Xu Shi's poems are fresh and natural, harmonious in rhythm, novel in metaphor, rich in imagination, beautiful in artistic conception, elegant in thought, full of changes, pursuing regularity and splendor in artistic form, and having distinct artistic personality. His prose is also sui generis, and has achieved no less achievements than poetry. Among them, Self-Anatomy, Want to Fly, Cambridge as I Know It and Chatting in Yushan Residence are all masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.

When people look at Xu Zhimo and his works, they will always think of the Crescent 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. He has a certain influence on the development history of China's new poetry, and made various experiments and explorations for the development of new poetry. His poetry has a distinctive and unique style and certain artistic skills.

From the establishment of Crescent Society to the formation of Crescent School and its main activities, he is indeed a representative of Crescent School, which has played a certain role in promoting and influencing the development of new poetry. However, they excessively pursued form and meter, and went astray, especially in Xu Zhimo's later thought and creation.

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Due to political changes and other reasons, some members of the crescent society gathered in Shanghai.

At this time, Xu Zhimo also married Lu Xiaoman and moved to Shanghai. Xu Zhimo visited relatives and friends everywhere, contacted Wen Yiduo, Hu Shi, Shao, Liang Shiqiu and Yu Hejiu, and founded Crescent Bookstore in Huanlong Mountain Villa, Huanlong Road, Shanghai. Hu Shi served as chairman and manager, and took over for a long time. In the same year, Xu Zhimo also traveled abroad and visited Britain, the United States, Japan, India and other countries.

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. On June 6th of the same year 165438 wrote Farewell to Cambridge, originally published by 1928, 10, and signed by Xu Zhimo. New Moon has published four volumes and forty-three issues.

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