In the 1980s and 1990s, countless superstars were born in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
And Mui Yanfang is one of these superstars, she is known as the "daughter of Hong Kong",
Her singing voice spread throughout Asia, and her position in the music world is still irreplaceable.
In 2003, Mei Yanfang, who was only 40 years old, died of cervical cancer, leaving fans with endless regrets.
A generation of music divas has fallen, and her tragic childhood and encounters behind the stars have also been revealed.
Lost his father from childhood, did not get the love of his mother in his life, was used as a cash cow by his brother,
After Mei Yanfang's tearful death, in order to compete for the huge inheritance she left behind,
Mother Qin Meijin and brother Mei Qiming made a big fuss about her funeral, and also took to the street to pull up banners,
And now Mei Qiming, living quite moistly by the inheritance of her "blood-sucking" sister,
A lifetime of idleness, 70 years old still blatantly derailed, what gave him confidence?
01 A dark and tragic childhood
In 1963, Mui Yanfang was born in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, the youngest child in her family.
At the time of her birth, there were already two older brothers and an older sister in the family.
My parents have always lived by fishing, and my family is already very poor.
As a result, when Mei Yanfang was very young, her father unfortunately died of illness, and the family's life was even worse.
The burden of supporting four children fell on the mother, Qin Meijin,
The mother had to do everything possible to earn money to support the family, but the strength of her own was always weak,
The patriarchal mother bypassed her two older brothers and set her sights on Mei Yanfang and her sister.
Because of her mother's eccentricity, Mei Yanfang's childhood has always been shrouded in the shadow of lack of love.
From an early age, she was constantly taught: "There are good things to give to her brother",
Whenever the mother was worried about her livelihood, she would always scold her: "You girls are money losers",
In order to earn money for her family, Mei Yanfang followed her 8-year-old sister to the street to sell art when she was 4 years old.
They perform on stage in Liyuan playgrounds, small dance halls, taverns and even in the streets and alleys.
Whether it is enduring the cold winds of winter or withstanding the scorching sun of summer,
Mei Yanfang and her sister both vigorously laughed and sang on the stage, and endured the teasing and humiliation of the guests.
At this age when she should have been spoiled by her parents, little Mei Yanfang supported a family's livelihood.
In school, classmates would laugh at them as the lowest "singers" and isolate them.
When Mei Yanfang and her sister handed over the hard-earned money to their mother, what they got was not praise.
Instead, my mother would count the money and scold: "Only to earn such a little, it is not enough to make you a costume.".
But at the same time, the two brothers were provided by their mothers at home with good food and drink, and did not have to work at all.
The mother spent the money her daughters earned on her two sons and took it for granted.
At the age of 11, my mother took over the operation of a dance hall.
But Mei Yanfang and her sister's life not only did not improve, but lived more difficult,
Not only do they have to sing on stage every day, but they are also responsible for cleaning, serving dishes, and boiling drinks.
In the mixed entertainment venues, Mei Yanfang will often be teased and harassed.
And in order to earn money and not to offend the guests, the mother never came forward to protect her daughter.
Later, my mother met a handsome and tall man in the dance hall.
His mother married this man, and he became Mei Yanfang's stepfather.
Due to the early death of her father, Mei Yanfang has not experienced the taste of father's love since she was a child.
Originally thought that the arrival of her stepfather would make her feel the warm protection of her father,
But I didn't expect that my stepfather brought her endless harm and made her childhood even darker.
Mei Yanfang came back and said: "After he became our stepfather, he scolded me every day with a foul mouth, scolded me until I had no self-esteem to speak of, and when I was a child, I felt that the family was a personal purgatory".
The mother and her stepfather also indulged in gambling money, and said to her: "Grow up quickly and go out to pick up customers to earn money",
Mei Yanfang endured 18 years in such a family, and also suffered for 18 years.
She could only secretly swear to work hard to get rid of this life without seeing the light in the future.
02 generation of singers
15 years of experience in singing, so that Mei Yanfang has experienced the wind and rain,
But she also fell in love with the feeling of singing on stage and was very intoxicated,
Because only when she holds the microphone and sings to the fullest, can she enjoy a moment of freedom and happiness,
At the age of 19, Mei Yanfang finally ushered in the most important turning point in her life.
She signed up for the first Huaxing Rookie Singing Contest in Hong Kong and won the championship with a song "Season of the Wind".
Her singing voice is magnetic and penetrating, and successfully conquered the judges in the audience.
Mei Yanfang was signed into the company by Huaxing Records and officially debuted as a singer.
