Yuan Longping’s short stories (selected 12 articles)
Yuan Longping, a native of De’an County, Jiangxi Province, was born in Beijing. He is the founder of hybrid rice research in my country and is known as the “Father of Hybrid Rice.” ", "Contemporary Shen Nong", "Rice God", etc. Yuan Longping is a name that belongs to China and the world. The "hybrid rice" he cultivated has contributed to solving the world's food shortage problem. It is known as the "second green revolution" and has brought blessings to the entire human race. Let us enter the world of Yuan Longping and appreciate his legendary life. The following is a short story about Yuan Longping that I brought to you. You are welcome to read and refer to it.
Yuan Longping's Short Story 1
"Renovation costs money, why waste it?"
Due to work needs, the hospital decided to change Teacher Yuan's classroom several times. He wanted to renovate his office, but Teacher Yuan disagreed and said: "This office is quite nice. I'm used to it and have feelings for it. Besides, decoration costs money, so why waste it." Everyone couldn't resist him, so they had to Forget it. Yuan Longping is the director of the National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center and has tens of millions of yuan in funding every year. Logically speaking, with his status, it is reasonable to have a larger and more decently decorated office for both public and private purposes, but he just doesn't agree. After the initial incomprehension, people suddenly realize that this is Yuan Longping's true character, "Plum blossoms are originally noble and pure, and their fragrance comes from the bitter cold." Yuan Longping's Short Story Part 2
Served as a consultant for tabloids
On the afternoon of August 21, 2001, a reporter from "Getting Rich Express" walked into Yuan Longping's office. Yuan Longping warmly greeted the reporter to sit on the sofa, asked his secretary to make tea for the visitor, and handed him cigarettes. He knew that the visitor was a fellow villager from Jiangxi and a journalist from a very practical newspaper serving "agriculture, rural areas and farmers". He spread the Party's various policies that benefit farmers to farmers, and provided information, operational techniques, and directions. It's a good fit, and farmers like it. If you stick to it for a long time, the newspaper will have vitality.
He said: The lives of farmers are not very prosperous at the moment. A considerable number of farmers are eager to get rid of poverty and become rich but cannot find a way for a while. The burden on your shoulders is not light. I heard that the annual price of "Getting Rich Express" is less than 50 yuan, which is less than the price of a pack of "Meiqiao" brand cigarettes a day. I think farmers can afford it. Your newspaper is for the "poor" and for the disadvantaged groups, so you are destined to be "poor" too. They are also a vulnerable group in the media. At this stage, this is normal, but not very normal. In my opinion, we should not underestimate the "poor". Chairman Mao has a wise saying: "The humble are the smartest" because the "rich" and city people are supported by hundreds of millions of "poor"...
When he understood that the reporter on behalf of the newspaper came all the way to beg him to serve as a consultant to the newspaper and ask him to write an inscription, he readily agreed: "Okay. I already have more than 60 titles, so it doesn't hurt to have one more. But there are too many titles. , so tired, but it has become a burden. But your newspaper is for farmers, and I am willing to be this unranked consultant."
Then, he leaned on his desk, looking serious. Write two inscriptions on the white paper: "I wish the farmer friends to get rich soon" and "I wish the Wealth Express will get better and better".
Afterwards, at the request of the reporter, Yuan Longping and the visitors took a group photo on the steps in front of the office building.
A well-known scientist at home and abroad resigned many times and turned down many prestigious titles, but he happily served as a consultant for an obscure tabloid. This anecdote quickly became a good story. Yuan Longping's Short Story 3
"Don't take money too seriously"
In the eyes of some people, it seems that Yuan Longping is very rich, but he is a scientist with a national salary. , the total monthly income, including wages and subsidies, totals more than 4,000 yuan.
He cheerfully said that these incomes are not low and are enough for me to spend. Therefore, he donated almost all the prize money from all the international awards he won to the Agricultural Science and Technology Award Foundation named after him in recognition of and support people who have contributed to agricultural scientific research. In addition, he has also donated funds to education.
