Today is June 20, fifty-three years ago, China's first world champion, Rong Guotuan, hanged himself by longtan Lake in Beijing.
For the Rong Guotuan, everyone will certainly not be unfamiliar, in 1959, the 25th Dortmund World Table Tennis Championships, he won the first world championship for China, the following small series to introduce 10 things about the Rong Guotuan to commemorate.
1) Rong Guotuan was born on August 10, 1937 in Hong Kong, China, to a working-class family, from Nanping Town, Zhongshan County, Guangdong Province (now Nanping Town, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province). His father, Yung Mian Zhi, was a major member of Hong Kong's patriotic trade union and participated in the "Provincial And Hong Kong Strike".
2) Rong Guotuan's three honors: new China's first world champion (table tennis men's singles), New China's first world table tennis team champion, as the head coach won the first world table tennis women's team championship.
3) Rong Guotuan has comprehensive technology, on the one hand, he brings the honor of world championship to New China, but more importantly, on the other hand, he directly brings another training idea and playing style to the Chinese table tennis team. His playing style was varied, and he was good at using different tactics according to different opponents, which affected many national table tennis players at that time.
4) Rong Guotuan cherishes his reputation incomparably, and it is precisely because of this that he has embarked on the road of no return, which is sighing.
5) Rong Guotuan also has shortcomings, when he first arrived at the national team, because the serve exceeded everyone, he was worried about being overtaken by others, and he was unwilling to disclose the secret of his own serve. But then he realized his mistake and directly taught the serve technique to everyone, and even published it in the newspaper to teach it publicly.
6) Rong Guotuan loves music, pays attention to appearance, and is handsome and handsome.
7) After Winning the first world championship, Rong Guotuan became a household star. Rong Guotuan also loves to play football, swimming, dancing, calligraphy, newspaper clippings, especially like to watch movies, he once went to the Dahua Cinema to see a movie, after being recognized, he was asked by the audience to speak on stage. Dahua Cinema is still on the north and east side of the Dongdan intersection in Beijing's Dongcheng District, and the author has been there many times.
8) Rong Guotuan's wife, Huang Xiuzhen, is currently living in London, England. Daughter Rong Jinqiu, 55 years old, also practiced table tennis when she was a child, and studied English at university. After graduating from college, Rong Jinqiu worked in a hostel and later went to the United States to study.
9) In 1958, the Guangdong Provincial Sports Workers Leap forward oath ceremony was held at the Guangzhou Club on Ersha Island (now the location of the Guangdong Table Tennis Team Training), and Rong Guotuan shouted out the bold idea of winning the world championship within three years. As a result, a year later, Rong Guotuan's dream really came true and won the St. Brede Cup.
10) Rong Guotuan's famous phrase "don't fight when to fight at this time" was not shouted out before he won the first world championship, but in the men's team final of the 1961 Beijing World Table Tennis Championships, the match between China and Japan was extremely fierce, and before Rong Guotuan played the eighth game, the score was 4:3, and the Chinese team led. Before playing, Rong Guotuan shouted out, "Don't fight at this time, let's wait for when", and finally Rong Guotuan successfully defeated the opponent and won the first team championship for China.