Once, the Chinese men's basketball team had Yao Ming, and the women's basketball team had Zheng Haixia.
In 1967, Zheng Haixia was born into an ordinary rural family in Shangqiu Zhaocheng County.
Her parents gave her the nickname Haixia, and her big name was Zheng Yinghua.
The birth of the youngest daughter has given the family one more mouth to eat.
The height of the whole family, whether it is parents or older siblings, is normal.
However, Zheng Haixia's height has been rubbing up since she was a child.
At the age of 12, Zheng Haixia's height reached 172 centimeters.
At that time, the height of many men in China could not reach such a height.
Parents love their daughters, although life is hard, but parents still try to take care of their daughter's diet.
At that time, every day at dinner, she always had an extra egg in her bowl.
And in the bowls of parents and brothers and sisters, there is no one.
For a tall girl, being able to enter the basketball team is the best choice.
Fortunately, it was during this period that she was selected by the local sports school to join the basketball team.
At that time, she didn't have any idea of becoming a basketball star.
Being able to successfully enter the basketball team means that from now on, parents will no longer have to worry about their daughters not having enough to eat.
After entering the basketball team, Zheng Haixia cherished the opportunity to be selected, and she began to train desperately.
But because she was so tall, there were no shoes that suited her.
At the beginning of the training every day, this tall girl could only run around the court barefoot.
But for her at that time, she did not feel the hardship of the conditions.
Instead, she is immersed in the excitement of being able to play with peace of mind every day.
As for the strange glances that some people shot at her when they were playing, she didn't care.
Until one day, a carpenter suddenly found that this girl was actually playing barefoot,
So he used his carpentry work to make a pair of "wooden shoes" for her.
That's how she wore those shoes and spent her first two or three years of training.
For Zheng Haixia at that time, being tall was only an advantage for her, whether she could eventually stay on the basketball team and become a professional athlete.
It also depends on her next level and strength on the pitch.
At the age of 14, Chen Changfeng, the head coach of the Bayi team, knew About Zheng Haixia and specifically discovered her.
This is the first step in Zheng Haixia's life to encounter a turnaround.
After more than two years of hard training, at the age of 16, Zheng Haixia finally entered the national team as she wished.
Since then, she has become a professional basketball player.
At that time, although Zheng Haixia was not very old, she was tall and her body was also very strong.
Zheng Haixia on the field, the movement is very flexible.
The following year, Zheng Haixia became the main center of the national team.
The Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles that year, and at the age of 17, she competed with the Chinese women's basketball team in the Olympic Games.
This is also the first time that Zheng Haixia has participated in a major international competition since entering the national team.
The Chinese women's basketball team lived up to expectations, winning the first place in the qualifiers and the bronze medal in the final.
For the Chinese women's basketball team, this is the most historic breakthrough.
Among this breakthrough, the highest contribution rate is Zheng Haixia.
She shot 59 percent from the field and consistently ranked first on the team.
Especially when Zheng Haixia ran in the international arena for the first time,
Her athletic and flexible body has been described by foreign media as the Great Wall of China.
Zheng Haixia, who returned from the award, became the pride of the Chinese women's basketball team.
At that time, she could finally get rid of the limitations and troubles brought by her height.
At that time, she was close to two meters six, although her voice was very thick,
But in her bones, she is also a girl, a little fairy who loves beauty.
At that time, she was in her youth, as long as she was not training or on the field.
The wrist is always covered with all kinds of small ornaments.
From ribbons, to small chains, or all kinds of decorations, as long as it is liked by other girls, she also likes it.
In addition, at the age of beauty, she also likes all kinds of beautiful clothes like other girls.
Without the right words, she tried to find someone to customize.
In addition, her love of basketball made her focus on training and competition in those years.
Especially when she was on the national team, she hardly returned home due to the heavy annual events.
Even every Spring Festival, sometimes she can't go back.
Whenever this happens, she writes letters to her parents.
