Hou Yifan was praised as a talented girl by the media, but she denied that she was a genius. She said, "I thank my mother for giving me a warm' drifting house' …"
Going north to Jinan, the small town houses were "scattered" overnight.
In the midsummer of 200 1, 7-year-old Hou Yifan was sent to Jinan, Shandong Province, where he studied under the chess master Tong Yuanming.
Hou Yifan's father and mother sent their daughter to Jinan. On the way back, Wang Xi kept getting calls from her daughter: "Mom, don't leave me" and "Mom, I miss you ..." Every time she answered the phone, Wang Xi's tears were flashing.
Hou works in the People's Procuratorate of xinghua city, Jiangsu Province, and his wife is a nurse in xinghua city People's Hospital. Daughter Hou Yifan was born on1February 27th, 994, which brought countless happiness to Hou family.
On Hou Yifan's fifth birthday, her mother gave her a pair of small checkers. Xiao Yifan has nothing to do, so he plays chess alone. Before long, she played checkers very skillfully, and no one in her family was her opponent. After discovering their daughter's amazing chess talent, the couple decided to send her daughter to learn chess.
1August 1998, Hou Yifan was sent to a Chinese chess training class. Xiao Yifan got in at once and was not interested in other toys and games that other children often played. He only has chess in his mind and heart.
At the end of this year, xinghua city won a national chess championship, which made the whole city jubilant. Xinghua also set off a wave of learning chess. Wang Xi is also following the trend. 1May, 999, she sent her daughter to a chess training class.
In July, 20001,Jiangsu Chess Academy held a children's competition in Zhenjiang. Hou Yifan performed well and won the championship. Her performance attracted the attention of the father of Tong Yuanming, a chess grandmaster who came to watch the game.
Wang Xi has long heard of Tong Yuanming's name. He is not only the main fighter of Qilu Evening News chess team, but also an excellent coach, who has trained more than 20 national children's champions. Wang Xi took advantage of the child's father's appreciation of Hou Yifan, and asked him to help thread the needle and let Hou Yifan worship Tong Yuanming. Soon, Tong Yuanming accepted Hou Yifan.
My daughter is studying chess in Jinan, but Wang Xi doesn't think about tea and rice. Her mind is full of her daughter. A few days later, she had the idea of quitting to take care of her daughter. However, it was opposed by both parents. "Playing chess is a kind of entertainment, how can you eat it!" "Your work is too good, you will quit your words. Where can I find such a place in the future? "
At the critical moment, fortunately, Hou was very supportive: "It is worthwhile for us to make some sacrifices for our daughter. You quit to take care of her, I support it! "
So, Wang Xi went through the formalities of leaving her job without pay and went to Jinan alone, rented a private house and took care of her daughter.
Learning chess in Hou Yifan costs a lot, plus renting a house and living expenses, and Wang Qian resigned, so the burden of family life is on Hou Xue's fitness. In order to support her daughter to learn chess, Hou quit smoking and drinking, rented her own house at the price of 3000 yuan per year, and moved to her eldest sister's house.
Almost overnight, a happy and peaceful home was thus "torn apart", and Wang Xi felt a pang of sadness. Hou wiped her tears and comforted her: "It's not like we don't have a home. As long as we have you and your daughter, this is our home! "
Wandering in Beijing, you can settle down anywhere.
In Jinan, although mother and daughter live in a simple house, Wang Xi always tries her best to make the house warm and beautiful. She pasted tiles and changed curtains, and spent thousands of dollars to buy a beautiful fabric sofa according to the layout of Xinghua's home. The kitchen also bought necessities according to the standards of the family.
Hou Yifan didn't understand her mother's behavior at first. "Mom, this is a rented house. We'll move if we say so. Aren't all these things wasted? " Instead of answering, Wang Xi asked her daughter, "Dear daughter, do you feel at home living here?" Hou Yifan nodded seriously.
Wang Xi showed a gratified smile. "That's good. This is our home. Even if we only stay for one day, I will make you feel at home! " Xiao Yifan understands that mother is good for her!
In 2004, Hou Yifan, who just turned 10, took part in the "Li Chengzhi Cup" National Children's Championship 12-year-old competition and won the gold medal with a total score of 1 1, which stunned coaches and experts all over the country.
Ye Jiangchuan, director of the chess department of China Chess Academy and head coach of the national team, praised: "This child has clear thinking and sensitive reflection. He sat there, with a calm and domineering look, and his moves were boundless! "
In 2005, Hou Yifan, aged 1 1, became a member of the national team. Wang Xi and her daughter moved to Beijing. At first, the mother and daughter could only rent in a small house of more than 20 square meters. The rent in Beijing is much more expensive than that in Jinan, which makes Wang Xi breathless.
