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A woman with a height of 206 centimeters, maybe only Yao Ming can be worthy, right? Yes, this is Zheng Haixia, who is known as the female version of Yao Ming in the Chinese basketball world, but it depends on them whether they are worthy or not.
Yao Ming's children are all 13 years old, and Zheng Haixia has already married fans and lives happily, but the experience of the two of them on the court is similar, the men's basketball team has the "Yao Ming era" and the women's basketball team has the "Zheng Haixia era", which has written a brilliant chapter in the Chinese basketball world.
Yao Ming Everyone knows that he has a happy life and a happy family, but Zheng Haixia did not enter the palace of marriage until she was in her 40s, and they all said that women were too high to marry, but Zheng Haixia broke this statement.
Who is Zheng Haixia's husband? After a look by netizens, it was found that it was a temporary worker, what is the story behind this?
01
初露锋芒
Because Zheng Haixia was born different, she usually stands out from the crowd with long arms and legs in sports school, both in terms of jumping ability and arm strength.
She quickly attracted the attention of the coaches, who thought that Zheng Haixia was simply born to play basketball and was the chosen one, so after the discussion of the coaches, Zheng Haixia successfully entered the basketball team and became a basketball player in a sports school in Shangqiu City.
In the basketball team, she does have an innate advantage, on the basketball court, her hands can touch the basketball faster than others, and with the blessing of her long legs, she can use this ability more perfectly.
It didn't take long for someone from Wuhan to come over for inspection, and they fell in love with Zheng Haixia, who was tall and tall, so Zheng Haixia followed them to Wuhan Sports School for further training.
But she has a fatal shortcoming, that is, a very serious X-shaped leg, which is not very noticeable if she doesn't practice sports, but once she is systematically trained, this shortcoming will affect all her subsequent training.
Therefore, in order not to bury Zheng Haixia's talent, the coach often left her alone to do training, hoping to correct her leg shape, so a year later, Zheng Haixia's leg shape was improved and she ran wantonly on the basketball court.
On the training ground, even if there is no coach to do special training, she is the first to come and the last to leave every day, at that time it was 1980, Zheng Haixia was only 13 years old, and her belongings were only a few poor clothes and a pair of shabby shoes.
Wang Xiaohua, the coach of Wuhan Sports School, felt very sorry for this girl, and asked her to buy some daily necessities out of his own pocket, because he was afraid that she would buy things indiscriminately, so he gave her two yuan, but Zheng Haixia bought a lot of high-quality and inexpensive gadgets for the coach.
Therefore, Wang Xiaohua felt that this child was sincere and very sensible, so he felt a little more distressed about her, and paid special attention to her in future training.
Under the guidance of coach Wang Xiaohua, Zheng Haixia made rapid progress, and after almost two years of training at Wuhan Sports School, Zheng Haixia was favored by the national team, and he was not yet 16 years old when he officially joined the national team.
When she was 16 years old, she represented the national team in the women's basketball Asian Youth Championship and Asian Championships, and successfully won the championship.
And once she participates in the game, other rival teams design tactics based on her, and in the eyes of others, winning Zheng Haixia is considered to have won the Chinese women's basketball team.
In 1984, when Zheng Haixia first came into the limelight as an adult, at the Los Angeles Olympics, her basketball team finished third in the game with her astonishing 56 percent shooting.
Since then, people have never forgotten the tall Chinese girl who showed off her body on the field, and it can be said that his future life will be much better than the first half of her life.
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Unusual from an early age
In an ordinary farmhouse in Shangqiu, Henan Province, a strange thing happened, in 1967, a huge baby girl was born, for which the mother of the baby girl suffered a lot of crimes, the baby girl is Zheng Haixia.
It was not easy for Zheng Haixia's mother to give birth to her, in addition to her huge size, her mother was also in her forties at that time.
After Zheng Haixia was born, her parents couldn't figure it out, one of them was 185 and one was 165, both of them were of normal height, and although her father was taller, she didn't exceed the normal range, so they felt that Zheng Haixia should have just been born, and it should be good if she was full later.
But as time went by, Zheng Haixia's height did not return to normal, but grew taller and taller, and reached more than 180 in junior high school.
It is rumored in the village that the old Zheng family is blessed to give birth to a big child, and he will definitely be able to work in the future, in that era, as a major grain-producing province in China, Henan, labor is the primary productive force, so they concluded that Zheng Haixia will have a future interest.
The facts are indeed as they expected, but what really makes Zheng Haixia productive is not labor, but basketball. But that's all for later.
Later, Zheng Haixia's huge size caused rumors in the village, at first people thought that he was taller than normal people, but he didn't expect to get taller and taller, and there were even rumors that Zheng Haixia was a "monster".
In addition to these, the family is also worried, in their minds, the girl will definitely marry and have children in the future, and their daughter will grow up to be so tall and big, there will definitely be no in-laws who want her in the future.
And Zheng Haixia is also a sensitive little girl, hearing outsiders say this about her, she often locks herself at home alone, and does not go out to play, and in order not to let herself grow any longer, she specially reduced her food, Gao's mother thought that her daughter was sick.
After learning what Zheng Haixia was thinking, her mother touched her head lovingly and told her that she could eat if she wanted to eat and don't care what others thought, she would always be her parents' baby daughter.
Zheng Haixia's second brother is also very sensible, he saw his sister's height advantage, and specially wrote a letter to the sports school in Shangqiu City, hoping that they could control his sister, and later the sports school in Shangqiu brought her back to the sports school after inspection, so far, Zheng Haixia began his legendary life.
