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Zhang Rongfang in the early years
Zhang Rongfang is the main player of the Chinese women's volleyball team's "five consecutive championships" period, enjoying the reputation of "strange golfer" and "magician in front of the net". In 1986, she became the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team and led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the World Championship.
Zhang Rongfang's husband Hu Jin was the main second setter of the Chinese men's volleyball team and won the fifth place in the World Cup.
Hu Jin has twice served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, but the results of the team are strong and unsatisfactory.
Zhang Rongfang and Hu Jin both love volleyball and have experienced hardships that are unimaginable to ordinary people. They are the only couple in the world who have served as the head coach of the national women's volleyball team.
Because of volleyball, Zhang Rongfang and her husband have lived separately for most of their lives, and their marriage is full of tragedy and legend, and tears and pain are always accompanied...
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Born in 1957 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Zhang Rongfang's father, Zhang Lingyun, was a native of Xincai County, Henan Province, and worked as a worker in the hydrological system of the Shahe Project in Chengdu.
Zhang Rongfang and her mother were interviewed by reporters
Zhang Rongfang's mother, Gao Qinglian, is a native of Sichuan and works as a waitress at Chengdu's famous dragon scribe shop.
Zhang Rongfang has a total of 7 brothers and sisters, and she ranks fourth in her family. When she was a child, Zhang Rongfang suffered from pediatric bronchitis and severe asthma, and her mother took her around to seek medical treatment. After taking a large amount of traditional Chinese medicine, Zhang Rongfang's body recovered.
Due to the large number of children in the family, Zhang Rongfang helped her mother to do housework when she was 10 years old, and she was actually able to pick a 100-pound bucket, and the neighbors were amazed.
Zhang Rongfang is a volleyball genius, and was selected by the Sichuan women's volleyball team at the age of 13. In 1976, Yuan Weimin, the head coach of the national women's volleyball team, felt that Zhang Rongfang was a good seedling with potential and transferred her to the national team for training.
Zhang Rongfang has never been far away, unwilling to go to Beijing, plus she does not speak Mandarin, worried about not being able to communicate with her teammates, so Zhang Rongfang is slow to report to the national team.
From left to right: Lang Ping, Sun Jinfang, Zhang Rongfang
Yuan Weimin and the old women's volleyball team
Finally, the coach helped her buy a train ticket and "escorted" Zhang Rongfang onto the train to Beijing.
Zhang Rongfang is only 1.74 meters tall, the shortest in the national team, but Yuan Weimin let her play the main attack. With such a tall slam, it is difficult to break through the net of tall opponents.
Stubborn Zhang Rongfang did not accept defeat, practiced hard to dunk the ball, and finally practiced the "three fast and one diao (eyes fast, fast hands, fast feet, ball road diao)" stunt.
In addition to attacking in the No. 4 position, Zhang Rongfang is also good at playing the No. 2 position, slamming the ball fast and sharp, and is known as a "strange ball player" and "magician in front of the net".
Cuba's Luiz, the United States' Heyman, Croctor and other world-class heavy gunners are most afraid of Zhang Rongfang's slam. When she jumped high in the No. 4 position, the other party did not know where Zhang Rongfang would hit the ball.
Zhang Rongfang
In the Chinese women's volleyball team during the "five consecutive championships" period, Zhang Rongfang has always been the opposite corner of Lang Ping. Lang Ping is 1.84 meters tall and has a powerful slam ball. Two main attackers, one strange, one with great power of the slam ball, held up the offensive banner of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
In the early 1980s, Zhang Rongfang fell in love with Hu Jin, the main player of the national men's volleyball team. Hu Jin was born in 1955 in Anshan, Liaoning Province, two years older than Zhang Rongfang.
Hu Jin was a descendant of the revolution, and his father, Hu Qizhou, joined the New Fourth Army in his early years and transferred to the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department in 1952.
In 1954, Hu Qizhou was transferred to the Anshan Iron and Steel Company in Liaoning Province, and left in 1998.
Hu Jin's younger brother Hu Yu works at the East China Institute of Computer Technology, and his younger sister Hu Xiao works as a teacher in the Service education department of Luzhong Metallurgical Mining Group.
Hu Jin, who is 1.85 meters tall, entered the amateur sports school in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, at the age of 11 to practice volleyball, and was later sent to the Beijing Institute of Physical Education for further study. After hu jin graduated in 1971, he entered the Liaoning Provincial Youth Volleyball Team and was selected for the Liaoning Provincial Volleyball Team in 1974.
