As the leader of the table tennis industry, national table tennis has long dominated the world table tennis arena and has been admired by the outside world.
At the same time, there is no choice, no matter how the rules of the International Table Tennis Federation change, it is still impossible to shake the hegemony of national table tennis, Liu Guoliang once said: The reason why national table tennis can rule the world table tennis world is because of the super team and strong reserve force of national table tennis, rather than because of one person's victory and success.
But then again, in the 1960s, if it weren't for Liu Guoliang's Grand Slam and Zhuang Zedong's three world championships, perhaps the dominance of national table tennis would have come a little later.
Zhuang Zedong (25 August 1940 – 10 February 2013) was a Chinese professional table tennis player born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province.
He died on February 10, 2013 at the age of 73 in Beijing You'an Hospital.
In the 1960s, the national table tennis has not yet been as it is now, sitting firmly in the hegemony of table tennis, but at that time, Zhuang Zedong won the world championship three times with excellent strength, making table tennis a very concerned sport for national table tennis fans, Zhuang Zedong was born in 1940, and shocked the table tennis world with the fast attack style of the middle and near platforms as soon as he debuted, and won the men's singles championship three times in a row at the 26th (1961), 27th (1963), and 28th (1965) World Table Tennis Championships. Become the first person in China to win three consecutive championships at the World Table Tennis Championships.
The emergence of Zhuang Zedong has let the foreign association know the term national table tennis in the field of table tennis, and the emergence of Liu Guoliang has made the dominance of national table tennis continue to be stable, and the emergence of Ma Long has made table tennis no longer a sport, but the label of national table tennis.
The legendary life of Zhuang Zedong.
He is a prominent figure in the table tennis world, winning the men's singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships for three consecutive times, and is the main force that has made the Chinese team win the world table tennis team championship for three consecutive times.
He is a legendary figure in The Chinese Table Tennis And Even the International Table Tennis Arena, who has personally experienced the "Table Tennis Diplomacy" that shocked China and foreign countries, and the two major powers of China and the United States have re-contacted after 22 years of isolation, and made deeds that Mao Zedong admired.
He is Zhuang Zedong.
Zhuang Zedong was born in August 1940 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. He has loved to play table tennis since he was a child, and is known for his good attack, fast and imposing, and when he plays, he is like a tiger going down the mountain, and he is known as a "little tiger".
Everybody is a book, and some people think it's a strange book. Zhuang Zedong's life is more peculiar, and his peculiarity has four aspects:
The first is the peculiar family. Zhuang Zedong is a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, and his grandfather worked as a scrivener in Yangzhou.
After Zhuang Zedong's grandfather was idle, his father Zhuang Tishen taught at cangjie middle school founded by the British Jewish tycoon Hartung, who was then known as the "richest man in the Far East" in Shanghai. One day, on the way to work, Zhuang Tishen picked up a horse ticket and actually won the lottery the next day. Hartung, who had always been superstitious, heard about this matter and thought that this person was a blessed person, and that the son born in the future might have the fate of a champion, so he mated his adopted daughter Luo Fuzhen to Zhuang Tishen, and also purchased a set of former Qing Dynasty royal mansions for Zhuang Tishen and his wife in Beijing as a dowry, a total of 330 rooms of various sizes, known as "Beijing Hartung Garden".
However, Zhuang Tishen and his wife still lived in Yangzhou more time after marriage, and gave birth to two girls, but both unfortunately died early. After that, Mr. and Mrs. Zhuang Tishen lived in Shanghai and Yangtze, and then moved to Beijing, where they had a son and died prematurely.
In order to continue the incense of the Zhuang family, Zhuang Tishen married Lei Zhongru in Yangzhou, and Lei Zhongru gave birth to a man and a daughter for Zhuang Tishen. That boy is Zhuang Zedong, a famous table tennis player in the future.
The second is the peculiar experience. Zhuang Zedong went from being an athlete to an official, deputy section chief, deputy division chief, deputy director, he has never done it. Directly from the athlete to become the deputy director of the National Sports Commission, not long after he became the director, and then from the director of the National Sports Commission, he was directly demoted to a flat-headed people, and the experience was very peculiar. Chairman Mao met Zhuang Zedong's table tennis team many times in his life. Usually, when receiving people, Chairman Mao shook hands and clapped, and most of them did not speak, but he called Zhuang Zedong three times.
