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The annual Miss Hong Kong selection has come to an end, and this year people are surprised to find that the appearance of Hong Kong sisters has finally returned to normal.
Thinking back to Miss Hong Kong after the millennium, people in addition to complaining or complaining, do not give any affection, after all, those years of Hong Kong sisters are really disappointing.
Zhang Jia'er, the 2007 Hong Kong Sister Champion, was ridiculed by the group as "Big Pie Face" and was also named "the worst winner of Miss Hong Kong in 20 years".
Lei Zhuang'er, the 2017 Hong Kong sister champion, was attacked by the whole network "unbearable", and was nicknamed "Gangya Sister".
People once said, "The most representative of Hong Kong is not Victoria Harbour, not Tsim Sha Tsui, not Victoria Peak, but Miss Hong Kong." ”
And now the elected Hong Kong sisters are no longer famous as rising stars in the entertainment industry, and many of them can only return to peace after a flash in the pan.
In addition to sighing, most people still stay in the style of Hong Kong sisters in the last century.
Only because Hong Kong sister is not only a beauty in film and television dramas for the audience, but also a memory of the times after tea and dinner.
In 1946, Li Jufa, the owner of the Retiro Garden nightclub known as "Hong Kong Du Yuesheng", held the first Hong Kong Sister Competition.
But at that time, just after experiencing World War II, ordinary families were still running for food and clothing, and there was no time to take care of entertainment.
In addition, there are not many contestants, and all of them are cabaret dancers. Therefore, this competition is seen as the exclusive of high society and has limited influence.
It was not until 1973, when TVB took over the hosting rights of Hong Kong sisters and played the slogan of "equal emphasis on wisdom and beauty", that the selection of Hong Kong sisters ushered in the real sense of "the era of gods".
Hong Kong media once commented on the selection of Miss Hong Kong: "The champion is to choose a wife, not too beautiful, the most important thing is to be virtuous and generous; the runner-up is to choose a girlfriend, may wish to have a variety of styles; the third runner-up is to choose a little sister, naïve and simple." ”
In 1973, two Hong Kong sister champions were selected, namely Deborah selected by the "Hong Kong Oriental Beauty Pageant" and Sun Yong-eun selected by TVB.
Deborah later married the mercurial Xie Xian and faded out of the film world, giving birth to a son, Tse Ting Feng.
Sun Yong'en has completely found no such person in the memory of many people.
However, in this year, the most well-known person is not Deborah.
It is the fourth place - "White Lady" Zhao Yazhi.
At that time, Zhao Yazhi, who was still working as a flight attendant, signed up for the first Miss Hong Kong contest with the support of her family.
Although she is the favorite to win the championship, she did not perform well during the game. In the end, he only won the 4th place, got a crown, a watch and 1000 Hong Kong dollars.
After the Hong Kong sister competition, Zhao Yazhi did not choose to debut, but continued to be a flight attendant.
It wasn't until 1976 that she resigned and joined the entertainment industry.
Feng Chengcheng of "Shanghai Beach", Su Rongrong of "Chu Liuxiang", Bai Suzhen of "The Legend of the New White Lady", Zhou Zhiruo of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", Cheng Huaixiu of "Joke About Qianlong"...
Zhao Yazhi became the most classic costume beauty of that era.
In the following 1977, Zhu Lingling won the "Most Photogenic Miss" and the overall championship, becoming the first "double champion" in the history of Hong Kong sisters.
Super high appearance coupled with intellectual temperament, making Zhu Lingling recognized in the industry as the "most beautiful Hong Kong sister", for a time, the media unanimously praised her as "Hong Kong sister among Hong Kong sisters".
Young girls with excellent faces, figures, temperament, and wisdom, and are famous, naturally attract some rich and generous. Among them, sometimes 31-year-old Huo Zhenting.
Zhu Lingling married into a rich family, added three people to the Huo family, and later became Guo Jingjing's mother-in-law.
