2008 Zheng Haixia in Lu Yu program public marriage, 43 years old love fans: the first dinner 4 hours-

When it comes to Chinese women's basketball, Zheng Haixia is a name that can't be wrapped around. The basketball court of the giant spirit god, had led the Chinese women's basketball team to win many battles, had only one step away from the highest honor.

Last June, FIBA announced the list of inductees into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and the name of Chinese women's basketball star Zheng Haixia was on the list.

After learning of Zheng Haixia's induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame, not only did people in the domestic basketball circle congratulate her, but even the NBA's legendary center O'Neal, who is far away from the other side of the ocean, also congratulated her on her induction.

To say that there is fate in this world, the fate of Zheng Haixia and basketball is destiny.

Zheng Haixia was born in the rural areas of Henan Province, her parents are ordinary farmers, and her height is about 1.6 meters. It is reasonable to say that Zheng Haixia in this life almost will not have any connection with basketball.

However, after the development, Zheng Haixia's height began to grow wildly, and at the age of 12, she had already grown to 1.72 meters.

At that time, the coach of the gymnasium realized that although Zheng Haixia was tall, her flexibility was not at all inferior to that of smaller people, so after graduating from elementary school, Zheng Haixia was arranged to study in Shangqiu Gymnasium.

During the study period in the gymnasium, due to the continuous growth of the height, the large size of Zheng Haixia can not find suitable shoes, it is often barefoot playing. A carpenter saw Zheng Haixia poor, so he personally made her a pair of wooden clogs.

The clogs look shabby today, but in the 1970s, when material goods weren't plentiful, they were a luxury.

Zheng Haixia's basketball skills progressed so quickly after entering the gymnasium that she made the national youth team at the age of 17. Three years after being selected for the national youth team, she was selected for the national team and became one of the absolute mainstays of the national team inside.

Interestingly, during her time on the national team, Zheng Haixia ran into the problem of running out of shoes again.

But this time it was not Zheng Haixia who didn't have shoes to wear, but Yao Ming's mother, who was working for the national team at the time, asked her to borrow some shoes, because Yao Ming was already a "little giant" with a height of nearly 2 meters when he was 15 years old, so Yao's mother searched for him, and she could only borrow the shoes that she had worn before from Zheng Haixia.

From the 1980s to the mid-1990s, Zheng Haixia was the backbone of the national team.

She led the national team to an Olympic silver medal, which was always China's best basketball performance, and in 1996, Zheng Haixia became the first Chinese to play in a professional sports league in the United States by playing in the WNBA.

However, the long hours of training and campaigning, coupled with the stress that comes with a large body weight, have put a heavy burden on Zheng Haixia's body. Her waist and legs have long been scarred.

Doctors believe that if she continues to fight, she is likely to be wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life.

Under the doctor's strong advice and after careful consideration, Zheng Haixia finally chose to retire at the golden age of 31 as an athlete.

It may be difficult for the general public to understand the significance of basketball for Zheng Haixia, and there is one thing that can illustrate the weight of basketball in her life.

Since the physical school, Zheng Haixia seldom go home, the number of times a year to see their parents is very few. At the age of 20, Zheng Haixia's mother suddenly died, and the news made her feel like a bolt from the blue.

At the Olympics that year, she fought through her grief to win the Asian Games gold medal for the national team, and to honor her mother's memory.

It can be said that basketball runs through Zheng Haixia's life, and is an inseparable part of her life, so after her retirement, Zheng Haixia chose to continue to work in basketball, she worked as a head coach, and was also the leader of the Bayi team.

In addition, whenever the Chinese women's basketball team has to prepare for a major tournament, Zheng Haixia will also be in front of the stage and behind the scenes for the national team.

Despite her masculine and strong looks, and her tenacious style on the basketball court, Zheng Haixia is still a woman at heart.

In her spare time, Zheng Haixia also loves to dress up. As long as she is not training, she will bring bracelets and other jewelry, and then go shopping for clothes.

Of course, Zheng Haixia's figure is really not good to buy clothes, so she always write down the style she likes, and then contact the clothing company to specialize in custom-made or find a tailor to do.

