Workers Daily, February 28, 1986
On the eve of the Spring Festival, the rich and beautiful city of Zhangzhou, a famous city in southern Fujian, added another scene - the majestic Chinese women's volleyball team: the "Three Consecutive Crowns" monument has a novel design, the stele is a triangular metal component, 27 meters high, and the top of the monument is inlaid with a stainless steel volleyball of more than half a ton. In front of the monument stands a bronze statue of a well-built women's volleyball girl.
In the vast china, why only Zhangzhou can enjoy this reputation? In order to find a satisfactory answer, we visited the Zhangzhou Sports Training Base.
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Zhong Jiaqi, director of the base, said: "Zhangzhou is the cradle of the Zhongwei women's volleyball team and the place where this world volleyball team takes off. In 1976, coach Yuan Weimin was ordered to organize the Chinese women's volleyball team in Zhangzhou, and then came here five times for training. When Sun Jinfang first came to Zhangji base to practice, he was only fifteen years old, and Lang Ping was still combing two 'small brushes' when he first came. Zhangzhou shook them from the youth team to the youth team, and then from the youth team to the national team, and then to the world championship team. The women's volleyball girls shed the sweat of hard work here and exercised the wings of take-off.
"Why did you choose Zhangzhou as a women's volleyball training base?" I asked further.
The director of the base, who once made great contributions to the women's volleyball team's victory, said with deep feelings: "Because Zhangzhou has unique superior conditions." The average annual temperature here is 21 degrees Celsius, and the four seasons are like spring, which is very suitable for the winter training of the women's volleyball team. Someone has done a survey, and girls in the north have undergone a winter training here, generally growing two or three centimeters tall. Here is also the hinterland of the 'Golden Triangle of Southern Fujian', rich in products. 'Spring peach blossoms, summer lychees sweet, autumn plantain fragrance, wax moon reed red'. Not only more fruits, but also aquatic products are also very rich, which is conducive to the fitness of women's volleyball girls. What is even more valuable is that the people of Zhangzhou love volleyball, and leading cadres at all levels and relevant departments have given strong support to the development of volleyball in terms of material and human resources. "
Two eye-catching slogans hang high in the athletes' cafeteria at the base: "Athletes' Home" and "Serve athletes wholeheartedly.". That's what the base is all about.
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Getting athletes to eat well is an important condition for ensuring training. In the past, people often said that "it is difficult to reconcile the mouths of the people", but the comrades at the base broke this outdated concept in the spirit of reform. Be adjustable. This is not an easy task. The women's volleyball girls wear clouds and ride the fog, and all kinds of delicious dishes on five continents have been tasted, and it is impossible to make them eat satisfactorily. They crossed the river by feeling the stones and improved the form of dining several times. The beginning was the old-fashioned table dish, a table for eight people, counting dishes and a soup. Later, they found that some athletes engaged in overtime training, came late, and ate leftovers unhygienically.
Everywhere you go, it's changed to eating a dish. Portions are platters, one for each person, and each serves separately. Soon, they found that some athletes did not suck up some dishes, and many of them used semi-buffets instead. One main course per person, side dishes free choice, the movement reflects this form of dining is very good. However, the cooking staff at the base did not stop there, and recently, they let the athletes order food on the basis of the semi-buffet. In recent years, they have accumulated hundreds of recipes suitable for athletes' tastes, combining north and south, sweet and salty. Combination of dry and thin, combination of East and West, seven days to change - times the recipe, twenty-one meals per week do not repeat the same.
Women's volleyball girls love to eat aquatic products from the south, and the comrades of the base are like bees collecting honey, tirelessly, running through nine counties and one city under the jurisdiction of Zhangzhou to collect local famous and excellent seafood. At that time, Lang Ping, Sun Jinfang and others loved to eat crabs, and the restaurant was a must every day. Zheng Meizhu often felt stomach discomfort after training in large amounts of exercise, so the chef opened a small stove, gave her soy products, fried pork liver, etc., and tried to increase hemoglobin for her.
At the beginning of 1985, in order to celebrate the Chinese women's volleyball team winning the "triple crown", volleyball enthusiasts held a big party in Zhangzhou, and Cao Huiying, Sun Jinfang and other veteran players encouraged Zhou Xiaolan to hold a wedding at the training base. This temporary motion can overwhelm the staff of the base. They divided the soldiers into several roads, prepared wedding dresses and gifts at a "short, flat, and fast" speed, arranged the new house, and sent a special car to send the bride and groom to Xiamen to perm their hair, and invited Comrade Hu Qiaomu, who was inspecting In Zhangzhou, to be the main marriage person. Finally, the volleyball lovers had an unforgettable marriage. Someone said emotionally: "You are more thoughtful than your parents think." ”
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Before coming to Zhangzhou, I thought that this sports training base for cultivating world champions must be very luxurious when it was first designed. After looking at the women's volleyball growth exhibition room set up in the base, I knew that Jing was not like this.
Zhangzhou base was founded in 1972. At that time, the "Gang of Four" was in charge, and under the poison of the ultra-leftist idea of "don't train athletes into revisionist seedlings", only a large bamboo shed was built on the training ground, and the athletes practiced in it, often "rolling on a body of mud and grinding off several layers of skin". In order to change this abnormal situation, the base has been expanded several times, and three training halls, nine venues, a gym, an athletes' dormitory and auxiliary living facilities have been built.
It is often said: "The meaning of life is to contribute". Indeed, the valuable thing about the heroic collective of Zhangzhou Sports Training Base lies in the selfless and obscure contribution of all their efforts to the chinese women's volleyball team. In this regard, Yuan Weimin, deputy director of the National Sports Commission, made a high evaluation, he said: "The rise of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the world volleyball arena is inseparable from the establishment of the Zhangzhou sports training base. It is not only the warm home of the women's volleyball team, but also the 'cradle of the champion'. ”
(Reporter Wang Yusheng)
(Zhang Xiaolan Photography)