03
Zheng Haixia era
Zheng Haixia, who has just entered the national team, is young and vigorous, she met an equally powerful teammate, that is, Chen Yuefang, the two of them pointed to Mai Mang, after a conflict, Zheng Haixia slapped Chen Yuefang. This matter was also troubled by coach Yang Boyong.
Who knew that Yang Boyong did not lose his temper but said that it was a good thing for young people to have momentum, he first comforted and comforted Chen Yuefang, and then praised Zheng Haixia, saying that her strength in not admitting defeat was rare, and Zheng Haixia was embarrassed.
Later, after the Asian Championships and Asian Youth Championships, coupled with the high shooting rate in the Los Angeles Olympics, Zheng Haixia successfully entered people's field of vision, and Zheng Haixia's future road must be bright.
In addition to the attention of opponents, even their own people attach great importance to the advantages brought by Zheng Haixia, and the training plans formulated by the national team are all designed according to Zheng Haixia, hoping that everyone can maximize her advantages on the field.
It is also in the competitions that Zheng Haixia has the title of "China's Great Wall", and Zheng Haixia is also becoming more and more courageous on the road ahead.
For example, in the 1992 Olympic Games, Zheng Haixia led the team to win the runner-up again, and since then, Zheng Haixia has the saying of "female version of Yao Ming", as well as the great achievement of the first WNBA player in the history of the Chinese women's basketball team.
Over time, Zheng Haixia's fame grew, and in 1997, at the age of 30, Zheng Haixia was selected to join the Los Angeles Sparks, and her salary also rose to $40,000.
After all, this news has a great shock in China, and even famous foreign stars, such as Kobe and O'Neal, have come to see it, and O'Neal also admires Zheng Haixia's free throw skills.
Later, due to injury, Zheng Haixia returned to the country and continued to cultivate talents for the motherland in the Bayi women's basketball team, and won the colonel level to enjoy super high treatment.
Zheng Haixia retired in 2019 and was inducted into the Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022. A legendary woman with such an achievement, people are most curious about his love life.
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The final fulfillment of life
Don't look at Zheng Haixia's big one, in fact, she is still a little girl in her bones, and she also wants to be in sweet love like an ordinary girl, but because of her height and work, she has never met a suitable partner.
In fact, as early as the 1992 Olympic Games, the 25-year-old Zheng Haixia was so close to love for the first time, it was a German fan, who was obsessed with Zheng Haixia to the point of obsession, and he waved Zheng Haixia's banners in various stadiums to cheer for the goddess.
He confessed to Zheng Haixia that he followed him all the way from Barcelona, first to Spain and then to Los Angeles, but because of the big difference in concept and nationality, Zheng Haixia never showed any interest in him.
Until 2007, when Zheng Haixia was 40 years old, she was still living alone, until another Chinese fan entered her field of vision, and that person was Xu Qinghua.
Xu Qinghua is a die-hard fan of Zheng Haixia, the same as the fan in Germany, and has also participated in the Pingdingshan professional basketball team, and it is for this reason that he noticed Zheng Haixia shining on the court and regarded her as a goddess.
He is 1.9 meters tall and has countless suitors, but he just has a soft spot for Zheng Haixia, but the gap between the two is too big, and friends think he is whimsical.
In this way, Xu Qinghua had a crush on Zheng Haixia for ten years, and after he retired from the basketball team, he came to the street to work as a temporary worker in the cultural and sports category. Even so, he was unwilling to give up and wrote a long love letter to Zheng Haixia. It was precisely because of this letter that the two began to exchange letters constantly.
In one letter after another, the two got to know each other and admired each other, and finally after a meeting, Xu Qinghua successfully pursued his goddess.
Later, in 2010, 43-year-old Zheng Haixia and Xu Qinghua got married in Beijing, and their lives were very sweet after marriage, and the two understood and supported each other, but for other reasons, the two did not have children, after all, it is enough to have a white head in this world.
In May 2023, Zheng Haixia dedicated herself to participating in the event with her teacher, and she was very happy during the event, and it seems that life did not blame her. But there is no Xu Qinghua around, so netizens have to participate in the test, and the two of them are likely to be divorced, but there is no official news that cannot be sent yet.
But after investigation, the two are still very affectionate, and the reason why Xu Qinghua did not accompany his wife to the event was to reduce public opinion, and he was afraid of causing trouble to Zheng Haixia.
Zheng Haixia is also very close to her husband, in order to accompany her family more, Zheng Haixia Jiang Gong's work focuses on the family, and she occasionally participates in activities She doesn't seem to be as famous as before, but she said she doesn't care.
As the saying goes: "There are talents from all generations, and each has led the way for hundreds of years." He is very fortunate for her and the country to see all kinds of talent emerging in the Chinese sports scene.
Resources:
[1] General Administration of Sports of China: A report on [Winning the World Cup Runner-up - Unity and Fearlessness, Chinese Women's Basketball Team Creates Glory with Hard Work] released on October 10, 2022.
[2] Overseas Network: A report on [Chinese basketball has its own Hall of Fame] released on April 12, 2023.
[3] Henan People's Government: A report on [Central Media Looks at Henan丨Zheng Haixia: From Barefoot Playing to Basketball Superstar] released on June 23, 2021.
[4] China Daily: On March 4, 2010, a related report on [Zheng Haixia was a bride at the age of 43 and was 26 cm taller than the groom].