On the one hand is the son who was raised bitterly by Xin Ru, on the other hand is the motherland that is tormented by hunger, as Yuan Longping's mother, her life has too many entanglements, but as Yuan Longping's most solid backing, she not only gave Yuan Longping life, but also taught him the cognition of the world and the reverence for science, she is an ordinary mother and a well-deserved mother of the country.
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In 1930, Peking Union Medical College Hospital greeted a fat doll - Yuan Longping, at this moment in China's great northwest region and north China is ushering in an unprecedented history of hunger, social turmoil, military chaos, economic crisis, under the blessing of various reasons, grain has become a very scarce material Countless people have died of hunger.
The Great Floods in Jianghuai and Harbin occurred one after another, and whenever there was a famine in the world, the grain could no longer be measured by shengdou, and even soybeans and peas were worn into strings to sell, thinking about how expensive the grain was, only the rich could afford it.
However, no one would have thought that this fat doll, which looks inconspicuous, will become a peerless national soldier in China in the future, and will also become an important figure in solving the problem of hunger in people around the world.
Yuan Longping gradually grew up, he did not know much about his family history, but from the family history compiled by his relatives, he knew that his ancestors had settled in the qingzhu on the southern outskirts of De'an County, Jiangxi In the Ming Dynasty, which was a field at the foot of Lushan Mountain.
The original meaning of "畈" is a field, the Yuan family has a continuous connection between farming and land for generations, and later with the hard work of generation after generation, his father became a university president.
In Yuan Longping's memory, he also lived a stable life when he was very young, when his father Yuan Xinglie and his mother Hua Jing both worked in school, with a stable family and a rich income, and he had a carefree childhood and a large and comfortable house. But not long after, because of the social turmoil, the family was forced to live a life of upheaval and displacement.
Yuan Longping's family came to Hankou, where they were able to barely live a stable life, but all the income and expenditure of the family was reluctantly supported by their father alone. What impressed Yuan Longping the most was the crystal clear white rice that his father brought back from Tianjin, which was different from the rice they usually ate.
Fathers who come from out of town will ask their children with special pride: "Is this rice particularly delicious?" Then he excitedly introduced the children to the land of fish and rice, Poyang Lake.
Being able to eat a bowl of fragrant rice was already a good situation for the family at that time. Perhaps from this time on, Yuan Longping had a new understanding of rice. Of course, at this time, Yuan Longping had only just understood things, and he could not clearly understand what his goal was.
However, life in Hankou is happy and harmonious, very happy, although the days are relatively hard, but the father is practical and capable, and the mother will never be angry with the child because of the family conditions.
The only person who can really make this family full of laughter and laughter is the mother. The housewife who wore an apron and sleeves all day long not only spoke fluent, well-written English, but also often hunched over a nietzsche's book and read it with relish.
When he was idle, Hua Jing would teach Yuan Longping to read Nietzsche's philosophical books, perhaps from this time, Yuan Longping had a deeper understanding of things through reading, and also made a spiritual preparation for him to insist on his own research later.
Later, Yuan Longping's father also died very early, Hua Jing, a former rich lady, who was widowed at a young age and had to pull her own children, but she rarely complained like a complaining woman, and more often, Hua Jing's impression in Yuan Longping's heart was tough, simple and gentle. From his mother's body, Yuan Longping saw the same optimism and strength as his father, and such qualities also subtly affected Yuan Longping's personality.
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When Yuan Longping was six years old, his mother Hua Jing took him to an outing in the orchard in the countryside, which was the first time yuan Longping had received these living plants so closely, and unlike the commodities on the shelves, these plants grew in the ground, absorbing the nutrients in the soil, although they stayed silent on the land, they had a different kind of vitality.
Yuan Longping, who felt very curious about all this, touched the branches of the orchard curiously, and he seemed to feel the surging vitality, and at the same time, he also planted the seeds of interest in plant creatures in his heart.
"The grain on our table is grown in the land, and the clothes on our bodies are also made of cotton grown in the land, and our food, clothing, shelter and transportation are inseparable from the land." Yuan Longping heard his mother's words, and suddenly a strong sense of belonging surged up, as if all the previous pursuits had an answer, and the land became the greatest nature in his heart, allowing him to silently strengthen his inner beliefs and ideals.
Yuan Longping gradually grew up, his academic performance was good enough to let him go to a good school, according to his father's wishes, he hoped that his son could become a high official, promote to a fortune, and have a good career. But the mother, Hua Jing, is keenly aware of her son's different interests and hobbies.
Perhaps it was not a glorious job to engage in agriculture in the society at that time, but Hua Jing could understand Yuan Longping's hobbies and dreams very well, and she was also very firm in supporting her son and choosing the career she loved. This open-mindedness and unconditional support gave Yuan Longping the confidence to indirectly shape a scientific research bachelor who could change the world for china in the future.
In 1949, Yuan Longping listened to his own inner thoughts and applied for the Southwest Agricultural College, and from then on, the city was spacious, comfortable and clean and bright, and Yuan Longping had no relationship anymore, accompanying him by the scorching sun day after day, it was complicated and heavy agricultural work. After successfully graduating from southwest agricultural college, Yuan Longping accepted the national unified assignment and became a teacher at Anjiang Agricultural School in the foothills of Xuefeng Mountain in western Hunan Province.
The conditions in this area are worse than other places, and it is also particularly remote, although the environment is very supportive of his son to chase his dreams, but considering the road and environmental problems, he is still very worried. However, no matter how many difficulties ahead, it could not stop Yuan Longping's determination.
