Zheng Haixia, the first female center in Asia: Married to fans, they haven't had a baby for 11 years. Are they happy now?

The first female center in Asia, with a height of 2.6 meters, is Zheng Haixia and was elected to the FIBA Hall of Fame.

She led the China women's basketball team to the Olympic Games and won silver medals in the 1992 Olympic Games and the 1994 World Championships!

In the end, she married Xu Qinghua, a fan who admired her, but 11 years later, she didn't have any children.

Are they happy now?

Zheng Haixia was born in an ordinary rural area in 1967. She came from a peasant family in Zhecheng County, Shangqiu.

Her father named her "Hai Xia", hoping that her life would be as bright as the blue ocean. From now on, Zheng Haixia's life was doomed to be "extraordinary".

With the passage of time, my father gradually discovered that Zheng Haixia's "extraordinary place" is that her height is really much higher than that of girls of the same age, even higher than that of her brothers and sisters. By junior high school, Zheng Haixia's height has reached 1.72 meters, and it is necessary to know that junior high school boys can only have such height after graduation.

However, Zheng Haixia's height is still "unlimited expansion". In the face of her "growing body", her father didn't think he was a freak, but tried his best to provide her with more nutritious food, so that Zheng Haixia didn't suffer from hunger while growing up.

But at the same time, Dad was thinking about what to do with his daughter's height. After much deliberation, he decided to send her to a sports school to play basketball and play Zheng Haixia's "excellent talent". Sure enough, the sports school soon took a fancy to this burly girl.

When she arrived at the sports school, Zheng Haixia continued to grow taller, and she gradually showed a high degree of enthusiasm for basketball. Every time she ran back and forth on the court, she would not feel tired, because she enjoyed the hearty feeling.

Even though her feet were too big to wear such big basketball shoes, she had to go barefoot.

Soon, her performance in the sports school was seen by the head coach of the "Bayi Women's Basketball Team" of the military. After graduation, she was elected to the women's basketball team of Wuhan Army in 1982, and lived a life in which the players served as soldiers.

In the same year, with excellent ball skills and a height of 2.6 meters, she was selected for the China Women's Youth Basketball Team, and went to the Asian Championship and the Asian Youth Basketball Championship, which shocked the audience and "killed all sides" on the court. Soon after, she was selected by the national team and entered the training.

This year, Zheng Haixia was only 16 years old. As a young girl, she still maintained great enthusiasm on the court. Later, this girl became the pillar of the whole national team, and all the attacks were centered on her and involved tactics.

In 1984, Zheng Haixia led the national team to participate in the Los Angeles Olympic Games. After the whole Olympic Games, she won the bronze medal for China with a terrible shooting percentage of 56%!

Zheng Haixia took advantage of the victory and didn't let up. At the World Championships two years later, she was on a roll again, winning the best athlete and the best center in one fell swoop. It can be said that in the 198s and 199s, among the female centers in Asia, Zheng Haixia existed like a god and enjoyed the reputation of "the first female center in Asia".

Because she has an overwhelming height, but this height has also become her "hard injury". Long-term and intense training and competition have made Zheng Haixia's knees and joints have always had big and small problems.

Even so, in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Zheng Haixia went into battle injured, hoping to bring better results to the country.

Unfortunately, Zheng Haixia finally lost to the physical illness and the traces of years brought by the growing age, and Zheng Haixia couldn't keep up with the fast-paced confrontation. Finally, the 1996 Olympic Games ended sadly.

All of a sudden, there was a round of questioning:

But Zheng Haixia still resolutely continued to play the role she should do on the basketball court. She believed that it was most important to be herself!

She still keeps training every day, hoping to adjust her state to the best.

It's hard to imagine that a girl has to bear the sweat in training.

Don't forget, Zheng Haixia is a girl! As a girl, it is not easy to bear the pressure of injury and training.

In private, Zheng Haixia still likes flowers and plants. She likes everything that girls like, as if there is a little girl living in her heart.

and this little girl is also eager for the nourishment of love.

A boy is eagerly looking forward to the news from a girl in the distance. He is Zheng Haixia's first love.

Zheng Haixia didn't tell everyone the boy's name, but only talked about the past lightly.

Zheng Haixia proudly said that her first boyfriend was four centimeters taller than him. How tall is that? But Zheng Haixia was very satisfied.

At that time, there were no instant messaging software such as WeChat and QQ, so the only way for them to talk about love was "letters". Although it was not as slow as flying pigeons passing books, it was slow enough. Every week, Zheng Haixia was most looking forward to receiving the boy's reply.

But long-distance love can't go far after all, and it must be trained in other places for a long time. The practice of the national team made Zheng Haixia hold both ends to burn. In the end, after only two years together, the man proposed to break up. Both of them are basketball players, and they can still be friends after breaking up, but it is really wonderful to love this kind of thing. Whenever I think about this story, Zheng Haixia will look far away, which is meaningful.

After breaking up, Zheng Haixia tried to hold back her feelings and wanted to continue to prove that she was not defeated by injuries on the basketball court. In 1997, she received an invitation from the Los Angeles Sparks team, so she announced that she would go to Los Angeles to show her talents.

On the other hand, Zheng Haixia, on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean, broke the gossip. All this Xu Qinghua silently picked up a pen and recorded it.

in the two years since Zheng Haixia joined the L.A. Sparks team, he has contributed a lot of data. In the first year, he played 28 games, including 27 starts, with a total score of 259 points. He is a very competent center and won the first "Best Style Award" in the WNBA.

