1987年9月,中国农史学会成立那天,一位青年农民登台宣读了三篇论文,洋洋两万余言,使与会专家学者对这位“农民学者”惊叹不已。他,就是河南省新安县铁门镇的民兵连长张宗子。1976年,年过20岁的张宗子在村里当上了一名苹果技术管理员。他在果园工作中,不但阅读了大量的果树管理技术书籍,还阅读了上 In September 1987, on the day of the founding of the Chinese Society of Agricultural History, a young peasant made three essays on the stage and said, with more than 20,000 words, the experts and scholars attending the meeting marveled at the peasant scholar. He is Zhang Zongzi, militia commander of Tiemen Town, Xin’an County, Henan Province. In 1976, 20-year-old Zhang Zongzi in the village became an Apple technology administrator. In his work in the orchard, he not only read a large number of technical books on tree management, but also read on