Well, she can be reversed when hammered like this...
Remember what Qin Zewen wrote before the sheep? It is the financial goddess who participated in the Miss World China champion but was out of the circle because of gossip
The latest reversal: Qin Zewen's identity as a commercial securities analyst is not fake?! emmmmm... Although I don't know if this reversal is true or false, have the treasures found out, the biggest thing in the beauty pageant circle in recent years, or is Qin Zewen's background? If it weren't for the background out of the circle, the word beauty pageant really hasn't been seen for a long time.
Are pageants really gone?
Why haven't we seriously watched an orthodox pageant for nearly a decade in our lives?
Why did China's beauty pageant "die"?
Before talking about disappearing, the sheep first talk about why the pageant began.
For most people in China, beauty pageants are equal to Hong Kong sisters.
Miss Hong Kong, Cheng Ye Entertainment Defeat Also Entertainment
Miss Hong Kong, the entertainment marvel of East Asia.
Whether it is the champion or the runner-up, as long as it can kill the blood road in the Hong Kong sister selection, then: the resources are yours, the opportunities are yours, and the connections are yours.
There used to be a popular saying in Hong Kong that what best represents Hong Kong is not the clock tower in Tsim Sha Tsui, not the old lining pavilion in Victoria Peak, nor Causeway Bay in Mong Kok, but Miss Hong Kong. Miss Hong Kong was founded in 1946, just after the end of World War II, and Hong Kong had not recovered from the throes of war, but many elite rich people in the upper class were singing night and night.
In that era when thinking was far less advanced than now, women were not completely women, and beauty could even become a "product" - so the birth of the first Hong Kong sister was actually a beauty pageant for the fun of the rich.
The people who came to participate walked around the field, and the rich people in the audience scored them according to their personal preferences, and there were no restrictions on the identity of the contestants.
Be between 16 and 60 years old, unlimited in work, and unlimited in marriage.
But because it was a pastime election held by the rich, the title of "Hong Kong sister" was not as recognized as it was later.
Let the rich rate themselves? It sounds disrespectful to women.
But the follow-up operation of this process created a profit model for the later generations of Hong Kong sisters.
Because of the few regulations, the people who came to participate at that time had different identities, such as the first champion Li Lan was actually a 23-year-old hotel waiter, and the second champion even had a wife.
In the 40s, when women were not valued, it was difficult for women to get ahead, but if they caught the connections of rich people, beauty became a shortcut.
The decade from 1930 to 1940 was the first prosperous period of Hong Kong's film industry – the prosperity of its production enterprises, the rapid growth of Cantonese-based productions and the maturity of the independent production system marked the beginning of the film industry and entered a period of large-scale development.
The boom of film and television has long had a large number of actor positions, and then has become a beauty carrier for Hong Kong sisters. Li Lan once entered the entertainment industry with the title of Hong Kong sister, starring in the first Wong Feihong series TV series in Hong Kong history, and she and the second champion Wu Danfeng both married wealthy businessmen to achieve class leaps.
Li Lan
The selection of Hong Kong sisters during this period was still sponsored by nightclubs, and although it had a poor reputation among the public, it did indeed transfuse blood for the developing film and television. But the development of any industry needs the support of the interest chain, and Hong Kong sister is no exception. In the 70s, with the popularization of television and economic development, Hong Kong people began to pay more attention to enjoying life, and the golden years of Hong Kong movies also arrived. Run Run Shaw took over the right to host Miss Hong Kong from the nightclub, and proposed the slogan of "beauty and wisdom" in response to the "rich concubine" described by the Hong Kong media before.
In the 70s, Hong Kong's television industry was developed, and even many movie themes or inspiration came from TV content.
It is precisely because of this that TVB also directly announced the selection of Hong Kong sisters.
In 1973, the Hong Kong sister officially became standardized and gave birth to Sun Yongen, the first "orthodox" Hong Kong sister in theory.
And what will the Hong Kong sister get at that time?
In addition to the bonus, there is also a signing contract from TVB.
The door of the entertainment industry will officially open to you, and the vigorous vitality of Hong Kong's film and television industry will continue to show.
The two-way linkage between the entertainment industry and Hong Kong sisters has brought excellent results and benefits.
Maggie Cheung, Yuen Wing-yee, Li Ka-yan, Zhao Yazhi, Chung Chu-hong... How many film and television beauties we still miss are popular because of Hong Kong sisters.
The 70s and 90s were the most glorious years of Hong Kong sisters, and these 20 years also covered the golden age of Hong Kong TV and Hong Kong movies.
After TVB let the Hong Kong sisters catch fire in the TV industry, they were directly connected to the screen by major film directors.
What is the level of Hong Kong films in the 8th and 90s? At that time, some Asian governments even pointed to allowing the introduction of Hong Kong films, and Hong Kong was praised as the "Hollywood of the East" at the stage of film and television development around the world.
Stephen Chow, Wong Kar-wai, Wang Jing, Tsui Hark, Leslie Cheung, John Woo... These thunderous names are the living hallmarks of Hong Kong movies.
And Hong Kong sister also took advantage of this shareholder wind to follow the trend and constructed a classic image of the screen in the eyes of countless people.
Miss Hong Kong, due to the rise of entertainment, but also due to the decline of entertainment - by the millennium, the Hong Kong entertainment industry was no longer as brilliant as it used to be, Hong Kong films gradually declined, the music scene was gradually replaced by Taiwanese entertainment, and the fame of Hong Kong stars naturally declined.
