[Scientific Power] Zheng Zuoxin: Walking with birds

Zheng Zuoxin is one of the founders of Chinese bird science, a pioneer of bird geography, and a generation of Chinese birds and zoos. Former director of the Acts of the People's Republic of China on Endomitterrheous Botanical Science Committee, and editor -in -chief of Zoology and Animal Geography in the "Chinese Encyclopedia".

Zheng Zuoxin, who has worked in bird studies in the motherland for a lifetime, is a bird's "compiling family genealogy and writing files". Zheng Zuoxin at work, like birds, across the world of five, and study the world of birds in nature.

Academician Zheng Zuo Xin gave graduate students. Pictures from the network

The love of nature is the power

Zheng Zuo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was born on November 18, 1906 in a staff family in Fuzhou.

He has loved nature since he was a child, and he likes to explore the mystery of nature. Zheng Zuoxin's home is in the village at the foot of the Gushan of Fuzhou. The Gushan is high and majestic, beautiful and beautiful, and lush forests. It is the paradise of birds. When he was a teenager, he often played with his friends to play with the Gushan, listened to the birds, identified the birds, and even pulled a bird's nest, catching a bird to feed home, and he was happy.

Zheng Zuoxin liked birds since he was a child. The story that the grandmother told him, including many stories about birds, such as "The Story of Bean Trouins", tells the story of curiosity adventure, and a "Essence Fill in the Sea". The story, the spiritual reclamation spirit of Jingwei Bird, has evoked his strong interest in birds.

When he was in elementary school, he recognized many kinds of birds, and he could distinguish what birds were.

Zheng Zuo applied for Fujian Xiehe University at the age of 15 at the age of 15. Because he was less than 16 years old, he had to be approved by the sponsor of Mr. Zhu Lide, the principal of the middle school. The excellent results of his exams surprised the school, and finally became the youngest freshman of the Concord University at that time.

In 1926, Zheng Zuoxin graduated from college half a year in advance, obtained a bachelor's degree, and was admitted to the famous University of Michigan University in the United States with his uncle's funding. In the first year of foreign countries, he was working hard and studying hard, while entering the library to collect materials for notes, and went to the wild for field inspection and research. In 1930, he obtained a doctorate degree and was the youngest doctorate in the school, only 23 years old.

Running in a lifetime, built birds to build birds

At the end of 1930, Zheng Zuoxin returned to Fuzhou and served as a professor and director of Zoology and Director of Fujian Xiehe University.

In the United States, Zheng Zuoxin's main research field was originally animal development. However, he saw a golden chicken produced in China in a museum, but was discovered and named after Latin in 1758 by the Swedish Lin Nai. This incident greatly hurt his national self -esteem and gave up the popular discipline of the prospect of development at the time.

Zheng Zuoxin in the research room (1979) Picture Source: "Birdist Zheng Zuoxin"/China Forestry Publishing House

He was determined to create a bird science research in the motherland and instead studying Chinese birds as his own research topic.

In the early 1950s, the sparrows were listed as one of the "prisoners" in China, and many regions launched a huge "battle of birds". In the days of the whole people's "four harms" (rats, sparrows, flies, mosquitoes), Zheng Zuoxin published a report that he had gathered for many years, showing that the sparrows usually prey for pests. The season is controlled to the situation of the crops that the sparrows harm. Based on his survey report, national leaders took one of the hats of the sparrows.

Zheng Zuoxin ran north and south of the motherland, and participated in or presided over the scientific investigation of large birds in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In difficult scientific investigations, Zheng Zhaoxin and assistants have collected thousands of specimens, and created the largest bird specimen in my country at the Institute of Animal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with about 60,000 bird specimens.

In the long -term field scientific investigation, he discovered a group of new and new sub -species, constantly setting new records, and also provided a lot of Chinese data for world birdology.

Regarding the Chinese animal geographical planning, Zheng Zuoxin put forward his independent opinions based on his years of research. The world is divided into 6 animal geographical circles, including the ancient northern and east circles in China. Zheng Zuoxin put forward the point of view of the Qinling Mountains according to the distribution area of ​​birds and beasts, and the different types of beasts, that is, the south of Qinling is the Toyo World, and north of Qinling. His division not only has a sufficient basis in the birds and animal regions, but also consistent with the zoning of soil, vegetation, climate. He further divided the two circles into 7 first -level districts and 19 second -level districts.

In 1992, he donated all the bonuses obtained by the Honorary Seal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1989, and established the first bird science youth award fund in China. Through the research and protection of animals, explore the way human society and nature coexist in harmony.

On June 27, 1998, Zheng Zuoxin died. He dedicated his life to bird science research.

On November 12, 2016, the National Animal Museum of the Institute of Animal Research of the Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Bird Branch of the Chinese Animal Society, and the "Ceremony of the 110th Anniversary of the 110th Anniversary of Academician Zheng Zuoxin New Academician and the Bird Science Series Lecture" jointly sponsored by the Chinese Institute of Animal Society, The lecture hall of the Institute of Animal Research of the Beijing Chinese Academy of Sciences was held.

Author: Xiaohui

Edit: Su Feng

Review: Gong Zimo

Vision: Long Hao

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