周恩来的童年是在两位母亲的精心呵护下长大的,他对她们始终怀有特别深厚的感情。1907年夏天,生母万氏就病故了,9岁的周恩来既为生母贫病交加过早去世而悲痛,更为其因外婆阻挠不能及时入土为安而痛心入骨,寝食难安。1916年,在南开中学读书时,农历除夕回到四伯父家里,陪因伯父在东北而独自一人在家的四妈吃过年夜饭,听着室外家家不绝于耳 Zhou Enlai’s childhood grew up under the care of two mothers, and he always had a particularly deep feeling for them. In the summer of 1907, Wensheng Wan died. The 9-year-old Zhou Enlai grieved both because of his mother’s poor premature death and because he was saddened by the grandmother’s obstruction that he could not be buried in time for peace. In 1916, when studying in Nankai Middle School, on the eve of the lunar New Year, he returned to his uncle’s home and ate New Year’s Eve with his four mom, who was still at home in the northeast alone, and listened to everybody in the outdoors