毛泽东要求别人的自己首先做到。他一生粗茶淡饭,睡硬板床,穿粗布衣,生活极为简朴,一件睡衣竟然补了73次、穿了20年。经济困难时期,他自己主动减薪、降低生活标准,不吃鱼肉、水果。上世纪60年代,有一次他召开会议到中午还没有结束,他留大家吃午饭,餐桌上一大盆肉丸熬白菜、几小碟成菜,主食是烧饼。伟人在勤俭节约方面为国人做出了表率。当年,美国记者斯诺在延安看到毛泽东等中共中央领导人吃的是粗糙的小米饭,穿的是用缴获的降落伞改制的背心, Mao Zedong asked others to do it first. He spent his life as a cucumber, sleeping hard bed, wearing a rough coat, life is very simple, even a pajamas make up 73 times, wearing 20 years. In times of economic hardship, he took the initiative to reduce his salary, lower the standard of living, and not eat fish and fruits. 60s of last century, once he convened a meeting to noon is not over, he stayed for everyone to eat lunch, a large bowl of meatballs on the table boiled cabbage, a few dishes into food, staple food is sesame seed. Great people in diligence and saving for the people made a model. In those days, the U.S. reporter Snow saw in Yenan that Mao Zedong and other leaders of the CPC Central Committee ate a rough little rice, wearing a vest transformed by the seized parachute,