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Introduction of Lin Huiyin's life and her literature

Tagore with Lin Huiyin in Beijing in May 1924

Lin Huiyin was born in 1904 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. She is a poet, essayist, and Chinese first female architect, and married Liang Sicheng who was named "the father of Chinese architecture" in 1928. They have made great contributions to the development of Chinese architecture and the preservation of cultural relics. Liang and Lin both received their higher education abroad at the University of Pennsylvania. As a literary writer and architectural historian, Lin huiyin rebuilt the capital from the aspects of cultural tradition, architectural beauty, historical significance, and living conditions of the people. Meanwhile, Lin Huiyin participated in the design of the "National emblem" and the "Monument to The People's Heroes".

The Chinese first female architect

In 1924 Lin and Liang went to the United States and attended the School of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania. At that time, due to the lack of female students in the architecture department, Lin Huiyin, with her love for architecture, could only register in the Fine Arts Department but chose architecture as an elective course. Lin Huiyin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in the summer of 1927.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the committee solicited the words of the national flag, national emblem, and national anthem in newspapers, and all the participants' applications were rejected. In the end, the design of the national emblem was completed by Lin Huiyin and one of her young assistants. Many new ideas in the design of the national emblem were first proposed and outlined by Lin Huiyin. From 1930 to 1945, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin visited 15 provinces and more than 200 counties in China, surveying, and mapping more than 200 ancient buildings, such as the Anji Bridge, the Pagoda of Fogong Temple, and the Foguang Temple, etc. They finished "A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture", which is still teaching materials of architecture now.

Lin Huiyin's literature

Lin Huiyin is well known for her many poems and essays. Her essays are full of delicate feelings and combine with the musical sense in the Chinese poetic tradition. Her novels are full of modern content, such as the most famous "Fragments of Vague Impressions". Similarly, Lin Huiyin and other writers also participated in the May fourth Movement. However, "gender" has a great irony for the national cultural revival of the May Fourth Movement. Under the hegemony of antitraditionalism, it makes the environment for female writers more difficult. Lin Huiyin skillfully integrates the aesthetics of Tang poetry into the language and syntax of modernism and uses the traditional literary practice of episodic narration to combat the gender determinants of these idioms. Lin Huiyin was fond of free love and ideal, but the free love on May Fourth turned into the tragic idealism in the social background, which only exacerbated the pain of gender oppression.

In addition to architectural research, Lin Huiyin also began to engage in literary creation. As a young girl, Lin Huiyin went abroad with her father to study in Europe. Lin met Xu Zhimo in England, who guided her on the road of literature. Therefore, Lin Huiyin set her foot on the road of literature. Xu Zhimo encouraged Lin Huiyin to write literature, especially poetry, and later they organized activities, performed dramas, and experimented with more literary forms. When Rabindranath Tagore came to China, Lin and Xu worked together as translators, contacting the great poets of the world and learning poems from Tagore.

Lin Huiyin has a strong understanding of literature, and her poems are rich in themes. In the hurry years, in the quiet contemplation at night, Lin Huiyin has been used to expressing her feelings in poetry. Her poems often reveal the subtlety of human love, the silent beauty of nature, and the fortitude of life.

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