Siheyuan: Happy life of the son-in-law of a founding general

After class, a student named He Zhengtong recalled what Teacher Zhang said, "The scientific spirit is not just about the bottles and jars in the laboratory, it also exists in every little bit of our daily life."

"How can we maintain our passion for science without losing the simplicity of life? How can we make the two perfectly unified?" He Zhengtong thought seriously on the way.

Some classmates greeted her, but she forgot.

Walking on the street, I don't know who is singing, the voice is quite nice. After returning home, He Zhengtong is still thinking about this question. As a result, someone's radio is playing songs again. The songs at this time are all positive energy songs, without any pop songs.

After listening to it, one's blood boils.

He Zhengtong suddenly remembered a story she had heard: a scholar practiced the piano at night, and many flowers started dancing along with him. If music is played, will it increase the yield of rice and wheat?

He Zhengtong suddenly remembered this, and immediately wrote it down and conducted experiments.

In the second week of the Nature and Science class, He Zhengtong talked about this with Teacher Zhang. Teacher Zhang said that they could give it a try and asked other students who were technology enthusiasts in the class to join in.

So a dozen students started conducting various research.

This weekend, He Zhengtong gathered several classmates who were also passionate about science, and under the guidance of Teacher Zhang, they went to a small laboratory behind the school.

Here, they are preparing to carry out an unprecedented attempt - to "nourish" plants with music and explore the impact of sound on plant growth.

Soon, the students brought different kinds of music, including melodious classical music, lively folk songs, and more powerful red songs.

The next step is to record how different plants respond to different kinds of music.

Then, these plants really have a more obvious reaction to music, and the more beautiful the music, the greater the reaction of the plants.

"Look, if plants can really respond to music, then can't we promote agricultural development in the most poetic way?" He Zhengtong said to the classmates around him with anticipation in his eyes.

Teacher Zhang stood by with an encouraging smile on her face. "It is this kind of curiosity to explore the unknown and combine it with real life that is the true embodiment of the scientific spirit."

He looked at his classmates with satisfaction and gave them full affirmation.

Two weeks later, when He Zhengtong and his classmates gathered in the greenhouse again to compare the recorded data, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the plants that had "listened to music" did indeed perform better in average height, number of leaves and color.

In particular, the plants that had "heard" classical folk music grew significantly faster than the control group.

"It seems that plants also have 'ears'." A classmate joked, making everyone smile.

Encouraged by this discovery, He Zhengtong suggested: "We should share this interesting discovery so that more people can know about it."

So, they jointly wrote an article that detailed the experimental process and results, and decided to submit it to the "Sijiucheng Daily".

Of course, it was Teacher Zhang who made the final revisions.

A week later, the "Sijiucheng Daily" published their article entitled "The Secret Beneath the Music: The Inextricable Relationship between Music and Plants."

Even Teacher Zhang found it strange that the "Sijiucheng Daily" would publish this article.

What they didn’t know was that it was Wang Zhian who specifically issued instructions, requiring newspapers and magazines across the country to pay special attention to various science-related news.

So after receiving this reader's manuscript, the editor of "Sijiucheng Daily" handed it to the editor-in-chief along with other similar manuscripts. The editor-in-chief thought He Zhengtong's article was very interesting and had some scientific truth. So he handed it to the chief editor.

After reading it, the editor-in-chief thought about it and made a phone call. The staff member who received the call made several more calls and finally called Wang Zhian.

After reading this article, Wang Zhian made a comment.

“Yes.”

So, He Zhengtong's article was published.

Often, there are too many coincidences in one thing, but when there are enough of them, it becomes inevitable.

This report in the "Sijiucheng Daily" quickly attracted widespread attention from the public. People were amazed at this seemingly simple yet imaginative experiment. It not only stimulated the public's interest in science, but also made the agricultural community begin to re-examine the impact of non-traditional factors on crop growth.

"We did it!" He Zhengtong said to his colleagues excitedly, with tears in his eyes. "Science not only changes the growth of plants, but more importantly, science is all around us. We can do it."

This experience not only allowed He Zhengtong and her classmates to deeply appreciate the charm of scientific exploration, but also made them understand that knowledge is everywhere in life. As long as they maintain their curiosity and love for the world, the integration of science and life will bring about infinite possibilities.

Influenced by this report, not only He Zhengtong and her friends, but also friends from all over Daxia, all of whom began to participate in music and increase production.

Some researchers have also joined in to see what kind of music plants like best, or what kind of music a certain type of plant likes best.

This is a probability question.

It requires repeated experiments many times.

However, with so many people in Daxia doing the experiment, the progress was greatly accelerated. Strength lies in numbers.

At the same time, some people were inspired. Since plant growth and yield increase are related to music, what about animals? What about chickens, ducks, cows, etc.? Many agricultural scientists immediately conducted experiments.

At one time, all over the country, Daxia was conducting various basic scientific experiments at the grassroots level, and they were closely related to the lives and production of the people.

In this ancient and vibrant land of Daxia, an unprecedented green scientific research is quietly emerging.

Among them, Zhang Qingwei, a young agricultural technician from southern Hunan, was standing in the courtyard of the research institute recently, looking at the chickens in the pen, his mind full of infinite reverie. "If music can make crops grow better, what about my chickens? Will they also lay more eggs?"

Zhang Qingwei talked to himself and decided to take action immediately.

Deciding to put his idea into practice, Zhang Qingwei began his small-scale experiment. He selected different types of music, from gentle classical music to cheerful Xintianyou folk songs, trying to find out the most popular style among the chickens.

Every morning, when the first ray of sunlight penetrates the mist and shines into the courtyard, it becomes the "magic moment" for Zhang Qingwei to play music.

At first, the chickens showed a little surprise at this sudden "concert". They either raised their heads to listen or looked around, as if looking for the source of the sound.

A few days later, Zhang Qingwei noticed an interesting phenomenon: whenever soft classical music was played, the chickens seemed particularly peaceful, ate more orderly, and even had a slight increase in egg production.

This actually works.