Introduction. I come from a poor family. For generations, I have been a farmer with the sun on my head and facing the loess. My father has only studied in the family ancestral hall for four years. If he wants to go to school, he has to go elsewhere. The family's financial resources really don't allow him. Therefore, there is no record of college students in the genealogy. Similarly, my mother only studied for two years, and then worked as an apprentice under the local tailor for three years. Only I know the hardships and suffering. In the early 1950s, my father came from the countryside of Liling, Hunan Province to work as a miner in Yaoling tungsten mine in the mountainous area of northern Guangdong Province. My mother came later and had five children (eldest sister, brother, second sister, me and sister). Mother took care of the family while sewing to support the family. After finishing primary school, the eldest sister stopped school, helped look after her younger siblings at home, and then worked in the factory; After graduating from high school, my brother also worked in the factory. My second sister, my sister and I all finished high school, but I was the only one who was admitted to the University, then became a graduate student and entered the highest palace of science. I believe you will wonder what kind of efforts have I made to get to this point as a son of a poor family? Is there anything I can learn from my school experience? I really hope my school memory will help solve these mysteries.

Pupils (1965-1970). When I signed up for school at the age of 7, the enrollment teacher asked me if I could count. I counted from 1 to 100 and passed smoothly. The initial Chinese teacher and head teacher is Chen Shangbing, who has just been assigned from the regional normal school to teach in Yaoling staff's children's primary school. I remember the first few days of school, Mr. Chen's neck was scratched with sand and there were several dark red marks. On children's day before the end of grade one, due to my excellent academic performance, I won prizes and certificates such as exercise books and pencils, and brought a red scarf. It's great to be able to learn and win prizes. I thought, if only such a day could live forever. From grade 2 to grade 5, there are not many courses, less extracurricular homework and a lot of spare time. Therefore, I read the textbooks of Grades 1-6 (including Chinese, arithmetic, history, nature, geography, etc.) left by my sister and brother over and over for several times, gradually formed the habit of self-study, and became the most comprehensive member of my classmates. Every time the teacher asks questions in class, I can easily give the correct answers to some questions that others can't answer. So I got the nickname "master" in Grade 5. During primary school, another teacher who impressed me was Zhang Fenlian from Shenyang. As my Chinese teacher and head teacher in Grades 4-5, Mr. Zhang's standard Mandarin is clear and pleasant in the mining area with mixed accents of Hunan and Guangdong. Today, decades later, I still can't forget the scene that Mr. Zhang recited the song of Ouyang sea to the students in the self-study class. With the melodious and dull tone and the plot of peak to peak, the students' mood surged one after another and it was difficult to calm down for a long time.

Middle school students (1970-1975). At that time, Yaoling middle school for workers' children included three years of junior high school and two years of senior high school. The teachers who impressed me during middle school were Li Huijuan, Yu Xianzhen, Deng Yupeng, huangjinhai and Liao De'en. Li Huijuan is a graduate of East China Normal University who has just been assigned to the staff children's school. She is an English teacher in middle school. In addition to speaking standard English, Mr. Li also brought us isolated valley children an unheard of world. For many of our strange questions, Miss Li always takes the trouble to give detailed answers. Yu Xianzhen is also a graduate of East China Normal University who has just been assigned to the staff children's school and serves as a middle school mathematics teacher. Because my math scores are good, Mr. Yu often gives me some additional math problems (for example, when learning to solve the primary equation, give me the problem of the quadratic equation) to further improve my math potential. With good self-study habits, I can always solve these extra math problems. Deng Yupeng is my junior middle school politics teacher and head teacher. At that time, Mr. Deng taught me to do column design and editing, ink engraving and printing. Since then, I have formed the habit of cutting and pasting newspaper related materials into volumes, laying some foundation for my efforts in book editing in the future. After graduating from East China Normal University, huangjinhai was assigned to the staff children's school and served as my Chinese teacher in my junior high school, senior high school and senior high school. Mr. Huang is versatile. He not only speaks well in class, but also writes good words, plays a good erhu and plays a good basketball. At that time, many teachers' classes were affected by students' small movements, and the effect was not good; But Mr. Huang's Chinese class is always an exception. As soon as he got on the podium, he quoted scriptures and talked freely from ancient times to modern times, and then to modern times. The students were intoxicated and refreshing. They didn't break the tranquility of the classroom until the bell rang after class. In addition to copying Mr. Huang's font, I also tried to integrate his popular teaching method into my writing. In other words, since Mr. Huang's class is so fascinating, if his ideas can be adopted in writing, it will certainly increase the persuasion of the article and attract more readers. The ancients said that "three introspections and one's own body" and "repeated instruction" meant that only through introspection or guidance from various angles and depths can we be persuasive; Instead of simply repeating a sentence many times, the listener will be unbearable. Therefore, from the plain narration of "remembering the most meaningful day or thing" in the past to the description and discussion with breadth and depth, Mr. Huang's Chinese class let me uncover the mystery of writing, greatly stimulated my interest and confidence in writing, and developed the hobby of collecting wonderful descriptions and narration in other people's articles. After graduating from Zhongnan mining and Metallurgy College, Liao Deen was assigned to the mining technology department to engage in mining, then transferred to the staff school to teach mathematics. Mr. Liao's guidance in mathematics and other aspects can not be summarized in a few words. In addition, a psychological course I read during middle school deepened my understanding of the law of memory (that is, good memory requires review in 30 minutes, 24 hours and a week) and change trend (that is, people's memory increases from 0 to 24 years old, but decreases after 25 years old), It provides a theoretical basis for me to plan and make full use of the time with the strongest memory in my life in the future.

