It's winter again, and Chen Qiang has also resumed his daily training and study.

The North China Games has come to an end, and next year there will only be a large-scale competition in the National Games.

Chen Qiang is a little envious of those athletes in later generations, who continue to compete all year round. There are international-level competitions for international-level athletes, national-level athletes have national-level competitions, and even provincial and municipal athletes can participate in many competitions.

For example, in track and field, at the beginning of each year, the Athletics Association announces the year's competition plan, with various Grand Prix, championships, trials, and even many special competitions. For example, throwing, long-distance running, and race walking are all specially organized competitions.

Ordinary people may not notice that China will hold so many sports competitions a year, but Chen Qiang, a professor at the University of Physical Education, knows this very well, and he also has a certain status in the domestic sports circles.

During the Republic of China, as an athlete, it was good to have one game a year.

As an athlete, there is no one who is not eager to compete, and most athletes are eager to participate in more competitions and show themselves through competitions, so the days without competitions are also very difficult for Chen Qiang.

"In this era, there are many games in the United States, and now the economic situation in the United States should have improved, or I will find a chance to go to the United States again?"

Chen Qiang was pondering when a voice sounded from beside him.

"Chen Qiang, the principal asked you to go to his office." Chen Qiang looked up and saw that the person who spoke was Yan Renying.

Yan Renying is a celebrity of Nankai University, Chen Qiang had a deep impression of him, and not long ago at the North China Games, Yan Renying's "Don't forget the national shame" made Chen Qiang move to tears, and since then, Chen Qiang has a feeling of admiration for Yan Renying.

Chen Qiang thanked Yan Renying, and then went to Zhang Boling's office.

Pushing open the door of the principal's office, Zhang Boling was waiting inside, in addition to Zhang Boling, there was also a middle-aged man in his forties sitting on the sofa.

"Professor Zhang, you're here too!" Chen Qiang hurriedly greeted the middle-aged man.

"Xiao Chen, come and sit!" The middle-aged man was also out of sight, and directly let Chen Qiang sit beside him.

This middle-aged man is Zhang Boling's younger brother Zhang Pengchun.

Zhang Pengchun is also a famous educator in modern times, the European and American drama performance system was introduced to China by Zhang Fengchun, and the Chinese director system was also pioneered by Zhang Pengchun, in addition to he also held a position in the United Nations, and participated in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Zhang Pengchun is also the founder of Chinese drama, and he has also made great contributions to China's cultural development and education, but because Zhang Boling's fame is too great, he covered up Zhang Pengchun's deeds, so that later generations do not know much about him.

Zhang Pengchun graduated from Columbia University in the United States, served as the provost of Tsinghua University, and later went to the University of Chicago to teach.

Chen Qiang came to Zhang Pengchun and sat down, only to hear Zhang Pengchun speak: "Xiao Chen, our school has just received a telegram from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanjing, which says that the Soviets plan to invite you to visit. ”

"The Soviets invited me?" Chen Qiang asked with some surprise, he didn't expect his fame to spread to the Soviet Union.

"Of course not you're alone. To be precise, we invite well-known figures from China's cultural and sports circles. Zhang Boling interjected.

"And who else but me?" Chen Qiang then asked.

"In the sports world, apart from you, only Hong Kong's Li Huitang was invited. There are more people in the cultural circle, such as Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang and movie star Dancing Butterfly...... Peng Chun will also go with you. Zhang Boling pointed to his younger brother.

Zhang Pengchun has a close personal relationship with Mei Lanfang, which Chen Qiang knows. When Mei Lanfang performed in the United States, Zhang Pengchun was Mei Lanfang's artistic director, and Mei Lanfang's various activities in the United States were also handled by Zhang Pengchun.

Zhang Pengchun went on to introduce: "This time we went to the Soviet Union, we don't have to worry about the cost, the Soviets said on the telegram that they have all the expenses, and even the round-trip ferry tickets have been prepared, so we just need to take someone with us." ”

"When will you go?" Chen Qiang asked.

