陈之藩先生是台湾散文名家。他的散文名再《谢天》、《失极的兰花》被选入台湾中学国文课本，《钓胜于生》分别被选入香港和大陆的中学语文课本。据我所知，一个作家的文章能入选三地课本的、且受到如此普遍欢迎的、陈先生是第一个。被余光中先生称为“通人”的陈之藩，“教的 Mr. Chen Zhiji is a famous Taiwan prose writer. His prose names such as “Thank Heaven” and “The Orchid of Depravity” were selected into the Chinese language textbooks for Taiwanese middle school students. “Dishangshengsheng” was selected into the high school language textbooks in Hong Kong and mainland China respectively. As far as I know, Mr. Chen was the first person to have a writer’s article selected for the textbooks in the three places and was so widely welcomed. Mr. Chen Zhiyu, whom Mr. Yu Guangzhong called “passer”, “teaching