In the 1980s and 1990s, when the influence of Hong Kong's entertainment industry was at its peak, there were countless classic songs and film and television works, and the stars were shining, and the stories that happened there were equally amazing.
At that time, not only was the immortal star-making legend of the "Four Great Heavenly Kings" illuminating the people, but also the dark rumors of the "Four Great Epileptic Kings" were haunting, which was the most regrettable.
The "Four Great Mad Kings of Hong Kong" include Cai Fenghua, Chen Baolian, Lan Jieying, and Hong Chaofeng, and the biggest common denominator of these four people is that they all shined for a while, but they mistakenly lived into the tragic figures of an era.
Previously, we wrote "Lan Jieying" (click to read); today, we will talk about the story of Cai Fenghua.
In the 1980s, Cai Fenghua's film and television song Sanqi developed, and he was a character who could stand shoulder to shoulder with Zhang Guorong and Tan Yonglin.
But later, Cai Fenghua seemed to have been "lowered" and "epilepsy" out of the entertainment industry behind the drunken fans and celebrities behind the truth and fate of human nature.
In 1985, Cai Fenghua presided over the "Top Ten Golden Songs" award ceremony, when Zhang Guorong had three songs awarded.
As a result, Cai Fenghua, as the host, teased Zhang Guorong for saying that "momentary brilliance does not represent eternity."
Although lu Minyi, her partner at the time, found that Cai Fenghua's words were not right, she blocked it in time and said: "I know that you will support Ah Ken (Cai Fenghua), now let's watch the advertisement first!" But this sentence did not offset Cai Fenghua's disrespect for Zhang Guorong.
Since then, Cai Fenghua has encountered resistance from almost the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry, becoming a Geng Zhi BOY and a down-and-out idiot who was banned by his peers.
Why did Cai Fenghua provoke Zhang Guorong so much at that time?
There are two ways to say it:
One is to say that because Cai Fenghua's "Love is Not a Game" was also selected as one of the top ten golden songs, but it was temporarily replaced by Zhang Guorong's song and won the award, Cai Fenghua was not convinced, which publicly satirized Zhang Guorong;
There is also a saying that Cai Fenghua was upset with his friend Chen Baiqiang at that time, because before Zhang Guorong Cining Palace publicly said, "I don't like Chen Baiqiang the most, because the songs he composed are very beautiful, but they will never be sung to me", in addition, they also repeatedly spoke ill of Chen Baiqiang, so that Cai Fenghua took the opportunity to give Zhang Guorong a good look.
Up to now, the real reason is no longer available, but Cai Fenghua's marginalization since then is obvious to all.
Just imagine, if there was no impulse of the year, Cai Fenghua would not be a different situation now.
As everyone knows, Cai Fenghua has talent and strength that can stand shoulder to shoulder with any heavenly king, and his brilliance is more than ten years earlier than the "four heavenly kings", and even earlier than his brother Zhang Guorong, who entered the list of popular singers. Dawn Li Tianwang also sang the songs he wrote, and only then did he successfully qualify as a singer.
In that golden age of Hong Kong music superstars, which can be called the fight of immortals, Cai Fenghua ranked in the xianban earlier than the "Tan Zhang Mei Chen" at that time.
From the Heavenly King to the Epileptic King, the fall of Cai Fenghua is exactly fulfilled, cao Gong said in "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Deep love does not live, hui ji will be hurt."
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You know, when Tan Zhang's competition has not yet become a trend, Mei Yanfang's debut in the choir competition has not yet reached the throne of the Queen of Heaven, Chen Baiqiang is still the well-behaved and elegant Danny Boy who is regarded as the little prince, Cai Fenghua has become a big hit with good singing talent and handsome appearance, which is highly valued by TVB.
How beautiful was he back then?
At the first Golden Melody Awards, he was the host;
In the MV that celebrates that wireless is no longer listed after Hong Kong ATV, TVB invited wireless stars to move, and the lineup was so large that later people called the MV "Six Kingdoms Sealing Phase".
At that time, Cai Fenghua's lens and status were second only to his brother Zhang Guorong. In the close-up shot, he has red lips and big eyes, and he is definitely a small fresh meat-like existence.
Along with Cai Fenghua and Zhang Guorong, there were also Liang Chaowei, Wu Zhenyu, Lan Jieying, and Zhong Zhentao, who were just emerging at that time.
On the influential, there are also Tan Yonglin, Mei Yanfang, Chen Baiqiang.
These people later became the mainstay of Hong Kong's entertainment industry.
Cai Fenghua can appear in this MV, which shows Cai Fenghua's status and potential at that time.
Cai Fenghua is the object of the tide of fate by squeezing Zhang Guorong, so many people feel that his relationship with his brother is a momentary Yuliang, you live and die.
