一张笑天同志于一九三九年出生在黑龙江省延寿县的一个普通知识分子家庭里,从小就受到父亲的严教、母亲的疼爱。父亲是中学教师,后来任校长,家里的藏书丰富了他的头脑,使他在文学创作上受到了不少的熏陶。五十年代中期,张笑天在阿城读中学时就在同学中显露出了卓越的文学才华。他不仅阅读了大量的西方古典名著,而且对于历史特别 Comrade Xiaotian was born in 1939 in a family of ordinary intellectuals in Yanshou County, Heilongjiang Province. He was very strict with his father and loved by his mother since he was a child. His father was a middle school teacher, and later became the principal. His home collection enriched his mind and made him much influenced by literary creation. In the mid-1950s, when Zhang Xiaotian was in secondary school in Acheng, he showed outstanding literary talent among his classmates. He not only read a large number of Western classical works, but also for the special history