Ideals make life brilliant.

The Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship in 11 games at the 2019 Women's Volleyball World Cup. after the women's volleyball team returned home in triumph, it was cordially received by General Secretary Xi and met with the global audience in the parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the National Day. won the highest honor given by the party, the country and the people.

Lang Ping, head coach of the women's volleyball team, was interviewed by CCTV host Dong Qing and read affectionately the Danish writer Georg Brandeis's "Life" (excerpt). The video has recently gone viral on the Internet. After receiving it in the WeChat group of my classmates, I watched it several times and felt very excited. I immediately forwarded it to the moments and various WeChat groups, attracting a lot of admiration and comments.

Uneducated, poor quality, simple-minded, well-developed limbs. Over the years, many people have branded athletes with prejudice. In fact, how can anyone who can make achievements in a field be a simple-minded person? Chinese women's volleyball players are not only fighters and heroes on the field, but also inferior in cultural literacy. When reading Liu Shahe's poem "ideal", the girls of the women's volleyball team recited affectionately, showing their elegant temperament and noble character, and witnessed that they always used their ideals to build a brilliant life!

On the evening of May 6, 2017, Beijing time, CCTV Reader ushered in the last episode of the second season. In this reading on the theme of youth, Lang Ping, the long-awaited head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, finally showed up.

In a conversation with host Dong Qing, Director Lang described her hard training as an athlete and the deeds of leading the team to overcome difficulties at last year's Rio Olympics, which sounded as moving as the last words she read aloud.

The "Reader" program invited a special guest, the famous volleyball commentator Song Shixiong, as well as Chinese women's volleyball players Wei Qiuyue, Hui Ruoqi, Yuan Xinyue and Xu Yunli. Four women's volleyball girls read the ideal of Liushahe for Lang.

Ideal is a stone, knock out a spark

Ideal is fire, lighting the extinguished lamp

Ideal is a lamp that illuminates the road at night.

The ideal is the road that leads you to the dawn.

The ideal is a compass to guide the ship.

The ideal is a ship that carries you to sea.

But the ideal is sometimes the arc of the kiss between the sea and the sky.

Out of reach, torturing your enterprising heart.

Ideals make you observe life with a smile.

Ideals make you stubbornly resist fate.

The ideal makes you forget the early gray hair at the temples.

Ideals make you white and still naive.

There are always people in the world who abandon their ideals.

Ideals never abandon anyone.

Give the sinner a new life, and the ideal is the fairy grass that comes back to life.

Call the prodigal son back, the ideal is a loving mother.

Ideals are tarnished, don't hold a grudge

That's the demon testing your chastity.

If your ideal is stolen, don't cry

Go and find it, and be careful in the future!

Please take the ideal horse and set off with a whip.

It was just spring on the road and the sun was shining in the sky.

Along the way, the girls of the women's volleyball team always use their ideals as their spiritual motivation, overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, and create one life after another under the guidance of Lang. Now they use the poem "ideal" to express their pride and gratitude to Director Lang.

In the finale of this episode, Lang read "Life" (excerpt) by the Danish writer Georg Brandeis. I would like to dedicate this article to those who have always supported the Chinese women's volleyball team:

There is a tall tower that all people must climb. It has no more than a hundred grades at most.

The initial climb was easy, but slow. There is no difficulty in climbing itself, and at each level, the view from the watchhole on the tower is pleasant enough. Everything is new. Things near or far away will make your eyes linger, and there are so many things in the future. The higher you go, the more difficult it becomes to climb. Reading and appreciation of American articles

It is usually a person who goes to the top level once a year.

When he walked ten levels and boarded a new platform, his congratulations became more enthusiastic. Every time people hope that he can climb for a long time, this hope also reveals more contradictions.

In this way, most of the lives of so-called normal people have passed.

However, there is also a hole in the ground, and those who walk into it are eager to dig their own tunnel in order to go deep into the ground. year after year.

They are familiar with the underground world, explore the road in the labyrinth of tunnels, and never get tired of it, even forgetting how the years passed.

This is their whole life, they are engaged in the labor and exploration to the depths of their minds, forgetting all kinds of current events. They are busy with the quiet career they have chosen and endure the losses and sorrows brought by the years. When death approached, they would ask, as Archimedes did before he died: don't mess up the circle I drew.

