Zou said: "Finding an intersection can develop a new discipline!"

For those who study agriculture, it is an adventure to engage in philosophical research and teaching. Who would have thought that he succeeded! In today's philosophical theory circle, in hundred schools of thought, it is easy to produce results and attract people's attention. But he also succeeded! At present, it is difficult to publish theoretical works and pure academic works. It is simply "daydreaming" to publish a book without relying on human feelings and paying! But he succeeded!

Being good at finding "fulcrum" and "intersection" is the key to Zou's success. But instead of looking for someone else to give it, he found it himself and created it himself.

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Zou 1936 was born in a peasant family in Xichuan County, southwest of Henan Province, at the junction of Shaanxi and Hubei. This is a poor mountainous area with "one foot in three provinces". About after his birth 1 year, the July 7th Incident broke out. Geographical environment and historical time are at an intersection. He is the first boy in the family, and his two sisters were born before him, so the family is very expensive. The two sisters didn't go to school for a day, but he was lucky enough to go to school, which was another "intersection". I don't know whether it was a secret or a coincidence, but he later engaged in "cross-cutting" scientific research.

His mother was born in a "rich" family, but she never went to school. His father went to school for several years, and then he learned a lot of literature and ink painting. He is a rare "cultural person" in the village. When he is busy farming, he farms at home. When he is idle, he often goes to various brokerage companies in the market town to keep accounts and collect money. Villagers write contracts, ask for eight characters, write couplets and mediate disputes, all looking for his father.

His father taught him to read many words before he entered school. So when he arrived at the primary school in his village, he looked "superior" in his studies. Before graduating from primary school, Japanese imperialism trampled on the land of the Central Plains, and Xichuan became a haunt of bandits. The primary school was forced to close. A sibling in their village is the headmaster of a private middle school. He returned to the village and volunteered to talk about "China's view of ancient literature" for these dropouts. He can still recite most of the articles in the book.

At 1946 after the Anti-Japanese War, he was admitted to a complete primary school. Before graduation, the war of liberation began. His hometown was in chaos, and he dropped out of school to mow grass and farm at home. Because his parents attach importance to reading, he also loves learning. After work, he borrows all the books that can be borrowed in the village. What a thousand words, three-character classics, four-character miscellaneous words, hundreds of surnames, juvenile learning Qionglin ... have become his "treasures".

1950, I heard that middle schools in the county started enrolling students. He met several classmates in the same village, drove more than 80 miles and went to the county to take the placement exam. He was lucky to be admitted.

This middle school was established on the basis of Feng Chunting, a famous poet in the Song Dynasty. It is one of the famous academies in the Song Dynasty, and it has collected many ancient books and new books since the May 4th Movement. Ai Qing's Selected Poems and Jiang Guangci's novels have a profound influence on him.

Being able to go to junior high school was very rare in the countryside at that time, especially in the backcountry like his hometown. Because the family is poor, the cost of going to school depends entirely on my father and cousin pulling firewood and selling grass.

After graduating from junior high school, many students quickly took part in the work. At that time, just after liberation, there was a shortage of educated people in all positions. Because I was too young to work, I had to continue my studies and successfully entered Nanyang High School.

Nanyang is a famous historical and cultural city in China, with many historical sites and legendary celebrities. This is a small town with strong cultural legends. Nanyang High School was one of the two high schools in Nanyang at that time, with strong teachers and high teaching level. The headmaster is an old underground party. The art teacher is Gu Yuan's classmate. The name of the library was written by Guo Moruo himself. Li Ji, a poet, is a graduate of this school ... Here, Zou, who has been a difficult governor since childhood, studies all his lessons very seriously, spending almost all his spare time in the library and reading room, reading a lot of literature and history books and desperately absorbing nutrition.

During the winter vacation of the second year of high school, my father said that it is useless to read too many books. Now that my family is in trouble, I might as well go to work. He went to the District Bureau of Culture and Education and asked to be a primary school teacher. The people in the bureau of culture and education said they would arrange the summer vacation. During the summer vacation, he felt that he would graduate in one year, and he might as well finish high school.

