Although the Olympic Games have closed, many athletes have already transformed into celebrities and entered the homes of ordinary people. Ai Fukuhara is one of them.
After divorcing her husband Jiang Hongjie, Ai Fukuhara was recently exposed by the Japanese media that her salary was 1 million yen (about 59,000 yuan) a day during her time as a table tennis commentator for the Tokyo Olympics on Fuji TV, and the relevant personnel of Fuji TV also said that "considering Ai Fukuhara's popularity and table tennis experience, I really can't find a more suitable person."
Ai Fukuhara, dressed in a plain outfit, appears in front of fuji television
Due to the rumors of the marriage change that lasted for a long time, Japanese netizens saw Ai Fukuhara's "high salary" and expressed their dissatisfaction and protests, "as soon as I saw her, I immediately changed the stage" "This makes me feel very uncomfortable, (Ai Fukuhara) has become an undesirable person in Japan."
However, in China, netizens are very tolerant of Ai Fukuhara, to which Ai Fukuhara responded tearfully in a recent interview: "I can live to this day because of the support of Chinese." ”
Chinese's love and tolerance for Fukuhara Ai has a long history, even if some people do not understand her story, but once they hear the fluent Tohoku dialect in the interview, and then see the rich and cute face in the game, they will involuntarily join Fukuhara Ai's "mother's family army".
Many people know Ai Fukuhara's training history in Tohoku and the results of her repeated defeats against the Chinese team, but this little girl who loves to cry on the field also has an admirable way to fight.
Ai Fukuhara was born on November 1, 1988 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. In the year of giving birth to Ai Fukuhara, her mother Chiyo Fukuhara was 37 years old, and as a mother who was passionate about educating her children and would devote a lot of energy to her children, Chiyo Fukuhara let her learn the fifty tone charts when Fukuhara Ai was learning to speak, and at the age of 2, Ai Fukuhara could already read through and write Japanese kana.
When Ai Fukuhara was six months old, Chiyo Fukuhara discussed cultivating hobbies with Ai Fukuhara's father, Takehiko Fukuhara, and sent her to learn to swim first. My mother had considered letting Fukuhara love to learn to dance and ballet, but was rebuffed by her father, "You first look at the size of our two, how do you dance ballet with little short legs?" Ai Fukuhara therefore did not become acquainted with dance.
Parents, who didn't know what to let Fukuhara love to learn, decided to put more energy into training their brother to play table tennis first. Two people who invested in costs for their children have invited Chinese table tennis coaches to give their children one-on-one lessons several times, and accommodation, travel and training fees are all covered, so that Fukuhara Ai's brother can get the rank.
It was at this time that Ai Fukuhara, who watched his brother play every day, also began to mutter that he wanted to play, and said that it was half a year. Chiyo Fukuhara was worried that this three-year-old child was just a whim, so he pointed out to her: table tennis training is very hard, you have to practice every day, you want to learn table tennis, but there is a condition, once you want to give up, then you can't continue training, even if you want to play?
To her mother's surprise, Fukuhara heard this and still firmly agreed with her eyes.
If you don't understand Fukuhara Ai's family situation, Fukuhara Ai's mother, Fukuhara Chiyo, is definitely a "tiger mother". Mom assigned a strict training plan for Ai Fukuhara, with table tennis training hours ranging from 4.5 to 6.5 hours a day.
In training, Fukuhara Ai often cries his nose, does not want to practice crying, plays a game and loses crying, and even if the game wins, he will cry, this method of emotional expression has continued until now, every time in front of the camera, the pear blossoms and rain will make many viewers feel soft.
Some people believe that Fukuhara's performance is due to her dislike of table tennis, combined with various crying scenes, and has also criticized her parents in forums.
But in the documentary, Chiyo Fukuhara confessed, "Many people may feel that forcing such a young child to practice table tennis, such parents are really cruel, but in fact, playing table tennis is always the will of Xiao Ai." And in the early videos of Fukuhara Ai, every time when the child cries and cries because she can't fight well, Fukuhara Ai's mother will say when the encouragement is ineffective, "Since Xiao Ai doesn't want to practice, the mother will not practice." But Fukuhara Ai would hold her mother's leg and cry and beg: "Keep practicing, don't stop practicing", stick to the agreement with her mother - never give up halfway.
