解放前我们山西省芮城县农村里的文化人很少,好大一个村子没有几个能写会算的。听说那时不少村子都办起了初级小学校,但一般儿童都上不起学,上学的只是少数几个有钱人家的男孩子,女子就更没有上学的份儿了,所以村里的妇女是百分之百的文盲。我们东岩村是个穷村子,因为文化落后, Before liberation, we had few literary people in rural Ruicheng County of Shanxi Province. I heard that many villages were running elementary primary schools at that time, but most children were unable to afford to go to school. Only a handful of boys from rich families attended school, and women did not even attend school. Therefore, women in the village It is one hundred percent illiterate. We East Village is a poor village, because of cultural backwardness,