Have you seen the Paralympic Games lately?
In the competition on the 29th, the results of the Chinese delegation are still remarkable: 16 gold, 8 silver and 3 bronze in a single day, ranking first in the gold medal table and medal table.
Taking this opportunity, Xiao IN also read the stories of many Paralympic athletes, and unconsciously blushed.
In fact, outside the arena, the story of an artist is also very moving - his name is Andy Lau.
As we all know, Andy Lau is an all-round star of film and television songs, and people born in the 1990s almost all grew up watching his works.
But few people know his other identity: vice chairman of the China Welfare Foundation for the Disabled.
In 2008, the Beijing Olympic Games, a group of stars sang "Beijing Welcomes You" became popular all over the streets.
Andy Lau's voice does not appear in the song.
Because he was doing another thing: composing the Paralympic single "EVERYONE IS NO.1".
When asked about the motivation, Andy Lau just smiled and said: "Everyone is grabbing the Olympic Games, and no one is competing with me for the Paralympic Games."
Opening ceremony of the 2008 Paralympic Games
But in fact, he wanted to do it for a long time.
Before writing this song, Andy Lau had been planning to make a movie for disabled athletes.
It happened that the organizers of the Olympic Games came to invite the song, and he took the opportunity to achieve his wish.
After filling out the words himself, he paid 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars at his own expense, took the staff to Beijing to shoot the scene, and filmed the MV for three days.
In order to experience the lives of the disabled and promote their spirit, Andy Lau starred in the MV as a disabled athlete who lost one leg.
When shooting, he had to wrap his left foot with a bandage every day for nearly 7 hours, because the blood did not circulate, and he often suffered from paralysis and cramps.
Many times, Andy Lau shouted in pain to stop.
He said: "The blood and sweat of a disabled person to stand up again in life is fully appreciated today. ”
At the end of each shooting, the crew will find that Andy Lau's hands and feet are covered with scratches and bruises.
Still, during filming, he didn't think about how much he had suffered, but about "wishing the world would pay more attention to them."
If you want to know the story of Andy Lau and the Paralympic Games, you have to go back to 1992.
That year's Olympic Games were held in Spain, and Andy Lau was tasked with helping Hong Kong TVB record a marathon special in Barcelona.
While working in Spain, Andy Lau overheard that the Paralympic Games would be held shortly after the Olympic Games.
Because the attention is too low, not many people know about this news.
Andy Lau was very puzzled at that time: "All of them are winning gold medals, they are all winning glory for the country, everyone cares about the Olympic Games, why don't many people care about the Paralympic Games?" ”
After that, Andy Lau made time to watch the Paralympic Games.
His move was also questioned by the head of the Hong Kong Paralympic Games at the time: all along, there have been no stars paying attention to the Paralympic Games, and Andy Lau did this for the purpose of building people?
Andy Lau did not answer this question directly, but proved his attitude with actions.
Since then, Andy Lau has been paying attention to the Paralympic Games.
Since 1996, Andy Lau has donated HK$100,000 a year to support disabled athletes.
Every time the Paralympic team returns to Hong Kong, he will give everyone a gold medal that he has made himself, making everyone feel that he is the first place: "The gold medal is real gold, of course, gold is thinner." ”
In Andy Lau's view, the first place does not depend on the results on the field, but on whether you are responsible for yourself and do your best.
That's why, when he was writing the song for the 2008 Paralympic Games, he wrote lyrics like "First place belongs to everyone."
As long as conditions permit, Andy Lau will go out of his way to support the Paralympic Games.
Beijing in 2008, London in 12 years, Rio in 16 years, all have his presence...
Moreover, Andy Lau will do his best to improve the living conditions of athletes with disabilities.
Su Huawei won 3 gold and 2 bronze in the 2000 competition, breaking two world records, and the prize money did not exceed 200,000 yuan, which was more than ten times less than the Olympic champions of the same period.
Then I encountered an accident with my family, i stopped graduating from college and breaking my scholarship, and the pressure of life was almost crushing the family.
After Learning about the situation, Andy Lau took the initiative to invite Su Huawei to work in his company and allowed him to "go to training at any time, and his salary was not deducted at all."
For decades, Andy Lau has been doing charity in a low-key manner.
He founded the "Andy Lau Charity Foundation" and has helped countless disabled people and poor children.
