张鸣岐,字坚白,号韩斋,生于1875年,山东无棣人。1894年考取举人,次年会试落选,留南学(国子监一部分)就读,自蓄羽翼,待时而飞。一1898年初,张鸣岐经人举荐到岑春煊府上供职幕宾。岑春煊,云南总督岑毓英之子。戊戌变法时,因倡言“发奋自强”而受到清 Zhang Mingqi, the word firm white, No. Han Zhai, was born in 1875, Shandong Wudi. Admission in 1894, the next year will try the fall of the election, leaving South School (part of the Imperial College) to attend, since the plume of the wings, to be the time to fly. In the early 1898, Zhang Mingqi was recommended to Cen Chunxuan Fu on the government. Cen Chuntao, Yunnan Governor Cen Yuying son. During the Reform Movement of 1898, it was cleared up for its advocacy of “self-improvement.”