Mei Yanfang embarked on the path of brilliant stars, and the road ahead greeted her with flowers and wind and rain,
After her debut, Mei Yanfang quickly launched her first album "Heart Debt".
The style of this album is a brisk love song, and the theme song also topped the chart of radio Chinese hong Kong gold songs.
However, Mei Yanfang has just emerged in the music world, and she has suffered many doubts and attacks.
Originally, the company wanted to package Mei Yanfang as a kind and lovely "little sister next door" image.
On the album cover, she has a childlike childishness, wearing playful curls and wearing a pure light outfit,
But after becoming popular, her experience as a singer in a dance hall was picked up by people with hearts.
Under the hype of the media, Mei Yanfang was very devastated, and even almost fell into depression.
That tragic past experience is the pain that Mei Yanfang can't erase in her heart.
I didn't expect to get rid of the past, but I was nakedly uncovered by people,
Mei Yanfang said: "At that time, I felt that there was nothing in the world worth my nostalgia for, I thought about ending everything, but I thought about what to do in my family, what to do with my mother, I still have the responsibility, not that I am gone and the responsibility is gone",
Although her mother has caused her countless harms, she still has a sense of responsibility for her family and her mother.
So Mei Yanfang decided to stick to it, and Su Xiaoliang, general manager of Huaxing Records, also gave her help.
He found the famous image designer Liu Peiji to re-create a suitable image route for Mei Yanfang.
Years of stage experience, so that Mei Yanfang has a maturity beyond her peers in temperament,
In 1983, she released her second solo album "Red Mei Yanfang",
She cut off a long hair, her face was full of makeup, and the song style was wild and rebellious,
Mei Yanfang, who is feminine and handsome, makes people shine, and the image of "bad girl" is also deeply rooted in people's hearts.
The album sold 500 gold after its release and won the Asian Special Award at the Tokyo Music Festival.
Mei Yanfang was completely on fire in the music world, and also opened a lifelong relationship with Liu Peiji.
Her subsequent stage styling has all been designed by Liu Peiji herself, and her style is varied and novel.
Mei Yanfang's title of "Changing Queen of Heaven" was also derived from this.
In 1985, Mei Yanfang took advantage of the hot iron to launch the self-titled albums "Mei Yanfang" and "Bad Girl".
The latter album sold eight platinum copies in its first week, accumulating 720,000 copies, setting a new record for the sale of Hong Kong records.
She broke the traditional feminine gentleness and showed the image of "boy" in the song,
After that, he held fifteen solo concerts in the Hong Kong Red Pavilion, and the audience was full.
It also broke the record for the number of hong Kong singers opening a singing scene in the Red Pavilion in history,
The little girl who walked the streets and alleys to sell and sing at that time finally became a radiant music queen,
From 1985 to 1990, Mei Yanfang's singing career continued to rise, creating one miracle after another.
During this period, Mui Yanfang won the "Most Popular Female Singer" in Hong Kong's Top Ten Songs for 5 consecutive years.
Her influence is not limited to Hong Kong, but has gone to all of Asia,
In the 1998 Seoul Olympic Games hosted by South Korea, Mui Yanfang was the only Asian female singer invited to sing.
She has also held many world concerts, and her overseas fan base is very large.
At its peak, as long as it was a music awards ceremony in Hong Kong, Mui Yanfang would stand on the podium.
As long as it is the song library of Hong Kong people, there will be several songs by Mui Yanfang, she is a well-deserved "national idol",
In 1990, Mui Yanfang held 30 solo concerts in the Red Pavilion in Hong Kong.
She was thus given the title of "Mei Thirty", a record that no one has been able to break so far.
Singing and performing well, Mui Yanfang has an unshakable position in the Hong Kong music scene,
In the film industry, it also has good achievements, and has won the honor of the queen of the two sides of the strait and three places.
In 1987, Mei Yanfang won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the movie "Rouge Buckle".
In the following ten years, he has starred in classic films such as "Yoshiko Kawashima", "Half Life", "Zhong Wuyan" and so on.
In the cumulative box office of Hong Kong films from 1985 to 2005, Mui Yanfang ranked third.
Later, he was rated as "One Hundred Outstanding Actors in Chinese Cinema in the Past Century", which is a myth in the Hong Kong film industry.
Zhang Yimou once commented on Mei Yanfang: "She is a talented actress who has created a very successful screen image in many movies".
