顾颉刚1893年生于江苏苏州一个读书人家。1920年毕业于北京大学,后留校工作,从此开始了他的学术研究生涯。“五·四”运动前后,新文化运动蓬勃发展,人们的思想得到了极大的解放。1923年初,新文化运动中的猛将之一的钱玄同写信给顾颉刚,希望读到“离经叛道”、“非圣无法”方面的文章。这封信促使了顾颉刚在同年5月的《读书 Gu Jiegang was born in 1893 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, a reading people. Graduated from Peking University in 1920, after leaving school, from the beginning of his academic career. Before and after the May Fourth Movement, the new cultural movement thrived and people’s thoughts were greatly liberated. In early 1923, Qian Xuan-tung, one of the most ferocious forces in the New Culture Movement, wrote to Gu Jiegang, hoping to read the articles on “deviant” and “non-sanity”. This letter prompted Gu Jiegang to study in May of the same year