There was a very noble politician named Fan Zhongyan in the Song Dynasty. He was ambitious since he was a child, hoping to become the prime minister of governing the country and the people in the future. Or be a doctor and save people's lives. He said to people, "I will do it as long as it benefits the people and the country." Later, Fan Zhongyan became an official and really became prime minister for some time. As an official, he is honest and clean.
One year, he went to Taizhou to be a small official in charge of salt storage. He saw that the sea flooded ashore and the people were miserable, so he proposed to build a seawall and personally participated in the earth transportation and tamping. Unexpectedly, his mother died, and he went home to offer condolences as required. But he is at home, his heart is on the seawall, and he has been writing letters to help. After the completion of the seawall, the local people thanked him and called it Gong Fandi.
A few years later, Fan Zhongyan went to Beijing to be an official. When you see something wrong, criticize it and preside over the reform. As a result, he offended people, was demoted several times and was driven out of Beijing. But he never cares about personal gains and losses, and he has made achievements in any position. During his life, he used his property to build many just villages, fields and houses to help the poor, and also set up some free schools to let the poor children go to school. But his own children don't even have a decent dress. Some people don't understand why he is like this. He wrote an article called "The Story of Yueyang Tower" and made an answer, saying that he should "worry about the world first, and then enjoy the world."
In other words, a person who loves his country and his people should be willing to suffer before others and enjoy it after others. Fan Zhongyan's thought of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later" is a valuable spiritual wealth of our nation.
Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice.
Rice is the main food of China people. But for a long time, the rice yield is not high and the population is large, so farmers can't meet the demand of "eating" by planting rice all the year round. Low grain output is a big obstacle to China's economic development. Yuan Longping, an agricultural scientist, is determined to tackle key problems for the country and solve this problem.
Yuan Longping is an agricultural school teacher in a town in Hunan Province. Although his working conditions are poor, he devoted himself to scientific research. In addition to teaching every day, he also cultivates high-yield varieties in the experimental field. In his experiments, he found that natural hybrid rice has large ears and full grains, and high yield. But when it was planted again the next year, it degenerated and lost its advantage. He wants to carry out an experiment to cultivate hybrid rice seeds that can maintain high yield. For this ideal, Yuan Longping didn't know the price. Sometimes I observe in the experimental field, regardless of my family. After 10 years' efforts, I finally succeeded in cultivating this hybrid rice, and the yield per mu exceeded 1000 kg. After the nationwide promotion, the rice production in China increased by10 billion kilograms in a few years, which is really a leap! Yuan Longping won the first National Special Invention Award, and the United States and other countries also introduced his achievements. Known as the "father of hybrid rice", he fought a turnaround to change the backward state of grain production in China.
Loyalty to the country-patriotism
More than 800 years ago, a little boy was born in a farmer's home in Yue Jiazhuang, tangyin county. His parents thought: What should I name the child? Just then, a flock of geese fell from the sky, and their parents said happily, "OK, just call it Yue Fei. May our son fly as high and far as these geese. " That's the name.
Soon after Yue Fei was born, the Yellow River burst, and the rolling Yellow River washed the Yue family to poverty, and life was very difficult. Although Yue Fei grew up in a poor family and had no food to eat, she was strictly disciplined by her mother and was stubborn and upright.
On one occasion, Yue Fei had several sworn brothers who wanted to rob the road because they had no food. They came to ask Yue Fei out. Yue Fei thought of her mother's usual teaching, but she didn't agree. She advised them: "You must never do anything to stop people from killing for money!" After repeated persuasion by his brothers, Yue Fei was not tempted. When her mother-in-law came back from outside, Yue Fei told her the situation in detail. Mother said happily, "Son, you did the right thing. People are not poor and can't do things that harm the world! "
When Yue Fei was fifteen or sixteen years old, the Jin people from the north invaded the south, and those in power in the Song Dynasty were corrupt and incompetent, and the country was at a critical juncture. One day, her mother-in-law called Yue Fei to her side and said, "Now the country is in danger. What are your plans? "
"Go to the front line to kill the enemy and be loyal to the country!"
The mother-in-law is very satisfied with her son's answer. "Loyalty to the country" is the mother's hope for her son. She decided to tattoo these four words on her son's back to make him remember this oath forever. Yue Fei unbuttoned her coat and asked her mother to take the needle. The mother-in-law asked, "Are you afraid of pain?" Yue Fei said: "what is a small steel needle?" If you are afraid of needles, how can you go to the front to fight! " Mother-in-law writes on Yue Fei's back first, and then embroiders with needles. After the stabbing, my mother-in-law drew it in vinegar ink. Since then, the word "loyalty to the country" on Yue Fei's back has never faded.
Later, Yue Fei took "loyalty to the country" as the motto, went to the front line, bravely killed the enemy, made outstanding achievements, and became a famous anti-gold star.
As he said in his poem: Angry hair rushes to the crown, leaning against the railing and resting in the rain. Looking up, screaming in the sky, strong and fierce. Thirty fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and the moon. Don't be idle, white and sad! Jingkang is ashamed, but it is still snowing. When will courtiers hate it? Take a long-distance bus and break through the Helan Mountain Que! The monk longed for pork, but he said he longed for Hun blood. Stay from the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and go to the sky!