In the "New Moon" activities, people always associate Xu Zhimo and his works with the New Moon School. They regard him as the representative writer of the Crescent School and call him the "leader" of the Crescent School. This is because the formation and demise of the Crescent School are closely related to him, and he participated in the whole activities of the Crescent School. His works reflect the distinctive features of the Crescent School.
It took about ten years from the establishment of Crescent Society to the gradual formation of a literary school-Crescent School, in which Xu Zhimo always played an important role.
1In the spring of 923, Xu Zhimo set up a club in Beijing to compile plays, hold annual meetings and lantern festivals on holidays, and recite poems and draw pictures. Out of interest in the Indian poet Tagore's New Moon, Xu Zhimo nominated the word "New Moon" as the name of the club, hence the name of the New Moon Club.
Before 1925, Xu Zhimo not only wrote poems, but also contacted members of the crescent society to engage in drama activities. From June 65438, 0925 to June 65438, 0926, Xu Zhimo edited the Morning Supplement, and from April 65438, 0926 to April 65438, 0926, he founded the Morning Poetry Magazine. At this time, Wen Yiduo had returned from the United States and participated in the compilation of Poetry Magazine. Except for the third and fourth issues edited by Wen Yiduo and the fifth issue edited by Rao Mengkan, all the issues were edited by Xu Zhimo. Xu Zhimo also wrote Poetry Magazine and Poetry Magazine Holiday. The authors of Poetry Magazine are committed to creating China's new metrical poems and discussing the art of poetry. Therefore, the establishment of Morning Post Poetry Magazine marks the formation of a poetry school-Crescent Poetry School, whose purpose is to "make the content and form of poetry show the power of beauty and become a perfect art" (Yu: Zhi Mo Poetry).
1927 In the spring, due to political changes and other reasons, some members of Crescent Society gathered in Shanghai. At this time, Xu Zhimo also married Lu Xiaoman and moved to Shanghai. Xu Zhimo went out to visit relatives and friends, contacted Wen Yiduo, Hu Shi, Shao, Liang Shiqiu, Yu, Jiu and others, and founded Crescent Bookstore in Huanlong Mountain Villa, Huanlong Road, Shanghai. Hu Shi was the chairman, Yu Shangshen was the manager, and he was the successor for a long time.
1In March, 928, Xu Zhimo was a professor at Guanghua University, Soochow University and Daxia University, and at the same time founded the monthly New Moon. New Moon consists of four volumes and forty-three issues, ending on June 1933. It not only published the works of members of the Crescent School, but also published the works of writers with progressive ideological tendencies such as Yu Dafu, Ba Jin, Ding Ling and Hu Yepin. However, this is the late stage of the activities of the crescent school. Although the members were different in the later period, they became increasingly reactionary in terms of their overall political inclination. However, the crescent school is engaged in poetry creation, and it seems that this "main line" of studying new poetry has not been interrupted.
193111October 20th, Xu Zhimo, Chen, Shao, etc. Another quarterly magazine, Poetry Magazine, was published in four issues. 193 1 September, Chen started with Morning Poetry magazine, Crescent Magazine and Poetry Magazine.
193 1 1 On June 9, 2008, Xu Zhimo died of a plane crash, and the Crescent School was dominated by Liang Shiqiu and Hu Shi. 1June 30, 933 "New Moon" was published in four volumes and seven issues.
To sum up, from the establishment of the Crescent Society to the formation of the Crescent School and its main activities (especially literary activities), Xu Zhimo played a leading role in it. He is indeed a representative of the crescent school, which has played a certain role in promoting and influencing the development of new poetry. However, they excessively pursue form and meter and go astray. In particular, there was a crisis in Xu Zhimo's later thought and creation. He lamented: "Year after year, the new moon looks round and the circle looks incomplete." (Revelation of Love)
1June, 933, with the publication of New Moon, the activities of the whole Crescent School were suspended.