我于一九○四年一月三十一日出生在江西新建县(现丰城县)南乡钞塘村的一个地主家庭,原名正和。钞塘村虽离南昌城只有六十华里,但很闭塞,全乡没有一所小学。一九一○年我六岁时,开始进家中自设的私塾读书,共读了八年整,换了四个先生(教师)。在这个私塾里,我囫囵吞枣地读了四书五经,《左传》、《古文析义》、《东莱博议》、《唐诗三百首》、《千家诗》、《昭明文选》、《纲鉴易知录》、还读了八股文——《明文小题贯》。我的四位先生,其中二位是秀才。起先,一位姓万的秀才要我写八股文,学了两年,我总是写不通,先生说我没有出息。后来,换了一位姓魏的秀才,他比较开明,叫我读《东莱博议》,写议论文,只学了一年,文章就比较通顺 I was born on January 31, 1904 as a landlord family of Bank Village, Nanxian, Xinjian County, Jiangxi Province (now Fengcheng County). Although the bank village from Nanchang only sixty li, but very closed, the township does not have a primary school. When I was six years old in 1910, I started to go to private school in my hometown for a total of eight years, changing four sons (teachers). In this private school, I read a long book of books, “Zuo Zhuan,” “Ancient Literary Interpretation”, “Donglai Bo”, “Three Hundred Tang Poems”, “Thousands of Poems”, “Zhao Ming anthology” Ching Yi Ching Lu, “also read the eight-part essay -” plain text inscribed. “ My four gentlemen, two of whom are scholar. At first, a surname Wan scholar asked me to write a bazhuwen, learning for two years, I always can not get through, Mr. said I did not know what to expect. Later, for a surname Wei scholar, he was more enlightened, told me to read ”Donglaibo", write essay, only one year, the article is more fluent