Why did Xu Zhimo suddenly give up studying in the UK and return to China?

Because of Liang Qichao, and his feelings for China. Shu Xincheng wrote to Liang Qichao to suggest: "The city of the China Public School Committee and Nanqi (Liu Binglin) and Dongsun will handle it, Jun Mao and Shima will give speeches in Nankai, and the public will give speeches in Nanjing.

What Shu Xincheng said here should be part of the huge plan for the revitalization of Chinese culture, the so-called "Chinese Renaissance", that Liang Qichao began to promote after returning from Europe. To achieve this plan, there is no more urgent need than excellent people. Therefore, it is natural and not surprising to urge Xu Zhimo to return to China.

It still depends on the development of the situation in China, and it is necessary to return to China to develop. Escapism is avoidance.

Xu Zhimo (January 15, 1897 – November 19, 1931) was a modern poet and essayist. Formerly known as Zhang Yu, the word 槱森, changed his name to Shima when he studied in the United Kingdom.

The pen names he used are: Nanhu, Shizhe, Haigu, Gu, Dabing, Crane in the Clouds, Crane, Delete Me, Xinshou, Yellow Dog, Ge Ge, etc. Xu Zhimo is a representative poet of the Crescent School and a member of the Crescent Poetry Society.

He graduated from Hangzhou No. 1 High School in 1915 and studied at Hujiang University in Shanghai, Beiyang University in Tianjin, and Peking University.

In 1918, he went to Clark University in the United States to study banking. He graduated in 10 months with a bachelor's degree and a first-class honorable mentions. In the same year, he transferred to the graduate school of Columbia University in New York and entered the Department of Economics.

Xu Zhimo's cemetery:

The first time: Xu Zhimo's cemetery was originally in the Wanshiwo of Dongshan Agate Valley, and the inscription "The Tomb of the Poet Xu Zhimo" was inscribed by Hu Shizhi. In the early years, the cemetery of Xu Zhimo, where Hu Shi wrote the inscription, disappeared in the turmoil.

The second time: Xu Zhimo's father, Xu Shenru, felt that the tombstone inscribed by Mr. Hu Shi was too brief, and invited Ling Shuhua, who was a confidant of Xu Zhimo and was known as a talented woman of the ladies' school, and asked her to inscribe another inscription for Xu Zhimo. Ling Shuhua happily agreed, and the inscription she inscribed was taken from the meaning of Cao Xueqin's "cold moon burial flower soul", and transformed into "cold moon shines on the soul of poetry".

This tombstone was also lost in the unrest.

The third time: Xu Zhimo's cemetery, due to the turmoil, the tomb has long been damaged, and the people of his hometown in order to commemorate it, the cemetery of Xu Zhimo was relocated to the Baishui Spring at the northern foot of Xishan Mountain.

Xu Zhimo's maternal cousin, the famous architect and professor Chen Congzhou of Tongji University, designed and wrote the tomb relocation. The Xishan cemetery is classical and elegant, paved with white stone, bluestone is the steps, and the semi-circular tomb platform is just like a crescent moon, which has the meaning of the "crescent school" in the poetry world.

The tombstone is full of vicissitudes of life, and Mr. Zhang Zongxiang, a calligrapher from Haining and the president of the Xiling Seal Society, supplemented the inscription according to Hu Shizhi's original text. On both sides of the tombstone, there is a book-shaped sculpture made of white stone, engraved with famous poems such as Xu Zhimo's "Farewell to Kangqiao".

Shima was given another name by his father, Xu Shenru, when he went to study in the United States in 1918.

Xu Zhimo was deeply influenced by Western education and European and American Romantic and Aesthetic poets. Laid down its romantic poetic style. Xu Zhimo is the only son of the eldest grandson of the Xu family, and has lived a comfortable and wealthy life as a son-in-law since he was a child.

Shen Junru is Xu Zhimo's cousin, Jin Yong is Xu Zhimo's aunt and cousin, and Qiong Yao is Xu Zhimo's niece.

I didn't ask this question correctly, it should be what Xu Zhimo was called before he studied in the UK.

Xu Zhimo changed his name to Shima when he studied in the UK, his original name was Xu Zhangyu [xù], and the character 槱 [yǒu] Sen, and he changed his name to Shima when he studied in the UK.

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