Zhao, the father of China Fitness, was born in Xinhui, Guangdong in 1909, and died in Shanghai in199/0, enjoying a life of 82 years. Zhao was born in a poor family. At the age of 4, my father sneaked into the United States to work as a Chinese worker. He never came back and died in a foreign country. Due to overwork, her mother suffered from lung disease and had no money to treat her. Unfortunately, she died young. Seven-year-old Zhao had to live alone with his elderly grandfather and the farm. In order to get rid of loneliness and poverty, he has been diligent and studious since childhood. Fortunately, thanks to the support of his uncle and aunt, he barely finished middle school and college. When studying at Hujiang University, Zhao was always puzzled by the decline of the country and the weakness of the people. "Without a sound body, there is no sound mind. This is not the fundamental way, but the way to actively seek fitness." At Hujiang University, he personally heard the sound of the Battle of Songhu, which aroused his ambition to strengthen physical exercise and defend the motherland. It is with the dream of strengthening the country that he attended the fitness correspondence class of American fitness expert Lee. At that time, Zhao and his classmates practiced self-defense techniques such as boxing, wrestling and judo besides barbells, dumbbells and parallel bars. In particular, he really hopes that one day fitness will be popularized and the "sick man of East Asia" hat imposed on us by foreigners will be completely removed. Day-to-day fitness exercise has turned him from a weak scholar who is often ill into a burly and strong young man. The power of example calls on the students around to follow suit, and fitness activities have formed a craze on campus for a time. Therefore, Zhao organized students who are keen on it. Under his advocacy and organization, Hujiang University Fitness Club, the first fitness organization in China and the earliest fitness organization in Asia, was established. The name "bodybuilding" was also proposed by him. Hujiang University Bodybuilding Club has a training department and a editing department, and Zhao, who is in his early twenties, is undoubtedly the main force of each department. He loved literature since he was a child, so the "inaugural speech" he wrote on the wall newspaper of fitness club was magnificent and full of literary talent. One paragraph reads: "This is our first sound, not Luming Literature, but the roar of a giant lion. This kind of flood full of vitality can lead the dying people to a new life, and can awaken the people who are drunk and dreaming. This is the gospel of 450 million compatriots. Here, we can get supplements that nourish the soul; From here, we can taste the fountain of life. After graduating from Hujiang University, Zhao went to the Commercial Press as an editor. After work, he has been committed to the practice and spread of fitness. As early as 1930s, he translated the Law of Muscle Development written by American Li Demin, which was the first bodybuilding monograph published in China. This book was published by the Commercial Press and reprinted three times because of its great sales. Later, mcfadden translated and published books such as The Road to Health, Fifty Years of Sports Life, The Complete Book of Physical Exercise Law and The Secret of Strength. In addition, according to his own fitness training practice, Zhao has written books such as The Latest Dumbbell Exercise Method, Answers to Muscle Development Problems, and Freehand Fitness Exercise, and edited Jianlimei magazine and Sports Health Knowledge series, which played an important role in popularizing fitness knowledge and encouraging people to participate in fitness exercise. Life is really hard to maintain because of soaring prices. Zhao was so angry that he took part in the work stoppage and was fired by his boss. At this time, he is wandering in a foreign country. In order to let more compatriots get rid of the stigma of "sick man of East Asia", he and like-minded Zeng Weiqi co-founded Shanghai Fitness Institute. Zhao is the dean and editor-in-chief of teaching materials. This fitness institute, located in Jing 'an Temple Road (now Nanjing West Road), is the first institution of higher learning in China that uses scientific methods to guide physical exercise. Its motto was also formulated by Zhao, that is, "sound body, sound mind, sound personality and sound soul". After the opening of Shanghai Fitness Institute, as many as five or six people often come to exercise. Comfort, Han Fei, Zhang Fa, and other famous film artists, both dead and alive, have all engaged in fitness activities under the guidance of Zhao. Hospitals have trained a large number of backbone forces for the development of bodybuilding in China. Lou Zhuoyu, the only bodybuilding expert and senior executive director of the International Bodybuilding Federation, is the best in Shanghai Fitness Institute. After liberation, Zhao donated the Shanghai Fitness Center and all his sports equipment to the country. He works in Shanghai