He is known as the first flying man in Asia, the scenery is infinite, his singing has been spread throughout the streets, but when he died, he did not have money for a funeral, he was the "big brother" Ke Shouliang.
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On June 1, 1997, many media people and celebrities gathered in Ji County, Shanxi Province, to witness a historic moment.
By the Yellow River in Ji County, Shanxi
Stuntman Ke Shouliang decided to challenge himself here to drive across the Yellow River, which was an extremely dangerous attempt. If you don't succeed, you will become a ren, and the raging yellow river water can be engulfed in an instant, and you can't even find the wreckage.
If he succeeds, he will set a historical record, becoming the first person in all of China and even in All Asia to drive such a leap.
Observations before Ke Shouliang's leap forward
At that time, Hong Kong was about to return to the motherland, and the whole country rejoiced, and so did Ke Shouliang.
So when he heard that a foreigner was going to drive across the Yellow River, the aggressive factor in his heart was stimulated. He thought to himself, the Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese, how can a foreigner come out on top in the leap challenge? So Ke Shouliang decided to drive across the Yellow River.
Preparations before flying over the Yellow River
This is a daunting challenge, and the preparations are not easy. Modifying vehicles, hiring professional teams, etc., the price is very high, and the first thing Ke Shouliang needs is a lot of start-up capital.
In the end, under his persuasion, his wife sold his property in Singapore, and his father also took out 300,000 yuan to support his feat, and Jacky Cheung even borrowed him 500,000 yuan without saying a word.
Ke Shouliang and good brother Jacky Cheung
But these are just a drop in the bucket.
At this time, Ke Shouliang thought of pulling sponsorship, so he went around promoting himself, hoping to have sponsors to support it, but the effect was not ideal.
Ke Wasliang went around pulling sponsorships
Fortunately, Phoenix TV and CCTV learned of this news one after another and provided him with a lot of help.
The funding problem is solved, but the technical level still needs to be repeatedly tested.
Some people may say, isn't it enough to drive fast enough? However, this is not the case, in such a large span and high-speed driving process, the angle of take-off, the slight deviation of the steering wheel during the driving process, are the key to success or failure.
So Ke Shouliang tried again and again with his team, after all, once the arrow was on the string, there was no chance of trial and error.
Ke Shouliang first found a similar location in Dongguan and simulated the conditions on the Yellow River for test drive. But this test drive was not ideal, his car lost control in the air, flipped 360 degrees and then fell directly, and the car was scrapped on the spot.
Fortunately, Ke Shouliang himself fell into the air cushion bag and did not have an accident. After the two test drives, although there was no more loss of control of the car, the length of the leap did not reach 50 meters of the Yellow River Hukou Waterfall. Despite this, Ke Shouliang was determined to complete this challenge.
On the same day, Andy Lau, Tan Yonglin, Wu Zongxian and other big-name artists also arrived to cheer for their brother Ke Shouliang. The Yellow River is crowded with people, and the ticket for 50 yuan sold for 60,000 copies.
Friends in Ke's circle gathered
Many people came from other places in a boat to witness this historic moment. Everyone held their breath and waited for a spectacular sight that had never been seen before. Before nine o'clock, the edge of the Hukou Waterfall was already full of people.
The Yellow River was full of spectators
Around one o'clock in the afternoon, the adventure began.
On his first departure, Ke Shouliang suddenly braked — because there was a nail on the runway that stuck into the car's left rear wheel. Many were frightened and almost thought something was going to happen.
The second time, Ke Shouliang stepped on the throttle on the prepared track and accelerated in an instant. Like the shot in Flying Life, he draws a beautiful arc above the waterfall and lands on the opposite bank.
Ke Shouliang leapt over the Yellow River
This 1.58 seconds in the air condensed into a glory that will always be remembered.
Ke Shouliang's car fell into the pile of cardboard boxes prepared in advance, and more than fifty staff members searched together, and finally successfully found him within the choking risk time. Ke Shouliang succeeded, and the audience boiled over, applauding, cheering, and screaming as they witnessed the birth of a new historical record.
Ke Shouliang successfully flew over the Yellow River
In this way, Ke Shouliang won the title of "Asia's first flying man" and won glory for the motherland on the occasion of Hong Kong's return to the motherland. The car he drove was also shipped back to Hong Kong and is still in the collection.
Ke Shouliang's car leapt over the Yellow River
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Ke Shouliang moved from the mainland to Taiwan with his family since he was a child, and the family lived by fishing. Due to his family's modest circumstances, he dropped out of school as a teenager and followed his family to fish by the sea.
Ke Shouliang
Because of the intense ultraviolet radiation day after day, his skin was tanned, and he earned a nickname of "little black". In Ke Shouliang's youth, he was very interested in motorcycles, and the exciting and rapid speeding could make him temporarily forget all his troubles.
Passionate about motorcycling
At the age of seventeen, Ke Shouliang was admitted to the Taipei Film Star School, which made him overjoyed. Every examination in the school, he did his best to complete. The stunt performance, which made many people sigh, he also completed it effortlessly.
After graduation, he entered the show business circle, working as a stunt instructor and martial arts instructor behind the scenes. This kind of difficult and risky dirty work, he never complains when he does it, and he can always complete things that others can't do
In 1982, Zeng Zhiwei made a movie that required a flying car stunt. This image requires a car to break through the glass and then leap down from a distance of 30 feet. Zeng Zhiwei found a professional motorcycle driver and asked the stuntmen in the circle, but they all got a negative answer.
