There is a woman in the Hong Kong showbiz circle who has made herself a legend, she is known as the "daughter of Hong Kong" Mui Yanfang, tragic childhood, blood-sucking mother, broken love, threatened by gangsters did not make this strange woman submit, and finally wore a wedding dress to marry herself to the stage. She is a microcosm of the times, and her growth represents the development of Hong Kong.
Her father died early, and Mei Yanfang sold singing to make money at the age of four
Mui Yanfang was born on October 10, 1963 in Hong Kong, China, to a low-income family with many brothers and sisters, and she is the youngest. Mei Yanfang's father died early, and she earned her living by running a dilapidated song and dance troupe run by her mother, Qin Meijin. Because of the family's embarrassment and the inability to afford so many children, Qin Meijin's idea was to let four-year-old Mei Yanfang and her sister take the stage to sell songs and make money for their two brothers to study.
At that time, there was no concept of singers, but instead of the aggressive title of singer, Mei Yanfang when she was a child did not understand how people felt about the contempt and cold eyes of singers.
Ostracized and ridiculed, Mei Yanfang had no one to tell
After attending elementary school, Mei Yanfang began to be ostracized by her classmates, and even blatantly ridiculed. At that time, although Mei Yanfang was young, the embarrassment of the family and the life of showing her face for many years made her mentally more mature than children of the same age, she was unwilling to tell people, and she could only swallow the bitterness into her stomach in the face of all this.
During the day, Mei Yanfang attended classes at school, and at night, she followed her sister around to the dance hall to sing, sometimes running to more than a dozen places in a row, until midnight.
Every day, mei Yanfang went home and was scolded by her stepfather
The roof leaked during the overnight rain, and the boat was late and hit the headwind. Mei Yanfang has been running around for her livelihood since she was a child, and her teenage children have to carry the pressure of life forward, but she feels that she is still very happy to reduce the burden on her family. Her mother Qin Meijin found a stepfather but broke this happiness, because life is not smooth, stepfather often scolded brothers and sisters, Mei Yanfang went to school during the day and sang at night, and went home to be scolded, this painful day made her later recall: "If there is a chance to start again, I want to start life again, but the life of a few years old to teenagers is not needed, too bitter, it is not too much to use 'purgatory on earth' to describe it." ”
Can't stand the pressure to voluntarily quit school and become a money-making machine at home
Mei Yanfang really can't bear the tired life, coupled with the bullying of her classmates, she wants to quit school after the first year of junior high school. Her mother was naturally very happy that Mei Yanfang could sell and make money by singing wholeheartedly, so she quickly went through the withdrawal procedures for her.
After dropping out of school, she became a money-making machine at home, and her mother always urged her to go out and make money.
Participating in the competition became popular overnight and officially embarked on the star path
In 1982, with the popularity of Teresa Teng and others, "singers" entered the public eye and began to be sought after by more and more people. Since she was a child, Mei Yanfang has dealt with the stage, her singing skills have been as pure as fire, at this time TVB held the first Hong Kong Rookie Singing Competition, 18-year-old Mei Yanfang looked at the opportunity to sign up for the competition, and finally she won the championship with a song "Season of the Wind", her mature and sophisticated typhoon skills shocked four seats, and let Huang Felt, who is the four talents of Hong Kong, directly give 100 points.
As the song says, "The rush of the days has made me feel a hundred senses, remembering that the scene is colorful, and gently blowing with the wind to your step into my heart, changing my life overnight." Mei Yanfang became popular overnight, which also changed her life.
The album sold well, and Mei Yanfang became a popular singer
She quickly signed a contract with a record label, released her first album, and announced her official entry into the music scene. The second album "Red Mei Yanfang", released in 1983, won five platinum sales. Since then, Mui Yanfang has begun her open life, the album hit the trophy is even softer, five consecutive years by the judges finally welcomed the female singer, and was also invited to the Seoul Olympic Games in South Korea to participate in the Olympic prelude show.
In 1985, it set a record of 30 concerts in a row, and the venue was overcrowded. Her singing style is changeable, sexy with some shyness, with some rebellion in the bold, Mei Yanfang's frank and bold personality has also created her unique diva status.
