As early as the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Yuan Longping, who was only 8 years old, accidentally fell into the water on his way from Hankou to Taoyuan County, Hunan Province with his parents. Fortunately, he was rescued in time by an old boatman. From that day on, young Yuan Longping made up his mind to learn to swim, and even learn to save people in the water.

After school, Yuan Longping exchanged skills with a master swimmer, and Yuan Longping was responsible for teaching him to solve math problems, in exchange for swimming teaching. According to Yuan Longping's classmates at that time, Yuan Longping learned to swim quickly, and he could swim across the Yangtze River in only one year, so that he even went to the other side of the river to watch movies when he was young. In order to save money, he almost never goes by boat, but wears clothes on his head and swims.

Yuan Longping has been a swimmer in Wuhan No.4 Middle School since she was 0/6 years old. He won the swimming championship in Wuhan, the runner-up in Hubei 100 meter freestyle, and won the swimming championship after entering Southwest Agricultural College.

Because of his superb swimming skills, Yuan Longping once went to Chengdu to compete on behalf of Chuandong, but he only won the fourth place because of his bad stomach. All the top three players are selected for the national team, which may make China lose a good swimmer, but let China gain a world-renowned hybrid rice expert.

After work, Yuan Longping insisted on swimming in places with water, whether in Shui Yuan, near Anjiang Agricultural School, or the seaside natural swimming pool in Hainan Island, or the Xiangjiang River near the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences. This habit persisted until he was 70 years old.

Yuan Longping is also a musician.

Yuan Longping, who was born in 1930, has experienced wars and seen starvation everywhere, so he decided that agriculture is a very important subject and resolutely came to the Agricultural Department of Southwest Agricultural College to study crop specialty.

After studying, Yuan Longping taught himself the violin. Violin shouldn't be easy, should it? Many of our children now have a high cost of learning the violin, which is several hundred yuan per class. However, Yuan Longping taught himself the violin, which was well received by his classmates.

In addition, Yuan Longping's mother is an excellent student of Nanjing Southeast University, and her English is very good. Therefore, Yuan Longping has been influenced by the English language environment since childhood. When he grew up, he sang English songs very well. Then I taught myself Russian and sang in Russian.