Ye Jianying was one of the ten founding marshals. He had saved the country and the people and worked hard on the battlefield. Many people have the impression of him as a brave and warlike general. In fact, Ye Jianying is both literary and martial, and loves reading. He not only knows how to write articles and poems, but also summarizes his own reading methods.
When Ye Jianying was a student, he had already developed the habit of reading. In 1902, Ye Jianying was five years old. Although his father Ye Zuanxiang was just a small vendor and his family was not wealthy, because he attached importance to study and education, he insisted that Ye Jianying go to a private school. So Ye Jianying, who was only 5 years old, went to Zhong Aoquan Private School. Here, he learned a lot of Chinese traditional culture , and memorized the Four Books and Five Classics well. Every time he checked his homework, he always answered the fastest.
A few years later, new-style schools emerged, and the father who cared about children's education brought Ye Jianying to school again. Unlike private schools, schools have many novel things. In addition to Chinese, they also teach students subjects such as mathematics, physics, and music, spreading a lot of advanced ideas. This made Ye Jianying more interested in learning. He read books every day after school, and was reluctant to let go until night, so he lighted the kerosene lamp to continue reading.
Ye Jianying often recalled this experience in his later years. Once, he returned to Meixian after missing his home. When he saw the small table and kerosene lamp that he often used in his childhood, he couldn't help but feel it. He wrote a song "Return to Meixian to explore his hometown": "Eighty-three years are relaxed in a flash, and the wooden window lamps are so stupid." This period of time has also become the purest and most beautiful time in his life.
1912, Ye Jianying graduated from Sanbao School and entered Wuben Middle School in Meixian. This is a larger learning world. He often stayed in the library and read a lot of books day and night, which also aroused a sense of patriotism and worry about the country. At the age of 18, he wrote the sentence "I will come to have an infinite sense of rise and fall, and I wish the people happiness for harmony."
Later, he went to study at home and abroad. Because his family was not wealthy, he experienced many hardships during this period. Until he finally entered the Yunnan Army Military Academy, learned a lot of military theories and combat skills, and accumulated theoretical knowledge for the subsequent road of serving the country.
I have to say that his glorious life is inseparable from being with books. From entering a private school to going to the battlefield, he insisted on reading and buying a large number of books to place in his residence, and the books he collected were almost as good as a small library. He read a lot and diverse books, from ancient Chinese history to natural sciences, which included everything. In his later years, he also learned English to read foreign current affairs and news, and books became his lifelong companion.
Because of studying, he learned to cherish time. Ye Jianying once said: "We must seize the time to work, squeeze out time to study, and steal some time to rest." This is also a reading theory he has obtained through practice since childhood. He practiced this belief throughout his life, strictly demanded himself, and arranged his time full. He has to read books after work during the day, and he also loves to read books when he is resting at night. Ye Jianying has long regarded reading as a kind of fun and relaxation.
He also summarized the reading methods.
The first is the "three-pass method", and the three-pass method is "one reading, two recordings, and three uses". During the reading process, he advocated first understanding the book, browse the stories or knowledge in the book in order, and then summarize the story summary or content framework in the brain, so that the brain can keep running and not get tired of reading. "Two Notes" means memorizing important parts in the book, first marking them with markings and other methods, then understanding them in your own way, and making comments, so that you can remember them roughly after reading them.
Ye Jianying never cares about the annotation method. The books he has read include symbols, words, and time marks. Symbols are generally punctuation marks. Question marks indicate their questions about this sentence. The explanation marks usually have their own opinions after them. Time can record the number of times he reads, so that he can recall and summarize the next time he reads. The third is application. Ye Jianying learned this from Chairman Mao. He said: "How the Chairman uses , Marxism-Leninistry, and , we will learn from the Chairman's use." The application emphasizes integration and diligence in practice, which is the most important step in reading.Therefore, Ye Jianying also put forward the view that "arming the mind and guiding practice".
Ye Jianying’s second reading method is to “one person reads the public and benefit.” You should be willing to share good books you have read, spread the correct and advanced ideas in the books, and share practical theoretical methods. This is a reward for the author and the book, and it can also benefit friends around you.
Ye Jianying finished reading the book, often simplified the contents in the book, took the essence into a booklet, and circulated it for everyone. Once he read two very thick military books, with a total of more than 700,000 words. He finished reading them without missing a word. After reading them, he felt that the theories in them were worth learning from. However, it is difficult for people who have no habit of reading such a thick book to read, so he asked everyone to read a part of it, then wrote down the reading summary and notes, and finally summarized it so that everyone could pass it on to each other. The way of
outlines is also relatively easy. After reading the book, everyone learned a lot from it and sighed that Ye Jianying is a "good mentor".
The reading methods taught by Ye Jianying are the results of his years of practice. They are scientific and effective. We younger generations should learn more from these reading methods and practical spirits.