Zhou Xingchi also said: "It is my honor to have cooperated with Mei Yanfang! ”
03 The eldest sister of the righteous and the big sister who is loose
As a Hong Kong superstar in the 1980s and 1990s, Mui Yanfang's income was naturally high.
Whether it is album sales, movie box office or advertising endorsements, every sum is a great reward,
But Mei Yanfang has many friends in life, and her shots have always been bold.
Zeng Zhiwei commented on Mei Yanfang: "Her popularity in the circle can be counted as the first, and she is very sincere to everyone",
Jacky Cheung also said: "She is a very 'man' woman, very righteous",
Although Mei Yanfang's childhood was extremely lacking in love, she learned to be kind and tolerant.
She always spares no effort when dealing with the people around her, and whenever a group of friends go out to party and eat,
The last person to rush to pay the bill is always Mei Yanfang, and she never cares about the amount.
Mei Yanfang is enthusiastic about public welfare and uses her own money to set up the "Four Seas and One Heart" Charity Foundation.
Usually, when she sees an old man selling flowers on the street, she will not hesitate to spend 1,000 Hong Kong dollars to buy a flower.
When friends have difficulties, she will give generously, just like the "chivalrous warriors" in martial arts novels.
In 1985, the Little Tigers disbanded, and Mei Yanfang secretly gave Lin Li 20,000 yuan to help him go to Taiwan to develop.
When filming "Half Life", the crew was very short of money, and Mei Yanfang demoted her salary to star, and even paid her own money to subsidize.
Zhang Guorong once jokingly said: "If you want to borrow money and not pay it back, just look for Mei Yanfang",
Mei Yanfang said: "I think money is very important, but for me there is money on it, there is no need to have too much, because one day when I go, money is just a number."
Mei Yanfang has been performing on stage since she was 4 years old, of course, she knows that it is hard and not easy to make money.
But for her, no amount of money is more precious than a sincere friendship.
But it is precisely because of this friendship that Mei Yanfang has also suffered a lot of deception and harm.
If she is cheated of money by her friends, Mei Yanfang will not be sad, she will only think that she is not good at knowing people.
But the money cheated by her mother and brother, who should have been closest, completely broke her heart,
Since Mei Yanfang has an income, she will give her family tens of thousands of living expenses every month.
Although she is very good at making money, her family is also very generous in spending money.
Both her mother and brother Mei Qiming gambled indiscriminately, and the money was quickly squandered.
They had to keep making excuses to ask Mei Yanfang for money, and they also asked her to buy several houses for the family.
Soon after Mei Yanfang became famous, her brother Mei Qiming borrowed 2 million Hong Kong dollars from her under the pretext of doing business.
This amount of money is not a small amount even today, not to mention for a singer who debuted in the 80s,
But in order to support her brother's career, Mei Yanfang still advanced her salary and lent him a salary in advance.
As a result, the 2 million was quickly adrift, and the brother also signed an ass debt,
In order to pay off her brother's debts, Mei Yanfang took over a whole year's work, busy every day without touching the ground.
But later she learned that her brother did not take the money to do business at all, but went to gamble and lost.
What made Mei Yanfang feel cold was that after the mother learned about this incident, she not only did not blame her son, but said to her:
"You can earn so much money, this little money is easy to earn back, what are you going to do with your brother?"
After that, Mei Qiming repeatedly used the banner of "doing business" and continued to borrow money from Mei Yanfang.
Mei Yanfang never knew what kind of business her brother was doing, but if she didn't give money,
Together, her mother and brother would accuse her of being "ungrateful", saying that she had earned money not to take care of the family.
Once, Mei Yanfang assisted her brother to open a dog farm, and as a result, she was cheated out of more than one million yuan many times.
Mei Qiming guaranteed in the name of Mei Yanfang, and quietly transferred all the debts owed outside the country to her.
Under the acquiescence and protection of her mother, Mei Qiming has been idle and idle, and her life depends on Mei Yanfang's subsidies.
In 1999, Mei Yanfang's sister was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
Despite the doctor and her objections, the mother insisted that her sister receive TCM remedies instead of chemotherapy.
As a result, her sister's condition continued to deteriorate, and finally died a year later.
Her sister was the only person in the family who gave her warmth, and her death gave Mei Yanfang a heavy blow.
And the mother took this opportunity to organize an anti-cancer fund, so that Mei Yanfang invested tens of millions of funds,
But then she found that there was a problem with the management of the fund, and her money had been disbursed and there was little left.
Again and again, the deception made Mei Yanfang see the true face of her mother and brother, and she was completely disappointed.