The third is the peculiar achievement. People who know the history of that year know that Zhuang Zedong was a "little tiger" that any player would be afraid to meet, and he was the well-deserved number one player in the Chinese table tennis team. Among the men's table tennis players at that time, no one could achieve outstanding achievements in three consecutive team competitions like Zhuang Zedong, and no one like him defeated the strongest foreign players of the same era in three consecutive singles competitions, Ogimura, Kimura, Takahashi Hiroshi and Saulor. At the Second National Games shortly after the 28th World Table Tennis Championships and the National Championships in the spring of 1966, Zhuang Zedong dominated the competition. Older table tennis player Zhuang Jiafu recalls that in the 1960s Zhuang Zedong maintained a record of more than 100 wins in the team. The world men's team three consecutive championships, the world men's singles three consecutive championships, the domestic competition three consecutive championships, the team competition three consecutive championships, this miracle has not been replicated so far.
Another achievement that is hundreds of times larger than these achievements is "ping-pong diplomacy."
In one fell swoop, "ping-pong diplomacy" has opened the door to Sino-US friendship and made tremendous contributions to human peace.
The most brilliant achievement of Zhuang Zedong's life is undoubtedly to experience "ping-pong diplomacy" first-hand.
At the end of March 1971, Zhuang Zedong and his teammates went to Nagoya, Japan to participate in the 31st World Table Tennis Championships. In the meantime, two vehicles were dedicated to Chinese athletes to travel between the station and the competition hall. One day, the American cohen accidentally took the wrong car and boarded the chinese athlete's special car. The arrival of the uninvited guest startled the athletes and team leaders in the car. Originally, according to China's diplomatic discipline, it was absolutely ignored, and the athlete was wearing a cape and looking like a hippie.
Zhuang Zedong thought that Chairman Mao had long said that he wanted to distinguish between the broad masses of the American people and the US government, and cohen, as an athlete, was a member of the American people, so he generously gave Cohen a gift ——— Hangzhou brocade. After the car arrived at the stadium, sensitive Japanese reporters found the two standing together and filmed the camera. The next day, Cohen gave zhuang Zedong an American short-sleeved sweatshirt with a medal of the American Table Tennis Association.
This move was simply earth-shattering.
Chairman Mao also knew about this. He learned about this when he listened to the head nurse Wu Xujun read the "Reference News". He not only asked Wu Xujun to read this tidbit again, but also said: "This Zhuang Zedong not only plays the ball well, but also does diplomacy." This man is a bit politically minded. ”
A few days later, the leader of the U.S. table tennis team, Larford Harrison, took the initiative to come to the door and asked If China could invite the U.S. table tennis team to visit China. The Chinese delegation immediately sent a telegram to China, which was eventually reported to Chairman Mao.
On 7 April, in accordance with Mao Zedong's decision to invite the US table tennis team to visit China, Zhou Enlai instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to notify the responsible person of the Chinese table tennis delegation in Japan by telephone, announcing to the outside world that the US team was officially invited to visit China.
Soon, on April 10, the American table tennis team arrived in Beijing. In July, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited China. In February 1972, President Nixon visited China. In April, the Chinese table tennis delegation visited the United States, and Zhuang Zedong served as the head of the delegation.
Zhuang Zedong led the Chinese table tennis team to visit the United States and was received by US President Richard Nixon. This was the first delegation to visit the United States after the founding of New China.
The spiritual wealth given to us by "ping-pong diplomacy" is eight words: seize the opportunity and create the future.
Zhuang Zedong experienced two marriages in his life.
Zhuang Zedong and pianist Bao Huishuo.
Speaking of Zhuang Zedong, a former hero who shook the world table tennis arena and promoted the "table tennis diplomacy" between China and the United States, many people remember his famous marriage with pianist Bao Huishuang, but this love fairy tale was still washed away.
One is a world champion and the other is a young pianist. After marriage, Zhuang Zedong lived in Beijing's mother-in-law's home, a single-family courtyard house, and Bao's father was a hydropower expert. Their union was originally poetic and perfect, but then everything began to be overshadowed.
In 1985, Zhuang Zedong's 20-year marriage with Bao Huiqiao came to an end.
After divorcing Zhuang Zedong, Bao Huiqiao struggled with a pair of children and never entered the marriage again.