Dabbled in the film and television circle and gained great results
Mei Yanfang, who has such outstanding achievements in the music world, also occupies a place in the film and television circle. Her filming style involves literature and art, action, comedy and other roles, starring in "Fate", "Rouge Buckle", "Kawashima Yoshiko" and other films, the popularity of her won the Academy Award, Golden Horse Award, Golden Dragon Award and the Asia-Pacific Film Festival, and the "Nonsense Funny King" Zhou Xingchi is not inferior when acting, superb acting skills and proper action have become the highlights of the film, leaving many classic lines.
Mei Yanfang's own star path is smooth sailing, and she does not forget to promote the younger generations, she once said: "It is natural for the predecessors to carry the younger generations." Nicholas Tse, Jacky Cheung, Xu Zhi'an, Tan Yaowen and others have all received her help.
Mui Yanfang is undoubtedly a gorgeous treasure for the film and television song Sanqi, and she is known as the "daughter of Hong Kong". Not only is it a high praise for her art, but also because Mui Yanfang has a Hong Kong spirit, her growth and personality allude to the development process of Hong Kong, which is the epitome of Hong Kong in that era.
On the star path, Mei Yanfang can be described as smooth sailing, but emotionally it seems unsatisfactory.
After many loves, none of them ended
Due to the influence of traditional ideas, Mei Yanfang's stage style is changeable, but she is still very conservative in the concept of marriage and love, she once said that she will quit the song world when she meets people she likes, "I told myself that I absolutely cannot step on two boats when I fall in love." "She just wants a genuine and stable relationship.
In 1984, Mei Yanfang was exposed to a scandal of love with zou Shilong, a rich man, and Mei Yanfang quickly and generously admitted the relationship, but only a year later the two broke up, and later when the media interviewed Mei Yanfang, she said: "Quarrelsome, both are young and vigorous, unwilling to bow their heads." ”
Xu is because of the lack of love in childhood, insecurity, the following year Mei Yanfang and a Japanese model Takahashi Masahiro fell in love, but the two did not survive a long-distance relationship after all, in the glue-like feelings can not withstand the long-term separation of the coast and the two places, the man took the lead in proposing to break up, this relationship ended without a problem.
I thought I had found true love, but I met the scumbag of the world
Soon after Mei Yanfang broke up, she met Japanese superstar Makoto Kondo at a concert. Makoto Kondo saw Mei Yanfang at first sight was attracted by her unique temperament, took the initiative to invite Mei Yanfang on stage to sing a song together, after the two sang a chorus, Mei Yanfang also had a good feeling for this enthusiastic and unrestrained man, in the subsequent relationship between the two did not break through the layer of window paper, maintaining an ambiguous atmosphere, until the two kissed at a dance, announcing the beginning of this love.
Such an open and enthusiastic man made Mei Yanfang invest all her feelings, she thought she had met true love, but she did not expect that this Kondo Makoto was a scumbag!
Makoto Kondo's girlfriend is Nakamori Mingcai, known as "Showa Daikohime", the two are known as the Golden Boy in Japan, and Mei Yanfang, who is on the other side of the ocean, is forced to become the "third party" in the relationship between the two without knowing it. Mei Yanfang learned that Kondo Masahiko has a girlfriend is also very painful, but she invested too much in this relationship, so that she could not get out, all said that the woman in love has no IQ, Mei Yanfang listened to the promise given to her by Kondo Masahiko, will choose to break up with Nakamori Naomi, and resolutely follow Kondo Masahiko to move to Japan. But Makoto Kondo not only broke his promise, but also went back and forth between the two women, and finally Nakamori couldn't bear to choose suicide to end this ridiculous love triangle, but was eventually saved.
In the face of nakamori's suicide, Mei Yanfang also seems to wake up, she finally stopped being confused, listened to the persuasion of her friends and decided to leave the scumbag and return to the motherland.
Back in Hong Kong, Mui Yanfang began to continue to develop her career, although this love hurt her to the skin, but she still believed in sincere love, but in the later love more cautious and defensive.
Rich in emotional history, but never married in his life
Mei Yanfang's emotional history is very rich, and she has been in love with Lin Guobin and Zhao Wenzhuo, but without exception, she has ended without illness. Andy Lau once commented on Mei Yanfang: "Her character is that she would rather the people of the world bear her, but she will definitely not bear the people of the world." ”
The only thing that made Mei Yanfang feel guilty was that Pau once said to her friend: "I have never owed a man in my life, only feel very guilty about Paul." In 1990, Mei Yanfang and Cambridge college student Paul love affair broke out, and then the major media also passed on its sweet photos, Paul made Mei Yanfang feel very happy and warm, the two almost entered the marriage hall, but in the end because of the difference in the circle of the two, Mei Yanfang finally chose to give up this relationship.
