清道光十七年，张之洞出生在父亲张瑛的任所———贵州兴义府的知府衙门里。张之洞天资聪颖，在父亲、塾师的严格督促下发愤读书，十三岁便一举考取了秀才。十六岁参加乡试，高中第一名，成为少年解元，这在中国科举史上也是极为罕见的。后因洪秀全的太平军兵乱和其族兄张之万 Seventeen years of the Qing dynasty, Zhang Zhidong was born in the office of his father Zhang Ying --- Guizhou prefect Yamen Xingyi Prefecture. Zhang Zhidong talent is bright, under the strict supervision of his father, private tutor angrily studying, 13-year-old will have won the scholar in one fell swoop. At the age of sixteen, he took the provincial exams and became the first high school to become a juvenile dismemberment. This is also extremely rare in the history of the Chinese imperial examination. After Hong Xiuquan’s Taiping army soldiers chaos and his brother Zhang million