As the saying goes, a girl is always in love. Zheng Haixia also met her love when she was in her early 20s.

This first love boyfriend is also a basketball player, taller than Zheng Haixia. Zheng Haixia's youth was full of boring training, and the appearance of this boy was one of her few sweet memories of that time.

As Zheng Haixia settled into the core of the national team, her reputation grew, while the boy remained an obscure character.

Although Zheng Haixia herself didn't care about the disparity, the constant comparisons from the sidelines put the two under immense mental pressure, and the boy eventually broke up.

In order to try not to hurt Zheng Haixia, the boy chose to break up in a way that is both peaceful and warm.

In the breakup letter to Zheng Haixia, a painting of a big tree and a small grass was attached. This person used this way to express the current situation of the two and the meaning of their unsuitability.

For the generous Zheng Haixia, this move by her first love is understandable. So instead of staging a breakup farce, the two retreated to the position of friends and cared for each other in life.

After breaking up with her first love for a long time, Zheng Haixia did not talk to anyone.

When she was playing, everyone thought that Zheng Haixia was just concentrating on her basketball career. However, after retiring, Zheng Haixia is slow to find objects, which can be anxious about her teammates and coaches, we have to open up to her to find objects.

After retirement, teammates and coaches to Zheng Haixia arranged several blind dates, but Zheng Haixia are not satisfied, many teammates asked her why, Zheng Haixia answer is always the sentence: "no feeling."

Chinese basketball star Mu Tiezhu and Zheng Haixia's relationship is very good, Mu Tiezhu has always regarded Zheng Haixia as his sister, this sister's life events have also been Mu Tiezhu's heart disease.

Looking at Zheng Haixia's lack of interest in getting married, he once said bluntly to Zheng Haixia: "We have known each other for decades, and have long been a family. I have a family and a woman now that my legs don't work. Your legs and feet are not very good, there is no care in the future how to do, what are the requirements requirements straight."

In the face of the big brother's warm invitation, Zheng Haixia is very touched, but she still insisted on their own concept of love.

In terms of marriage, she is a traditionalist, she believes in fate, so she wants someone she can commit to for life.

It would be very hard for her to find someone who can't do that, so if she doesn't find the right one, she'd rather stay single.

In this way, Zheng Haixia has been to the age of 40 is still in a single state, just when her family and friends for her anxious, fate but for her to send a peach blossom, this peach blossom brought the man is her current husband Xu Qinghua.

Xu Qinghua is from Pingdingshan, Henan Province, and his parents are employees of the Pingdingshan Coal Machinery Factory.

Xu Qinghua is tall, so he entered a sports school at a very young age. He was a member of the basketball team at the Pingdingshan Sports School, where he played as the team's forward, and later worked as a basketball coach at the Pingdingshan Sports School.

In 2000, Xu Qinghua resigned from the Pingdingshan Sports School and went to Shenzhen to work as a street office culture and sports officer.

Xu Qinghua is a tall and handsome man, and should not be short of suitors, but in his heart Xu Qinghua has been secretly in love with someone, and this person is the basketball hero Zheng Haixia in his mind.

Xu Qinghua's friends know that he likes Zheng Haixia, however, at that time he and Zheng Haixia almost no intersection, so this adoration many people just as a kind of worship of the idol, no one to take this as a serious matter.

In 2008, however, Xu Qinghua's chance came. Zheng Haixia made an open call for marriage and announced her conditions on that year's "Lu Yu About" program.

When Xu Qinghua saw the program, he compared himself and realized that he was a perfect match.

With excitement, Xu Qinghua decided to confess his thoughts to the goddess of his heart. On the night the program aired, Xu Qinghua wrote a letter to Zheng Haixia.

After receiving the letter, Zheng Haixia's heart didn't have much waves, but she felt the hot feelings of Xu Qinghua in the letter.

With the intention of trying, she sent a letter back to Xu Qinghua, and added her contact information in the letter.

From then on, the two communicated through cell phone text messages. After getting to know each other for a while, Zheng Haixia decided to meet up.

