The "Power of Seeds" Art Exhibition opens at the Longping Rice Museum in Changsha on September 7. (Photo provided by the Longping Rice Museum)

September 7, 2023 marked the 93rd anniversary of the birth of Academician Yuan Longping, known as the "father of hybrid rice". This year also coincides with the 50th anniversary of Yuan's success in cultivating the world's first high-yielding hybrid rice strain with three lines, namely, the male sterile, maintainer, and restorer. The "Power of Seeds" Art Exhibition opened at the Longping Rice Museum in Changsha that day, to commemorate the academician. Among the exhibits, there is a painting titled "Grandpa and Me", which was created by Yuan Youqing, the granddaughter of Yuan Longping.

The exhibition is the first children's exhibition themed on farming culture in Changsha. It seeks the inheritance of the academician spirit from the transformation of rice seeds. It is divided into four parts: sowing, growth, harvest, and prospect.

The exhibition is expected to run for a month.

The "Power of Seeds" Art Exhibition is a children's art exhibition themed on farming culture. (Photo/Fu Jingyi)

With seeds as the main object of creation, children's works on display are full of hope and vitality. (Photo/Fu Jingyi)

Source: en.changsha.gov.cn