Although Bao Huishuang has never regretted divorce, when it comes to being a woman, Bao Huiqiao, as vice chairman of the China Music Association, still has no regrets and says: "I don't think I am successful, and there are many kinds of successes for women." For example, some women do not have a career, but they have cultivated an excellent child and a happy marriage, which is also a kind of success. I put too much professional energy into it, have a lot of guilt about my children, and have a lot of regrets about life. ”
Half a year later, Zhuang Zedong met his Japanese wife, and Bao Hui sobbed is still alone.
His second wife was a huge fan of his.
They had a legendary marital love.
Soon after divorcing Bao, Zhuang Zedong met his former fan, the Japanese girl Sasaki Nozuko.
Sho Zedong and the Japanese girl Sasaki Toshiko: Origin Nagoya.
The 1971 World Table Tennis Championships, Nagoya, this time and this place, has been deeply written into the life of Zhuang Zedong. Yu Gong, here he pushed open the door of "ping-pong diplomacy"; Yu Private, here he met Sasaki Atsuko for the first time. At the time, it seemed like this was just an ordinary interaction between a star and a "fan", but I didn't know that this place had become the introduction to a legendary transnational marriage.
Zhuang Zedong certainly remembers that it was in the lobby of the Fujihisa Tourist Hotel in Nagoya, where the Chinese table tennis team stayed, and Atsuko Sasaki and "idol" Zhuang Zedong had their first group photo. After that, loyal "female fans" followed the Chinese table tennis team to board the Shinkansen train and met again on the way from Nagoya to Osaka. Atsuko would say Chinese, so the two had a long conversation. Since then, the two have formed a friendship, and Atsuko Sasaki has written a four-page letter to Zhuang Zedong, expressing her nostalgia for her Chinese study career and vaguely expressing her admiration for Zhuang Zedong. Another time, Zhuang Zedong took the Chinese youth table tennis team to visit Japan, and Atsuko went to see him for the first time. Zhuang Zedong was also very happy and specially gave her a flower basket. And then, it's a 13-year absence...
In February 1985, Zhuang Zedong and Bao Huishuang peacefully went through divorce procedures, and their children belonged to the woman, and Zhuang Zedong, who was almost 48 years old at the time, returned to his solitude.
After this, Zhuang Zedong first went to Shanxi as a coach, and then returned to Beijing Children's Palace to teach. During this time, a female fan named Atsuko Sasaki has been looking for him. In fact, as early as 1971, Atsuko Sasaki met an idol in Nagoya, and she talked and became friends on the Shinkansen from Nagoya to Osaka. Subsequently, Zhuang Zedong led a team to visit Japan, and Atsuko Sasaki visited him again, and the two talked happily. But then, the pair of exotic friends were separated for 13 years.
During these years, Atsuko Sasaki has always been single, and when she learned that Zhuang Zedong had divorced, she asked Mr. Ichiro Ogimura, the president of the International Table Tennis Federation (Weibo) and vice president of the China-Japan Friendship Association, to serve as the elderly man under the moon, which promoted the reunion of the two.
One afternoon, Zhuang Zedong was training with children, and the phone rang suddenly: "Is Zhuang Zedong here?" "I just ... Atsuko Sasaki. Zhuang Zedong hurriedly walked from the training room to the gate of the Children's Palace. Outside the door, there stood a Japanese woman with a round face wearing wide-rimmed glasses, none other than Atsuko Sasaki.
Reunited after a gap of 13 years, Atsuko Sasaki saw Zhuang Zedong and could not calm down for a long time. She feels the misfortune of his life and wants to rekindle his flame of love and life.
In this way, the two established a romantic relationship. However, just as they were about to register their marriage, they ran into trouble.
Because Zhuang Zedong had held an important position and was not allowed to marry a foreign woman according to the policy at that time, Atsuko Sasaki was willing to renounce her Japanese citizenship for her.
In desperation, they had to submit another application to their superiors and ask for marriage.
Zhuang Zedong wrote in the application: This year, I am 47 years old, Sasaki Atsuko is 43 years old (unmarried), the time is urging people to grow old, Sasaki Atsuko has sought the consent of her family, is willing to join Chinese nationality, come to China to settle down and marry me. According to the Chinese nationality law, she is fully qualified. We are sincerely in love with each other, the feelings are very deep, I have not participated in politics for more than ten years, and I am a person who has changed by time. Please ask the leader for approval to allow us to organize a family.
Their application was finally approved by the senior leadership, and finally, the marriage was repaired to a positive result.
