Everyone is familiar with Kong Linghui and Liu Guoliang, the good brothers in the national ball industry, and admire the appearance of these two national ball idols in the 1990s, and in the 1960s, there was also a pair of equally handsome table tennis national team twin stars, who were once famous, they were Zhuang Zedong and Li Furong.
Compared with Zhuang Zedong, Li Furong has a gentle and introverted personality and a polite image, in order to complete Zhuang Zedong's brilliant achievements, he also made concessions to Zhuang Zedong and other team members according to the arrangement of the national team at that time, and there is a saying of "five world champions", but Li Furong is open-minded and indifferent, but he has never paid attention to these things.
When he was young, although he was not as good as Zhuang Zedong, as the elder of the table tennis national team, Li Furong has been playing steadily and steadily, focusing on the cause of table tennis, and has achieved extremely high achievements, he has won the world table tennis championship men's team championship, was elected vice chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee, served as the deputy director of the State General Administration of Sports for 12 years, and made great contributions to the development of national ball and Chinese sports.
Li Furong family photo
He devoted himself wholeheartedly to his work, inevitably ignored the family, and spent a long time with his family, so that on the day of Li Furong's retirement, his wife Zhang Yuyi, who had been married for more than 30 years, hugged him tightly and said excitedly: "Today you have finally returned home, and you are finally our family member." ”
Li Furong and his wife from the actor have two children, one is called Li Jing, the other is called Li Le, and as his name goes, Li Jing has become a tennis player, Li Le has become a well-known actor, li Le, who looks exactly like his father, once played the role of Huo In "Han Wu The Great" and became a TV star, and like his father who has been an idol for many years, he has a large number of female fans.
In the 1960s, the table tennis national team won successive championships in the world, very eye-catching, known as the "national ball", entered a golden period of development, each athlete has its own characteristics, sought after by fans, and the most outstanding young players, female athletes are Cao Yanhua and Zheng Minzhi, male players are Zhuang Zedong and Li Furong.
Zhuang Zedong, who grew up in Beijing, has a lively and outgoing personality, while Li Furong from Shanghai is introverted and gentle, but this does not prevent the two from becoming friends.
Although Li Furong looks thick and honest, the style of play is not at all inferior to Zhuang Zedong, its technical characteristics are "fierce", he has trained the trick of "forehand to fight back", known for his direct shooting and fast attack method and changeable serve techniques, his offensive is sharp, his footwork is flexible, in the national team, "Li Furong's fierceness", "Xu Yinsheng's cleverness", "Zhuang Zedong's fastness" and for the United States, foreign sports newspapers have therefore given him a nickname of "bomber", which shows the bravery of his playing style.
In 1965, at the 28th World Table Tennis Championships held in Yugoslavia, the then 23-year-old Li Furong performed well, not only with amazing skills, but also by the international sports press as "beautiful men plus bomber" for his charismatic appearance, personable demeanor and energetic stadium performance.
In the competition, Li Furong won the men's singles runner-up and the third place in the men's doubles, and was also the main player of the men's team that won the championship, in fact, he also had the strength to win the championship personally, but because he abided by the strategic arrangements in the team, Li Furong did not try his best to compete for the men's singles championship.
After the event, many Yugoslav girls who were fascinated by Li Furong from newspapers and television ran to the door of the Chinese Embassy and asked to see their idol star Li Furong and take photos with him.
At this time, Li Furong had already returned to China, but the girls said that if Li Furong did not come out, they would not leave. In desperation, the comrades at the embassy found a bald middle-aged man to "impersonate" Li Furong and wanted to take a group photo with them, and the girls protested loudly: "No, no, Li Furong is not like this!" "They have long been deeply attracted by Li Furong, who has a gentlemanly temperament and a fierce playing style.
The handsome men of the table tennis national team have been emerging in an endless stream, and the contrast between Li Furong's appearance and ball style has made him have a mysterious charm, which has attracted the pursuit and enthusiasm of many girls.
However, Li Furong was bent on the national ball career, his marriage experience was very simple, even somewhat conservative, after being introduced to the dancer Zhang Yuyi, he soon got married step by step.
Li Furong and his wife Zhang Yuyi
During the short period of love, they occasionally dated and sneaked like they were doing underground work, and even on the bus was a front door and a back door, for fear of being discovered by others. After getting married, Li Furong is still his athlete, busy with training and competitions all day, while Zhang Yuyi went to the northeast to experience life in the countryside, until she was pregnant and about to give birth, she returned to Beijing to be admitted to the hospital, and Li Furong did not care about her at all, for the sake of the family, Zhang Yuyi, who was originally very promising, gave up her acting career and became a dance teacher at the Beijing Art School, bringing up two children alone.
Li Furong was inseparable from Zhuang Zedong in the national team, just like Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui, although he became the champion opponent in the World Table Tennis Championships three times in succession, and each time Li Furong was the second oldest of the millennium, there has been a saying of "letting go", but Li Furong, who is indifferent, has never had a contradiction with Zhuang Zedong.
Many years later, in an interview, middle-aged Li Furong said frankly that this kind of "handicap", similar to the field of horse racing, is the championship strategy once adopted by the table tennis national team, he was arranged to handicap, but also accepted the handicap of other players, in the environment at that time, competitive sports became a kind of strong country dream to increase national self-confidence, therefore, he absolutely obeyed the overall arrangement.
Let's read the fans' letters together
On the group photo of the two, it can be seen that the once intimate, Zhuang Zedong line handsome, heroic, eye-catching, Li Furong is gentle, sharp and introverted, more thick, although the photos of the national ball Gemini stars have been baptized by the times, they are still full of idol charm, both appearance and connotation, which is still evocative.
