According to Tian Jiaying’s secretary Feng Xian’s published article “Mao Zedong’s Secretary Tian Jiaying”: In 1956, when Mao was going to deliver the closing speech at the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he was very dissatisfied with the speech script provided by Chen Boda. satisfy. The Eighth National Congress was about to close on the second day. Time was urgent, so Mao asked Tian Jiaying to write it quickly. Tian was dismissed at night and handed over to Mao the next morning. Mao immediately picked up the manuscript and walked onto the podium. He took out the manuscript written by Tian from his pocket and read it. The venue was filled with cheers, and every time Mao read a sentence, it aroused thunderous and prolonged applause. The participants were inspired by the literary grace and style of the closing speech!

After the meeting, people came forward to praise Mao one after another, especially the sentence "humility makes people progress, and pride makes people fall behind." Mao was extremely satisfied and said to people who asked about the closing speech: "This was written by a young scholar, Tian Jiaying."

"Even if we have achieved extremely great results in our work, there is nothing worthwhile." Reasons for arrogance and arrogance, humility makes people progress, pride makes people fall behind, we should always remember this truth." This famous saying by Mao in the closing speech of the Eighth National Congress was included in "Quotations from Chairman Mao" and has become a household name in that era. The "Bible" known to all women and children, one sentence is worth ten thousand sentences. But this "scholar" also died during the Cultural Revolution at the age of 42.