In 1981, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the world championship for the first time, which was of great significance to China at that time.
At that time, China was in the throes of transformation, and countless aspiring young people were full of uncertainty about the future.
The championship of the women's volleyball team has shown China a new spiritual outlook to the world, and the spirit of the women's volleyball team has given inspiration and strength to countless young people.
At that time, the women's volleyball players were national idols, they won honor for the motherland with their sweat, and like a ray of hope, illuminating the uncertain future for countless people.
Chen Zhaodi was one of the idols at that time.
She was known as the "Severed Arm General", and articles describing her hard training were compiled into textbooks.
At the same time, she is also an athlete with military rank.
Whether it is an athlete or a soldier, Chen Zhaodi uses her tenacity and hard work to interpret these two identities to the extreme - winning the championship and sealing the general.
It's just that God is jealous of talent, and she died early due to illness at the age of 58.
But her departure touched Lang Ping to leave the mountain, and a year later General Chen Zhaodi was buried in his hometown.
On April 1, 2013, Chen Zhaodi left!
Her daughter's Weibo content changed from encouraging her mother to cheer up, to hoping that everything would be fine for her mother in that world, there was no illness, only her beloved volleyball.
For a long time, Chen Zhaodi has been suffering from pain and illness.
The near-self-destructive training and competitions at a young age left her with a lifelong back injury, and then suffered from rectal cancer, which began a perennial battle against the disease.
At the age of 53, in the long-term wrestling with the disease, Chen Zhaodi was finally defeated.
More than a month ago, she was still worried about the fact that the women's volleyball coach had not yet been settled, and when she met with Lang Ping, she also persuaded Lang Ping, hoping that she could come back and coach the women's volleyball team again.
Her departure caused a stir in the volleyball world, and people were moved by her passing.
As written in a public statement issued by the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China.
Chen Zhaodi is an excellent representative of the Chinese women's volleyball team, who has created the brilliant achievements of "five consecutive championships" and inherited the spirit of "tenacious struggle" of the women's volleyball team.
For the Chinese volleyball community, her death is a big loss.
As a former teammate Lang Ping, after learning that Chen Zhaodi had left, he wrote emotionally that the meeting more than a month ago turned out to be a farewell, and he hoped to be teammates in the next life.
Then she was touched by this and went out to coach the Chinese women's volleyball team.
A year after her death, the family decided to move Chen Zhaodi's tomb to the Anxian Cemetery in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, known as the "Tomb of Heroes".
Above her grave is a bronze statue with her right hand crossed over her waist and a volleyball wrapped around her left hand.
Although Chen Zhaodi has been away from her hometown for many years, she has always been obsessed with this land where she was born and raised, and finally she can sleep here for a long time, and then she will return to her roots.
Chen Zhaodi was born in Hangzhou and grew up in Hangzhou until she joined the youth team and did not leave with the team.
She has a total of 4 children in her family, and she is the second.
Because his father died early, he relied on his mother to support the burden of the family alone.
Chen Zhaodi, who grew up watching her mother's hard work, is obedient and sensible, and self-reliant.
The experience of the time created Chen Zhaodi, who was not afraid of hardship.
She loved to play sports since she was a child, and her athletic talent seems to have been evident since then.
When she was a child, Chen Zhaodi was like a little boy, smoking a spinning top and playing marbles, which was more powerful than a boy.
From time to time, I have a table tennis board on my waist, and I can play with friends, and there is no regular table, so I can play a game with two stone slabs or two stools together.
Thanks to the advantages of physical condition, Chen Zhaodi participated in the training of many sports when she was a child.
She made it to the varsity team in table tennis and was selected for the high jump team because of her tall figure.
At that time, the training conditions of the high jump team were very poor, and there was no mat, so they could only use straw instead.
In the Hangzhou Middle School Athletics Meeting, Chen Zhaodi won the first place in the high jump event, and the excellent bounce power shown in the competition impressed the coach of the provincial team at that time.
Later, she was favored by the city's basketball team, but finally went to the Hangzhou amateur sports school volleyball team.
Chen Zhaodi's fate with volleyball was concluded.
When the Zhejiang women's volleyball team was formed, Chen Zhaodi, who was only 15 years old, was impressively listed.
She "turned regular" from the amateur team. In the second year of "becoming a regular", Chen Zhaodi was selected and transferred to the youth training team of Beijing Institute of Sport.
When Chen Zhaodi said goodbye to his hometown and went north, he also said goodbye to his youth.
