The mountains and rivers whimpered, and the heavens and the earth mourned!
On May 22, 2021, Yuan Longping, the "Father of Hybrid Rice", the winner of the Order of the Republic, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the honorary president of the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, died of illness at the age of 91!
Yuan Longping's life was a glorious and great life.
In everyone's cognition, Elder Yuan is not only a polite scientist, but also a simple elder with a rich interest in life.
He would play the violin gracefully and would also scratch his head playfully during interviews.
Not to mention, Elder Yuan is still a heavy cat slave:
In addition, Elder Yuan is a "movie superstar"!
In 2009, the biographical film "Yuan Longping", which tells the story of Yuan Lao's glorious life, was released.
This film tells the legendary experience of Yuan Lao's research project around hybrid rice, from youth to old age.
It is particularly worth mentioning that at the end of this movie, Yuan Lao personally appeared on camera to play the elderly self, which also made the biographical movie "Yuan Longping" the only movie that Yuan Lao participated in before his death.
The biographical film "Yuan Longping" itself is as simple and unpretentious as Yuan Lao, but it is precious in reality, and it impresses the audience with its delicate lens language.
Especially at the end of the film, Yuan Lao himself uses fluent English to convey his dreams and beliefs to the foreign reporters interviewed.
This scene always makes Xiaoxing cry deeply!
In the movie "Yuan Longping", in addition to the appearance of Yuan Lao himself at the end, Yuan Lao's role from his youth to the age of 60 is responsible for the actor Guo Jinglin.
Guo Jinglin is a Chinese mainland actor, a first-class actor of the National Theatre of China, and graduated from the Shanghai Theater Academy.
It is necessary to point out that in fact, Guo Jinglin was not the first choice of Yuan Longping at the beginning, and the producer had previously looked for another actor, but the other party's price was too high, and the producer could only give up.
When the producer found Guo Jinglin, Guo Jinglin said very simply that he had always admired Elder Yuan, so he didn't care about the amount or less paid for starring in the film.
Not only that, in order to restore Elder Yuan as accurately as possible, Guo Jinglin made a hard effort.
Just like Yuan Lao's skin color is dark, and Guo Jinglin, in order to make his skin color closer to Yuan Lao, he did not hesitate to take the initiative to suffer from the sun every day before the official start of the movie.
For example, the scenes of Yuan Lao's rice experiments were filmed in the rice fields, and it is well known that there are more leeches in the rice fields that love to suck people's blood, which makes Guo Jinglin's thighs sucked in blood by leeches because of filming, but he gritted his teeth and persevered.
In addition, Yuan Lao is a violin lover, which is also restored by Guo Jinglin - it is worth mentioning that Guo Jinglin first became famous through a film focusing on violin lovers, "The Violin That Fell on the Truck", which won the Best Picture Award at the San Jose Film Festival in the United States.
With the release of the movie "Yuan Longping", Guo Jinglin won the Outstanding Actor Award at the 13th China Film Huabiao Awards.
However, for Guo Jinglin, what he is more proud of than the film award is that this movie has made him a long-lost friend with his idol Yuan Lao.
Later, when Guo Jinglin was interviewed by the media, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Being able to play Yuan Longping is my creation." He is a national treasure, a treasure of all mankind! ”
On May 22, 2021, when Guo Jinglin learned of Elder Yuan's death, the whole person was immediately confused - as early as March this year, he had visited the hospital where Elder Yuan was with his friends, but unfortunately, Elder Yuan's condition suddenly worsened on the same day, and the visit could only be regrettably canceled.
At that time, Guo Jinglin was still praying for Elder Yuan, hoping that Elder Yuan could get through the difficulties, who had thought that in just a few months...
Speaking of which, the scene of Yuan Lao in the movie "Yuan Longping" is also not simple.
Originally, the director hoped that Elder Yuan could play all the elderly scenes in the movie, but because Elder Yuan was too busy, his old man did not have time to come to the set until the last day.
It is quite interesting that Elder Yuan also made a temporary cameo appearance as a "director" on the set - he took the initiative to cooperate with the crew to arrange the shooting time and costumes of the relevant shots in an orderly manner.
Elder Yuan even communicated in English with the foreign actor who played the reporter on the spot about the revision of the lines.
So as the audience, we witnessed Elder Yuan talking to the camera about his two sincere dreams - "The Dream of Cooling Under the Grass" and "The Dream of Hybrid Rice Covering the World", and the whole film was finally fixed on Elder Yuan's bright smile.
Before his death, Elder Yuan sent a message to the youth: Knowledge is the foundation, and sweat should be practiced. Inspiration is a spark of thought, a spark of thought for everyone, don't give it up.
He also said: "Hunger is the greatest enemy of mankind, hunger will destroy peace, it was, it is, it will be..."
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Grandpa Yuan Longping, we will always remember your merits and dedication!