China News Agency, Jiangxi De'an, May 22nd, title: Yuan Longping's anniversary ceremony: the hometown of Siguo Shi's hometown overflows with rice fragrance

  China News Agency reporter Liu Zhankun Jiang Tao

  "The hometown thinks about the country, and the hometown is full of rice fragrance." During the Xiaoman season, when I walked into the "Yuan Longping's hometown" in De'an County, Jiangxi, the water towns and rural rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River were all busy farmers; Longping Square and Longping's former residence were everywhere. .

  Yuanjiashan Village, De'an County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province is the hometown of Yuan Longping, the "Father of Hybrid Rice", winner of the "Medal of the Republic" and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

On May 22, 2021, Yuan Longping passed away due to ineffective treatment at the age of 91.

  "Yuan Lao left us for a year, but we still miss him!" On the 22nd, at the Jiangxi Yuanjiashan Science Popularization Education Base, which was inscribed and unveiled before Yuan Longping's death, the people of his hometown walked into Yuan Longping's former residence one by one, and stood on the ground with the words "Hexia enjoy the cool dream". "In front of the porcelain plate painting, he bowed to the statue of Yuan Longping with flowers and remembrance.

  Jiangxi Yuanjiashan Science Education Base is located at the core of Yuanjiashan Village, surrounded by green mountains and interdependent with green waters. It is mainly composed of Longping Science Education Exhibition Hall, Science Education Reception Center, and Super Rice Demonstration Base.

The Longping Science Education Exhibition Hall was previously rebuilt according to the restoration of Yuan Longping's ancestral home. Yuan Longping stayed here with his mother for a period of time when he was a child.

  In September 2004, Yuan Longping, who had been away from his hometown for many years, returned to De'an, Jiangxi Province, and wrote for his hometown "The hometown is deeply affectionate and De'an is at heart".

In 2015 and 2016, Yuan Longping came to his hometown again to inaugurate the Yuanjiashan Science Education Base in Jiangxi Province, awarded scholarships to the newly built Longping School, and measured the yield of the super rice base.

  On the same day, more than 100 local primary and middle school students carried out research in batches in a super rice experimental field of one mu and three minutes in front of the Jiangxi Yuanjiashan Science Education Base.

Under the guidance of Yuanjiashan villagers, they went into the fields to plant rice and experience spring ploughing.

  "As a junior, we want to carry forward the spirit of Longping and inherit the farming culture." Yuan Dingfu, Yuan Longping's nephew, told a reporter from China News Agency that today is the anniversary of Yuan Lao, and some commemorative activities were held in his hometown, and primary and secondary school students were organized to study here. It is also the best way to remember and commemorate Yuan Lao to popularize rice farming culture and farming knowledge to more children.

  During the conversation, rows of silver-white EMUs galloped past the rice fields filled with seedlings from time to time, rushing into the distance with the fragrance of rice in the soil of the water town.

(Finish)