When he graduated from high school, he was determined to enter the university. There were no college students in his hometown before this. When I volunteered, I entered the Horticulture Department of Northwest Agricultural College because I came from a peasant family and was familiar with the countryside and agriculture.

1955 Zou stepped into the gate of Northwest Agricultural College, carrying a backpack, carrying the servant dust of farmers' children in southwest Henan, and with a strong thirst for knowledge, he studied obsessively for 4 years. He loves his major. Of course, he still likes to read widely in his spare time. He reads literary classics, natural science theories, philosophy ... but he has vaguely felt that he seems to prefer philosophy. On the eve of graduation from 65438 to 0959, at a class meeting on ideals and ambitions, he said that he planned to go to the orchard to do gardening after graduation and study natural philosophy in his spare time. At that time, his mind was full of young people's poetic fantasies and philosophical explorations. Unexpectedly, his words attracted the attention of a theory teacher who attended the meeting. When he was assigned to graduate, he was unexpectedly detained as a philosophy teacher. Another "crossing" point!

He studies gardening. Although he likes philosophy, he is really embarrassed to engage in philosophy. When he was in college, he didn't take a philosophy class. Related social science courses are even more irrelevant. He can only follow the lecture, as a philosophy course, while desperately reading related books. But he knows his fulcrum. To be a good teacher and teach this course well, the fulcrum must be strengthened.

1962, downsizing. He has never really taught, and he is very young, so he is naturally the target of layoffs. He was reduced to the librarian of the reference room.

There are good things in bad things. As a librarian for more than a year, his "fulcrum" has been greatly strengthened. Later, I applied for the advanced course of philosophy of Renmin University of China and the postgraduate of scientific methodology of Wuhan University, but they were not realized due to the wave of "anti-revision".

From then on, he never had a chance to learn and improve. Strengthening the "fulcrum" can only be achieved by self-study. Because soon he was involved in the "Cultural Revolution" like millions of people in China. After the Cultural Revolution, the university resumed enrollment, and he returned to the philosophy group. 1978, it is necessary to offer the course dialectics of nature when universities resume enrolling graduate students. He and several philosophy teachers set up the teaching and research section of dialectics of nature. Since then, He, who "didn't study fine arts in his thirties", really started his teaching and research life in the academic atmosphere of the 1980s.

Perhaps it is because he was born at the crossroads of "stepping on three provinces with one foot" and later changed careers. He clearly knew that he could not be an agronomist, a gardener or a philosopher, but he could not do without agronomy and philosophy as "fulcrums" and explored at the crossroads of his favorite history of science and culture.

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The accumulation of decades of hard self-study and the intersection of multidisciplinary knowledge made his research work "extraordinary" from the beginning. From 198 1 to19910, more than 30 research papers have been published in nearly 20 journals and papers at home and abroad, covering agricultural theory, agricultural culture, agricultural history, dialectics of nature, regional development strategy and other fields.

His "Three Theories on the Development of Modern Agricultural Science and Technology" published in 198 1 is his "first work". Taking this as the "fulcrum", he published papers such as "Discussion on Agricultural Structure and Research Field" in 1983, and systematically put forward his "agricultural ternary structure theory", which immediately made the academic and theoretical circles sit up and take notice. Economic Digest, potential science, Natural Information and Dialectics of Agriculture and Forestry were introduced and published one after another, and People's Daily (overseas edition) specially introduced them, and many people adopted his views in their research.

Agriculture is the oldest and most basic production sector, with unlimited development prospects and innovation potential. Analyzing and studying agricultural structure is of great theoretical significance and practical value for understanding agriculture, managing agriculture and studying agricultural development. But what is agriculture? What is its structure? With these questions, he began to explore the depth of theory at these "intersections".

