毛奇龄,一名甡,字大可,又字初晴、秋晴,浙江萧山人。他生于明天启三年(一六二三)。四岁时,他的母亲就教他儒家经典《四书》中的《大学》,他马上背得出来。又少善词赋,兼工度曲,得到著名文学家陈子龙的赏识,“奇爱之,遂补诸生”(《清史稿》卷四八一本传)。崇祯十七年(一六四四),清军攻进北京,明亡,毛奇龄本于家国之念,“哭于学宫三日”。顺治三年(一六四六),清军下江南, Maoqi Ling, a 甡, the word may be, but also the word Chuqing, autumn and clear, Zhejiang Xiaoshan. He was born three years tomorrow (one six two three). At the age of four, his mother taught him the “university” of the Confucian classics, “Four Books,” and he immediately came back. And less good at the word Fu, and work degree song, get the famous writer Chen Zilong's appreciation, “odd love, then fill the students ” (“Qing history draft” volume 48 copies). Chongzhen seventeen years (1644), the Qing army scored Beijing, Ming dynasty, Mao Qi-ling in the homeland, “cry in the school for three days ”. Shunzhi three years (1646), Qing down the south,