Chinanews.com, Changsha, May 24th, title: "Rice" farewell to Yuan Longping: don't feel sad and love
Reporter Fu Yu Deng Xia Lu Yi
The flowers, ears of rice, and seeds that exude the fragrance of the earth have become a special farewell ceremony for people to pay homage to the "son of the earth" Yuan Longping.
Flower King Guo Shi
In the early morning of the 24th, the courier brother Yan Qifeng hurriedly walked into the funeral home in Mingyangshan, Changsha.
He embraced the flowers ordered by a number of netizens, just to deliver their wishes the first time, to make up for the regret that he could not come to the scene to mourn Academician Yuan Longping.
"Since 6 o'clock, we have successively received four or five flower orders from outside the province."
Due to traffic control, Yan Qifeng could only park the electric car from a few hundred meters away from the gate of the funeral home, and then enter on foot. When he arrived at the designated memorial hall, he was a little panting.
After placing the flowers, he did not leave in a hurry, but solemnly mourned and bowed deeply to the portrait of Academician Yuan.
The funeral home became a "sea of flowers".
Photo by Yang Huafeng
A bouquet of flowers, mourning for thousands of miles.
In the past few days, a long sea of flowers has "flowed" all the way from Xiangya Hospital where Yuan Longping passed away, and Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center where he worked during his lifetime, and then "filled up" the steps and corridors near the mourning point of the Mingyangshan Funeral Home. , Pinned the infinite grief of people all over the country.
The people who came to the funeral home with flowers in their hands to mourn Yuan Lao came from all directions in long queues.
"Please take their wishes to mourn Yuan Lao." Outside the queue, a florist owner brought a whole car of flowers purchased by netizens from other places and handed them out one by one.
It was this boss who posted a notice outside the shop the day before that they were free to supply chrysanthemums.
The flowers all over the city come only for you.
As a result, the flowers in Changsha were in a state of urgency. The owner of a local florist said that the chrysanthemums, lilies, and gypsophila in Changsha began to be out of stock on the day of Yuan Lao's death and had to be transported urgently from neighboring provinces.
Flowers to respect the countrymen.
The words and sentences on the bouquet card are filled with everyone's respect for the noble quality of Academician Yuan: "The gentleman's wind, the mountains are high and the rivers are long, the country's merits, the eternal beauty."
Rice ears make meritorious service
On the day of Yuan Longping's death, someone deliberately placed three bunches of rice still stained with soil on the front ping of Xiangya Hospital in memory of this "son of the earth."
"Seeing the robust rice seedlings, Yuan Yuan should feel at ease!" This move caused tears to countless mourners, and instantly became a hot search on the Internet.
Some netizens said that this is a gift that Yuan Lao left to the world, and it is also a gift for people to do for him.
Yuan Longping has been with rice all his life.
Before he was alive, as long as his body allowed him or he did not travel on business, he would go to the test field every day to check the number of ears per mu, the size of the grain, and whether there were empty husks. When he was critically ill, he still remembered rice.
Now, this man who dreams of sitting under the ears of rice that is higher than sorghum will never walk down the rice field with his trousers.
People from all walks of life have used unique ways to mourn the guardian of the rice field: or send bunches of golden rice ears to express their sorrow; or make paper-cuts of Yuan Longping and rice ear patterns to pay tribute to him...
At the mourning scene of the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center, a representative of Longping Farm also brought a whole tray of seedlings.
Shuai Wei, the design director of the farm, said: "It is now the season for planting rice seedlings. We present the growing seedlings. One is to express the gratitude of the first-line farmers to Yuan Lao, and the other is to express that Yuan Lao will continue to pursue the goal of high-yield and high-quality rice. Keep doing it and let the Chinese people eat well."
The child "Letter to Grandpa Yuan" was sandwiched between the ears of rice.
Photo by Lu Yi
"When the wind blows the fragrance of rice in the future, I will always think of you!" wrote a condolence card.
"Kind" and "Star" send grief
Sow a small rice seed, light up a small star, pay tribute to Yuan Lao, send grief far away.
"Human is like a seed, we must make a good seed." Yuan Longping spent his whole life writing a footnote to this sentence that he often said during his lifetime.
His "seeds" have become the world's granary. The annual increase in the production of hybrid rice can feed an additional 80 million people in China. It is also planted in large areas in Asia, America, and Africa, with an annual planting area of 8 million hectares.
Yuan Longping was therefore carved into the hearts of the people of the world.
In 1999, as a tribute, an asteroid was named "Yuan Longping Star" with the approval of the International Committee for Nomenclature of Small Celestial Bodies.
According to Yuan Longping's last wish of "Simplify the Funeral", the Chinese media set up an online condolence hall and launched interactive activities such as "Sow the rice seeds and pay tribute to the old Yuan", "Light up a star and bid farewell to Yuan Longping". Netizens cherished the memory of the "cloud."
As of press time, tens of millions of netizens have offered flowers "in front of the screen", and nearly tens of millions of small rice seeds have been "spattered" around the world in the clouds, and hundreds of thousands of small stars have also "lit up" in the night sky.
These are the grief of netizens, more like a new hope-later people will inherit the "seeds" of Academician Yuan Longping and continue to struggle.
Just as some netizens left a message: "The best way to commemorate a person is to become a person like him and be a good seed."
Academician Yuan Longping, go all the way!
I hope that the fragrance of rice and flowers will accompany you in heaven, and we will continue your unfinished business.
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