That autumn, Wang Xi changed her daughter's mat and put a sheet on it. But that night, Hou Yifan tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. Wang Xi asked her daughter, "What's the matter?" Hou Yifan said, "I used to sleep in plaid sheets, which often reminded me of the chessboard. I'm not used to sleeping on this light green sheet ... "
It was dark the next day, and Wang Qiancai rode home sweating. As soon as she entered the door, she shouted, "Fanfan, come and see the plaid sheets I bought for you."
Hou Yifan realized that early in the morning, after her mother sent herself to the chess room, she rode her bike to many shopping malls and wholesale markets, but she couldn't find the plaid sheets her daughter wanted.
Later, under the guidance of a kind aunt, she found a curtain city in the west of the city, chose a good plaid curtain cloth, begged to be a curtain master, and made sheets out of this cloth.
Lying on the sheets made of maternal love, Hou Yifan quietly shed tears. At this moment, she has a deeper understanding of the greatness of maternal love.
In recent years, from Hou Yifan to Jinan and Peking, and Hou have been separated and haven't seen each other for a year or even a month. Every time I think about it, Wang Xi blames himself.
Hou said to him, "You are training your daughter ahead. Your burden is much heavier than mine. If you blame yourself, I should blame myself even more! "
Parents' words fell into Hou Yifan's ears without saying a word. Holding her father in one hand and her mother in the other, she said tearfully, "Dad, mom, if our family can be together, it is more important than me winning ten gold medals!" "
On August 1 day, 2008, Hou came to Beijing to support his daughter free of charge. The family rented a 40-square-meter two-bedroom apartment in the National Training Center and settled down. Wang Xi also found a temporary job in the library of the National Elephant Team. After seven years of wandering, the family finally got together.
After defending the chess, give your parents a home where they will no longer wander.
With the great increase of chess, Hou Yifan won the first prize in most competitions and became a talented girl recognized in the circle. She also gradually developed a sense of pride. This makes Wang Xi a little uneasy.
Wang Xi's worries soon came true. On one occasion, in the first round of the China-France Youth Championship, Hou Yifan met 14-year-old French chess player La Grave. In the endgame stage, she was stunned and finally turned over by her opponent. In Vikanze Cup, Hou Yifan played 27 games in a row, and finally calculated the average score. As a result, he was only half a point away from being promoted to the men's grandmaster (the title of the player's highest technical level). According to the rules of the Chess Federation, past achievements are not accumulated, so Hou Yifan had to start from scratch.
Two undue mistakes made Xiao Yifan unacceptable for a while. Seeing her daughter's depression, Wang Xi enlightened her: "One or two defeats are not terrible, which shows that your chess skills are still immature and need to be tempered."
On one occasion, Hou Yifan drank the winter melon soup cooked by his mother, which made him feel delicious. He couldn't help drinking several bowls. Wang Xi timely asked her, "Do you know why winter melon soup tastes good? The key is to look at the heat. If the heat is well mastered, the soup can be delicious. "
Then, on a topic change, she said: "The image of the next country is the same, depending on the temperature. It is not good to be too impatient or too warm to swallow. If you don't attack when you need to fight, you will lose opportunities, but if you don't pay attention to strategy, it is difficult to win. You must master the heat properly and control your mentality. " Mother's words made her daughter thoughtful.
In this way, through Wang Xi's "soul soup" again and again, Yifan's mental outlook has undergone tremendous changes, and his potential has been fully released. In February 2007, Hou Yifan defeated the world men's grandmaster three times in the 6th Russian Aviation Cup Chess Open, which caused a sensation in the world chess world. In June of the same year, Hou Yifan won the national women's individual championship with a score of 1 1, becoming the youngest chess queen in China.
Hou Yifan often participates in international competitions, and language has become the biggest obstacle for her to communicate with foreign players. Wang Qian intends to enroll her daughter in an English training class, but the tuition is too high. After thinking hard, she had an idea.
She often takes Hou Yifan to the "English Corner" of some universities to communicate directly with college students and ask them for advice. At the same time, she also took the lead in attacking English. When mother and daughter communicate, she forces her daughter to communicate in English. When she met words and sentences that neither mother nor daughter knew, Wang Xi asked for advice everywhere. After a period of hard work, Hou Yifan has been able to speak fluent English.
201June 10, Hou Yifan won the individual gold medal of Guangzhou Asian Games. Then at the Women's Chess World Championship held in antakya, Turkey, she won the championship in one fell swoop, becoming the 13 world champion and the youngest world chess queen in the history of chess!
2011165438+1in the early morning of October 25th, Hou Yifan defended the world chess championship in Albania on 20 1 10, two rounds ahead of schedule!
After winning the championship, Hou Yifan smiled happily into a flower. When someone asked Hou Yifan what her goal was, she simply replied: "I want to study for a doctorate like my sister Xie Jun, and then I will buy a house for my parents who are wandering in Beijing, give them a comfortable nest, and let our family stop wandering!"
Motherly love drifting