1. Quietness is the shengxiao of parting; summer insects are also silent for me, silence is tonight’s Cambridge!

——Xu Zhimo's "Farewell to Cambridge"

Cambridge is the seat of the famous Cambridge University in the UK. From October 1920 to August 1922, Xu Zhimo studied here. Xu Zhimo revisited his hometown in 1928. On November 6, while on his way home in the South China Sea, he composed this masterpiece.

2. Kangqiao taught me to open my eyes, my thirst for knowledge was stimulated by Kangqiao, and my self-awareness was given to me by Kangqiao as an embryo. "

——Xu Zhimo's "Smoking and Culture"

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The Kangqiao period was a turning point in Xu Zhimo's life. The poet wrote in "The Collection of Tigers·Preface" Zhong once said: Before the age of 24, he was far less interested in poetry than in the theory of relativity or the theory of folk conventions. It was the water of the Cam River that opened the poet's mind and awakened the poet's spirit that had been dormant in his heart for a long time. Destiny.

On his return trip to the South China Sea on November 6, 1928, he composed this poem that has been handed down from generation to generation. "New Moon" monthly, Volume 1, No. 10, later included in "The Collection of Tigers". It can be said that "Cambridge plot" runs through Xu Zhimo's poems throughout his life, and "Farewell to Cambridge" is undoubtedly the most famous one.

“Quietness is the farewell Shengxiao, the summer insects are silent for me, silence is tonight’s Cambridge. "It fully expresses Xu Zhimo's feelings for Kang Qiao and focuses on the melancholy of parting.