In the season of rice pulling and ear extraction, I was surprised to learn that Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the recipient of the "Order of the Republic", due to ineffective medical treatment, at 13:07 Beijing time on May 22, 2021, with his "dream of cooling under the grass" and "the dream of hybrid rice covering the world", left us forever, for this reason, specially drove tens of kilometers to the hometown of Academician Yuan Longping - De'an, to listen to the feelings of this scientist who resounded throughout China and was known as the "Ceres" of the world. And the bits and pieces of his ancestors living in a small mountain village.
After the car walked for an hour or so, you could see the big wooden sign of "Yuan Longping's Hometown" next to the highway, and when the hometown people learned the bad news of his death, they added a line of words "Academician Longping, may you go all the way" under the wooden sign to show their deep nostalgia for this scientist who went out from here.
After a while, I came to a village called Qingzhu Banpo at the junction of Fucheng Village and Jinhu Township Zhaixia Village in Puting Town, De'an East, surrounded by mountains on three sides, bamboo forests, endless fields quiet and comfortable, a large pond next to the village, Yuan Longping's ancestors, who lived here for generations, farmed for generations, lived in harmony with the villagers, and lived a farm life of sunrise and sunset.
In order to commemorate Yuan Longping, the locals still keep the house of his ancestral home, just not far from his ancestral residence, you can see a piece of writing "Yuan Longping Super Rice Base", looking at the side along the sign, endless continuous pieces of super rice, like a layer of green carpet, the growth is gratifying, and some large grain growers in the field are managing in the field and working hard.
Walking into De'an, we can see the elements of Yuan Longping everywhere, not only the Longping high-yield hybrid rice planting promotion demonstration base, but also the Longping School, Longping Library, Longping Square, Longping Park, Rice Field Square, Longping Avenue, De'an County reflects the Longping elements everywhere, and I learned that the Longping card is played here.
What makes those of us who come to collect the wind and want to listen to the elements of Longping are most pleased that his old family also specially arranged for the close relatives of Academician Yuan Longping to introduce Yuan Longping's family lineage and lineage, so that more people can understand the growth trajectory of a scientific giant, which is indeed an element worth excavating in the world. According to the content of the narration of Academician Yuan Longping's distant nephew, it is only recorded below:
In fact, Yuan Longping was not born in De'an, but his ancestors and fathers were born, lived and worked here, so strictly speaking, De'an can only be said to be Yuan Longping's ancestral residence, the earlier generations of his ancestors lived here, generations of farming, branches and leaves, the "Yuan Clan Genealogy" records, they ranked "Great Mao prosperous, prosperous and prosperous, honoring the ancestors, often encountering the Holy Ming", the male Ding who was born took the name, must be according to this ranking, Yuan Longping is the seventh ranked "Long" character, at the same time, in this Yuan ranked text, We can know that its ancestors set expectations for their descendants.
His great-grandfather Yuan Fanyi, born in 1840, was the most special year in Chinese history, because this year the Opium War broke out, a disaster began with the prelude to China's modern history, in the following one hundred years, the Chinese nation has been struggling in internal and external troubles, never stopped the war, in the difficult times, occasionally will bring a turnaround to the fate of individuals and families, because it began with Yuan Fanyi, He slowly moved to the county seat and began to do business with the family.
After the Yuan family slowly became rich, the education of future generations was particularly important, so Yuan Longping's grandfather Yuan Shengjian, who had excellent academic performance, was a grandfather in the late Qing Dynasty in high school, and became one of the local famous and prestigious families in one fell swoop, if it were not for the abolition of the imperial examination later, he might have entered the first place, but after all, he was a cultural person, no matter what dynasty was popular, even if the Qing Dynasty fell, he still became the county magistrate in the early years of the Republic of China, and the place where he was sent to be an official was Wenchang in Hainan.
At that time, Yuan Longping also happened to step on the road that his grandfather had walked, and came to the end of the world to engage in "hybrid rice seed making", continuing the dream of his ancestors to benefit one party, and later built Hainan into a breeding paradise. Many years later, when Yuan Longping was in Hainan, he also told the story of his grandfather Hainan as a county official, saying that Yuan Shengjian was appointed as the county magistrate of Wenchang County, he set out from Jiangxi, after 7 days and 7 nights to Hainan, as soon as he landed, he found that hainanese could not understand a word of speech, and the locals could not understand a word of Jiangxi official dialect spoken to him. This county magistrate can't do it! So he submitted his resignation and went back to his hometown.
