On August 17, 2016, local time, the 2016 Rio Olympic Men's Table Tennis Team Final was held. The Chinese team finally defeated the Japanese team with a total score of 3:1 to win the championship.
Photo by Chinanews reporter Sheng Jiapeng
Recently, a film and television drama about Guoping is currently on the air, and some of the plots have aroused intense discussion among the audience.
Some people say that the plot is a bit too fictitious, and some people say that they feel the spirit of Guoping.
As the famous master of the Chinese sports world, the story of Guoping is actually far more than a film and television drama can fully summarize.
The real stories that happened in Guoping are far more shocking than the fictional plots.
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In 1959, at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships held in West Germany, Rong Guotuan cleared and won the championship.
This is also the first world champion of New China.
From that moment on, table tennis gradually became a shining golden sign in the history of Chinese sports.
That year was the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The Daqing Oilfield was discovered, the top ten buildings in the capital were completed, and China embarked on a path of strides development.
In the future, the ping pong event, known as the "national game", has also experienced setbacks and glory in its development in China. The sweat and tears of countless players have been swayed during those exciting years.
On August 17, 2016, local time, the 2016 Rio Olympic Men's Table Tennis Team Final was held. The Chinese team finally defeated the Japanese team with a total score of 3:1 to win the championship.
Photo by Chinanews reporter Sheng Jiapeng
In September 2019, the son of Xu Xin and Yao Yan, the "Ping Pong Couple", was born. His father was nicknamed "Big Python" and his son was called "Little Snake".
But not long after Xiao Snake was born, the new crown epidemic began to spread around the world.
National Ping Pong was in the critical period of preparing for the Tokyo Olympics, so closed training was conducted overseas, and Xu Xin was no exception.
Screenshot of Yao Yan's Weibo.
As a result, the father and son would not see each other for a few months.
One day, Xu Xin took advantage of the washing time to video with Xiao Snake, and found that his son likes to watch his own teeth brushing, so he kept brushing, always brushing.
It sounds funny and bitter.
Fans joked that Xiao Snake might think that his father is a cartoon.
Netizens commented screenshots.
Xu Xin's experience is not an exception. The prosperous national table tennis team is the result of the joint efforts of generations of players and coaches.
It was they who endured loneliness under the field and resisted the pressure on the field that allowed the national anthem to ring again and again in the world arena.
Powerful Demon King
Ai Fukuhara, who has been followed by TV stations since childhood, is not only the pride of Japanese table tennis, but also a "porcelain doll" that Chinese fans like very much. Many of the players of the national table tennis are her good friends.
On August 7, 2012 local time, in the women's table tennis finals of the London Olympics, the Chinese team swept the Japanese team 3-0 to win the gold medal.
The picture shows Fukuhara Ai congratulating the Chinese women's table tennis team.
Photo by reporter Liao Pan
However, these good friends started to beat one by one in the arena, and the image of Fukuhara Ai and Guoping's "big devil" became popular among the people.
Before the 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Ai Fukuhara received a small fish pendant from Wang Nan. She said that it was a lucky fish, which would allow her to avoid Wang Nan when drawing lots, and it is best to avoid all Chinese players.
In fact, this is not only the wish of Fukuhara Ai alone, but also the common aspiration of many foreign association players over the years.
The Chinese players in the international competitions are too difficult to beat.
In the end, in the World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, the Chinese team swept the men's and women's singles champions and runners-up.
In this way, the story of more than one flag raising has been staged countless times in the table tennis arena, and the national table tennis has an unshakable dominance in the world table tennis.
Sometimes, even enjoy the treatment of the "big villain".
After the rise of the national table tennis, the ITTF has repeatedly reformed the ball, racket, and competition system, and some of these reform measures are clearly aimed at Chinese players.
The women's singles final of the Rio Olympic Games table tennis was launched among Chinese athletes. After seven rounds of fierce competition, Ding Ning defeated Li Xiaoxia 4-3 to win the championship.
The picture shows the award ceremony held.
Photo by Du Yang, a reporter from China News Service
For example, in 2008, after Chinese men's and women's table tennis respectively took the top three places in singles, the number of singles for each association in the Olympics was reduced to two.
Since then, there will be no more grand occasion when the three national flags of the table tennis Olympics are raised at the same time.
However, in the subsequent London Olympics and Rio Olympics, the men and women's singles players sent by the Chinese team successfully met in the finals.
This is very similar to the big devil in those comic stories, because he can't be defeated in a head-on confrontation, so some conditions are needed to restrict him.
But the reality is not a cartoon. Guoping has never been really knocked down by these restrictions over the years.
On the field, strength is always the most important.
On August 17, 2016, local time, the 2016 Rio Olympic Men's Table Tennis Team Final was held. The Chinese team finally defeated the Japanese team with a total score of 3:1 to win the championship.
Photo by Chinanews reporter Sheng Jiapeng
National football! National football!
In March last year, the National Ping Pong Group went to Qatar to participate in the Open after finishing its overseas training.
At that time, the country was still shrouded in the shadow of the epidemic, and many people's lives and work were affected by the epidemic. Even if the domestic epidemic prevention work is progressing steadily, I can't help but worry.
Before the start of the game, the national table tennis team members discussed and decided to donate all the prize money obtained at this station to the frontline of the fight against the epidemic.
And Liu Shiwen, who has already decided to withdraw from the competition due to injury, has decided to donate an equal amount of the singles championship bonus.
It was Malone who called the players to a meeting, and he was the captain of the men's team.
Under this news, some people lamented that the former little Malone has already been on his own.
Malone celebrated in the game.
In the men's singles final of the 2020 ITTF Finals in Zhengzhou, Chinese player Ma Long defeated his teammate Fan Zhendong 4-1 to win the championship.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Kan Li
From the genius teenager who made his debut in the era of Ma Lin and Wang Liqin, to the Japanese media called "The Destruction Dragon of the Empire" and the hexagonal warrior, Ma Long has carried the invisible banner of Guoping.
What kind of flag is this?
In a country with a population of more than one billion people, there is no shortage of other ball sports with outstanding performance, but only table tennis can be called a national game.
In the Olympics, even if other events fail, the national table tennis can always give people confidence.
The same is true outside the stadium. Whether it is ping-pong diplomacy decades ago or donations and materials during the epidemic today, national table tennis can always bring hope to the motherland.
Screenshot of Ma Long's Weibo.
Two years after Rong Guotuan won the men's singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships, he, together with Xu Yinsheng and Zhuang Zedong, won the Chinese team's first men's team championship at the World Table Tennis Championships.
Before entering the final game, Rong Guotuan shook off his towel and shouted: How many backs can there be in life!
Don't fight at this time, when will you stay
And now, the players after decades are still sticking to this national table tennis spirit like their predecessors.
This year's Spring Festival, the national table tennis players spent in training camp again.
Ma Long said: In 2021, we are united and we are bullish again.
In the photo he sent out, the boys of the men's team held red envelopes and smiled brightly.
Behind them, is the national flag and the four characters-keeping in mind the mission.
(Author Wang Hao)