1. Yuan Longping

One of the things that celebrities achieve greatness in the ordinary is Yuan Longping's hybrid rice. He is a very ordinary person, but he has made great contributions.

Yuan Longping is a pioneer and leader in the field of hybrid rice research. He is committed to the research, application and promotion of hybrid rice technology. He invented the "three-line method" indica hybrid rice and successfully developed the "two-line method". "Hybrid rice has created a super hybrid rice technology system.

2. Sima Qian

Sima Qian was unknown and tortured, and finally wrote "Historical Records" in prison, which has become an eternal legend and has been passed down to this day.

Sima Qian studied under Kong Anguo and Dong Zhongshu in his early years. He traveled around various places, learned about customs and collected rumors. When he was first appointed as a doctor, he was envoy to the southwest. In the third year of Yuanfeng (108 BC), he was appointed Taishi Ling, inherited his father's business, and wrote history. He created China's first biographical general history, "Shiji" (originally known as "Tai Shi Gong Shu"), based on his historical knowledge of "studying the relationship between heaven and man, understanding the changes of ancient and modern times, and forming a family story".

It is recognized as a model of Chinese history books. This book records a history of more than 3,000 years from the Huangdi period in ancient legends to the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It is one of the "Twenty-Four Histories". The first poem was praised by Lu Xun as "the swan song of historians, the most rhyme-free Li Sao".

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Sima Qian's early life

During the Jing and Wu years of the Western Han Dynasty (the time is unknown), Sima Qian was born in a well-off family in Longmen on the Yellow River. Sima Qian's grandfather Sima Xi, under the policy of Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty, who ordered Li Mi to receive titles to serve as border soldiers, used four thousand stones of Li rice in exchange for the title of ninth- and fifth-level officials, so the whole family was exempted from corvee service.

The young Sima Qian learned calligraphy and reading under the guidance of his father Sima Tan. At the age of ten, he was able to read and recite ancient books such as "Shang Shu", "Zuo Zhuan", "Guoyu", and "Xi Ben". During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian was appointed as Taishi Ling in Chang'an, the capital, while Sima Qian stayed in his hometown of Longmen, practiced hard, and continued his career of farming, studying and herding.