Hello everyone, today is a special day (which day is not a special day?). ）
Red dust rolling, obsessive love, cool autumn! Today is the autumn equinox.
Today, September 23, 2021, the autumn equinox, is the 30th anniversary of the launch of the classic Taiwan drama "Beijing Four Young".
The opening of the furnace molten steel pouring in that year made people inexplicably feel good and advanced.
On Sunday, September 22, 1991, also the Mid-Autumn Festival, Taiwan's Chunghwa Television Corporation broadcast a special program for the Mid-Autumn Festival. The next day, September 23, the autumn equinox, it was Monday, Huashi's golden eight o'clock file began to broadcast this "Beijing Four Young".
"Beijing Four Young" is 53 episodes long, and Huashi broadcast live at the rate of one episode per day to the beginning of December of that year, with strong ratings and popularity. During this period, its opening song "Dashing Walk Around" became a big hit, sung well in the streets of Taiwan, and at eight o'clock every night, when the signature prelude sounded, it was known that "Beijing Four Young" had begun.
Speaking of "Dashing Walk Again", in fact, in the past thirty years, every once in a while, it will be popular once because of various covers, and recently it has become popular again because of two things.
First, the popular variety show "Brother With Thorns and Thorns", the brothers in the Greater Bay Area collectively turned red, so the video of them dancing with Tianhou Ye Qianwen's "Dashing Walk" was turned over.
Xie Tianhua and Chen Xiaochun danced with "Dashing Walk Back", really serious, and also helped sing.
The second is the TV series "Set Sail: When the Wind Rises" starring Wu Lei and Hou Minghao, which begins with the familiar melody of "Dashing Walk Around", which makes people go back to 1991 in seconds.
This time it was Meng Jia who was looking for a cover song.
Since you bought the copyright of "Dashing Back" to re-sing, this song in this drama is simply to "squeeze the copyright dry" to the extreme. It appears as background music on various occasions in the play, such as this song sung in KTV.
For example, Pei Qinghua, played by Hou Minghao, was really spoiled by Xiao Chuang, played by Wu Lei, and sent a rare big brother mobile phone on his birthday, and also ordered a song "Dashing Walk Back" on the radio.
What a fairy-like friendship these two brothers are.
Xiao Chuang was drunk and sang "Dashing Walk Back" in the alley, each sentence was not in tune, but it was Xie Yu Ah...
Recently, Hong Kong's temple-level superstar Lin Zixiang was on the variety show "Our Song" of Oriental Satellite TV.
Lin Zixiang's wife, Ye Qian, recorded a video to send blessings to her husband.
The queen of heaven is still in style.
Speaking of how popular Ye Qianwen's "Dashing Walk Around" was back then, it was really red to the point where the streets and alleys were singing.
At that time, Ye Qianwen signed a Hong Kong Warner Records, as an international record giant, Warner could not directly enter the Taiwan market at that time, so his family bought a part of the shares of Taiwan's flying saucer records, and cooperated with the flying saucer records to produce records, and released records in Taiwan through the channel of flying saucers. Therefore, the Mandarin albums of Hong Kong Warner singers in Taiwan are all written by the flying saucer team (correspondingly, the flying saucer singer wants to enter the Hong Kong market and is also a channel for Warner).
This song was recorded in July 1991 specifically for "Four Young People in Beijing", and in September it quickly became popular in Taiwan with the opening song of this drama. It has two lyrics, one is Chen Lerong, the lyricist, copywriter, and planner of Chinese Records, there are too many songs that have become classics through the words he wrote by hand, including "Looking Back Again", "Thinking of You Every Day", "Grateful Heart", "Asking For Love", "Getaway", "Whether I Really Have Nothing" and so on. He and the arranger Chen Zhiyuan partnered tacitly.
Chen Lerong later dabbled in writing, radio, online new media, stage drama, reality TV review, university teachers, tarot fortune telling and other fields, and his career life was very "slash".
One is Wang Huiling, the screenwriter of "Four Young People in Beijing", she is also a screenwriter of the very well-known TV series "April Day on Earth", as well as the movies "Eating Men and Women", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "The Legend of the Demon Cat".
