27 years ago, UNESCO declared April 23 as "world reading day". That year, Yang Changhui, a junior high school student, met a Chinese teacher. The teacher opened a window for Yang Changhui to love reading. Since then, Yang Changhui has plunged into the world of books. When reading becomes a way of life, every day is Yang Changhui's "reading day". Over the past 27 years, Yang Changhui has read nearly a thousand books, which are stuffed with at least three book walls. He recorded more than 60 notes, which are half the height of an adult. Today, Yang Changhui has grown into a political commissar of an air force station. Talking about his reading experience for so many years, the Air Force Colonel sincerely sighed: "only by constantly reading and thinking, can you appreciate the deep things of life and expand the width and depth of life." By reading what kind of books a person reads, we can roughly know what kind of person he is. As a teenager, Yang Changhui liked Zheng Yuanjie's fairy tale king; When he grew up, Yang Changhui preferred to read military books. In the book, Yang Changhui's eyes are locked on the world coordinate system and completes his self-growth in curiosity and soberness. Outside the book, he used the continuous improvement of his ability to fight "ability panic" and the continuous reconstruction of his ability to defeat "ability anxiety". By talking to Yang Changhui and looking at the book wall behind him, we can see the vision and feelings, mission and responsibility of a soldier of the Republic. An Air Force Colonel and the book wall behind him ■ special reporter of PLA Daily Wang Yukai A fighter plane took off in the desert. Yang Changhui, political commissar of an air force station, often said to his comrades in arms: "flight must rely on aerodynamics, and transformation depends on the ideological engine." Photographed by Yang Jun Book wall "The book wall behind me gives me courage. The books I have read are the foundation for communication." In Yang Changhui's office, in addition to a huge map, the most eye-catching is a group of 2-meter-high bookcases. Hundreds of political, military, scientific and technological books filled the six partitions. The bookcase is at the same height as the shoulder. It is a book with the theme of intelligent war, which is the field that Yang Changhui has paid more attention to recently; The two oldest books are "on war science" and "on War Engineering", which he has read three times each; At the bottom of the bookcase, there is a full set of "start a prairie fire". He asked these 20 books to urge and remind himself: what are you busy with every day? Yang Changhui's Air Force Station is a truly science and technology intensive unit. When dealing with highly educated talents all day, Yang Changhui did not feel too much knowledge oppression. These young scientific and technological workers who devote themselves to tackling key problems like to chat with him. In this unit, whether it's talking about data mining, algorithmic warfare, or military modeling, Yang Changhui can always talk with you and get together. "The book wall behind me gives me courage. The books I have read are the foundation for communication." Yang Changhui said. Some comrades in arms are curious. How many books did political commissar Yang read? "At least 3 Book walls." Yang Changhui replied. In 2009, after Yang Changhui and his wife Huang Jing bought a house, they chose a group of Dark Walnut bookcases for the first time. That was their first piece of serious furniture. "The 2.5cm thick plate cost them nearly a month's salary and covered the whole wall of the living room". Huang Jing, who is also a soldier, also likes reading. Yang Changhui thinks they are "equal" because they have the same amount of reading. Before long, the huge bookcase was filled with their books. They bought a group of bookcases with the same style and different colors, which were placed opposite the old bookcase and covered the other wall of the living room. So the living room became a study. The two walls have been used for the first two years. Because the area of the new house was too small to fit the bookcases, Yang Changhui gave them to his old classmates. The old classmate is a doctor of materials science and lives in Tsinghua University, which is the school Yang Changhui yearns for. "Since you can't go by yourself, let the bookcase go." Yang Changhui said. Without the bookcase, Yang Changhui always felt empty in his heart. For him, the bookcase is like a vessel for the soul. So he set up a third book wall for himself in his office. Nowadays, the elements in the bookcase have become richer and more like a window carrying military career and recording important moments. The most conspicuous photos are those of Yang Changhui and an expert Professor of the air force in the desert, the first time he received a new type of equipment with his classmates in the military academy, and the group photo of him with the test pilot who completed the "Cobra maneuver"... Whenever his comrades in arms come to Yang Changhui's office, they always stop in front of the bookcase involuntarily. Some honorary certificates are also placed in the bookcase: the first prize of the excellent thesis of the first "new era national defense and military development forum" of the National Defense University, the second prize of the excellent achievement of the political theory research of the air force, and the third prize of the excellent achievement of the political theory research of the whole army... In Yang Changhui's view, these honorary certificates "are not only an affirmation of the past, but also an incentive to the future". During the Spring Festival this year, private Liu Jinglin produced an exhibit with the pattern of "climbing tiger" in the camp lantern exhibition organized by his superior. Yang Changhui felt that it was very meaningful, so he mounted a small sample of the lantern show - a simple brush painting of "climbing tiger" and put it into the bookcase. Next to the "tiger", he thought out a sentence: pursue the dream and empty the sky, like a tiger adding wings to the future. Although the bookcase has become smaller, Yang Changhui continues to choose and store books. "As long as you feel nutritious, you will come back. You may not read it immediately, but you must be convenient to read and have it when you read it." Not long ago, a new batch of books came to our library. Yang Changhui specially took a picture with those books. He squeezed into the unopened pile of books and said happily, "finally 'go