Young Hu Jin
Like Zhang Rongfang, Hu Jin was selected for the national volleyball team in 1976 and served as captain.
In 1977, Hu Jin participated in the World Cup with wang Jiawei and other teammates as the main second pass, and won the 5th place.
In 1979, Hu Jin participated in the second Asian Volleyball Championship and won the championship with the team members, and Hu Jin was awarded the title of "Best Athlete".
At that time, the national men's and women's volleyball teams were training in the same courtyard, and Zhang Rongfang and Hu Jin met every day. When he was young, Hu Jin was handsome and tall, and he taught himself English as soon as he had time.
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Zhang Rongfang's impression of Hu Jin is quite good, and she feels that this young man is not only handsome, but also self-motivated. So there are enthusiastic teammates to match Zhang Rongfang and Hu Jin.
From left to right: Actors Gong Xue, Zhang Rongfang, Lang Ping
But Hu Jinwan refused, he was worried that after retiring from the army, he would return to Liaoning, Zhang Rongfang would return to Sichuan, and it would be unrealistic for the two to live separately across provinces. Zhang Rongfang could not let go of Hu Jin.
Once, the two walked out of the canteen after eating, and Zhang Rongfang sang a song behind Hu Jin. Hu Jin looked back and found that Zhang Rongfang was blushing.
Zhang Rong Fangchuan's sister's pungent energy came up and boldly said: Why are you so proud? Am I so inconspicuous?
This sentence hit Hu Jin like a bullet, and in an instant, his love for Zhang Rongfang overcame his inner concerns. In 1981, the two fell in love.
In the same year, Zhang Rongfang and the team members went to Japan to participate in the 3rd World Cup Women's Volleyball Tournament and won the championship in one fell swoop. Since then, Zhang Rongfang and the Chinese women's volleyball team have opened the glory of "five consecutive championships".
Zhang Rongfang on the New Year painting
In September 1982, the World Women's Volleyball Championship was held in Peru, and Zhang Rongfang and the team won the world championship again.
At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Zhang Rongfang led the team to win olympic gold medals as the captain of the Chinese women's volleyball team. Zhang Rongfang, as the main attacker, achieved the "triple crown" of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
As a result, she was elected as one of the "Top Ten Athletes in The Nation" and was also named the "National March 8th Red Flag Bearer".
Zhang Rongfang and the Chinese women's volleyball team have become a symbol of the times, inspiring all the Chinese people to work hard and have been recorded in history, and the Chinese women's volleyball team has also become a symbol of strength.
On December 4, 1984, 27-year-old Zhang Rongfang retired from the national women's volleyball team because of her age. At the farewell party held by the team, Zhang Rongfang cried uncontrollably.
Cao Huiying (back left), Chen Zhaodi (back right), Sun Jinfang (front left), Zhang Rongfang (front middle), Yang Xi (front right) and Yuan Weimin world championship trophy group photo.
Yuan Weimin asked her to say a few words, Zhang Rongfang has been crying, can not stop at all, the farewell party had to end early.
At this time, Hu Jin had retired a year earlier and was studying in the coaching college class of Beijing Institute of Physical Education. Zhang Rongfang and Hu Jin were preparing to get married in the spring of 1985, who knew that Zhang Rongfang had just retired from the Chinese women's volleyball team, and Hu Jin was transferred to the Chinese women's volleyball team as a coach to assist head coach Deng Ruozeng.
In this case, Zhang Rongfang and Hu Jin had to postpone the wedding.
After retiring from the army, Zhang Rongfang returned to her hometown of Sichuan and served as the deputy director of the Provincial Sports Commission. While working in the government, she entered the Chengdu Institute of Telecommunications Engineering for further study.
In July 1985, Zhang Rongfang married Hu Jin. After marriage, the couple separated.
Deng Ruozeng
In the autumn of that year, Hu Jin assisted Deng Ruo to lead the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the World Cup championship, creating the "four consecutive championships" of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
In 1986, Deng Ruo resigned as the manager of the Chinese women's volleyball team for physical reasons.
At this time, only 3 months after the opening of the 10th World Women's Volleyball Championship, Zhang Rongfang was quickly arranged to save the field, replacing Deng Ruo as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team and Lang Ping as the coach.
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Zhang Rongfang was the head coach in July 1986, when she was already pregnant for several months, only Lang Ping knew about it, and her teammates were hidden.
Zhang Rongfang stood on the field for eight or nine hours a day, and her legs were swollen and sore. Due to the serious pregnancy reaction, Zhang Rongfang's morning sickness was very severe, and she often threw up so much that she didn't even have the strength to stand up.