In fact, the brother and Cai Fenghua have a good relationship.
Cai Fenghua and her brother were equally divided all the way, and both of them made their debuts in singing competitions.
In 1977, 17-year-old Cai Fenghua and 21-year-old Cheung Kwok Wing won the third place in the Hong Kong Singing Competition, and the other won the Asian Crown in the "Asian Singing Competition" held by Lai TV.
Although his brother was the runner-up, Cai Fenghua was the third runner-up.
Interestingly, after their debut, the two have developed very differently. In the few years that the two beautiful young men had just won a good card but had not yet won the status of the Heavenly King, and stepped into the gorgeous and cruel Shuluo Field of the "Jinge Golden Song", cai Fenghua's very toxic spell had not yet been born, and the proverb that was widely circulated in the anecdote was: Even Zhang Guorong had to work for ten years.
Speaking of which, Cai Fenghua was sent to Wang Blow that earlier than his brother Zhang Guorong.
In 1978, Cai Fenghua, who only participated in the complete Hong Kong Singing Competition and won the third place, continued to participate in the singing competition held by Radio Television Hong Kong, and this time he achieved remarkable results and directly entered the circle as a champion. Everyone called him the "Prince of Red Lips.".
Coupled with the fact that people are good at singing, can write and speak, and are talented, Cai Fenghua not only made steady progress in his singing career, but also developed smoothly, he signed a contract with Sony Records, and the second record sold to platinum level.
WIRELESS also entrusted two extremely important television programs to him to host, one was the first live children's program in Hong Kong, "Banana Boat", and the other was the "Golden Song of Jinge", which later made Cai Fenghua a magic idea, which lasted for a long time from its inception to the present, witnessing many heavenly kings and queens.
Even the highest-rated idol drama "WHEN IQ Mature" at that time had Cai Fenghua's share, and Cai Fenghua at that time was really an idol strength faction, and her appearance and talent were very good.
The changes in "Jinge Golden Melody" are all afterwords, and the earliest conquered by Cai Fenghua is actually the "Grammy" and "Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Award" in the Hong Kong Music Awards.
In 1979, the most convincing award in the Hong Kong music scene, the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody" Award (later known as the Golden Needle Award), was established.
In 1981, Cai Fenghua, who was still in his early twenties, won his first "Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Award" for the first time with his own song "Qianying".
Cai Fenghua's voice is clear, handsome, whether it is writing songs or singing, you can come by hand, this "Qianying" is the song he made for her on a whim when he saw Chen Xiuzhu's style on the radio, and acted spontaneously. He was so charming that he couldn't be more talented.
By 1983, when Cai Fenghua sang "Why Have You Ever Met" and won the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Award", Zhang Guorong was still being blindsided.
Zhang Guorong has played supporting roles and sung since his debut, and has been scolded as a chicken boy. Zhang Guorong, the brother who has been holding bad cards, finally waited for his name to be named an idol, surprising the audience and the "skirt of billions" of the Hong Kong music scene, and the original song came from the cover song "The Wind Continues to Blow" from the other side of Yamaguchi Baihui Goodbye.
If this song "The Wind Continues to Blow" opened the prelude to the brother's red, then the "monica" received by the brother a year later officially sent his brother Zhang Guorong to the position of a popular singer, opening a five-year-long "Tan Zhang hegemony" with Tan Yonglin.
Plus Danny Boy Chen Baiqiang, Mei Yanfang, who can sing and dance, Lin Zixiang, a bearded man with an invincible high voice, and Luo Wen, the originator of the male demon, work together. The stars returned, and the first prosperous world of the Hong Kong music scene arrived as scheduled.
In the same year, the "Golden Melody Awards Ceremony" was announced, which sounded the most wonderful "Battle of the Gods" in the Hong Kong music scene.
The fate of The two superstars, Cai Fenghua and Zhang Guorong, gradually began to shuffle.
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His brother Zhang Guorong became more and more popular with the media and audiences, and Cai Fenghua, who had been steadily rising all the way, was sung down for several consecutive years.
By the 1985 "Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony", everyone only knew that Cai Fenghua had violated the heavenly rules with the sentence "Instant brilliance does not mean eternity", which provoked public anger, but it was not clear that Cai Fenghua would do this.
Speaking of the various interludes of that "Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony", it is also wonderful.
First of all, as soon as the singing began, the bearded guy Lin Zixiang exploded the award ceremony with the explosive "Ten Twelve Inches", which can be called the coolest skewer performance in history.
At the moment when his brother received the award, he made an acceptance speech on his own solo song, and at the same time made a joke about his old friend Chen Baiqiang, who naughtily compared Chen Baiqiang to Yu Lizhen, who specialized in the Cantonese feature film, and called himself Li Xiangqin, the lady of the Western Palace.