His view on money is that he is not stingy and not extravagant. In Yuan Longping's view, the amount of money is nothing more than a number. He said: "You have to have money to live and survive. Without money, you can't even eat and you can't survive. But money is enough for daily living expenses. No matter how small you have savings, don’t take money too seriously. “If you take money too seriously and are blinded by money, you will easily lose yourself and become a selfish person who is indifferent to society and others. If you become a slave to money, what’s the point of living?
Yuan Longping has a very clear understanding of life, money, status, and even family. He has always been "stingy" towards himself, but he is warm-hearted, chivalrous and courageous towards others, as long as he can do what he can. Yes, he will do his best to help others. He is a doctoral supervisor and has taught many doctoral students. One of them came from a rural area and his family life was difficult. Once, this student called him and said that his father was seriously ill and was hospitalized and needed money urgently. He was very worried. I sympathized and sent the student two thousand yuan from my salary. Yuan Longping's Short Story 4
A frank and straightforward scientist
One afternoon in October 2004, Yuan Longping was invited to give a lecture titled "China Report on "Progress in Research on Super Hybrid Rice". After prolonged applause, the president of the University of Iowa asked the students to ask questions.
A Chinese student asked: "Although we are abroad, we often pay attention to domestic news. We have long heard that you have made outstanding contributions to the country, and we also know some of your background information. We want to know, have you liked agriculture since you were a child?"
Yuan Longping replied with a smile: "When I was a child, I was very playful and had many hobbies. I studied and listened carefully to the courses that interested me. , and get high marks in the exam; for courses that I am not interested in, I only need to get three points and pass. When I graduated from college, my classmates rated me as follows: Hobby: freedom; Specialty: Free and slow. I am just such a person. As for learning farming, it happened by chance. When I was in the first grade of elementary school, during an outing, my teacher took us to visit a private gardening field. I saw the peaches on the trees were red and the grapes were red. There were bunches of flowers, and the flowers were very beautiful. At that time, I watched the movie "Modern Times" starring Chaplin. There was a scene in the movie where there were grapes outside the window. The two impressions were superimposed on me. I feel that the countryside is really beautiful, and I want to study farming when I grow up. If the teacher took us to see the real countryside, it is miserable, poor and dirty, then I will definitely not study farming. ”
The audience burst into laughter, applauding this great scientist for his frankness and straightforwardness. He did not hide the advantages and disadvantages of his character, which made Chinese and foreign college students feel that he was more respectable and amiable. He completely and truly demonstrated the perfect unity of the great and the ordinary of this scientist.
In this way, his academic report ended in a relaxed and warm atmosphere. Yuan Longping's Short Story 5
Reply to a Blind Child
As a famous scientist at home and abroad, Yuan Longping has naturally become an idol in the hearts of people, especially young people. Every year he There are many letters to be received. Once, he received a letter from a blind child in Shanghai. In addition to expressing his admiration for him, the letter also revealed the child's confusion and confusion about his future. Reading the children's sincere letter, Yuan Longping was deeply moved. He immediately spread out the paper, picked up the pen, and wrote passionately:
"...Life is perfect, our world is perfect, and it will get better and better." It’s becoming more and more perfect. Although you can’t see it, you can feel in your heart that the grandfathers, uncles, and uncles around you are caring about you and helping you.
You are a child with ambition and ideals. If you study hard and study hard, you will have a brighter future than others when you grow up. I wonder if you have heard the story of the great musician Beethoven. Although this great composer was blind, he worked hard since he was a child and created beautiful movements on the keyboard of the piano, allowing music to accompany mankind to epic proportions. In a state of drunkenness, work hard, my child, although you are a blind child, you have a bright future..."