The composition of "Dashing Walk Back" is the "double Chen" combination of Chen Dali and Chen Xiunan, the two composers have a division of labor, Chen Dali does not know the score, he will first produce the melody of the song, Chen Xiunan is responsible for concretizing these melodies. In the most prosperous era of UFO records, more than 90% of the albums had their own planning and creation. Golden songs include Ye Qianwen and Lin Zixiang's "Choice", Wang Jie's "Homecoming", Zhang Yusheng's "The Sea", The Little Tigers' "Green Apple Paradise", Aaron Kwok's "Can't Love You Endlessly", Lin Yilian's "Falling in Love with a Person Who Doesn't Go Home", and so on.
Chen Xiunan is also the producer of "Dashing Walk Back".
The arranger of "Dashing Once" is Singaporean master arranger Ricky Ho, who at the beginning of the song combines classical Chinese instruments such as erhu and yangqin with synthesizer percussion and the vocals of "Hey Ha, Hey Ha" to create an unforgettable golden song.
He Guojie later scored several films, and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Score and Golden Melody Award for Best Album Producer for "Cedek Bale".
On October 28, 1991, UFO took advantage of the popularity of this song to release the self-titled album for Ye Qianwen in Taiwan.
The album "Dashing Walk Back" is a new Mandarin album launched by Ye Qianwen after eight years of violating Taiwan, and it has sold 300,000 copies in Taiwan alone.
Ye Qianwen's acting career was first in Taiwan. In 1980, she returned from Canada to her parents' hometown of Taiwan to develop, and Lee Tae-cheung produced her first album "Spring Relief", which is a very artistic route of songs.
At that time, Ye Qianwen was only 19 years old, but her dress was very mature.
In three years in Taiwan, Ye Qianwen released five records with average results. In 1984, this girl, who was not willing to be mediocre, realized that whether she was a singer or an actor, Hong Kong, which took the commercial route, was more suitable for herself, so she turned to Hong Kong to develop and started from scratch. In 1988, she really became popular through the Cantonese song "Blessings". In the early 1990s, Mui Yanfang announced that she would no longer accept the award and faded out of the Cantonese music scene, and Ye Qianwen and Lin Yilian quickly rose to become the diva of the Cantonese music scene.
For Ye Qianwen, there is a feeling that after eight years of struggle in Hong Kong, "glory returns to the hometown" of Taiwan. The ABC girl who didn't know Chinese at all, spelled out the pronunciation word by word, is now a mature singer with a dashing atmosphere.
As for "Dashing Walk Back" becoming popular in the mainland, it began in 1992. The big hit of that year was through two channels, one was the satellite TV that had just emerged at that time, which was very good at publicity, bought the time slot of satellite TV Chinese station, played "UFO Superstar Yao Asia" and "UFO Superstar Weekend Carnival", and broadcast the MV of "Dashing Away" at high frequency, so that mainland audiences who could see satellite TV were very familiar with this song.
Second, in 1992, China Records Corporation introduced the album "Dashing Walk Back" from Warner in Hong Kong, which was released on tape, CD, and vinyl. At that time, vinyl records were nearly extinct, and "Dashing Back" was also one of the last batch of vinyl records produced in Shanghai before the "extinction" of the last wave of vinyl.
The cover of the mainland version of "Dashing Once" is like this.
However, the song repertoire of the mainland version and the Taiwanese version of "Dashing Once" is slightly different. The Taiwanese version of the song "Dashing Walk Around" is actually in the sixth, but the mainland version is put in the second (because of the red). Resulting in two versions of the song sequence being completely different. The Mandarin version of the interlude "Evening Wind", which Ye Qianwen sang for the movie "Shanghai Night", was not found in the mainland version and replaced it with the theme song of "Dao Ma Dan" in 1986, "Can't Hide".
The order of the tracks for the Taiwanese version of the CD.
Order of tracks for continental vinyl plates.