She is rich and delicate in her feelings, and every time she writes a letter to her family, she always reports good news and no worries, hoping that her parents can take care of their bodies at home.
And as she gradually increased her age, the girl's heart for love also opened up little by little.
Zheng Haixia once said that when she was in her early 20s, she had her own love.
Due to the special body, the other half is also very tall, even 4 centimeters taller than her.
The two of them spent two or three years together.
However, because Zheng Haixia's body gathered too many auras, and the other half was an ordinary person,
So the heart has been under great pressure, in the end, the two people still chose to break up.
In the parting letter that her boyfriend wrote to Zheng Haixia, there was a painting she had drawn herself.
In the painting is a large tree, and under the big tree is a small grass.
For her boyfriend to leave herself, Zheng Haixia at that time was very understanding.
Ultimately, the boyfriend chooses to be with someone else.
However, after this, the two people have maintained the contact of friends.
Since they were too tall for each other, there were no suitable clothes and shoes.
Zheng Haixia always did her best, often mailing him clothes and shoes.
Even when Yao Ming was young, because his body developed too fast, he could not find suitable shoes.
Yao Ming's mother was also a basketball player, and later her son grew tall, and Yao Ming also asked Zheng Haixia to borrow shoes to wear.
Perhaps, this is the biggest trouble faced by the tall Zheng Haixia.
At the age of 20, Beijing became the host city of the Asian Games.
As a member of the national team, Zheng Haixia trained day and night.
But at that moment, her mother suddenly fell ill and died.
The death of her mother made this girl bear great sorrow.
However, in order not to affect the training, she tried her best to restrain her emotions on the training ground.
Only when the daily training was over and she returned to the dormitory could she hide alone in the bed and cry.
Mother gave her too much, and since she stepped on the basketball court,
The time spent with her has been greatly reduced.
And with her mother gone, all she could do was train and compete hard.
Strive to use the best results to comfort her spirit in heaven.
So in the next training, she was desperate like crazy.
Kung Fu paid off, and in the Asian Games that year, the Chinese women's basketball team successfully won the gold medal.
After the game, Zheng Haixia rushed back to her hometown with a medal.
For Zheng Haixia, the tears at that moment were full of a daughter's deep thoughts about her mother.
Subsequently, at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, the Chinese team won the silver medal.
At that time, the Chinese women's basketball team was known as the "Zheng Haixia era".
Because of her flexible playing style, high ability to respond quickly, coupled with high shooting rate,
Let Zheng Haixia and the Chinese women's basketball team she represents stand out in the 1980s and 1990s on the world basketball court.
However, by the mid-1990s, Zheng Haixia was also twenty-seven or eight years old.
Years of high-load training, coupled with the fact that her body is higher than ordinary people, has made her body and bones bear a huge load.
At that time, Zheng Haixia's body had already suffered many injuries.
However, Zheng Haixia still participated in the 1994 World Championships and also led the Chinese women's basketball team to the second place.
And herself in the field of play that year, the shooting rate reached more than 80%.
At this time, her mind was circling the Olympic Games two years later.
However, at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, she was injured and sick.
It was hard to support her on the field.
Even so, she still stood on the Olympic field that year with her pain.
This is also the last time Zheng Haixia participated in the Olympic Games.
And that same year, the United States across the ocean hosted the first WNBA event.
As a world-renowned basketball player, Zheng Haixia joined the Sparks team in Los Angeles after retiring.
Although she can't play for the country anymore, she can still be a professional player.
Continue racing on your favorite field.
In her first season, she averaged 9.3 points per game and rebounded 4.4.
Moreover, her 61.8% shooting percentage makes her a well-deserved number one in the season.
Smiling, tall and agile on the field,
As soon as she came on the field, she could attract the most attention from the audience.
At that time, fans affectionately called her "Big Shark".
What the outside world does not know, however, is that at this time, her body has difficulty supporting her career.