"I'm a very difficult person to get married, and once I choose to get married, I want to be together for the rest of my life." Mei Yanfang's feelings are undoubtedly tortuous, and until her death, there is no marriage of her own.
Mei Yanfang was a righteous person, and her friends swept her grave for 7 years until her death
Mei Yanfang grew up in the cold eyes of others since she was a child, and tasted the cold and warm of human feelings, which also made her not think about how to make money after becoming famous, but to make friends. With her frank and righteous personality, Mei Yanfang has gained a lot of friends, and she is sincere to her friends. Luo Junzuo and Mei Yanfang met very early, the two just entered the show business circle or run the dragon set state, so they are particularly sorry for each other, shopping and eating together, and will also put money together to spend, the two have a good relationship and are confidants of the opposite sex.
But with Mei Yanfang's popularity, Luo Junzuo began to slowly feel the gap between the status of the two, plus there will always be rumors that he eats soft rice and hugs his thighs, in order not to embarrass Mei Yanfang, he deliberately avoided contact between the two, but Mei Yanfang identified this friend. Once Luo Junzuo had an argument with someone after drinking, but he did not expect that the other party actually pulled out a gun, Mei Yanfang immediately rushed to and stood in front of Luo Junzuo to block the gun, which made Luo Junzuo very grateful to Mei Yanfang. Later, Luo Junzuo's family accident was in urgent need of money, he had no choice but to borrow money from Mei Yanfang, Mei Yanfang directly took out a blank check for him to write a number at will, so that Luo Junzuo remembered that after Mei Yanfang's death for seven years, he swept the grave in front of her mausoleum until he died.
With his brother Zhang Guorong, he is not a relative than a relative
The relationship between Mei Yanfang and Zhang Guorong has gone beyond friendship to family affection. Since she was a child, she has to run and work hard outside, and she has been coldly watched by others, which makes Mei Yanfang both strong and has her own loneliness, she will be herself in the words ridiculed by others, and she will also carefully maintain her sensitive heart in the contempt of others. The big sister with the righteousness of the thin clouds, but also has its own vulnerability.
Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang belong to the same record company, the two have been together for nearly 20 years, and Zhang Guorong is the only one who really understands her, and Mei Yanfang can only be unscrupulous in front of him and return to the way a girl should be. Zhang Guorong is also very distressed about Mei Yanfang, knowing that she is afraid of the dark, Zhang Guorong will coax her to sleep and then return to the room, and mei Yanfang closely follows Zhang Guorong when the two attend the event.
The two also had a scandal, but both sides denied it to each other, saying the two of them would not develop into a couple. There is a feeling that has a strong liking for each other and appreciates each other, but knows each other too well and is not suitable for being together. Mei Yanfang and Zhang Guorong are like this, compared to lovers, the two are more like brothers and sisters, silently guarding each other behind their backs.
Later, Zhang Guorong jumped off a building to commit suicide, and the saddest one was his boyfriend Tang Hede, and the other was Mei Yanfang. At that time, Mei Yanfang was being tortured by cancer, the death of her brother made her grief-stricken, it was difficult to control her emotions, Zhang Guorong was a light in her life, and the extinguishing of the light seemed to indicate the fall of Mei Yanfang.
Zhang Guorong once said to Mei Yanfang, "When you are 40 years old, you have not married me, we will be together." ”
It was originally a joke, but because of the dramatic death of the two, this joke is a bit poignant. Zhang Guorong jumped from a tall building before he could fulfill his promise, and Mei Yanfang died of illness on the day he was just 40 years old.
The song hall was slapped, and Mei Yanfang asked Xiang Tai for help late at night
But even the eldest sister who was righteous and frank was once slapped on the wine table. In 1992, Xiang Huaqiang's wife, Chen Lan, received a distress call from Mei Yanfang: "Sister, I was beaten, and the other party refused to let me go. Xiang Tai listened to Mei Yanfang's crying and did not say a word, and then drove to the scene alone.
