On the 25th anniversary of the league, the golden rebound column was upgraded to the 25-year personality column. The column will take words as the carrier, through sorting out the past of the league, pursuing ordinary campus basketball, people with bright wisdom and extraordinary character will review the 25-year historical development and cultural inheritance of the league through their vivid stories. If you also have stories you want to share, go to the public account dialog page and choose “I want to play”-“Manuscript Collection” to contribute.
“A Cook doesn’t read the recipe, and he looks at the Art of War!” Zeng Hongtao was really busy. Throughout the afternoon, he kept dealing with all kinds of information pop up on his mobile phone, and even drinking hot water became a luxury. Multiple identities, and they are all in the “key” position. If there is no efficiency and energy that is difficult for ordinary people, he would not be so comfortable.
On the afternoon of May 19, the 25th CUBAL national competition was in a fierce battle in Huazhong University of Science and Technology. I entered the Optical Valley stadium and walked through a corridor. I was in an office with the brand “basketball branch of China University Sports Association, I met Zeng Hongtao. Before 2021, he was an energy and power engineering expert and Doctor of Engineering who taught in Wuhan University. Later, he was a professor and assistant dean of Huake Institute of Physical Education, specializing in discipline construction and scientific research on the intersection of physical education and engineering. Attaching his basketball branch as deputy secretary general to Huake was one of his new “three fires.
In the basketball world, he also has a more famous identity: the standing committee member of the referee committee of the Chinese Basketball Association and the leader of the rules Group-that is, the person who gave the National Referee “unified rules. At the same time, he is also one of the 13 members of FIBA (FIBA) Technical Committee. In the men’s basketball World Cup in 2019, he served as the assistant of referee Carl Jungebrand, assisting him in his daily work and deeply involved in the selection and management of World Cup referees.
Surprisingly, his industry is not a referee, but hydroelectric power generation, and he has also made great achievements: he published more than 30 SCI retrieval papers and presided over the National Natural Science Foundation, A number of scientific research projects, including major national scientific and technological research projects, even participated in the construction of the condition monitoring and fault diagnosis system of hydraulic generator units of the Three Gorges project as a doctor…… The real “two styles”. If its achievements are listed in detail, I am afraid that it is difficult to describe thousands of words.
In 2021, he decided to give up his long-cultivated career completely and “return” to sports wholeheartedly. Switching the track of life means that you have to give up your previous accumulation to embrace the unknown, which is not easy at any age. I asked Zeng Hongtao if he had a sense of “not doing business properly”. Instead of answering directly, he asked, “Do you know Ma John? He taught English and later went to teach sports.” Ma John, of course, I know that when the founder of Tsinghua sports first arrived in Tsinghua, he taught English and chemistry.
Zeng Hongtao told his story and his values, and unconsciously he passed an hour. He had to stop the interview because his student Xiaocheng had been waiting nearby for a long time. Xiao Cheng is a master-level tennis player, who is playing with his mobile phone bored at the moment.
“We are now applying for a provincial project for a tennis tournament. I will hand over the writing of the application and task book to her.” Zeng Hongtao said, sitting in front of the computer, he used 10 minutes to quickly explain the precautions and began to pack the backpack. The nature of his work is quite special, and there are always emergencies to be dealt with. Therefore, he has long been used to working anytime and anywhere, with backpacks and laptops inside. He “goes wherever he takes”. “To express it in academic language, communicate with me if you don’t understand, so as not to rework.” He told Xiaocheng. At the same time, he signaled to me: go.
He opened the door of the office, and people on the court shouted and hissed into the auricle instantly. The backpack is a little heavy, which makes his shoulder slightly oblique. He poured a cup of hot water next door and walked to the parking lot, and the paper cup just hit the bottom. Next, he will drive to No. 3 Middle School of Wuhan Iron and Steel, 20 kilometers away, to attend the pre-match joint meeting of 2022-2023 China Primary School Basketball League (Hubei division) as vice chairman of Hubei Basketball Association and director of the referee committee.
