Some time ago, the fitness exercises of Liu Qihong's "Compendium of Materia Medica" were on fire on platforms such as b station and douyin, which for a time blew up the craze of national fitness.
Once upon a time, this scene also appeared on this land, when the Internet was not as developed as it is now, and people's usual entertainment and access to information could only be through television.
Bodybuilding programs on TV and exercising in front of the TV set perfectly coincided with today, years later.
In that era, there were also people who walked on the pioneer road of bodybuilding, and she was the MCA known as the "Beauty Queen of Bodybuilding".
She is well known for a "Health Song" performed at the Spring Festival Gala in 1998, which was sung by Fan Xiaoxuan, and on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, she and MCA re-performed the song, taking it to new heights.
At that time, MCA had already set up her own club, and also served as a host on CCTV's "Five Minutes of Bodybuilding", and for the first time, she brought aerobics to the big screen, leading the audience to dance aerobics with her in front of the TV.
Some people commented that she advanced china's fitness career by at least 20 years, and was also known as the queen of fitness.
However, in her good years, she suddenly suffered from leukemia, died young at the age of 41, and the students were all sad, and what life and past events of her life are worthy of our mourning?
Born in Beijing in 1959, MCA's father was a soldier who fought not only in the War of Resistance Against Japan but also in the War of Liberation, with ranks of regular soldiers, and her mother was a surgeon.
Because of this, a seed of patriotism and self-discipline was planted in the heart of the young MCA, and at the request of her father, she had to get up every day before dawn to go for a run, because her father believed that she must have a good physique, which also came from his military life.
MCA has no complaints about the hard work, and she has only one thought in her mind: to complete the daily goal and strive to be the best.
As the youngest child in the family, her father was very strict with her, and he believed that the children's character habits were developed from an early age.
He also set two rules for this purpose: First, let children develop a good habit of not being afraid of difficulties and loving labor from an early age; The second is to let children manage themselves from primary school and develop the habit of thinking independently.
Although her father was very strict with her, he also regarded his little daughter as a pearl in his hand.
It was also with the encouragement of her father that she chose to join the army after graduation.
After becoming famous, MCA also once told reporters: "Without the strong support of my father, it is difficult to imagine that I can achieve such results today, and my father is the leader of my life!" ”
Life in the army has always been very hard, and MCA, who has long been accustomed to this model, seems to be like a fish entering the ocean, and every day is very happy.
She performed well in all aspects of the army, often used as a role model by the coach, and in the army she was also exposed to propaganda and broadcasting work, which was very rare for people of that era, and it was because of this that she learned a lot about propaganda.
By chance, MCA came into contact with aerobics, which were still a rarity for Chinese, but aerobics have been popular abroad for a long time.
MCA was captivated by the sport after watching fitness videos, and she began to dabble in a field she still knew very little about.
She was full of energy for the unknown, and her parents expressed their support for her idea.
Her idea is simple, if you want to do it, you must do the best, which is not worthy of her parents' expectations of her.
After all, if she wants to be good at a sport, she must first understand its rules, and MCA obtained a referee certificate with such an idea.
At the same time, she also started teaching aerobics with like-minded friends.
At that time, many people did not know much about aerobics, thinking that it was better to simply twist the body, and MCA corrected this wrong perception.
After she started working as a fitness coach, she became more comfortable, as if she was born to do this bowl of rice.
She is warm and kind, clean and sharp, attracting many people who did not know much about aerobics to watch, and many people who came to watch also joined the big family of aerobics with her enthusiasm.
Her influence on people gradually expanded from a county and city at the beginning to a nationwide scale, and it can be said that her name is getting louder and louder.
Later, it happened that CCTV was going to open a new program, so he approached MCA and hoped that she could host the show, which was later known as "Five Minutes of Bodybuilding".
The original format of "Five Minutes of Bodybuilding" was very simple, with MCA leading everyone to do sports together, in order to appeal to the audience in front of the TV to join in.
Honestly speaking, for such a new program, it is broadcast with aerobics that is relatively unfamiliar to the public, and the program team has no bottom in mind, but MCA is very optimistic.
Even if I only called on one person to join us, it was my success.
In order to show the best effect to the audience, she always tirelessly repeats the action over and over again, and it is precisely because of her serious and responsible work attitude that she has attracted many viewers to watch this show.
You know, in the early 90s, the popularity of television was not as high as it is now, and the programs that could be watched at that time were very limited, and in such an environment, "Five Minutes of Bodybuilding" was able to dominate, which was inseparable from MCA's own efforts.
