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The movie "Mei Yanfang" is about to be released.
Two days ago, the movie poster was released, and many netizens broke the defense.
The poster uses a scene from her farewell concert.
18 years have passed since 2003.
The scene where she stood at the farewell concert, draped in a wedding dress, and married herself to the stage is still vividly remembered.
But few people know that under the wedding dress, she wears diapers all the time because of swollen ascites and blood in the urine.
Terminally ill and after singing "Sunset Song", she slowly walked up the steps, turned around and waved goodbye.
But we can never forget, can't say goodbye.
Young became the Queen of Heaven
But at its peak, it retreated
Now the world calls her "Sister Mei".
And in her heart, there is always a place for the little singer of the year.
On October 10, 1963, Mui Yanfang was born in Hong Kong to a poor family, two brothers and one sister, she was the youngest.
The family was so poor that they could only afford a bed.
In order to support his family, his father left the port alone to work as a seaman on a fishing boat, and soon fell ill and died.
In order to support this family, her mother set up a stage to sing in Liyuan, and 4-year-old Mei Yanfang and her sister Mei Aifang came out to run the rivers and lakes to perform.
Mei's mother preferred sons to daughters, and she and her sister dropped out of school to earn money to support their families when they reached the first grade of middle school.
Later, in an interview, she said: "If I have the opportunity, I want to live my life again."
However, this life should start from the teenage years, and the life before the teenage years is not needed, it is too bitter. ”
Fortunately, God favored, in 1982, 18-year-old Mei Yanfang participated in the rookie singing competition, with a unique voice and atmospheric typhoon, won the championship in one fell swoop, and debuted in the C position.
In 1983, he participated in the Tokyo Music Festival, and the sexy style or heroic image tailored by his friend Liu Peiji created the myth of "the changeable queen of heaven".
In those years, her life seemed to be on the fast track.
In 1984, at the age of 21, his first concert was held 15 times in Hong Kong's famous Hung Hom Sports Centre, breaking the record for the first solo concert of a Hong Kong singer at that time.
In 1985, she won the first award in her life, and was the most popular female singer of the year's top ten songs.
In 1986, she was crowned the most popular female singer.
In 1987, she once again won the award of the most popular female singer of the top ten songs.
The singing career quickly rose to the peak, and the acting career also soared.
In 1987, Mui Yanfang won the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Asia-Pacific Film Festival Best Actress for "Rouge Buckle".
Becoming the first Hong Kong female artist to win both "Queen of Songs" and "Queen of Shadows", she can be called the Queen of Heaven.
And this year, she was just 24 years old.
At that time, Mei Yanfang was very red, so red that Grasshopper, Xu Zhi'an, Tan Yaowen, etc. were her little brothers.
People call her "female Meng taste", and the doorman is three thousand.
Often set up liquor bureaus in bars and KTV, drink heavily, and it is not lively.
But no one knew that the loneliness in her heart was getting deeper and deeper.
She never sold bitterness or misery, and the closest friends around her were also deceived by her superficial illusion of being alive and vibrant.
At the end of 1991, she announced that she would temporarily leave the stage.
From the outside world, she is only 28 years old, which is the age of popularity.
From the age of 4 to the present, she has been spinning like a top for 24 years. She was too tired.
During that time, she often thought of her father.
When no one was there, he looked at himself in the mirror and screamed "Daddy".
At the final concert, she advised fans: "I often think that the sunset and dusk are beautiful and short.
Therefore, we must cherish, and we must strive for the people around us who want to love, otherwise there will be nothing in the blink of an eye. ”
Perhaps long before that, she had already realized:
Life changes like floating clouds gathering, joy is always short and never returns, her dreams, but plain.
Go to the soup for love
She always has a lonely heart
For Mei Yanfang, although she has talked about several loves, there are not many unforgettable.
The first paragraph is her first love.
At the age of 21, she met Makoto Kondo at the Tokyo Music Festival.
Two young people, fell in love at first sight.
In order to maintain this relationship, she flew to Japan 7 times in a year.
Later, he even bought a small apartment in Tokyo and became a housewife happily.
Once a good friend went to see her in Tokyo and found that a generation of days later was actually cleaning the toilet.
