When Zhai Zhigang was a child, his family life was very difficult, but his illiterate mother was unambiguous about her children going to school. She said, "I have to sell iron at home for several children to study."
My mother, who is nearly sixty years old, sells fried melon seeds for Zhai Zhigang to finish primary school and junior high school. She goes to the street to sell fried melon seeds every morning and comes back every night to smooth the wrinkled corner ticket with her rough and cracked hands.
The Air Force Flight Academy came to recruit pilots, and Zhai Zhigang signed up happily. When relatives and friends came to tell him that he had been admitted to the Air Force Flying Academy, his mother was even more excited than him. The day before I left, my mother took out a piece of 5 yuan money with body temperature from her close-fitting bag and forced it into her son's hand. Zhai Zhigang couldn't help but feel sad and cried with his white-haired mother.
Zhai Zhiqiang, who was admitted to the university as an astronaut, has deep feelings with his mother and is very filial to her. He spared no effort to send money home to solve the urgent need. Every year when I come back from visiting relatives, I stay with my mother, chat with her and take care of her headache. I like to eat popcorn, hawthorn and shredded potatoes cooked by my mother when I go home, and I always take some with me when I leave. The mother in the hospital bed has a clear mind. What she misses most is her youngest son Zhai Zhigang. What is even more gratifying is that I learned that my son is an astronaut and is ready to support the elderly. On the third day of his mother's death in 2003, Zhai Zhigang came back, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to his mother for three times, without seeing her for the last time.
Zhai Zhigang has many hobbies in his daily life. Be good at calligraphy and dig deep. Yes, he dances ballroom dancing very well. Every time an astronaut holds the ball, it must be him who flies around. He is also a skillful craftsman. He knows things at home and repairs them at a glance, and understands them at a touch.
In his spare time, Zhai Zhigang likes watching martial arts novels and TV sketches, imitating Zhao Benshan, and his spirit and form are somewhat similar. He also likes playing with electric toys. Every time I buy an electric toy for my son, he will have a good time and then coach him.
Zhai Zhigang's lover Zhang is his comrade-in-arms. Zhang works in the space food research department, and the astronauts' diet plans are all studied and formulated by her unit. 1994, Zhang married Zhai Zhigang, and they were very loving after marriage.
After the successful launch of Shenzhou 5, Zhang Shujing once commented on Zhai Zhigang in three sentences: "He is a very responsible and warm husband; He is a lovely father in the eyes of his son and a filial son in front of his parents; I am lucky to marry him in my life. If there is an afterlife, I will marry him! " When his son Zhai Tianxiong 10 was in the fourth grade, he decided to be an astronaut when he grew up.