1996年12月13日,徐迟在武汉同济医院坠楼身亡,成为震惊中国文坛的一个事件。徐迟是诗人、翻译家、报告文学作家,著述等身,并以八十二岁的生命,历经中国现当代史的风云变幻。徐迟二十二岁出版第一部诗集《二十岁人》,被誉为1930年代“最年轻的现代派诗人”;1940年代末在家乡南浔小镇潜心翻译《瓦尔登湖》,心仪梭罗崇尚的“恬静”;“文革”刚刚结束的1977年,写出轰动一时的报告文学《哥德巴赫猜想》,呼唤科学、理性和启蒙。他出生于书香世家,父亲 On December 13, 1996, Xu Chi died at the Tongji Hospital in Wuhan City and became an incident that shocked the Chinese literary world. Xu Chi is a poet, translator, reportage writer, writen body, and so on. At the age of 82, he has experienced various changes in the modern and contemporary Chinese history. At the age of twenty-two, Xu later published his first collection of poems, “Twenty-year-olds,” hailed as the “youngest modernist poet” in the 1930s. He painstakingly translated “Walden” in his hometown of Nanxun in the late 1940s, In 1977, just a year after the publication of a sensational reportage “Goldbach Conjecture,” calling for science, reason and enlightenment, He was born in Scholarship family, father