1916年秋,叶剑英在广东东山中学毕业前夕,广东省教育局通知梅县各个中学举办学生成绩展览,参展的学校有公立学校、私立学校、教会学校,校长怕展览搞得太大会得罪其他参展学校,就主张展览的规模要尽量缩小,叶剑英却不同意校长的意见,他召集不少学生,提出要把展览规模搞大,校长见状便以扣发文凭威胁,要叶剑英承认错误, In the autumn of 1916, Ye Jianying, on the eve of the graduation of Dongshan High School in Guangdong, notified the Guangdong Provincial Education Bureau of the student achievement exhibitions held in all secondary schools in Meixian. The participating schools were public schools, private schools, church schools, and school principals who were afraid of exhibiting too much and offending other participating schools Advocating the scale of the exhibition should be minimized. Yeh Eng-ying disagreed with the principal’s opinion. He called in many students and proposed that the scale of the exhibition should be enlarged. If the principal sees him, he will be threatened with a diploid deduction. If Ye Jianying admits the mistake,