许小年成长于红色家庭,曾被红色邀情燃烧,下过乡插过队。在落入社会底层的岁月里,他经历了价值体系全体崩溃的精神苦痛,也由此对中国社会真实面貌有近距离的观察。1980年代初他有幸进入中南海,带着对中国社会的理解和思考参与了改革方案 Xu years grew up in the red family, had been invited to burn red, get married across the team. In the years when he fell into the bottom of society, he experienced the spiritual pain of the collapse of the value system as a whole. He also observed the true nature of Chinese society from a close distance. In the early 1980s, he was fortunate enough to enter Zhongnanhai and took part in the reform program with understanding and thinking of Chinese society