今年7月3日,是我国科普界一代宗师贾祖璋先生逝世10周年。在他60年孜孜不倦的科普创作生涯中,给我们留下了300万字的科普作品,尤其是《花儿为什么这样红》等科普文章,深受广大青少年的喜爱。为纪念贾老,学习他的高尚品德,本刊特邀曾与贾老共事过的宋协和同志,写了这篇朴实而感人的文章,从中可以让我们受到启迪和教益。编者 July 3 this year is the 10th anniversary of the death of Mr. Jia Zuzhang, a great master of the science popularization community in our country. In his 60 years of hard-working science creation career, left us three million words of popular science works, especially “why the flowers so popular” and other popular science articles, loved by the majority of young people. To commemorate Jia Lao, to learn from his noble character, this magazine specially invited Song Xie and comrades who had worked with Jia La to write this simple and touching article from which we can be enlightened and taught. editor