Xu Zhimo's cemetery has experienced three changes in history:
The first time: Xu Zhimo's cemetery was originally in Wanshiwo, Agate Valley, Dongshan, and Hu Shizhi wrote "The Tomb of the Poet Xu Zhimo". In the early years, this Xu Zhimo cemetery inscribed by Hu Shi disappeared in the turmoil.
The second time: Xu Shenru, Xu Zhimo's father, felt that the tombstone inscribed by Mr. Hu Shi was too short, and invited Ling Shuhua, Xu Zhimo's confidante before his death, who was called a talented woman of a noble family, to write another inscription for Xu Zhimo. Ling Shuhua readily agreed that her inscription was taken from Cao Xueqin's meaning of "Leng Yue buried the soul of flowers" and transformed into "Leng Yue reflected the soul of poetry". This tombstone was also lost in the turmoil.
The third time: Xu Zhimo's cemetery has been destroyed because of the turmoil. In order to commemorate it, people in their hometown moved Xu Zhimo's cemetery to Baishui Spring at the northern foot of Xishan Mountain with government funds. Xu Zhimo's cousin, a famous architect, and Professor Chen Congzhou of Tongji University designed and wrote The Moving Tomb. The Xishan cemetery is classical and elegant, with white stones on the floor, bluestone as the steps, and a semi-circular tomb platform like a crescent moon, which means "crescent moon school" in the poem. Tombstone vicissitudes of life, Haining calligrapher and former president of Xiling Printing Society, Mr. Zhang Zongxiang added an inscription according to the original text of Hu Shizhi. On both sides of the tombstone is a book-shaped sculpture made of white stone, engraved with famous sentences such as Xu Zhimo's Farewell to Cambridge.