"After the Spring Festival, in February! It was a month to walk on the road, and it was only in March that we arrived in the Soviet Union. Zhang Pengchun replied.

"It should still be cold in the USSR in March, right? I'll have to go to a fur shop and buy mink! Chen Qiang replied with a smile.

……

Historically, the Soviet Union also invited China's literary and artistic circles to visit the Soviet Union at this time, of course, the most important thing was to invite Mr. Mei Lanfang, and everyone else was a foil, because Mr. Mei Lanfang was quite famous in the theater circles all over the world.

Now, in addition to Mei Lanfang, there is also a Chen Qiang in China who is also an internationally renowned figure, so the Soviet Union invited Chen Qiang together, anyway, the Soviet Union has a big business, and it is not bad to invite this person.

Of course, the Soviet Union did not invite Mei Lanfang and Chen Qiang to visit for no reason.

Since its establishment, the Soviet Union has been isolated from the whole world because of ideology, but in the early thirties, the rise of Germany made Britain, France and European countries panic, so they threw an olive branch to the Soviet Union to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and use the Soviet Union to deal with Germany.

The Soviet Union also hoped to get rid of the situation of being isolated by the West, and it was also happy to accept the goodwill of Britain and France, and the two sides hit it off. In September 1934, the Soviet Union joined the "League of Nations", which also marked the easing of relations between the Soviet Union and the West.

The Soviet Union, which had just entered the "League of Nations," was also eager to integrate into the international community, but the ideology of the Soviet Union was different from that of Britain and the United States, and if it was to be started from a military or political point of view, it might cause unease and backlash from Britain and the United States and other countries.

In addition to Mei Lanfang, the Soviet Union at that time also invited many musicians and painters, such as the famous artist Picasso, who also visited the Soviet Union many times during that era.

……

In mid-February, Chen Qiang arrived in Shanghai and met Mr. Mei Lanfang, whom he had admired for a long time.

In the thirties, it was not easy to listen to Mr. Mei's play. After returning from the U.S. tour, Mr. May's appearance fee has risen to 10 gold bars, which is not something that ordinary theaters can afford. And this kind of master-level character can't be performed every day. Mr. Mei's performance is like a concert held by a superstar in later generations, and it is not easy to perform a few times a year. And every time Mr. Mei performs, it is naturally hard to get a ticket.

In Shanghai, Chen Qiang did not see Mr. Mei's performance, but Chen Qiang was not in a hurry, this time to visit the Soviet Union, Mr. Mei will perform a total of six performances, Chen Qiang has the opportunity to enjoy Mr. Mei's heroic posture on the stage.

On 21 February, the delegation boarded the ship "North" and headed for the Soviet Far East, where it arrived at a train through Siberia to Moscow.

It's much easier to take the train than the boat, the train is not bumpy like a ship, and you can enjoy the Siberian scenery along the way. Moreover, the Soviet Union ordered special train rooms for the visiting delegation, and the food was of the highest standard, and after a 10-day trip, the visiting delegation gained several pounds on average.

On March 12, the train arrived in Moscow, where the Soviet Foreign Ministry sent Bao Lewei, deputy director of the Oriental Department, to meet it, and the Chinese embassy in the Soviet Union sent an chargé d'affaires to the railway station.

Chen Qiang and his entourage were arranged to stay in the hotel, and then Chen Qiang also got the itinerary for the next few days.

Mr. Mei's performance starts on March 23 and runs until March 28, with one performance a day. So before that, his main itinerary was to visit, attend the welcome banquet, and prepare for the show.

Chen Qiang doesn't have to perform at night, so Chen Qiang's schedule is to visit and participate in the welcome banquet.

According to the itinerary, tomorrow at noon, the Soviet Association for Foreign Exchange will hold a welcome luncheon to welcome the Chinese delegation. The itinerary Shanghai lists a long list of banquet attendees.

This large list of names are all well-known figures in the Soviet literary and artistic circles, but none of them are known to Chen Qiang, and several big figures in Soviet politics that Chen Qiang is familiar with do not appear on the list.

Suddenly, a familiar name finally fell into Chen Qiang's eyes.

