宜兴这地方,位于太湖之滨,境内河流甚多,很多人以捕鱼或航运为业。他们终年生活在水上,到处漂泊,居无定处。船上人家的孩子,不仅随船生活,而且到了八九岁以后就能够参加一定的生产劳动了。他们摇橹、撑篙,挖鱼饵、装钩卡、补鱼网,……上学读书确实存在着特殊困难,历来入学率很低。一九五八年,教育部门曾为渔(船)民子女办过“三集体”的学校, Yixing this place, located in Taihu Lake coast, many rivers, many people fishing or shipping industry. They live all year round in the water, drifting around, homeless. The children of boat people not only live on board the ship, but also can take part in certain productive labor after they are eight or nine years old. They shake, support, dig bait, hook hooks, fish nets, ... ... there is indeed a special difficulty in school, historically has a low enrollment rate. In 1958, the education department once conducted a “three-collective” school for the fishing children of the boat people,