Feng Zhiliang, pen name He Zini, Bohai Resident, Distinguished Professor of Peking University, known as brand promoter, IT trainer, network analyst, network planner, surname culture scholar, founder and founder of network news marketing, founder of brand tong. He has put forward the "blue ocean view" on the exclusion of the value of online advertising. The proposal of the blue ocean view has great significance for the development direction of China's Internet, and has become a sign of the real understanding of the Internet by mainland netizens, which has pointed out the direction for the development of China's Internet. In the spring of 2010, Feng Zhiliang resolutely took off the many halos brought to him by the Internet industry, formally converted to the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism, and successfully completed the transformation of the industry, opening another new chapter in his life - the revival and dissemination of traditional Chinese culture. In 2013, he was appointed As a Distinguished Professor of the Institute of Private Economics and the Department of Religious Studies of Peking University. Feng Zhiliang is involved in a wide range of subjects, profound in calligraphy and painting, and is keen on literary history, and is also an expert in ancient calligraphy and family history genealogy, presiding over the compilation of 380 "Handbook of Family Name Roots", 180 "Genealogy of Hundred Family Names", and authors of "Bohai Poetry Collection", "Basic Knowledge of Biography Writing Textbook", "Family Tree Editing Lecture Training Materials", "Family History Genealogy Compilation Practical Course", "Family History Writing Case Analysis", "Genealogy Chronicle Compilation Record", "Surname Culture Lecture Materials", "How to Repair Family Trees", "How to Compile Family History". How to Write an Autobiography", etc.
Hello everyone, welcome to the "Different Stories of Hundred Family Names", I am Feng Zhiliang of peking university surname culture center. In this issue, we will talk about the surname Chen.
According to the "Tongzhi Clan Sketch", after King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty, he sent people to find Shun's descendant "Hu Gongfei Man" and sealed him in the place of Chen, which is today's Huaiyang, Henan, and established the "State of Chen". When Hu Gongman passed on the reign of the ninth grandson Chen Ligong Yue, Chen Ligong was in civil unrest, and Chen Ligong's son Concubine Fei was afraid of affecting himself and fled to the State of Qi. In order to commemorate the homeland, the surname was changed to Chen, which is the earliest source of the Chen surname.
The population of Chen has now exceeded 60 million, which is the fifth largest surname in the country, and there are many celebrities in history. But the Chen surname today may not be very famous, but just because he did something that did not seem to be earth-shattering, it greatly affected the process of China's historical development.
Speaking of this, we have to mention a person, that is, Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice" in China, who is very familiar with Yuan Longping, and the double-cropping yield of hybrid rice by Yuan Longping's team has exceeded 3,000 kilograms, making great contributions to solving the food problem in China and even the world.
How to talk about the Chen surname, talk about Yuan Longping? In fact, in ancient China, there was a figure whose merits were comparable to Yuan Longping's, and his name was Chen Zhenlong. He was a native of Fuzhou, Fujian Province during the Ming Dynasty, and used to do business in what is known as Luzon Island in today's Philippines. Chen Zhenlong in Luzon Island, found that local farmers planted a large number of crops, this kind of crop that has never appeared in China, drought-tolerant, resistant to diseases and insect pests, resistant to land barrenness, at that time there was no fertilizer and pesticide era of mu production capacity of more than 4,000 catties, while the wheat and rice mu yield in the same period was only more than 300 catties.
This crop is called "sweet potato", because of the different varieties, there are many common names such as sweet potatoes, white potatoes, purple potatoes and so on. Native to the Americas, Spain colonized the Americas after the so-called Discovery of the New World by Columbus and colonized many countries of the world, including the Philippines. The Spaniards brought the sweet potato to their country and colonies for widespread cultivation. Chen Zhenlong is determined to bring this "high-yield new variety" back to China to relieve the hungry. However, the "sweet potato" was strictly prohibited at that time, and if it was trafficked, it was subject to heavy punishment. After much thought and great risk, Chen Zhenlong wrapped a sweet potato vine into the anchor rope of the tethered boat, and finally escaped the interrogation of the Spaniards and brought it to China.
Before the import of sweet potatoes, the official number of Chinese mouths in successive dynasties never exceeded 80 million. However, after Chen Zhenlong introduced sweet potatoes, in less than two hundred years, the population exceeded 300 million, accounting for nearly one-third of the world's total population. Some scholars even jokingly called the "Kangqian prosperous world" of the Qing Dynasty as the "sweet potato prosperous world", which shows how great the influence of sweet potatoes is.
Nowadays, the latest varieties of sweet potatoes cultivated have a production capacity of nearly 10,000 catties per mu. With such a high yield, Yuan Longping also painstakingly studied what hybrid rice does, the purpose is not to let the people eat enough, simply grow sweet potatoes for the whole people. For rice and wheat, the biggest problem with sweet potatoes is that they are not easy to preserve, are extremely perishable, and have high transportation costs. The process of processing into starch is relatively complex, the flour yield is only about 25%, even if it is steamed and dried, it must be stored for a long time in a very low humidity and well-ventilated environment, and cannot be used as a reserve grain, which is also an important reason why sweet potatoes cannot become staple foods.
Despite this, Chen Zhenlong is not a scientific researcher, but his achievement in bringing "sweet potato" back to the motherland can be called Yuan Longping of the Ming Dynasty, and we should remember his name.
Well, today's "different family name stories" will be told here, and we will see you next time.
