There are four strange people in Hong Kong, writer Jin Yong, screenwriter Ni Kuang, host Cai Lan, composer Huang Xia, they are also known as the "four talents of Hong Kong".
Four people have similar interests and are very good friends.
They have a bold personality, do their own thing, never care about worldly opinions, and they are the eternal focus wherever they go
"Drink the strongest wine, talk about the wildest girls, eat the most beautiful food, do the most domineering things", all day full of meat strips, a mouthful of genitals, but always can make the people next to them laugh, let everyone like them.
The most infuriating thing is that although they behave vulgarly, they are talented, and few people in art can compete with them, otherwise they would not be known as the "four talents of Hong Kong".
The person we want to talk about today is Huang Xia, one of the "four talents of Hong Kong", among the four people, Huang Xia is the most heroic.
If Cai Lan, who likes food and beauty, is a glass of grape wine, delicate and long. That yellow hammer is the most domineering spirit, rampage, going its own way. Although it is spicy, it gives people warmth, and the mouth has a lingering fragrance and an endless aftertaste.
Provoking Bruce Lee, peeing on Jackie Chan, scolding "Hua Tsai" Andy Lau, but responding to the tyrant on the set for Xingye, we will talk about Huang Xia's story today.
1. Enter the advertising industry
Huang's irritable personality is evident in his childhood, when he was in school, Huang's cousin cried to him, saying that he was often bullied by a boy.
After Huang Xia knew, he jumped like thunder, waved his big hand, and took his cousin to avenge the boy.
As a result, when he arrived at the scene, Huang Xia failed to avenge his cousin, but instead was violently beaten by the other party. Because the other party has a famous name: Bruce Lee.
No wonder Huang Xia can't beat the other party, Bruce Lee has been a kung fu lover since he was a child, and If Huang Xia, who has never learned martial arts, can beat Bruce Lee, it will be a ghost.
Although Huang Xia often fought when he was a child, he studied surprisingly well and was a school bully.
As early as his reading period, Huang was heavily respected by the harmonica master Liang Rizhao, scoring or accompanying Shaw films.
However, Huang Xia, who entered the entertainment circle early, did not enter the entertainment circle immediately after growing up, but became a teacher of traditional Chinese studies and Bibles.
Perhaps because of this experience, Huang Later also played "Pastor Wang" in the movie "Truant Weilong" and tied Zhou Xingchi to the cross.
Although Huang Xia entered the show business circle, acting is not his hobby, playing roles, but out of curiosity to play tickets.
After two years as a teacher, Huang Xia, who called himself "the son of the wrong person", entered the development of the advertising industry under the introduction of a friend.
Although Huang Xia did not understand the advertising industry, his sharp mouth was very able to talk. During the interview, Huang Xia talked directly to the interviewer for an hour. The interviewer saw that although Huang Xia didn't understand anything, he had a sharp mouth, so he broke the rules and let him join the company.
It turns out that good people can make achievements no matter what industry they are in. After entering the advertising agency, Huang Xia quickly gained a foothold in the advertising industry with a three-inch tongue. At that time, the classic advertising slogan of "as soon as the head of the horse is opened, good things will naturally come" came from his creativity.
2. "A Laugh in the Sea"
Huang Xia is a very playful person, while advertising, Huang Xia also takes into account the host, composer, actor, producer and so on.
Although Huang Xia broke out of the entertainment industry, according to Huang Xia's later interviews, he has been emphasizing that his main business has always been advertising, and entering the entertainment industry development is completely a ticket, saying that the popular point is to like and play.
During this period, Huang wrote his first commercial song "Forget Him", sung by Teresa Teng and included in subsequent albums.
In the industry for decades, Huang has created more than 2,000 pieces of music, many of which are classics within classics.
For example, in 1980, the famous song that became famous with "Shanghai Beach" was created by Huang Xia.
It is reported that Huang Xia only took twenty minutes to compose this song.
At that time, the composer Gu Jiahui hurriedly called Huang Xia and asked him to help him create a song. At that time, Huang Xia, who was sitting on the toilet, was in danger, and while listening to the sound of running water on the toilet, he wrote "waves, waves", which he did not expect to become a classic song that spread throughout Hong Kong.
To say that Huang Xia's most famous song is undoubtedly the theme song of "Laughing at the River", "A Laugh in the Sea".
At that time, there was a saying circulating on the Internet that Jin Yong wrote the jianghu, Xu Ke exported the jianghu, and Huang Xia composed the jianghu.
Huang Xia's jianghu is "A Laugh in the Sea", and when writing this song, Huang Xia really took a lot of effort.
At that time, Xu Ke found Huang Xia and asked him to compose the most imposing song. This mainly made Huang Xia difficult, and wrote six versions for Xu Ke in a row, but they were all passed off by the other side.
By the time of the seventh edition, Huang Xia was thinking, "What song can two masters and Ling Hu Chong play together?" I think there are only a few possibilities to play some songs that only they understand in the world, or play some very simple songs, but play well. ”
According to this line of thinking, Huang Xi opened the "Criticism of Chinese Music Thought" created by Professor Huang Youdi to find inspiration, and saw a sentence in it: "Great music will be easy".
The meaning of this sentence is that the simpler the music, the more heroic and atmospheric. Therefore, Huang Xia abandoned the Western seven-tone rhythm and used the Eastern five-tone rhythm instead to create this song "A Laugh in the Sea".
Finally, Huang Xia called the song to Xu Ke's hand and said to him: "This is the seventh time, if you are not satisfied, then please ask Gao Ming." ”
The final result was seen by everyone, and Xu Ke used music in his own films and became an eternal classic for future generations.
