Yao Zhiyuan

Yao Zhiyuan

Yao Zhiyuan, born in 1952 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, is Yao's father. He used to be a basketball player and served as a center. He is 2.08 meters tall. I used to be a welder in the factory, and then I started to play ball. He played for Shanghai Men's basketball team from 1970 to 1979. From then on to 2002, he was a management cadre of Shanghai MSA. In 1980, he was recalled by the Shanghai Municipal Sports Commission to participate in the men's basketball competition of the nine cities games in Shanghai. On September 12, his son Yao Ming was born.

Yao Ming talks about parents

They are the most common parents. They love me and love me very much. Of course, they are as wordy as all parents. If I come home late, my mother will prepare delicious food for me. She can walk into my room three times in two minutes and tell me where the toothbrush, toothpaste and towel are. The most precious quality they taught me was honesty; and kindness, but not blindness.

Over the years, I have got many valuable biographies from my parents. Mother is a serious person, from her I inherited the habit of getting to the bottom of things and doing things unambiguously persistent. From my father, I inherited his sense of humor. Especially when I don't understand something, his philosophy is to take a step back, give myself time to adjust, and then try again.

Basketball family

Organizing matchmaking

In 1979, Yao Zhiyuan and Fang Fengdi retired from their respective basketball teams because they were too old. At that time, pop organizations introduced people. "I'd like to introduce you, comrade Dafang. This is Comrade Dayao. You two should fall in love." Their own conditions are not easy to find. The male is 2.08 meters and the female is 1.88 meters. They are also in Shanghai. Their height is too different from that of ordinary people. So, although Dafang is 4 years older than Dayao, they are at least the right height together. Of course, they have the right personality. When men and women are together, it's better to complement each other in character. If they are both "horizontal", they will be in trouble. In that way, no one will be allowed to make trouble at home every day. Some men are a little harder and some women are a little softer. Of course, this is the best, but some women are a little more horizontal and some men are a little softer. This is also quite appropriate, at least people think it is appropriate.

Yao Zhiyuan is 2.08 meters tall and elegant. But I'm a real good man. I smile at everyone. At home, they basically don't make up their minds. Their daughter-in-law decides everything. Generous style is very tough, or how can you be the captain of the Chinese women's basketball team. Later, Yao Ming's style of playing was mostly his mother's. He is generous and has his own ideas. Therefore, although they are four years apart, they are complementary and get along well.

Their work after retirement is also organized. Yao Zhiyuan went to the port of Shanghai to take charge of ship inspection to check whether there are any smuggled things and whether there are any things that should not come in. The leader said, you are tall and easy to check, others have to climb the ladder, you don't need to stand there to see; generous is to stay in the mouth of sports, working in the Scientific Research Institute of Shanghai Sports Committee.

Yao Ming was born

On the evening of September 12, 1980, Yao Zhiyuan, the 2.08m center of Shanghai Men's basketball team, walked anxiously outside the delivery room of the sixth hospital, while his wife Fang Fengdi, the 1.88m center of Shanghai women's basketball team, was suffering from the pain of giving birth. However, Yao Zhiyuan, who had retired, was called back to the team because of the nine cities games. This evening, it happened to be the final of the men's Basketball Championship and runner up. Around 6 o'clock, the Shanghai Sports Commission special car pulled Yao Zhiyuan away from the hospital. When he walked out of the hospital, Yao Zhiyuan turned back three times, got on the car and looked straight back. When Yao Zhiyuan held the championship trophy high, he learned that Yao Ming was born, dropped the trophy and ran to the hospital.

Yao Ming looks fatter than the average kid. The child, weighing 10 Jin and 22 Liang, made her mother Fang Fengdi suffer a lot. It was also the heaviest baby in the hospital that day. Ten Jin and two Liang. It's an incredible weight. So far, no one in China's national basketball team has been able to break Yao Ming's birth weight record.

In the spring of 2002, when Yao Ming led the Shanghai Oriental men's basketball team to attack the champion in the CBA league with an irresistible momentum, the sports section of Xinmin Evening News, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Shanghai, creatively published a cartoon of "sister Yao Ming", exclaiming that if Yao Zhiyuan's wife had given birth to the next girl at the beginning, the Shanghai Oriental women's basketball team would have won the championship just like searching for something.

ordinary family

After Yao became more and more attractive, people began to focus on his parents Yao Zhiyuan and Fang Fengdi. In people's opinion, Yao Zhiyuan and his wife not only gave their son a height that ordinary people can't match, but also had a profound and important influence on Yao Ming's character building. Yao Ming is not only endowed with tall and flexible basketball talent, but also breaks the Convention of Chinese athletes for decades in personality development. His wisdom and alertness make him quickly become the favorite of the news media after becoming famous. In this regard, Yao Zhiyuan and his wife's education of their son is both successful and mysterious.

