Text: Break down
Editor|Film and Entertainment Pioneer
Quan Hongchan, who was only 14 years old, became famous.
But genius is often accompanied by suffering and grinding.
A family of seven who leads the subsistence allowance, a mother with sequelae after a car accident, and a poor champion is not easy to come by.
How did Quan Hongchan get to the position of champion, and was she good or bad after she became popular?
The little golden whale became famous
On October 4, 2020, 13-year-old Quan Hongchan won the women's single 10-meter platform final in the Olympic qualifiers.
This jump brought this thin but strong little girl into the public's field of vision.
On August 5, 2021, 14-year-old Quan Hongchan participated in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
In the women's singles 10-meter platform diving, she scored 466.2 with a perfect score of five jumps and three perfect points, setting a world record and standing on the high podium on behalf of China.
It was this time that she amazed the world.
's young age and amazing results make Quan Hongchan's popularity unprecedented.
After winning the Tokyo Olympics, the media called Quan Hongzen the champion of the cold door.
With Quan Hongchan's stable and outstanding diving results, everyone's attention has also shifted from herself to her family.
When Quan Hongchan trained for the competition, she was humble, generous, and worked hard.
But in a private interview, she was just a childlike and straightforward little girl, saying that she liked spicy strips and plush toys.
What kind of experience made Quan Hongchan?
A filial son from a poor family
On March 28, 2007, Quan Hongchan was born in a small village called Maihe in Zhanjiang, Guangdong.
There are five brothers and sisters in the family, and she is the third.
There is an older brother who dropped out of school to become a chef at the age of 6 years older than him, and an older sister who is studying, and a younger sister and a younger brother below.
They are low-income households in the village, and their father supports the family by planting fruit trees.
In a good year, it can be sold for about 20,000 yuan a year, plus 3,000 of the subsistence allowance, which is all the source of livelihood for a family of seven.
When my mother went to work in a factory in her early years, she was in a car accident and emptied her family of medical treatment, but she still left the sequelae of epilepsy.
The accident left the family even more stretched.
Although life is difficult, adversity is vigorous.
Quan Hongchan is a hard-working and filial girl, optimistic and cheerful,
While the other children were still laughing and playing, she used her young body to take on the family's farm work.
A wonderful turning point
This background seems to have collected the previous experiences of the protagonist in the novel.
So on this day in 2014, Quan Hongchan, a first-grade student who was playing games, attracted the attention of Chen Huaming, the diving coach of Zhanjiang Sports School.
Diving coach Chen Huaming
Seeing that she is very flexible and light in jumping rubber bands and jumping grids, Coach Chen tested her.
After the test, Coach Chen felt that this was a rare good seedling.
He chose Quan Hongchan and persuaded her parents to waive tuition and fees, hoping to let her enter the Zhanjiang Sports School for diving training.
It's like the plot of a martial arts novel...
Young man, I see that you have excellent bones, extremely smart, excellent qualifications, and you have a body of horizontal training muscles and bones at a young age, and you are simply a martial arts wizard once in a century.
In this way, Quan Hongchan began his diving career.
At the age of 7, she trained hard every day, and when she first started, he was still a "landlubber" and could not swim.
But since she was a child, she wanted to stay in this place where tuition and fees were waived, so that she could help ease the burden on her family.
God also favors this hard-working child, and she jumps better and better when she enters the water again and again.
Her natural physical fitness and the excavation and wholehearted guidance of the acquired coach have made her progress rapidly.
3-meter board, followed by 5-meter platform, 7-meter platform...
Two years later, she stood on the 10-meter platform and jumped without hesitation.
Quan Hongchan said:
"I didn't think about it that much, I jumped off as soon as I closed my eyes."
Her straightforwardness and boldness contributed to her success, which also caused controversy later.
Love your mother, love your country
After becoming popular, the scrambling media and cameras focused on the 14-year-old all the time, her words and deeds were exposed to the public, and she said frankly in front of the camera:
My mother needs a lot of money to see a doctor, and I have to work hard to earn money so that I can send it back to her.
This filial piety and straightforwardness made the public feel more distressed and proud of her.
The former Soviet educator Sukhomlinsky once said: "Only by loving your mother can you love your motherland." ”
Quan Hongchan's quality and deeds are vividly reflected in this sentence.
However, with everyone's curiosity and digging deep into the family behind the Olympic champion, some unkind remarks also emerged.
After becoming popular, it brings good and bad
With the explosion of popularity came some controversy about Quan Hongchan's family.
After Quan Hongchan won the championship, some Zhanjiang enterprises personally went to their home to send hardcover rooms, shops and 200,000 cash to Quan Hongchan's father.
