The handsome ping-pong prince Zhuang Zedong has won the world championship, the national championship and the national team championship three times, this record has not been broken so far, becoming a monument in the history of Chinese table tennis, so far, only the full-time slam player, the active national table tennis captain Ma Long has equaled his three consecutive world championships record.
Zhuang Zedong
In the "ping-pong diplomacy", Zhuang Zedong also played an important role, the small ball pushed the big ball, played a great role in diplomacy, coupled with the handsome appearance, elegant temperament, in the 60s and 70s was a hit.
Zhuang Zedong's life is quite legendary, his father Zhuang Tishen is the son-in-law of the famous Jewish tycoon and the richest man in Shanghai Beach, but Zhuang Zedong's mother is only a maid of the Zhuang family, due to his low birth, Zhuang Zedong has lived a life of displacement and blindness since childhood, and it is this situation that has exercised his willpower and created his later achievements in table tennis and calligraphy.
In 1985, after Zhuang Zedong was examined, he divorced his wife Bao Huishuang, and soon after, a Japanese girl who had been obsessed with him for many years, Atsuko Sasaki, crossed the ocean, gave up her nationality, and found Zhuang Zedong, who had just implemented the policy as a sports coach at the Beijing Youth Palace, proposed to him, and accompanied him to the end of his life.
Sho Zedong and Atsuko Sasaki
After the wind and waves, Zhuang Zedong in his later years was very calm, and spent his last years in the simple life of teaching table tennis, singing Peking Opera, and practicing calligraphy.
In 2013, Zhuang Zedong died of cancer, completing his legendary life.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, the father is the son-in-law of Hatong, the richest man in Shanghai Beach, who stayed in the former Qing Dynasty Palace</h1>
Zhuang Zedong's father, Zhuang Tishen, was originally a teacher at Shanghai Cangjie Middle School, which was founded by the famous Jewish real estate tycoon Hartung, famous for Hartung Garden.
Born in Baghdad in the Middle East (in present-day Iraq), Hartung later fled to India, in 1873, he came to the beach with six silver dollars, worked in the "Sassoon Foreign Firm", married a Chinese-French mixed maid named Luo Jialing, it is said that before Hartung married, he took luo jialing bazito fortune telling, calculated that she had Wangfu luck, and whoever married could make a fortune.
Less than three years after the marriage, Hartung was promoted to deputy general manager of Sassoon & Co.
Those who do not wear hats are Hats
Since they had not had children after marriage, the couple adopted more than twenty children, the son and the father surnamed Ha Tong, and the daughter was surnamed Luo with the mother.
In 1901, at the age of 50, Hartung jumped ship and set up his own portal, and since then his business has flourished, becoming the richest man in the Far East and one of the world's top ten richest people. Built in 1910, Hartung Garden covers an area of 300 acres, which is a Chinese garden imitating the style of Daguan garden, which is beautiful and famous at home and abroad.
In 1917, Zhuang Tishen, whose ancestral home was Hangzhou, left Yangzhou, where his family had lived for many years, to find a job in Shanghai, because of a beautiful calligraphy, he was hired as a Chinese language teacher at Cangjie Middle School, he did not speak much, his clothes were shabby, except for the equally poor art teacher Xu Beihong, most of his colleagues looked down on him, saying that he was a rural bun.
Unexpectedly, the dirt bun suddenly came to run, and once when he went to the post office to send money, he picked up a lottery ticket on the side of the road, and the next day he won the horse racing jackpot at the Shanghai Racecourse.
After hearing about it, Hartung, who was a little superstitious, thought that Teacher Zhuang was a blessed person who could bring good luck to the Hartung family, so he assigned his eldest daughter Luo Fuzhen to him, and this time, Zhuang Tishen really won the jackpot.
In 1923, the poor teacher Zhuang Tishen leapt to become the son-in-law of the richest man, at this time there were many former Qing palaces in Beijing that were being sold at low prices, and Hartung bought an old mansion in Jingyang Hutong from the eunuch Xiao Dezhang, with a total of more than 330 houses, known as "Beijing Hartung Garden", as the dowry of the eldest daughter, to Zhuang Tishen.
Once the royal palace
Hartung, who specializes in real estate, later bought several Beijing mansions and sent Zhuang Tishen and Luo Fuzhen to live and take care of these properties.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, an alternative love affair, gave birth to the world-famous ping-pong prince</h1>
Zhuang Tishen has a clear eyebrow and a deep foundation in traditional Chinese studies, but after all, she was born low, and she lacked confidence in front of Luo Fuzhen, and Luo Fuzhen grew up in Shanghai, from a young age, she was accustomed to Miss Qianjin, fashionable and beautiful, and she could not appreciate the soil bun Zhuang Tishen, she was very reluctant when she got married, and she was willing to agree to marriage because of her parenting grace, so the feelings of husband and wife were very general.