This show is popular in the north and south of the river, and gradually pushes the niche sport of aerobics to the public, setting off a wave of fitness for a while.
In 1998, the Spring Festival Gala brought a different program to the audience, and MCA took "Health Song" to explain the sport of aerobics to the public in her unique performance form.
Subsequently, MCA became a household name.
Sun Yukun, who was then the head of the Organizing Committee of the International Aerobics Association, was also broadcasting on television the "Women's Aerobics" created and compiled by him, and he proudly said that the greatest thing he had done in his life was to discover MCA.
What's more, a foreign reporter commented that she was China's Jane Fonda. This is a great honor for MCA, as it was because she watched Jane Fonda's bodybuilding videos that she decided to pursue aerobics.
However, in the face of the praise of foreign journalists, she was not carried away by success, but continued to take one step at a time. Steady.
She is also very clear about herself, she is only engaged in this industry earlier than others in China, she can only be regarded as a small gain now, the next step she has to consider how to promote Chinese aerobics to the world.
In the eyes of the public, she is a rising star in the aerobics world, but just when people are full of expectations, bad news suddenly comes, and she is found to have acute leukemia.
In fact, there are early signs before this, she often works to forget herself, usually suffers from colds and other similar minor diseases she does not care, continue to work, coupled with the aerobics exercise itself also consumes a huge amount of physical strength, the body suddenly collapsed is also a reasonable thing.
When MCA took the students to class, the staff saw that she was unwell, so they advised her to go back to rest today, she thought of her students, did not agree, but strongly lifted her spirits, in front of the students to show the usual lively and enthusiastic Teacher Ma: "The students all know that I will take the exercise today, if I do not go to class, they will be very disappointed." ”
In the time that followed, she dutifully did her job, a jump of more than two hours.
It was the last lesson of her life.
During her illness, she was still participating in a weight loss show run by CCTV, and Ruan Wei was in charge of the production of "Good Morning China" at the time, and when asked about the situation at that time, he said that he still remembered it vividly: "We didn't know her condition, but when she came on, she became the MCA we are familiar with again." ”
After MCA's success, she was already a well-known celebrity in the country, and many young talents expressed their affection for her one after another, but she did not accept it, partly because she was concentrating on her career at that time, and on the other hand, she hoped to find someone who understood her.
Soon after, the person she wanted to find who understood her appeared in her life, and for the social status of MCA at that time, Kwok MingJie could only be regarded as a "small person".
But the first time MCA saw him, she decided that she would follow him for the rest of her life.
The life after husband and wife is harmonious, not only lovers, couples, but also friends.
After learning the news that MCA was seriously ill, Guo Mingjie cried like a tearful person, and he did not expect that his wife, who was usually healthy, would suddenly fall down one day.
He said to the doctor: "We have all our savings, you must save her with the best equipment and medicines!" ”
The doctor said that even if it was one in ten thousand, he would try his best.
In the days of fighting leukemia, Guo Mingjie was always with his wife, but the despair in his heart was also expanding day by day, and he even pinned his hopes on Buddhism, hoping that the Buddha would bless his wife through this disaster.
Unfortunately, these are his beautiful fantasies.
After seven months of fighting the disease, MCA also arrived at the end of her life, she had tears in her eyes, many words wanted to open her mouth, but finally only said: "Don't grieve for me, I am proud to have you, farewell forever, my relatives." ”
He cried uncontrollably for a moment.
MCA's funeral was held on Babao Mountain, and in addition to her relatives' accidents, many of her former practitioners, colleagues and celebrities from the sports and performing arts industries came to pay close respects.
Her father, who had always supported her, was the last to know the news of MCA's death, and he could not speak for a long time after hearing the news, who could have imagined that at his age he could still send a white-haired person to a brunette, and he could not accept the untimely death of his daughter.
Five years later, the veteran general fulfilled his wish to be reunited with his daughter.
These two men, who have had a lot of influence on MCA's life, have expressed their love for her in their own way.
Recently, due to the epidemic in Shanghai, aerobics has once again entered people's vision, and Liu Qihong's fire on the Internet has also brought some people to join the aerobics industry.
It has been many years since MCA's death, and if she can see today's scene, she will be very happy, thinking that her efforts have not been in vain.
Everyone shines in their own lives, MCA has done it and done a very good job, I hope that each of us can be inspired by her to bravely face the hardships and hardships in life.