At this point, everyone knew that Ai Fukuhara just liked to cry.
Ai Fukuhara officially became a professional player at the age of ten, and in order to let Ai Fukuhara see the bigger world, Chiyo Fukuhara took her to the Liaoning Provincial Team in China to participate in the exchange competition, and finally won only one.
Two years later, Ai Fukuhara and the 36-year-old former Chinese player He Zhili (Japanese name Tomori Koyama) played a duel, and finally suffered a fiasco, and the opponent's sentence "Everyone is too surprised, there are 1,000 players like Ai Fukuhara in China" stimulated Fukuhara Ai's heart, so she decided to come to China alone to "break in".
Her mother, who had been with her for many years, felt that it was time to let go, so she resolutely decided to let Ai Fukuhara embark on the road to China alone, to participate in the Chinese third division league, and then continue training in the northeast.
Wang Nan and Fukuhara Ai
After a short period of loneliness, Ai Fukuhara quickly became one with everyone and even became a "group favorite". In addition to not being able to play for the Chinese team, other treatment is basically equivalent to that of local athletes, and equipment, team doctors, coaches, guidance and venues can be used at will. Chiyo Fukuhara was very relieved that even during the period of intensified sino-Japanese contradictions, her mother had made it clear that she was not worried about her daughter's safety in China.
In such an atmosphere, Fukuhara Ai's skills are getting better and better, and the Tohoku dialect is also growing day by day, and once in the game, the reporter asked her how to say "what to do" in Tohoku, and her sentence "Kaha pinch" made many people discover this "Japanese group favorite" hidden in the Chinese team.
In 2004, Ai Fukuhara's parents announced their divorce, but neither side gave up Ai sauce's table tennis career, and even his brother quit his job to fully support his sister's career development, in this way, Ai Fukuhara embarked on the road to the Olympic Games with the expectations of his family and became the smallest Olympic women's table tennis player in Japanese history.
In this way, Ai Fukuhara's special experience attracted the attention and love of the Chinese and Japanese peoples.
Having come to China for training many times, she is no stranger to the land of northeast China. Not only has she become a close friend with wang nan, who was once the "great devil", but also her skillful northeast accent has also made her gain a lot of contacts in the domestic "ping-pong circle", and those Chinese athletes who are known as "great devils" and "imperial tigers" in Japan and look deeply hidden in merit and fame will show a spoiled smile when they see Ai Fukuhara.
For example, when Wang Nan got married, he invited Fukuhara Ai to be a bridesmaid, and at a press conference after the end of a competition, Fukuhara Ai also prepared a small cookie for Zhang Jike, the "Imperial Tiger".
She also has a good relationship with Li Wujun, a famous sports journalist on CCTV. At that time, when Li Wujun first began to understand table tennis players, she met Ai Fukuhara, who was only 14 years old at the time, and at first she still answered questions in Japanese in a similar way, and when the two people became acquainted, she always crushed Li Wujun in Northeastern dialect, and each interview was a fun talk show scene with anti-guest and wits.
If Ai Fukuhara was only influential in the sports circle before, then after Ai Sauce opened Weibo, it can be called "winning the hearts and minds of the people".
After staying in the Olympic Village, the toilet was broken, and I had to send two photos with filters and selfies after fixing the toilet, and at the same time, the Chinese athletes only posted photos of the repair of the shower curtain, so the netizens at the time laughed and said that "in the Rio Olympics decoration competition, love sauce leads by one point."
Thanks to his strong Chinese ability, Fukuhara Ai will write a paragraph to tease netizens when there is nothing to do, which makes people can't help but be funny.
And such an optimistic personality also makes ai sauce very popular in Japan, Rio Olympic Games Fukuhara Ai lost to the Chinese team, Japanese netizens have called: "Love sauce, in the ordinary human level to compete for the championship!" "Love sauce don't cry, we win the hairstyle!".
