Life is a circle, no matter where it starts, it will always return to the original origin, but this circle will expand with the expansion of the boundaries of life, and the original origin will be like a ring that is gradually raised, so that people can stand higher and see farther.
As a female doctor of Tsinghua, Shi Yangong became famous and is the proud daughter of heaven, from going out of the countryside and going abroad to returning from studying abroad and taking root in the countryside, it has been 11 years now.
Taking the countryside as the starting point, and finally returning to the countryside, helping others and helping themselves, with an annual income of 8 million, Shi Yan's actions and harvests amazed everyone.
So, how big can Shi Yan's life be? No one knew, the only thing that was certain was that she had been on the road.
Endure loneliness, keep lonely, and resolutely go alone in the desert boat
In 1982, Shi Yan was born in Baoding, Hebei Province, and like most people, came from an ordinary family. What is slightly different is that she has been a good tutor since she was a child, and she has a rare and simple atmosphere of ordinary people, which must start from the story of her parents who went up the mountain to join the team when they were young.
During the special period, there was an extreme shortage of materials throughout the country, and Shi Yan's parents were sent to all corners of the countryside to work, and at that time, the two people who did not know each other supported each other and cheered each other up.
Lang has a concubine intention, and when the love comes to fruition, the two are married. As times changed and life got better and better, parents came to the city to develop, while managing their livelihoods and raising their daughters.
The beauty of memories is that they can be reintegrated, and they can be reassembled to a whole new past.
Maybe the life of the former team is hard, but for the parents is also the starting point of love, looking back on the pink beauty, like a dream, often told to Shi Yan, her childhood is a collection of rural stories, gradually, Shi Yan has a yearning for pastoral life.
Thanks to the enlightened indoctrination of her parents, Shi Yan has been smart and studious since she was a child, diligent in thinking, and her academic performance has always been among the best, and when she encounters problems that she does not understand, her parents will guide her to go deep into reality and use practice to determine cognition.
Gradually, field investigation and research became an important way for Shi Yan to solve her questions, unconsciously, fell in love with thinking in natural practice, recalled the story of Zhiqing going to the countryside described by her parents, and became more and more interested in the rural life of "morning rejuvenation and absurdity, with the moon and the lotus hoe".
Thinking in life, learning in thinking, over time, Shi Yan found that the development of modern science and technology has isolated people from agriculture, and people are no longer satisfied with field labor full of fireworks.
Coupled with the acceleration of urbanization, many farmers have left their homes to live in the city, a large number of fields have been abandoned, compared with the indigenous, naturally pollution-free crops, people generally eat fertilizers and pesticides to cultivate melons, fruits and vegetables.
Seeing these problems, Shi Yan can't help but think, the previous production method is good or good, but unfortunately the consumption is large, the yield is low, is there a kind of agricultural model that has the best of both worlds, on the one hand, it can make crops safe and pollution-free, on the other hand, it can promote the development of the agricultural economy, so that people no longer talk about agricultural discoloration?
For these ideas, the little girl's heart is full of question marks, she wants to rely on learning to solve these problems, so at a young age, she is determined to learn agriculture, Shi Yan, who has excellent grades, learns more vigorously.
Every person who pays seriously will not be disappointed, every sincere love will be echoed, and finally Shi Yan has achieved a very proud college entrance examination result.
Just when everyone thought that she would apply for the highest domestic university in the category of Tsinghua Peking University, Shi Yan surprised everyone and filled in the first choice of agricultural major at Hebei Agricultural University, even if she was like her parents, they could not understand their daughter's choice.
Is it lonely not to be understood? Maybe! But loneliness is a process of inner integration, which allows you to see the world soberly, and you can also make yourself look at yourself rationally.
Shi Yan clearly knows what her choice means, she loves agriculture, only by choosing Hebei Agricultural University, can she explore the correct agricultural road, in order to continue to study agriculture and benefit people from all walks of life, it is her life dream and belief concept.
In 2002, Shi Yan was admitted to Hebei Agricultural University as she wished, and while studying professional knowledge diligently, she actively participated in school club activities and worked hard to improve her communication skills, not only with remarkable professional results, but also fluent in English.