A few minutes later, he was sitting on the rostrum, and his polo shirt was changed from RIGORER to the sponsorship brand of the primary school league.
There was also an episode on the road. Maybe it was the collision of various information in his mind that disturbed his judgment. He missed the exit of the expressway. When he heard that “the route is being re-planned for you” from the mobile phone, he said with a little chagrin, “Oh! You see, it is really wrong.” That was the only time he showed negative emotions throughout the afternoon. At other times, he was always smiling and patient, which was true for everyone.
Coincidentally, Zeng Hongtao held the first ruling competition in primary school. He and his classmates arranged the sideline with bricks, and then “planted” basket support into the pit to “build” a simple basketball court. But playing, a serious problem is highlighted: whether there is a foul or not, which party does the ball right belong…… Similar disputes occur from time to time. Therefore, he decided to be a referee because of family biography. When he hung up his father’s whistle, whistling and gesturing in a certain way, he was given some authority by the general Dharma-vessel of “Whistle. This made him feel wonderful.
However, at that time, he only stayed in “perceptual knowledge” for executive judgment, far from completing the leap to “rational knowledge. Generally speaking, it is a leap from “Memorization” to “integration. Zeng Hongtao started to study basketball rules systematically from the second grade. He got the second-level certificate when he was a sophomore year, but he really reached the state of “integration” and had to wait until he was admitted to the national level in 2005.
During this period, he gradually read through the words on paper and could wander freely in the long history of rules. Especially after participating in the compilation work of FIBA basketball rules and rules interpretation, he “really mastered the rules rather than being bound by the rules. When explaining them to others, just like Ding jieniu”. He showed me: “Why did FIBA change ‘jump ball’ to” alternate possession of ball rights “since 2006″? The advantage of this is to avoid the unfairness caused by the irregular throwing action of the referee and the excessive height gap between the two sides, and to ensure the smoothness of the game.”
We pulled the timeline back to his student days.
It can be guaranteed to be sent to Huazhong University of Science and Technology (the predecessor of Huake, changed to the current name in 2000), and “57 majors are chosen casually”, Zeng Hongtao’s studies are obviously excellent. In fact, in the the Ark of Mr. Chow of Tianmen Middle School, a provincial demonstration high school, his grades never fell out of the top 10 (64 in the class), and the best one passed the 2nd.
He has many commonalities of “top students”, such as high efficiency and superior memory. Once in the Labor technology class, the teacher found him distracted and asked him to answer the question. As a result, he just scanned the pages in the process of getting up and memorized all the contents logically, avoid going out in front of the whole class. There was also hard work. In the third year of junior high school, he suddenly worked hard, “basically the top three entered the classroom in the morning”. After studying at 11:30 in senior high school, he “could do another two sets of papers before leaving”.
However, he is not a nerd-in other words, he completely does not conform to the standard portrait of the traditional “top student.
In the critical stage of preparing for the high school entrance examination, most of the students’ extracurricular activities are “in name only”, and everyone is competing for floor brush questions in order to advance several rankings in this life exam. Compared with them, Zeng Hongtao’s life was much more colorful. He had to run in the morning and read the newspaper on the bulletin board when he came back. During extracurricular activities, he played football and volleyball, if there is a basketball match, run to be the referee. The head teacher always looked at him helplessly at the edge of the playground, but it was hard to say anything more. After all, “extracurricular activities” were written in black and white on the class schedule.
It can be said that the love for sports is Zeng Hongtao’s instinct, but the limitation of physical quality makes him only “save the country by curve”. In Huake, on the one hand, he tries hard to learn professional knowledge, on the other hand, he uses this platform to contact high-level basketball matches and systematically learn judges. In 1998, CUBAL was born. Zeng Hongtao, who was the deputy director of an office of Huake science and technology department after graduating from college, is also about to welcome a great opportunity in life.
