"Three Strict and Three Truths Party History Short Story" Liu Shaoqi diligent in study known as "Liu Jiu Bookcase"

　　Liu Shaoqi has been particularly fond of reading since he was a child, and regards learning as an indispensable part of life. Because he is the ninth oldest in the extended family, his neighbors call him "Liu Jiu Bookcase".

　　During his early years of study, Liu Shaoqi always grasped his studies very tightly. Xiao Jinguang, who had been in the same window with Liu Shaoqi twice at the Shanghai Overseas Chinese Society and the Moscow Oriental University, recalled: "After arriving at the Moscow Oriental University, Comrade Shaoqi was devoted to study and work. Comrade Shaoqi has almost no personal hobbies, never chats idly, and does not casually go to the street. We didn't live together, but when we saw him, we were mostly studying Russian, reading the Communist Manifesto, and thinking about the Chinese revolution. ”

　　After returning from the Soviet Union, Liu Shaoqi threw himself into the torrent of revolution, and although the long-term struggle was under the stormy white terror or the front line of the fire, he did not relax for a moment to study and study, and he famously said: "Without culture, revolutionary work cannot be done." At the end of 1939, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was in a very difficult period, Zhang Aiping, commander of the New Fourth Army detachment, went to visit Liu Shaoqi, and it was more than one o'clock in the evening, and when he entered the house, He saw that Liu Shaoqi was reading intently under the faint candlelight.

　　In 1942, Liu Shaoqi was transferred from northern Jiangsu to Yan'an to work, and in the past year, he traveled a long distance, crossed more than 100 blockade lines between Japan and China, and participated in several major anti-"sweeping" battles on the way.

　　After the founding of New China, although he held several positions and worked more busily, he still paid close attention to his own study. According to his secretaries Wu Zhenying and Liu Zhende, his bookshelf was filled with works by Ma Enles and Chairman Mao, in addition to historical books such as the Zizhi Tongjian. It is common to see him flipping through these books and clipping many bookmarks in them.

　　Even during his medical leave, Liu Shaoqi did not relax in learning to read. Once, liu Shaoqi went to Hangzhou for a vacation due to illness, and he felt that this was a good opportunity to study, so when he left Beijing, he stuffed several thick copies of Fan Wenlan's Compendium of General History of China into his duffel bag. Liu Shaoqi has little interest in the picturesque west lakeside and spends his days in the house to study. Liu Shaoqi's "sitting exercises" are famous, sometimes he sits and reads, he can not move for several hours in a row, entering a realm of intoxication and self-forgetfulness. At the end of the vacation, several large volumes of the Compendium of the General History of China were also read. Reading with this spirit of "ants gnawing on bones" is a state of life that Liu Shaoqi insists on all his life.

　　Editor's Note:

　　Mao Zedong once sighed: "Three days without studying is not as good as Liu Shaoqi." Chairman Mao, as a model of lifelong learning and keen learning, still evaluates it in this way, and Liu Shaoqi's spirit of continuous learning and good at learning can be seen. In the new era, in the face of the heavy tasks of reform, development and stability, party members and cadres need to strengthen their study and keep pace with the times, so that they can shoulder the historical responsibility of ruling for the people and benefiting one side.