Institute of Physical Education, engaged in scientific research of bodybuilding and weightlifting. Zhao often goes deep into the training of sports teams, especially the Shanghai weightlifting team. Until he retired, he was over 70 years old and still went to Jiangwan training camp in the suburbs every week, in the wind and in the rain. After ten years of catastrophe, Ye Zhao was not spared. Despite serious mental and physical injuries, he never stopped exploring and interrupting his exercise, whether he was trapped or sent to a cadre school. He often practices several sets of push-ups and self-resistance gymnastics behind the defender. Sometimes I get criticized during the day and work hard at night. After the reform and opening up, he took the lead in publishing an article on how to carry out whole body muscle exercise in Sports Daily. Since then, bodybuilding, which was once neglected, has been revived with the joint efforts of Zhao, Zeng Weiqi, Lou Zhuoyu and fellow traveler Qi Xin, plus the propaganda of the news media. Shanghai Gymnasium and other places opened gyms or remedial classes, and Zhao was hired as a consultant. At that time, people who came to consult every day were overcrowded. He always receives them warmly and gives them everything, so that he often forgets to eat and sleep. In the meantime, two things happened: 1985, the customer of the gym sent 50 yuan's consulting fee, but Zhao insisted on not accepting it. Although the bearer repeatedly said that the financial approval could not be refunded, he still refused to nod. He said, "It is my responsibility and obligation to advocate and popularize bodybuilding. If the country has already given me a salary, how can I get it again? " 1987 On a hot summer night in July, a stranger came to Zhao's house. He is a Sichuan reader of Jianlimei magazine founded by Zhao in the 1940s. More than 40 years later, he still has a letter written to him by Zhao when answering readers. When he was doing business in Kuwait, he happened to meet a Shanghai athlete who was visiting China and learned Zhao Lao's address, so he was able to visit Shanghai specially. Probably because of Zhao's poor living conditions, a few months later, he asked someone to send him $ 20O from overseas as a gift to meet him. But Zhao insisted on refusing. Zhao said to his son, "You should be a man of backbone! "These two things seem insignificant today, but seeing the big from the small reflects Zhao's noble sentiment of leading an honest and clean life and regarding" profit "as a floating cloud. 1982, 73-year-old Zhao suffered from nasopharyngeal carcinoma due to overwork. It is reasonable for a dying person to suffer from this terminal disease. But what passed through his mind was not the sadness of falling in love with the world of mortals, but the regret that the book "The Way of Bodybuilding" planned to be written could not be completed as scheduled. In the future, Zhao thought of this book on his way to the hospital. He thought of this book when he was thinking about chemotherapy, and this book was written during his hospitalization. 1990, when the People's Sports Publishing House sent the proof of "The Way to Fitness", he had the idea of writing a memoir and donating the remuneration to the orphanage. He said more than once, "People die without regret, but people's spiritual support can't fall, otherwise it's really over. I am determined to devote myself to the bodybuilding cause of the motherland until I die. "Zhao not only said so, but also did so. During his three-year convalescence, he completed the book "Bodybuilding Physical Exercise Law" with a word of10.4 million with amazing willpower. When the 77-year-old Zhao learned that he was approved to prepare for party member, his eyes filled with tears and he wrote "The Party gave me a second life". Zhao Zhuguang, an ancient and rare old man, suffers from cancer. Besides writing hard every day, he also insists on exercising three to five times a week. When his family persuaded him, he always said, "I just want to compete with the cancer demon!" In an interview with Shu Peihua, a reporter from Health and Beauty magazine, Zhao, 78, said: In my lifetime, I plan to finish two books, one is Strength and Weightlifting, and the other is Fitness Questions and Answers. Even if you die, you have a clear conscience! 1991February 10, an old intellectual who has worked in the sports front for 50 years, an old man who has experienced vicissitudes and devoted his life to the fitness cause in China, and Mr. Zhao, the founder of Shenzhou Fitness Fire, closed his eyes. He was thrifty all his life, leaving no legacy, only a few sets of old clothes, some old furniture and a lot of sports equipment. But who can say that he left no legacy? Simple, kind and upright personality, tenacious life perseverance and selfless fitness dedication are the most precious spiritual wealth left to us. People say that Zhao is like a candle, burning itself and illuminating others. The wax torch turned to ashes, tears streaming down her face. How harmonious "bamboo lamp" and candlelight are!