Creating many “first” CUBAL has consciously assumed the responsibility of educating people since its birth. It clearly proposes to “cultivate five kinds of people”, and the referee is one of them, “Changing the referee training mode of seniority” and “creating a fair competition atmosphere inside and outside the court” are the top priorities of the work. At the same time, they emphasize the “international vision” and “internationalization” of the new generation of referees “. Everything is pushing Zeng Hongtao and CUBAL destined to meet each other.
The words are divided into two ends. In 1999, Zeng Hongtao, who was proficient in DOS system, was recommended to Huangshi as the technical statistics of the women’s basketball league addition. He was able to obtain the first-class certificate as a student, which was unique at that time. A few years ago, he also took advantage of IT strengths to develop the first online referee examination system in history for CBA. However, no matter the former or the latter, compared with the various systems he designed for hydropower stations and power plants, it is still a lot of “Pediatrics.
In the same year, when he attended the national A- level referee training, he met Mr. Gao Shusong, the former leader of the rules Group. Gao Shusong later became his “guide of rules Research” and took him on the road of translation of basketball rules. It was also in that training class that he met the international referee for the first time. Those complicated cases that made him difficult to understand made him feel the “high admiration” of basketball rules, it’s hard to drill “.
In the summer of the following year (2000), Zeng Hongtao was appreciated by Mr. Gong Peishan, then secretary general of the great Basketball Association, and began the road of rocket-like rise. At the end of 2000, he held the Southwest division competition. In 2001, he held the women’s basketball final. In 2002, he went further and created a precedent for student referees to hold the CUBAL men’s basketball final. Moreover, he was the first to sentence in full English on the CUBAL arena. Dr. Zeng Hongtao, who was young, quickly became the “crispy fried chicken” of the referee “.
Therefore, he said frankly that there were two most grateful predecessors, one was Mr. Gao Shusong, and the other was Mr. Gong Peishan. “He opened a window for me. I saw another sky and land from this window and fell in love with this world.” Later, he moved from here to the international stage, but no matter how high he flew, CUBAL was always the place where his dream began. “CUBAL has changed my life. Many people may think this is a bit big, but the fact is right in front of me.”
Zeng Hongtao quickly sprinted towards the national level. In the theoretical part of the exam, he was full of confidence, but could he run 108 times in the specified time? He has no idea. In order to strengthen his physical fitness, he ran and wore a pair of sports shoes a month. Rao was so that his first exam ended in failure.
In the preparation stage of the second examination, the first generator set of the Three Gorges project is entering a critical period for grid-connected power generation. He can’t walk away and can only regard the dam built by reinforced concrete as his own track and field. Under his feet is the Yangtze River cut off by the dam, on which he adjusts his breath and steps on his dream. This is a romantic picture, but the ending is not romantic, “The knee is running with water, such a thick syringe draw out such a large part.” He is good at plotting in mid-air.
It was not until 2005 that he was promoted and became the first national referee of student status. He said that all these were thanks to CUBAL’s chances of executive and promotion. In 2006, he graduated as a doctor and became a teacher of Wu University. His academic career opened a new chapter, and the referee career also ushered in a new highlight-“handpicked” by the basketball competition team of Beijing Olympic Games “, he became a candidate for technical officials, and finally put on the sky blue uniform that made all young judges move forward with his performance of nearly full marks in many exams.
“I am not an authority” Zeng Hongtao loved the referee career, so he lost a lot. In 2002, he gave up the opportunity to go to England for further study, just to stay and participate in the CUBAL summer camp to prepare for the national level. When he graduated from the doctor in 2006, a local government invited him to be the deputy county magistrate in charge of science and technology. He refused and turned to Wu University to be a teacher. One reason was that he liked to be a teacher since he was young, second, because the university teacher has relatively free time, he has enough time to whistle.