Educated youth returning home (1975-1977). After graduating from high school, I returned to the old household farmer in Liling, Hunan Province. Since there are few things to do or books to read except physical labor, I spend my spare time writing. As long as I have free time, I will think about writing articles on topics including season, month, festival, landscape, insects and birds, lyric with the scenery and so on. My writing practice in the past two years has not only helped me summarize three effective writing rules applicable to both Chinese and English (i.e. argument extension, argument concentration and key words), but also kept me calm in boredom. For example, when I first arrived in the countryside, I participated in the restoration of commune canals. Mixing cement requires carrying water from under the slope. Under normal circumstances, each round trip takes about 10 minutes. At first, I asked others to carry water, but after a few times, I couldn't find it. Later, I took over the task and took it easy every 10 minutes to ensure the water for mixing cement from beginning to end. Carrying water is such a monotonous thing. Why is it difficult for others to insist, but I insist? Because when I was carrying water, I had been thinking about how to write an article instead of how to be lazy, so I completely forgot the monotony and boredom of carrying water. At the end of 1977, the review of the college entrance examination was in full swing. At that time, my commune farm dormitory was located in an unfinished building. There were no electric lights, windows or glass. It was only windproofed by the disassembled black plastic fertilizer bag film. The light is lit by diesel oil from the tractor. After a day's physical work, I reviewed under the diesel lamp at night. There were bursts of cold wind outside the window, the plastic film danced back and forth, and the smoke of black diesel lamp floated everywhere. The next morning, I washed my hands with dirt and black snot. In addition, at that time, the teaching difficulty of middle schools in Hunan Province was significantly greater than that in Guangdong Province. Relying on the knowledge learned in Guangdong middle schools, I could only get Hunan college entrance examination scores into three types of universities. Although I enrolled in the provincial medical college, the Provincial College of traditional Chinese medicine, and even the regional health school, I was admitted to the veterinary specialty of the provincial agricultural college. Considering that I was 20 years old at that time, and there were only four years left for me to have the strongest memory, I didn't want to wait for the second year to retake the exam and delay the most precious year of my life for no reason.

Undergraduate (1978-1982). When I was a sophomore, I decided to focus on the translation of scientific and technological documents according to my personality and hobbies, so as to strengthen the foundation of Chinese and English. In my spare time in grade 2-4 of University, I focused on reading English Chinese dictionary, Xinhua Dictionary and Chinese idiom dictionary, and used radio and television to learn oral English. At that time, I had a small semiconductor radio and read lectures with English radio every day. In order to watch TV English lectures, I go to each teaching building at noon every Sunday. When he heard someone in the room listening to the English lecture, he knocked on the door and asked if he could watch it with them. In this way, I met ye puzeng, a master of veterinary parasitology, and became a close friend. Later, when applying for graduate school, elder martial brother Ye suggested that I choose veterinary pathology as my major because it was cleaner. But I replied that if we chose Veterinary Pathology, we would be separated from each other in the future. So I decided to apply for a postgraduate in veterinary parasitology and be brother Ye's colleague in the future. That year, Beinong university had a place for overseas graduate students in veterinary parasitology. Due to lack of confidence, I failed to fill in the form. Elder martial brother ye said after knowing that your English is so good, you must choose a newspaper. With his encouragement, I applied for a graduate student abroad, passed the exam and successfully won this honor.

