1908年 12月11日,在湖北省荆州(今江陵县)出生。因贫穷,出生数月后,即卖给杨姓的养父抚养,取名杨凤歧。 1915年,七岁随养父在北京、郑州、西安、镇江、上海等地流浪后。回到广州,在广州上四年制的第五国民小学和三年制的第七高等小学。这以后几年读了大量中、外文学作品。 1922年,十四岁 9月小学毕业,考入广东高等师范附属师 December 11, 1908 in Jingzhou, Hubei Province (now Jiangling County) was born. Due to poverty, born a few months later, that is, sold to Yang adoptive adoptive father, named Yang Fengqi. In 1915, after seven years of adoptive father wandering in Beijing, Zhengzhou, Xi’an, Zhenjiang, Shanghai and other places. Back to Guangzhou, Guangzhou in the four-year system of the Fifth National Primary School and three-year system of the seventh higher primary school. After reading a large number of Chinese and foreign literature in later years. In 1922, 14-year-old primary school in September, admitted to Guangdong Higher Teachers Affiliated division