About The Founder

Zhuang Zuo was born in the 1970s in Northeast China, into an intellectual family deeply shaped by Confucian values. In an era that prized restraint and discipline, laughter was often warned against as “excess leading to misfortune,” and a love for art and play was dismissed as useless or unruly. It was within this atmosphere that he first became aware of what freedom—and the imagination of freedom—means to a child.

After completing his master’s degree, he entered journalism as a feature reporter, and later developed into a writer and researcher of food culture. In 2019, he completed his studies in Early Childhood Education (ECE) at Champlain College in Montreal, finally turning toward a long-held calling: to create a space for children that he himself never had. He founded the non-profit organization CTS (Children’s Third Space) and named its activity camp 67—a symbol of humor, laughter, and a future-oriented space for children’s free growth. 

He has always believed in the possibility that every child has a place where they can grow up happy and safe—where love is the wind, equality is the rain, freedom is the nourishment, joy is the sunlight, and they can truly be themselves.

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二十世纪七十年代出生于中国东北 一个笃信儒家思想的知识分子家庭。在崇尚克制与纪律的年代，笑声被警告为“乐极生悲”，犯错误被指责为“废物”，而对艺术与游戏的热爱被视为“无用、胡闹”。

这样的环境，让他对一个自主，美好的童年有种深深的渴望。

硕士毕业后的第二十五年（2019 ），他在加拿大蒙特利尔Champlain College 完成儿童早期教育（ECE）学业，创立Children’s Third Space，并以67 （SIXSEVEN）命名其自由游戏营地。67寓意一个充满幽默与笑声的儿童自由成长空间，是67自由与自在的灵魂符号。

他始终相信这样一种可能：每一个孩子都拥有一个快乐，安全生长的地方——在那里，爱是风，平等是雨，自由是营养，快乐是阳光，自己可以成为自己。