Going abroad to look for it was also directly rejected by foreign stunt technicians. Cornered, he thought of his friend Ke Shouliang. After Ke Shouliang learned about it, he agreed to it in one bite, without half a sentence of nonsense.
Ke Shouliang and his friend Zeng Zhiwei
But Zeng Zhiwei was still worried, because his friends reminded him that the scene was very dangerous and could really be life-threatening. So he called Ke Shouliang and decided to cancel the shooting of this scene. But Ke Shouliang still said categorically that he could do it, which reassured Zeng Zhiwei.
But Zeng Zhiwei was still not at ease, and when the official shooting, he called two ambulances in advance, just in case.
But there was no impossible in Ke Shouliang's world, only to see him riding a motorcycle, landing steadily from a place of twenty or thirty feet, finished cleanly and neatly, very beautifully. Zeng Zhiwei was stunned and immediately rushed up to hug his brother.
Still
Ke Shouliang's achievements in stunt doubles are also quite abundant, and those popular film and television works, such as "Brother Dragon and Tiger" and "Fast Food Truck", are inseparable from his efforts behind the scenes. Among them, the flying car scene was played by Ke Shouliang himself.
Stills from "Fast Food Truck"
In the process of participating in the production of these film and television works, Ke Shouliang also met many stars in the circle, and had close contacts with them and became friends.
Ke Shouliang has many friends and is very popular. Like the bamboo gang boss he made a cameo appearance in "Ancient Puzzle Boy", he is also a person who lectures on morality and can insert a knife in both ribs for his friends.
Stills from "Ancient Puzzle Boy"
He once said that "friends are more important than wives", and from his familiar song "Big Brother", you can also feel the man's majestic heart and righteousness.
Born to be an adventurous man, Ke Shouliang rode a motorcycle and flew over the Jinshanling Great Wall Beacon in 1992, and was the first person to accomplish such a feat on the Great Wall.
Fly over the Jinshanling Great Wall Beacon Tower
"Not crossing the Great Wall is not a good man" seems to be more appropriately applied to Ke Shouliang.
After flying over the Yellow River, Ke Shouliang drove a Geely car in Tibet in 2002 and flew over the Potala Palace, which is 30 meters long. It can be said that the sword is not old, which makes the audience feast their eyes.
Fly over the Potala Palace
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But in 2003, the bad news that shocked everyone came. Ke died suddenly in Shanghai after drinking alcohol due to an asthma attack. He was 50 years old and in good health, so everyone couldn't believe it.
Ke Shouliang's memorial service
Ke Shouliang had no habit of saving money before his death, and after his death, he left his family with nothing but a house where the loan had not been repaid. Even the money for the funeral, the Ke family is stretched thin, can not afford a decent funeral.
And because he often engages in high-risk activities, the insurance company has always refused to cover him.
Ke Shou Liang Ling Tang
Although the Ke family was so embarrassed, Ke Shouliang's circle friends before his death were very moralistic. About 200 people attended his funeral, including Andy Lau, Zeng Zhiwei, Jackie Chan, Xiang Huaqiang and others, which was comparable to the Golden Horse Awards ceremony. At that time, the money for the funeral was donated by his friends.
Many friends came to see you off
In the second year of Ke Shouliang's death, in order to support the lives of the Ke family's wives and children, Andy Lau, Zeng Zhiwei and Wu Zongxian specially organized a concert to commemorate Ke Shouliang, and all the income was given to Ke Shouliang's wife.
This move made everyone move, and treating friends with sincerity and righteousness will naturally get the same return.
Andy Lau, Ke Shouliang and Wu Zongxian
As the "first flyer in Asia", Ke Shouliang's impact on the domestic racing ecology is also huge. In 2006, Shanghai also held a celebrity charity race to commemorate and highlight his contribution to the cause of racing.
Although Ke Shouliang is not really a "big brother of the underworld", he has the blood and tenacity of a boy in his bones, and he has the courage and courage to break the boat. This is an important factor in his ability to become a successful stuntman and repeatedly realize his ideals and become the "first flying man in Asia".
In terms of treating people, he also sincerely gets along with people, whether it is the king of heaven or ordinary people, he treats everyone equally and is known for his righteousness. In this respect, he can be said to have succeeded.
On the other hand, with his career status, Nichijin Doujin is not a problem. But his generous and righteous personality and living in the present life made the family have little savings, and even after his sudden death, he once faced a state of embarrassment and needed his brother's help.
Therefore, Ke Shouliang is not mixed badly, but too well mixed, not selfish at all. Only by thinking about others everywhere will you get the same reward.
In contrast, in terms of taking care of the family, perhaps he did not hand over a full score.
Today, Ke Shouliang has been dead for 18 years, and his son Ke Youlun has also grown up, and he has a little involvement in film, television and music, and presumably he has also been promoted by Ke Shouliang's connections in the circle.
Ke Youlun
Ke Youlun is now married and has children, at his wedding, Jacky Cheung and others pushed off their jobs, just to be present to celebrate, Zeng Zhiwei is even more big-handed, paying the cost of the banquet.
Ke Youlun wedding
Although he died early and could not accompany his children to grow up, his good brothers took good care of their families instead of him, and Presumably Ke Shouliang, who was far away in heaven, would be very pleased after seeing it.