Later, Huang Xia also pulled Luo Dayou and Xu Ke to record a version together, but the recording did not achieve the results he wanted.
Distraught, the three of them went to drink together, and when they drank to a strong place, the three of them sang "A Laugh in the Sea" through wine, but they did not expect to become the most elegant version.
The three broken gong voices, but they are all people with the truest temperament, laughing and scolding, and singing the real jianghu between jokes.
3. Host experience
Speaking of Huang Xia, we can't talk about the program he hosted, "No Defense Tonight.".
This variety show is very interesting, "Tonight Is Not Defensive", it means that there are no restrictions, the host and the star can talk as they please, and they can say anything.
This show invites all the celebrities who have become famous in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, Lin Qingxia, Wang Zuxian, Zhang Guorong, etc., the three hosts are old fritters, flying around in various meat strips on the show, often saying that the female guests are red-faced, Lin Qingxia is one of them.
In this show, the three hosts also forced Zhang Guorong to confide in him, asking him to say: "When was he lost?" ”
In the face of the three old drivers' questioning, Zhang Guorong was also forced to have no way at all, and could only perfunctorily say: "About twenty-one years old, but not the birthday day." ”
In addition to asking some of the more exciting questions of the star, Huang Xia's questions in the show were also very direct. For example, when I first met Lin Qingxia, I said that I had a non-division of thoughts about her, and also called Wang Zuxian the number one fantasy object.
Although the three old drivers often fly around on the show, they have been recognized by all the stars. Wang Zuxian even said bluntly in an interview: "I rarely confess so frankly, but I feel so relaxed on your show and say what I want to say." ”
Lin Qingxia said: "That time was also the most natural time in my life. ”
As for the birth of this show, it is also very dramatic.
It is reported that at that time, Ni Kuang was fascinated by a nightclub mother, so he often took Cai Lan and Huang Xia to visit the nightclub together, and the three of them often made beautiful women laugh in the nightclub.
Instead of teasing beautiful women in nightclubs, why not create a variety show and tease stars on TV?
Therefore, the variety show "Tonight Is Not Defensive" was conceived. At the beginning of the show's inception, it was already implied to have an adult nature.
4, and the star's grudge
Huang Xia is a person with a true temperament, and this temperament is also reflected in his treatment of people and things. Huang Xia has publicly scolded Andy Lau many times, saying: "I have never seen such a stupid person who writes songs." ”
After Andy Lau heard about it, he privately met Huang Xia, and he specifically complained to him about his grievances, saying: "If you want to scold, you can scold, there is no need to be so cruel." ”
Huang Xia smiled and replied: "Don't give up, people will progress, I scolded you for three years, I understand your current works." ”
Later, Andy Lau created his masterpiece "Cold Rain", and Huang Xia did not skimp on his praise and praised it in the column.
Huang Xia has scolded many people in his life, but only praised Zhou Xingchi. Zhou Xingchi was not only spat upon as a tyrant on the set, Huang Xia once responded to this problem for him.
Huang Xia said: "Arrogant people don't listen to other people's opinions, but their own opinions are good? He's not me, and if he asks, what will happen to you if you lose your temper, I'll just say pee. ”
"He doesn't care who you believe, saying an opinion that he thinks is good, and he uses it right away, is a habit of everyone."
The general meaning of what he said was that although Zhou Xingchi was short-tempered, this was a manifestation of his ability. On the contrary, those who scolded him would immediately adopt it when Zhou Xingchi put forward a good opinion.
This is typical of picking up the bowl to eat, putting down the bowl and scolding the mother.
Huang Xia and Jackie Chan also had a grudge, when Huang Xia drank too much wine and met Hong Jinbao and Jackie Chan on the way home. Under the impetus of alcohol, Huang Xia did a very exaggerated thing, and even rushed to Jackie Chan, took off his pants and peed on him.
Where jackie Chan could bear such an insult, he was going to beat Huang Xia at that time. Jackie Chan has been learning martial arts since he was a child, and he is a kung fu actor, and if he really hits Huang Xia, he may not be able to bear it.
Fortunately, Hong Jinbao was present and pulled Jackie Chan. The next morning, the overwhelming reports in the newspapers made Huang Xia very angry, saying that he had obviously not done it, so why did he report it indiscriminately?
It turned out that Huang Xia drank the fragments and completely forgot what happened last night.
Later, under the reminder of his friends, Huang Xia remembered it little by little. Without saying a word, he ran directly to find Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan was not angry at that time, watching the other party rushing to find himself, thinking that the other party had come to find stubble again, very angry, rushed up to move. Unexpectedly, Huang Xia knelt directly in front of Jackie Chan and banged his head three times. He said, "I peed in front of you, and now I give you three kowtows, and the matter between us will be cleared up." ”
Seeing that the other party was so sincere, Jackie Chan's anger was completely dissipated, and he quickly stepped forward to pull Huang Xia up. Because of this incident, the two people have also become very good friends, which can be described as a year-old friendship.
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Huang died on November 24, 2004 at the age of 63.
Throughout his life, he laughed and cursed, and created many popular works. Some of the childhood classics that we are very familiar with are from the hands of Huang Xia.
Huang Xia has encountered many things in his life, but he is very affectionate and calm. If it were not for this temper, Huang Xia would not have been able to create "A Laugh in the Sea" full of jianghu qi.
There is nothing to say, Huang Xia's predecessors have gone all the way. If there is an afterlife, may you enter the rivers and lakes and become a true martial arts hero in a lifetime.