Konstantin Stanislavsky!

Chen Qiang's familiarity with Stanislavsky is still because of the book "The Self-cultivation of Actors", this book will be very popular in the future, although there are few people who have read this book, but there are a lot of jokes caused by this book, Chen Qiang also knew Stanislavsky by reading various jokes.

Chen Qiang is not from a film and television-related major, and he doesn't know Stanislavsky's contribution to drama, but since he is a celebrity, Chen Qiang certainly can't miss it.

So Chen Qiang found a waiter at the hotel, gave him some money, and asked him to buy a Russian version of "Actor's Self-cultivation".

……

At the welcome luncheon of the Soviet Association for Foreign Exchange, Chen Qiang really met Stanislavsky.

"Mr. Stanislavsky, it's an honor to have lunch with you, can you sign for me?" Chen Qiang said, and took out the book "Actor's Self-cultivation".

Stanislavsky had a surprised expression, he was also a drama actor when he was young, and he was also sought after a lot at that time, but when he came to him for an autograph with a copy of "The Self-cultivation of Actors", Stanislavsky encountered it for the first time.

What's more, the other party is still a Chinese, and he is an athlete, not a person engaged in theater.

Mei Lanfang also looked at Chen Qiang with some puzzlement, he didn't expect that Chen Qiang not only liked to pull people to take pictures, but also liked to let people sign books.

When he was in the United States, Chen Qiang bought a portable camera for himself to take photos with celebrities. On the train to Moscow, Chen Qiang took Mei Lanfang for a group photo every day, almost taking selfies without dead ends, and it is estimated that it took several to hand in the papers.

Stanislavsky took the book "Self-cultivation of Actors" with a smile, signed it and handed it back to Chen Qiang.

Chen Qiang took this "Actor's Self-cultivation" with a happy face, and secretly said in his heart that if it is placed in the future, this "Actor's Self-cultivation" signed by Stanislavsky will definitely be sold to those traffic stars who are not very good at acting and like to pretend to be forced, and it will definitely be a very high price.

Stanislavsky, who was next to him, said: "Mr. Chen, you make me feel like a well-known writer, you remind me of a friend of mine, he is a great writer, he has a pen name, his name is Maxim Gorky!" ”

"Gorky!" This name shocked Chen Qiang's heart, and he immediately asked: "Is Mr. Gorky also in Moscow now?" ”

"Yes, he lives in Moscow now." Stanislavsky replied.

"I don't know if I have the privilege to visit Mr. Gorky." Chen Qiang immediately said that he had already made up his mind in his heart to buy a few copies of Gorky's works and ask him to sign them.

"Are you interested in his work too?" Stanislavsky asked.

"Yes, every time I read Mr. Gorky's "The Petrel", I feel excited!" Chen Qiang replied.

In fact, apart from "Haiyan", Chen Qiang has not seen Gorgibe's works, and "Haiyan" is still learned from textbooks.

As soon as he heard that Chen Qiang could really tell Gorky's works, Stanislavsky felt that Chen Qiang was really Gorky's reader. Considering Chen Qiang's status as the "world's No. 1 athlete", there is nothing wrong with introducing him to Gorky.

Stanislavsky nodded: "Well, I can make an appointment with Gorky for you, I think he will be looking forward to your visit." ”

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Over the next few days, Chen Qiang began to visit sports in the Soviet Union.

Because of its isolation, the Soviet Union did not participate in the last few Olympic Games, and even if the Soviet Union wanted to, those Western countries did not want the Soviet Union to appear on the international stage.

The Soviets are also tough, if you don't let me participate in the Olympics, then I will hold a sports meeting myself, that is, the All-Union Games.

In terms of the scale of the competition, the All-Union Games were no less than the Olympics, if not higher, and in some of the events in which the Soviets were strong, the level of competition was even better than that of the Olympics.

For example, on August 12, 1928, the Soviet Union held the first All-Union Games on Red Square in Moscow, with more than 7,000 athletes participating, while interestingly, only 3,014 athletes participated in the ninth Olympic Games held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the same day. The Soviet Union was clearly in the ring with the Olympics.