Hua Jing said to Yuan Longping worriedly, "Child, if you go there, you will definitely suffer hardships!" But Yuan Longping was not willing to repent, on the contrary, he seriously discussed the importance of grain to China with Hua Jing, saying, "I came from war and famine... War has also taught me a truth since I was a child: the weak eat the strong. If we want to be bullied by others, we in China must become strong! ”
Yuan Longping even recalled with his mother his years in Hankou when he was a child, where there was a Shennong Cave, and many people would come to worship Shennong every year. At that time, the young Yuan Longping did not know who Shennong really was, only that this legendary Shennong was particularly respected, and even the followers of Buddha and Bodhisattva were not as many as him.
Later, his mother told him that Shennong was not only the god of grain, but also the ancestor of medicine, and Shennong was also one of the few great figures in Chinese history who used agricultural life to change people's way of life. Since then, the mysterious color of Shennong's body and his quality of benefiting the people have been deeply engraved into Yuan Longping's mind, and engaging in agriculture has also become Yuan Longping's original dream and pursuit.
Hua Jing knew that she could no longer persuade her son to change his mind, she was worried and afraid, and finally she decided that for the sake of her son's health, she would follow Yuan Longping to Xuefeng Mountain in Xiangxi. Yuan Longping was very surprised to hear his mother's decision, her mother has lived in the city since she was a child, and there must be many adaptations to rural conditions, and he does not want his mother to go to the countryside to suffer such suffering.
But the mother said, "I can't persuade you, and you can't persuade me." Let Yuan Longping know that his mother's heart has been decided, so he went to the mountain with his mother. The conditions on the mountain were extremely harsh, but Yuan Longping was still excited to experiment with various sweet potatoes.
But the ideal is beautiful, the reality is very cruel, agricultural experiments are not as simple as Yuan Longping imagined, on the contrary, this kind of research experience is long, the process is also very subtle, after several experiments, Yuan Longping planted sweet potatoes have failed.
In the face of her son's failure, Hua Jing did not show dissatisfaction or accusation, she just said to Yuan Longping lightly: "Failure is the mother of success." ”
Yuan Longping instantly had the courage to continue researching, indeed, true success will experience many failures, what can this small setback be? It was this sentence that made Yuan Longping pluck up enough courage and extra patience in the next research, and finally achieved success.
In 1960, Yuan Longping was very surprised to find a natural hybrid rice in his rice field, ordinary hybrid rice must be through the natural teaching of pollen to be able to produce grain, but natural hybrid rice is not only very rare, but also belongs to the natural male sterile strain, if such a technology can be applied to the cultivation of rice, not only can greatly improve the yield of rice, but also change the existing rice planting methods.
Yuan Longping, who had discovered a new world, instantly felt that there seemed to be a new world in the study of grain, and if this experiment was successfully studied, it would be a feat of changing the world. So since 1964, Yuan Longping and his men have carried out rice hybrid cultivation experiments in rice hybrid fields.
In order to ensure the authenticity, objectivity and rigor of the experiment, they screened these tens of thousands of rice seedlings one by one, selected only six natural male hybrid rice plants, and used these six plants to continue experiments.
Yuan Longping thought that perhaps by cultivating male sterile lines, male sterile maintenance lines and male sterile recovery lines of the three-line method to cultivate hybrid rice, can greatly increase rice yield, in order to verify his conjecture, he wrote his own research into a paper published in the "Science Bulletin", immediately caused a strong response and attention from all walks of life.
He is very happy that his research results have received everyone's attention, and he is more determined to complete his dream of hybrid rice. However, before he could succeed in his research, even greater setbacks followed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > The Order of the Nation</h1>
Academies of sciences like Yuan Longping have been treated unfairly for political reasons in China, and not only that, but a piece of hybrid rice that he and his men have worked so hard to grow has been deliberately sabotaged by others. Faced with such a scene, Yuan Longping was heartbroken, and it was not easy to rescue five rice seedlings from under the well at night, and secretly continued the experiment.
Since the experiment did not go well, Yuan Longping began to think about the process of hybrid rice from a new direction, he ran to Yunnan, introduced a new variety of rice from Yunnan, and wanted to fuse their trait genes together, integrate their high-quality characteristics, and cultivate new rice. Over the years, Yuan Longping has been sticking to the field, like an ordinary farmer, guarding the hybrid rice he has worked so hard to cultivate, and people who don't know only think that he is a native farmer.
Yuan Longping adhered to the belief that after more than ten years of research, he finally formally studied hybrid rice in 1975, and the following year, hybrid rice with a yield much higher than the ordinary yield was rapidly popularized, and now everyone can realize the dream of eating white rice on the table.
The outstanding contribution of the research results made Yuan Longping famous in an instant, and he needed to hold many seminars for scientific research publications at a time, at this time, the English taught to him by his mother Hua Jing from childhood came in handy.
After entering the agricultural work, Yuan Longping did not feel that English is an important discipline, but with the continuous deepening of research, in order to find more in-depth information, Yuan Longping will choose to find foreign materials to read by himself, a strong English foundation, so that he has a certain translation ability, but also accelerate the speed of his research.
The technology of hybrid rice has brought about a change in the quality of China's agriculture, and has also given China a new atmosphere, and because of this, Yuan Longping was awarded the "Order of the Republic" and became one of the great figures who made outstanding contributions during the founding of New China. And when he was interviewed, he mentioned his mother the most, if it were not for his mother and support, as well as the infinite tolerance in the later stage, perhaps there would be no Yuan Longping today.
Just as Yuan Longping thanked his mother, all the people of China thanked Yuan Longping. On May 21, 2021, Yuan Longping passed away due to illness, the whole country mourned, the cry was tremendous, and this doctor dedicated himself to the scientific research bachelor of agriculture always adhered to the principle of life entrusted to him by his mother. He is the pride of Huajing, and also the pride of China.