At that time, many veteran members of the Chinese women's volleyball team were in the same batch as Zhang Rongfang, which was not easy to manage, and Zhang Rongfang sometimes shouted on the field to break her throat and no one listened.
Zhang Rongfang and Lang Ping
She and Lang Ping went to the home of the old coach Yuan Weimin to cry, and Yuan Weimin patiently comforted and enlightened her, asking her to do more detailed work. Then Zhang Rongfang organized a meeting of the team members, and it turned out that they had concerns and worried that the main attack would not be able to play.
At that time, the two main attackers of the Chinese women's volleyball team, one was Hou Yuzhu from Fujian, and the other was Jiang Ying from Liaoning, and the absolute offensive strength was not too strong.
Zhang Rongfang asked everyone to unify their thinking: let the two deputy attacks Yang Xiaojun and Liang Yan, and zheng Meizhu, cover the two main attacks.
In October of that year, the 10th Women's Volleyball World Championship was held in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The strongest Cuban team, because superstar Luis just gave birth to a child did not participate in the game, which provided the Chinese team with an opportunity.
Finally, in the final, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the Cuban team 3-1 and won the championship with a record of 8 wins. This is the fifth consecutive time that the Chinese women's volleyball team has won the world championship, thus achieving the great cause of "five consecutive championships".
Zhang Rongfang led the team to win the 10th Asian Games championship.
Immediately after, Zhang Rongfang led the team to win the 10th Asian Games championship.
In the spring of 1987, Zhang Rongfang and Hu Jin's son was born. In order to commemorate the 10th Women's Volleyball World Championship and the 10th Asian Games, Zhang Rongfang and her husband named their son "Hu Shi".
After the birth of her son, Zhang Rongfang was transferred to the drainage center and later served as the deputy director of the drainage center.
In 1988, the Chinese women's volleyball team participated in the Seoul Olympic Games, and Zhang Rongfang served as the leader of the Chinese women's volleyball team. In the semi-final with Peru, the Chinese women's volleyball team was overturned by the other side in a good situation, and the result was squeezed out of the final circle.
In the end, in the competition for the third place, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the Japanese team and won the bronze medal.
The defeat of the Chinese women's volleyball team in Seoul makes it emotionally difficult for fans to accept. Fans vented all their resentment on Zhang Rongfang, some sending her ropes, and some writing her fierce letters of criticism.
Zhang Rongfang (center) and Lang Ping
Some reporters also posted articles blaming Zhang Rongfang, saying that she was still laughing when the Chinese women's volleyball team lost.
In fact, Zhang Rongfang's heart hurts more than anyone, but she can't talk about it, and can only cry in front of her husband Hu Jin.
In 1989, the Chinese women's volleyball team changed coaches, and Hu Jin served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team. Hu Jinnian is rich and powerful, understands foreign languages, has a broad vision, and is the most suitable manager for the Chinese women's volleyball team.
The members of his team were Lai Yawen, Wu Dan, Li Guojun, Li Yueming, Su Huijuan, etc., and their strength was very strong. In the World Series, the Cuban women's volleyball team won 12 consecutive victories.
In the match with the American women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team also won 3-0 against the opponent.
Hu Jin led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the third place in the 1989 World Cup, the second place in the 1990 World Championship, and the runner-up in the 1991 World Cup.
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Barcelona Olympic Games Chinese women's volleyball team
From left to right: Wu Dan, Zhang Rongfang, Liang Yan
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, the media had already counted the gold medal of the Chinese women's volleyball team in advance. However, due to the chinese women's volleyball team being too optimistic, the pre-match difficulties were underestimated, and the results encountered great difficulties.
In addition, in the game, the main force of the Chinese women's volleyball team received Wu Dan, because of a cold, he took the traditional Chinese medicine containing "Shi Ning" prepared by the team doctor, which is a drug banned by the International Olympic Committee. As a result, Wu Dan was banned from the FIVB.
The Chinese women's volleyball team lost 3 consecutive games in the group stage and finally only won the 7th place. This is the worst result of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Olympic Games, and Hu Jin has been pushed to the cusp of public opinion.
Some fans, in order to vent their anger, also involved Zhang Rongfang, saying that they opened a "mom-and-pop shop" in the Chinese women's volleyball team. In fact, in order to avoid suspicion, Zhang Rongfang took the initiative to no longer be in charge of the Chinese women's volleyball team after Hu Jin became the head coach.
It is undeniable that Hu Jin is a dedicated coach and has a high level of business. Some media believe that he is not cruel enough to the players.
