Xu Zhimo is a poet of the Crescent School.
Xu Zhimo (January 15, 1897 - November 19, 1931), whose original name was Zhang Qu, and whose courtesy name was Qiansen, changed his name to Zhimo when he studied in the United States. The pen names he has used include Nanhu, Shizhe, Haigu, Gu, etc. A native of Xiashi, Haining, Zhejiang (now a native of Xiashi Street, Haining City, Jiaxing City), he is a modern Chinese poet, writer, essayist, Crescent Poet, member of Crescent Poetry Society, and member of Jingxing Society.
Xu Zhimo is a writer who was active in the Chinese literary world for a while and had a certain influence. His worldview has no dominant ideology, or he is a transcendent "poet without partisanship" who transcends classes. His thoughts, creation appearance, and development trends all show that he is a bourgeois poet. The development and changes of his thoughts and the different situations before and after his creation are related to the social and historical characteristics of that time.
Character evaluation
Xu’s poems have fresh words, harmonious rhymes, novel metaphors, rich imagination, beautiful artistic conception, elegant thoughts, full of changes, and pursue the neatness and beauty of the art form. Have a distinct artistic personality. His prose is also of its own style and has achieved as much achievement as poetry. Among them, "Autopsy", "Want to Fly", "The Cambridge I Know", "Gossips about Living in the Feilengcui Mountain", etc. are all famous names handed down from generation to generation. articles.
When people look at Xu Zhimo and his creations, they always associate him with the Crescent Sect. They identify him as the representative writer of the Crescent Sect and call him the "leader" of the Crescent Sect. This is Because the formation and demise of the Crescent School were closely related to him, he participated in the entire activities of the Crescent School, and his creations reflected the distinctive characteristics of the Crescent School.
Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xu Zhimo