Haining County, Zhejiang Province (now Haining City), has beautiful mountains and clear waters and a developed economy.Xiashi Town (now the seat of Haining Municipal Government) has beautiful scenery and outstanding people.There are Dongshan and Xishan facing each other on the left and right. Xishan is also known as Xiashi Mountain. It is said that Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, took the place name after visiting here.Xiashi Town is a busy water town where you can see the river through the window and cross the bridge when you go out. Just in Baoningfang, a typical ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River, there is a building with four courtyards, where a wealthy businessman named Xu lives.Xu's family business can be traced back to the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty.The family business has been passed on to Xu Xingpao and has developed again.Xu Xingpao, whose name is Mingshu, has a little proficiency in writing and ink, and works in calligraphy, mainly in business.His son Xu Shenru, named Guangfu, inherited and restored Kuo's ancestral business.In addition to operating the old-style Xu Yufeng Sauce Garden, Yutong Bank, Renhe Silk Cloth Store, etc. in this town, it also established a silk factory, a cloth factory, and a Kipshi electric lamp factory, and also opened a Shuangshan Art Institute.He has also participated in some businesses in the financial and industrial circles of Zhejiang and Shanghai, and has a considerable status.He served as the chairman of the Xiashi Chamber of Commerce, and opened a ticket shop bank in Shanghai, a "ten-mile foreign market".Xu Shenru is open-minded, flexible, and arty, and likes to socialize with celebrities.

Therefore, Xu Zhimo checked his family tree and found that since Yongle, their family has not written a line of poems that can be recited.Therefore, before the age of 24, his interest in literature and poetry was far less than his interest in relativity or civil contract theory.His father sent him to study abroad because he wanted him to enter the financial world.Influenced by an industrial family, Xu Zhimo's highest ideal and ambition is to be China's "Hamilton".Before the age of 24, poetry, old or new, had nothing to do with him. Just when Xu Shenru was 25 years old and his career was flourishing, and his second wife Qian Muying was 23 years old, on January 15, 1897, the couple gave birth to a son, Xu Zhimo.Xu Xingpao thinks that little Xu Zhimo looks exactly like his son Xu Shenru: he has a big head and a long chin. Isn't this another Xu Shenru?Therefore, Xu Zhimo named Zhang Yi according to the order of the genealogy, which means to follow the etiquette; "槱森" is a homonym of Youshen, but it looks more elegant literally.

The name Zhimo came later.It is said that on his first birthday, a monk named Zhihui told his fortune by touching his bones, saying: "This son will become a great talent in the future." The monk's touching and complimenting words are just in line with Xu Shenru's hope that his son will become a dragon. He remembered (remembered) the prophecy of rubbing the crown and blessing (mounting).So before Xu Zhimo went to the United States, Xu Shenru solemnly proposed that he should take the new name "Zhimo" for his son.Many years later, Xu Zhimo did not become the financial industrialist that his father ardently expected, but became an outstanding poet in the history of modern Chinese literature.