The opportunity cost is more difficult to count. Some students start a business while teaching. The company’s market value is over 100 million. He does not envy it, but simply says: “Life faces many choices, as long as you do not forget your original intention, if you realize your initial intention, you will be very happy and each has its own place.”
Whistle, he also got a lot.
At the opening ceremony of the epic olympic games in 2008, he sat in the olympic family area closest to the athletes passage. Yao ming held the national flag and led the chinese delegation to enter the stadium in the loud cheers, still vivid. As a technical officer in charge of technical statistics, he participated in many games of “dream eight team”, with zero mistakes in the whole process and won high praise from FIBA. More importantly, in the athlete preparation area, superstars such as Kobe and James are within reach.
In 2010, Zeng Hongtao began to implement CBA. In 2011, he was promoted to the international level. In 2012, he became the second international technology representative in China and the youngest international technology representative in Asia at that time, so far, he has served as the technical representative of more than ten international competitions. “I was depressed at that time, so the chance to hold international competitions abroad was gone.” He said, “but the leader said, ‘China needs more leading talents, and we need you to help everyone in another field. ‘”
For the sake of the overall situation of the national basketball team, he took his life with pleasure. After that, make full use of the special status in FIBA to ensure that the national basketball team gets a fair and just penalty on the court. In the final of the men’s basketball Asian Championship in 2011, China and Jordan were originally decided to be a West Asian. The technical team including Zeng Hongtao immediately proposed a negotiation to FIBA and the Asian Basketball Federation overnight. It took several hours to communicate in English, finally forced the other party to reassign a Brazilian throne. In the next day’s game, the Chinese team did not suffer from the referee’s loss. They won a 1-point victory and got the admission ticket for the London Olympics as expected.
Because of his good English, he was also absorbed into the rule Group by Gao Shusong, leading the translation after all the changes of basketball rules and rules interpretation after 2012. Whether it can be consistent with FIBA’s latest spirit and test the quality of the work of the rule Group. As the only “entrance”, his side has a slight distortion of the original intention, it may lead to the deviation of the national referee. Therefore, he often has the entanglement of “translating a word for” and twisting several stems.
For example, post play, which was first translated as “focusing on the center”, was because there were not many offensive plays at that time. With the arrival of the era of “four centers, then to the rise of Basketball Without position behind, the translation of this phrase changes again and again. How exactly to convey? Zeng Hongtao took a lot of thought and finally translated it as “the attack and defense of the center position”. He explained: “It is not necessarily the attack and defense of the center. It may be that the small forward went to that position to displace the singles, so the word ‘position’ was added.”
Nowadays, basketball rules “can’t wait to change every year”, while Chinese basketball circles can always synchronize with them “silky, of course, this is the credit of the rule group led by Zeng Hongtao-called” group “, in fact, the permanent staff only himself-, but such behind-the-scenes work is easy to be ignored, it is also easy to be taken for granted.
Zeng Hongtao receives a large number of information about rules from all over the country every day. Such “business communication” is trivial and tests patience, however, it is an unavoidable link between the Chinese referee and FIBA. On the other hand, it also makes him always stand at the forefront of basketball when he is no longer in the front line. In fact, the research rules have been integrated with his daily life. His WeChat favorites and floating windows are almost all related to basketball rules.
In addition to the leader of the rules Group of the Chinese Basketball Association, Zeng Hongtao is also the lecturer of FIBA referee and the first FIBA technical supervision in China-it can be understood as a higher official than the technical representative. In 2019, FIBA held a general election in China, and he was elected as a member of FIBA Technical Committee. He became the official authority of the domestic referee circle, but what is commendable is that he still maintains the instinct of scholars, and he also doesn’t like the word “authority, he doesn’t think he has the” final right to interpret Basketball Rules “.
“There is no ‘what you say is based on you’, which is impossible. If there is such an authority, what should the rules interpretation be enriched continuously?” Zeng Hongtao said, “the more truth is, the more clear it is. Many comrades encounter strange problems. Rules and rules may not be covered. We can discuss these problems, under the general principles of returning to the rule-making to ensure the balance of attack and defense, the smoothness of the game and the consistency before and after, we should think about how to analyze and deal with such a war case.”