Since then, although the Hong Kong sister has not disappeared, it is no longer supported by such a developed entertainment industry.
The slow development of the entertainment industry has made Hong Kong sisters lose resources and living water, and also made Hong Kong sisters in the 90s become the last pearls of East Asian beauty pageants.
Continental beauty pageants, "dead" in the inner roll
The heyday of Hong Kong sisters is also the heyday of Hong Kong entertainment.
In Hong Kong, the complementary beauty resources and film and television resources have created a miracle in the history of East Asian beauty pageants. So, is there no beauty pageant on our continent? In fact, about the mainland beauty pageant has also been written before, the treasures were shocked by the beauty of the contestants at that time
In Guangzhou in 1985, the first beauty contest in China was officially held: the Yangcheng Youth Beauty Competition. One thing is to say, this beauty pageant is really full of equal rights, not only does not limit age, gender and weight, but even examines cultural level, political geography, history and other subjects must be repeated. Proportion of appearance? It only accounts for 15% of the assessment ratio.
And the beauty pageant was so big that it even attracted Fok Yingdong, who brought his daughter-in-law and also the 78-year Hong Kong sister champion Zhu Lingling to participate.
But!
Sheep said above that the development of any industry needs the support of the interest chain.
But this pageant is completely for the sake of selection, without any follow-up industry follow-up, so even if the formation is quite large, it can't provoke any splashes. Until, 1992.
In the 90s, the continent was open and inclusive, and beauty pageants were also blooming.
Even in terms of temperament and appearance, the contestants are not inferior to the Hong Kong sisters
But why are these beautiful sisters not as famous as Hong Kong sisters?
Behind this is not only because of the blessing of Hong Kong films and television to Hong Kong sisters, but also because Hong Kong only has Miss Hong Kong, an orthodox beauty pageant in public perception.
But the mainland is too big, and everyone wants to get a piece of the pie.
So in 1992 alone, the mainland held about 30 beauty pageants.
There are Hainan International Miss Coconut Festival Beauty Pageant, Miss International Aviation Pageant, Beijing New Century Top Ten Miss Manners Grand Prix, etc...
In the following years, beauty pageants became more and more, and those who came to model or film and television companies for interviews at that time basically had the title of XX beauty pageant champion on their resumes.
At that time, the domestic entertainment industry was not as developed as Hong Kong and Taiwan, and there was no matching follow-up industry and beauty pageant to complement each other. At the same time, because there are too many beauty pageant champions, the title becomes no longer valuable, the beauty contest no longer has commercial significance, and the domestic beauty pageant is terminated.
The pageant is still there, but it still needs financial support
For the industry, the chain of interests is very important.
But today, when the economy is still good, is anyone really still insisting on the pageant? A: South America.
The era has developed to the present, European and American beauty pageants have gradually deviated from the orthodox track due to political correctness, but South America has supported this industry because of poverty. Especially Venezuela. How fanatical is beauty pageant in this country? Girls may be sent to pageant schools for progressive training when they are five or six years old, and even hormone injections at school if they are not tall enough when they are teenagers.
For the sake of stature, minors may be injected with hormones, silicone breast augmentation, and may even remove a certain section of intestine to lose weight.
In order to have money to participate in the pageant, contestants from poor families will drop out of school to work, and some will sell their bodies to obtain funds for the competition. Venezuela is a national beauty pageant: their enthusiasm for beauty pageants is equivalent to the Chinese people's treatment of the Spring Festival Gala. Once a television station suddenly broadcast the president's speech during the live broadcast of the beauty pageant, and the people's anger peaked, and some people even shot in protest.
It is in this atmosphere of national beauty pageants that Venezuela has given birth to a total of 7 Miss Universe titles, 6 Miss World champions, 8 Miss International champions and 2 Miss Earth titles. And the reason is only one word: poor. As a country whose domestic accounts are regularly kept around $2.5 billion and already owed $170 billion in foreign debt in 19 years, 96 percent of Venezuelans are poor. Because of its harsh domestic environment, Venezuela's capital has also become the most crime-rated city in the world.
In 2020, Venezuela's inflation rate was 3,000%, and the quarterly expenditure of the people in 19 years was only $0.53. In such a hopeless social atmosphere, beauty pageants have become the most convenient way to change their fate across classes, and people rush to enter the beauty pageant track, which has led to Venezuela's unrivaled beauty pageant industry. Just like the former Hong Kong sisters, beauty pageants are Miss Hong Kong's entertainment industry ticket, and the same is true in Venezuela.
Those who win the title are given the opportunity to audition for commercials and are also invited to participate in the recording of TV shows. And even without that, the pageant winner gets an objective profit. For example, the winner of Miss Universe '07 received a diamond tiara, an apartment on New York Avenue and cash grants. These are worth "only" £250,000, but they are quite generous for Venezuelans who have been in poverty for a long time.
Not only Venezuela, but the whole of South America is quite involuted. Just think about how many supermodels Brazil has
The economy is not good enough, the country is not strong enough, and the interaction between neighboring countries has led to the involvement of everyone over time, and the beauty pageant industry has continued because of this.
Each country has its own pageant history.
In areas where the economy is developed and women are beginning to have the right to speak, the decline of beauty pageants shows that the degree of civilization of society no longer requires women's appearance to become a necessary "product indicator".
South America is still struggling, but when the economy recovers, the orthodox pageant may finally become a corner of history, leaving only those nostalgic pearls of the times...
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