故事要从北京的芳嘉园胡同开始。四合院里,文弱的母亲仰着头,目光追随着手执长竿在房顶上跑着的少年王世襄。他在放鸽子,屋瓦已被成垄地掀翻。当他一步跨出,从正房顶跳到厢房顶时,母亲直接晕了过去。养鸽放飞不过是其生活的一小部分。其父王继曾,福州人,民国时期一名人,外交官,早年留学法国;母亲学习西洋美术,擅画鱼藻。舅父中有一位画家、两位竹刻家,若再往上,高祖官至工部尚书,伯祖为光绪年间的状元。始祖王旭 The story begins with Beijing’s Fangjiayuan alley. Siheyuan, Wen weak mother looked up, eyes follow the hand-held pole running on the roof of the young Wang Shixiang. He was playing the pigeons and the roof tile was overturned. When he step out, jumping from the roof to the roof, the mother fainted directly. Raising pigeons is but a small part of their life. His father Wang Jizeng, Fuzhou, a Republican period, a diplomat, studying in France early; mother learning Western art, good at fish algae. There is an artist in the uncle, two bamboo artists, if further up, Gao Zu Guan to the Ministry of Industry Shang, Bezu for the first year of the Guangxu era. Ancestor Wang Xu