Graduate student (1982-1989). After I graduated from college, I reported to Beinong University in early 1982, and then went to the language college to tutor oral English for half a year. Then, according to the orientation of overseas graduate places in veterinary parasitology, I applied for the postgraduate courses in veterinary parasitology at the universities of Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland, Australia. The tutor of Veterinary Parasitology of the University of Melbourne attached great importance to my application and asked the Chinese professor of the University of Melbourne, who was on business at the Australian Embassy in China, to meet me at the embassy. The professor casually took out an English book on Southeast Asia and asked me to translate one paragraph into Chinese. After listening to my interpretation, the professor said it was good. Soon, the University of Melbourne sent me an admission notice. After some time, I also received admission notices from the universities of Sydney and Queensland. But the University of Melbourne attached great importance to my decision to study there instead of the University of Sydney or Queensland. In early 1983, he arrived in Sydney, Australia and studied Australian oral English for three months. Then he went to the University of Melbourne and lived in the student dormitory of the Veterinary College for the first year. Since I have no master's research experience, I registered a master's program first. My tutor asked me to read the immunodiagnostic literature of an animal parasite and write a review in the first three months. After completing the draft, the tutor gave a fair evaluation. Then let me do the immune diagnosis experiment of the animal parasite with his research assistant. In this relatively abundant year, I focused on reading English textbooks on Animal Parasitology and immunology related to my major. I also used my leisure to read nearly 1000 historical novels, romantic novels and other literary works in the reading room of my student dormitory, which greatly satisfied my wish to read literary works for many years, but failed to realize it, So as to improve my English writing level to a new level. Because I handled the problems of the experiment well, most things (including experimental procedures and operation details) can be learned as soon as I read them (my colleagues in the laboratory said that I have a good memory, but in fact I am just diligent in remembering, and always maintain the habit of remembering new things before falling asleep and after waking up). In less than a year, I turned to my master of research, Continue to do the immune diagnosis experiment of the animal parasite. Then something happened, so I had to transfer to doctor in less than a year. The reason is that the tutor obtained two parasites of the same species and different genera from other schools, one of which mainly infects cats and the other mainly infects dogs, but the two genera occasionally cross infect. The tutor plans to infect dogs with these two different parasites, and then use immune means to identify the specificity of their response. At the end of the experiment, the cultured larvae were observed under the microscope. I found that there was no difference in the structure of the two parasites, which should be the same genus. If so, it means that the previous experiment is just fooling around. After listening to my report, the tutor immediately checked several samples in person to prove that my judgment was correct. Therefore, the tutor called to inform the foreign professors of this result, and the other party repeatedly apologized for the trouble caused to the tutor by his work mistakes. A few days later, my tutor asked me if I was willing to study for a doctorate. My research direction was to produce and use monoclonal antibodies to improve the immune diagnosis of human hydatidosis. I naturally agreed. Because the tutor's laboratory did not have ready-made monoclonal antibody production technology, everything started from scratch. In the first two years, there were many detours, and the experimental progress was slow. I realized that if I went on like this, I would not meet the degree requirements. Therefore, from the third year, I thought more independently. As long as the tutor's experimental design was less than expected, I adopted different methods to improve it. In this way, I improved the experimental efficiency, completed the doctoral course, and wrote 8 research reports with the experimental data. Based on these experiences and lessons, I summarized three strategies of scientific research innovation, namely, first; Better; Different will lay a solid foundation for the success of scientific research and innovation in the future.

Postscript. The process from entering primary school to earning my doctorate is a portrayal of a poor son who broke into the highest palace of science mainly through his own efforts. Those seemingly ordinary and lack of highlights (including the shadow of the family and the aura of famous schools) show several insights and experiences on how to read books well, that is, reading should be time-based, reading should rely on self-consciousness, reading should have a sense of purpose, and reading should be good at summarizing. The so-called temporality of reading refers to making full use of the short time with the strongest memory in life (i.e. before the age of 24), following the rules of memory (i.e. review after 30 minutes, 24 hours and a week), capturing the subjects that need to be memorized (for example, writing), greatly increasing the memory inventory and reducing the memory burden in the future. The so-called self-consciousness of reading refers to developing the habit of self-study and self responsibility. In case of problems, try to solve them by yourself, and don't rely on others for small things; Besides, others can't help you with scientific research problems. If they can, others will have done it by themselves and published it first. The so-called sense of goal in reading refers to setting some phased goals consistent with personal abilities and interests, so as to give yourself a direction of efforts, because any efforts without goals cannot last. For example, my goal during primary and middle school was to get the highest score in the exams of various subjects, so that my parents felt that all their hard work and sacrifice were worth it (in fact, after the test results came out, my father would take my full score test paper to the neighbor's house and ask their children how they did in the exam, which showed his pride); The goal of scientific and technological literature translation set by my sophomore year in college gives me infinite motivation to recite Chinese dictionaries and English dictionaries and practice oral English. Although I didn't do scientific and technological literature translation later, my accumulated language knowledge helped me successfully obtain a Postgraduate Scholarship abroad; My current goal is to set up an insurmountable benchmark for future generations in the number and breadth of biotechnology book editors, so it seems that I still have endless energy when I am close to retirement age. The so-called reading should be good at summarizing, which means finding out regular things through observed imagination.