It can be seen that Yuan Longping's reply to this letter is full of real emotions. For a person who has never met him before. Yuan Longping was able to take the letter from afar seriously, and was moved by it, and replied in his own hand sincerely. From this, it is not difficult for us to understand how kind-hearted this scientist is, how strong his sense of social responsibility is, and how sentimental he is. How beautiful the personality is. Yuan Longping's Short Stories 6
Farmers' "Rice Buddha"
Cao Hongqiu was born in 1960 in Tashui Village, Huatang Town, Beihu District, Chenzhou City, Hunan. Farmers, because they were born in an era of great food famine, suffered a lot in their childhood. Since the spring breeze of reform and opening up warmed the earth, Cao Hongqiu, a quick-thinking man, took the lead in planting hybrid rice in the village. His family was responsible for increasing the grain output of the field every year. They all had good harvests. In addition, he grew better vegetables and fruits than others, and he also developed a new variety of seedless bitter melon. After the 1990s, he left the field work to his wife, and he switched to farming. Bee, his pocket gradually bulged, and he was soon praised by the Chenzhou Prefectural Committee as a model person who made money through science and technology.
He was grateful and respected Yuan Longping, and came up with the idea of ????sculpting a white marble statue of Yuan Longping at his own expense. After seeing Yuan Longping's photo, he wrote a letter to Yuan Longping. After receiving Cao Hongqiu's affectionate letter, Yuan Longping asked his colleagues to reply to the letter. Yuan Longping said in the reply, "In my opinion, the wishes of you and the majority of farmers. , more glorious than the Nobel Prize. I accept your kindness, but I should make a little contribution to the people and the country... Therefore, please don't waste your money on building some stone statues for me. I really can't bear you. This kind of love. Please respect my opinion and forgive me for not sending you photos. ”
Later, in order to show his respect for the “Rice Bodhisattva”, Cao Hongqiu spent 50,000 yuan of his own savings and asked someone to sculpture a life-size white marble statue of Yuan Longping. When it was completed, The villagers set off firecrackers, danced yangko, and offered longevity peaches in front of the statue. In the eyes of the villagers, Yuan Longping was the Rice Buddha of Enze Township. But then he heard that Cao Hongqiu's family was unhappy because of the natural disaster. When he was in trouble, Yuan Longping hurriedly sent him 20,000 yuan. Because of the sun and rain, Cao Hongqiu was unable to maintain the statue, so the honest farmer had to come to Changsha again, hoping that Yuan Longping could help. When he came back, he ran into a wall. When Yuan Longping heard that he wanted money to maintain the statue, he firmly refused to give him a penny. Yuan Longping's Short Story 7
China's richest "absolutely poor"
People who are close to Yuan Longping said that Yuan Longping dressed very casually and was not particular at all.
For a while, he had a strong desire to shop and would go shopping in the mall every Friday afternoon. He has a "quirky habit" of picking out cheap items and is not interested in high-priced items. One day, he and his wife, Deng Zhe, were shopping at a shopping mall and saw shirts on sale for 10 yuan each. He said, It's too cheap. Let's add 2 yuan, it's 12 yuan a piece. The salesperson said with a smile, you are really weird, people bargain for things, but you add more, it's unreasonable, it's unreasonable. He replied with a smile. I bought more than 10 pieces, "This kind of shirt is good. It is easy to wear when going to the fields, and you don't have to worry about it getting dirty." " He said with a smile to his wife. Deng Zhe, who knew his living habits well, didn't say much and only smiled in return.
The most expensive suit he wore would not exceed 800 yuan; Leather shoes cost no more than 200 yuan, and he feels that these expensive "luxury goods" such as Italian "Old Man" and "Crocodile" brand clothing are uncomfortable and uneasy to wear. However, China's authoritative assessment. According to agency reports, Yuan Longping is worth more than 100 billion.
From this point of view, in terms of personal material wealth, in addition to the value of the wisdom and knowledge in his head, Yuan Longping is indeed the richest "absolutely poor" in China.
However, this richest "absolute poor man" has few desires for himself, but is extremely generous to society and has a sense of urgency. So far, he has donated 125,000 US dollars of the World Food Prize he received. The bonus was donated to the Science and Technology Award Foundation initiated and established by him to support newcomers... Yuan Longping's Short Story Chapter 8
Riding a motorcycle to the experimental field
Yuan Longping holds in his hands With tens of millions of yuan in scientific research funding, his life is extremely simple.
