1978年秋冬之际,我在新疆做了十年教师工作之后,随着“文革”结束后高考制度的恢复,又考回母校北京师范大学中文系攻读硕士学位。当时,中文系只有中国古代文学一个专业招研究生,招生导师为郭预衡、聂石樵、韩兆琦三位教师,全国有一百四十多位报考者,经过初试剩下19人,到北京来参加复试,最后录取了九名研究生,被系里戏称“九子”。 In the autumn of 1978, after I worked as a teacher for ten years in Xinjiang, with the restoration of the college entrance examination system after the “Cultural Revolution” ended, I went back to my alma mater for a master’s degree in the Chinese language department of Beijing Normal University. At that time, the Chinese department was only a professional graduate student in ancient Chinese literature, admissions tutor Guo Yuheng, Nie Shiqiao, Han Zhaoqi three teachers, the country has more than 140 applicants, after the initial test the remaining 19 people to Beijing to attend Retest, the final admission of nine graduate students, was the Department of drama called “nine children.”