Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, has driven the crane west. He died in Hunan and his funeral was also held in Changsha.
Once, the People's Daily interviewed Yuan Longping, who said that he was a farmer and could only grow rice. This, of course, is Elder Yuan's self-effacing.
Looking at Yuan Lao's ancestry, it is a typical Chinese family of cultivators and readers, and the book Xiang Mendi.
In fact, Yuan Longping, the elder Yuan, was born in De'an, Jiangxi. His grandfather Yuan Shengjian, who was well read poetry and books, was a man in the late Qing Dynasty, and was the governor of Wenchang County, and was the largest household in De'an at that time. Yuan Laozu's ancestral home, the "Summer Palace", is still there, and there are still many close relatives of the family living in De'an.
Yuan Longping's father, Yuan Xinglie, graduated from Southeast University in Nanjing. After graduation, he returned to De'an, served as the principal and supervisor of the higher primary school in the county, and later by chance, became the secretary of Sun Lianzhong, a patriotic general of the Northwest Army. At the end of 1947, he was transferred to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the National Government in Nanjing, serving as the chief of the affairs section.
Genealogy of the Yuan family
His mother, Hua Jing, was a big girl from a large family in Yangzhou, and in that era when the woman was talentless and virtuous, she also received a good education, studied in a church school, majored in English, and was an excellent English teacher.
Yuan Xinglie and Hua Jing, after graduation, tied the knot and attached great importance to the education of their children, which led to the fact that Yuan Longping's seven brothers and sisters did not abandon their studies in that turbulent era, laying a good foundation for making achievements when they grew up.
Yuan Longping's mother and brother, holding the baby as Yuan Longping
Yuan Longping, the second child of the Yuan family, was born in Beijing, and was born to deliver the birth of lin Qiaozhi, the founder of Chinese obstetrics and gynecology medicine.
The Yuan family's good family situation and favorable economic conditions, although they were in the midst of war, moved many times, and were displaced, the education of Yuan Longping's brothers and sisters was not delayed at all.
Yuan Longping in his youth
Yuan Longping took root in agronomy and studied deeply until he became the "father of hybrid rice".
Yuan Longping responded to the call of the state that year, married late and had children later, 33-year-old Yuan Longping and his own 8-year-old Deng Ze "flash marriage", respect everyone, Yuan Lao couple is a happy teacher-student love!
After marriage, they raised three sons together.
The three sons did not disappoint their father, each more successful than the other, and were all leaders in their respective fields.
The eldest son, Yuan Anding, was born in the Qianyang area in 60 years, and in that environment with relatively harsh living conditions, he successfully entered the university through hard work and became a talent majoring in management.
After graduation, Yuan Anding was assigned to work at Hunan Seed Company, and later, not willing to be mediocre, he jumped out of the comfort zone of state-owned enterprises and chose to start his own business.
The process was difficult, and with the tenacity he learned from his father, he has participated in the establishment of a number of agricultural, scientific and technological, and seed companies.
Now, Yuan Anding has become a well-known entrepreneur in the field of agriculture.
The second son, Yuan Dingjiang, like his father, was a steady and steady bully from childhood to adulthood, and he was admitted to Hunan University of Finance and Economics with excellent results.
After graduation, he chose to go south to work in Zhuhai, a special coastal zone, where he worked as an accounting director and was also responsible for organizing a farmer loan project.
In his spare time, Yuan Dingjiang also studied eMBA at Wuhan University.
Today, Yuan Dingjiang is already the vice president of an agricultural technology listed company, and he relies on his talent and ability to let farmers taste the sweetness.
The youngest son, Yuan Dingyang, inherited his father's business, and he has been working with his father at the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center after receiving a master's degree in crop genetics and breeding from Hunan Agricultural University. Deeply influenced by his father, he gradually became the chief expert of the molecular breeding innovation team of super hybrid rice.
Since then, he has participated in a number of projects such as high-yield genetically modified rice and new variety breeding with his father, and successfully bred a new combination of hybrid rice.
In fact, for Yuan Longping's three sons, they can completely lean on the tree to cool off, but they all choose to struggle personally.
From their father, Yuan Longping, they learned the qualities of being low-key, hard-working, and persevering, which is an inexhaustible spirit that can be obtained and used inexhaustible throughout their lives.
The Yuan family has a third generation, public information, Yuan Lao's three granddaughters are also very good, Yuan Lao personally named them a day of birth is rain, it is called Yuan Youqing, Yuan Youqing, Yuan Youming.
In this beautiful era, with the blessing of the Shuxiang Mendi family and the blessing of the spirit of Yuan Lao, the descendants of the Yuan family will definitely continue to climb the peak of life.
This article is written, just when Yuan Lao drove the crane to the west, and then Yuan Lao went all the way!