Introduction: In Hong Kong in 1951, a strange thing happened, people woke up and suddenly found that the walls of the roadside, the lampposts and the electrical boxes were full of densely packed characters, and it was also this year that a person named Zeng Zaocai began to walk into people's sight, and he also had a nickname called "The Emperor of Kowloon", for Hong Kong people, this title is the memory of generations.
About the source of this title, we have to start from the life experience of Zeng Zaocai: born in 1921 in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, moved to Hong Kong at the age of 16, in order to earn a living in the construction site and garbage station has worked hard, but because of the work injury lame leg, from then on can only rely on the monthly government to live on the low security days, who knows that bad luck ensued, the already poor life he was also forced to demolish the house by the government. But just as the so-called "God closes a door for you, will open another window for you", just when Zeng Zaocai was about to lose hope in life, his life ushered in a major turning point.
At the age of 30, when he accidentally returned to his hometown to sort out ancestral relics, he inadvertently turned to the family tree, which was recorded above, which made his eyes shine - long before Kowloon City was ceded to Britain, the emperor had given it to his ancestors as a fief, but since Hong Kong was occupied, the fiefdom was naturally not counted. Knowing the truth, Zeng Zaocai was more than angry, and he began to swear sovereignty to the British government in Hong Kong in a unique way - graffiti on the streets, and recorded the unknown history in rows.
But times have changed a long time ago, and the regime has changed several times, who cares about your one-sided words? And the authenticity of that genealogy cannot be examined. However, frustrated, he was not discouraged, from that moment on, he could be seen everywhere in the streets of Hong Kong, as well as his graffiti works on various buildings, each of which had the money of "The Emperor of Kowloon Zeng Zao Cai" under it, and this painting was 51 years old! During this period, he was warned by the police countless times for scribbling, and even his wife could not stand his behavior and finally abandoned him, but he did not care about these things, and he seemed to have decided to devote his life to this "great cause".
In the end, his perseverance was recognized by the public, began to be known by more and more people, and finally became a household name, and also sat on a group of fans. At this time, the content of his graffiti also began to change, no longer a single genealogical record, but also included social news, folk gossip and so on. His special brush font was also greatly appreciated by the famous art critic Liu Shuangyang, who even held a solo calligraphy exhibition for him at the Hong Kong Art Center, and then he appeared in the American "Time Magazine", and his works were selected for the Venice Biennale, and overnight, his words became cultural treasures and were auctioned publicly.
Since then, Zeng Zaocai has begun to receive widespread media attention, and film and television works and songs based on him have come into being. These include the films "The Kowloon Queen" and "Rogue Emperor", as well as "Destiny is My Home" written by Beyond. On July 15, 2007, the 86-year-old Tsang died of illness at the Kowloon Hospital in Hong Kong, and reports of the "death of the Emperor of Kowloon" were overwhelming. The street graffiti he left behind was originally planned to be cleaned up, but given the unique memories it left for the people of Hong Kong and the special feelings of the people of Hong Kong for it, in the end, instead of being removed, they were protected by a glass cover. The last time he held a pen before his death was in a nursing home, and after writing down the names of his family with a marker pen, he wrote a sentence: "Emperor, I am not right, I will give way." "This time there is no longer the usual seven-word drop.
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