It's really handsome!
Recently, a video of a peacekeeping force growing vegetables abroad has attracted countless fans on the Internet.
Unexpectedly, our mighty brother soldier planted the ground, and he was also a good hand!
In a large green vegetable field, cabbage, bean sprouts, and cucumbers are planted, and the soldiers and brothers are wearing uniforms to hoe, fertilize, and pull vegetables, and the techniques are quite skillful.
The picture is fresh and organic, which is called a joy.
Although it is a movie, it is based on real events.
We have planted vegetables not only in our own yards, but also all over the world, in the North and South Poles, and on the moon. Growing vegetables can be described as perfect.
One word:
The Chinese have a strong talent for growing vegetables, and the universe can no longer contain it.
You read that right, you can also grow vegetables on the barren land of South Sudan in Africa!
Many people have the impression that it should be red, full of sand, and the temperature can reach up to 50°C, and the dry season will begin in late December.
The stubborn mango trees and the thorns growing in the crevices of the ditch are particularly precious here.
And the Chinese peacekeeping force in Sudan has changed the style of painting like this:
Patches of vegetables are green, vibrant, and grow in a tic-tac-toe shape, and even the air is filled with a fresh and refreshing smell.
However, from desert to green space, it is not so easy, and the process of growing vegetables is also arduous and tortuous.
The fighters had to dig more than half a meter deep in the barren red sand, and then go to the bed of the Blue Nile, dozens of kilometers away, to dig up river mud and fill it in the trough bed.
Then level the land, raise the ditch, cultivate the soil suitable for the growth of vegetables, and then plant on it.
With the right soil, nurturing seedlings also requires careful shade and protection from sun exposure.
Then, after work, the river water is brought to irradiate.
At that time, some compatriots working in Sudan said that they almost made people depressed because they ate pickles, canned potatoes and onions every day.
Until they visited the peacekeepers by chance, they were overjoyed to eat food from their hometown. Even after eating and taking, I also deeply felt a handful of nostalgia.
In the desert of Mali in West Africa, even in the harsh environment where the average annual temperature is above 37°C and the water supply is only 15 minutes a day, the enthusiasm of peacekeepers for growing vegetables cannot be stopped.
Re-pipes were re-laid to replenish vegetation and waste mixing tanks were used as water storage tanks to recover and recycle wastewater.
In the explosion-proof sand box around the board house, a variety of vegetables are planted.
What do you say?
If there are conditions, you have to grow vegetables, and if you don't have conditions, you have to grow vegetables.
In short: we are professional in peacekeeping, and we are serious about growing vegetables.
In 2020, due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the supply of fruits and vegetables for the peacekeeping troops of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) countries was seriously scarce.
As a result, the officers and men of our hard-working peacekeeping forces have started to do their own things and have enough food and clothing.
In their spare time, they open up wasteland and plant suitable vegetables according to local conditions.
Perhaps God was also moved by this diligence, and the rainy season was actually caught up in the hot season. Nourished by abundant sunlight and rain, vegetables grow. Within a month, the vegetables were served on the table.
Djibouti, in northeastern Africa, is a desert of volcanic rocks and scorched desert soil, where there is almost no rainfall throughout the year, and agricultural experts have asserted that it cannot be cultivated.
However, our Chinese naval officers and sailors have shattered this prophecy with their superior operational power.
They moved rocks and reefs, picked up soil and sand, and tried to plant seeds repeatedly, turning the desert into a big oasis and the impossible into a reality.
In Liberia, where tropical diseases such as malaria are common, our peacekeepers have carved out a vegetable garden directly next to the camp to build resilience against the disease.
Because they can only eat canned food every day, they affectionately call vegetables "tooth sacrifices".
Growing vegetables enriches the diet of officers and men, strengthens their bodies, and is a joy of life. Even when Iraq's land is heavily salinized and the groundwater is saline, it is necessary to rise to the challenge.
It can be said that in any camp where there are Chinese peacekeepers, soldiers can be seen growing vegetables. The diligence and wisdom of the Chinese can be said to be fully displayed in growing vegetables.
The officers and men's skillful skills in growing vegetables are indeed amazing.
But it's a piece of cake compared to growing vegetables in Antarctica.
In October 2014, a doctor named Wang Zheng took on an extremely important task in addition to his work as a doctor during the one-year period he accompanied the 31st National Antarctic Expedition: growing vegetables.
