【Worldview News News】The "Gambling Saint" released in 1990 laid the foundation for Chow Sing Chi's status as a film superstar, and the characters, scenes and dialogue in the play have become classics, and are still the material that netizens often recall. The movie opens with Zuo Songxing, played by Xingye, who has just come to Hong Kong from the mainland to prepare to join the third uncle Wu Mengda, and met a mother-in-law neighbor downstairs in the other party's apartment, the mother-in-law felt that Xingye behaved strangely, and swung her sword at him in a panic, although it was only a few tens of seconds of footage, it left a deep impression on the audience, and the actor who played this role also turned out to be very promising!
The rivalry between Qian Xiangying and Xingye in "Gamble Saint" has become a classic in the minds of the audience. (Movie screenshot)
The mother-in-law who plays the sword swinging at Xingye in "Gamble Saint" is Qian Xiangying, known as "China's first martial arts actress", who entered the industry as early as the 1920s, made more than 280 movies, and is the grandmother of the big brother of the film industry, Dahong Jinbao. Qian Xiangying, who learned martial arts at a young age, had a good kung fu, and at the age of 16, he was discovered by a film dealer in Shanghai, entered the filming industry as a beating woman, and became a popular actress before she was soon there.
When she was young, Qian Xiangying was very skilled and was awarded the title of "China's First Martial Arts Actress". (Online image)
Qian Xiangying's husband Hong Ji is a well-known director Hong Ji in Shanghai, the man later came to Hong Kong to develop and found the South China Film Company, Qian Xiangying also came to Hong Kong with her husband, but in order to concentrate on taking care of the family and gave up her acting career, she and Hong Ji have five sons and two daughters, as many as twenty grandchildren, one of which is Hong Jinbao, she also has a share in cultivating big brothers to become movie stars.
Played the maid Wang Ma in "Fancy Years". (Movie screenshot)
Hong Ji died in 1962, Qian Xiangying came back to the film world, although from the protagonist to a supporting role, but her image of the evil grandmother is quite deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but also became a professional role of mother, Zhou Runfa, Zhou Xingchi, Zhang Guorong, Mei Yanfang, Lin Qingxia, Zhong Chuhong and Liu Jialing have all cooperated with her. Among them, in "Gamble Saint", he was asked by Xingye whether he used the Emei Sect Sword Technique, and he was often met by netizens.
(Editor: Zhang Yijia)