Professor Guo Hongqi and the Legend of Chaga

In Anyang, farmer Guo Hongqi is a legend. Only with a fourth-grade education, he saved two machinery factories with excellent technology and became a well-known farmer scientist. However, he suddenly switched to the mushroom business and became the richest man among local farmers with a value of 30 million 30 years ago. At the peak of his life, he suddenly chose a road of no return in the eyes of outsiders, spent all his money to do an unreachable thing, and became the talk of his neighbors. 13 years later, he conquered a world problem, and no one laughed at him anymore.

Thirty years ago, he was the richest farmer in Anyang.

Guo Hongqi, 76, was once the biggest peasant star in Anyang, and his first half was full of legends. Guo Hongqi is not from Anyang. His hometown is in Linzhang County, Hebei Province, adjacent to Anyang. He has only received education in the fourth grade of primary school. With the skill of self-study, he became a mechanical technician in the agricultural machinery repair shop of Sucun commune in Linzhang County. Later, he built a special steel special-shaped screw production line for this agricultural machinery repair shop with a simple part drawing.

This was in the 1970 s, and the mechanic genius Guo Hongqi was quickly promoted to the factory director. However, when he had just turned this township enterprise that had suffered losses for years into increasingly profitable, something went wrong with his health. Guo Hongqi came from a poor family and was sickly since childhood. In the fourth grade of primary school, I had to drop out because I couldn't control my stomach trouble in class.

1979, Guo Hongqi was injured in an accident and his health became worse and worse. I heard that there is a very famous TCM doctor named Li Wanfu in Anyang County, so he crossed the Zhanghe River and went to Anyang for medical treatment.

In the process of diagnosis and treatment of Li Wanfu, Anyang Douzhuang Machine Repair Shop was invited in. At the cost of nine red brick tile houses, the famous farmer scientist in Fiona Fang was invited to help. Guo Hongqi lived up to expectations and quickly came up with a new product plan, which made the factory profitable in just three months.

At this point, Guo Hongqi came to live in Anyang with his whole family, but the sequelae of his concussion recurred after his injury. With a little use of his brain, he has a headache and beads of sweat all over his face. Li Wanfu, an old Chinese doctor, told him that he needed to buy Ganoderma lucidum decoction to cure the disease.

In the1970s, the artificial domestication technology of Ganoderma lucidum was not widely used. At that time, the price of Ganoderma lucidum was by no means affordable for a technician running a factory in a community. His high salary, like the commune secretary, can only solve the problem of eating and drinking for the whole family. It is more difficult to buy ganoderma lucidum than to steal snake grass.

Guo Hongqi, who is recovering from illness in Anyang, has plenty of time. It is better to read some books on artificial domestication of Ganoderma lucidum and learn to plant it yourself. Then, he really took action:1At the beginning of 980, Guo Hongqi introduced edible and medicinal fungi such as Ganoderma lucidum, Ganoderma lucidum and Hericium erinaceus from the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences for planting, and it actually succeeded.

Two years later, he began to devote himself to fungus bioengineering, and successively established a fungus factory, an edible fungus purchasing station, an Anyang edible fungus mechanized production line, and an Anyang Fukang fungus research institute. In a short period of 10 years, he gained a huge wealth of 30 million yuan, became the richest farmer in the local area, and was also praised as a genius in the mushroom industry in China.

Guo Hongqi's success attracted the attention of Du Ziduan, then vice minister of agriculture, and helped him embark on the road of industrialization. But what he didn't expect was that it was because of this concern that he changed from a "genius" in people's eyes to a "madman".

I assured the vice minister that the cowhide was blown up.

1996 After the Spring Festival, Du Ziduan gave Guo Hongqi a box of treasures: Chaga strains brought back from his visit to Russia last year, and asked him if he could domesticate them artificially.

Guo Hongqi first heard of this kind of thing, but he didn't expect it to be more precious than Ganoderma lucidum. But ignorant and fearless, he is at the peak of his career and doesn't realize how difficult it is.

Guo Hongqi and others took a group photo with Vice Minister Du Ziduan.

He patted his chest and promised to win the problem of artificial domestication of Chaga within three years and put Chaga products on the market within four years. In fact, he said it was three years, and all he was thinking about was one year and two years.

When he really started, he found that the cowhide was a little too big. The artificial culture of Chagas is more complicated than he thought, and it needs knowledge of pharmacology, nutrition and mycology.

And a lot of content needs him to learn from scratch. Without any reference materials, he groped for it himself.

