Reprinted from Subscription number: Mrs. Bai Jin
It is undeniable that Hong Kong's golden age is over. Hong Kong's Ball culture is running out.
Zheng Shaokang, ceo of Tianji Public Relations, just happened to catch the tail train of the golden age when he entered the industry. He recalled the Millennium Ball of the year 99-2 millennium, and could invite Whitney Houston as a guest, an Egyptian queen-themed Ball, and Kate Moss appeared.
"In the past, going to Ball was a big thing, choosing evening clothes to take time, set head manicure and makeup for 3 or 4 hours, and also go to the bank to carry jewelry. If you go to a Ball, you can prepare it for a week, so it can be called "Go to Ball". Now many career-oriented women, do not have time to set their heads to make up, and they appear after work to buy a skirt, which is naturally not so beautiful (good-looking). Plain and beautiful TOPSHOP evening wear, I really wouldn't have seen it before. ”
Now charity Ball buys a table (banquet seat) a lot of people from the north, talk about Chinese, Dress code write Black Tie, I think it is enough to play a strip of black titanium. As a hand, you can only try to teach, and if you don't teach, you have to turn a blind eye. ”
Mrs. Chow Kai Bang mentioned in Deng Xiaoyu's "3388 See Zhao Shi Zeng Again", she and her husband (Zhou Qi bang barrister) are the most enthusiastic people in Hong Kong in the last century and the most involved in Ball.
And look at the various themes of the party where the two couples attended:
In today's day, some people may laugh at their madness.
If it is a no-name pawn, with the snobbish eyes of Hong Kong's celebrity circles, it may not be able to fully accept such a party outfit dressed as a ghost and a horse.
Zhou Qibang and his wife's respective families actually have a lot of potential.
The father of Chow Kai Bang's wife, Brenda, is a co-owner of Kowloon Bus.
Zhou Qibang is a descendant of the four major families in Hong Kong.
His father, Chow Sze Nien, was Hong Kong's first Chinese otolaryngologist and chief member of the Legislative Council in 1950, founded the Chinese Bank and served as chairman of numerous companies. Wiki shows that he has served as chairman of the company including Milk Company, Kowloon Bus, Far East Insurance Company Limited, Wellcome Limited, Taiwan Unity Firecracker Co., Ltd. and others.
During Zhou Xinian's tenure as chairman of the milk company, the largest acquisition war since the opening of Hong Kong ---- the "Landmark Drinking Milk" incident: British-funded Land, and Chinachem Group Wang Dehui (Xiaotian Sweet Gong Ruxin's husband) competed with him for control of the milk company, and Land successfully lured the shareholders of the milk company to give up their shares by "sending five new shares per share of Landmark", while the shareholders who participated in the "share exchange" suffered heavy losses due to stock price fluctuations, which became the fuse of the 1973 Hong Kong stock market crash.
Since that battle, Zhou Xinian was seriously injured and retreated to the second line.
Seeing this, you may think that the next is the story of how the rich second generation Zhou Qibang mixed up in the ball field. However, Zhou Qibang did not inherit his father's business, and also sued his father (yes, he also fought for the family property) together with his brother and sister-in-law.
Anyway, in fact, I want to say a story of eternal love.
Zhou Qibang graduated from cambridge law school in the United Kingdom at the age of 21, married his wife Brenda, who also studied in the United Kingdom, and the two opened a law firm after returning to Hong Kong in the 60s. The two felt that they were very depressed in the dark and heavy clothes of the law firm during the day, and they were keen to go to Ball because they could wear a lot of beautiful shirts. "We don't go every Ball, we like themes, we have dress codes."
This hobby, the two insisted on forty years.
I thought that Mrs. Mingyuan was most keen to buy shirts. But Mrs. Chow said she wasn't. I buy fewer shirts, and brand names may not be suitable for me. The family hired a tailor and decided to go to a Ball, which would start preparations more than a month in advance. ”
"Go to the ball department enjoy friends buried together, hoping to scare the guests to have a few beautiful, already so happy." She said.
"At most, I go to Ball four nights a week, and every day I get up thinking about getting dressed up tonight, in fact, I will be tired, but it is a sense of satisfaction to see someone appreciate their clothes for the day." 」
Don't think that Zhou Qibang only loves Wu and Wu, and will be so cooperative in order to cater to his beloved wife. His son once told the media that his father was an artist with a temperament, and that small things would be happy. Like what... When he refused to wear the theme clothes with his parents, his father was happy. For another example, Ming Ming was carefully dressed, but Yu Ji did not take pictures, and his father would be happy.
It can be heard that their son does not agree with the parents' dressing up at the ball field. After all, he is a veteran aristocrat and a lawyer, but he does not play cards according to the number of roads. Biological sons sometimes do not understand, and outsiders will make fun of them behind their backs.
"I'm so little with D A Tai Hang street food tea. D Ah Tai would like to be with me. They felt that my hobbies were not quite suitable for them. Brenda didn't feel sorry for her, she had her husband there anyway.
Ball field life, husband singing women with. The two were like sugar beans, never separated. Brenda likes pink, Zhou Qibang likes gold, and the two's private car LesLes, one is pink and the other is gold. Even the home is mainly gold, and the faucet toilet is made of gold. Twins' "Dream Golden House" was also filmed at their home.
The pink and gold Rolls-Royce is too eye-catching, the whole Hong Kong people do not need to recognize the license plate, and when they look at the color of the car, they know that it is Mr. and Mrs. Zhou Qibang who are coming.
How much do a person eat?
After Zhou Qibang died of bowel cancer in 2010, Mrs. Zhou Qibang disappeared from the BALL field.
"What about going out on the street?" Swing around the streets. The most desolate thing is that I don't play mahjong, I used to sing with my friends, twice a week, but in recent years I haven't sung it again. ”
How much does a person eat? Sometimes fried dishes Yangzhou fried rice for themselves to eat, ask workers to fry some food, even if it is, eat two meals a day, so simple. ”
Asked why the Ball field was extinct, she said: "Happy to have a companion, alone, do not want to go." ”
I also remembered that when the two studied in the United Kingdom, "long-distance telephone bills are so expensive, about 48 mosquitoes a minute, the cheapest way to write a letter." Sometimes on weekends I would go to Cambridge to find him, have a scare meal together, and he would drive a car to scare me into shopping. ”
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I read an article yesterday called "What Does a Man Do To Be Happy And Get Married".
As long as you send away your long-winded husband, life is like being stained with the color of spring again. Soak in the hot springs today, go shopping tomorrow, and watch the stage play the day after tomorrow. ”
That's right. Even Mrs. Zhou Qibang, who sings with her friends twice a week, does not fall in love until she is inseparable all the time.
However, all of them are based on the premise that "he will wait for me at home". Because the lover is around, it will be so safe to run out and play.
In such a convenient society, marriage is so unpredictable, but it is not necessary. Even if one lives, whether psychological or physical, one can use various channels to obtain various satisfactions.
Rather than saying that marriage is a commitment to each other, I think it is better to say that marriage itself is an expectation of two people who love each other for their future lives. When love is effective, marriage will be invalid. Only love for each other can help the two go further on the road of life.
Brenda, who has been in love with Zhou Qibang for a lifetime, has no regrets about quitting the Ball field. I have seen the glitz and glamour, I have a sweetheart, and I love sweetly until I am old.
It's better to have good memories than to have a blank memory.
(The last aristocrats withdrew from the Ball, and Hong Kong was no longer as fun and interesting as celebrities.) ）
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