After marriage, the two had six children, two of whom died prematurely, and two sons and two daughters grew up. After becoming Hartung's son-in-law, Zhuang Tishen became the eldest aunt and mr. accountant in the family, he was more disciplined, Ding was Ding, Ding was 卯, and soon he offended more than a dozen big brothers-in-law in the family, and after hearing the complaints of his sons, Hartung gradually alienated him.
In 1931, after The death of Hartung, Zhuang Tishen left the Hatong family's industry, ran several enterprises and failed, and then studied Traditional Chinese Medicine and became a well-known internal medicine acupuncture doctor, Li Zongren's wife Guo Dejie and other celebrities often came to seek medical treatment.
At this time, their husband and wife relationship is close to the freezing point, Luo Fuzhen is a southerner, not accustomed to the dry climate of Beijing, and nostalgic for the modern fashion of the beach, coupled with the fact that Zhuang Ti Shenben did not have much affection, the two often quarreled over trivial matters, a quarrel, Luo Fuzhen took the children back to Shanghai together, lived for a few months, more than half a year.
There was no wife and children around for a long time to accompany and take care of, Zhuang Tishen was very lonely in his heart, a few years later, he had feelings with a young maid named Lei Zhongru in the family, and soon after the secret passage, Lei Zhongru became pregnant, zhuang Ti was deeply afraid that things would be exposed, and sent her back to his hometown in Yangzhou.
The woman in the front row, Lei Zhongru, and the back row from left to the second son Zhuang Zezhong, the eldest son Zhuang Zejing, Zhuang Tishen and the third son Zhuang Zedong
On August 25, 1940, Lei Zhongru gave birth to a son, Zhuang Tishen named the third son "Zhuang Zedong", and in 1943, Lei Zhongru gave birth to a daughter Zhuang Zeping. In order to prevent the news from leaking, Lei Zhongru quietly took his children to live in Yangzhou. Zhuang Zedong wrote in his memoirs: "After I was born, I lived in Yangzhou with my mother, while my father was in Beijing. ”
After the death of his mother-in-law Luo Jialing, Zhuang Tishen told Luo Fuzhen about having an illegitimate child.
About the influence of traditional morality, she did not make a fuss, but sent someone to take Zhuang Zedong's mother and son to the Beiping family, and Li Lei Zhongru was Zhuang Ti's deep side room. According to Zhuang Zedong, "During the days of living together, 'Big Mama' was very good to our mother and son, and the brothers and sisters got along harmoniously. ”
Zhuang Zedong and his eldest brother and sister-in-law
Zhuang Zedong has always called Luo Fuzhen "Niang", and her recognition is also the reason why Zhuang Zedong later called Ha Tong "grandfather" and was proud of it.
In 1948, Zhuang Tishen and Luo Fuzhen officially ended their nearly 30-year marriage, and Luo Fuzhen returned to Shanghai with her four children, who were later sent to shanghai by her eldest daughter-in-law. Lei Zhongru and Zhuang Zedong brothers and sisters settled in Beiping with Zhuang Tishen, and everyone was different and wide, and each of them was safe, which was also a complete ending.
Zhuang Zedong with his parents and sister
In 1958, when the National Table Tennis Championships were held in Shanghai, Zhuang Zedong was also entrusted by his parents to visit his "mother" and brothers and sisters.
And the eldest brother Zhuang Zejing, who has been working in Beijing, is much older and has deep feelings than Zhuang Zedong, and the six brothers and sisters in the family, although they are not the same mother, get along very harmoniously and intimately, they are all proud of Zhuang Zedong's later achievements, and I have to say that Luo Fuzhen is indeed everyone's girlfriend, and the handling of family affairs is very appropriate and decent.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, Japanese female fans renounce their nationality in order to marry him</h1>
Due to the reasons of his life, Zhuang Zedong has lived a life of looking at people's eyes and sending people under the fence since he was a child, which has also cultivated his characteristics of hardship and competitiveness, and his father Zhuang Tishen once told him that he must study hard and be useful to the country and society in the future.
Zhuang Zedong followed his mother from a small age to send people under the fence, the body has not been very good, more than 6 years old, weighing only more than 30 pounds, looks much thinner than other children, his father in order to make him strong, take him to the martial arts, climbing, swimming.
Zhuang Zedong began to become very lively and active, bouncing balls, playing small leather balls, playing softball, and later learned table tennis at about 8 or 9 years old, initially just playing with his classmates, and then playing better and better, and playing more and more obsessively.
At that time, table tennis was not popular in the north, nor was it valued, Zhuang Tishen felt that his son's playing was a waste of time, affecting learning, and in front of his classmates, he broke his son's racket.
Zhuang Zedong was sullen and unhappy for several days, and his parents promised him that he could play occasionally after school. Zhuang Zedong, who has no teacher and self-understanding, is intelligent and perceptive, and soon becomes the "Little Ball King" of Si Ting Primary School and the champion of the twenty-second grade in Beijing. At that time, Zhuang Zejing's eldest brother was an actor in the Central Experimental Drama Theater, and he liked this little brother very much, often taking Zhuang Zedong to the theater to play ball, and triumphantly declared: "Come and come, who of you can beat my brother, I invite you to dinner." But no one had ever won the child, so the brothers often ate free meals at the theater.