04 After death, he was "sucked blood" by his family
In 2003, Mei Yanfang held a press conference to confirm that she had cervical cancer.
On November 15 of the same year, she completed her last concert in her life at the Red Pavilion in Hong Kong.
She wore a white wedding dress designed by Liu Peiji himself and married herself to the stage she loved,
After her mother knew about Mei Yanfang's condition, she not only did not take care of her in the past,
Instead, he found Mei Yanfang for the first time and asked her to give herself a alimony.
The mother's actions buried the last bit of affection between mother and daughter, and Mei Yanfang cried heartbroken in the hospital room.
Mei Yanfang made a will before her death, and she gave two properties under her name to her friend Liu Peiji.
In addition to setting aside 1.7 million yuan for 4 underage nieces and nieces as education funds,
All the rest of the inheritance is managed by the trust fund, and the mother is paid 70,000 yuan per month for living expenses.
The will also specifically states that until the death of the mother, the remaining inheritance will be donated to the Myojing Buddhist Society.
Mei Yanfang knows that her mother spends money excessively, and is more worried that the house will fall into the hands of her brother Mei Qiming.
Therefore, the inheritance is not directly left to the mother, and this practice is also to ensure that the mother has a dependence on her old age.
And the living expenses of 70,000 per month are more than enough for an old man.
On December 30, 2003, Mui Yanfang died at the age of 40 at the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital.
At her funeral, a group of friends in the circle came to mourn, and the countless fans who were stopped outside could not cry.
But incredibly, Mei Yanfang's mother and brother did not show a trace of grief.
Dissatisfied with the results of the distribution of the estate, they "threw around" at the funeral.
Mei Qiming even pulled a banner to the street, claiming that Mei Yanfang's death was strange and wanted to avenge her sister.
The day after the funeral, the mother and brother could not wait to take Liu Peiji to court.
They believe that Mei Yanfang cannot be so "disregarding family affection", and someone must have forced her to write a will.
Their move is nothing more than to compete for the inheritance left by Mei Yanfang.
The mother complained to the media: "How can 70,000 yuan of living expenses be enough, at least 200,000 yuan",
In fact, This living expense that Mei Yanfang gives to her mother every month also has to support her brother's family.
Although Mei Qiming is not a beneficiary of the trust fund, Mei's mother will certainly not ignore her son.
Relying on the legacy left by Mei Yanfang, he still lives a very luxurious life without a job.
Mei Qiming lives in a luxury apartment with a monthly rent of 50,000 yuan, and goes in and out of Hong Kong's high-end restaurants and tea restaurants every day.
Drinking red wine and eating lobsters, the rest of the time is spent fighting lawsuits with my mother.
In the face of reporters' inquiries, Mei Qiming is always ashamed: "I have never been sorry for my sister, it is she who owes me too much",
In the 10 years since Mei Yanfang's death, the mother and son have never stopped competing for Mei Yanfang's inheritance.
The two ran around fighting lawsuits, and almost All of Mei Yanfang's friends before she died told them all.
But the result of each court sentence is that the will is valid, and the two have repeatedly lost battles and repeatedly lost battles.
Because the two have fought too many lawsuits for inheritance, each time the legal fees are millions,
Her mother had to sell Mei Yanfang's relics before her death, and even put her intimate clothes on auction.
Until the cost of living finally rose to 200,000, the mother was still unable to meet, under Mei Qiming's "advice", she repeatedly asked the court for a one-time withdrawal of the inheritance on the grounds of holding birthday banquets and traveling.
Mei Qiming, while busy fighting lawsuits and creating public opinion, has never stopped squandering.
In 2012, he married his Malaysian girlfriend, who was 16 years younger, and subsequently gave birth to a son.
Since then, the living expenses of the family of three have all been spent by her mother from Mei Yanfang's inheritance.
In November last year, Mei Qiming, who was 70 years old, was photographed by the media leading Xinhuan shopping on the street.
When asked if he had cheated, he replied bluntly: "This is my girlfriend, and my wife knows it".
Mei Qiming looked proud of the spring breeze, making netizens shout shamelessly.
Today, Mei Yanfang has been dead for 19 years, and her singing voice is still in the hearts of countless people.
Her life seems to be full of light, but the background color is still an uncompromising tragedy,
Perhaps having such a mother and brother is the biggest misfortune of Mei Yanfang's life.
After she died with regret, she still had to be "sucked" in this way by her family today.
I don't know years later, when her mother and brother squandered their inheritance,
Will there be a moment of real awakening, will there be the slightest repentance for Mei Yanfang?