一、六十五年生命历程半在磨难中谷万川同志于一九○五年七月十八日(阴历六月十六日)出生在河北省望都县谷家连青一个地主家庭里。因为父亲凌云公出身秀才,对万川幼年即进行文学教育,教他读诵千家诗等古典诗选集,灌输了他文学感情。接着在几年私塾读书中,学了 I. Sixty-five years of life and a half in the midst of hardship Comrade Gu Wanchuan was born on July 18, 1905 (June 16) on a landlord’s home in Lianjiaqing, Wangjia County, Hebei Province. Because his father Lingyun Gong was born, he taught literary education to Wanchuan and taught him to read a thousand poems and other classical poems, instilling his literary feelings. Then in a few years private school study, learned