11971年1月5日,我出生在江汉平原一个普通的农村家庭。父亲在武汉一家汽车配件厂上班,母亲是地地道道的农民,我们家是当时俗称的“半边户”。我出生之前,已有了两个哥哥。也许因为母亲怀我时年龄大,营养不良,我刚满八个月就慌忙火急来到了这个世界。刚出生的我不足四斤,像只小猫蜷缩着,根本看不到头发。母亲一度担心瘦弱的我能否被养活。而早产似乎让父亲抓住了一个把柄,后来的岁月中,只要我一遇坎坷,父亲就会摇头悲叹: January 5, 1971, I was born in Jianghan Plain, an ordinary rural family. My father worked at an auto parts factory in Wuhan and his mother was an out-of-town farmer. Our family was commonly known as the “half-farmer” at the time. Before I was born, I had two older brothers. Perhaps because my mother was pregnant with me and was malnourished, I was hurried to this world in just eight months. I was born less than four pounds, like a cat curled up, do not see the hair. My mother was worried about the emaciated I can be fed. The premature birth seems to allow my father to seize a handle, later years, as long as I encounter a rough, his father would shake his head lamented: