In 1981, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the world championship for the first time, which was of great significance to China at that time.
At that time, China was experiencing the pain of transformation, and countless ambitious young people were confused about the future.
The victory of the women's volleyball team has made China show the world a new spiritual outlook, and the spirit of the women's volleyball team that has worked hard has given encouragement and strength to countless young people.
At that time, the women's volleyball players were national idols, they used their sweat to win honors for the motherland, and like a ray of hope, illuminated the unclear future path of countless people.
Chen Zhaodi was one of the idols at that time.
She was known as the "General with broken arm," and articles describing her hard work were compiled into textbooks.
She is also an athlete with a military rank.
Whether it is an athlete or a soldier, Chen Zhaodi uses her tenacity and hard work to interpret these two identities to the extreme - winning the championship and sealing the general.
Only jealous of talent, she died prematurely due to illness at the age of 58.
But her departure touched Lang Ping out of the mountains, and a year later General Chen Zhaodi was buried in his hometown.
Chen Zhaodi
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On April 1, 2013, Chen Zhaodi left!
The content of her daughter's Weibo has changed from encouraging her mother to cheer up to hoping that her mother will be all right in that world, no illness, only her beloved volleyball.
For a long time, Chen Zhaodi has been suffering from the double torture of pain and illness.
When she was young, she almost self-destructed in training and competition, leaving her with a lifelong unhealed waist injury, and later suffered from rectal cancer, and began a perennial battle with the disease.
At the age of 53, in the long-term struggle with the disease, Chen Zhaodi finally lost the battle.
More than a month before that, she was still worried about the fact that the coach of the women's volleyball team had not yet landed, and when she met with Lang Ping, she also persuaded Lang Ping, hoping that she could come back and coach the women's volleyball team again.
Lang Ping
Her departure caused a shock in the volleyball world, and people were moved by her death.
As written in a public statement issued by the State General Administration of Sport.
Chen Zhaodi is an excellent representative of the Chinese women's volleyball team, who has created the brilliant achievements of "five consecutive championships" and inherited the spirit of "tenacious struggle" of the women's volleyball team.
For the Chinese volleyball community, her death is a big loss.
As a former teammate Lang Ping, after learning that Chen Zhaodi left, he emotionally wrote that the meeting more than a month ago turned out to be a farewell, hoping to be a teammate in the next life.
Then she was touched by this and went out of the mountain to coach the Chinese women's volleyball team.
A year after his death, the family decided to move Chen Zhaodi's tomb to the Anxian Cemetery in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, known as the "Hero's Tomb".
Above her cemetery is a bronze statue with her right hand crossed at her waist and her left hand holding a volleyball.
Although Chen Zhaodi has been away from her hometown for many years, she is always obsessed with the land that gave birth to her, and eventually she can rest here forever, and the leaves will fall back to the roots.
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Chen Zhaodi was born in Hangzhou and grew up in Hangzhou, until he joined the youth training team and then left with the team.
She has 4 children, and she is the second oldest.
Because his father died early, it was up to his mother to support the burden of the family.
Looking at Chen Zhaodi, who grew up with her mother's hard work, she was obedient and sensible, and self-reliant and self-reliant.
The experience of that time created Chen Zhaodi, who was not afraid of suffering later.
She loved to play sports since she was a child, and her athletic talent seemed to be evident from that time.
When she was a child, Chen Zhaodi was like a little boy, smoking tops and marbles, which was more powerful than boys.
From time to time, there is a table tennis board inserted in the waist, looking for friends to play, there is no formal table, two stone slabs or two stools can be put together to play a game.
Thanks to the advantages of physical condition, Chen Zhaodi has participated in many sports training.
She scored on the varsity team and was selected for the high jump team because of her tall stature.
At that time, the training conditions of the high jump team were very poor, there was no mat, and only straw could be used instead, Chen Zhaodi jumped again and again, never afraid of pain and suffering.
At the Hangzhou Middle School Athletics Games, Chen Zhaodi took the first place in the high jump event, and the outstanding bouncing power shown in the competition impressed the provincial coach at that time.
Later, she was favored by the city's basketball team, but finally went to the Hangzhou Amateur Sports School volleyball team.
Chen Zhaodi's fate with volleyball ended here.
When the Zhejiang women's volleyball team was formed, Chen Zhaodi, who was only 15 years old, was impressively listed.
She "turned" from the amateur team. In the second year after the "regularization", Chen Zhaodi was selected to be transferred to the youth training team of the Beijing Institute of Physical Education.