It is no exaggeration to say that Ai Fukuhara is the "chief ambassador of Sino-Japanese friendship", when she learned of the Wenchuan earthquake, Ai Fukuhara learned that there were only 60 volunteers in Japan, and Ai Fukuhara also had a rare strong tone: "This is enough, I said that if I don't go too, there are 61 people" (so) there are 61 people!"
Not to mention her presence when she participates in official Exchanges between China and Japan. In 2008, then-President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda attended the opening ceremony of the "Japan-China Youth Friendship Exchange Year" at Waseda University in Tokyo. After the opening ceremony, Ai Fukuhara competed with Wang Nan and President Hu on the spot, which aroused widespread concern in public opinion in the two countries.
Although I am so cute and usually loved by everyone, but on the field, the Chinese team players have never let go of the water, of course, in addition to the clumsy handicap moments of the big guys - "The Great Devil" Zhang Yining once deliberately hit the ball under the table in the game with Fukuhara Ai because he would not let go, and was also ridiculed by netizens for his poor acting skills.
Although Fukuhara loves to wipe her tears when she loses a lot of times, she is actually a very strong person.
Become Ai Fukuhara of memes
After the London Olympics that year, Ai Fukuhara underwent surgery to remove the synovial membrane from her right elbow, and at that time, some media photographed that Ai Fukuhara's arm was wrapped in a thick ball, and the activity of her right arm was greatly affected.
At that time, many media analyzed Thato ai Fukuhara's injury was relatively large, and he might miss the whole year to recover from the injury, but he did not expect that just four months later, Ai Fukuhara would once again stand in front of the ping-pong table.
People then remembered that this cute athlete who likes to shed tears, no matter what situation he faces, has not actually chosen to give up, and this persistence and determination that many people cannot do and the determination to move forward more conveys the unique Olympic spirit and her own unique personal charm.
But a major change in Ai Fukuhara's life is still this year.
On July 26, Ai Fukuhara reappeared in public view. An off-white blouse with a long black skirt and a hint of intellectuality in her delicate makeup, she explained the Olympic table tennis mixed doubles final in the studio of Tokyo Fuji TV.
In the face of Mizutani Hayabusa and Ito Mimachi's 4:3 victory over China's "Xinwen Lian" record, Ai Fukuhara maintained the "restraint" that a commentator should have. In Japan, although her meticulous competition analysis and elegant conversation have been unanimously affirmed by netizens, the criticism caused by the divorce storm before is still like a cloud hanging over her head. In the Yahoo Japan News comment column with the most vicious tone, Ai Fukuhara became the outlet of netizens.
Some psychological counselors analyzed that the reason why she chose white dress was also to convey apologies to the public, "The 'innocent and lovely Fukuhara Love' of the past is gone, and white has the meaning of washing away past experiences and starting over." ”
From the early March this year when he was photographed traveling with male friends to report a "marriage change", to July 8 and Jiang Hongjie officially announced their divorce, a cross-border divorce that originally took more than a year to end, Fukuhara Ai only took more than three months.
In Japan, the image of Aizo fell directly from "national idol" to "unruly slut". In the "Weekly Women PRIME" survey of 1,000 housewives, she even "surpassed" cheating male stars such as Higashi-de-Masamune and Watanabe Ken, and was directly "nailed" to the top of the list.
Ai Fukuhara under the lens of the Japanese media
"I can't imagine that a genius girl is such a frivolous woman." "What is it to leave your child in Taiwan for an affair"... Japanese netizens who were supposed to be Fukuhara's love for "mother's family" "drew a line" with ai sauce early on. In Taiwan, the media's ridicule and ill-intentioned speculation about her privacy are even worse. In contrast, it is our netizens who almost one-sidedly support the divorce of love sauce, and the topic of #How can someone be willing to make love sauce sad# has been on Weibo hot search.
In just a few months, Ai Fukuhara experienced the treatment of public opinion in the two countries and three places, ice and fire.