When they wanted to take a photo with Quan Dad with flowers, Quan Dad said that they came all the way over, and it was okay to take a group photo, but they should take the things back.
He knew that these were all his daughter's hard work, and he couldn't consume his daughter's honor.
Material scarcity did not bind their family's upward spirit.
Parents love their children for the long term, which is the ambition of the whole father and the consideration of the child's future development.
As he said in the interview:
My child is still young, and I can't let this little thing affect my child. As parents and elder brothers, we must be cautious and not give too many things to tempt and get the wrong direction.
His simple and straightforward words made me feel his restrained and subtle love for his children.
But there are many people who are popular, and after Quan Hongchan became famous, her small home also became a check-in place.
Distant relatives came to the door.
Quan Hongchan's mother said, "After so many years of marriage, I didn't know that we had so many relatives in our family."
Fans who love Quan Hongchan also come from all over the country to see the champion's residence.
In the early morning, Quan Hongchan's house was "like a city", and cars and electric cars were parked in the open space at the door.
The crowd of onlookers held up their mobile phones to take pictures and videos, and some people climbed trees and walls to start a live broadcast.
But when blessings are mixed with purpose, when onlookers bring benefits, all this has changed.
There began to be endless remarks on the Internet criticizing Quan Hongchan's family.
Her father was wrong for smoking, why did the family smoke when they were so poor?
Her mother was also wrong to farm, and she was sick and still farmed to win attention...
It's also wrong for her brother to help farmers, isn't he a cook in the first place, but her sister started bringing goods when she became popular?
The whole network is touted, and the Internet is violent, just in a thought
When I saw these remarks, I thought of track and field athlete Wu Yanni.
At the Chengdu Universiade, Wu Yanni was touted by the whole network because of her appearance and strength after becoming famous.
Her appearance was praised by everyone.
Her self-confidence is considered cool by everyone.
Her pre-match moves were considered maverick by everyone.
But after a mistake in the Asian Games, all the rhetoric changed.
She also has to be sprayed with makeup, and she doesn't do her job.
Her self-confidence has been called arrogant and flamboyant.
Her pre-match moves were described as deliberate showmanship.
Wu Yanni made a mistake, and all her efforts were in vain.
She became a sinner who was condemned by words.
The horror of the remarks will make Quan Hongchan worried?
At the 2023 National Diving Championships, Quan Hongchan made a mistake and won the second place.
Losing the throne of champions, voices from dark corners came out.
I think she won the championship by luck because she was young and flexible.
Quan Hongchan, who has always been optimistic and cheerful, began to become silent, and her training began to double.
She is always the one who trains to the end every day, and she believes that hard work will pay off, and hard work can bring her back to the top.
Recently, she said in an interview that she is facing developmental problems:
"The development of the body has made the movements heavier and heavier, and [the degree of completion] is not as high as before."
Developmental barriers are a hurdle for every diver. After development, the body becomes heavy and not as flexible.
The movements that have been tempered before will also be deviated due to the changes after development.
"I've been young, too, but I can't get back to feeling young."
Quan Hongchan, who was only 17 years old, couldn't help but feel sorry for her when she said this.
The anticipation on her shoulders grew heavier as each match wore on.
She will also worry about whether she will be liked if the champion is not the champion anymore.
She has been training diving since she was 7 years old, and she has gone from being unfamiliar with the sport to loving it.
From ignorance to wholeheartedly winning glory for the country, she has been honing on the road of diving for 10 years.
Holding everyone's expectations of her, she jumped again and again from a height of ten meters.
Success is not a matter of luck, it is the result of her training day and night.
Glows all the time
If it's gold, it will shine, but the Olympics are brilliant, and there is never a shortage of gold.
She went through a lot of trials to get to the top of the championship.
But in addition to her strength, I also saw her filial piety and simple, innocent, and upright character for her children, which are equally important.
No morning sun lasts a whole day. I hope everyone will be calm about her.
Give the players more tolerance, every time they start the game, they do their best for the country and the hope of 1.4 billion people.
Spend flesh and blood to fight.
People who shine in their field deserve our respect.
Selected references:
National Diving Championship Women's 10-meter Platform Guangdong Team Quan Hongchan Won the Championship 2021-05-13
Netease Sports|Diving Championship Women's Singles 10-meter Platform Quan Hongchan Dark Horse Wins Gold and Beats the World Championship Champion 2020-10-04
People's Daily|The Spirit of Splashes - The Growth Story of Olympic Diving Champion Quan Hongchan 2021-08-23