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On June 25, 2017, this grand wedding was held in the ancient city of Xi'an, where the groom Qin Kai and the bride He Zi made a vow to each other in the presence of relatives and friends, and walked towards a new chapter in their lives together.
It is worth mentioning that although the young and beautiful bride He Zi was born in Nanning, Guangxi, four years younger than her husband Qin Kai, this small age gap has never been an obstacle for the two to know and love each other.
He Zi's family has been in a difficult situation since childhood, and his father He Changtai and mother are ordinary workers, and their lives are poor. Fate played even more merciless tricks on the family, and the eldest son died of leukemia shortly after birth, and they were devastated that they could not afford the high medical bills.
A few years later, when He Zi was just 4 years old, her mother was diagnosed with lung cancer and eventually died of illness, which brought heavy trauma to her at a young age.
And Qin Kai's family experience is equally moving. His father, Qin Gang, and mother, Zhao Manli, were also just ordinary factory workers, and their lives were poor. But fate treats their family even more cruelly, in just three years, Qin Kai lost his second uncle Hou Shutang, cousin Hou Dawei, grandfather Qin Guodong and grandfather Zhao Weizhong four beloved relatives, and fell into great sadness.
When Qin Kai and He Zi met for the first time, they were deeply attracted by the tenacious and fighting spirit of the other party. The two quickly fell in love and began a sweet love.
They poured out their inner pain and hardships to each other, and with each other's care and encouragement, they finally survived the difficult days and nights. After marriage, they are hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, with courage and tenacity to move towards a happy and happy life together.
Let's start with Qin Kai winning the bronze medal in the men's 3m springboard pair event at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. This is already his third Olympic appearance, with a total of two gold, one silver and two bronze medals.
Back at the 2012 London Olympics, he and team-mate Luo Yutong competed together, winning the gold medal in the men's 3m springboard double event and the silver medal in the singles.
It can be traced back to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Qin Kai won the gold medal and single bronze medal in the men's 3-meter springboard double event with his outstanding performance, becoming a proud diver of the Chinese people.
So, how did the world-renowned diving legend rise to the top? In 1990, Qin Kai, who was only 8 years old, showed extraordinary talent at the Shaanxi Provincial Games, but his road to diving was not all smooth sailing.
At that time, the famous coach Zhang Ting was deeply attracted by Qin Kai's clear potential and decided to bring him into the hard and rigorous diving training. In order to let his son master the basic skills of swimming, Qin Gang made up his mind and resolutely pushed Qin Kai into the water again and again, even if he burst into tears, he would never retreat.
Zhang Ting used "devilish" overload training for Qin Kai, the teenager had to complete up to 210 difficult diving movements, and when he stood on the 10-meter diving platform, his heart seemed to jump out of his chest.
Until one day, Qin Kai was diagnosed with myocarditis and could not continue high-intensity training. Qin Gang, who learned the bad news, made a desperate decision to take his son back to Xi'an.
Who would have thought that under the repeated inspections in the hospital, Qin Kai was fine, which made the father and son very happy. Since then, Qin Kai has re-embarked on the road to Beijing, and continued to work hard with the company and encouragement of his father.
Finally, in 1998, he joined the national diving team as he wished and became Zhang Ting's most valued disciple.
However, just as Qin Kai's career map was gradually revealed, fate once again played a cruel joke on his family. The night of Chinese New Year's Eve in 2000 was supposed to be a festive moment for family reunion, but Qin Kai was confined by the high-intensity training of the national team in Beijing, and could only pour out his infinite attachment and longing for his hometown to his parents through his mobile phone.
It wasn't until June of the following year, after Qin Kai returned to Xi'an, that he learned the truth about the tragic car accident from the unintentional words of his neighbors - his second uncle Hou Shutang and cousin Hou Dawei were both killed.
The young Qin Kai stood in front of the tombstone of his relatives, tears welling up in his eyes, and his heart ached. In a hoarse voice, he solemnly swore to his departed relatives: "May your spirits rest in peace in heaven, and I will do my best to fulfill your expectations of me."
Since then, Qin Kai has shown unprecedented hard work and perseverance in training, and he wants to prove himself with practical actions. However, fate did not let him go.
Long-term high-intensity diving training, coupled with the accumulation of sun exposure, caused Qin Kai's skin to lose a large number of melanocytes and suffer from the stubborn disease vitiligo.
His eyebrows began to fall out gradually, and his cheeks and forehead were covered with frightening white spots. Seeing this terrifying scene, the teammates were all horrified and avoided it.
Qin Gang was full of pain and guilt, so he could only take his son back to Xi'an temporarily and seek medical advice everywhere. They traveled to Guangzhou, Shanghai, Jinan and other places to seek treatment, but the symptoms of vitiligo continued to worsen, aggravating the pain and anxiety of the father and son.
That year, Qin Kai was only 13 years old, which should have been the age when the sun of life was shining in the sky, but the hammer of fate fell on him mercilessly. At the same time that he was suffering from vitiligo, his grandfather Qin Guodong and grandfather Zhao Weizhong also passed away one after another.
As the two kind elders in the family, their death undoubtedly cast a heavy haze over the Qin family.
Qin Kai's second aunt Zhao Manna was even more traumatic. In just four years, she has lost her beloved husband Hou Shutang and her beloved flesh and blood relatives Hou Dawei. The heavy grief caused her to begin to show severe signs of depression, and her once lively and cheerful personality was gone.
And Zhao Weizhong, as Zhao Manna's father, stayed by his daughter's side every night, and his asthma aggravated, and finally he couldn't hold it and died.
A series of bereavements seemed to completely crush this gifted teenager. But it was the earnest teachings and silent expectations of his relatives that allowed Qin Kai to finally survive these dark years.
In 2004, he underwent skin grafting surgery at Xi'an Hospital, which successfully cured vitiligo, which had plagued him for many years.
In the following days, under the dedicated guidance of coach Zhang Ting, Qin Kai won his first world championship and men's doubles championship in the 2006 World Cup and the 2007 World Championships, and regained the peak of his career.
If Qin Kai's growth path is a mixture of ups and downs, darkness and light, then He Zi has lived in the dark shadow of life since he was a child. At a young age, she first witnessed the despair of her brother's death from leukemia; Soon after, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer, and her long illness ended with death.
The death of her mother brought heavy trauma to the young He Zi.
Although life has fallen into many shadows, He Zi is not defeated, but realizes that only hard work is the only way out of suffering. It was this tenacity and perseverance that eventually made her a legendary Olympic champion.
With Qin Kai's ordeal growth experience, He Zi admires her husband who won the Olympic championship. She knows that the road to love is not smooth, but it is each other's encouragement and support that allows them to finally climb to the top of their lives.
After marriage, He Zi regarded her husband's two mothers as biological mothers with an open and broad mind. She and Qin Kai joined hands and did their best to honor these two old men who were over the age of six.
He Zi's father, He Changtai, raised her alone and went through vicissitudes. Qin Kai also has great respect for this retained father-in-law, and does his filial piety in a way like his own father.
The family is happy, encourages each other, and works together to overcome the difficult moments in life. When the years passed, they ushered in their old age, and the couple used their filial piety and love to support the elders in a warm and peaceful old age.
After experiencing ups and downs, Qin Kai and He Zi have already seen through the essence of impermanence in the world. They used courage and tenacity to move forward all the way, and finally found their own happiness and fulfillment.
This pair of divers not only inspired legends on the field, but also interpreted the precious meaning of love between husband and wife and harmony of family with practical actions, and undoubtedly became an outstanding model of the times.