Soon the two met in Beijing, the first time they met, the two did not feel good. Xu Qinghua felt that Zheng Haixia is too high, giving him a lot of psychological pressure. According to Xu Qinghua's original words is: "Scared straight sweat!"

Zheng Haixia's feeling towards Xu Qinghua is not that strong, she feels that Xu Qinghua is not the Prince Charming in her heart.

At that time, Xu Qinghua was very demoralized, he felt that he might not have anything to do with Zheng Haixia, so his heart has been uneasy.

After that, the two of them looked for a place to eat, and strangely enough, the meal lasted four hours.

During this time, Xu Qinghua, who was very nervous about meeting his idol for the first time, was always talking non-stop, while Zheng Haixia, although she didn't say much, was always cooperating with Xu Qinghua.

After this meeting, the two people became more frequent, and slowly let go of each other's knots, and the two people entered into a state of passionate love.

Xu Qinghua once said in the program, in that period of time, he is like a poet, every day have endless words of love.

In the eyes of outsiders, two 40-year-olds doing this may seem childish, but the sweetness of it is something that only the two of them can know.

Due to Zheng Haixia in the national team work busy, the usual time is very little, that period of time the two meet, are Xu Qinghua traveled to Beijing. Although it is hard to travel, but the thought of seeing Zheng Haixia, Xu Qinghua full of energy.

In 2010, 43-year-old Zheng Haixia and Xu Qinghua got married in Beijing. The two had banquets in Shenzhen, Shangqiu and Beijing.

At the wedding banquet in Beijing, the theme of the wedding was "one life, two lives", which is very suitable for Zheng Haixia's life experience. At that time, many basketball players and CCTV sports channel commentators came to the scene, which can be said to be a major event in the basketball world.

After the marriage, Xu Qinghua was transferred to Beijing, where he and Zheng Haixia officially settled down.

At her home in Beijing, Zheng Haixia organized the home in such a way that many of her teammates found it cozy when they visited her home.

At the end of 2010, the media had exposed a photo of Zheng Haixia holding a baby in her hand, and for a while people thought that Zheng Haixia had given birth to a child.

When many fans were happy for Zheng Haixia, she came out to dispel the rumor, saying that it was her brother's grandson.

Until 2022, Zheng Haixia has been married for more than 10 years, and she has never had a child.

As for why she didn't have children, Zheng Haixia said it was for the sake of the children's consideration, because her parents were ordinary people of average height, and the fact that she was able to grow so tall was all due to a mutation.

So for the sake of the child's health, she chose not to have children.

In the first few years of marriage, Zheng Haixia and Xu Qinghua were almost inseparable, and the two would appear in various public **** occasions, appearing on the program together to talk about the history of their relationship and the anecdotes of the couple's life.

However, in the last two years, attentive netizens have noticed that Zheng Haixia is attending events by herself, and Xu Qinghua seems to have disappeared.

This unusual situation, so people inevitably doubt the relationship status of the two, so these two years about Zheng Haixia marriage unfavorable news is also more and more, but these news does not have any accuracy, I hope that you do not just gullible.

Although in the public **** occasion without the company of her husband, Zheng Haixia will still appear in the public **** vision from time to time.

Utilizing her influence, Zheng Haixia often attends public service events, and has always been enthusiastic about such activities that can help others.

Basketball is an integral part of Haixia's life, so the development of basketball in China has always been her main concern.

As an athlete who came out of the national system and benefited from it, Zheng Haixia understands the problems of Chinese basketball very well, and is also worried about the declining competitiveness of the national team.

In the process of Yao Ming's election as the president of the National Basketball Association (NBA), Zheng Haixia, as a veteran of Chinese basketball, fully supported Yao Ming's candidacy.

After Yao started to reform the Chinese basketball system, he naturally encountered some resistance, and Zheng Haixia has always been a strong supporter of Yao.

Besides her daily work and activities, Zheng Haixia basically lives alone these days.

Because of work and other reasons, her husband Xu Qinghua is basically not around. And what's even more heartbreaking is that due to old injuries accumulated in her youth, Zheng Haixia's legs are now bent and she can't stand straight at all.

Reference:

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