From-A Letter Written by Xu Zhimo to Liang Qichao "To Liang Qichao".
I will look for my only soul mate in the vast sea of people. I am lucky to get it; Not my life. That's all.
I want to find my only other half in the vast sea of people. It's my luck to get it, but it's my fate not to get it. That's all.
1924 During Tagore's visit to China, Xu Zhimo and Lin acted as translators, then Xu Zhimo accompanied Tagore to Japan, and Lin and Liang Sicheng went to the University of Pennsylvania. When Xu Zhimo and Lin met again, it was four years later. During this period, Lin has married Liang Sicheng. 193193191965438-0965438-0965438-0965438-0965438-0965438-0965438
Many years later, Lin once said to his children, "Xu Zhimo didn't really love me at first, but he imagined Lin with the romantic mood of a poet, but in fact I'm not that kind of person."
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Brief introduction of the author
Xu Zhimo (1897 65438+1October 193165438+1October19), born in Shixia, Haining, Zhejiang. Formerly known as Zhang Yao [xù], the word [yǒu] Sen was renamed as Zhimo when studying in Britain. Used pen names include Nanhu, Shi Zhecun, Gu,,, Xianhe, Delete Me, Xinshou, Huanggou and Huan. Crescent School is a representative poet and a member of Crescent Poetry Society.
19 15 graduated from Hangzhou No.1 Middle School and studied in Shanghai Hujiang University, Tianjin Beiyang University and Peking University successively. 19 18 went to Clark university to study banking. I will graduate in ten months with a bachelor's degree and a first-class honor award. In the same year, he transferred to the Graduate School of Columbia University in new york and entered the Department of Economics. ?
192 1 year went to study in Britain and became a special student at Cambridge University, studying political economy. During my two years in Cambridge, I was deeply influenced by western education and romantic and aesthetic poets in Europe and America. It established his romantic poetic style. Crescent Society was founded in 1923. Professor Peking University went from 65438 to 0924.
1926 Professor of Guanghua University (predecessor of East China Normal University), Daxia University (predecessor of East China Normal University) and Nanjing Central University (1949 renamed Nanjing University). 1930 resigned from Shanghai and Nanjing. At the invitation of Hu Shizhi, he was re-appointed as Professor Peking University and Professor of Beijing Women's Normal University.
192 1 autumn, he met Lin, a talented woman. Xu Zhimo was very close to her and had the intention to talk about marriage. Therefore, Xu Zhimo filed for divorce with Zhang Youyi in March 1922, arguing that the two should not continue their married life without love and freedom.
Free divorce, no more pain and happiness, this is Xu Zhimo's simple idealism. He is pursuing an ideal life. To this end, he wrote many poems for Lin, such as Listening to the Qin on a Moonlit Night, Ode to Youth, and Dream of Spring in the Wind, which expressed his love and life ideals and constituted the important contents of his poems in this period.
Xu Zhimo especially misses his life in Cambridge, England. He was deeply moved by his love for Lin and wrote a lot of poems. His poetic scene is reflected in his long poem Dew on the Grass.
This is his earliest poem that we have seen so far. Life in Cambridge, England certainly attracted him. Later, after rational thinking, Lin returned home early with his father and left without saying goodbye to Zhimo.
The famous poem "Accidental" written by Xu Zhimo to Lin shows that Xu Zhimo's affection for Lin is the best, straightforward, love at first sight, and he goes his own way rationally, which is a kind of pure feeling that is difficult to understand in the secular world.
After that, they organized the activities of the Crescent Society, performed together, and often wrote to each other. 1924 During Tagore's visit to China, Xu Zhimo and Lin acted as translators, then Xu Zhimo accompanied Tagore to Japan, and Lin and Liang Sicheng went to the University of Pennsylvania. When Xu Zhimo and Lin met again, it was four years later.
During this period, Lin has married Liang Sicheng. 193193191965438-0965438-0965438-0965438-0965438-0965438-0965438
Many years later, Lin once said to his children, "Xu Zhimo didn't really love me at first, but he imagined Lin with the romantic mood of a poet, but in fact I'm not that kind of person."
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