When Chen Zhaodi said goodbye to his hometown and went north, he also said goodbye to his youth.
From then on, she will have to meet the training and challenges after that with a more mature attitude.
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I didn't think that Chen Zhaodi, who had just arrived in Beijing, was not knocked down by training, but was "eaten" and was embarrassed.
As a southern girl, Chen Zhaodi experienced "water and soil dissatisfaction" when she first arrived in Beijing, which seriously affected her daily training.
Regardless of the training conditions or living conditions, the Beijing Institute of Physical Education at that time was not as good as the Zhejiang Provincial Team.
Even the standard of food expenses is less than 8 cents, and eating noodles, large pot dishes, Growing in Hangzhou Chen Zhaodi can not adapt, eat two mouthfuls of steamed bread is full, but soon hungry again.
Poor eating caused her not to have enough strength to cope with the training, and she was tired enough to choke every time she trained, a simple movement, and she was breathless when she did it, not to mention the difficulty.
In long-distance running training, she is often the penultimate number one in the whole team.
Chen Zhaodi's performance as a seeded player who was selected was really surprising.
Wu Zhongliang, the coach at the time, found that "something was wrong" and found Chen Zhaodi to talk to.
The daily training performance is like this, and Chen Zhaodi knows this very well.
When I was asked to talk, I thought that I would inevitably learn a lesson, but I didn't expect the coach to criticize a word, but instead asked a series of questions.
How's it going?
How's the rest?
Adapt to the training schedule?
This series of concerned questions brought Chen Zhaodi's tears down.
It turned out that because of her life and eating habits could not adapt, Chen Zhaodi did not sleep well, ate well, and suffered from severe anemia, which led to her low mood and poor training status.
After learning the reason, the coach first apologized to Chen Zhaodi, and bluntly said that he did not care in place, and could not stop comforting her, trying to let her let go of the psychological baggage she had been carrying for a long time.
True concern is not just about words, it's about being in action.
On the same day, the coach asked the canteen to add meals to Chen Zhaodi to increase her nutrition.
And re-formulated the training plan for her and adjusted the amount of training.
In addition, the careful coach also told the other team members about Chen Zhaodi's situation, calling on them to help and care for her.
Chen Zhaodi, who was bathed in care and love, began normal training without fully recovering his body.
Since then, her training has never been slackened, even desperate.
At that time, even for the national team, the training conditions were limited.
Protection, nutrition can not be talked about, knee pads are thinner than the current several layers, injury is massage relief, not to mention special nutritional supplements.
Sometimes when there is no dish until late, the canteen master will give a plate of scrambled eggs to deal with, thirst is not like there are so many sports drinks now, then it was drinking tap water.
It was under such conditions that the women's volleyball players wrote the story that later became a classic.
Chen Zhaodi's story of "three in and three out" is one of the representatives.
On that day, it was already dark, the gymnasium was brightly lit, and the girls who had just finished training were full of clothes that were tightly attached to their bodies.
They bent down to collect the volleyballs scattered on the ground and prepared to leave.
"Who wants to practice a little more?" Coach Yuan Weimin asked aloud at the tired girls.
The girls, who had been training for a day, were exhausted and had no response for a while.
"Then I'll practice for a while!" Seeing Chen Zhaodi, who had no one to answer, he should go down.
The content of the practice is to pick up 15 good balls.
That is, to touch the barbed wire on the sidelines, then run to the 3-meter line to roll over the ball and then run back to touch the barbed wire, and so on 15 times.
If it is usual, such a amount of training is not a problem, but at that time, the team members have undergone a full day of high-intensity training.
It is very difficult to complete these 15 goals in such a state.
The coach did not show mercy to his subordinates. Throwing the ball all over the field, Chen Zhaodi ran all over the field.
Nine balls, it seems to be the limit at that time.
When he received the 9th ball, Chen Zhaodi's legs were already weak, and he saw that the ball was shadowy.
The coach continued to serve, but the tired Chen Zhaodi did not go to save the ball, the number of balls she received changed from 9 to 8, and the coach even had to deduct her number of good balls.
Some passive and sluggish Chen Zhaodi had her own calculations at that time, she thought that she took the initiative to practice, she should have performed well, and now she was too tired to persist, so she should let herself come down.
After having this retreat in his heart, Chen Zhaodi thought of taking a breath and not trying so hard to save the ball.
Who would have thought that the original 9 good goals were deducted by the coach.