However, the All-Union Games were held in the summer, so Chen Qiang did not have the opportunity to witness the grand occasion of the All-Union Games, and he could only understand the real situation of the All-Union Games through some videos and pictures.

For Chen Qiang, these images and pictures are also extremely precious, and many of them have not been preserved.

During the defense of Moscow during World War II, the Kremlin could already be seen in the telescopes of the Germans, and in that case, Moscow was about to be lost, and no one protected this kind of image and picture data, and even if it could be preserved, it would be damaged to a certain extent when the Soviet Union collapsed.

Chen Qiang feels that as a sports person in later generations, it is really an honor to be able to see these precious materials.

Later, Chen Qiang personally felt the labor and health system of Soviet sports.

The Soviet Union was the founder of the "Labor and Health System", and they began to implement it in 1931. The full name of the labor and health system is the "sports system for preparing for labor and defending the motherland", which is to promote the active participation of the people in various sports through the grade test of sports, so as to improve the physical strength, endurance, speed, dexterity and other qualities of the body. To put it simply, it is a kind of national participation in the movement.

Those who passed the test of the "labor and health system" were awarded medals or certificates, which was an honor that everyone aspired to in the Soviet Union at that time, especially under the system of a planned economy, which was far more important than money. It is also for this reason that the first thing Moscow workers do at the end of work is not to go home, but to exercise on the playground.

The standards of the Soviet labor system are actually quite high, and in modern times, most people can't meet them. Not to mention anything else, there are too many people who can't do it if they complete 10,000 meters with weight within the specified time, and many people are afraid that they can't even run down 10,000 meters. Therefore, those who could meet the standards of the labor and health system at that time basically had athlete-level physical fitness.

At the end of the thirties, more than 6 million people were awarded the Order of Labor and Defense, which is 6 million people with the physical fitness of an athlete! With a little training, there are six million elite soldiers who are physically strong, and it is precisely because of this that the Soviet Union experienced the loss of millions of soldiers in the early days of World War II, but the Soviet Union still became more and more violent.

In the early 60s, after 30 years of implementation, more than 30 million people in the Soviet Union had been awarded the Order of Labor and Defense, so that the whole of Western Europe trembled under the gaze of the Soviet Union, and the United States worried every day that the Soviet Union's steel torrent would suddenly rush through the Berlin Wall and conquer the whole of Europe. Just imagine that in those days, the Soviet Union could storm 30 million troops at any time, and it would be abnormal for Western Europe and the United States to be afraid of it!

From this aspect, it can also be seen that in the wars of that era, population was extremely important, and if a country had insufficient population, it would not even be able to guarantee national defense. For example, in Iceland and Norway, where birds don't poop, it's okay to say, if you have a strong neighbor around you and don't have two brushes yourself, it will inevitably be the result of being bullied or even swallowed up.

……

It's still relatively cold in Moscow in March, and although it's not snowy, you still have to keep your down jacket warm when you go out. Of course, there were no down jackets in that era, so Chen Qiang could only put on his mink coat.

Anyone who has passed through the mink knows that this thing is indeed very cold, so Chen Qiang wrapped himself tightly and didn't feel cold at all.

However, Li Huitang, a southerner, is a little unbearable.

Li Huitang's ancestral home is Guangzhou, born in Hong Kong, his ancestors have lived in Lingnan for several generations, and he is born with not many genes to protect against the cold, so the weather in Moscow is really a torment for Li Huitang.

Li Huitang came to Moscow, probably like a person from Guangzhou in the future who went to university in the Northeast, went with the thickest clothes, and only found out after arriving in the Northeast that he was still frozen into a dog!

Fortunately, there was no shortage of tailors in Moscow, and Li Huitang went to buy a five-piece set of coats, hats, gloves, woolen pants, and cotton shoes, so that he did not get sick from the cold.

Li Huitang was also very popular in Moscow, because at that time, the hottest sport in Moscow was football.

