Childhood
Yi Shu, whose home town is Ningbo, Zhejiang, was born in Shanghai in 1946. She has five brothers and one elder brother. Her pet name was A-mei and her siblings would call her "Xiao Mei Tao". She arrived Hong Kong with her younger brother when she was five. After graduation from Kiangsu and Chekiang Kindergarten and Nursery, Yi Shu studied at Sir Ellis Kadoorie (Sookunpo) Primary School and, subsequently, Ho Tung Technical School For Girls (later known as Hotung Secondary School). She was a rather studious pupil, and got two distinctions and two credits in the HKCEE examination. In 1964, Yu Shi had completed her studies in her secondary school; her schoolmistress gave her a comment: "She was touchy, emotional, and easy to get into a lather…" Consequently, her mother renamed her as Ni Rong (倪容) (容 literally means "to tolerate"), in the hope of Yi Shu could become more calm and generous.
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