It was the peak of Zeng Hongtao’s referee career to become a member of FIBA Technical Committee. However, the increasingly heavy responsibility also made him feel tired of identity tearing. When he was a student, he spent 80% of his energy on studying and researching, and 20% of his energy on whistle. When he came to Wu University to teach, he still had to do a good job in time management. “when others are drinking tea, chatting and playing mahjong, you may be doing scientific research. When others go to the competition area to visit mountains and water, you are still doing scientific research.”
His father once expressed puzzled: “either academic or official career, you play games and be a referee every day, which is not good for your family and work.” However, he was unmoved. For a long time, he always thought that he could make a good balance in “two kinds of life”. He also did a good job at one time, but this balance was obviously gradually out of control.
“When your students want to defend, but you fly in the sky every day, when your students’ papers haven’t come out yet, but you don’t have time to guide them, I really feel guilty inside.” He suddenly turned the wheel and avoided a private car that was turning around. “It is often at home that he finds new tasks and continues to set off.” Therefore, in 2021, he completely gave up his major in energy and power engineering for 28 years, “combined the two lives into one” and became a full-time sports man.
The pre-match joint meeting was over. He was driving back and went to Wu University to pick up his new basketball English course and the latest translated basketball rules Qing Yang. Wu Da faces DH, leaning on his back, a huge scene, but it is already the past of his life. I sat on the co-pilot and read the basketball English course. This is a scene-based English textbook with strong practicability and pertinence, and it is also very practical. “Do something practical for Chinese basketball.” This is his original intention to compile this textbook.
Now his main business has become the discipline construction, competition organization and management of sports training major-not only CUBAL and other basketball events, but also other events such as tennis. The major of sports training has just been established, and everything is in the grass-roots stage. There is a shortage of teachers for Sports History and introduction to sports law, so he went into battle personally. Facing a new law like “sports law” which has been promulgated for less than a year, he is not afraid: “I said frankly that I am people who can quickly accept new knowledge, absorb and then teach.”
He likes to be a teacher. When he was a child, he would rush to play the role of teacher. However, when I heard that he still had to teach three public PE classes for ordinary students every week, I was still shocked. The “two kinds of life” have indeed been combined into one, but their identities are still multiple. For a while, they are the assistant and Professor of the Dean of the Institute of Physical Education, the vice chairman of the Provincial Basketball Association, and the leader of the rules Group for a while, FIBA technical committee member, how does he give consideration?
“Look, my hair is going to fall out.” Zeng Hongtao joked. Moreover, it is the increasingly “overworked and fat” body. Since the golden age of 2017 chose to hang the whistle, he did not have to run every day to maintain his physical fitness, thus his weight increased by as much as 40 Jin.
When all the work is on the right track, he hopes to return to the field he is good at, teach basketball rules and referee methods, and resume the public elective course “modern Olympic culture” which has been left for several years due to transfer to school. This course has been popular in Wu University for more than ten years. Sometimes even the corridor is crowded with students who come here. In the era when MOOC has not yet come out, it has been carved into CD and distributed nationwide. It is his original intention to offer this course to contemporary students through physical education to give “spiritual care” such as urgent responsibility and teamwork.
On the evening of May 19, Huake played against China University of Mining and Technology in Guanggu Gymnasium on men’s basketball. MC and cheerleaders were in place. The students of our school filled the stands, setting off the tense atmosphere of the focus battle. In that game, the host of badmara, the core of the back court, failed to withstand the “youth storm” of the mine. Unfortunately, he stopped the top 24 in the country. Zeng Hongtao sat on the stands with the school leaders on time, watched the game attentively, and lowered his head to return the information from time to time. Throughout the afternoon, after several changes in identity, he became an assistant to the president.