The love that can go to the soup will inevitably burn itself.
Her unreserved love, in exchange for the result of being split legs, and a good guy card:
"You are a strong woman, you can live without me, but Mingcai (Japanese girlfriend) can't live without me."
She doesn't covet the aura of the stage, she only wants a little bit of love warmth.
However, she wanted to be Yamaguchi, but she never met her Miura Yuwa.
In the second paragraph, she almost walked into marriage.
She and Zhao Wenzhuo's sister and brother love, although only for one year, but ups and downs.
At that time, sister-brother love was often ridiculed.
Especially in Wuxing, falling in love with a famous woman will be ridiculed for eating soft rice.
Although the two are very low-key together, the singing of the media and the hat of the soft rice man are all the time between the two.
So although both have met both parents and reached the point of talking about marriage, they finally broke up because of a misunderstanding.
Later, in an interview with Xu Gehui, Mei Yanfang mentioned that she regretted that she had not been able to clarify the misunderstanding:
"If I had explained the misunderstanding clearly, maybe I would have been Mrs. Zhao by now."
In 2003, at Mei Yanfang's farewell concert, Zhao Wenzhuo flew from the mainland to Hong Kong to see her. It had been 7 years since they had broken up.
Shortly after the concert, Mei Yanfang died. At her funeral, Zhao Wenzhuo left eight words: "The love of this life, all the way to go."
In the following 18 years, he never consumed Mei Yanfang once.
Come to think of it, Sister Mei in this relationship, how honest and true, only in the identity of the ex, competent to full score.
Yes, in this life, she always rubbed shoulders with love, but every time she fell in love, she paid 100% sincerity.
Even if it didn't bear fruit, she never complained.
"Woman Flower" once sang: "I only hope that there is a pair of gentle hands that can soothe the loneliness in my heart." ”
But even without that pair of gentle hands, she was still the swaying woman flower, red for herself.
Suffering from cancer
Do things with a beginning and an end
On December 6, 2002, Mei Yanfang was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
It has only been more than 2 years since her sister Mei Aifang died of advanced cervical cancer.
The one who stubbornly chanted "Bad Girl", she refused to show a hint of vulnerability in front of death.
Writer Li Bihua recalled that in the last days of Mei Yanfang's life, the doctor told her that the cancer had spread to the brain and she would never be able to sing or act again.
She was furious: "Is it okay to make me the same?" ”
45 days before her death, she gave her last concert.
Her friend Liu Peiji once advised her: "If you are too tired, do it later at the concert." ”
But she insisted, "You must do it, you don't have to do it!" ”
Even she was seriously ill, for this concert, she refused all physical examinations.
"After the treatment, my body's resistance was not enough, and I only had half of the voice left, but I stopped doing chemotherapy until the solo singing and "Ten Faces Ambush" work was completed."
To be a person, you must have a head and an end and an explanation, this is her principle.
She left us on December 30, 2003.
On the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars, a bronze statue of Mei Yanfang was erected, and the four words inscribed by Andy Lau were written on the base: Hong Kong daughter.
There are talents in the Hong Kong art scene, but the only stars who can erect bronze statues on the Hong Kong Walk of Fame are her and Bruce Lee.
There is no shortage of superstars in this world, but there will never be a second Mei Yanfang.
Because her light is never only in music, movies and stages, but also in that lonely and chivalrous way.
She brings up her juniors:
When Grasshopper first debuted, because of financial problems, he couldn't even afford to buy clothes, and it was Mei Yanfang who took them to buy clothes.
Zeng Zhiwei once said that as long as it is not a prostitute gambling, asking Mei Yanfang to borrow money will definitely be able to borrow.
She is passionate about charity:
In 2003, when SARS was raging in Hong Kong, she was already suffering from cancer and launched the "1:99" charity concert, which eventually raised 23 million yuan to fund the families suffering from SARS.
She is the daughter of Hong Kong and the daughter of the righteous jianghu.
Although her life was full of pain, she always gave more with her right hand than with her left hand.
In a hurried 40-year life, she lived out several lifetimes of splendor.
Now that autumn is getting stronger, the years have passed and our nostalgia for her is even stronger...
(Some of the pictures come from the Internet, invaded and deleted)
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