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Preamble:
Does having a life of great wealth mean that you have to be extravagant?
Is thrift a sign of rejection of luxury?
This former "diving queen" gave the best answer with her life.
Once a sports star, now a lady lives
Guo Jingjing's life can be described as ups and downs and fascinating.
From a little girl from an ordinary family to a national athlete, and then married into a wealthy family and became a noblewoman, what kind of life process did she experience?
An ordinary girl's sports dream
In 1982, Guo Jingjing was born in an ordinary rural family in Hebei.
Her parents work outside all the year round, and she has been dependent on her grandparents since she was a child.
Because she has been a picky eater and naughty since she was a child, her parents sent her to a local diving training class when she went home to visit relatives in order to let her exercise more and enhance her physique.
No one expected that this unintentional decision to insert willows would start Guo Jingjing's brilliant sports career.
Although she was at a disadvantage due to her poor physical fitness at the beginning of training, and her kneecap protruded a little outward, which made her less graceful in aerial movements, Guo Jingjing quickly closed the gap with her tenacious perseverance and love for sports, and was selected for the national diving team in 1993 at the age of 11.
For their daughter's sports dream, the Guo family moved from Baoding, Hebei Province to Beijing and started a hard life.
A brilliant athletic career
After joining the national team, Guo Jingjing emerged in the diving arena like a clear stream.
Don't look at her young age, but under the strict training of the coach, her every move is extremely attentive and hardworking.
In 1996, at the age of 14, she won the World Cup double diving gold medal for her country and became a new rising star in the Chinese diving world.
At that time, her immature face on the podium was full of youthful vitality, which made everyone excited.
Since then, Guo Jingjing has worked with different partners to achieve outstanding results in many competitions one after another, but she has always maintained an empty cup mentality, down-to-earth, and never carried away by those honors.
She always reminds herself that there is still a lot of room for improvement.
Finally, at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Guo Jingjing made a sensation and won the gold medals in the women's single and double events!
Four years later, in the Beijing Olympic Games, she achieved great results and won two gold medals again, which made hundreds of millions of Chinese people cheer!
Marrying into a wealthy family attracts attention
Just when Guo Jingjing single-handedly created a brilliant sports career, a marriage was destined to change the trajectory of her life.
In 2009, Guo Jingjing married Hong Kong tycoon Huo Qigang, and the news of their marriage caused heated discussions across the country as soon as the news of their marriage came out.
How did an athlete from an ordinary background and a humble family marry into a top wealthy family?
The outside world questioned endlessly, wondering if she was worried about the Huo family's wealth.
However, the relationship between Guo Jingjing and Huo Qigang has always been consistent, loving and intimate, and they are not moved by those gossips at all.
After knowing each other for more than seven years, Huo Qigang has always been in love with Guo Jingjing, and Guo Jingjing is also attracted by the simple and kind character of the Huo family.
In the end, it won the acceptance of the public.
Their 10,000-person wedding was unprecedented, with political and business celebrities gathered, as many as 1,800 heavyweight guests, and the media followed the whole process.
Watching a sports girl full of ideals and courage eventually become a noble lady is really the epitome of inspirational life.
The simple style of taking root
After marriage, Guo Jingjing and her husband lived in Hong Kong most of the time.
However, she still maintains the habit of thrift and thrift that she has cultivated for many years, and always goes to roadside stalls to buy things in her daily life, even her children's schoolbags are bought on the roadside.
At first, this caused a lot of criticism and questions from the outside world, thinking that she was deliberately "putting on a show" to show others and posing as poor.
As everyone knows, Guo Jingjing is like this, she grew up in the countryside since she was a child, and her ancestors are examples of thrift and thrift.
Even if she later became a national athlete with her own efforts and entered a different living environment, she never changed her yearning for a simple life.
Guo Jingjing didn't take those doubts to heart, and still lived her most comfortable life as before.
As a husband, Huo Qigang saw it in his eyes, but instead of objecting, he admired his wife's indifferent and quiet character.
The public welfare feelings of the public servants of the people
Guo Jingjing, who has a win-win harvest of career and marriage, did not stop there, but devoted more energy to public welfare undertakings and used her influence to give back to the society.
In 2009, she and 12 national athletes jointly launched the "Wind and Rain Playground" public welfare activity to raise funds for schools with backward sports facilities in poor areas, so that more children can enjoy the fun of sports.
Since then, she has also represented the country at many UNICEF events to advocate for the protection of children's educational rights.
Everywhere she went, she always went to the grassroots to understand the local situation, rather than simply donating to the end.
In recent years, her participation in public welfare has expanded to the protection of women's rights and interests, marine environmental protection and other aspects.
Occasional luxury goods spark controversy
Although she has always maintained a low-key and simple lifestyle, in recent years, some media have exposed photos of Guo Jingjing wearing expensive luxury brand bags and clothing on some formal occasions.
Some netizens claimed that the bag she was carrying needed 90,000 yuan, which was incompatible with her usual thrifty image.
This discovery immediately sparked heated discussions on the Internet, and some people questioned that her previous image of "thrifty housekeeping" was just a "personality" to sensationalize.
However, this is far from the case.
As the eldest daughter-in-law of her husband's Huo family, Guo Jingjing could not dress too simply on some formal social occasions.
It is only natural that she should wear appropriate attire, otherwise it will only make people feel that she is out of place.
She doesn't just go after luxury, she just makes choices based on the needs of the occasion.
It can be seen that the outside world's doubts about her before were completely untargeted.
Her nature is simple and kind, and it has never changed.
A heroic couple with one heart and one mind
In the face of gossip, Guo Jingjing lived as usual and did not make any response.
She didn't pay any attention to all this nonsense.
As a husband, Huo Qigang fully supports his wife, and the two trust and support each other.
In recent years, he has also become more powerful in the political arena because of his wife's former athlete status, serving as the vice president of the All-China Youth Federation, contributing to the education and development of young people.
It can be said that Guo Jingjing and her husband Huo Qigang are a veritable "hero couple".
They used their lives to explain to the world the true meaning of husband and wife helping each other and working with one heart and one mind.
Whether it is in public welfare undertakings or in the political arena, the two are of one heart and one mind, have a deep affection for fish and water, and give back to the society with practical actions.
At a time when the wealthy entertainment industry is full of all kinds of rights and wrongs, their working couple shows different life values with their actions, which is worthy of our learning and appreciation.
Epilogue:
Guo Jingjing used to be a champion athlete, and today she is a charity lady.
But she has always maintained her true temperament, simple, practical, diligent and kind.
Never care about fame and fortune, be a down-to-earth person, have perseverance and determination, and live a quiet and quiet life.
Her life experience has taught us to remain humble and simple even when we are at the top, to pay attention to social welfare even if we have wealth, and to stay true to our hearts even when we are criticized.
A person who is sincere and kind and abides by his duty is the most worthy of respect and learning in society.