我的父亲蔡鹤洲,又名学亨,1912年出生在福建一个既贫苦、又多难的家庭里。曾祖父蔡桂馨,祖居福州泛船浦后街,在一个偏僻的小地方,开了一个家庭杂货铺,那时曾祖母已不在了,我的爷爷蔡朝宸,年少即在曾祖父铺里当杂工。因不善经营,生活难以维持,生意因失意而关门,曾祖父去了他表舅家当伙计,爷爷跟亲戚去厦门谋生。还有一个叔公蔡朝鉴,也跟邻里朋友去上海学厨工。到父亲五六岁时,爷爷得重病回来,所有行李,因病 My father, Cai Haizhou, aka Xueheng, was born in 1912 in a poor and difficult family in Fujian Province. Great-grandfather Cai Guixin, ancestral home in Fuzhou Panchu Pu Backstreet, in a remote little place, opened a family grocery store, when great-grandmother no longer had, my grandfather Caichaochen, that is, when young and grandfather shop as a handyman. Due to poor management, life is difficult to maintain, the business was closed because of frustration, great-grandfather went to his uncle, amateur man, grandfather and relatives to make a living in Xiamen. There is also a tertiary uncle, Tsai Chai Kam, who also went to Shanghai to cook with his neighbors. When my father was five or six years old, my grandfather got seriously ill and all my luggage was sick