陈毅同志字仲宏,1901年8月26日(农历七月十三日)出生在四川乐至县薛包镇药师湾的一个封建家庭.他的先祖本是湖南新宁县人,清康熙年间因灾荒迁到四川.到陈毅的祖父陈荣盛时,分家只得到五十亩田,陈毅出生时,剩有四十亩,在当时还算得上是个殷实人家,除了少量田地出租外,都是自己耕种,陈毅小时候也割草、放牛.全家除种田外,还养蚕、蒸酒、做粉丝、磨豆腐、种菜园等等,辛勤劳动可得温饱,每遇荒年生活也就很困难了.有一年大旱,他们一家大小十几口人,外出逃荒到贵州遵义,第二年下了雨,才返回乐至县种田.陈毅的父亲陈昌礼,曾到成都求过学,他博学多才,尤其擅长书法诗词,后来回家办了私塾.陈毅五岁就到父亲所教的私塾里 Comrade Chen Yi was born on August 26, 1901 (on the lunar month, July 13) in a feudal family at Xueba Bay, Xuebao Town, Lezhi County, Sichuan Province. His ancestor was originally a native of Xinning County in Hunan Province, Disaster to Sichuan .To Chen Yi’s grandfather Chen Rongsheng, separated only get fifty acres of land, Chen Yi was born, leaving forty acres at that time is still considered a decent people, except for a small amount of land rental, are their own farming When Chen Yi was young, he cut the grass and put the cow, and the whole family except for farming, also sericulture, steamed wine, making fans, grinding tofu, planting vegetable garden and so on, working hard to get enough food and clothing for every famine. A year of drought, a size of more than a dozen of them go out to flee to Zunyi, Guizhou, the next year it rained before returning to farming in Lezhi County. Chen Yi’s father Chen Changli, went to Chengdu to study, he learned a lot, especially Good at calligraphy poetry, and later went home to run a private school. Chen Yi five years old to his father taught private school