盘点：鸡年出生的名人（组图）

Ye Jianying 叶剑英

As one the Ten Marshals of China, Ye Jianying was born on April 28 in 1897 in Guangdong province. In 1919, Ye graduated from the Yunnan Military Academy and later joined the Kuomintang and followed Sun Yat-sen. He then joined the Communist Party in 1927 and participated in the Nanchang Uprising.

Mao Zedong once used two important officials in China to describe Ye, one is Zhuge Liang, a famous strategist and ancient scholar from the Tree Kingdoms (220-280), the other Lv Duan, an outstanding prime minister from the Song Dynasty (960-1279).

新中国开国十大元帅之一，叶剑英1897年出生在广东。1927年加入中国共产党并参加了南昌起义。毛泽东曾把叶剑英比喻成诸葛亮和吕端。

Young Ye Jianying (left), Ye in 1949. [Photo/IC; File photo]

左：年轻的叶剑英；右：1949年的叶剑英