Biography of Lin Taiyi

Lin Yutang has a unique idea. He believes that "society is a big classroom and should not go to college at all" and that "what you learn at school is not as good as what you see and hear outside school, not to mention that you can learn by yourself with a dictionary in your hand". So he took his daughter everywhere. In China and Shanghai, they go out to eat and ask for a note, enjoy western music at home, and take their children to visit the West Lake in Hangzhou. In America and Europe, their family went to explore the crater, visited Notre Dame de Paris, watched striptease, went skiing in Switzerland and so on. Of course, Lin Yutang attaches great importance to children's basic education. He is a self-appointed teacher, telling children about Chinese and foreign history, philosophy, Tang poetry and Song poetry, and the mysteries of the universe; It also guides children to write diaries and compositions, and encourages them to say "well written, it is possible to publish". This kind of family education is very helpful to the growth of Lin Taiyi. When Lin Taiyi graduated from middle school, Lin Yutang decided that Taiyi was a "liberal arts talent", so he persuaded his daughter not to go to college and asked her to "enter the society as soon as possible", and even went to Yale University to teach Chinese with a monthly salary of $200. Lin Yutang strongly encouraged his daughter to write boldly, so that Lin Taiyi could benefit from it for life.

Benefit. She recalled: "I learned Chinese from my father when I was ten years old. He encouraged me to write. He is outstanding in literature and wants me to inherit his junk. " Lin Taiyi lived up to his father's expectations and finally embarked on the road of literature. Lin Taiyi inherited the spirit of "Lin's artistic temperament and hopeless optimism". Although I live overseas or in Hong Kong and Taiwan, I have worked quietly in the literary garden for a long time and gained a lot. She wrote many novels, mostly in English, and translated them into eight other languages for publication. Among them, the more famous ones are: Lilacs Everywhere, Jinpan Street, Spring Thunder and Spring Rain, When is the Bright Moon, etc. She used to be the editor-in-chief of Tianfeng, a literary magazine in Taiwan Province Province, but she has been the editor-in-chief of the Chinese version of Reader's Digest for 23 years. 65438-0987 settled in Hong Kong after retirement and continued to engage in writing activities, including Biography of Lin Yutang, Selected Works of Yutang, Selected Works of Yutang Humor, etc. , quite influential in China. Entrusted by UNESCO, she translated China's famous classic novel "The Flower in the Mirror" into English and published it in the United States and Britain. The latest edition of Lin Yutang's Chinese-English dictionary co-edited with Liming, published in Hong Kong; He also completed the autobiographical work "The Lins' Second Daughter", which was well received by readers after being published in the Mainland.