黄元吉,字建宇,生于清光绪十四年(1888年),湖北应城陈河人。少年时的黄元吉机灵聪明,胆略过人。长大后,到湖北新军第三十一标当兵。入伍不久,考入湖北讲武堂,先后参加了进步组织武德自治社、群治学社和共进会,从事革命活动,并与曾省三等一起创建进步组织自新文学社。 Huang Yuanji, the word built Yu, was born in the Qing Emperor Guangxu fourteen years (1888), Hubei should be Chenhe people. Huang Yuanji juvenile clever clever, bold and extraordinary. When he grew up, he went to the thirty-first standard soldier of Hubei New Army. Shortly after enrolling in the army, he was admitted to Hubei Wutang Hall and successively participated in the progressive organization of the Takenori Autonomous Prefecture, the Tugao Scholarship Association and the Association for Progressive Activities, engaged in revolutionary activities and founded the Progressive Self-reorganization Literary Society together with the provincial third class.