A person's life, or mountains and mountains, or as light as a feather, sometimes happy, sometimes sad and indignant, there are smooth experiences, there will inevitably be painful struggles.
But no matter what kind of experience, we must always maintain a peaceful attitude towards life.
If we say that at the beginning of the 21st century, the most shocking thing in the entertainment industry was the sudden death of Zhang Guorong, the "national brother".
He has a huge influence and impact on the singing industry, film and television industry, and even the entire Chinese entertainment industry in Hong Kong, China.
On April 1, 2003, April Fool's Day in the West, Zhang Guorong jumped from the 24th floor and committed suicide by jumping off a building.
Unlike Marilyn Monroe's bizarre suicide, at least there are traces to follow, and the reason for Zhang Guorong's death is still a complete mystery.
All that is known is that he suffered from depression for a long time before he died.
Zhang Guorong's original name was Zhang Fazong, and he had the highest status in the family, because he was the youngest, so his parents gave him all their love.
He was born into a wealthy family, and his father was a famous clothing store owner in Hong Kong at that time.
Unlike other clothing stores, the clothes sold in his shop are both fashionable and tasteful, although the price is expensive, but the customers are still endless, especially many famous Hong Kong movie stars are their regular customers, which makes the family's financial situation very good.
So, when he was not yet an adult, his father took him to study in England.
13-year-old Zhang Guorong went abroad for the first time, saw the world outside, and increased his insight.
Because of his intelligence and good academic performance, he was successfully admitted to universities in the UK.
However, what was unexpected was that after less than a year at the local university, his father had caused severe gout because he was often busy socializing, and in order to treat his father, they had to move his family back to Hong Kong.
After returning to Hong Kong, Zhang Guorong's studies were interrupted, but he did not fall into this, but opened another wonderful life of his own.
His voice was very good and he was very talented at singing, so he worked on this aspect.
Soon, his efforts paid off. He won the runner-up of the Asian Song Contest in Hong Kong with "American Pie" and has since begun to emerge in the music world.
As early as 1995, the record sales of a certain song had exceeded 2 million copies, which shook the Hong Kong music scene at that time.
At the turn of the century, his songs were even selected as the "Top Ten Golden Songs of the Century" at that time, and he created a record of more than 20 consecutive solo concerts with his own efforts.
But none of this was enough to satisfy Zhang Guorong.
Because he is beautiful in appearance, loved by the audience, and has a strong desire, he began to enter the film and television circle and met the famous great benevolent people in Hong Kong - Xiang Tai and Xiang Huaqiang.
Xiang Tai is Xiang Huaqiang's wife and has helped many Hong Kong stars.
Another time, Mei Yanfang and friends went to sing entertainment, after three rounds of wine, began to sing hi, this time, Huang Langwei suddenly walked into the private room, and insisted on letting Mei Yanfang accompany the wine, after being rejected, even contemptuously said to give her 3 million, let her accompany the wine.
Due to the discord between the two sides, Huang Longwei's little brother directly rushed up and slapped her, which made the atmosphere at that time very tense.
Therefore, Mei Yanfang immediately asked Xiang Tai for help, and finally, Xiang Tai rushed over alone and solved the matter smoothly and properly.
There are many things like this, Xiang Tai's status and reputation in the Hong Kong entertainment industry are very high, at the same time, her relationship with Zhang Guorong is also particularly good, and like her relatives, she has helped Zhang Guorong to do psychological counseling many times.
Of course, Zhang Guorong's relationship with Xiang Huaqiang is also good.
Once, in the Academy Awards Best Actor nomination, there was no popular Zhang Guorong figure, sitting at the award ceremony scene to the tai couple behind him, directly pretended to be angry and said that there was a "black box operation", of course, this is a joke, but we can also see how good the relationship between the three people is.
Although Xiang Tai has helped many stars, only she has always felt ashamed of Zhang Guorong, because such a thing has happened to her.
It was April Fool's Day in 2003, and she suddenly received a call from Zhang Guorong.
Zhang Guorong on the other end of the phone was quite calm, but the words he said were very strange, Zhang Guorong said: "Do you believe that I am not depressed, let alone evil?" ”
Suddenly hearing these words, Xiang Was too strange.
However, she still appeased Zhang Guorong at the first time, saying to Tai that she absolutely believed that there was nothing wrong with Zhang Guorong's spirit, and that the media reports were just for eyeballs, hoping to have time to get together more, and promised to arrange a press conference for Zhang Guorong as soon as possible to clarify the facts.
At this time, Zhang Guorong, the tone and tone of voice are very normal, and Xiang Tai at the end of the phone did not hear that he had any mood swings, so after a few words of simple persuasion, he hung up the phone normally and did not think much about it.
In fact, as early as the first few days of calling Xiang Tai, Zhang Guorong had already met with the famous Hong Kong movie star Shen Dianxia, and the two of them also had an afternoon tea together, and Shen Dianxia also enlightened Zhang Guorong on the grounds that "life cannot be smooth" and "you actually lack nothing".
But what people did not expect was that just after talking to Xiang Tai for 1 hour, Xiang Tai received a call from a friend, saying that Zhang Guorong had jumped off a building and committed suicide, at that time, Xiang Tai's first reaction was not to believe it, and she also angrily said to her friend: Even if it is April Fool's Day, you can't joke about this kind of thing.
It wasn't until a few hours later, after Xiang Tai saw the headlines of major media, that he believed that Zhang Guorong really committed suicide.
However, she did not relax for half a day, she was very remorseful, she felt that she did not perceive the meaning behind the words spoken by Zhang Guorong on the phone, it was that she did not save Zhang Guorong in time.
Later, after the major media reported on the incident in more detail, everyone learned that Zhang Guorong had already planned to commit suicide, because he not only made a clear will, but also decided to donate his money to charity.
Zhang Guorong's death has shaken the entire entertainment circle in Hong Kong and the mainland, and some people have bluntly said: After Zhang Guorong's death, many stars were stunned, they reflected at home for a long time, they always wondered why Zhang Guorong, who seemed to have everything going smoothly in life and work, did not lack anything, commit suicide?
In fact, this is the terrible and serious thing about depression.
It is a psychological disease, from the perspective of psychological feelings, depressed patients will have long-term inferiority, pain, and produce an evasive and negative psychological state; From a physiological point of view, patients will have shortness of breath, fatigue, and even chest tightness.
Patients with milder diseases tend to be newsy and dull, while serious patients may be world-weary, and even take extremely light actions like Zhang Guorong.
And the disease is now more common, taking at least two weeks per episode and lasting several years.
Zhang Guorong's sudden death has brought us a lot of thinking.
Time passes day by day, things seem to be getting farther and farther away from us, but in fact, the aspects involved are getting closer and closer to us, and in the contemporary era, under strong pressure, many people suffer from such diseases.
Therefore, in the face of depression, we must attach great importance to it, always keep an open mind, calmly accept all the things we think are good, bad, happy, and helpless, and understand the universal objective truth of the existence of things themselves.
At the same time, we must do more within our ability, be kind to others, do not put too much pressure on ourselves, do not be alone, often chat and interact with friends and family, have someone to accompany, and when necessary, we can take some antidepressant drugs for treatment.
In short, my brother has left us for nearly 20 years, and his death is not only a loss for fans, but also a loss for the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
Before committing suicide, he did send a lot of unusual signals to the outside world, but they were ignored by everyone, or in other words, they were not highly concerned by colleagues and society.
While deeply remembering him, we should comprehensively and profoundly understand the clinical manifestations of depression, understand the causes of this disease, and actively take measures, and the whole society must attach great importance to it and not let this tragedy repeat itself.