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Source: Morning News Author: Zeng Sodi
"How many beats can there be in life" and "everything starts from scratch", these slogans that best represent the Chinese sportsmanship embody the strong style full of courage, and they all come from a sport - table tennis.
Just when the afterglow of the Tokyo Olympic Games is still in full swing and the table tennis final of the 14th National Games is in full swing, a bloody drama that pays tribute to China's table tennis cause, "Win Gold", is popular in the CCTV-8 golden file.
The TV series "Win Gold" is directed by Zhang Qian, the director of "Bright Sword", co-directed by Yuan Jun and Tian Yong, and starring Zheng Kai, Zhang Tutua, Xia Xing and others. Set against the backdrop of the 60-year development of table tennis in China, this sports-themed TV series tells the story of Liu Zhengguang, a poor student who entered the city with a dream of table tennis since the 1960s, and through unremitting efforts to enter the national team and win glory for the country on the international field. It traces the history of table tennis, pays tribute to sports heroes, and depicts the unique life course of the older generation of table tennis players in China with flesh and blood and full of images. In addition to the inspiration of "winning gold", it also triggered the collective memory of the Chinese people, triggered a strong emotional resonance, and won wide acclaim for "condensing the soul for the Winter Olympics" and "building the Chinese dream together".
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In 1959, the 25th World Table Tennis Championships were held in Dortmund, West Germany. China's Rong Guotuan won the men's singles championship, which was the first world championship after the founding of New China. Since then, in a time of armor, this small white ball has appeared in cities and villages, and the sound of ping-pong ping-pong has resounded throughout China.
The story of the TV series "Winning Gold" begins here: in the winter of 1959, in a mountain village in Dongfeng Commune, northeast China, on a frozen river, a group of children played around a ping-pong table made of ice. Liu Zhengguang, a rural boy with a talent for playing balls, has won victory after victory with his unique and sharp "cutting the ball" technique. At this time, in the loudspeaker on the forest canopy in the distance, what came was the broadcast of the live game of the Rong Guotuan...
Starting from the perspective of Liu Zhengguang, a "hot-blooded youth", "Winning Gold" vividly shows the burning years behind the rise of the "national ball" in the late 1950s, and records the "ping pong Fanghua" of a group of young people pursuing a happy life and striving for the country in the context of the big era. In the play, Liu Zhengguang, who has the dream of table tennis, resolutely chose to play in the city despite the opposition of his family, and since then, he has entered the national team through long-term unremitting hard work. Although Liu Zhengguang was forced to leave the team in the middle of the way, he still insisted on training, and when the table tennis team was called again, he endured the pain of illness and won honor for the motherland in the international arena.
There is no genius who is born to win the championship, only a strong person who has been trained and hammered. The story of "Winning Gold" has a total of 38 episodes, which extends from the 1950s to the beginning of this century, fully presents the development history of China's table tennis, and has become a microcosm of China's development and take-off, it interprets the "Chinese Dream" from a grand sports perspective, brings the eyes of generations of Chinese back to the burning years of ping-pong and pong, so that every Chinese can find their own memories in it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > vividly reveals that the ball turns the "big ball"</h1>
The reason why Chinese has a special affection for table tennis, in addition to factors such as national participation and international leadership in the level of competition, is also related to the famous "table tennis diplomacy" in the 1970s. It has not only opened the door to Sino-US exchanges, but also become China's "key" to the world. Since then, "small balls pushing big balls" has been passed as a beautiful talk.
In "Win the Gold", with the development of table tennis diplomacy, the National Sports Commission asked the national team to select athletes from various provinces and cities to prepare for the 32nd World Table Tennis Championships and strive to win more gold medals. It was in this selection that Liu Zhengguang and Du Jianhua, who were working in the pickle factory, were selected to return to the national team, so that the story of winning the championship had a rich follow-up development.
"Ping-Pong diplomacy" has directly or indirectly spawned a series of major events in the history of China's diplomacy, and "Winning Gold" has fully presented this. In 1971, the Chinese table tennis team visited the United Arab Emirates, Cuba, Chile and Canada, and held the Asian-African-Latin American Table Tennis Invitational Tournament. In the play, the famous Yugoslav female table tennis player Tyana came to compete, but did not see Xu Qian, a former member of the national women's team, among the players. She inquired in many ways, only to learn that Xu Qian had retired from the military and studied at the Golden State Institute of Physical Education. So, Tiana took her husband Frank to the Golden State to reunite with her old friends. More than a decade later, it was with the help of Tiana that Xu Qian came to Germany to join the club and restarted her table tennis career... "Win the Gold" let us see that patriotism is a distinctive label inherited from the genes of Chinese athletes, this team has created brilliance, no matter where they go, their hearts always have the motherland in their hearts.
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In 1981, at the 36th World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese team won 7 championships: men's team, women's team, men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles. The "spirit of table tennis" was then widely circulated: It is the spirit of bearing the motherland in mind, looking at the world, and winning glory for the country; it is the spirit of hard work, self-reliance, and arduous struggle; it is the spirit of indomitable and diligent study, continuous study, and continuous innovation; it is the collectivist spirit of fighting with one heart and one mind and fighting in unity; and it is also the spirit of revolutionary optimism and revolutionary heroism that is not proud of victory and defeat.
As general director Zhang Qian said: "The spirit of table tennis is what is needed in the current Chinese era, and "Win Gold" must fully embody the soul of Chinese table tennis." "In the play, in addition to the gripping competition on the field, it also delicately portrays the bloody struggle and continuous struggle of generations of table tennis players. Whether it is Liu Zhengguang, Du Jianhua, or Xu Qian, Sun Haoning, they practice hard every day to swing thousands of times, in view of technical difficulties and their own weaknesses collectively tackled, in order to prevent technical and tactical rigidity, while adhering to the mainstream playing style, actively try to innovate, take the initiative to adapt to the changing trend of the world table tennis world... Never give up until the ball lands, and go all out regardless of the result, which is the best interpretation of the spirit of table tennis.
It is worth mentioning that in order to perfectly show the spirit of national table tennis, "Win Gold" also invited more than 30 world champions to guest perform. In a "Elders Cup" competition, Xu Yinsheng, former chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, Xu Shaofa, former head coach of the national team, and Guo Yuehua, Liang Geliang, Ma Wenge, Wang Jun, Wang Tao, Liu Wei and other table tennis celebrities all appeared on the "arena", adding bricks and tiles to this drama, fully demonstrating the spirit of Chinese being proactive, working hard and vigorous.
Patriotism is the feeling, and struggle is the background. The Central Eight of the General Station specially arranged "Winning Gold" to be broadcast before the National Day, and while presenting the hardcore Chinese and fighting appearance, it also told the audience that sports carry the dream of national prosperity and national rejuvenation, which is related to the happiness of the people and the future of the nation, and the "national ball" "starts from scratch" again and again, that is, the Chinese who chases the dream is driving himself to chop the waves and sail forward, because the dream is always on the road.