In 2006, Shi Yan successfully got the school's push and exemption quota and entered Chinese University to study rural development, which is a master's and doctoral degree, and few people have obtained this opportunity.
It is certainly gratifying to be able to enter one of the top institutions of higher learning in China, but relatives and friends are once again worried, and they have come to persuade prospective graduate students to change their minds and change their majors, so as not to have a bad road in the future, but these are the ideas of others.
People in the city want to go out, people outside the city want to come in, but Shi Yan guards this city of agriculture and does not go anywhere, because she knows that this is her home, and always insists on learning the unpopular profession in the eyes of others.
Shi Yan, who enrolled in Chinese Min University, is firm and persistent, and feels that she is extremely lucky, as early as her undergraduate period, she has read a series of books written by Wen Tiejun, a well-known expert in the three rural areas, and her inner admiration is spontaneous.
Therefore, when the graduate students recommended exemption from the examination, Shi Yan did not hesitate to choose Professor Wen Tiejun as a tutor, and finally got what she wanted, and studied under the dean of the famous College of Agriculture and Rural Development of Chinese Min University.
Shi Yan once generously admitted that the biggest influence brought to her by her mentor was the pragmatic spirit in practice. A sentence that Professor Wen Tiejun often hangs on his lips, "First investigate practice before you have the right to speak" has become the direction indicator of life.
Before arguing, it is wise to remain silent and do the right thing first. Only by conducting in-depth investigation and study and peeling away the surface phenomena layer by layer can we see the essence inside and find the crux of the problem.
Hundreds of boats compete for the current, and those who strive are the first. It is true that a person's success is inseparable from the establishment of goals, but more importantly, the goals are so great that they can benefit all mankind.
Shi Yan, who was only a college student at that time, had already set her sights on the problem of three rural areas, and she believed that the construction and popularization of urbanization should not be at the expense of agriculture, and the agriculture that was the foundation of people's livelihood could not be abandoned because of the construction of new homes.
If the people eat sloppily and roughly, or even unhealthily, how can people have enough spirit and strong physique to work and create value for society?
On the other hand, the number of people suffering from difficult and complicated diseases remains high, and modern medicine is still unheard of, unseen, and even helpless, is this not related to eating?
After all, there are too many food crops and meat products that have been bred and processed layer by layer, and have been deeply polluted by pesticides, fertilizers and chemicals.
Aware of the seriousness of the problem, Shi Yan was more determined about the correctness and necessity of choosing agronomy major during her graduate school years, and she followed her mentor to conduct in-depth investigation of farmland, visit villages, and gradually take rural agricultural development as her lifelong mission.
Fearless, pioneering and enterprising, the king of the forest who takes the initiative to assume the responsibility of life
The deceased is like a sif, not giving up day and night. In the blink of an eye, Shi Yan had completed her master's and doctoral studies at Chinese Min University, and she was outstanding and then obtained a postdoctoral job opportunity at Tsinghua University.
For those who work hard and are always ready, Heaven never skimps on the quota of opportunities, and in 2008, Shi Yan was funded to intern at an ecological farm in the United States, becoming the first agricultural scholar in Chinese history to study abroad.
On April 16, 2008, Shi Yan flew to the United States for further study, and unlike entering the ivory tower to study, she directly came to the "Ground Rise Farm" in Minnesota to start a 6-month study and exchange, the opportunity is rare, the connection and difference between industrial agriculture and traditional agriculture will be the focus of Shi Yan's thinking.
She was not familiar with the land, and Xiang Xiang, who was enjoyable, called this life episode a "foreign insertion team" farming life, and before that, she had heard about a new type of farm in the United States.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shi Yan needs to specialize in the business model of this new type of farm, the "community support agriculture" farm, that is, CSA farm.
Originating in Switzerland and Japan, CSA was introduced to the United States in the 1980s, with the self-circulation and sustainable development of ecosystems as the starting point, aiming to achieve "sustainable agriculture".
To achieve this goal, the farm must strictly classify the garbage, after a year of fermentation, rotten vegetables and leftover food can be used as fertilizer for the land, used for production, so that people can greatly reduce the ecological interference of people when planting crops, and truly achieve "sustainable agriculture".