"What bad eyes can love sauce have?" You don't need to be sorry. With the continuous fermentation of public opinion, it seems that our netizens are the real "mother's family" of love sauce. Among the table tennis players, there is probably no foreign player whose popularity in China can surpass Ai Fukuhara.
Liu Guoliang once said: "Ai Fukuhara is a non-staff member of the Chinese team. "From the first time she came to China in 1993 to the present, Ai Fukuhara has established a deep friendship with Chinese players. She is the bridesmaid at Wang Nan's wedding, the "exotic plum" who "grew up side by side" with Liu Shiwen, and the "own person" who was carefully cared for by Coach Kong Linghui. At this Olympic Games, her friend Liu Shiwen retired due to injury, and Ai Sauce did not hide her concern: "When the epidemic passes, I must go to see you, and then we will eat a skewer together, and then compare height." Adjust your mood first, keep working hard, come on, I will always support you. ”
Even if she retires, the "group pet" nature of her body has always been there, whether it is netizens or former teammates, they all exude their preference for her and their desire to protect her, and they can't see that she has suffered a little grievance. From a very young age, she has won the title of "porcelain doll", and when the word is disassembled, it has two meanings, one is that the love sauce has a pleasing baby face, and the other can be extended to her "love to cry" characteristics.
She is 33 years old this year, and from the perspective of age alone, she can no longer be regarded as the little sister next door, but she still gives people a feeling of "little girl" whether it is the facial contour or between the eyebrows. The facial lines are soft, round and full, the facial features still look approachable, in contrast, is also a Japanese table tennis player Ishikawa Yoshijun, looks more determined, will not let people have the idea of wanting to protect, although the Chinese fluent, but there is always a sense of distance from the Countrymen.
Ai Fukuhara, who practices in China, is also well versed in the way of Chinese. Adhering to the principle of "friendship first, competition second", while maintaining a good relationship, we also humbly ask our predecessors for advice on their skills. Even, she is well versed in the culture of national table tennis, and later in the face of foreign players whose strength is not as good as her own, she also learned to "let the ball" and fully take care of the psychological feelings of the other party, Kong Linghui's joke of "paying attention to the influence of the two countries" is estimated that she is true.
This huge advantage in emotional intelligence is not unrelated to the education that Ai Sauce has received since childhood. Chiyo Fukuhara, who loves sauce, and Ito,Yoshinori Ito, mother, take very different approaches to education. Although the former is also very strict with the daughter, it does not have a utilitarian goal like the latter.
In contrast to her, Ito Mimachi is different, perhaps because she was set a life goal when she was still in her womb, and she never hides her "ambition": "If I can use my full strength, I feel that I can beat the Chinese players." 」 If it cannot be fully exerted, the gap in strength will be revealed. Coach Taisuke Matsuzaki once said: "Ito has her own ideas very much, and she will not be easily convinced." The wolf sex education she received from childhood not only made her more aggressive in appearance, but even in public, she lacked some of the restrained temperament of the Japanese national character.
In the 2017 Swedish Open Table Tennis Championships, Ito Mimachi, who defeated China, said in a post-match interview: "On the podium, I found that Chinese players stood at a lower position than us, and I was surprised. It would be nice if the same would be true for the race in three years' time. ”
A year later in Austria, she won the women's singles championship and even more "mouthed wild words": "Welcome the Chinese team to surround me, the more I can get the opportunity to grow." ”
These offensive remarks made her image in the hearts of the Chinese people plummet, although Ito's strength should not be underestimated, but in the face of competitive sports too eager to fight, really let the Chinese audience have a strange perception.
She even had different answers to the same question in front of the Chinese and Japanese media. When asked what the environment was like for the competition, she thanked the Chinese staff and turned to the Japanese media complaining that "I can't even eat a hot meal." This duplicitous approach is truly disrespectful.
In contrast, Ai Sauce's restrained explanation even after the domestic players win the game is really very high emotional intelligence, because for the same love as the "mother's family" from China, she always remembers: "Thank you for your love, I will double the return." ”
References:
Look at the news: An interview with Ai Fukuhara
Documentary: Ai Fukuhara – A Quarter Of a Century Under the Lens
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