He ran around, bought white birch for experiments, and mobilized refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners to simulate the climate conditions in Siberia. A cart of wood was pulled into the spawning ground and processed into sawdust.

Soon, a cart full of waste was pulled out again. Guo Hongqi didn't believe in this evil and continued to buy wood for experiments. He sold three cars when he had no money. Because of the imbalance of income and expenditure, there was no hope, and more than 20 employees left the strain farm, even including his three sons.

It took a lot of efforts and large-scale investment to make great progress. After thousands of experiments, the hard-domesticated Shaka bacteria only grow to the size of a fingernail and stop growing, which has no development value at all. In the past ten years, Guo Hongqi has invested more than 30 million yuan back and forth, and other industries have stopped and suffered heavy losses. But he still insisted, and everyone around him said he was crazy!

"If I don't solve this problem, I will die unsatisfied; Without solving this problem, I have no face to see Vice Minister Du Ziduan. " This is what Guo Hongqi said to all those who advised him to give up.

God's magic gift is not easy to get.

Guo Hongqi didn't know at first that it would be a very difficult world problem to domesticate Shaka strain artificially.

Even in Russia, the popularity is not high, and people later learned it from novels. There is a passage in the novel Cancer Ward by Soviet writer Solzhenitsyn: "In a village in Russia, a kind of Inonotus obliquus tea with the smell and color similar to coffee has been cooked for many years. As a result, no one in the village has gastrointestinal diseases and cancer. "

Solzhenitsyn

It is this passage that let the world know that there is something called Chaga, which has the power to reverse tumors. Inonotus obliquus, also known as Inonotus obliquus, is a parasitic fungus of Betula platyphylla in sub-cold zone. It can still grow in the extremely cold environment of MINUS 40 degrees. Fifteen years can suck up the essence of a strong birch, which is called birch cancer.

Chaga is the cancer of birch; But for human beings, it may be the most powerful "anti-cancer weapon". According to scholars' research, in the 16 and 17 centuries, chaga was widely used in the prevention and treatment of various intractable diseases, such as various digestive organ cancers (gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, intestinal cancer, liver cancer), heart disease, leukemia, diabetes and so on. , showing excellent results. It can also decompose bacterial viruses and eliminate toxins from liver, kidney and spleen.

Because of this, people dubbed Chaga as "God's magical gift to suffering human beings", "forest diamond" and "star of immunity". Doctors in the former Soviet Union, Japan, the United States and other places have also confirmed some of its functions.

Chaga is so magical, why not promote it and give many cancer patients a new life? The key problem is its scarcity, which has reached a desperate level. According to research, every 30,000 birch trees can produce a natural thallus, which is also restricted by other objective conditions. In some forest areas, the probability of producing bacteria reaches 300 thousand trees to produce a bacteria.

A thousand dollars is easy to get, but a velvet is hard to find. Because of its scarcity, overcoming its artificial domestication has become the dream of medical scientists and bacteriologists all over the world.

But who can win the first prize?

13: technology to fill international gaps

But he is not satisfied.

Guo Hongqi groped for 10 years, but could not find the reason why Chaga was unsuccessful. But what he didn't expect was that when he found the reason, it was so simple.

One morning in 2007, Guo Hongqi, who couldn't sleep, leaned back in bed and read a health magazine. An article about Japanese people making health drinks from birch sap made him wake up immediately. He patted the bed and shouted, I found it! This cry woke up his wife and thought he was really crazy.

He's not crazy. From this article, he finally found the correct way to domesticate Chaga, and specially set up a quasi-ecological cultural factory in Chaga to carry out experiments. In the experiment, whole grains and special medicinal and edible plants were also created for Chajia planting, and good results were achieved.

At the beginning of 2009, the Institute of Microbiology of China Academy of Sciences confirmed that Guo Hongqi's Shaka artificial domestication technology filled the international gap in this technology. In the same year, his chaga technology was recognized as the scientific and technological achievement of Anyang city by Anyang city, and also won the provincial scientific and technological achievement award. 20 16, realizing the quasi-ecological industrial production of Chaga.

At the 11th China Scientists Forum, Guo Hongqi was honored as "the father of Chaga".

It took him 13 years to overcome a world-class technical problem. However, he was not satisfied and chose another technical problem: pesticide residues and heavy metal pollution in the culture medium of medicinal saprophytic fungi.

Is "Lian Po" old for 76-year-old Guo Hongqi?

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