On April 18, 2008, Shi Yan reported to "Disheng Farm", when she was 26 years old, Shi Yan said that she would abandon the previous ten fingers of the yang spring water lifestyle and let her hands be covered with dirt.
Contrary to Shi Yan's expectations, "Disheng Farm" emphasizes the concept of organic environmental protection and prohibits the use of any chemical drugs related to chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, ripening agents, etc., because these will affect the normal growth of crops.
On weekdays, Shi Yan would go to the plantation to learn CSA farm planting techniques: watering, transplanting, ploughing, sowing, weeding, feeding chickens, fertilizing, etc., even including driving a tractor and making small machines for farming by hand.
Not only that, she had to do all the work on the farm herself, and the huge farm had only a small tractor, which was extremely labor-intensive. Shi Yan often squatted in the ground, exposed to the blazing sun, sweating all day, her fair skin was tanned, and her hands were often scarred by weeds.
It was just an exchange and learning, why did Shi Yan fight so hard? Because she understands that CSA farms are the best choice for future agriculture, integrity is the highest principle and lowest bottom line of this business model.
All material resources and goods exchanged about CSA farms are based on trust, there is no intermediate price difference and any quality problems, both sides eat with confidence, in view of this, Shi Yan is determined to establish the first "community support agriculture" farm for China , CSA Farm, to deliver healthy and pollution-free vegetables to the tables of community residents.
In the six months of living in the United States, Shi Yan saw many unexpected scenes, everyone worked at sunrise and breathed in and out, and there were still primitive animals coming and going in the vegetable market.
She can't help but wonder where the smallholder economy should go when the food industry undergoes drastic reforms and agricultural capitalization accelerates. How did the concept of "eating locally, eating in the season" continue to this day?
With these questions in mind, Shi Yan recalled that Chinese farmers have adhered to farming methods for thousands of years, is not it exactly the same organic agriculture that coincides with CSA farms in the United States? It is only with the change of the times that this kind of intensive farming has been strongly impacted by capital and has almost changed its face.
The six-month trip to the United States has enabled Shi Yan to have a deeper understanding of the subject research, and also opened up new ideas and space for herself to create a community support agriculture in China in the future.
Grasp the moment, enjoy the moment, and do and cherish the young global leaders
On October 13, 2008, Shi Yan ended her trip to the United States and set sail back to China with the agricultural ideal of continuing to study for the saints and opening up peace for the world.
After not seeing her for half a year and missing her very much, my mother made a special trip to beijing airport to meet her daughter. Seeing that half a year ago, the face was rosy and the flesh of the heart was red in white, and it turned into a black, dry and shriveled peasant girl, the mother was very surprised, touching her daughter's calloused hands, very distressed.
While comforting her weeping mother, Shi Yan joyfully recounted her knowledge and observations in the United States. After returning to China, the international student did not forget his original intention, chose to continue to take root in the countryside, and prepared to start to build China's first CSA farm.
This decision almost ushered in the unanimous opposition of the whole family, and no one could understand why the postdoctoral fellows of Tangtang Tsinghua University wanted to return to the countryside and become a disheveled farmer.
Determined, Shi Yan once again ignored the opposition of everyone and continued to push forward her plan under great pressure, and finally, she quit her job and became her only supporter.
Immediately after, the two contracted a wasteland of more than 200 acres in Fenghuangling, a western suburb of Beijing, to establish China's first CSA farm, taking a childlike name - "Little Donkey Citizen Paradise".
Shi Yan humorously called her work in the "little donkey" a "new type of soil insertion", because since ancient times, the most contacted Chinese is the soil, and when planting seedlings, it is even more necessary to crawl on the ground to work, and it is the land under the feet that has nurtured hundreds of millions of Chinese children.
At first, the local farmers were not optimistic about Shi Yan, and had a tacit stereotype of her: such a highly educated female doll could not understand the current situation in the countryside, how could she cultivate good land?
In the face of everyone's doubts, Shi Yan knows that she understands that the trust in traditional morality has gradually faded in the torrent of the market of the times, and farmers will keep a piece of land without pesticides and fertilizers to cope with the increasingly widespread food safety problems.