On the days of training in Beijing, Hu Jin had no time to take care of his family, and his family and son were all pushed to Zhang Rongfang.
Hu Jin
He went out early every day and often didn't come home until late at night. He gave a lot, but did not achieve the expected results, which made him unhappy.
In 1993, Hu Jin left the Chinese women's volleyball team, when the loss and confusion in his heart were indescribable. After the Spring Festival, Hu went to Malaysia to coach and served as the head coach of the country's men's volleyball team. Zhang Rongfang stayed in Beijing with her son, and the couple began to live across borders.
Zhang Rongfang has a bad heart and a lumbar spine injury, she has to go to work and take care of her son, and there are many hardships in life. Every time Hu Jin called back, Zhang Rongfang said that everything was fine at home, and you were at ease to coach.
However, when she put down the phone and thought about the various grievances in her life, tears would involuntarily fill her eyes.
The son often muttered a small mouth and asked Zhang Rongfang: Why doesn't Dad come home when he is old? Zhang Rongfang comforted her son: Dad is not easy, but also in the struggle for our small family, you don't blame him.
Hu Jin and Zhang Rongfang
Hu Jin coached in the Malaysian men's volleyball team with good treatment, and the players respected him very much, but Hu Jin was not happy in his heart. He always felt that he was cultivated by the country and should serve the country.
At the beginning of 1994, the women's volleyball club of Chengdu Coledore Trade Development Corporation was established, and hu jin was invited to be the head coach. Relevant personnel contacted Zhang Rongfang and hoped that she would communicate with Hu Jin.
Zhang Rongfang then talked to her husband about this matter on the phone, and Hu Jin expressed his willingness to go to Sichuan to teach. After the Spring Festival in 1994, Hu Jin bid farewell to his wife and children and went to Chengdu to teach.
He grew up in the north and was not adapted to the Sichuan diet, often making instant noodles in his dormitory. As long as one of the players is still training on the field, Hu Jin will not sit down and has been standing and coaching.
From 1994 to 1999, Hu Jin led the Sichuan women's volleyball team to win the national championship, and he was elected as the "Top Ten Coaches of Sichuan Province" for four consecutive years.
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Zhang Rongfang and Lang Ping
Although Zhang Rongfang left the first line of the women's volleyball team, she still cares about the Chinese women's volleyball team. After Hu Jin left the team, Zhang Rongfang got in touch with Lang Ping as an old teammate and persuaded Lang Ping to give up his generous coaching treatment abroad and return to China as the head coach of the women's volleyball team.
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Lang Ping led the team to win the silver medal.
In 1999, Lang Ping left the national women's volleyball team for physical reasons, and Hu Jin once again had the idea of going out of the mountains. As the deputy director of the drainage center, Zhang Rongfang disagreed with her husband's decision and ignored Hu Jin for a week.
But Hu Jin always had a regret in his heart that he had not been rewarded, and the idea of teaching again was very strong. Despite his wife's objections, he actively participated in the campaign for the head coach of the national women's volleyball team.
The Platoon Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport held two meetings to discuss whether to let Hu go in and out of the mountain, and Zhang Rongfang did not participate in order to avoid suspicion.
Finally, after comprehensive consideration in many aspects, the Volleyball Center decided to let Hu Jin serve as the head coach of the national women's volleyball team again.
Hu Jin
Back at home, Hu Jin said to his wife emotionally: The country has cultivated me, and now the national women's volleyball team has difficulties, I should stand up, how can I escape for my own reputation? I'm a man and should face the challenge! Zhang Rongfang shed complicated tears.
In April 1994, Hu Jin was once again appointed as the head coach of the national women's volleyball team. At that time, public opinion was in an uproar, zhang Rongfang and Hu Jin were once again pushed to the cusp of the storm, some said that they opened a "husband and wife shop" in the Chinese women's volleyball team, and some said that Zhang Rongfang squeezed Lang Ping away and let her husband take the position.
In order to avoid suspicion, Zhang Rongfang, like her husband last time as the head coach of the women's volleyball team, no longer in charge of the Chinese women's volleyball team, but in charge of basketball, diving and other competitions.
The second time out of the mountain, Hu Jin tried to bring the Chinese women's volleyball team to a higher level. Although his home was close to the training hall, Hu Jin simply lived in the dormitory of the State General Administration of Sports and did not go home once a week.
Hu Jin and Lang Ping
Zhang Rongfang's lumbar disc herniation is very serious, can not sit for a long time, can not bend, go to the mall to buy barrels of oil can not move. The son, who is in junior high school, takes care of his mother at home.
