under the guidance of Zhong Yang, two students of Xu Min and Zhao Ning explored a new type of Arabidopsis ecotype in Tibet in 2013, using each weekend to the Yarlung Zangbo River Valley of more than 4000 meters above sea level.
"all for the scientific research of the country." Jin Li, the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice chancellor of the Fudan University, has not forgotten the joy of Zhong Yang's team when he discovered the Arabidopsis on the mountains of Tibet. "He has a pure pursuit of science, transcending fame and fame, surpassing the time and exceeding any material needs."
Zhong Yan named it "XZ ecotype Arabidopsis", which is the abbreviation of the two young people's surname phonetic alphabet, and the combination of the first letters of Tibet: "this is the gift of Tibet, and also the reward of nature."
inventory "family property", we need to catch up with the "digital limit".
in Zhong Yang's mind, there is such a "small target": each seed sample needs to collect 5000 seeds.
should collect the 5000 seeds in accordance with the collection standards, which can not be collected in one place, but must be replaced by a linear distance of 50 kilometers away.
a total of 5000 seeds of a seed sample would run 500-1000 kilometers. 800 kilometers a day, the stars and the night, is the limit.
"oxygen inhalation, quickly give him oxygen!"
2010, in a field survey, due to extreme fatigue, Zhong Yang had a serious plateau reaction: dark green, purple lips, and heavy breath. Zhu Bin, a student, was not good at seeing him. He struggled to pull out his oxygen tube and wanted to change it to Mr. Zhong.
who knows Zhong Yang pushed his hand away, and smiled weakly, "don't move, hurry up and put it back..."
that night, no one knows how he survived. By the second day, when the sun rises, Chung Yang and his students are on the way to check their families.
inventory "family property", but also to bite the hard nut to crack.
Tibet has more than 1000 species of endemic plants, and walnut is one of them. To gather the seeds, Zhong Yang and his team collected 8000 peaches and loaded two sacks to carry them back to Lhasa's laboratory.
walnut is sour and hard, and how to remove the peach kernel is a big problem.
finally, Zhong Yang Leng is to let all passing teachers and students, everyone must taste 7.
Why do you taste 7? My research found that if more than 10, many comrades will never want to see me for life. Light walnut is really hard to chew. Tibetan friends eat and spit, and then seriously say, this thing can not eat. But we have to finish it this way. "
light is not enough. Zhong Yang and the team still need to clean up the leftovers, dry them with cloth, and dry them before they are finished.
unimaginable hardship, there is always more amazing perseverance to overcome.
a myriad of early mornings in the wild, bell jelly froze his lips, and endure discomfort for the students to make breakfast, "you are young, sleep a little more"; go out to collect the seeds at 6 in the morning, to dinner time, not to eat, and finally to see the bell to take the head from the ground, and grab the radish and muddy mud into your mouth. Chew and say: "pure natural things, tasty"; the necessary dry food in the trip is a "dead surface cake", because it is difficult to digest, only to starve!
too hot love is often accompanied by a deeper pain.
Zahi Ciugene, director of the Tibet germplasm resource bank, said: "when Mr. Chung arrived at Tibet University, he didn't say anything. He took us to the field. He arrived in Tibet with high blood pressure, high altitude reaction is particularly fierce, dizziness, nausea, weakness, diarrhea, but he never complained. Every morning, when he goes out, he tries to save the space in the bag and sample it. He takes the simplest thing. "
two breads, a bag of pickles, and a bottle of mineral water, which is the rough trek with Zhong Yang for 16 years - the plateaus plateaus collected by the
Zhong Yang's team first found Mustard has been provided unpaid to global research institutions to support global botanical research;
Chung Yang, with student Zahi Ciugene for three years, has registered more than 30 thousand of the only giant cypresses in the whole world on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau.
Zhong Yang once said: "while looking up at the stars, don't forget to be down-to-earth, because many great things in the world are boiled out."
"plants that grow in difficult conditions are resilient, slow growing, but firm and vigorous." He is the Tibet discipline "myths" promoter, but the limitless stretch of the leather has its limit
Professor Zhong Yang in the ward and colleagues to work in the ward (2015 year material photos). Xinhua News Agency (Fudan University for map)
"I began to feel the dense flow of blood in my body......"
"the situation suddenly changed. For some reason, my right leg is as heavy as lead. The right hand held only one chopstick while the other chopsticks fell on the ground.
2015 May 2nd, on the night of the 51 year old birthday, the always energetic clock fell and the world revolving around the body at a blur of consciousness, and he was rushed to Changhai Hospital of Shanghai.
clock back to 2001, University of Tibet on snowy plateau.
at that time, Zhong Yang came to Tibet for botany research, but found the "three no" in the botany major of University of Tibet: no professors, no doctorates, and no basis for application.
the teachers at University of Tibet do not look at Zhong Yang: a professor from Shanghai, who is a "good man", can make University of Tibet's scientific research change?
but what they didn't realize was that Zhong Yang was different from what they thought. He persevered and rooted in the plateau, which lasted for exactly 16 years.