world.