In the twenties, the Soviet Union ended the civil war, and the domestic sports industry also ushered in a great development, the most rapid development of which is football, and today the most famous sports clubs "Dinamo", "Spartacus", "Lokomotiv", "Military Club" and so on were born at that time.

Compared to football in Western Europe and South America, football in the Soviet Union has always been rough. Li Huitang, the Asian football king, showed off his skills club by club, which immediately convinced these Soviet football players!

The Soviet Union has also been isolated by the international community for too long, and their football players have not had the opportunity to communicate with British or French athletes. ”

On the football field, Li Huitang impressed the Russian football players, and on the track and field field, Chen Qiang also killed all sides.

Sprinting and the long jump are not complex sports, and in the Soviet Union, where the labor system was introduced, sprinting and long jump, and even one of the test items of the labor system, everyone understood.

Therefore, the sports projects displayed by Chen Qiang are also more "down-to-earth", and at the same time, when Chen Qiang also communicates, he will also encounter many challengers.

The title of "No. 1 in the world" is like the "No. 1 master in the world" in martial arts, and everyone wants to fight for it. What's more, sports competitions are not martial arts competitions, and if you lose, you won't die, in case you win, then the gimmick of "defeating the world's first" is enough to blow yourself for a lifetime.

The Soviet Union under the labor and health system did not lack experts in sports, especially those who had outstanding results in the labor and health system test, and they felt that they were very powerful, and they looked like they didn't know the height of the sky, and they wanted to compete with Chen Qiang, and then they were educated by Chen Qiang.

This is also because the Soviet Union has been isolated for too long, and Soviet athletes have been absent from several Olympic Games in a row, they just play their own All-Union Games, and they don't know how terrible the strength of the world's top athletes is, and they feel that they are very powerful in Moscow, and they are the top in the Soviet Union, so they can be proud of the world.

……

On the training ground of the Moscow Central Athletics Team.

Yurasov, the head coach of the track and field team, looked at the long jump sand pit with a grim face.

Chen Qiang tried to jump once, and casually jumped out of a score of more than 7.5 meters, which directly extinguished the desire of other athletes to challenge.

That's 7.5 meters, and the long jumpers of the Moscow Central Athletics Team really can't jump so well.

It's not just the long jump, the four fastest runners in the Most Central Track and Field Team just now competed with Chen Qiang for a 100-meter sprint, and the result was also a fiasco. Chen Qiang casually ran a time of 10.5 seconds, brushing the Russian sprinter behind him, and Yurasov could even feel that Chen Qiang did not exert his strength.

"Is there really such a big gap between our athletes and the world's No. 1!" Yurasov said secretly in his heart, and then a trace of unwillingness appeared on his face.

The Moscow Central Athletics Team is the best track and field team in the entire Soviet Union, so in the domestic competitions of the Soviet Union, Yurasov can always taste the fruits of victory, even if he occasionally loses one or two games, he will not lose so badly.

Chen Qiang's world-class performance has dealt a serious blow to Yurasov's self-esteem. Accustomed to victory, he would never allow such a fiasco.

Yurasov wanted to get back on the field, but Chen Qiang's strength gave Yurasov a sense of powerlessness.

I can't run, I can't jump, I really don't have the same skills! There's no way to get back on the field.

Suddenly, Yurasov had an idea, called his assistant and whispered a few words.

At this time, a group of athletes were surrounding Chen Qiang in the middle.

"Comrade Chen Qiang, it's my honor to be able to give you a test!"

"Comrade Chen Qiang, this jump of yours is really amazing, you must be using a standing up position, right?"

"Comrade Chen Qiang, can you show us the technique of standing up and taking off again?"

Chen Qiang didn't know anything about Russian, except for the sentence "Davarishi", Chen Qiang couldn't understand anything, and the enthusiasm of these athletes also made the on-site interpreter a little overwhelmed, and he didn't know how to translate that sentence.

Finally, Chen Qiang escaped from the encirclement of enthusiastic athletes and came to the side of head coach Yurasov.

"Comrade Chen Qiang, your performance just now is really wonderful." Yurasov first praised Chen Qiang a few words, and then took Chen Qiang to the discus training ground under the pretext of visiting.

