民国七年,岁在戊午,夏历三月初四辰时(西历1918年4月14日上午八时左右),天津咸水沽西头周家生了一个孩子。此孩排行第五,乳名日魁,这个孩子,就是现在执笔自叙的我。 我出生的这个周家,也算是个大户,当初人多族众,分居异爨,习称“东院里”、“西院里’、“北院里”等,来分指哪一房哪一支。我不但是家严的幼子,大排行中也居末位,与“西院”堂兄弟大排行第十五。本族晚辈,考究些的称呼还叫我“十五叔”;外人则在我长成 In the seven years of the Republic of China, at the age of Wuwu and at the beginning of the fourth lunar month in March of the fourth lunar month (at around 8:00 am on April 14, 1918), Zhou gave birth to a child in the west of Xiushugu, Tianjin. This child ranks fifth, named Ramen, the child, is now self-narrating me. I was born in this week, can be considered a big family, when the people of many ethnic groups, separated heteropharm, Xi said “East courtyard”, “West courtyard”, “North courtyard” and so on, to refer to which room which I not only is a strict young son, the big ranks also in the final position, and the “Westinghouse” cousin rankings fifteenth. The younger generation, some of the more elegant call me “fifteen”; outsiders are in I grew up