September 23*, 2021 was a special day. It was the fourth Chinese Farmers' Harvest(丰收)Festival. Before
the day, 91-year-old Wu Mingzhu gave her best wishes to all farmers of China," ▲ . Those who work hard are the fathers of all things."
Many people remember the famous scientist Yuan Longping, but few know about another scientist Wu Mingzhu. She is a melon expert(专家). She worked in the melon field fr more than 60 years, and she has cultivated(培育) more than 30 kinds of melons in China.
Bom in Wuhan in 1930, Wu finished university in 1953. In 1955, she volunteered to study melon in Xinjiang. She and her team spent three years visiting many places there, collecting over 100 pieces of information about melon. In 1984, they cultivated "84", a high-quality(高质量)watermelon in China Thanks to her great work, the cultivation of melon in China has greatly changed.
At the age of 81, she got ill. But even when she was il, she would care about the study of melon. For her, the best thing in life is to bring the sweetness to the people.