Shi Yan said that she understands the situation and practices of farmers very well, they eat healthy, and the vegetables they sell have a lot of safety hazards, because no one guides farmers how to dilute pesticides, coupled with farmers' incomes are generally too low, and finally can only increase production by using more pesticides and fertilizers, otherwise the harvest is insufficient, family income will seriously decline, so that the problem of separation of trust relationships will become more and more serious.
The CSA model involves the entire agricultural system, and the spirit of trust between farmers and consumers, mutual commitment and risk sharing, is the essence of the CSA model, so changing the consumption habits of Chinese is the first step.
Soldiers will come to block, water will come to cover. Shi Yan, who is well aware of some problems, intends to use practical actions to gradually dispel the doubts of the villagers, and based on the experience learned in the United States, she decided to form a communication effect among teachers and friends by sending e-mails to achieve the purpose of recruitment advertising.
Due to the reputation of wen tiejun and Shi Yan, the industry-university base of Chinese Min University and the experts of the three rural areas, the CSA model has gradually gained the trust of more customers, and the stable development of the farm has gradually brought great benefits, and many farmers have found that this advanced production strategy can reduce a lot of economic pressure and begin to join the CSA farm one by one.
In order to completely dispel all the concerns of the villagers, Shi Yan would work in the fields with the farmers, devote her life to learning, and personally teach the farmers how to solve the agricultural technology problems in all aspects from picking seeds to sowing.
The modernization process has accelerated, the masses have paid more attention to food safety, Shi Yan's CSA farm crops are fully in line with people's expectations and requirements for vegetables, melons and fruits, and gradually, organic farms are spreading more and more widely in word of mouth.
At the same time, Shi Yan, who was bent on founding a farm and restoring ecological agriculture, did not give up her studies, and in 2010, she entered the postdoctoral exchange station of Tsinghua University to continue her studies, further study the problems of the three rural areas, and create a broader development space for her organic farm.
In 2012, CSA farms exceeded 500 in the country, and every time a farm was established, Shi Yan would personally visit the scene to carry out detailed guidance, and slowly, her income rose to a high level, with an annual income of more than 8 million.
For a time, Shi Yan became a fragrant feast in the eyes of many large enterprises, and they all made requests for cooperation to her, and Shi Yan refused one by one, she did not want this pure career to be assimilated by business.
Compared with the fertile water that does not flow into the fields of outsiders, Shi Yan is happy to share successful experience and farming experience with others, she often encourages her students to devote themselves to agriculture, calling on those who have the spare strength to contribute to China's organic agriculture.
From January 20 to 23, 2016, the 46th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum was held in Davos, Sweden, as scheduled, and Shi Yan was named one of the 121 "Young Global Leaders" in the world.
Nowadays, CSA organic farms have exceeded 1,000 households, more than ten years of personal and conscientious work, so that Shi Yan finally radiated the agricultural model to all parts of the country, farmers benefited, family income continues to increase, and established an unbreakable relationship of trust with customers, forming a virtuous circle, thousands of homes are brightly lit, countless Chinese eat happily, eat at ease.
Talking about the road to success, Shi Yan is calm and self-assured, very frank, she said that for many years she has been consistent, has been adhering to the original idea, practicing the CSA ideal road is a lifelong thing, on this road, there are many like-minded people can always coincide with their own ideas, when the spark of thinking unintentional collision, always harvest surprise and happiness.
Zhang Ailing once said that fame should be early, perhaps compared to being famous, people's lives are more important than being able to determine the direction of life as soon as possible.
We can't just see the wealth on Shi Yan's body, and the wealth code behind it is more worthy of attention. A person's success is difficult to replicate, but the principles and essence of success are the same.
Once Shi Yan broke through the cauldron and sank the boat, abandoned the doubts of the people, and concentrated on the agriculture he had already chosen, silently chiseling the wall for several years, and finally seeing the light.
It can be seen that hope does not matter whether there is anything or not, just like the road on the ground, as long as you find the right direction and walk enough, even if it is overgrown, you can walk out of the Kangzhuang Avenue.