There is a category of people destined to be written into history for future generations to worship. Just like we worship the Fu Ren who invented fire, and Cai Lun, who invented paper. Mr. Yuan Longping is also this kind of person, even greater than them, because Yuan Longping solves the basic food problem. If you are still too clear about why Yuan Longping's status can be so high, look at the ancient grain production.
There is an old Chinese saying called "the people take food as the sky", and grain can be said to be the root of life, which is the benchmark for judging whether this dynasty is prosperous or not. If the country has a lot of food, it is natural that the people will starve to death, and the children born will have food to feed them, and the population will naturally grow with it.
When the population grows, it can recruit troops, it can drive the productive forces, and naturally the country will prosper and become strong. For example, during the Qianlong period, there were five times to exempt the world's money and grain, three times to exempt eight provinces of cao grain, in the fifth year of Qianlong (1740 AD) the population exceeded 100 million, Qianlong fifty-seven years (1790 AD) population exceeded 300 million.
It can be said that grain is life, so how much grain production in the dynasties and dynasties has been? First of all, let's look at the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Huainan Zi Master Shuxun has a record: "Ten acres of land, the harvest of the year, but forty stones." In other words, the rice yield equivalent to one acre of land is on average 4 stones.
First of all, the unit of calculation of mu is similar to now, so what is a stone? Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms in 221 BC, and then unified weights and measures. In the Qin and Han dynasties, the unit of measurement was about 14 kilograms per stone. In other words, the yield of one mu of field is about 56 kg.
After the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were the Three Kingdoms Jin Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the country was not productive because it suffered from war and chaos for many years. It was not until after the Sui and Tang dynasties that there was a change, so the measurement also began in the Sui and Tang dynasties. The New Book of Tang dynasty records that "one hundred acres, more than fifty hu (stone) out of rice." Sui and Tang 1 stone is 42 kg, 1 mu is 0.8 city mu. So the yield of rice is 157 catties per municipal mu.
By the two Song Dynasties, a large number of water conservancy projects and grain production also increased. Coupled with the stable development of the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years, by the Time of the Song Dynasty, it can be said that from an economic point of view, it can be said that it was the most prosperous period in the entire history. According to statistics, the per capita GDP of the people during the Song Dynasty was six hundred US dollars, ahead of the world.
In terms of grain constant alone, it is also very high, and Zhu Xi mentioned in the "Song of The Matter of Saving the Wastes" that "two stones of rice per acre are produced." "During the Song Dynasty, a stone was about 49 kilograms. That is 98 kilograms an acre. Compared with the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was nearly doubled. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the development mode of the two Song Dynasties was inherited, although the overall constant was not necessarily higher than that of the two Song Dynasties, but the production per mu even appreciated.
Finally, let's look at Yuan Longping's hybrid rice, which Yuan Longping developed in 1973 at the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences. For a time it caused a sensation in the world. From 1976 to 1988, the cumulative area of hybrid rice planted in the country was 1.256 billion mu, and the cumulative yield of rice increased by more than 100 billion kilograms. By 2011, the target of 700 kg and 800 kg per mu of super rice was achieved.
The goal for 2019 is to achieve a yield of 1200 kilograms per mu.
What is this concept? It is ten times higher than the actual 98 kilograms per acre of the two Song Dynasties. Today, Academician Yuan Longping is still making unremitting research, striving to play its due role in every inch of land, and Academician Yuan Longping is also known as the "father of hybrid rice." "His hybrid rice can be said to have fed countless people in the world, and his greatness is even more historical."