Abstract:After the news that my book Essential Microbiology won “the first National Textbook Award”(second prize),I wrote this article in response to the suggestion of our school leaders for recapitulation and communication of textbook writing.First of all,this article describes my character and the guiding ideology of my writing—to be a competent microbiology teacher throughout my life.After more than half a century of efforts in teaching,I wrote many articles and books,among which the representative work is the textbook Essential Microbiology,which was written by myself for more than half a century.The book has been published in four editions with more than one million copies in print and selected by more than 300 institutions of higher education.This book is written by a single person and ironed with Chinese characteristics,has a stable system cross all the editions,exhibits the up-to-date frontier of the subject,attaches importance to the training of students’ long-term memory and strategic thinking,and cares the improvement and communication of teaching methods and the linking of theory with practice.My experience to textbook compilation can be concluded as follows:being passionate about what you are doing,staying modest,pursuing real achievements over window dressing,accumulating diligent work,trying your best,and respecting the juniors.