As a habit developed over the years, he likes to go to the fields. Whenever he has time, he goes to the experimental fields to observe and breathe the atmosphere of the fields. If the success of his career has brought any changes to his life, it is that since the 1980s, his mode of transportation to the experimental fields has been changed from bicycles to motorcycles. He felt that this thing was light and fast. Unexpectedly, riding motorcycles and drag racing became one of his great joys in life.
The seedlings in the field split, headed, blossomed, and became strong... He got on his motorcycle, jumped onto the road, turned into the path, and slid up the field ridge, his vigorous figure flashing. In the lush green or golden rice fields. Over the past ten years, he has replaced eight or nine motorcycles of different brands. Now, even though he is over 70 years old, he still often rides his motorcycle around the fields.
At the end of 2001, with the persuasion of friends, Yuan Longping bought a Sail family car. A friend told him that riding a motorcycle is "meat wrapped in iron" and driving a car is "meat wrapped in iron", but driving a car is safer. He learned to drive with great interest and felt pretty good. Sometimes, he drove the car to the edge of the field. He also said with a smile that he wanted to get a driver's license. Yuan Longping's Short Story Chapter 9
The carefree old man
At this moment, his office is filled with various medals and certificates. But the old man still insists on doing scientific research on the front line. Every winter, he goes to the Sanya base.
One time when he was climbing a field ridge, the person next to him wanted to help him, but he blocked him and said, "You think I'm old? I can climb the field ridge faster than you, a young man!"
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Yuan Longping, who has become famous and has a family, still seems to like a free and casual life.
Occasionally when he goes shopping on a business trip and sees cheap clothes, he first tries them on himself, and then on his assistants. He buys a lot and gives one to everyone when he comes back. Once when he went to the Chinese University of Hong Kong to give a report, he put on a tie he had just bought on the street for 10 yuan.
In 1998, a Hunan firm evaluated the "Yuan Longping Brand" as worth 100 billion yuan. Yang Lan went to Hainan to interview him: "When you go home and talk about this with your wife, what does she have? "Opinion"
As a result, his answer was, "Never talk about it." He later told his assistant, "I am just a passing fortune." In 1987, the UNESCO awarded him 1. He used all the US$50,000 bonus to establish a hybrid rice fund to reward accomplished young and middle-aged scientific and technological workers.
He often told people about the dreams he had twice before: the rice in the field grew as high as sorghum, the ears of rice were as long as brooms, and the grains were as big as corn. He and his assistants When I was tired from walking, I would chat and enjoy the coolness under the rice.
At first, people around him laughed. After a while, he realized that he was thinking about this matter all over his head. He sent as many of his young assistants who were good at English as possible to study abroad for his second ideal: to popularize hybrid rice and "benefit the whole world."
His assistant Liao Fuming said with emotion, "Teacher Yuan is both pursuing and comfortable. He is a happy person." Yuan Longping's Short Stories 10
Won the championship in swimming
In June 1947, Hubei Province held the Provincial Sports Games. Yuan Longping loved swimming very much, so he signed up with his physical education teacher and asked to participate in the preliminary selection.
After the teacher looked at him, he shook his head and said, "You are too small and not strong enough. You can't do it!" He was unconvinced and thought to himself: Since he was 8 years old, when he was fleeing with his parents, he came to Chongqing by water. One day, he was accidentally pushed into the water by his fourth brother Long De on the boat and almost drowned. Fortunately, he was rescued by an old boatman and saved his life. From then on, I made up my mind to learn how to swim so that I could save people in distress in the future. I fled to Chongqing when I was 9 years old. Every summer, after returning home from school, I would go to "Longmenhao" on the Yangtze River to play in the water. Gradually, he mastered the skill of swimming and could even swim in the Jialing River and cross the Yangtze River. Therefore, he wanted to give it a try in an official competition.
On the morning of the preliminaries, more than 10 students who were selected in the preliminary round, led by Teacher Zhou, each rode a bicycle and rushed to the swimming pool for the competition. Yuan Longping also secretly jumped on the last student. on the rear rack of the bicycle. When he arrived at the preliminaries, Teacher Zhou spotted him and said to him with a smile: Since you are here, you should give it a try! As a result, to everyone's surprise, he actually won the 100 meters and 400 meters in the preliminaries in Hankou. Two first-place finishers were awarded in freestyle, while other students fell short. Next, Yuan Longping won the second place in Hubei Province men's freestyle. When he returned to his alma mater, Yuan Longping received a warm welcome. His classmates picked him up at the school gate and threw him up several times.
