真正的诗人曹辛之是江苏宜兴人,在家乡这片人杰辈出的福地,他从小就养成了酷爱书籍和写写画画的习惯。1936年他十九岁时,即在中共地下党员吴伯文、孔厥等同志领导下,创办了文艺刊物《平话》,但只出了两三期,便遭到查禁。抗战爆发后的1939年,曹辛之奔赴延安,入陕北公学和鲁艺美术系学习。1940年夏,被派到韬奋先生直接主持下的生活书店工作。 The real poet Cao Xin of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, in this hometown of this generation of people’s blessing, he grew up with a habit of love books and writing and drawing. In 1936, when he was nineteen, under the leadership of Comrades Wu Bo-wen and Kong Jue, members of the underground Communist Party in China, he founded the literary publication “Ping Hua”, but was banned only after two or three periods. In 1939 after the war of resistance against Japan broke out, Cao Xinzhi went to Yan’an to study in Northern Shaanxi Public School and Luyi Art Department. In the summer of 1940, he was sent to work in a life bookstore under the direct supervision of Mr. Tapping.