In order to marry Chuang Lao, Atsuko Sasaki not only gave up her Japanese citizenship, but also lost her japanese high-paying position. However, she did not regret it at all, preferring to become a housewife, living the life of ordinary people, singing with the old man Zhuang, rain or shine, following the old man, composing a moving love story.
After marriage, Zhuang Zedong and his wife Atsuko Sasaki lived in an upscale apartment in Beijing's Dongcheng District. Atsuko Sasaki has always shared the hardships and hardships with Zhuang Zedong, and interpreted her love for Zhuang Zedong with practical actions.
Every day when Sho Nobuto goes out, Atsuko Sasaki will definitely deliver it to the door. At the end of the day, Atsuko Sasaki would call to ask where her husband was, and as soon as she entered the door, she could bring out a hot meal. The most common greeting zhuang Zedong hears when he meets fans on the street is: "You are still so spirited!" ”
In the decades that followed, the two have been with each other, in order to be able to marry Zhuang Zedong, Sasaki Atsuko gave up a high-paying job and was willing to be a full-time housewife, and the two have been commuting to work on bicycles, and although the days are hard, they are harmonious.
Zhuang Zedong and his wife have been married for more than 20 years, and they have a very good relationship with each other.
In 2006, Zhuang Zedong's body suffered from blood in the stool and other uncomfortable conditions, and in 2008, he was diagnosed with advanced cancer.
After Elder Zhuang fell seriously ill, his wife Atsuko Sasaki has been following him around, accompanying him day and night, and taking good care of him. In the last few days of the Lunar Dragon Year, Zhuang Zedong, who had been battling the disease for a long time, entered a critical state of illness, and his family and friends hoped that he could pass the Spring Festival. The two brothers, who were far away in Japan, rushed to Beijing to visit their brother-in-law. Zhuang Zedong's ex-wife also specially brought Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
Before dying, Zhuang Zedong most wanted to call two cultural elders, Wen Huaisha and Fan Zeng, a chinese painter. Wen Huaisha said: "Regardless of this shore or the other shore, whether in heaven or on earth, Zhuang Zedong is an elite in China and a great master. He will always be a good son of the Chinese people. Fan Zeng also rushed to the hospital on the 9th, left a precious sketch for him in front of Zhuang Zedong's bedside, and handed over the inscription "Small ball pushes the big ball, si people are immortal" to Mrs. Zhuang.
"Mr. Chuang is the person I admire most in my heart," said His wife Atsuko Sasaki. "A person who has done this in this life is not within the reach of ordinary people. I admire my father, he is very handsome, never complain about the world. Son Zhuang Biao said this about his father.
In the five years of Zhuang Zedong's fight against cancer, it was completely dependent on the nearly 70-year-old Atsuko Sasaki to run forward and backward. In the last moments of Elder Zhuang's death, his wife was always with him, and this affection was touching.
Zhuang Zedong, a veteran of Chinese table tennis and a hero of Sino-US table tennis diplomacy, died at the age of 73 in Beijing at 17:06 on the first day of the Chinese New Year on February 10, 2013 due to ineffective treatment after a tenacious struggle against cancer.
Zhuang Zedong is a legendary figure in the Chinese table tennis world and even the world sports world, and is the only three-time winner of the World Table Tennis Championships in history, and his role as the cornerstone of "table tennis diplomacy", the sino-Japanese transnational marriage with Atsuko Sasaki and the spirit of fighting cancer in his later years are also praised.
How many children does Zhuang Zedong have?
Zhuang Zedong met Pianist Bao Huishuang in 1959 and married in 1967. He has a son and a daughter. Son Zhuang Biao, daughter Zhuang Lan.
Zhuang Zedong and Atsuko Sasaki were married in 1987, when Sho Zedong was 49 years old and Atsuko Sasaki was 45 years old, and had no children after marriage.
Zhuang Zedong is a legendary figure in the world table tennis world and an eternal monument in the history of Chinese sports, he has won the world championship, the national championship and the national team championship three times, and this record has not been broken so far.
His way of table tennis began in the difficult years of new China, his table tennis spirit inspired a generation of entrepreneurial passion, on December 24, 2004, the Economic Daily, with a full page, made an important special report; his encounter with the American athlete Cohen and bold contact laid the cornerstone of "table tennis diplomacy", making table tennis truly our "national ball", he made outstanding contributions to the "small ball turning the earth", completed the dreams and pursuits of generations, Created a myth that no one has been able to surpass so far.