It sounds magical, but it's really hard to do in reality.
To put it simply, there are no soil, light, temperature, and water conditions necessary for growing vegetables.
The soil is more than 1,000 meters below the feet, and it is impossible to dig it out. The temperature is more than minus 20 degrees, and it is impossible to think that the temperature will rise. Precipitation is almost non-existent, and the drought level is comparable to that of the Sahara Desert.
Then the light is always fine, right?
Not really. Because the ultraviolet rays are too strong, the vegetables planted can fall to the ground immediately.
Although there is nothing, the wind is still abundant. Antarctica is the windiest and windiest place in the world.
But the point is, when the wind blows, there is nothing.
Therefore, if you want to grow vegetables in Antarctica, it is obviously impossible to grow vegetables outdoors, and it must be done indoors.
If there is no soil, it is cultivated without soil. The low temperature keeps the indoor light at 30 degrees Celsius, the plants are illuminated by LED lights, and the water comes from automatic irrigation and nutrient solution.
In this way, more than 20 kinds of vegetables such as cabbage, leeks, and tomatoes have become the delicacies of the Chinese scientific expedition team in Antarctica.
China's scientific research station is famous for growing vegetables, and vegetables have also become a sweet spot in the minds of scientists from all over the world, and for a time they have become a link to promote friendship between countries.
Starting with Dr. Wang Zheng, the doctors who followed the team also took over the stick of planting vegetables, and continued to carry forward the vegetable planting technology.
In 2016, the 32nd Antarctic expedition team arrived here, and the station not only expanded the planting area, but also expanded the vegetable varieties to peppers, okra and watermelons.
The planting method is also constantly breaking through, and it has also created a plant music oxygen bar for plants to listen to soft music.
By the time China's 37th Antarctic scientific expedition arrived in October 2019, the annual yield of Antarctic crops had reached hundreds of kilograms.
More than 300 kilograms of leafy vegetables, more than 100 kilograms of fruit vegetables, and more than one kilogram of fresh vegetables per day ensure sufficient vitamin intake for the staff.
As the saying goes, a doctor who can't farm is not a good Antarctic scientific expeditioner.
It's not enough to plant on Earth, but also try it in space!
When other countries have made achievements in aerospace: landing on the moon is a small step for mankind and a big leap for the world.
When China's space achievements were made: we cultivated the first cotton sprout on the moon and grew fresh vegetables!
The space vegetable garden first appeared in the Tiangong-2 space laboratory in 2016.
In that year, astronauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong went into space with Shenzhou 11 and carried out artificial cultivation of lettuce in space for the first time.
On January 3, 2019, Chang'e-4 landed on the moon and carried six kinds of organisms, including cotton, rape and potato, which were carefully selected. Nine days later, the cotton seed sprouted, the first sprout on the moon, and it was really exciting!
On June 5, 2022, during the Shenzhou-14 mission, astronauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe successfully cultivated lettuce, wheat and dwarf tomatoes and other vegetables, and achieved a "bumper harvest of vegetables" on the table.
If you don't accept it, you can't!
Why do we have to bring seeds with us wherever we go?
That's because thousands of years of farming civilization have long been integrated into the genes of the Chinese people.
It is a warrior who puts on armor, and a peasant who puts down his weapon.
Basically, as long as there are conditions, Chinese can grow food for you, no matter how harsh the environment and climate. Nothing can stop the Chinese yearning for growing vegetables.
Obviously, the global village is slowly becoming a vegetable circle for Chinese.
In the study abroad circles of countries around the world, the name of the Chinese "vegetable god" is definitely launched.
No, in 2015, a vegetable field at Yale University in the United States exploded because of this.
It was originally just an overgrown wasteland, which had been left untended for a long time.
Later, with the increasing number of Chinese students, more and more parents who accompanied their children to study in the United States came here, and occasionally found this feng shui treasure, so they consciously took over the beauty of cultivating vegetables in the wasteland.
After 10 years of careful cultivation, the original wasteland has been renovated into neat and orderly and lush vegetable gardens.
In addition to the usual beans, greens, and tomatoes, there are also vegetables such as leeks and coriander that Americans have never heard of. Many people pass by here and can't help but appreciate it, which has become a unique scenery on campus.
