On June 6, Hong Kong artist Tang Wenlong broadcast himself live in a video to find his roots in Shanghai.
In the video, he has a vegan face, a beard, and warmly greets passers-by in Shanghainese.
Netizens have liked it, praising his Shanghainese dialect as very standard.
When it comes to Tang Wenlong, many young people don't know it. Because he was born in 1969, he lived in an untimely era.
In the front, there were four heavenly kings such as Andy Lau and Li Ming, and then there were Lin Feng, Huang Zongze and others;
It was hard to pluck up the courage to go to the inland to develop, and found that the mainland market had been occupied by small fresh meat such as the four sons who had returned to China.
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Around the 1970s, tang wenlong moved to the United States with his parents after attending elementary school in Hong Kong for a few years.
Later, after graduating from a university in the United States, he returned to Hong Kong.
At that time, the four heavenly kings were already in the sky and had a large number of fans.
Everyone who wants to be a star wants to be the next Andy Lau or Aaron Kwok.
Riding on this spring breeze, 24-year-old Tang Wenlong starred in his first movie "White Rose".
The following year, in film and television, singing went hand in hand, he released his first Solo Cantonese album "Tang Wenlong" and starred in his first TV series "New Shaolin Five Ancestors".
In the play, he is handsome and cute, full of humility, and plays a different Hong Xiguan.
In Tang Wenlong's planning, he also wants to be like Andy Lau, in the field of film, television, and singing.
From 1995 to 1996, Tang Wenlong released three consecutive Chinese albums, but the response was mediocre.
When he realized that he could not walk on the path of a singer, Tang Wenlong focused on the interpretation.
In 1998, after entering the circle, Tang Wenlong finally served as the male number one for the first time in "Jedi Wolf".
He was 29 years old.
In this drama, the young, hot-blooded and impulsive Ma Chong, played by Tang Wenlong, left a deep impression on many viewers.
Tang Wenlong in the play, from a certain point of view, is very similar to Xie Tingfeng, with slightly deeper eye sockets and a sense of heroism between his eyebrows.
Unfortunately, this drama won the popularity of Ren Dahua, but it did not win the popular Tang Wenlong.
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Over thirty years old, Tang Wenlong had made no progress except for shaping the image of a tough guy.
In 2000, Hong Kong dramas began to decline, and the Hong Kong male stars who were very popular in the 80s and 90s were old and retired, leaving only Andy Lau Tianwang, who was still supporting half of the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
From 1999 to 2005, Tang Wenlong starred in 6 film and television dramas, including "Moonlight on the Fifth Day of October", "Detective Dong Du Ding", and "Magic Hand Benevolent Heart III".
However, it is nothing more than some innocuous little supporting roles.
Perhaps, it was moved by Tang Wenlong's long-term insistence on filming spirit, that year Wireless gave him a nomination for the 38th anniversary of Wireless, leaping forward male artists.
But at this time, Tang Wenlong was already 36 years old.
At that time, a new generation of Hong Kong stars led by Ma Dezhong, Lin Feng, Huang Zongze and others had become famous, and immediately stepped into the 40-year-old Tang Wenlong, getting farther and farther away from the red.
At this time, Tang Wenlong had no choice but to make a decision that many Hong Kong artists would make at that time: to go north to the mainland for development.
After filming "Life Circus" and "Fire Butterfly" and other dramas, in 2009, Tang Wenlong went to Shanghai to participate in the competition of oriental satellite TV's "Dance Forest Conference Season 2".
That year, Tang Wenlong was just 40 years old.
From a wireless actor to a dancer at the dance forest conference, Tang Wenlong is trying to break through himself and find a new way out.
From 2010 to 2014, Tang Wenlong served as a fitness coach in the reality TV show "Beauty Imitation".
In the years that followed, Tang Wenlong tried to broaden his own play path.
In the spy drama, the red theme drama "Special Warfare Pioneer" and "Pear Blossom Like Snow", we see that Tang Wenlong once again appeared in front of the audience as a tough guy.
In love dramas such as "Women's Gang" and "Who is Afraid of Whom in Front of Love", I also saw Tang Wenlong, who was properly maintained, and could still hold such a role as Gao Fushuai properly.
However, at this time, the mainland entertainment market has matured, and a batch of local popular artists have been born.
The representatives of the post-80s generation include Hu Ge, Han Geng, Zhang Han and others, and the representatives of the post-90s include Lu Han, Yang Yang, Wu Yifan and others.
In 2014, Tang Wenlong, who is already 45 years old, no matter how hard he tries and fights harder, in the face of the general trend of the entertainment industry, he finally has no choice but to admit that he can no longer be popular.
Because he missed the best years of popularity; he also missed the golden age of Hong Kong.
Although he traveled to the interior to strive for development, he was no longer able to do so as he grew older and new people emerged.
In the following 7 years, Tang Wenlong only took over the two plays of "Huang Feihong's Hero of the North and South" and "Solver".
Tang Wenlong, who has been in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years, is tepid in his career, and it is difficult to say a word emotionally.
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Tang Wenlong, 51, is still single, and his only public girlfriend is Hong Kong sister Chen Shaoxia.
People who like the 96 version of "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" know that Chen Shaoxia is the actor of the little master sister Yue Lingshan.
Her successful interpretation has won the love of thousands of audiences.
Tang Wenlong and Chen Shaoxia, after 6 years together, finally broke up.
However, the reasons for the breakup are laughable.
It is rumored that since falling in love with Chen Shaoxia, Tang Wenlong's father's health has become worse and worse, and her career is also very unsmooth.
Therefore, Tang Wenlong felt that he and Chen Shaoxia were not suitable, so they still made friends back.
6 years of feelings, it ended with such a crying and laughing reason, it is a pity!
Since then, Tang Wenlong's love affair has been scandalous, and each of them is a little beautiful sister who is more than ten or twenty years younger than him.
It is said that the longest talk was a flight attendant, who talked for about 6 years.
However, because of the long-term separation of the two places, Tang Wenlong chose to break up in order not to delay the other party.
Once in an interview, Tang Wenlong said that he was still very eager to get married and have children, but he would choose to marry later.
From a supporting role in wireless, all the way to the mainland, Huang Wenlong has always been far from red.
It is an accident of the individual body, and it is also the inevitability of the times.
Active in the era of the four heavenly kings, it is too difficult for Tang Wenlong to be red; when he arrives at the mainland, the aesthetic tastes of mainland audiences have completely changed, and it is even more difficult for a veteran Hong Kong star like Tang Wenlong to be red.
Fortunately, Tang Wenlong, now 51 years old, still maintains an optimistic, hard-working and self-disciplined mentality:
He works out every day and maintains a strong physique.
This is also an important reason why in the video two days ago, when I saw his plain face, he was still handsome and charming.
I hope that in the near future, Tang Wenlong will be able to find his other half, as for the red is not red, it is a metaphysics, do a good job of yourself, live your own life.
Author: Ink
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