董小吾1920年出生于山东鱼台县谷亭镇一个农民家庭。抗战爆发后,正在山东滋阳乡村师范学校就读的董小吾怀着极大的爱国热情投身山东学生流亡演出队,南下徐州、南京等地宣传抗日,并亲历南京大屠杀,侥幸生还。从南京逃出后,几经辗转于1938年9月1日来到延安,被安排进入陕北公学学习。当年11月,参加陕北公学剧团。1939年6月,由陕北公学、抗大、鲁艺、工 Dong Xiaowu was born in 1920 in Guoting Town, Yutai County, Shandong Province, a peasant family. After the outbreak of the war of resistance against Japan, Dong Xiaowu, who is currently studying at the Ziyang Rural Teachers ’School in Shandong Province, devoted himself to Shandong students’ exile troupe with great patriotic enthusiasm. He went south to Xuzhou and Nanjing to propagandize the anti-Japanese and Nanjing survivors. After escaping from Nanjing, after being removed and transferred to Yan’an on September 1, 1938, he was arranged to study in Northern Shaanxi University. In November of that year, participated in North Shaanxi Public Opera Troupe. June 1939, by the Northern Public School, anti-big, Lu Yi, workers