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徐向前1901年出生于山西省五台县永安村. 家族原先为大户，后祖父徐鹤林经商失败，家族开始没落. 其父亲为徐懋淮，清朝秀才；其母为赵金銮，主要养活徐向前及其兄弟姐妹五人. 因为家贫，徐向前从小就帮助父母做家务，经常拾粪砍柴挖野菜，偶尔编制篮筐以备家用. 徐本人勤奋好学，十岁时被父亲送去读私塾，学名徐象谦，后转到沱阳学校读高小，但不久因为家境贫穷被迫辍学. 后来被介绍去河北阜平县亲戚开的书店做了两年半学徒.

Xiangqian was born in Yongan Village, Wutai County, Shanxi Province in 1901. His clan was rich at first, but after his grandfather Xu Helin failed in business, the family began to decline. His father Xu Maohuai was a Qing Dynasty scholar; his mother Zhao Jinluan took the main responsibility to feed Xiangqian and his five brothers and sisters. Since his family was very needy, Xiangqian began to help his parents with household chores as a child, often to pick up manure, fell trees for firewood, dig wild vegetables, sometimes make baskets for sale. Xu was very studious, his father sent him to a private school when he was ten, later he went to Tuoyang upper primary school, but is soon forced to drop out because his family cannot afford the tuition. He was later introduced to a bookstore in Fuping County, Hebei which was run by one of hisrelatives opened to work as apprentice for two-and-a-half years.