Introduction to Lu Xiaoman’s poems

Lu Xiaoman was born in Shanghai in September 1903, and moved to Beijing with her mother at the age of nine. After her passionate love affair with Xu Zhimo in Beijing, she returned to the alley in Shanghai and began an unsuccessful marriage life. In the minds of most people, Lu Xiaoman is a luxurious, vain, decadent and dissolute woman. That feeling comes from Lu Xiaoman's luxurious life in a foreign market ten miles away. She was always dancing, playing cards, and attending plays until midnight every day. Her extravagant spending forced Xu Zhimo to travel north and south. In order to earn more income, in addition to taking part-time classes here and there, he also changed hands in antique calligraphy and painting, and worked as a real estate agent, earning every penny in a graceful manner. After splitting the money, he ended up taking a free postal flight for the sake of cheapness, which led to tragedy. No wonder later generations view Lu Xiaoman with a critical and blaming eye. ——That was indeed Lu Xiaoman, but that was not all she had.