There is no waste of heaven and earth, and the toiling peasants are still starving to death.
This is Li Shen's poem, "There are no idle fields in the four seas, and farmers starve to death." This situation has both social system factors and backward productivity. And having such an old man has completely changed this situation. He is Mr. Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice". He devoted his life to the research of hybrid rice, which greatly increased the yield per unit area of grain and kept people away from the threat of famine.
Now, after 90 s and 00 s, I may have no impression of famine. Maybe I saw it in movies and literary works. Laugh it off. I was born in the 1970s, and both my parents experienced famine in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. When I was a child, I often listened to my parents and grandmother recall those difficult days. Thanks to Mr. Yuan Lao, my children and I don't have to go through that experience.
It is such an old man who went to work in the experimental field in his 90 s and joked that he was a "post-90 s" This kind of "post-90 s" is worth remembering and learning.
Today, unfortunately, the old man said goodbye to us forever and passed away. He has achieved many leaps in rice yield per mu in his life, and there may still be many unfinished ideals. For example, he said that he would work until he was 100 years old. For example, he wanted rice to be taller than sorghum and the ears of rice to be bigger than brooms, so he could enjoy the cool under the ears of rice. ...
But I believe he should leave without regrets. In any case, he has been fighting for human food security all his life.
Pay tribute to Yuan Lao! The elder is eternal!