Chen Zhaodi was also angry, and blurted out the original thoughts in his heart, "Anyway, I took the initiative to practice, and I can't do it if I don't practice." ”
After saying that, he picked up his clothes and went outside.
"You're gone today, and you'll be the first to practice tomorrow." At this time, the voice of the coach came from behind him.
Chen Zhaodi's footsteps when she walked to the door of the gymnasium stopped, and the stubbornness in her bones seemed to be awakened.
I went back to practice, thinking I had to take 15 goals, or I would be too faceless.
It's just that the heart says it can do it, and the body says no.
It was too tired, Chen Zhaodi practiced, and turned around to leave.
Back and forth three times, Chen Zhaodi went out, anyway, he couldn't die practicing.
It was with super tenacity that she gritted her teeth and took these 15 balls.
This story is recorded in the reportage "Chinese Girl" written by Lu Guang, and as the chapter title "Hard Training" states, training has always been hard, but the tenacious Chen Zhaodi has never succumbed.
Later, "Hard Practice" was also compiled into the junior high school Language textbook, and her tenacity and hard work infected a batch of teenagers.
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As long as he is still an athlete, as long as he can still stand on the court, Chen Zhaodi can give up his life.
In 1978, Chen Zhaodi returned from the national team to participate in the Bayi team, during which she was seriously injured in the radius of her left arm due to an accident.
In June of the following year, the Japanese Hitachi team visited China and wanted to play a showdown with the Chinese women's volleyball team in Taiyuan.
This team represented the highest level in Japan at that time, and the Chinese team naturally could not show weakness, and had to come up with the strongest lineup to meet the battle, and Chen Zhaodi, who had not fully recovered from the injury, was also among them.
That game made Chen Zhaodi's injury worse again.
The game went into a stalemate state, and when Chen Zhaodi blocked the net, her arm was hit, right in the position of her old injury, causing the radius of her left arm to break again.
Such an injury could not continue the game, and Chen Zhaodi had no choice but to go down.
According to the doctor's advice, she should stop exercising until the injury improves, otherwise she should not touch the volleyball.
However, two months later, at the National Games, Chen Zhaodi's figure appeared again.
She wore a bandage on her left arm and played with one arm, earning her the reputation of "one-armed general".
She is not only a "one-armed general" but also a "desperate samurai".
It was the final showdown of the 1981 World Cup between the Chinese and Japanese women's volleyball team, and in the third set, Chen Zhaodi and Sun Jinfang sprained their waists when they grabbed the pass, but despite this, she still completed the game with an injury.
Even in the fourth set all the way behind the initiative to ask the game to play.
In the end, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the competition and won the first world championship.
When he wanted to go on stage to receive the award, Chen Zhaodi was unable to stand in pain, and finally let his teammates stand on the podium on their backs.
What is touching is that after Chen Zhaodi's body was cremated, the family found several steel nails in the urn, which were all steel nails left in Chen Zhaodi's body during the operation of treating waist injuries.
Since then, low back pain has been torturing Chen Zhaodi, and when it was serious, the doctor gave her an ultimatum, and if she insisted on playing, there was a risk of paralysis.
After accompanying the women's volleyball team to win two championship trophies, Chen Zhaodi retired.
She left the game, but her bond with volleyball was never solved.
In 1986, she took over as the coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and three years later, she ended her coaching career after undergoing surgery for rectal cancer.
Since then, her work has rarely involved the women's volleyball team, but her friendship with volleyball has become deeper and deeper, until she dies.
In 2006, the former "one-armed general" became a real general.
That year, the Central Military Commission officially approved the rank of Major General Chen Zhaodi, and she was the first athlete to hold the rank.
As an athlete, her lifelong pursuit is to win the championship, and she did it.
Joining the ranks and dreaming of becoming a general, she also realized.
Perhaps the untimely death makes people feel that heaven is unfair, but in the short life, Chen Zhaodi makes it wonderful enough.
In Chen Zhaodi's life, volleyball will inevitably become a footnote.
Because of her talent, she was finally selected for the volleyball team.
Perhaps in the words of her childhood partner, with her talent and the strength to endure hardships, she can practice other sports without practicing volleyball.
This may be the fate of heaven!
At that time, Chen Zhaodi probably did not expect that this fight could no longer be put down.
Chen Zhaodi and other women's volleyball players have won honors with their hard work and inspired a generation of people to work hard.
They were the defining labels of that era.
Even if the times have changed, future generations may not know their names and deeds, but when it comes to the Chinese women's volleyball team and the spirit of the women's volleyball team, people must know that behind this there is a group of girls who were once young and struggling.