deep into the book' Yang Changhui participated in the reading exchange activities organized by the technical room of the station at the "desert book bar". Photo by Xu Guanglan Notes "If a person can keep writing 100 reading notes, it must be a cool thing." Deputy stationmaster Zhao Jiangfeng visited Yang Changhui's office and saw a pile of half height notes. He looked through it curiously and found that it was the reading notes of the political commissar, which spanned 20 years. Zhao Jiangfeng was shocked: it's easy to keep reading for a while. It's rare to see 20 years like a day. Yangchanghui's habit of taking notes is influenced by his wife Huang Jing. Every time he finishes reading a book, he will use a notebook to record the title, author (translator), reading time, publishing information, etc; The other one extracts the essence of the book - words, figures, styles, catalogues, and important points. "Flight depends on aerodynamics, and transformation depends on the engine of thought." In Yang Changhui's view, taking notes is a gesture for him to keep moving forward. When he was an instructor, he once made a statistics to separate the study notes written after graduation from the military academy and the honorary certificates obtained according to the years. It was found that they were in direct proportion to the number, "the more study notes in which year, the more honors in which year". When he began to take notes, Yang Changhui thought that according to the speed of four notes a year, it would take 25 years to write 100 notes. At that time, he should be nearly 50 years old. "If a person can keep writing 100 reading notes, it must be a cool thing!" From his notes, Yang Changhui understood the power of persistence. In 2002, Yang Changhui graduated from the military academy and came to the army. He always had an idea in his mind: apply for postgraduate. However, the combat readiness task of the grass-roots front-line is heavy, and he has never had the opportunity to go to graduate school. Therefore, Yang Changhui decided to be his own tutor and began to read graduate teaching materials. The desire for learning made him pick up books and live a life of reading in a sponge for more than 10 years—— On the weekend, his comrades in arms chatted in the dormitory, and Yang Changhui moved a Mazar to read at the door; When the army went to the seaside for training, he read a book by the tent. The wind blew on the book with sand, and it seemed that he could not shake clean; When he was on a mission on the plateau and couldn't sleep at night, he calmed himself by reading; While sitting on the transport plane, his comrades in arms had a rest with earplugs in their ears. He still read against the noise This has been going on for 14 years. In 2016, Yang Changhui, 36, was admitted to the master's degree in military command of National Defense University. Opening the half height notebook, the earliest record can be traced back to Yang Changhui's military academy. If we move the time forward, Yang Changhui will add books such as fairy tale king. It was the book that had the deepest influence on him in his youth, and inadvertently planted the seeds for him to join the army. In middle school, Yang Changhui studied in the youth class of Xi'an No. 1 middle school. Because he liked playing football, he encouraged his friends to go to Kunming to see the men's football training. Later, he went to Beijing by accident. When I came back, the school was fried - not only the school, the family, but also the police. After experiencing this incident, Yang Changhui realized that his thoughts were too wild, perhaps influenced by the king of fairy tales. The reason why I choose a military academy is that I feel constrained to make my mind more mature and my actions more powerful. When he first entered the military academy, Yang Changhui read all kinds of books. With the passage of time, he gradually understood his responsibilities and began to read a lot of military books. At the same time, Yang Changhui set a reading guiding principle for himself: what should a soldier of the Republic think, learn and do. Over the years, he has systematically taught himself Marxist works, read nearly 30 master's textbooks of the Academy of Military Sciences, as well as a large number of books on strategy and tactics, examples of war generals, weapons and equipment, cutting-edge science and technology, and passed the national second-class psychological counselor examination Many people believe that Yang Changhui is obsessed with reading because he likes reading. But he admitted that reading more stems from ability anxiety. Yang Changhui has a marching bed in his office, but he seldom uses it. During the noon break, he spent almost all his time reading. "Sometimes, when you read more books, you know that your opponent is strong. You are often in a cold sweat. How can you sleep!" Yang Changhui said. Turning over an old notebook and looking at a line of running script titles, Yang Changhui sighed: "Oh, old friends. These book titles are like lighthouses on the sea. They can see the footprints when they come and guide the direction of the future." At the beginning of this year, Yang Changhui was a little sad when he learned that the fairy tale king was closed. More than 20 years later, the original idea of flying still exists in my mind. Looking at a group of sparrows "chirping" outside the window, Yang Changhui thought: will there be a bionic sparrow? How do birds communicate and cooperate? There is swarm warfare. Is there a sparrow warfare? What are the differences and advantages between the two? Reading has become a way of life for Yang Changhui, and every day is his "reading day". Photographed by Duan Wenbin Forum "Study small problems, do specific things well and illuminate 0.5 square meters around" After reading "soldiers were born to win" and "the Far East: the Korean War", Yang Changhui wrote down his unchanging dream in the graduation message book of the University for more than 20 years: "I hope that one day in the future, we can face the veterans sleeping underground with respect and pride." In 2020, Yang Changhui came to a station of the air force as a political commissar. Looking at the Qilian snow mountain, the boundless desert and the Millennium immortal Populus euphratica, he had thousands of thoughts: what on earth did he come here for? How to realize the original dream? Although the camp is in the desert, there are more than 10 large and small artificial lakes. Among them, the favorite of officers and soldiers is red