This incident gave Yuan Longping a lot of inspiration: Any "unconvinced" thought that is consistent with reality is not necessarily a negative factor, and can sometimes become a positive factor. It is this kind of "unconvinced" thought that urges him to be proactive, overcome difficulties, work hard, and strive for victory. It is this kind of "unconvinced" thought that always gives him spiritual strength when he encounters greater difficulties in scientific research and experiments, prompting him to constantly overcome difficulties and climb to new heights! Yuan Longping's Short Stories 11
A student who loves to ask questions
In the early autumn of 1942, Yuan Longping graduated from Chongqing Longmenhao Primary School and entered Fuxing Junior High School.
In his studies, Yuan Longping has a characteristic that he likes to think and ask questions.
In a mathematics class, the chapter "Rational Numbers" was taught. The teacher talked about an important rule of multiplication: numbers with the same sign are multiplied by taking the " " sign, and multiplying the absolute values. The teacher further explained: "This means that multiplying a positive number by a positive number yields a positive number, and multiplying a negative number by a negative number also yields a positive number."
Yuan Longping listened and thought, multiplying a positive number by a positive number yields a positive number, This is easy to understand; a negative number multiplied by a negative number also gets a positive number. Why is this? So he asked: "Teacher, when a negative number is multiplied by a negative number, why does it get a positive number?" Although Yuan Longping did not get a satisfactory answer from the teacher's answer, he made it He became interested in these abstract and difficult concepts and enhanced his logical thinking ability.
Once, the teacher talked about a difficult problem in the world: a dime cannot be divided into three equal parts. Yuan Longping found it difficult to understand. He thought that an angle should be divided into three equal parts. For example, if a 90-degree right angle is divided into 30 degrees each, wouldn't it be divided in a regular manner? But the teacher said that this is wrong, that is, it cannot be divided into three equal parts. .
Why can’t a dime be divided into three equal parts? Yuan Longping felt that there must be something to say in it. He couldn't figure it out on his own, and the teacher didn't explain it clearly, leaving a big knot in his heart.
These doubts left in his heart are actually signs of Yuan Longping’s thinking development and spiritual growth. He began to become interested in abstract concepts and used his brain to think. His strong thirst for knowledge enabled him to learn a lot of things that could not be learned in books. Yuan Longping's Short Story Chapter 12
Determined to study agriculture
After graduating from high school, which university should I apply for? This issue became the focus of debate in Yuan Longping's family. At that time, his father Yuan Xinglie, who served as the section chief of the Affairs Section of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission of the Nanjing Government, hoped that Yuan Longping would apply for a key university in Nanjing, succeed in his studies in the future, and follow the path of "excellence in learning leads to officialdom".
19-year-old Yuan Longping already has his own independent opinions. He thought: First, his father wanted to apply for a key university in Nanjing because he hoped that he could get promoted and make a fortune and honor his ancestors. Yuan Longping had no interest in this. Second, I want to study in Chongqing.
The "capital culture" during the Anti-Japanese War had a great attraction for him; eight spring and autumn years of life in the mountain city gave him deep feelings. Third, when he was in elementary school, he visited a gardening field and became very interested in the vibrant flowers, grass, fruits, trees and the changing patterns of spring and autumn in nature. Thinking of this, he said to his parents bluntly: "Let me apply for the Agricultural College!"
The kind mother expressed her thoughts: "Long Ping, you should seriously consider Dad's opinion. Of course, in the end, you have to make the decision yourself!" His father, who had democratic ideas, was familiar with Longping's personality. Since his son was determined to study agriculture, it was hard for him to raise any objections.
Yuan Longping applied for and passed the Agricultural Science Department of Xianghui College in Chongqing, Sichuan without any hesitation, and happily jumped into the "Agricultural Gate". ;