邹韬奋出生在一个没落的官僚家庭里，从小受到的是封建思想和旧礼教的“熏陶”，刚满5岁时，就开始读《三字经》。1909年春，经过八年多儒家文化的“启蒙”后，韬奋走出了家塾，考进了福州工业学校，开始接受“洋学堂”的教育。1912年10月，韬奋17岁的时候，他的父亲把他带到上 Zou Taofen was born in a declining bureaucratic family, and was influenced by the feudal ideology and the old “etiquette” since he was young. At the age of 5, he started to read the Three Character Classic. In the spring of 1909, after more than eight years of “enlightenment” of Confucianism, Tao Fen stepped out of the private supplementary school and went to Fuzhou Industrial School to start accepting the education of “foreign school”. In October 1912, when Pat Fen was 17, his father took him to the top