Xu Zhimo had a certain influence in the history of the development of China's new poetry, and he conducted various experiments and explorations for the development of new poetry. His poetry has a distinctive and unique style and certain artistic skills.
Xu Zhimo is also a representative of the Crescent School, and he has played a certain role in promoting and influencing the development of China's new poetry. His poems are fresh in words, harmonious in rhythm, novel in metaphor, rich in imagination, beautiful in artistic conception, elegant in thought, full of changes, pursuing neatness and splendor in artistic form, and having distinct artistic personality.
Xu Zhimo's representative works include Farewell to Cambridge and Cold Jade Night. In addition, his prose is unique and has achieved no less achievements than poetry. Among them, Self-Anatomy, Want to Fly, Cambridge as I Know It and Chatting in Yushan Residence are all masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.
Born in a wealthy family, he went abroad to study in order to find a way to save the country.
Xu Zhimo was born in Shixia Town, Haining County, Zhejiang Province on1June+1May/October (December 13th, Guangxu 23rd). The Xu family has been doing business for generations, and Xu Zhimo's father, Xu Shenru, was an industrialist in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. He inherited his ancestral business in his early years and managed Xu Yufeng's sauce garden alone. In the 23rd year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1897), Yutong Qianzhuang, the first money house in Shixia, was founded in partnership, and then the name of Renhe Silk was established. Become the richest man in Shi Xia.
Xu Zhimo is the only son of Xu's parents and grandchildren. Because of his rich family, he has lived a comfortable and wealthy life since he was a child. At that time, many celebrities were relatives of his family, such as Shen Junru, Xu Zhimo's uncle, Jin Yong, Xu Zhimo's aunt, Xu Zhimo's cousin, and Xu Zhimo was also related to Li and Qian Xuesen. With a good family background, Xu Zhimo received a good education from an early age.
After finishing his pre-high school studies in his hometown in Zhejiang, Xu Zhimo was admitted to Shanghai Baptist College and Theological Seminary (predecessor of Hujiang University, now Shanghai University of Technology) in the summer of 19 15. After that, he left Shanghai and went north to Peking University to study law.