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Why is Hong Kong known as the Hollywood of the East?

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Hong Kong has made indispensable contributions in the film and television, media, literature and art, and fashion industries, gradually forming its own unique style, and even once leading the trend, becoming a benchmark for everyone to chase and imitate.

Why is Hong Kong known as the Hollywood of the East?

Hong Kong films

Hong Kong cinema began with 1913's "Zhuangzi's Wife Test".

After World War II, a large number of mainland film talents and funds went south, and a number of film companies were established in Hong Kong, which made Cantonese films flourish in the 1950s.

Among them, the "Huang Feihong" series of films created in 1949 has been filmed more than 60 times in a row, becoming the longest-lived series of movies in the history of the world.

For a time, East Asian governments once allowed only Hong Kong films to be imported, making Hong Kong enjoy the name of "Hollywood of the East": Chu Yuan, Chow Yun Fat, Zhao Yazhi, Zhang Guorong, Bruce Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Wu Yusen, Xu Ke, Xu Anhua, Chen Guo, Yang Ziqiong, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Leung Chao-wai, Nicholas Tse, Zheng Shaoqiu, and Stephen Chow were all internationally renowned.

The Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Hong Kong Film Awards, held from March to April, are an annual event in the Hong Kong film industry.

Why is Hong Kong known as the Hollywood of the East?

There is a classic called TVB

Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) was the first television station in Hong Kong, China to receive a free TVB licence, founded on 19 November 1967 by Lee Hyo-ho, Chi Tak-chung, Run Run Shaw and others.

It is the world's largest Chinese commercial television station, with its main businesses including free TV broadcasting, program production, distribution and distribution, digital media and book distribution, etc., with channels such as Jade Channel and Pearl Channel.

TVB was once very popular, and many of the programs and film and television works it produced are still classics that the audience will always miss in their hearts, and they are also the objects of tribute to the back entertainers.

There are also many Hong Kong artists who are famous for signing TVB contracts or participating in TVB works. These Hong Kong stars, who were popular in the 1980s and 1990s, were also collectively known as Hong Kong stars, leaving behind countless classic film, television and music works.

Why is Hong Kong known as the Hollywood of the East?

popular music

Cantonese opera was a popular mass entertainment in Hong Kong in the early years, the 1930s was the golden age of Cantonese opera, and it was also the most common entertainment for Hong Kong citizens, during which Hong Kong's popular culture and Guangzhou were in the same boat, and did not form a unique Hong Kong culture.

After the 1950s, Hong Kong absorbed the popular culture of Shanghai, coupled with the influence of Europe and the United States for many years, since the 1970s, The Hong Kong oral interpretation method created by Hui Guanjie Chinese has played a decisive role in the promotion and development of "Cantonese pop songs".

The 1980s was not only a day of Blossoming Cantonese pop in Hong Kong, but also the heyday of the Hong Kong music scene.

At that time, Hong Kong's pop songs led the trend of Asian Chinese songs, and although some mainland and Taiwan residents did not understand Cantonese, they also loved to listen to Cantonese pop songs.

Xu Guanjie, Gu Jiahui, Huang Zhan and others actively participated in songwriting, and Beyond member Huang Jiaju insisted on original music to promote local music.

In the 1980s, Xu Xiaofeng, Tam Wing Lin, Cheung Kwok Wing and Mui Yan Fang dominated the Hong Kong music scene, and these singers had fans in all Chinese areas and actively participated in movies, which was a box office guarantee and a complete sound and color art.

Singers or bands that were very popular from the late 1980s to the early 1990s included Beyond, Rowan, Lin Zixiang, Wang Jie, Mei Yanfang, Xu Xiaofeng, Chen Baiqiang, Ye Qianwen, Lin Yilian, Chen Huixian, Guan Shuyi, Li Keqin, Daming Yipai, Grasshopper Band, Faye Wong and the Four Heavenly Kings Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Li Ming and Aaron Kwok, etc., all of which shined in the Chinese music scene.

In the 2000s, singers such as Nicholas Tse, Koo Ju-ki, and Eason Chan were also rare and excellent singers.

Why is Hong Kong known as the Hollywood of the East?

A famous figure in the literary and artistic circles

Jao Zongyi is a famous master of Sinology in Hong Kong.

Jin Yong (Char Leung Yong) is a Hong Kong newspaper writer and writer, and a representative writer of the new martial arts novels.

Hong Kong writers also include Li Bihua, Yi Shu, Lin Yanni, Leung Fung Yee, Leung Yu Sang, Huang Chen, Ni Kuang and so on.

Hong Kong cartoonists include Huang Yulang, Feng Zhiming, Liang Jin, Ma Rongcheng, Wang Ze and so on.

Hong Kong singers include Lin Zixiang, Chen Baiqiang, and Yip Qianwen, who was very popular from the 1980s to the early 1990s.

In the 1990s, there were mainly film and television stars led by the four kings such as Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Li Ming and Aaron Kwok.

Why is Hong Kong known as the Hollywood of the East?

There is a fashion called Hong Kong style

In the context of beauty and dressing, it refers to the appearance style of Hong Kong female celebrities in the 80s and 90s of the last century.

Features in the clothing biased towards European and American style, common items such as loose shirts, high-waisted or wide-legged pants, slip dresses and so on.

Emphasize the display of personal facial features in makeup, and use earth color makeup and red or dark red lip makeup products.

In terms of hairstyle, more attention is paid to fluffiness, mostly curly hair style, and hair color is black as the absolute mainstream.

Since the main reference of Hong Kong style is the drama and old photos of actresses, in fact, the most important content in the current popular Hong Kong style makeup and wear is post-processing, that is, photo filter P-chart.

Large soft light and film-style filters, combined with four-corner shadows and evenly distributed noise, can subjectively give a first impression of old Hong Kong-style photographs.

Why is Hong Kong known as the Hollywood of the East?

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