我的父亲庄学本,1909年出生在上海浦东庄家桥东首的一个耕读人家,祖父庄鼎熙以耕种十三亩曾祖传下来的田地为生,同时在家中客堂里教私塾,所以当地的人称他为赤脚先生,颇受人尊敬,生活尚过得去。1924年,父亲15岁在上海寻源学塾读了二年旧制中学,因家里交不起学费而辍学。1925年至1927年在上海远东测绘洋行、 My father, Zhuang Xueben, was born in 1909 at the head of a farming family east of Zhuangjiaqiao in Pudong, Shanghai. His grandfather Zhuang Dingxi made a living from cultivating 13 hectares of land handed down by his great-grandfather. At the same time, he taught a private school in his parlor, so local people called him barefoot Sir, respected, life is decent. In 1924, his father, aged 15, had a two-year old school in Xinyuan School in Shanghai, dropping out of school because he could not afford to pay tuition at home. From 1925 to 1927 in Shanghai Far East mapping foreign firms,