Unfortunately, in her second year in the WNBA, Zheng Haixia finally lost to the deterioration of her leg and waist injuries, and she announced her retirement and returned to China.

After returning to China, Zheng Haixia is still active in the domestic basketball circle, but she always lacks a piece in her heart. Apart from her family, she has been fighting abroad all the year round, and she is extremely eager for someone to accompany her, hoping that someone can accompany her all her life.

At this time, fate is so magical, and love comes so suddenly. Under the moon, the old man descended to earth, and Cupid's naughty arrow shot at Zheng Haixia.

At first, Zheng Haixia loved to ignore the answer. After all, there were too many people to choose, but she gradually found that good men were really hard to find, and many of them could not meet the requirements of Zheng Haixia. It was already a difficult threshold just to be taller than her, so she "wronged herself" and "relaxed" the conditions of "choosing a spouse" to boys over 18 cm.

The name Xu Qinghua appeared in Zheng Haixia's field of vision, so Zheng Haixia took the initiative to write back, hoping to get contact information and mobile phone number with Xu Qinghua, and their love was born.

Like the previous relationship, Zheng Haixia was in a long-distance relationship, but this time it was even more amazing, because she didn't even meet Xu Qinghua herself, so she just sent a text message to fall in love on her mobile phone.

It can be said that Zheng Haixia was the earliest pioneer in the implementation of "online dating", and they could know each other's recent situation more quickly through mobile phones than through letters. It can be said that the chat was very speculative.

As a girl like Zheng Haixia, Xu Qinghua can be said to be very unique. As a fan himself, his stories about Zheng Haixia can be said to be "as numerous as a few treasures", and as a basketball player, he gradually won the heart of a "beauty".

Xu Qinghua's courtship style is very special. As the saying goes, couples are most afraid of having no topic to talk about.

So, Xu Qinghua started all kinds of "doing whatever it takes". He went to the newsstand to read the essays in the newspaper, went to the library to study the routines of love novels, and "extracted" the sentences that he felt were not bad, and edited them and sent them to Zheng Haixia by SMS. This is Xu Qinghua's simplest and direct "courtship style".

But you can't keep "online dating" and they just meet each other.

When we met for the first time, Xu Qinghua was a little nervous when he saw Zheng Haixia so tall. He was really taller than expected, and he couldn't speak. His hands were sweating, but when he looked back at Zheng Haixia's expression, he found that it was impossible. Xu Qinghua felt that Zheng Haixia didn't like him.

But on that date, they talked for four hours, which made Xu Qinghua feel "there is still a chance". When he got home, he "pursued the girl" and vowed to catch up with her.

She began to befriend, saying that she was from Henan, and she was a "fellow villager" with Zheng Haixia. When the fellow villager met her, she was very kind, and she said that she was a member of Pingdingshan Shenzhen Office in Henan, which suddenly brought the distance between them closer.

Another year has passed, and they are deeply in love. Xu Qinghua has gradually infiltrated himself into Zheng Haixia's heart, and Zheng Haixia's heart has been completely "raiders".

They finally entered the marriage hall. They walked into the auditorium hand in hand and exchanged vows of love.

On June 19th, 21, Zheng Haixia married Xu Qinghua, a "fan" who had a crush on him for many years.

Zheng Haixia:

Xu Qinghua:

And married life is so ordinary.

Although "marriage is the graveyard of love", they still love each other very much.

in this way, the time is 11 years, 221.

Someone asked Zheng Haixia why she didn't have a "super baby". After all, she is so tall and her husband is a basketball player, so the child born must be tall and strong.

Zheng Haixia just indicated faintly that her body could no longer bear the pressure brought by her children when she got married.

In addition, if you bear the responsibility for your child after giving birth, your body may be unable to bear it. If you force your child to have a baby, it's fine if it's healthy, but if it's unhealthy, it's much more sorry for your child!

As for married life, the couple don't talk about it, but they laugh sweetly. They once said on the show that they often tinker with the little things in life, and Xu Qinghua has to adapt to the "militarized" routine that Zheng Haixia accepted since childhood. He jokingly said that he is like a "player" in Zheng Haixia, and he should always obey his wife's discipline, but from his tone, he can know that Xu Qinghua is very content.

At the same time, Xu Qinghua accompanied Zheng Haixia to "go up the mountain and go to the sea". After retiring completely, Zheng Haixia took over as the head coach of the women's basketball team and didn't announce her retirement until 219. Her husband has always been her strongest backing and selfless dedication, just like that little fan at the beginning, being a lovely follower of Zheng Haixia.

Xu Qinghua once said:

It was such selflessness that Zheng Haixia developed basketball career carefree and finally won the highest honor.

in 221, Zheng Haixia was selected as a global Hall of Fame player by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), which is supreme for basketball players.

Even after retiring, she still remembers the training of domestic women's basketball team. She actively participates in the training and wants to pass on her experience to the younger generation. After all, she has participated in four consecutive Olympic Games, and her experience is very rare.

Career and love are both proud. Zheng Haixia showed you what a "life victory group" is. Although there are no children after marriage, living a good husband and wife life is the best explanation for life!

as the first poetry collection in China, The Book of Songs, says: