△吾童龀时,见族戚邻人贫病者,恻恻悯之,辄密取先母劳太夫人钱,或擅取米施之。十一岁从先祖述之教授公于连州[1]学署,能属文读史,后纵览群书。至十四岁,觉吾身柔脆,有遗世思。[2]十六岁于象冈新乡[3]楼上拾《红楼梦》残本,竞夕读之毕,如黄粱熟后,人世富贵声色,皆阅过而弃之,惘然作出世意。二十一岁,感先祖之丧,庐于墓,闭门啜泣,谓天驱使人死,虽有至亲,无能救之。越年读书西樵山,[4]寺观多佛 △ When I was a child, I saw the relatives of the poor relatives of the neighbors, mercy, plutonium take Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. money, or good at Misch. Eleven years old Professor from the ancestor of public in Lianzhou [1] Institute, can read the history of literature, after reading a lot of books. To fourteen years old, I feel body crisp, there are left thinking. [2] Sixteen-year-old in Xiang Gang Xinxiang [3] upstairs to pick up the “Dream of Red Mansions” residual book, competing for the evening reading, such as Huang Liang cooked, the world rich and sensual, have read and abandoned it, Twenty-one years old, a sense of ancestral funeral, Lu in the tomb, behind closed Weeping, that the heavens cause death, although the pro, incapable of rescuing. Year study Xiqiao Hill, Temple Temple [4]