At that time, Hong Kong was not very peaceful, and various gangsters were entrenched. Among them, there was a gang called 14k, and its boss, Huang Langwei, was at a song hall party, and Mei Yanfang happened to be in this song hall in order to celebrate the birthday of her assistant. Huang Bainian, a friend who gathered with Huang Langwei, had some intersection with Mei Yanfang, and learned that she also inadvertently talked to Huang Langwei in this song hall, and Huang Langwei wanted to see the beauty of the beauty and meet the famous singer, so he came to the room where Mei Yanfang was.
Huang Langwei as a gang boss wants to make a splash in front of everyone, so he proposed to let Mei Yanfang sing a song, but at that time Mei Yanfang had already retreated and refused this request, Huang Langwei felt that he had lost face in front of his little brother, so he took out a million check to let her sing, Mei Yanfang was already slightly drunk at this time and did not take care of Huang Langwei, Huang Langwei immediately slapped Mei Yanfang, and also stopped Mei Yanfang and his party from leaving.
This made Mei Yanfang feel panicked, so she called Xiang Tai for help, and Xiang Tai immediately rushed to the phone, and Huang Langwei did not dare to provoke Xiang Huaqiang at this time, so he gave up and let Mei Yanfang and others leave.
Chen Yaoxing avenged Mei Yanfang by doing Huang Langwei
I thought that this matter would end here, but it is said that because Mui Yanfang was slapped, Chen Yaoxing, known as the Wan Chai Tiger in New Ngee An, cut Huang Langwei to a serious injury in order to avenge her, and Huang Langwei was subsequently sent to the hospital for treatment. Dramatically, the next day, Huang Langwei was killed at close range by a killer disguised as a visiting patient. When it came to gang squabbles, the police could not sit idly by, so they arrested Chen Yaoxing, but finally released him because of insufficient evidence.
Mui Yanfang was threatened and forced to leave Hong Kong for refuge
As soon as this matter came out, the 14k elders also chose to be patient for the time being under the weighing of pros and cons, because Chen Yaoxing leaned back on his home and did not dare to rush to take a shot. The following year, Chan Yiu-hing, who was racing in Macau, was shot in front of a hotel, and then a man who claimed to be Huang Langwei's brother called the newspaper office saying that he wanted to avenge his brother and made a list of revenge, and Mui Yanfang was among them. Ms. Mui, seemingly reluctant to get involved in the dispute, had to leave Hong Kong for refuge and invested $20 million to quell the dispute.
Diagnosed with cancer, Mei Yanfang's life was frozen at the age of 40
Mei Yanfang, who has experienced many things, is also much calmer, tragic childhood experiences, blood-sucking relatives, broken love have not yielded to this woman, she is still optimistic about living. But heaven was jealous of talent, Mei Yanfang was diagnosed with cancer, she announced the news at the press conference, and then said that she would be strong to face, but she did not defeat the disease in the end.
In 2003, Mei Yanfang, who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, wore a wedding dress and opened her last concert in her life, she did not marry love, but married herself to the stage. On December 30, Mei Yanfang's life was frozen at the age of 40.
Mei Yanfang's mother, Qin Meijin, denounced her filial piety because of her inheritance and appealed to revoke her will
Before the daughter's bones were cold, her mother Qin Meijin questioned Mei Yanfang's will, and jumped on the major media to denounce Mei Yanfang for not filial piety, regardless of the life and death of her family, and distributed the money to outsiders. It turned out that Mei Yanfang left a huge inheritance after her death, and she divided these properties into three parts, one was an education fund of 1.7 million yuan for her brother and sister's children to study after graduating from college; one was a living expense of 70,000 yuan per month, which Qin Mei could receive on a monthly basis; and the last was the property in London and Hong Kong, all given to her friend Liu Peiji.
Qin Meijin looked at the huge inheritance and could only get 70,000 yuan per month, felt that she as a mother deserved to take all of it, and finally appealed to the court to request that the will be invalidated. However, she frequently appealed and lost cases, and even took off her shoes in court and threw them at the opposing lawyers and secretaries, and repeatedly opened her mouth to them. The dispute over the will has continued to this day, during which the old lady has filed for bankruptcy several times and asked for an increase in the monthly living standard.
epilogue
To this day, this old lady's body is still very hard, and the elderly Qin Meijin would not think that the daughter who worked hard and complained would one day wake up? Maybe when we live ordinary lives and envy the glamorous beauty of others, there are also people who are longing for an ordinary life like our family sitting around.
The departure of Mui Yanfang is not only the fall of a superstar, but also the end of an era, and the daughter of Hong Kong will always be in our hearts.