The life trajectory of Zhao Yazhi and Zhu Lingling provides a reference template for the future Hong Kong sister.
With Zhao Yazhi's pearl jade in front, many people have taken the election of Hong Kong sister as a shortcut to the film and television circle.
In 1979, at the age of 19, Zhong Chuhong ran for Miss Hong Kong.
A smile, all kinds of charm, charming and moving Honggu, was originally a strong candidate for the championship, but because she was not used to wearing high heels, it caused a mistake on the spot, and finally only won the 4th place.
Although she did not qualify for the top three, Zhang Guorong praised her as "too beautiful, a random action can turn everyone upside down", and Li Ao also praised her as "Marilyn Monroe" in Hong Kong.
However, Honggu, who missed the champion because of high heels, must not have imagined that the scene in which she wore high heels and danced with Zhang Guorong and Zhou Runfa in "Across the Sea" will become an eternal classic of Hong Kong films.
In 1983, 18-year-old Maggie Cheung participated in the Hong Kong Sisters Selection, and her goal was clear, that is, to enter the entertainment industry as an actress.
Later, she recalled: "Even if I lose the election, I will still find a chance to become an actor, because acting is so attractive to me." 」 ”
For her superior appearance, she won the runner-up and most photogenic miss award.
After signing a contract with TVB, she was jointly known as the wireless "Kowloon Girl" with Mei Yanfang, Liu Jialing, Zeng Huaqian, Wu Junru and others.
In 1985, an 18-year-old young girl was excluded from the final because of her informal tomboy temperament, which did not meet the requirements of Miss Hong Kong's wealth and modesty.
She is Zhou Haimei, and later she also entered the show business circle and is still active on the screen until now.
However, the role changed from "Zhou Zhiruo" to "Extermination Master Tai".
Therefore, from the example of Zhou Haimei, it can be seen that to participate in the Hong Kong sister campaign, even if you can't win the championship, or even have a good ranking, it is easy to be discovered by star scouts and enter the film and television circle.
Empress Cai Shaofen of "Yixiu" was the third runner-up in 1991.
"The most beautiful Cheng Ying" Zhang Keyi only participated in the 1994 Hong Kong sister election, and the third runner-up of that session was "the most beautiful Guo Xiang" Li Qihong.
However, judging only from the appearance value, it seems that Li Qihong is slightly inferior to Zhang Keyi in the same year, which also shows that the original evaluation criteria of Hong Kong Sister also had a time of excellence.
The reason why Li Qihong was able to achieve a better ranking than Zhang Keyi was because Li Qihong expressed more wit in the Q&A session of the final.
On the night of that final, as long as Li Qihong spoke, she could make the judges and the audience laugh.
It seems that at that time, because of her beauty, Hong Kong sisters were mostly cold and did not come to a high emotional intelligence, but it was easy to have a sense of freshness.
This has also caused the improvement of the standard of Hong Kong sisters, and it is necessary to attach equal importance to beauty and wisdom.
In the 1989 selection, Chen Farong, who graduated from the University of Toronto and appeared on the stage of Hong Kong Sister for the first time with a short hair style, was praised as "the most urban Hong Kong sister".
Although TVB's slogan at the beginning was "wisdom and beauty at the same time", for a long time, it was still based on beauty.
The highest academic qualifications of the previous Hong Kong sisters are only high school graduates, which is obviously insufficient in "wisdom".
Starting from Chen Farong, people's impression of Hong Kong sister's good looks and brainlessness has gradually been broken.
In 1991, Guo Aiming's victory created the peak of the current Hong Kong sister's academic qualifications.
The master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Southern California, and the experience of interning at NASA, let people's impression of Hong Kong sister fill up in an instant.
Later, she entered the entertainment industry, her career experienced ups and downs, but she has always maintained a low profile, and after marrying Liu Qingyun, an enthusiastic citizen of Hong Kong, she basically quit the film and television circle.