Of course, the final end of the popularity of "Dashing Once" in the mainland is still due to the very prosperous radio charts, radio and television station song programs that year. People who have passed through that era must have seen such song subtitles on tv stations.
After the release of "Dashing Back", it won countless awards, including the Song of the Year and the Best Composition Award at the Golden Melody Awards. Ye Qianwen also restarted her racing in the Mandarin pop music scene, and at a rate of one per year, launched three albums on UFO, "Sincerely Live a Life" (1992), "Bright Moon Heart" (1993), and "The Day of Leaving a Lover" (1994), of which "Bright Moon Heart" won her the Golden Melody Award for Best Chinese Female Singer.
In 1995, the original UFO leadership left to form Fenghua Records, and Warner simply acquired UFO Records. At this time, Ye Qianwen also switched to Taiwan's Poly Jiayin Record Company, and published three albums of "True Heart", "Candlelight" and "Care", until Polly Jiayin went bankrupt due to the Asian financial crisis. Later, in the late 1990s, Ye Qianwen temporarily retired, and there was a brief comeback around 2002. There were no new albums for many years, and there were occasional concerts and performances.
Sally Is Intimately Yours is a completely you concert, toured between 2012 and 2014.
Let's go back to "Four Young People in Beijing".
At that time, taiwan's television industry had achieved the separation of production and broadcasting, and the production company of "Beijing Four Lesss" was called Guanzhong Communication, and there were two producers, one was Lin Baichuan, who produced a number of household-known TV series, the most famous of which were "Last Night's Stars", "Book of Swords and Vengeance", and "Beijing Four Young", etc. He later invested in Taiwan's eight major television stations and served as general manager. Another producer is Liu Canrong. The drama won the Golden Bell Award for Best Series that year.
Lai Shuiqing, the director of "Four Young People in Beijing", can be said to be a big-name director in the Chinese television industry. He was born in TVB, and later developed in Taiwan, famous for shooting costume dramas, including the famous "Returning the Pearl", "August Laurel Flower Fragrance", "Blue Sea Love Sky", and Ma Jingtao's version of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", etc., and was the first Taiwanese director to shoot in the mainland. And he is extremely diligent, although he is 67 years old, he has been able to launch works every year in the mainland all these years.
The "Four Young" of "Four Young People in Beijing" were four young and powerful Taiwanese male actors at that time.
Zhang Chenguang, who plays the iron egg, won the Golden Bell "Emperor of Vision" for the first time with this drama.
Zhang Chenguang has developed in the mainland after the new century, with both virtue and art, and a high output, and at least seven or eight works will be launched in 2021 alone, most of which play the role of chairman and father.
For example, "Mother-in-law's Bracelet", which is being broadcast.
Playing GuRenjie is Liu Dekai, a famous handsome young student in the history of Taiwanese television.
Four years after "Four Young People in Beijing", in 1995, "A Curtain of Dreams" swept the two sides of the strait, and Fei Yunfan, played by Liu Dekai, may be the originator of the rich and handsome in the minds of many people.
After Liu Dekai also lived in the mainland for a long time, his works have decreased in recent years, and he may have lived a semi-retired life.
Liu Dekai recently made a micro-film "Tan" in Wuhan.
Playing Du Lihan is Wu Shaogang, after filming this drama, he was originally popular and did not become an actor.
About Wu Shaogang, I need to say a few more words, because it is difficult to have the opportunity to write about him.
Wu Shaogang has only been active in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film and television circles for less than a decade, and he debuted from New Art City, starring in the first film, and also Andy Lau's film debut "Caiyun Song".
In that movie, Wu Shaogang and the famous Hong Kong actress Zhuang Jingjing had a beautiful passion scene.
The other pair of CPs in "Caiyun Song" are Andy Lau and Xu Jie, who were invincible in their youth.
Because he signed to New Art City, almost all of Wu Shaogang's works when he debuted were related to New Art City.
In 1983, New Art City Taiwan Company participated in the production, master Yang Dechang's "A Day on the Beach", Wu Shaogang played the free and uninhibited photographer Ping Ping.