From then on, she will have to meet the training and challenges in the future with a more mature attitude.
never thought that Chen Zhaodi, who had just arrived in Beijing, was not defeated by training, but was stumped by "eating".
As a southern girl, Chen Zhaodi experienced "unadaptability" when she first arrived in Beijing, which seriously affected her daily training.
Whether it was training conditions or living conditions, the Beijing Institute of Physical Education at that time was inferior to the Zhejiang Provincial Team.
Even the food cost standard is 8 cents less, and the food is pasta, big pot dishes, Chen Zhaodi, who grew up in Hangzhou, can't adapt, and eats two mouthfuls of steamed buns to be full, but soon he was hungry again.
Poor eating caused her not to have enough strength to cope with training, and she was tired enough every time she trained, and she was out of breath after doing a simple action, not to mention the difficulty.
In long-distance running training, she is often the bottom of the team.
Chen Zhaodi, who was selected as a seeded player, was a bit surprising in her performance.
The coach at that time, Wu Zhongliang, found "something wrong" and found Chen Zhaodi to talk.
The daily training performance is like this, and Chen Zhaodi knows this.
was asked to talk, I thought it would be inevitable to teach a lesson, but I didn't expect the coach to criticize a word, but instead asked a series of questions.
How are you eating?
How's the rest?
Adjusting to the training schedule?
This series of concerned questions brought Chen Zhaodi's tears down.
It turned out that because she couldn't adapt to her life and eating habits, Chen Zhaodi couldn't sleep or eat well, and suffered from severe anemia, which caused her to be in a low mood and poor training state.
After learning the reason, the coach first apologized to Chen Zhaodi, and bluntly said that he didn't care about it, and couldn't stop comforting her, trying to let her let go of the psychological baggage she had been carrying for a long time.
True concern is not just words, but actions.
On the same day, the coach asked the canteen to add food to Chen Zhaodi to increase her nutrition.
And reformulated the training plan for her, adjusted the training volume.
In addition, the attentive coach also told the other players about Chen Zhaodi's situation and called on them to help and care for her.
Chen Zhaodi, who was bathed in care and love, began normal training before her body fully recovered.
Since then, she has never slackened her training, even desperately.
At that time, even for the national team, training conditions were limited.
Protection, nutrition can not be talked about, knee pads are thinner than the current several layers, injuries are massage relief, not to mention special nutritional supplements.
Sometimes when I practiced late and didn't have any food, the canteen master would give a plate of scrambled eggs to deal with it, and when I was thirsty, I didn't have as many sports drinks as I have now, and I just drank tap water at that time.
It was under such conditions that the women's volleyball players wrote stories that would later become classics
Chen Zhaodi's story of "three in and three out" is one of the representatives.
That day, it was already dark, the gymnasium was brightly lit, and the girls who had just finished training were covered with clothes and clinging tightly to their bodies.
They bent down to pack up the volleyballs scattered on the ground, ready to leave.
Who wants to practice a little more? Coach Yuan Weimin asked loudly at the group of exhausted girls.
The girls, who had been training for a day, were already exhausted, and no one responded for a while.
"Then I'll practice a little more! Seeing that no one answered, Chen Zhaodi responded.
The bonus consists of catching 15 good balls.
That is, you must first touch the barbed wire on the side of the field, then run to the 3-meter line and roll over to save the ball, and then run back to touch the barbed wire, and so on 15 times.
If it was usual, this kind of training would not be a problem, but at that time, the players had gone through a full day of high-intensity training.
It's very difficult to complete these 15 balls in such a state.
The coach didn't show any mercy. threw the ball all over the court, and Chen Zhaodi ran all over the court.
Nine balls seemed to be the limit at the time.
When she received the 9th ball, Chen Zhaodi's legs were already weak, and she could see the ball with shadows.
The coach continued to serve, but Chen Zhaodi, who was extremely tired, did not save the ball, and the number of balls she received changed from 9 to 8, and the coach even deducted the number of her good balls.
Chen Zhaodi, who was a little passive and slacking off, had her own plans at that time, she thought that she would take the initiative to practice, and she should have performed well, but now she is too tired to persevere, so she should let herself come down.
After having this retreat in her heart, Chen Zhaodi wanted to take a breath and not save the ball so desperately.
Who would have thought that the original 9 good balls were deducted by the coach.
Chen Zhaodi was also angry, and blurted out the original thoughts in her heart, "Anyway, I took the initiative to practice, I can't do it if I don't practice." ”
After saying that, he picked up his clothes and walked out.