Sometimes Zhang Rongfang couldn't get up on the bed, and her son picked him up. The son couldn't hold it and shed tears, and Zhang Rongfang also cried.
Zhang Rongfang knew that her husband was holding his breath in his heart and always wanted to prove himself. Therefore, even if there are great difficulties in the family, she does not bother her husband.
In order to let her husband achieve good results and lead the women's volleyball team to seize the fruits of victory, Zhang Rongfang rushed to the Chongwenmen police station and changed her son's name "Hu Shi" to "Hu Shi".
However, at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team only won the fifth place. Domestic public opinion was in an uproar, fans once again issued a call for "upside down", and Zhang Rongfang was also implicated and insulted by irrational fans.
Hu Jin
Twice coaching the Chinese women's volleyball team, failed to achieve the desired results, which has become an eternal pain and regret in Hu Jin's heart. He put in a huge effort, but did not get back, and the regret and entanglement cannot be described in words.
However, Hu Jin is not without merit, he discovered Zhao Ruirui, Zhou Suhong, Zhang Yuehong and other team members, laying a solid foundation for Chen Zhonghe to take over the Chinese women's volleyball team.
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In 2001, Hu Jin left the Chinese women's volleyball team and returned to the Sichuan women's volleyball team as the head coach again. Zhang Rongfang and her husband began to live apart again.
At this time, the Sichuan women's volleyball team fell into a trough, but Hu Jin still brought the Sichuan women's volleyball team out. Among them, Chen Jing of the Sichuan women's volleyball team won the 2003 World Cup and the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
For more than a decade, Hu Jin has been coaching in Sichuan, and his time with his wife is few.
In the separation, Zhang Rongfang brought her son up. The family moved and decorated the house twice, Hu Jin did not ask questions, it was Zhang Rongfang and her son who were busy together.
Hu Shi and the bride Tong Lingxue
On October 20, 2013, Zhang Rongfang's son Hu Shi and Tong Lingxue married in Beijing. Hu Jin appeared at his son's wedding with his wife, and looking at his wife's white hair on his sideburns, Hu Jin's eyes were moist.
For decades, he and his wife have been separated for a long time, and they rarely pay attention to the affairs of the family, and it is Zhang Rongfang who is paying for the family. If she had changed to another wife, she would have been angry, but Zhang Rongfang had never quarreled with herself.
Hu Jin truly realized that in his marriage to Zhang Rongfang, he was the beneficiary.
In 2014, Hu Jin went to the Fujian women's volleyball team to coach and continued to live separately from Zhang Rongfang. In 2015, Zhang Rongfang resigned from the relevant leadership position of the drainage management center due to physical reasons and retired home to recuperate.
At this time, her lumbar disc herniation was quite serious, and under the care of her son and daughter-in-law, Zhang Rongfang began to receive systematic treatment. After more than two years of recovery, Zhang Rongfang's waist injury improved greatly in 2018 and she began to live a normal life.
From left to right: Zhang Rongfang, Lang Ping, Lai Yawen
Hu Jin reached retirement age in 2015, and after the 2017 National Games, he left the Fujian women's volleyball team to live in Beijing, and Zhang Rongfang and her husband finally stopped living apart.
The guilt-ridden Hu Jin takes care of his wife at home and takes on most of the housework. Her son and daughter-in-law are also in Beijing, and they come to reunite every New Year's Festival, and Zhang Rongfang finally lives a normal life.
In October 2021, Zhang Shan, director of the Sichuan Volleyball Management Center, got in touch with Hu Jin and hoped that he would come back to the Sichuan women's volleyball team to coach. Hu Jin has been coaching in the Sichuan women's volleyball team for 15 years, has a deep affection for the Sichuan women's volleyball team, and intends to accept the invitation of the other party.
He then discussed the matter with his wife.
Sichuan is Zhang Rongfang's hometown, and Hu Jin is obsessed with volleyball, and Zhang Rongfang supports her husband to go out of the mountains.
Hu Jin and the girls of the Sichuan women's volleyball team
In April 2022, the 67-year-old Hu Jin coached the Sichuan women's volleyball team for the third time. The team was full of young players, and the famous coach Hu came in to coach, and the players were very happy.
After Hu Jin went to Sichuan to teach, Zhang Rongfang began to live separately from her husband.
Since their marriage in 1985, Zhang Rongfang has spent most of her life in separation with Hu Jin. Compared with the average couple, their marriage has more tragedy and spontaneity, there is happiness and concern, but more is hardship and tears!
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