姚名达,字达人,乳名侠生,自更名显微,1905年3月出生于江西兴国县南门外竹坝村。父亲姚舜生,是一位前清秀才,做过中小学教员和县政府秘书;母亲徐方琳勤劳善良。家里除几亩薄田外还有“几千本”〔1〕经史子集的古书,是所谓“半耕半读”〔2〕人家。姚名达受父亲影响颇深,六岁跟随 Yao Mingda, the word up to people, named Xiaomin, renamed slightly, in March 1905 was born in Jiangxi Xinguang County, south gate bamboo village. His father Yao Shun-sheng, a former Qing scholar, did primary and secondary school teachers and county government secretary; mother Xu Fanglin hard-working kind. In addition to the home a few acres of thin field there are “several thousand” 〔1〕 by the history of the ancient books, is the so-called “half-tilled” [2] people. Yao Mingda deep influence by his father, followed by six years old