For those who are always hungry for life and eager to conquer, life is like this: focus on grabbing more territory, getting a wider field of vision and more experience.

They are discontented, unpredictable, and powerful. They retain all the characteristics of youth: adventurous, life-loving, belligerent, energetic, active-minded, and young to death, no matter how old they are. Like salmon facing the torrent, the nature of their talent is to meet the torrent of time.

It is more appropriate to use Brandeis's "Life" to describe Lang Ping, the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team. Perhaps, as Lang Ping read "Life", this is also a portrayal of her life.

Lang Ping, the coach of the women's volleyball team, was full of legends all her life. She was born in the winter of the frozen earth. Due to the influence of natural disasters and many other factors, the economic conditions of everyone and small families are very poor. Lang Ping, who was in her swaddling clothes, was weak. Her mother often used Millet Congee to replenish her nutrition and did not give her special treatment. For this period of life, her mother calmly thought that life was like that at that time, and there was nothing strange about it. Mother's idea of treating hard life with a normal state of mind has a profound impact on Lang Ping's future growth.

At the age of 7, Lang Ping entered the threshold of primary school and began her childhood at Dongguang Road Primary School in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Lang Ping's character is not only the bold and unrestrained nature of his father who grew up in the north, but also the tranquility and delicacy of his mother from the south. This fine character makes her move as brave and tenacious as a boy, and calm down more quietly than the average girl.

Lang Ping's father is a sports fan. whenever he gets a chance, he takes his daughter to Beijing Worker's Stadium near his home to watch the game. His father's love of sports influenced Lang Ping. In Lang Ping's childhood memories, volleyball left a good impression on her. As the years changed, Lang Ping grew taller and taller. Standing among her peers, she stands out from the crowd.

In April 1973, Lang Ping was selected to practice volleyball in the volleyball class of Beijing Worker's Stadium Junior Sports School; then he joined the volleyball training class of Beijing No. 2 Sports School, the Beijing women's volleyball team, and was selected into the Chinese women's volleyball team; in 1979, he won the second Asian Women's Volleyball Championship with the Chinese team. In 1981, with the Chinese team winning the Bremen International Volleyball Invitational Championship in Germany, the individual won the Best attacker Award, and in the same year, he also won the third World Cup Women's Volleyball Championship and the individual Outstanding athlete Award. Lang Ping won the 9th World Women's Volleyball Championships with the Chinese team, the World Super Women's Volleyball Championship with the Chinese team in 1983, and Lang Ping won the gold medal with the Chinese team at the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984. In 1985, the fourth World Cup Women's Volleyball Championship, and won the Outstanding athlete Award and the Best athlete Award.

All the grades are soaked with sweat, tears and pain. Director Lang talked about the intensity of the training of the old women's volleyball team that year, which left a deep impression on everyone: defense takes two hours, and what's even more terrible is that besides defense, I have to work overtime every day & lsquo; & all the players of rsquo; pick up the ball for you, and the coach plays one-on-one defense. Every day I have to be brought out alone & lsquo; start a small game & rsquo;, play & lsquo; extreme defense & rsquo;. Once we trained from 8am to 3pm for seven hours, and the next day our legs were all swollen. The coach is torturing you so that you have to calm down and have the spirit to fight when you are having a very bad time.

Lang Ping, who has tenacious volleyball training, brilliant competition experience and experience, did not meet the existing achievements and enjoyed preferential treatment on the meritorious service shop. But resolutely choose to study abroad and further study, to enrich their own cultural literacy and life experience.

After retiring in 1985, Lang Ping entered the Foreign languages Department of Beijing normal University to study English. In 1987, he went to study at the University of New Mexico in the United States, and obtained a master's degree in modern sports management, and then went to play abroad.

After she went to study in the United States at her own expense in 1987, she was almost penniless from scratch, from a world champion to an international wage earner, from the psychological gap between heaven and earth, from the fact that her marriage and family finally broke up because of the separation between the two places. a relief after painful contemplation; from the experience of long-term poverty, loneliness and suffering abroad Due to the misunderstanding that she returned home to lead the team, when the Chinese women's volleyball team won the silver medal and returned to the capital Beijing that year, she was criticized, and some people even commented that she might as well go to the crematorium! These setbacks, tribulations and grievances did not break her, but strengthened her purpose in life, making her more calm, elegant and calm.