In 1983, "Hitchhiking" produced by New Art City Taiwan Company, Wu Shaogang played the famous music producer Shi Junmai, right, yes yes, is the musician who and the heroine Liu Ruiqi lip-synced "Please Come with Me", behind the scenes backing vocals are Su Rui and the film's director Yu Jieping.
After that, Wu Shaogang also acted in some Hong Kong films intermittently.
Crazy Game
He also participated in a number of Taiwanese dramas in the late 1980s, but in very small numbers.
"Yesterday's Dream Is Far Away"
"Four Young Men in Beijing" plays Tong Yuguan with Tang Zhiwei.
Tang Zhiwei has been acting for many years, and now he is an actor at the level of "old drama bone".
In the 2020 Taiwanese movie "Classmate Mynas", Tang Zhiwei plays Mayor Jiang. Thirty years have passed, and Big Brother Tang doesn't seem to have changed much.
Playing Ye Yutong, the favorite of gurenjie, is Taiwanese actress Wang Yuling, who was a popular actress who was praised by Hua Guan at that time.
Unfortunately, two years later, during the Spring Festival in 1993, Wang Yuling went on vacation to Hawaii and unfortunately died of a helicopter accident, when she was only 29 years old.
Wang Yuling and her friends Yu Xiaofan and Tang Zhiwei in the same play.
Yu Xiaofan plays Yin Xiaochao, a stunning and beautiful Qinglou woman with a bad fate.
Yu Xiaofan was already very popular at that time because he played the main role in qiong yao's six dream series "Wanjun", "Three Flowers" and "Wangfu Cliff".
Later, Yu Xiaofan faded out after marrying Weng Jiaming, who cooperated in "Wangfu Cliff", and in recent years, he has also come out to shoot. Last year, the couple also rarely combined to shoot advertisements.
Playing the role of the ninth aunt of the general manager of the Hundred Flowers Building is Fang Fang, a veteran actress from Taiwan.
Interestingly, Fang Fang and Zhang Chenguang, who are in love with mother and son in the play, staged the sketch "Homecoming" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala many years later, playing a husband and wife.
The actor who plays Liu Ya'er, who marries Tong Yuguan in the play, is called Yu Jiahui, which is actually the joy of the famous idol group's melancholy party.
Unfortunately, Huan Huan's life was very bumpy, and there were two marriages that ended in divorce. She committed suicide in June 2014 at the age of 43.
Huan Huan is from a drama class, and singing is just an accident.
"Four Young People in Beijing" and some other songs are also provided by flying saucers.
The drama uses two versions of the ending song, one is Wang Jie's "Heartache", which was included in Wang Jie's July 1991 album "Forget You Better Than Forget Yourself", and when "Beijing Four Less" was broadcast, it was still playing time.
The ending song of the second round, "When I Was Young", was sung by Lin Zixiang. That year, UFO just gave Lin Zixiang a Mandarin album "This time you really broke my heart", also during the song. In this album, "Looking Back on the Dream Is Far Away", "At Least I Still Care", and the famous song "Boys Should Be Self-Reliant", were all placed as interludes in "Four Young people in Beijing".
Ye Qianwen's "Dashing Walk" album "Our Love Is So Hard" also appeared as an interlude in the play.
"Four Young People in Beijing" was later introduced to the mainland and broadcast on local stations. How classic is it? Just look at how many remakes there are.
In 2004, the mainland remade a version of "Four Young People in Beijing", starring Nie Yuan, Duan Qiuxu, Chang Cheng and Li Xin (Li Jingze) as Four Shao, and Liu Xiaoqing playing the Ninth Aunt.
In 2010, the mainland filmed another version of "New Beijing Four Young", this time still looking for the original screenwriter Ms. Wang Huiling to write, but also used "Dashing Walk Back" as the opening song. The four brothers become Fu Dalong, Zhou Jie, Chi Shuai and Yuan Wenkang, Yang Mi plays Yin Baixue (Yin Xiaochao), Meng Guangmei plays the ninth aunt, and Li Qian plays Liu Yun'er.
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