"Our achievement is a literal academic work, but the formation process of the achievement has experienced hardship that is unimaginable by ordinary people.
Academy of Sciences "Gaoligongshan Plant Resources and Fauna Geography" is a well-known botanist and Li Rong, China Ke Xueyuan integration of research results for the Kunming Institute of Botany researcher Li Heng recent years, the combination of field investigation and indoor team work over 30 years of specimen identification Hard work.
Academy of Sciences Gaoligong Mountain is located in the southeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Dulong River, located on the side of Gaoligong Mountain, is a unique natural complex.
In the 1990s, there were no roads accessible here, poor and blocked, and the mountain roads entering and leaving the Dulong River were stuck on steep cliffs like centipedes.
In October 1990, before the closure of the mountain, 61-year-old Li Heng and three other expedition team members appeared on the road to the Dulong River as the head of the "Dulong River Region Flora Research" one of the major national fund projects.
For this investigation, she gave up her retirement life, put down her lover who was seriously ill in bed, and even wrote a suicide note that might never come back.
In order to collect the plants of the Dulong River in an all-round way, Li Heng traveled all over the villages on both sides of the Dulong River, large and small ditches, and inaccessible mountains and mountains.
During that period, Li Heng picked specimens during the day, registered, pressed, baked, and looked up literature at night.
At the end of the specimen collection work, Li Heng had been in the mountains for 230 days and nights.
The research examined the Chinese Kexue Yuan Natural Science Prize, Dulong is also the first time with a complete plant list.
Academy of Sciences In 1996, when the Gaoligong Mountain biodiversity scientific investigation was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Li Heng was 67 years old.
In 2002, the cooperative research on biodiversity of the Gaoligong Mountains in western Yunnan was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of the United States.
Over the past few decades, Li Heng collected more than 40,000 specimens from Gaoligong Mountain (each number includes 8-10 specimens).
Before 1961, Li Heng was a Russian translator with a registered permanent residence in Beijing.
He came to China Ke Xueyuan Kunming Institute of Botany, Russian no use, and she began the day with plants as partners.
Academy of Sciences When she went to work in the countryside, others sat down and rested.
She collected weeds everywhere and asked a teacher to identify them.
When she went home at night, others had already turned off their lights and went to bed.
She was still studying hard by candlelight to make up for her lack of expertise in botany.
In a few years, she turned from "the layman sees the excitement" to "the expert sees the doorway".
When he first learned about botany in his 30s, Li Heng changed his major through diligent study.
In the following decades, he has gone through inspections in the mountains, observed specimens in the herbarium, sorted and analyzed data in the office, and turned plant specimens into A scientific monograph.
Today, the 92-year-old Li Heng’s schedule is full-come to the office every day to discuss scientific research with young people, organize fund projects, and when time permits, go to the grassroots to guide the planting of heavy buildings.
"In the fast-paced era, it may be boring to persist in doing such a thing, but it is also a very fulfilling thing to be able to figure out the plants in a region.
"Sit on a cold bench and endure loneliness in Li's body.
" 'The spirit of this book is a very important reason for the publication of this book, and it is also the most worthy of the team to learn from.
" Li Rong said.
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