Huang Xia: Fortunately, you are not alone in the mountains

Huang Xia, known as "Uncle Xia".

There is a line in "Dream Quest": The real death is that no one in the world remembers you. I have limited ability and can not do much, but I always remember Uncle Xia, and I can still do it.

There are not many celebrities who use the word "霑" as a name, and further ahead, it may be Cao Xia (Cao Xueqin). Of course, "Huang Xia" is not his real name, Huang Zhansen is.

The reason for the stage name is said to be when he was 19 years old (1960), he went to participate in the first Hong Kong Amateur Singing Competition, wanted to be a singer but was afraid of losing ugly, so he took this name. Eight years later, he composed his first song, sung by Teresa Teresa.

With this as the beginning, Huang's name has increasingly shined in the Hong Kong music scene. It can be said that in the process of promoting the popularity of Hong Kong music in the future, he is indispensable.

Huang Xia's identity is many, and he is a standard "slash youth". In addition to writers, presenters, and actors, he even worked as a creative director of an advertising agency, and "as soon as the head of the horse is opened, good luck naturally comes" comes from his pen. But he is best known as a songwriter.

He is even good at filling in words, and even with Jin Yong, who writes martial arts, Cai Lan, who writes food, and Ni Kuang, who writes science fiction, and is known as the "Four Talents of Hong Kong", it is these four literati who make Hong Kong pop culture have classical meaning. This is the imprint of that era, to be precise, from the seventies to the end of the twentieth century.

Behind the reputation is the recognition of Huang Xia's word filling skills at that time. His words are mostly for film and television dramas, there is no disease-free groaning, there is no confusion, through his words, we can feel the unique Chinese charm while tasting the protagonist's state of mind in the story.

"Vowing to Enter the Knife Mountain" and "Always Hello in the World" write about the children of the rivers and lakes, chivalrous and tender feelings; "The Ghost of Qiannu" is sung by Zhang Guorong's voice, and also tells the bumpy experience of Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian; "The Love of the Year" sings the brotherhood in our hearts; "My Chinese Heart" is full of the feelings of the home and country of the wanderers; "Under the Lion Rock" is regarded as a Hong Kong city song, interpreting the spirit of Hong Kong...

There are also the lyrics of the following songs, I believe you just need to look at it, you will unconsciously hum out:

The waves run and the waves, the gushing rivers never end... ("On the Beach")

Proud of the waves, hot blood beats red daylight... ("Boys Should Be Self-Reliant")

A laugh in the sea, a gushing tide on both sides of the strait... ("A Laugh in the Sea")

If you read Huang Xia's lyrics carefully, you can feel his words are well-practiced, wide open, and classical. As a descendant, Lin Xi once gave a high evaluation to Huang Xia's words: writing words in a literary style is like a line of steel, and if you are not careful, you will fall one-sidedly. Only by studying the Five Classics can you appreciate it.

In addition to being related to Huang Xia's reading of poetry, this also has a lot to do with his arrogant, wild, and optimistic personality. A sentence of "laughing and washing the breeze washes me crazy", such courage, has been directly written "do not hate the ancients I do not see, hate the ancients, do not see my crazy ears" Xin abandoned the disease.

He, Ni Kuang and Cai Lan opened a talk show called "Tonight Without Defense", and the stars invited were Zhang Guorong, Zhou Runfa, Mei Yanfang, Wang Zuxian... Drink and smoke directly in the program, explode foul language, and tell paragraphs. Because of his chemotherapy hair loss after suffering from cancer, he was detached and detached, so he simply went to co-host a show with Mai Jia and Luo Jiaying, named "Three Skinheads".

Huang's songwriting spanned the 1970s and 1990s, but by the end of the century, he had reached the point where he had no words to write. At that time, the popular ones were Lin Xi and Huang Weiwen. When Lin Xi sold thousands of words a year, he himself had no one to pay attention to.

Is it because Lin Xi's words are better written than Huang Xia's? If Lin Xi's words are gong strokes, then Huang Xia's words are freehand. The former is a meticulous depiction of the love of children, and the latter is a thousand strengths in the great love and righteousness, and the two have their own advantages, and there is no distinction between high and low.

So, what's the problem?

After Huang's death, his relatives and friends held a "Dr. Huang Xia Memorial Service" for him at the Hong Kong Stadium. Gu Jiahui (composer, who has worked with Huang Xia for more than 20 years, and is called "Hui Huang") after speaking on stage, the scene began to play "Shanghai Beach", the camera was given to Ye Liyi, "the waves and waves" just sounded, her tears could not stop gushing out.

On the eve of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, at the farewell ceremony of the British flag lowering held by the British government in Hong Kong, one of the emcees was Ye Liyi, who sang "Shanghai Beach", which shows that in the development of Hong Kong pop culture for more than 20 years, the attention of Hong Kong pop musicians has reached its peak.

But after the peak is the downhill road, Ye Liyi, Yip Chun-tang, Kwan Chung Kit and so on have aged, Luo Wen, Zhang Guorong, Mui Yanfang have also passed away, and the previous generation of Hong Kong pop musicians has no longer been beautiful. Along with the "rushing waves" is an era - the era of Hong Kong's popular culture boom.

From the perspective of the audience, by the end of the century, fans who bought records have shown a younger trend. In Huang Xia's own view, this generation of young people, with peculiar habits, like to listen to multi-word songs, think that the lyrics are written secretly, can express the meaning.

This new habit is very different from the previous generation of fans, and as a songwriter, Huang Xia cannot cross this gap.

"I don't have to send a thousand mountains alone." This is a sentence in Huang Xia's "Chu Liuxiang", and before his death, he chose this song as a mourning song for his funeral.

From another point of view, if the human world is a thousand heavy mountains and ten thousand heavy mountains, what I want to say to him is, thank you for coming here and walking this time, fortunately you have not been lonely in the mountains, although it is a generation of voices, but your words and voices can still resonate with me.