"You leave today, and tomorrow I will be the first to practice you. At this time, the voice of the coach came from behind him.
Chen Zhaodi's footsteps stopped when she walked to the door of the gymnasium, and the stubbornness in her bones seemed to be woken up.
I went back to practice again, thinking that I must win these 15 balls, otherwise it would be too shameless.
I just said in my heart that I could do it, but my body said no.
was so tired, Chen Zhaodi practiced and practiced, and turned around to leave.
Back and forth three times, Chen Zhaodi went out, and he couldn't die anyway.
With her super tenacity, she gritted her teeth and took these 15 balls.
The story was recorded in a reportage written by Lu Guang"Chinese Girl".As the chapter title "Hard Training" expresses, training is always hard, but the tenacious Chen Zhaodi never gives in.
Later, "Hard Practice" was also compiled into junior high school Chinese textbooks, and her tenacity and hard work infected batch after batch of teenagers.
As long as he is still an athlete, as long as he can still stand on the court, Chen Zhaodi can risk his life.
In 1978, Chen Zhaodi returned to the Bayi team from the national team to participate in the competition, and during the game, due to an accident, she seriously injured the radius of her left arm.
In June of the following year, the Japanese Hitachi team visited China and wanted to have a showdown with the Chinese women's volleyball team in Taiyuan.
This team represented the highest level of Japan at that time, and the Chinese team naturally could not show weakness, and must come up with the strongest lineup to face it, and Chen Zhaodi, who had not fully recovered from the injury, was also among them.
That game made Chen Zhaodi's injury worse.
The match went into a stalemate, and when Chen Zhaodi blocked the net, her arm was hit, right in the position of her old injury, causing the radius of her left arm to break again.
With such an injury, he couldn't continue the game, so Chen Zhaodi had no choice but to get off the field.
According to the doctor's advice, she should stop exercising until the injury is better, otherwise she should not touch the volleyball.
However, two months later, Chen Zhaodi appeared again at the National Games.
With a bandage on her left arm, she played with one arm and has since earned her reputation as the "one-armed general".
She is not only a "one-armed general" but also a "desperate Saburo".
It was the final final match of the Chinese and Japanese women's volleyball team in the 1981 World Cup, and in the third game, Chen Zhaodi and Sun Jinfang sprained their waist when they grabbed the pass, but despite this, she still finished the game with an injury.
even took the initiative to play when he was behind all the way in the fourth game.
In the end, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the game and won the first world championship.
When she was about to go to the stage to accept the award, Chen Zhaodi was unable to stand with back pain, and finally let her teammates stand on the podium on her back.
What is touching is that after Chen Zhaodi's body was cremated, the family found several steel nails in the urn, which were all steel nails left in Chen Zhaodi's body during the surgery to treat her back injury.
Since then, low back pain has been tormenting Chen Zhaodi, and when it was serious, the doctor gave her an ultimatum, and if she still insisted on playing, she would be at risk of paralysis.
After accompanying the women's volleyball team to win two championship trophies, Chen Zhaodi retired.
She left the field, but her bond with volleyball was never unraveled.
In 1986, she took over as the coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and three years later, she underwent surgery for rectal cancer, and she ended her coaching career.
Since then, her work has rarely involved women's volleyball, but her friendship with volleyball has grown deeper and deeper, until she died.
In 2006, the former "one-armed general" became a real general.
That year, the ** Military Commission officially approved the rank of Major General Chen Zhaodi, and she was the first athlete to have a military rank.
As an athlete, her lifelong pursuit is to win championships, and she did it.
Joining the ranks and dreaming of becoming a general, she also came true.
may feel that dying young makes people feel that God is unfair, but in a short life, Chen Zhaodi made it wonderful enough.
In Chen Zhaodi's life, volleyball will inevitably become a footnote.
Because of her talent, she went around and was finally selected for the volleyball team.
Perhaps, in the words of her childhood friend, with her talent and ability to endure hardships, she can practice other sports without practicing volleyball.
This may be the fate of heaven!
At that time, Chen Zhaodi may not have thought that he would never be able to let go of this fight.
Chen Zhaodi and other women's volleyball players have won honor with their hard work and inspired a generation to work hard.
They were the defining labels of the era.
Even if time has passed, future generations may not know their names and deeds, but when it comes to the Chinese women's volleyball team and the spirit of the women's volleyball team, people must know that there is a group of young girls behind it who have struggled.