In 1958, with a series of domestic competition results, the two became eye-catching new stars, and were called "the second young general of the north and south", and were also selected for the national team training.
In 1959, the fledgling duo formed a doubles pairing, with the national team B team to visit Europe tour, in the United Kingdom, the two against the British champions and runners-up Harrison and Merett, although they want to show their skills, but finally due to mental instability, lost the game 1:2, and this battle also gave the two who were in full swing that year a big lesson, from then on, they never lost the game due to arrogance.
However, this competition also made overseas Chinese notice that in addition to Rong Guotuan, the national team also has two young players whose strength cannot be ignored, Li Furong has won the praise of his opponents and the recognition of overseas Chinese with his hard-working style of play, after the game, some newspapers called him "aggressive little rooster", and the overseas Chinese jointly gave him a pennant with the four big characters of "Wei Zhen Overseas".
Li Furong and Zhuang Zedong have won a series of World Table Tennis Championships, Zhuang Zedong is known as "Little Tiger", Li Furong is nicknamed "Bomber", which shows the rapid and fierce playing style of the two.
In 1968, the two held their own weddings in the same year, and their marriage opened up a precedent for "stylistic love" at that time. Zhuang Zedong's wife Bao Huiqiao is a solo piano player in the Chinese Symphony Orchestra and has won many awards in international and domestic competitions, and Li Furong's wife Zhang Yuyi was born into a Peking opera family and is good at dancing folk dances.
Zhuang Zedong and his ex-wife Bao Hui sobs
Unlike Zhuang Zedong, who is straight up in the clouds, Li Furong's career path is smooth and solid, and this also makes the marriage between the two have a different ending, in the 70s of the last century, after Zhuang Zedong entered the career path, Bao Huishuang felt that he had "more and more things she didn't like", after Zhuang Zedong was isolated and reviewed, although she said "I can share the glory with you, I can also share hardships with you", but in 1985 after the review ended, their marriage still came to an end, Bao Huidong said when looking back on the past, after Zhuang Zedong came out, There had been a lot of effort to fix the relationship, but she didn't agree. "It's very guilty to think that a couple has come to the point of breaking up, which is the result of hurting each other."
Li Furong's family life looks uneventful on the surface, only the homely routine of chai rice oil and salt, but inside there is the wholehearted dedication and dedication of the husband and wife. After marriage, Zhang Yuyi returned to the family, gave up the acting career, whether it is to give birth or raise children, tenacious most of the time she is single-handed support, never complain, although most of her life together less and more, she still affectionately evaluates her husband: "He actually always thinks about me." At that time, every time Li Furong returned from playing abroad, he would definitely bring chocolates to his wife, because of the lack of materials in the 60s, Zhang Yuyi was malnourished for a long time, and he was prone to dizziness when he danced, and he could hold up a day's performance or training with two pieces of chocolate.
Shanghai men take care of the family, after Li Furong retired, he completely returned to the family, in addition to exercise, that is, buy vegetables and cook every day, and the family life is happy.
Although they were once good brothers, after Zhuang Zedong entered the career, there were still huge differences between them, and even began to resent due to different views and understandings, zhuang Zedong's suppression and even criticism of his former teammates made him and Li Furong and others no longer have contact.
Once a Gemini star, in his later years he shook hands and made peace
Until 2002, Zhuang Zedong wrote a letter of apology to Xu Yinsheng and Li Furong, saying: "In the past, we were comrades-in-arms... Because I made mistakes, I created a gap and hurt our feelings. After so many years of ups and downs, I look back with deep regret. I hope to end our estrangement in the last century, which is also a positive account of history. He concluded by quoting Lu Xun's poem: "After all the robbery of the brothers, they meet and laugh and hate each other." ”
After receiving the letter, Li Furong, Xu Yinsheng and other former teammates attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing Zhuang Zedong Table Tennis International Club, leaving a precious group photo of Gemini in his later years.
Probably because of the influence of "stylistic love", Zhuang Zedong's children and Li Furong's sons are engaged in the literary and art industry, Li Furong's second son Li Le, almost exactly the same as his father's young appearance, but much taller, and his father, masculine appearance, elegant temperament, let him have a lot of fans.
According to Li Furong's interview, the couple wanted a daughter when they gave birth to their second child, so they raised Li Le as a girl from an early age, but this did not affect Li Le's growth, he looked as heroic as his father, and inherited his mother's acting talent, and his athletic ability was also very strong.
In 1987, at the age of 10, Li Le played the teenager "Zai Cheng" in the movie "The Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces", and at the age of 12, Li Le went to Sweden to attend middle school for 6 years, applied for the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama in 1995, and began to play a role in TV dramas in 1998.
In 2002, Li Le played Ouyang Yujian in "The Golden Powder Family", and later starred in a number of historical dramas, the most impressive of which was the role of "Huo To Disease" in "Han Wu The Great" directed by Hu Mei, known as "Huo Shao", became a popular idol star, harvested the hearts of countless young girls, and praised his role as Huo Go Disease "can not be surpassed, acted alive", since 2011, Li Le gave up acting in business and opened an advertising company.
Li Le in "The Golden Powder Family"
Li Furong has always been a loyal fan of his son, when the central set of "Han Wu Emperor" was played, he watched it without landing, and after watching it, he also helped Li Le analyze where to act and which place to overheat. Li Le claimed that the reason why he went to act was because in the film and television circle, his father could give him the least influence.
Li Le in "The Emperor of Han Wu"
I don't know if Li Le understands now, with a face that is almost a duplicate of his father, even if he changes the circle, in fact, he can't do without his father's influence, he has once again verified the idol charm from his father with the popularity of the "Huo to disease" role, but the relationship between father and son is originally the inheritance and extension of life, and it is indeed impossible to be completely unaffected.