Original text:
"Eighty Years of Memoirs"
Modern Times: Ye Jianying
Eighty years old, no matter how hard work is, there will be no progress, but the Long March relay will be successful Someone comes.
The mentor's entrepreneurship will last forever, and his peers will be ashamed to follow him.
Billions of foolish old men gathered together to destroy the throne, and the hegemony of the five continents fell.
I like to sing at dusk, and the green mountains are illuminated by the setting sun.
Translation:
As an eighty-year-old man, there is no need to discuss the major events of the country's decline and prosperity. The revolutionary cause is like a long march of thousands of miles, and naturally there will be successors to take over.
The great cause created by Comrade Mao Zedong is enough to be famous throughout the ages. As companions, although they follow him closely, they still feel that they are far behind.
Like the Foolish Old Man who moved mountains, the people of the whole country are committed to the cause of breaking the old world and creating a new world. Hegemonic countries around the world are declining and sinking.
My age is approaching dusk, but I still happily sing the praises of this era. Looking around, the green mountains look brighter under the sunset.
Extended information:
"Eighty Years of Books" is a seven-character poem composed by Marshal Ye Jianying, a great proletarian revolutionist in modern times. The poem expresses the poet's firm belief in the future of the revolutionary cause and reflects his humble and simple quality of being rigorous and self-motivated.
Writing background:
This poem was written on Ye Jianying’s 80th birthday in 1977. It was the second year after the overthrow of the "Gang of Four", and China was entering a new historical period.
In 1976, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai and other older generation proletarian revolutionaries passed away one after another. Jiang Qing's counterrevolutionary group became arrogant and accelerated its conspiracy to usurp the party and seize power.
Many old comrades in the party and the army are paying close attention to the fate of the country in this critical situation, hoping that those who can unite and direct the healthy forces within the party to fight against the "Gang of Four" will be able to fight against the "Gang of Four" at this critical moment. At this moment, people unanimously placed their hopes on Ye Jianying. And he himself has already realized the heavy responsibility on his shoulders.
When Mao Zedong was dying, he deliberately called Ye Jianying to the hospital bed, held his hand and had something to say. Later people believed that this was Mao Zedong’s foresight of the crisis facing the country before his heart stopped beating. , so I have to give Ye Jianying some advice.
After careful consideration, Ye Jianying decided to stand up and fight resolutely. The battle was brewing quietly, and people still circulate the story of Ye Jianying and Wang Zhen making gestures to silence the enemy. After careful deployment, Ye Jianying, together with Hua Guofeng and others, decisively commanded the battle to crush the "Gang of Four".
The decisive battle between the healthy forces within the party and the "Gang of Four" counter-revolutionary group finally achieved final victory, thereby ending the "ten years of catastrophe" and saving the country and the party in times of crisis. Ye Jianying played a decisive role in this severe struggle, made significant contributions to the party and the country, and won people's heartfelt love.
On May 14, 1977, people from all walks of life went to congratulate Ye Shuai on his 80th birthday. Comrades, relatives and friends gathered together, and the house was so full that when General Su Yu arrived last, Deng Xiaoping said jokingly: "Don't let He came in and couldn't sit down."
People talked happily, congratulated Xinsheng, spoke highly of Ye Jianying's contribution, and wrote poems as gifts. Xu wrote a congratulatory poem to Marshal Xiang Xiang, saying: "Lu Duan deserves to be the best, and his mentor's comments have long been decided. In those days, Ying's strength doubled, and Ba Yi is still as good as forty years ago. If you have ambitions to shoot tigers and slay dragons, you will wipe out all the ghosts and gods."
Ye Jianying read everyone's congratulatory poems, still maintaining an open-minded character, and at the same time she was excited about the new hope for the country. After seeing off the guests, he was thinking a lot and wrote this seven-character poem.