At the beginning of 1956, after the establishment of the Beijing Children's Palace, 15-year-old Zhuang Zedong was selected to the amateur sports school table tennis group and began to receive formal training, and since then, he has won countless trophies like a whirlwind.
In 1961, the 21-year-old Zhuang Zedong won the championship at the 26th World Table Tennis Championships, and became a sports star and youth idol at that time with his handsome appearance and superb skills.
Since then, Zhuang Zedong has been proud of the spring breeze, becoming the director of the State Sports Commission at the age of 34; he also lost everything, and after more than four years in prison, in 1985, Bao Huiqiao, his wife, a pianist in the Central Orchestra, went through divorce procedures with him.
Zhuang Zedong and Bao Huishuang
The 45-year-old world champion is alone, huddled with his mother in a remote room of his ancestral home, teaching children to play table tennis in the Children's Palace, with a salary of tens of yuan per month, plus 30 yuan of world championship fees (a world champion increases his monthly salary of 10 yuan, Zhuang Zedong gets three), and this salary has to pay 40 yuan for child support, 30 yuan for old mother's alimony, and only 30 yuan is left to eat.
In 1987, a Japanese woman named Atsuko Sasaki suddenly found the Beijing Children's Palace and asked to see Zhuang Zedong.
Atsuko Sasaki is a Japanese female writer, born in Shenyang in 1944, and then returned to Japan, many years ago she was a fan of Zhuang Zedong, in 1971 when Zhuang Zedong competed in Nagoya, Japan, she spent two months of salary as a travel expense, took seven or eight hours of night sleeper car to the Chinese delegation's hotel, begging to see Zhuang Zedong, and finally Zhuang Zedong came out to chat with them for a few minutes, and gave Sasaki Atsuko a plexiglass brooch as a souvenir.
Zhuang Zedong and Li Furong
It is this kind of fate that makes Sasaki Atsuko's heart forever engraved with the shadow of Zhuang Zedong, in 1987, she heard that Zhuang Zedong was divorced and single, and her life was sloppy, and she tried to find the whereabouts of her idol in many ways and wanted to accompany him through the rest of her life.
The frustrated Zhuang Zedong was moved by The infatuation of Atsuko Sasaki, and her intellectuality, gentleness, and cheerfulness also made him very fond of it, but at that time, there were still few foreign-related marriages, and the two could not get a reply after submitting marriage applications, and Sasaki Atsuko's visa time had arrived, and he was asked to leave the country within a time limit.
The two appealed to the top, and Zhuang Zedong wrote a letter: "We sincerely love each other, and our feelings are very deep. I am 47 years old, Sasaki Atsuko is 43 years old (unmarried), the time is old, Sasaki Atsuko has asked for the consent of her family, willing to join the Chinese nationality, renounce the Japanese nationality, come to China to settle down and marry me. According to the Chinese nationality law, she is fully qualified. Please ask the leadership to approve and allow us to organize a family. ”
In the end, overcoming many difficulties, Atsuko Sasaki renounced her Japanese citizenship and was able to marry Zhuang Zedong, and her lover eventually became a family member.
Atsuko Sasaki
After marriage, Atsuko Sasaki lost her high-paying job and favorable living conditions in Japan, and became a Beijing hutong aunt who was busy with chai rice oil and salt all day, and she was at ease.
After a few years, Zhuang Zedong's situation gradually improved, all over the country invited him to teach ball, participate in activities, Sasaki Atsuko always accompanied him, she loves to clean, Zhuang Zedong all the clothes are washed and ironed by her hand, and laughed that he is a "human flesh washing machine".
When she was young, she was fascinated by Zhuang Zedong, who could sing Peking Opera on Japanese television, and after getting married, Zhuang Zedong often took her to watch Peking Opera performances together, practice calligraphy together, immersed in the charm of traditional arts, Zhuang Zedong was influenced by her father, a calligraphy was pure fire, and in her later years, she was influenced by Fan Zeng, writing "Fan Zeng Body", and there was a trend of blue out of blue and winning blue.
Zhuang Zedong calligraphy
Under the meticulous care and companionship of Atsuko Sasaki, Zhuang Zedong's later life was very fulfilling and pleasant. In 2008, Zhuang Zedong was diagnosed with advanced rectal cancer, and she waited closely for five years until Zhuang Zedong died in 2013.
Zhuang Zedong's life is legendary from the beginning, and the end is still a legend.
The first half of his life was vigorous and uneven, but he forgot to think of danger from a high height, should step by step like a thin ice, and finally fell down, and the second half of his life was full of poverty and illness, and there was no hope of recovery, but with the companionship of his obsessive wife for more than twenty years, he could immerse himself in the world of Peking Opera and calligraphy, but there was a deeper happiness in the plain.