Although the two have no children, they have been in love for decades and are known as the "model couple" in the circle.
Most Hong Kong sisters are commonplace to enter the film and television circle because of the natural bonus of their appearance.
However, there is a Hong Kong sister who has become a star like Zhao Yazhi and married into a rich family like Zhu Lingling.
So far, people have always compared her beauty to Li Ka-shing's wealth, and she is Li Ka-hsin.
At that time, 18-year-old Li Jiaxin won two awards in a shocking posture, winning the championship and Miss International Goodwill, which was dazzling for a while.
Ni Kuang's son, Ni Zhen, was fascinated by her, and in order to pursue her, he wrote her hundreds of letters, but Li Jiaxin had a higher goal after entering the entertainment circle.
After Ni Zhen was abandoned by Li Jiaxin, his aunt was also relieved and publicly mocked Li Jiaxin: beauty is beautiful, but it has no soul.
Li Jiaxin, who entered the entertainment industry, dragged together with Dawn, one of the four kings, and made many classic films with beauty and dawn resources.
After separating from Dawn, Li Ka-hsin was listed as Hong Kong's richest man, Lau Luan-hung, but eventually married Hui Jin-hung, the grandson of Hong Kong's ship king.
Legend has it that on the day of the wedding, the rich wives of all Hong Kong were relieved: this charming little goblin finally got married.
At the time, people scoffed at her acting skills, believing that her performance was too wooden.
But looking at her works carefully, whether it is Yue Lingshan of "Smiling Proud of the East Undefeated", or "The Human Path of Qiannu Ghost" cooperated with another great beauty queen Zu Xian, in fact, it proves that her acting skills are good.
But in any case, someone always said that she was a vase, no way, who made her look too good.
After a peak in 1991, Miss Hong Kong's ratings began to fall off a cliff.
1993 was a watershed year, and the winner of that year was Guo Keying, who was quite popular with the audience, and she later became the head of TVB.
But after this year, Miss Hong Kong seems to have been "broken feng shui", and the hong kong sister who was selected is more and more disappointing.
In 1994, Tan Xiaohuan (played by Da Tian Er's wife in Gu Qiuzai) was the envy of everyone before entering the industry, but 20 years later, she became a big mother who sold fish eggs on the streets of Hong Kong, which made people fall through their glasses.
The myth of Miss Hong Kong as a star-making factory is gradually broken.
In 1997, Hong Kong returned to the motherland, and Hong Kong and Mainland China congratulated each other, but that year's Hong Kong sister election was also disappointing. The champion is Weng Jiasui, who did not make much ripple at all, but the runner-up She Shiman, who became TVB's "Best Actress" many years later, with fame and fortune.
In 1999, the Hong Kong Sisters Selection was called the "last return to the light" of Miss Hong Kong, and Guo Xianni, who was of mixed Chinese and British descent, took the last train of TVB highlight moments.
After the millennium, Hong Kong sister has never appeared impressive beauty again, many of the top three Hong Kong sisters, the audience can not even remember the name.
The fall of Hong Kong sister is actually a microcosm of the decline of TVB and Hong Kong culture.
With many talented directors and actors going north to the mainland, TVB inevitably went downhill. It is also difficult to get a hot drama in a few years, and naturally it can no longer be like the original, making a household name star, after all, there are good works to be remembered.
In addition, Hong Kong women in the new era are getting more and more educated, and their sense of independence and autonomy has begun to awaken, and beauty pageants are no longer their only way out.
When we are more and more playful in the selection of Miss Hong Kong, it is just a relief and progress for Hong Kong women, who finally no longer care about men's eyes and live in their evaluation system.
That being the case, we don't need to nitpick anymore.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, the reason why we miss the Hong Kong sister of that era is just to mourn the youth we have lost, but the world is ultimately a beauty in the twilight, the legend ends, and there are no years to look back.