著名历史学家、隋唐史专家胡如雷先生是山西省定襄县人。1926年1月22日出生于故乡蒋村,8岁时入太原小学读书。1937年抗日战争爆发。太原成为日军进攻的重要目标,5年级学生的他不得不辍学逃难,先是南下武汉,继而北上西安,过着颠沛流离的生活。1940年以后,在西安、城固相继进入三原中学、建国中学、西北师范学院附中读书。1944年入西安潞河中学读高中,1946年又考取西北大学中文系备取生,1947年又考取西北大学历史系本科生。以后随母迁居上海,进入私立大夏大学社会历史系学习,1949年9月考取清华大学历史系二 Mr. Hu Rulei, a well-known historian and historian of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, was a Dingxiang County native of Shanxi Province. January 22, 1926 was born in his hometown Jiangcun, 8 years old into Taiyuan primary school. Anti-Japanese War broke out in 1937. Taiyuan became an important target for the offensive by the Japanese. For Year 5 students, he had to drop out of school and flee to Wuhan, and then went north to Xi’an to lead a life of displaced. After 1940, in Xi’an, Chenggong successively entered Sanyuan Middle School, Jianguo High School and the middle school of Northwest Normal University. In 1944 into Xi’an Luhe middle school high school, in 1946 and admitted to Northwestern University Department of Health prepare students, in 1947 and admitted to Northwestern University history undergraduates. Later, with the mother moved to Shanghai, entered the Department of Social History of Private Daxia University, September 1949 admitted to Department of History, Tsinghua University, two