It was in the fall of 1998, in her second season, when she suffered a serious knee and waist injury during a training session.
The doctor's diagnosis hit Zheng Haixia hard.
The crushing fractures of new injuries, bone spurs left over from previous careers and lumbar disc herniation are very serious.
The doctor could not do anything, and Zheng Haixia could only leave the beloved stadium.
After returning home, the doctor made the same diagnosis as when he was in the United States.
At that time, the doctor's advice was that he could not play basketball anymore.
However, Zheng Haixia still did not want to leave the arena.
At the end of 1998, she officially served as the coach of the Bayi women's basketball team.
For Zheng Haixia, although the coach is a new identity and role, she must also do a good job.
Although she is famous in the basketball world, her fate has never arrived.
It wasn't until 2007, at the age of 40, that she suddenly received a long confession letter.
The person who wrote to her was Xu Qinghua, a fan of Zheng Haixia.
The other party is not only 190 centimeters tall, but also a fellow of Henan with Zheng Haixia.
Xu Qinghua said in the letter that he also played basketball in the sports school of Pingdingshan.
After that, he went to Shenzhen and served as a cultural and sports cadre in the street office.
At that time, he had already begun to have a crush on Zheng Haixia from tv.
Xu Qinghua knew that the identities of the two people were very different,
So many years have passed, and he has not dared to say the love buried in his heart.
At that time, his family and friends were also very worried about his marriage, and introduced him to many people, but he finally refused.
In Xu Qinghua's heart, there was only Zheng Haixia. He silently watched Zheng Haixia's every move.
Once, Zheng Haixia went to Shenzhen to participate in an event, and Xu Qinghua happened to meet his dream lover at an event.
Xu Qinghua knew that he had to strike decisively, otherwise he could not seize the opportunity, and his fate might pass.
In this way, he wrote a letter to Zheng Haixia with a nervous mentality.
He originally thought that he was just being sentimental, and Zheng Haixia would not pay attention to him.
But who would have thought that soon he would receive a reply from Zheng Haixia.
In this way, the two people came and went and began a relationship that lasted for more than three years.
For Zheng Haixia, being able to meet love at the age of 40,
It should be the happiest thing for me.
In 2010, this love finally ushered in the end of marriage.
The two men hosted a wedding feast in their hometown and at work.
At the wedding banquet in Beijing, there were 60 tables.
For Zheng Haiyan at that time, it was the happiest moment of her life.
In the blink of an eye, Zheng Haixia has been in the palace of marriage for 11 years.
The couple was very happy, but they never had children.
Zheng Haixia admitted that the height of the family is normal, and her own sudden increase should be a genetic mutation.
She was not sure whether the children she would give birth to later were healthy, so after consulting with her husband, she decided not to have any more children.
At that time, her husband became a real companion around her.
Her legs have been somewhat deformed, she is out walking, and many times she needs the support of her husband.
Zheng Haixia could no longer run, and she could not even walk for a long time.
But her love of basketball is still passionate.
As long as there are various basketball public welfare activities, no matter where they are, she will participate.
Because in her view, she was herself at that time, and it was precisely by virtue of basketball that she changed her destiny.
Today, in her life, when she does not hold a basketball, she can deftly knit sweaters.
Sometimes, she also embroiders cartoons on her pants.
That year, she was the first Chinese to go abroad to play at WNAB in the United States.
At that time, Kobe Bryant was still a newcomer that no fans could remember, and even O'Neal was her admirer.
In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years have passed.
The years flew by, and Zheng Haixia, who got off the basketball court, also found her own family and happiness.
Today's Zheng Haixia wears Tang costumes most of the time, and her clothes are also custom-made.
However, because she is a soldier, she wears a military uniform or sportswear the most when she attends any event in public.
In her opinion, sportswear is the most suitable for her identity.
Putting on a tracksuit, she seems to be back to the days when she was racing on the court.
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