The typical "prodigal son" in the East is none other than him, xu Zhimo's happy "stay in France" life
The "prodigal son" of the East: Xu Zhimo
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Xu Zhimo (1897-1931), formerly known as Zhang Gao, pen names include: Gu, Shizhe, Nanhu, Yellow Dog, etc., a native of Jiaoshi Town, Haining, Zhejiang.
At the age of five, he entered the school and became a super-senior.
In 1916, he entered the preparatory department of Tianjin Beiyang University.
In 1917, he entered the Department of Political Science of Law at Peking University. In school for one year.
In 1918, he went to the United States to study economics in the Sociology Department of Clark University.
In 1919, he entered Columbia University in New York to study politics and received a master's degree. During the period, he accompanied Uncle Liu and left the United States to live in Paris.
In 1920, he went to England, first entering the School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London, and then transferring to the University of Cambridge, where he studied politics from Lasky.
In 1921, he first met Lin Changmin and his daughter-in-law Lin Huiyin (because) in England.
In 1922, he divorced his wife Zhang Youyi in Berlin and returned to Shanghai from Europe.
In 1923, he joined the Literary Research Society, organized the Crescent Moon Society, and taught in the English Department of Peking University, and began to write for the Beijing Morning Post.
In 1924, when he first met Wang Geng's wife, Lu Xiaoman, and fell in love, the city was full of storms, and the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore visited China and was responsible for the reception of the translator.
In 1925, he traveled to Europe and took shelter from the limelight.
In 1926, he married Lu Xiaoman, and Was married by Liang Qichao, who reprimanded a couple.
In 1927, he taught at Guanghua University in Shanghai, and two years later taught at Nanjing Central University.
In 1931, on the way from Nanjing to Beiping, he was killed in a plane crash. He was only thirty-six years old.
Xu Zhimo is the most famous poet since the Republic of China, and his works include many works, including new poems, essays, novels, dramas, etc. After his death, the Biographical Literature Society published the Complete Works of Xu Zhimo, which can be used as a reference.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > the oriental "prodigal prodigal model" in Peng Xiaoyan's eyes</h1>
Peng Xiaoyan, who studies the aesthetics of the prodigal son, believes that King Louis XIV of France, who is known as the "Sun King", is the perfect model of the Western "prodigal son", who is dressed in a mink robe, wig on his head, holds a scepter, and wears a sword around his waist. She further noted that a typical prodigal son should include three elements:
In the East, Peng Xiaoyan cited Xu Zhimo as an example and believed that he had all the material conditions of a prodigal son.
First of all, Xu Zhimo, as a descendant of a wealthy merchant, was a talent when he was young, with exquisite facial features and delicate skin; secondly, he was exquisitely dressed, always wearing a silk robe, plus a short coat with gem or jade buttons, and even his shoes were very special; between the cotton socks and the black satin shoes, his two square scarves were wrapped and fan-shaped. It is well known that he wore gold-rimmed glasses throughout his life.
In addition, in order to create a perfect self, he is also an active traveler, traveling the world in search of famous teachers to learn. It is said that before he was twenty-four years old, for him the theory of relativity and Rousseau's theory of the social contract were far more interesting than poetry. In 1921, he fell in love for the first time in London, kissed and made love when the train passed through the cave, and from then on he chased After Lin Huiyin and began to write poetry. Unfortunately, Lin Nu had already been engaged to Liang Sicheng, the son of Ren Gong, under the arrangement of her father and Liang Qichao.
At that time, Xu Zhimo was not single, and his twenty-year-old wife had been married by his parents five years earlier, and he had loved her very much. In order to avoid scandal, Lin Huiyin was brought back to China by her father, while Xu himself divorced his beautiful and kind wife when she was waiting for her second child. He stubbornly ruined his marriage without getting new love, like a typical prodigal son, and the complicated relationship with women seemed to be his destiny.
On the other hand, before his return to China in 1922, Xu Zhimo had traveled to England, Berlin, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan, and was an active traveler, but undoubtedly also played the role of a sex hunter. He meets countless modern girls in each place and paints them all in their stunning ways.
His second wife, Lu Xiaoman, was a typical modern girl who could speak English and French, and the relationship between the two later turned into a disaster. Lu's first husband, Wang Geng (王赓), was also a student of Liang Qichao and married Xu Zhimo after his divorce. After marriage, Xu Zhimo tolerated Lu's extramarital affair, conniving at her and her lover to stay in bed and eat opium all day long, while he himself ran between Shanghai and Beijing, taking part-time classes at universities to earn hourly fees to support his wife's luxurious life. Later, he accepted Hu Shidi's offer to peking university as a full-time professor, but was often recalled to Shanghai, and finally died in a crash.
Xu Zhimo, known as "Chinese Byron", had three women in his life. The first wife was a model of virtue, but intellectually far inferior to him, not a modern girl or the like. Lin Huiyin represents his ideal self-projection, and the two see the rhyme and musicality of the new poem slightly the same, and regard the new poem as a revolutionary literary medium. This is the other half of his search for perfection. In the end, Xu Zhimo saw the potential in Lu Xiaoman, a modern girl, and hoped that she would become his soul mate, but in the end he suffered too much and died young because of her.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > Xu Zhimo's "Scales and Claws of Paris"</h1>
Xu Zhimo is a melancholy poet, a person who is not willing to be lonely, and a scribe who is otherworldly. He loves beauty, freedom, dare to love, loves to travel, and is a wanderer who writes both poetry and travelogues. He traveled to Europe three times, leaving behind the "Miscellaneous Notes of European Travels", and the most missed thing is Kangqiao.
Because in the United States for two years, Xu Zhimo was busy attending classes, listening to lectures, writing exam papers, chewing gum, watching movies, and gambling spells. In England, he also lived for two years, but he was busy walking, boating, cycling, smoking, gossiping, eating five o'clock tea cream scones, and reading idle books. In Cambridge, do not attend classes, do not listen to lectures, do not take exams, hand over with the British celebrities, and accept the baptism of Cambridge culture.
Xu Zhimo to France is a short-term visitor, and Chen Yinke, Fu Sinian, Qian Zhongshu and others, the identity is a heavyweight passerby, has long been famous or prestigious, their words and deeds or travel are the hot topics of later research and research. The difference is that Xu Zhimo left the article "Scales and Claws of Paris" and became a work that was recited by future generations of scholars, which reflected each other with proud works such as "The Kangqiao I Know", "Farewell to Kangqiao", "Kangqiao, Goodbye".
Paris has been a paradise where many rioters and inkers chanted, how many literary masters praised and praised paradise, and how many black country wanderers dreamed of a fairyland on earth. But Xu Zhimo's Paris is otherworldly, innovative and different.
The article is very long, and these few excerpts alone are enough for you to yearn for The Divine Chi or have endless memories! I dare not say that only Xu Zhimo can write such a dashing and emotionally rich article; at least, with this wandering Parisian passerby, leaving a colorful color pen for Paris, it will increase people's reverie about Huadu!