陶敏教授,湖南省长沙县人,1938年12月出生于一个小学教师家庭。从小即喜爱唐诗宋词以及《三国》、《水浒》等古典名著。1955年进入武汉大学中文系学习,受到刘永济、刘赜、黄焯、席鲁思、沈祖棻等诸多著名学者的教诲,产生了研 Professor Tao Min, a native of Changsha County in Hunan Province, was born in December 1938 in a primary school teacher’s family. Since childhood, like Tang and Song poems and “Three Kingdoms”, “Water Margin” and other classics. In 1955, he entered the Chinese Department of Wuhan University to study and received the teachings of many famous scholars such as Liu Yongji, Liu Xie, Huang Zhuo, Sir Ruth, Shen Zujuan and so on.