2024-6-7
關於林徽因和北京的城門樓,最近因為林在賓夕法尼亞大學的補發學位事情又火過一陣。可是看1950年1月4日的竺可楨日記,林徽因是以梁思成太太的身份出現的,並且還在粱宅新南院八號,偶遇了金岳霖:
儘管梁思成只是1927年在賓夕法尼亞大學獲得碩士學位,在哈佛大學也只是學了不到一年的博士課程,就退學了。可是哈佛大學博士畢業的老學長竺可楨還是對梁思成評價甚高,因為建築的學位,是所有學位中,最不好拿的。
然而欣賞歸欣賞,關鍵時候還是屁股決定腦袋。再看1952年8月17日的竺可楨日記,竺還是贊成頂頭上司郭沫若和莊俊的意見,主張把城門樓給拆了的;
再看同時期費正清的中國五十年回憶錄(ChinaBound - A Fifty-year Memoir),對梁氏夫婦尤其是林徽因都評價甚高,稱他們為最親密的朋友,說都是賓大建築系畢業的建築史學者。稱梁是像小羅斯福和肯尼迪一樣含金鑰匙出生的貴公子,林則是琴棋書畫興趣廣泛無所不精的社交天才。
She was creatively gifted as a writer, a poet, a woman of great aesthetic sensitivety and broad intellectual interests, and socially charming. The household, or any scene she was in, tended to revolve around her.
只是奇怪的很,費正清也提到了老金金岳霖,說他和梁氏夫婦,是一家人:
Their household included Mrs.Liang's mother, a small daughter called Pao-Pao (Precious Thing) and a baby boy, and the Liang house connected with Professor Chin's through his garden. They were a family.
不過這一次,是發生在二十年前的北總布胡同3號四合院(現為24號院),二十年如一日毗鄰而居,不棄不離,親如一家,還是少見的。