He took the history of science and philosophy as the center, made full use of his knowledge of economics and sociology, and represented the structure of agriculture with three intersecting circles. The first circle represents the agricultural economic system; The second circle represents the agricultural ecosystem and is related to the whole biosphere; The third circle represents the agricultural technology system, which is related to the whole science and technology. Each of the three circles has "cross" parts, namely, agricultural technical economy, agricultural ecological economy and agricultural ecological technology. This leads to the "six fields" of agricultural research. There are many researches on the first three fields: agricultural economy, agricultural ecology and agricultural technology, and each of them has formed an independent discipline and theoretical system. The latter three fields: agricultural technical economy, agricultural ecological economy and agricultural ecological technology need to be vigorously advocated to promote their development. Especially the problem of agricultural ecological technology, was first put forward by him. In fact, eco-technical problems have emerged. With the development of science and technology, it is more and more necessary to study this problem.

Taking this as a "fulcrum", his further "cross-cutting" research and pioneering work was completed with the publication of 1990 "Green Philosophy". This book is about 200,000 words, which is a new exploration of the origin, evolution and system of agriculture, farming culture and agricultural sociology. Because its research is still carried out in the marginal intersection of agronomy and philosophy, it is different from the empirical research of agricultural science and technology, and also from the research of agricultural economy and agricultural sociology. It is a comprehensive, holistic and theoretical research, focusing on theoretical analysis and generalization, trying to understand agriculture from a higher level. So it can be called "agricultural philosophy".

In the history of human civilization, whether in China or other countries, the overall theoretical research and specific technical research of agriculture are often a kind of * * * life. Agricultural School was formed in China during the Warring States Period. As one of the schools of thought contended, it participated in the academic debate of "a hundred schools of thought contended" at that time. Later, Miao Shengzhi, Jia Sixie, Xu Guangqi and other outstanding agronomists inherited the pre-Qin agricultural school and developed China's empirical agricultural science system. In this system, there are not only specific agricultural technologies, but also specific agricultural theoretical ideas. China's agronomy thought constitutes a part of China's traditional science, philosophy and culture. Ancient Rome also had developed agriculture, and a number of agronomists were born. Valo's On Agriculture is a world academic masterpiece. At that time, it was not only a practical technical reading, but also a theoretical work with rich agricultural ideas. In modern times, the evolution, characteristics, systems and methods of agriculture were discussed in many aspects, such as Rational Agriculture by German agronomist Thiel, Agricultural Philosophy by Swiss agricultural economist Kelz Moschi, and On Agriculture by Japanese agronomist Bo Yixian.

Based on the insight into a large number of agricultural theoretical works at home and abroad, and the long-term thinking and research on contemporary agricultural problems in China, Zou's book Green Philosophy was finally published by Agricultural Press 1990.

A stone stirs up a thousand waves! As soon as green philosophy came out, it immediately attracted the attention of Chinese and foreign academic and theoretical circles. People's Daily, Newsletter on Dialectics of Nature, Agricultural Archaeology, Research on Dialectics of Nature and Newsletter of Shaanxi Social Science Association have published books and commented on them, praising the book for "paying attention to theoretical analysis and generalization and understanding agriculture from a new level and perspective". The Newsletter on the History of Science and Technology in China, co-sponsored by Needham Institute of Cambridge University, Tsinghua University Institute of History of Taiwan Province Province and China Research Office of Philosophy History of the University of Tokyo, also excitedly commented on this book: "This book is a combination of history and theory, which has great historical and theoretical value. It is the first book to discuss the history of agriculture from multiple angles and the first book about agriculture in a broad sense. "

If the theory of agricultural ternary structure is the work of youth and agricultural philosophy is the work of the prime minister, then agricultural culture is his work of the prime minister-another fulcrum research!

China is a typical agricultural society, and China has created a unique and unparalleled traditional agricultural culture in the world, which is enduring for a long time. China ancient agricultural culture has strong attraction and radiation. It absorbed the surrounding culture, formed its own unique system, and then radiated to the Pacific region, forming the "East Asian Cultural Circle". China has created advanced traditional agricultural culture and the second cultural peak in the world. However, in modern times, it became an obstacle, dragging China's back and not entering the stage of industrial culture, which made modern China in a passive position and became a laggard.