At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, China's sports industry was far from the embryonic stage. Under the professional system at that time, the life of athletes was even more miserable than ordinary people, and their employment after retirement was also a huge problem. Therefore, both Yao Zhiyuan and Fang Fengdi have always maintained a very industrious and frugal life style, no matter when they were athletes or after they retired to work in the Shanghai Port Supervision Bureau and the Scientific Research Institute of the Shanghai Sports Commission. Even after Yao Ming can bring a lot of income to the family, they still don't have the luxury habit. Like the vast majority of Shanghai people, they never spend what they shouldn't spend, and take care of every daily expense very carefully.

Lead the way for children

The story of shoes

Yao Zhiyuan said: the most strict control of Yao Ming is to make friends, especially when he was 17 or 18 years old. He was afraid that he would make bad friends, so we all asked who he played with during that time. But we haven't found out who he has a bad relationship with. He's not a mean kid. Unlike ordinary parents who object to their children playing video games, Yao Ming was admitted to Shanghai No.2 Middle School, a key middle school. In order to reward him, Yao Zhiyuan bought a video game for him. As a result, the video game became the most important source of Yao Ming's happiness. When Yao Zhiyuan sent Yao Ming to junior sports school to train basketball, he didn't want his son to become a professional player in the future. He just wanted him to be active. If you play basketball by the way, you will be admitted to key middle schools and universities in the future, and you will get bonus points.

Yao Zhiyuan said: Yao's basic and long-term trouble is shoes. At first Yao Ming wore his mother's shoes, then mine. I was a size 46, and later he couldn't wear them. His mother Fang Fengdi went to Beijing and her coach of Bayi team to ask for some large shoes. Later, she couldn't find them. We had to ask someone to buy shoes in the United States. After Nike noticed Yao Ming, the story of shoes disappeared, but the length of pants never seemed enough.

Calm is the foundation

When he first went to Houston, there was a lot of pressure on Yao Ming, who was only 22 years old. Fortunately, Yao Ming has a natural sense of humor for himself and his life. In the past, Yao Zhiyuan repeatedly told his son not to be complacent when he heard other people's encouragement and appreciation. Later, father said less and less. Because he found that when his son was older, he had a fresh mind, and he was more decent in dealing with people, and he would not take other people's good or bad words seriously. But Yao can keep calm and modest in any situation and try his best to smile. He once told his father, "I'd rather have two less points than two more blocks!" Yao did it. It seems that there is no reason for Jordan to exclaim "this child is not simple", but Jordan's blessing is also meaningful: "for this child, the responsibility on his shoulders is too heavy, not only basketball, but also the expectation of the whole country. I just hope that basketball can become a paradise for him to relax, be happy and express himself

Liang Tiqing used to be Yao Zhiyuan's teammate. They play together in the basketball hall of Shanghai Jiaotong University every weekend. Yao Zhiyuan's deepest impression on Lao Liang is low-key: once, when Shanghai veteran team went to other places to play, he never heard Da Yao talk about Yao Ming for seven days, never taking the initiative to talk about his son. We joked with Dayao, your son is a star, your father is also a star, and he only said, son is a son, I just like basketball. Lao Liang sighed that the reason why Yao Ming can make all Chinese proud is not only because of his skills, but also because of his personality. This is inseparable from the education of Yao Zhiyuan and his wife, and they have paid too much.

For the growth of Yao Ming, Yao Zhiyuan's hope is very simple: be a good man and play well. Yao Zhiyuan said sincerely and frankly: "if we knew Yao Ming could be so famous now, we would have started to use a book to help him keep a diary."

Rest city life

Strong backing

Yao Ming entered the NBA in 2002. Just arrived in the United States, Yao Zhiyuan, over 50, and his wife spent more than a month learning to drive. Yao Zhiyuan still remembers the cost of the exam, 24 dollars. Yao's three people have two cars in total. It takes Yao Zhiyuan about 40 minutes to drive from his home to Chinatown, which is his regular shopping route. There are more than 50000 local Chinese in Houston. Yao Zhiyuan didn't feel like a star father when he went shopping in Chinatown. Local Chinese would greet him.

In NBA, he plays more than 100 games a year. Compared with black people's physique, Yao Ming is inborn. Tonifying the body is what parents have been trying to do. Yao Zhiyuan

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