Although he was red and purple, he did not lose his heart, and always sincerely understood and experienced the difficulties of the disabled:
"The so-called accident is something that you and I can't predict, so don't blame others, let alone yourself."
In 2017, he accidentally fell off a horse while filming an advertisement in Thailand, thinking about "if you can't stand up, what projects can you participate in the Paralympic Games?"
What many people don't know is that Andy Lau is still the "old face" of major charity performances.
Flood, earthquake, poverty alleviation and other love charity performances, he actively participated in them, in addition to the performance, he will also help prepare on the spot.
Today's statement once said such a "small thing": in the first charity performance in Sichuan in 2004, only Andy Lau and Peng Denghuai did not charge the organizers for appearance fees.
This matter was only learned by Andy Lau when he came to see the report, "I feel incredible, according to international practice, charity performances cannot be collected."
He has been involved in countless charity projects, such as children's homes for the disabled, the Hope Project, the Poverty Alleviation Project...
Other artists run charitable foundations, and as long as there is a need, he will also help without hesitation.
He always said that he was an ordinary person, but he did not say that this "ordinary person" had done many things silently.
Back to the previous question, is Andy Lau designed for the purpose of establishing people?
The answer is obvious.
Many people fan Andy Lau, not only his works, but also his dazzling character like gold.
Today's young people may not know how hot Andy Lau really was back then.
Douban netizens shared their relatives' 1995 classmate records, 22 female classmates, 11 people wrote Andy Lau's name in the column of favorite stars.
Even Jay Chou, the King of Heaven, confessed, "Whose idol in that era was not Andy Lau?"
Many well-known artists, such as Chen Xiaochun, Asa, Nicholas Tse, and Gu Tianle, have taken him as an example.
Almost everyone can sing his songs, and at that time, Andy Lau was one of the singers with the highest rate of KTV on demand.
Lost love sang "Forgetting Love Water" and "Thank You for Your Love", and missed youth on "17 Years Old".
Every Spring Festival, every household will play "Wishing you prosperity".
"Congratulations on your fortune, congratulations on your wonderful, the best please come over, the bad ones please go away, the etiquette is not strange."
Just by seeing this lyric, his singing voice was already ringing in his head.
Not only that, Andy Lau is also extremely popular overseas.
His first solo concert was held in South Korea, four in a row, which caused a great sensation at the time.
The solo single "To You" has been on the KW POP charts for 27 weeks, and even unexpectedly beat Michael Jackson to win South Korea's most popular overseas star award.
In 1999, Michael Jackson gave a charity concert in South Korea, and Andy Lau was the only Asian guest invited.
Film works are also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and many classic lines are still widely circulated.
In the rooftop dialogue in Infernal Affairs, he said: "I didn't have a choice before, now I want to be a good person." ”
There is also "No Thief in the World", the angry security guard's sentence "Driving a good car must be a good person".
To this day, Andy Lau's roadshow scene will still be surrounded by water, and the flow of people is so large that even the signal can be paralyzed.
In the entertainment industry, Andy Lau is not a "talented player".
When he debuted, he ran through the dragon suit and slept in the dressing room, and many opportunities were won back by "desperately".
Because of Ken's hard work, he was appreciated by Zhou Runfa and got a point of mention.
After becoming famous, Andy Lau was grateful and returned to the line, and many people in the entertainment industry were helped by Andy Lau.
When Zhang Weijian was about to go bankrupt, Andy Lau signed a check to help him get through the difficulties without saying a word; Li Keqin held a concert, there was no money to set off fireworks, and Andy Lau said", "You let go, I'll pay"...
Ning Hao's film "Crazy Stone" was invested by him, and the movie "Lost Alone" was performed by him with zero remuneration.
He's the kind of guy who "always wants to hold an umbrella for someone else because he's been drenched in the rain."
Some netizens have described Andy Lau's charity in four words: never ending.
According to incomplete statistics, Andy Lau is one of the artists who held the most charity concerts for Hong Kong singers.
One of his life creeds is "doing good deeds and accumulating virtue is the most joyful".
It is very simple to type out the four words of "Virtue and Art Double Xin", but there are few people who can really afford this praise, and Andy Lau is one of them.
40 years are still shining, Andy Lau relies not only on his works, but also on his admirable character.
This is the real idol, the real superstar.
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Written and edited by Lin Zhiling
Editor-in-Charge/ Seven Seven, Honey
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