He was born into a landlord family, his father had three wives. The eldest wife died after giving birth to a baby girl, the second wife died from miscarriage, and the third wife gave birth to two girls and two boys. They could have lived a very prosperous life, but because of the marriage, their family fortunes declined, and the second wife passed away and returned to the West before the children were raised. The eldest brother is mute, and the family's livelihood falls entirely on him.