If there is such a bird without feet, Xu Zhimo is probably one of them. He has been chasing all his life, for love, for beauty and for freedom.
In the history of modern literature in China, Xu Zhimo is a name that has to be mentioned.
He is a gifted scholar who is proficient in Chinese and western literature, and also a poet with rich literary talent. His "Biekangqiao" pushed the crescent poetry to the peak, and his "Night in Kethleen" explained the complex emotional changes incisively and vividly.
Xu Zhimo also got close to Tagore, a great writer, and made a literary story. 1924 During Tagore's first visit to China, Xu Zhimo, who had been a translator, got along with his idol Tagore day and night, and became an unforgettable friend. It is precisely because of the same love for the art of poetry and the same persistent pursuit of spiritual freedom that Tagore and Xu Zhimo opened their hearts and let them forget each other.
Therefore, Tagore visited China three times in his life. Except that the first time was invited by a China scholar, the other two times were for his close friend Xu Zhimo.
In the love story of the Republic of China, Xu Zhimo is also a name that has to be mentioned.
He is an affectionate love rat. His marriage to Zhang Youyi, his meeting with Lin, and his love for Lu Xiaoman, a this beautiful city, are just as Liang Shiqiu said, "Xu Zhimo's literary name was almost covered by his affair."
Facing Xu Zhimo's talent and love, people choose to talk about his love gossip. Love rat's attributes, such as abandoning his wife, cheating in marriage and sympathizing with others, far overshadowed his poetic achievements.
For contemporary people, except Farewell to Cambridge, Xu Zhimo's other poems and essays have not been widely known.
On the reasons, "Chi Mo's wandering feelings prevented him from becoming a poet, and his chaotic thoughts prevented him from becoming a scholar."
Although his poems are not as attractive as his life experience, and his love affairs are more extensive than his poems, this does not prevent Xu Zhimo from becoming a famous poet, essayist and representative writer of the New Moon Poetry School in the Republic of China, leaving behind such legacy as A Farewell to Cambridge, Accidental, Forgetting Yourself, Leaves, Scales in Paris and Self-Anatomy.
As Zhu Ziqing commented, "China modern poets should first recommend Xu Zhimo and Guo Moruo." But it is precisely because Xu Zhimo's poems are so famous that his prose is ignored. In fact, many contemporary writers, such as Zhou Zuoren, Shen Congwen, Liang Shiqiu and Yang Zhensheng, spoke highly of Xu Zhimo's prose.
Hu Shi once commented on Xu Zhimo: "His outlook on life is really a simple belief, in which there are only three words, one is love, the other is freedom and the other is beauty. He dreamed that these three ideal states could converge in a person's life. This is his simple belief. "
Love, freedom and beauty, these three words highly summarize Xu Zhimo's life.
Xu Zhimo's "love" refers not only to his love, but also to his attitude, respect and fraternity for life. He loves everything in the world and everything in his life.
If it weren't for love,
The source of light and heat of the spirit,
All the bright and magical things
You can't have it.
? -"Revelation of Love-Surrender"
Wherever Xu Zhimo's "freedom" goes, where does he write it: Mediterranean, Farewell to Japan, Frosty Night, Siberia, in front of Exeter Church, Farewell to Cambridge ... Wherever he touches, he must write down his thoughts and thoughts: broken temples, broken temples and broken bridges. ...
Xu Zhimo's "beauty", in his view, is beautiful as long as it can touch him, not only the metrical beauty pursued by poetry, but also the natural beauty within reach.
Understand the meaning of doing your best in everything, and then observe things in the universe. There is really nothing not beautiful. A leaf and a flower are beautiful. Needless to say, poisonous insects, such as scorpions and ants, are beautiful.
? -Xu Zhimo's "Ci"
Therefore, Xu Zhimo's life, not only loves gossip, but also his poems, his ideals, crescent society and so on.
After Xu Zhimo died in a plane crash, Mr. Cai Yuanpei made a special trip to write an elegiac couplet for him:
"Conversation is poetry, action is poetry, and lifelong behavior is poetry; The meaning of poetry has infiltrated, and I have my own paradise; You can die by boat, by car, in a cubicle, and you don't have to be afraid of the road if you accidentally die. "
This kind of death is as written in his poem:
"No one doesn't want to fly. He is always boring to climb on this ground, nothing else. Get out of this circle! Get out of this circle! Go to the clouds, go to the clouds! "
He was finally absent-minded.