I saw several big men standing there, all of them discus throwers.

"Comrade Chen Qiang, these are the best discus throwers in our Soviet Union."

After Yurasov finished speaking, he introduced Chen Qiang to these big men.

Then Yurasov pointed to one of the tallest men and said, "Davydov, show your discus throws." Comrade Chen Qiang is the world's No. 1 athlete, and being able to get his guidance is also an opportunity for us to learn and progress. ”

The brawny man named David nodded and walked up to the throwing zone.

This Davydorf is more than two meters tall, his weight looks like he has to weigh three hundred pounds, and his arms are extraordinarily thick, and his arm strength is extraordinary at first glance.

I saw him walk up to the throwing area, pick up the discus, and throw it forward, and shout at the same time:

"Hah!"

I saw the discus fly through the air, like a meteor, and fall to the ground.

Judging from the markers on the ground, Davidoff's throw had reached a distance of 40 meters.

"It's not bad, I didn't use the back-to-back throwing technique, and I was able to throw the discus 40 meters, which is very good." Chen Qiang secretly commented in his heart.

Yurasov, who was next to him, smiled smugly, and he was clearly pleased with the result. I only heard him speak: "Comrade Chen Qiang, please give me more advice." ”

"The athletes in your country are very good. As for the guidance, I don't dare to be it, after all, I am not a discus thrower, and my understanding of the game of discus is not so deep. Chen Qiang said modestly.

"Comrade Chen Qiang is too modest, you are the world's No. 1 athlete, how can you not understand the discus! Give us a few words! Yurasov continued.

Yurasov was very enthusiastic, and Chen Qiang did not doubt it, besides, Chen Qiang was a university professor after all, and someone asked for advice, just like a student came to ask questions, and the professional attributes of that kind of professor were also instantly possessed, so he nodded and said, "Then I'll just say a few words." ”

"First of all, let's talk about the problem of pre-swing when throwing discus, pre-swing is to obtain pre-speed, create favorable conditions for rotation, there are two common pre-swings, left and right back swing cake method and body front and back swing cake method, you just used the left and right back swing cake method, but your body center of gravity is not right, your upper body leans forward too much......"

"Next, let's talk about the coordination of your upper and lower limbs. An important technical detail in this regard that cannot be ignored is the swing of your left arm, although you are throwing with your right hand, your left arm still needs to exert force, so that it can organically cooperate with the right leg to push the ground and the abduction of the left knee......"

"Then I'll tell you about your left shoulder......

"Just talking about the abduction of the left knee, then we have to mention the problem of single support rotation of the left leg......"

"Your right leg is spinning, the swing is too small......"

Chen Qiang talked endlessly, and at this time he seemed to have regained the feeling he had when he was a coach.

However, the discus thrower, named Davydoff, had an increasingly embarrassed expression.

Davydov originally felt that he threw the discus very well, and there were few people in the entire Soviet Union who could compare with him.

As a result, after Chen Qiang said this, there were shortcomings everywhere, and David felt that his discus discus skills were worthless by Chen Qiang!

At this moment, Davydorf was furious, he felt that Chen Qiang was picking bones in eggs that he didn't know how to pretend to understand.

He directly interrupted Chen Qiang's words, and said angrily: "You said so much, is it just that my skills are not good?" If you're that good, go up and throw a discus throw at me! ”

"Comrade David Dov, Comrade Chen Qiang is our guest, how can you talk to him like this, pay attention to your attitude!" Head coach Yurasov put on a reprimanded face.

Then Yurasov turned around and said to Chen Qiang: "Comrade Chen Qiang, what you just said is very reasonable, but our athletes lack understanding ability and cannot understand Comrade Chen Qiang's guidance at all. I don't think it's better to do this, so I bother Comrade Chen Qiang to demonstrate it in person, which will also help us athletes deepen their understanding. ”

Chen Qiang was slightly stunned, and then he realized that he seemed to have been set up by Yurasov.

He looked at Yurasov, then at Davydov and the other throwers, and his expression was clearly saying: You can do it!

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