19 16 autumn, Xu zhimo went to Tianjin Beiyang university preparatory school to study law. The following year, the law department of Beiyang University was merged into Peking University, and Xu Zhimo was transferred to Peking University. Under the recommendation of Zhang Junmai and Zhang Gongquan, Xu Zhimo took Liang Qichao as his teacher and held a grand ceremony. Liang Qichao had a great influence on Xu Zhimo's life.
191August 14 Xu zhimo left Shanghai to study in the United States. In the first year, he entered the history department of Clark University in Hurst, USA, and graduated 10 months later with a bachelor's degree and a first-class honor award. Then transfer to the Economics Department of Graduate School of Columbia University in new york. 19 19, the wave of the may 4th movement spread to the overseas students in China. Xu Zhimo participated in patriotic activities organized by local students, and his interest in learning gradually shifted from politics to literature, thus obtaining a master's degree in literature.
1920, Xu Zhimo went to England and stayed at the London School of Economics and Political Science for half a year. Here, he met with his daughter Lin. Thanks to Lin Changmin's introduction, he got to know the English writer John Galsworthy. Thanks to John Galsworthy's introduction and recommendation, Xu Zhimo entered the Royal College of Cambridge University as a special student. His two years in England, especially his life in Cambridge, had an important influence on his life's thoughts and was a turning point in the development of his thoughts. Xu Zhimo is closely related to the forest of talented women as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade. 192 1 autumn, they fell in love and had the intention to get married. This year, Xu Zhimo began to write new poems.
Lin Yu 192 1 returned to China with his father, which caused Xu Zhimo to fall into great pain. 1922 In March, he broke through all kinds of resistance from family and society and formally divorced Zhang Youyi. I left home in August and arrived in Shanghai two months later. Lin fell in love with Liang Sicheng, the son of Liang Qichao, shortly after returning to China. But they are not formally engaged, which makes infatuated Xu Zhimo feel that there is still a glimmer of hope. But after all, his infatuation and pursuit failed, and he could only complain in Beijing.
1In the spring of 923, Xu Zhimo established a society in Beijing, making up plays and acting, named after the Indian poet Tagore's Crescent Moon Collection, hence the name Crescent Moon Society. In the same year, he joined the Literature Research Association. 1924, Xu zhimo, Hu Shi, Chen Xiying, etc. He founded Modern Review Weekly and was appointed as Professor Peking University. Tagore, a great Indian poet, was in charge of translation during his visit to China.
1On August 4th, 926, Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman got engaged. Lu Xiaoman was born in Changzhou, a noble family with a scholarly family for generations. His father was a scholar and diplomat. She went to Beijing with her mother when she was 8 years old. Before getting married, she was a famous flower in Beijing's social circle. /kloc-When she was 0/9 years old, she was ordered by her parents to marry Wang Geng, a native of Wuxi. 1926 10 10 3, they got married in beihai, with Xu zhimo's teacher Liang Qichao as the witness and Hu Shi as the introducer. In the same year, Xu Zhimo, editor-in-chief of the supplement of Morning News Poetry Carving, launched the metrical movement of new poetry with Wen Yiduo, Zhu Xiang and others, which influenced the development of the art of new poetry.
1927 In the spring, due to political changes and other reasons, some members of Crescent Society gathered in Shanghai. At this time, Xu Zhimo and his wife also moved to Shanghai. Xu Zhimo is also a professor at Guanghua University, Daxia University and Nanjing Central University. In the same year, he participated in the establishment of Crescent Bookstore, served as editor-in-chief after the publication of Crescent Monthly, and traveled to Britain, the United States, Japan and India. 65438-0930 Member of the Committee of China Cultural Foundation, elected as a member of the British Poetry Society. In the winter of the same year, she taught in Peking University and Peking Women's University respectively. 193 1 At the beginning of the year, Xu Zhimo, Chen and Fang founded the quarterly poetry journal and were elected as directors of the China branch of Pen Club.
193 1 year 1 year 1 year 65438+9 years, Xu zhimo flew from Nanjing to Peiping, because of the fog in Jinan, people and machines were destroyed. At that time, he was only 36.
Xu Zhimo is the author of poetry anthology Poems of Zhimo, Night in Kethleen, Tiger, Wandering, prose anthology Leaves, Parisian Scales, Self-anatomy, Autumn, novel prose anthology Roulette, drama Bian Kungang (co-written with Lu Xiaoman) and Love Diary. Xu Zhimo's poems are fresh and natural, harmonious in rhythm, novel in metaphor, rich in imagination, beautiful in artistic conception, elegant in thought and rich in changes, pursuing neatness and splendor in artistic form and having distinct artistic personality. His prose is also sui generis, and has achieved no less achievements than poetry.