Lang Ping himself said: without these ups and downs, ups and downs, there will be no second sailing in my life! No one can temper the heart of standing still and watching the clouds rise and fall without going through a bitter cold.

From 1990 to 2015, Lang Ping returned to the national team and began her coaching career, leading the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the championship and runner-up in all kinds of volleyball competitions. From August 22 to September 6, 2015, Lang Ping led the Chinese team to win the World Cup for the fourth time in 12 years with a record of 10-1 and 30 points. this is also the first three world championships in Lang Ping's coaching career and the eighth world championship of the Chinese women's volleyball team. The winning Chinese women's volleyball team also qualified for the Rio Olympic Games.

The women's volleyball team is the only one of the three major balls that the Chinese team has won the world championship, carrying too many glorious memories of the Chinese people, and the Rio Olympic Games have high hopes. However, the performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the group stage was not satisfactory, barely advancing to the quarterfinals with a record of 2-3 and fourth in the group. In the face of the powerful host Brazil, the Chinese women's volleyball team, which is dominated by young players, has no advantage in terms of absolute strength.

Under so many difficulties, the girls of the women's volleyball team did not show weakness. Great pressure inspires great fighting spirit and strength. In the face of the hosts who occupy the harmony of heaven, earth and people, they fight to the last minute to win in adversity. Such a victory is particularly invigorating! It's very touching! Such a victory is not only the best affirmation of the ability of the women's volleyball team, but also a perfect interpretation of the spirit of the women's volleyball team.

Beat Brazil, played the spirit of the Chinese women's volleyball team; eliminated the Netherlands, made history again; finally beat Serbia 3-1, won the Olympic championship, deducted the return of the king! We have experienced too much unexpected in the Rio Olympic Games, and the Chinese women's volleyball team gave us the biggest surprise!

After the game, Lang Ping hugs almost everyone and praises them. Lang Ping's guiding ideology of being kind to individuals and people-oriented condenses the team strength and hearts of the women's volleyball team. It has also become the consensus of competitive sports in the new era. Lang Ping usually cares about the birthdays, injuries, and even holidays of the team members. It is this motherly warmth and gratitude that makes these post-90s children have unparalleled murderous spirit and fighting will.

With such a coach who is not arrogant in victory and not impatient in defeat, the girls of the women's volleyball team will have the backbone and a Poseidon needle to stabilize their minds.

Withstand the pressure with faith, suppress the strong enemy with momentum, and counterattack with mental predicament! This is not only the culture of the women's volleyball team, but also the culture of China: never say give up, continuous self-improvement, calm atmosphere, invincible, invincible, invincible! When the women's volleyball team won the championship, Lang Ping counterattacked calmly, and the story behind it shocked 1.3 billion people.

Thanks to the collective wisdom and tenacious will of the women's volleyball team! The Chinese women's volleyball team has not finished winning the World Cup, and it has won important domestic honors! In order to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, learn heroic deeds, carry forward the spirit of struggle, and cultivate new people of the times, the Central propaganda Department and the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee decided to award 278 individuals and 22 collective titles as the most beautiful strivers. Among them, the old women's volleyball team who created five consecutive championships from 1981 to 1985 was successfully elected as the most beautiful striver. Now the trophies and certificates of the award are placed in the honor room of the Chinese women's volleyball team!

Both the five consecutive champions of the old women's volleyball team and the Chinese women's volleyball team led by Lang Ping are the creators of the collective wisdom of the women's volleyball team. Especially recently, the Chinese women's volleyball team won all 11 games in the 2019 Women's Volleyball World Cup, which not only showed the Chinese people's blood and heroism, but also convinced the traditional strong teams such as the United States, the Netherlands and Brazil. At a time when the development of mainstream events such as Chinese football and men's basketball is hindered, the Chinese women's volleyball team has brought great confidence and vitality to Chinese sports with its remarkable achievements.

Shanghai, October 14, 2019