Yuan Longping still admired his grandfather, not only did he personally write "Grandfather Yuan Shengjian's Former Residence", as long as he returned to De'an, he would go to his grandfather's grave to increase his respect for him. Because it was my grandfather, who became a new type of intellectual from an old-fashioned reader, he attached great importance to the education of his children. Especially for the education of Yuan Longping's father Yuan Xinglie.
Yuan Longping in front of his grandfather's grave
Yuan Longping's grandfather was naturally more attentive to the education of his descendants, and in the generation of Yuan Longping's father, Yuan Xinglie, he received a good education, and he was admitted to the Chinese Department of National Southeast University with excellent results, which was the premier institution of higher learning at that time. He had sons Yuan Longjin, Yuan Longping, Yuan Longgan, Yuan Longde, and Yuan Longxiang.
After Yuan Longping's father, Yuan Xinglie, graduated from university, he served as the principal and supervisor of the De'an County Higher Primary School, and then he left De'an and has been working for the Pinghan Railway Bureau, doing a lot of work on the railway to transport arms and strategic materials for the War of Resistance Against Japan. Later, Yuan Xinglie was heavily regarded by Sun Lianzhong of the Northwest Army and became his secretary.
The general Sun Lianzhong served by Yuan Xinglie was not too lucky, although there were tens of thousands of troops with Lao Jiang, and he also named it the Twenty-sixth Route Army, but after all, it was a miscellaneous army, and just after absorbing Lao Jiang, he wanted to use the hand of the Red Army to eliminate him, so this army was sent to Ningdu to encircle and suppress the Red Army, who knew that when the team was stationed in Ningdu, they fell ill because of water and soil disobedience, and there was no good medical treatment. At this time, just as Sun Lianzhong was going to Shanghai to see a dentist, Zhao Bosheng, chief of staff of the 26th Route Army, and Dong Zhentang, commander of the 73rd Brigade, took advantage of sun Lianzhong and the commander of the 27th Division to launch the Ningdu Uprising, led 17,000 people to join the Red Army, and established the Red Fifth Army.
His large army, Ning Du, revolted to join the Red Army, making Sun Lianzhong the commander of the light pole, and later during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he still contributed a lot. He served as the deputy commander of the Second Army and the commander of the First Army, during the Taierzhuang War, Sun Lianzhong and his subordinates did not retreat, and later he always served as a deputy, without much real power, so Yuan Xinglie followed him and did not have a promotion, and by the end of 1947 he was transferred to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the National Government in Nanjing as the chief of the affairs section.
Therefore, after Yuan Longping's father Yuan Xinglie left De'an, Jiangxi, due to the disturbances of successive years of war, Yuan Xinglie never had the opportunity to return to his hometown. On September 7, 1930, Yuan Longping was born in Peking Union Hospital, because of his second-in-command, he took the milk name "Ermao". When he was a child, Yuan Longping received a good family education, his mother Hua Jing was knowledgeable, very good at telling stories, well aware of those fairy tales full of connotations, fables, and stories full of national spirit, which could inject the young soul of Ermao into the living water of people's understanding of nature and the wisdom of society, and open the key to the door of knowledge.
However, just when Yuan Longping was born and adolescence, there was a major famine in the world, millions of people died of hunger rather than normal death, especially in China, the war and horse chaos and warlord scuffle, coupled with the continuous natural disasters, the Great Northwest and North China almost at the same time there was a great famine of thousands of miles in the red land, every time there was a famine in the world, the grain could not be measured by shengdou, even soybeans and peas were worn in strings to sell, think about how expensive the grain is, only the rich can afford it, in the face of the terrible famine, At a young age, Yuan Longping was determined to change this situation.
Yuan Longping, a farmer who came out of a mountain village, was determined to grow rice into sorghum height, rice ears to grow brooms long, grains as large as peanuts; at the same time, making hybrid rice cover the world can not only ensure the country's food security, enhance the national strategic position, but also bring economic benefits to the country. He spread wisdom all his life to benefit mankind, and through his own wisdom and efforts, he did not starve Chinese, but he himself drove the crane to the west, which made countless future generations deeply remember.