In that year, my brother had three songs shortlisted, and he was an unstoppable celebrity. "Tan Zhang Scramble" has just entered a white-hot situation. It happened that Cai Fenghua added fuel to the fire at the moment when everyone was fighting fiercely.
In fact, "jealousy" is good, just laugh, Cai Fenghua is not controlled, blatant, straight to the chest is actually for a reason.
The wireless that hosts the Golden Song of Jinge, in order to rate, directly made the award ceremony into a battlefield of "Tan Zhang Contending", so Cai Fenghua's original shortlisted golden songs were drawn to create momentum for "Tan Zhang Contending".
As a result, Cai Fenghua, who was already outspoken and arrogant, was not smooth, regardless of it, and for a while he offended wireless with wild words.
After that, the career of his brother Zhang Guorong marched towards its peak, and singing and film blossomed twice. Cai Fenghua went high and low, and was suppressed by wireless everywhere.
First of all, Cai Fenghua was kicked out of the "Golden Melody Awards Ceremony", even if he once again burst into talent to write such a good song as "Absolute Emptiness", which has been sold to the status of platinum, Wireless still does not give Cai Fenghua the opportunity to win the award for this song in order to fight with Sony's copyright. Even hid him in the snow for three years.
For this proud work, Cai Fenghua only got a consolation award awarded to him on stage.
And seeing "Absolute Emptiness" win the award, brother Zhang Guorong was the first person to sit on the stage and stand up and applaud.
It is particularly ironic that his song "Absolute Emptiness" was even taken to a singing competition by a young man, who was later one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" and became one of the "Four Heavenly Kings".
At this point, the friends who debuted at the same time as Cai Fenghua have all ascended to the altar, and those who are willing to accept and obedient and talented descendants have emerged one by one, Cai Fenghua does not know how to bow his head and beg for forgiveness, nor will he admit his mistake and ask for a way out, the situation is not up and down, except for surviving the world on the radio, he has no other way out.
But his personality is such a rigid and uncompromising, so on the radio he is still "not good", playing his own songs for 7 consecutive hours, on the grounds that he is asleep.
Cai Fenghua, who received complaints from the audience, was not unexpectedly fired.
Cai Fenghua, who had been falling all along, once again sent himself to the bottom, but so what? In Cai Fenghua's view, he is just using this kind of rebellion and anti-bone that violates the rules of the game to seek justice for himself.
As Xu Ke said in the movie "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", justice cares about strength and does not care about people's hearts. Cai Fenghua single-handedly how to fight with wireless and radio with big guys behind their backs.
After losing power, Cai Fenghua chose to be silent.
Until many years later, people saw him in public, and he no longer had the personable demeanor of the red-lipped prince, and was replaced by a fat and down-and-out uncle.
Cai Fenghua, who has lowered his star status, is more spontaneous and frank in his work. He never knew how to put on a show, and only did what he had to do. But this sincerity has become the "epilepsy" in the eyes of everyone.
For example, on the day of his brother Zhang Guorong's death, Cai Fenghua insisted on attending, and people said that he was crazy at his brother's funeral but did not understand how many old friendships he and his brother would not know.
For another example, Chen Baolian, who was also bullied home by the media and gossip, was framed for taking drugs, and Cai Fenghua came forward to break the siege and threatened to marry Chen Baolian.
The world only sees him, and on various occasions has not done what normal people would do, but they do not understand the reason behind his "wildness".
From popular singers to innocent victims, the pain of being hidden in the snow for many years, coupled with the fact that Huai Cai did not meet, his heart was straight and fast, and he did not know how to please, sophistication, and what.
Cai Fenghua gradually moved away from the world's conventions, but she did not like Vanity Fair.
He is not rare to kneel and lick who in exchange for the so-called decency, only to be the Nanhai Thirteen Lang who I asked for my own way, and everyone was drunk on me.
Even after accepting people's endless humiliation and misunderstanding of herself, Cai Fenghua has always positioned herself as a singer.
As long as he wants, he still has the strength to wear the most flashy shirt, dress very beautifully, and stand on the stage of the Red Pavilion without disappointing the audience.
The death of his brother and The "epilepsy" of Cai Fenghua are not wrong with the phrase "momentary brilliance does not represent vertical and horizontal", but the more red and white and the most snobbish media and the public's vision.
At least, in the face of the four words of fear, Cai Fenghua showed extraordinary bravery.
When a star, red is not red to see life, but rare is not rare red, willing to go with the flow is a choice. Cai Fenghua's "epilepsy" is just another embodiment of dignity.
As Huang Weiwen wrote in Joey Yung's new song:
The wildlings have no wisdom to understand Hawking
The Ape Man never admired Mark Twain
Mortals are powerless to appreciate your sensitivity
Talent slaughter is used to sacrifice the gods
Author: Not a man, the best Hong Kong film expert.