The Yale school has also enjoyed the success and has been very supportive of Chinese parents' plans to grow vegetables and provide them with fertilizers and other materials.
Over time, parents have spontaneously formed their own set of rules:
You can apply fertilizer instead of pesticides, generously share your harvest with your neighbors, even if they don't farm, and help each other take care of the vegetable patch when you go out.
If someone moves out halfway through, others will also be eager to find a home to take over and ensure that the vegetable plot continues to be planted.
Because I like to grow vegetables too much, there will be some ridiculous stories about Chinese vegetable dumplings in foreign countries.
For example, in August 2018, a Chinese resident in New York was complained by a neighbor for growing vegetables in his backyard.
Neighbors complained that the Chinese man had applied fertilizer that interfered with the soil quality when he was planting vegetables. And in the process of fertilization, an unpleasant odor is created. It is also because the garden is transformed into a vegetable garden without authorization, which affects the overall appearance of the community.
This compatriot never expected that he would be complained about growing a vegetable.
Foreign countries have very high requirements for the environment, because different vegetables have different requirements for the soil, and non-standard vegetable planting will destroy the soil and bring pest problems.
If it affects the health of the neighborhood or the overall environment of the community, he may also be punished by the relevant authorities.
A British man who married a Chinese wife once complained on the Internet about his mother-in-law's "great shift" vegetable planting skills.
The couple settled in Australia at the time, so the hostess took her mother from her hometown to Australia.
Originally, this British man was very fond of flowers, and he also planted a lot of flowers in his garden.
Unexpectedly, after the old lady arrived in Australia, she felt that it was a bit too wasteful to use such a large garden to plant flowers.
So during a certain son-in-law's business trip, he gave full play to the spirit of "hard work" and pulled out all the flowers and plants that his son-in-law had worked hard to cultivate, and planted all kinds of vegetables and fruits.
Not only are the gardens planted, but even a small corner of land by the pool.
When the son-in-law came back, he found that everything had become unrecognizable, and the garden had become a vegetable garden, and he was stunned at that time.
A friend's dad is a chef who lost his job a few years ago due to the pandemic. In order to earn more money, I went to Ecuador to work.
Specifically, it is to cook for the employees of the China-aided construction project in Ecuador.
At first, my friend said that my father complained to his family all day long that he was too idle at work, and he felt that he had gained weight.
After a while, he told his family that he finally had something to do. As soon as a friend inquired, I found out that her father had taken a fancy to the wasteland behind the dormitory, and then asked someone to bring all kinds of vegetable seeds, and went to open up the wasteland when he was alone.
After that, the people on the project owned two acres of vegetable garden.
It not only enriches the food, but also reduces fat. Kill two birds with one stone. I heard that her father later went to Pakistan to build a nuclear power plant to grow vegetables, and later raised chickens.
It seems that with the unremitting efforts of our compatriots, China's vegetable cultivation will sooner or later become popular all over the world.
There was a record of the Age of Discovery, where many crew members fell ill with scurvy due to environmental and medical conditions.
So some people were curious:
Why did Zheng He go to the West and not get scurvy?
Later, I found out from reading the historical materials that Zheng He's ship brought a lot of bean vegetables used to raw bean sprouts. Because there were no conditions for growing vegetables on the ship, and there was not enough fresh water, there was no other way to grow anything else, so I brought a lot of beans with me.
After the beans sprout, they can not only fill the porcelain with shockproof, but also eat them.
I didn't expect that by chance, I could avoid sepsis.
Perhaps, this is God's reward for hard work and wisdom.
Hu Bo, director of "A Bite of China 1", once said: "Chinese have to find a way to grow some vegetables wherever they go." ”
We are keen to plant some flowers and plants, green onions and seedlings, and harvest melons and fruits, because we believe in our bones that we can pay off. The process of our sweat and passion to take care of them, to nurture them, and to harvest them is a natural skill that we rely on to survive.
Because of this, we can turn deserts into oases in a few decades, and the agricultural production of wheat, honey, vegetables and fruits is the largest in the world.
Yuan Longping's grandfather is still in the field at the age of 90, and every hard-working social animal has said that "it's a big deal to go home and farm".
Although there may not be land to plant, in everyone's mind, farming is the ultimate belonging.
The land nourishes all things, and the land does not abandon every industrious person.
The author of this article | Mr. Pumpkin
Editor-in-Charge | Faint emerald
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