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In a villa in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, lives a once-famous Hong Kong actress, Kwong Mei Wan.
Sha Tin is a tranquil place in Hong Kong away from the hustle and bustle, and Kwong Mei Yun enjoys the current state of life and has built the residence to be envied. The villa has a large yard and a large open-air pool, and she is now living with her brother and family, who has been unmarried and childless.
She said that there are adults and small babies in the family, many people are also very lively, and friends will often come over when they are usually here, barbecue and dinner in the courtyard, and sing and entertain in the KTV room.
Kwong Meiyun looks dignified, in the entertainment industry when known as "Kwong Beauty", her beauty is different from the small family jasper, has a natural big woman momentum, and TVB often appears in the image of strong women is very similar, and her life script has always been a big heroine style.
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Born in 1963, Kwong MeiYun's ancestral home is Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, after birth, she lived with her grandmother in Macau, and only moved back to Hong Kong when she was 10 years old, her father was an accountant, and her mother suffered from breast cancer and blood cancer, and needed to lie in the hospital for many years.
Because her mother was sick, Kwong Meiyun had to go back and forth to school and the hospital every day when she was a teenager, go home to cook rice every day after class, and then deliver food to her mother in the hospital.
In Kwong Meiyun's impression, life was not hard when she was a child, even if her family was small, the attic she lived in was so short that even people could not sit up straight, but she thought that there were tiles to cover the rain, there was a family love, and there was 5 cents of pocket money every day, which was already very happy.
When she was 14 years old, her mother's condition deteriorated and passed away, and from that moment on, she knew that she had to take on the responsibility of the family, after all, there was a younger brother in the family, and as a sister, she had to rush ahead.
Because of the experience of losing her mother at an early age, Kwong Meiyun is much more mature than her peers, and she knows that no one can accompany her forever, and people have to control life by themselves.
At the age of 17, Kwong Meiyun began to work outside the home to earn money.
In 1982, Kwong Mei-yun, who was working as a public relations manager at a group company at the time, ran for Hong Kong sister at the suggestion of her boss, and the company's original intention was to broaden the company's network channels through this method.
Originally an inadvertent move, Kwong Meiyun won the runner-up of Hong Kong Sister with her outstanding performance, thus entering the entertainment circle.
In this year, she met her first love, Zheng Jiacheng.
The event was sponsored by Chow Tai Fook Jewelry, so Kwong Mei Yun got acquainted with the youngest son of Chow Tai Fook boss Zheng Yu Tong, Zheng Jiacheng, under the fanatical pursuit of Zheng Jiacheng, the two continued to fall in love for more than four years, and finally when it came time to register for marriage, the man was revealed to have a secret meeting with Lan Jieying, and Kwong Mei Yun chose to break up.
In the eyes of many outsiders, Kwong Meiyun has been recognized by the giants, at that time the society generally felt that men cheating was not a big deal, not to mention the children of the giants, if they were replaced by other actresses, they might be forgiven, but Kwong Meiyun did not drag the mud and water, and resolutely chose to break up afterwards.
Her emotional principle is very simple: feelings cannot be shared with others, she does not like to argue, and since the feelings are gone, let go.
Zheng Jiacheng has deliberately reunited with Kwong Meiyun many times, and in the face of the past of the two, Kwong Meiyun still has not looked back.
Kwong Meiyun in the early days of the industry is to be a TV station host, in order to make money, Kwong Meiyun every morning after the morning news anchor, after the broadcast and then rushed to the original owner to work, since childhood very bitter Kwong Meiyun has been working two jobs a day, running back and forth.
Until one time, Kwong Mei-yun was a blockbuster when she did a behind-the-scenes singing for Maggie Cheung, and then signed to Poly Gold Records as a singer.
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During her time as a singer, she sang a lot of sad songs, and songs such as "Piled Up Emotions", "Easy to Hurt Women", and "I Have a Date with Spring" became the golden songs at that time.
At that time, her popularity was very high, and every performance was on the same stage as the king and the queen of heaven, if it was a solo, it must be the finale.
At that time, Mei Yanfang's annual salary was only 2 million, in order to grab Kwong Meiyun, the three major record companies had to open the conditions to 2 million.
For those days in the entertainment industry, Kwong Meiyun always downplayed and was not very nostalgic, as if she did not really belong there.
Kwong Meiyun recalled that she was very tired from her work at that time, and once recorded a song in the studio, singing and singing, and went straight to sleep.
"I was working in Taiwan at that time, I was sick all the time, I was very sick, I was always hospitalized, I had to take painkillers for a while, I thought I might die, at that time I was about 30 years old, my mother was breast cancer and blood cancer passed away, I was afraid that it would not be inherited, she was only 36 years old at that time." 」
In more than ten years of singer career, Kwong Meiyun has released a total of 40 albums, during which she appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage three times, but because she could not feel the fun of the entertainment industry, coupled with overwork, her health deteriorated, and Kwong Meiyun began to retreat.
In 1997, Kwong Mei-yun officially announced her retirement from the music scene.
This year is an important year in Kwong's life, in addition to quitting the music scene, her relationship with Lu Liangwei also ended in the same year.
Kwong MeiYun and Lu Liangwei had a love affair with each other in 1995 because of filming, and the following year, the two held a grand wedding banquet, but a few months later, because of frequent quarrels due to personality incompatibility, the two did not receive a marriage license again and directly broke up.
For this "marriage", Lu Liangwei once summed up in the book with "losing a friend who has nothing to talk about and getting a marriage that cannot be looked back", and the failure of marriage has hurt both parties.
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After bidding farewell to the entertainment industry, Kwong Meiyun started from scratch and went to the United States alone to study jewelry appraisal.
In 2000, after returning to Hong Kong after completing her studies, she founded her own jewelry brand "Cally K" in Central, and invited her ex-boyfriend's father to bless herself, which shows that although Kwong Mei Yun did not marry into the Zheng family, her personality was very respected by the Zheng family, and the Zheng family also became a supplier of Kwong Mei Yun jewelry stores.
Kwong Mei Yun is very serious about doing things, when she is making jewelry, she immerses herself in jewelry, and she is quite sensitive to numbers, which has a strong memory and also helps her career a lot.
Relying on a down-to-earth and reliable, after years of development, Kwong Mei Yun's jewelry business has gradually expanded, and then successfully invested in dental clinics in Shanghai, is a successful businesswoman.
In fact, Kwong Meiyun's investment wisdom has long been seen, when Kwong Meiyun and Zheng Jiacheng fell in love, Kwong Meiyun followed Zheng Jiacheng to learn to invest.
In Hong Kong in the 90s, the property market was very good, and Kwong Meiyun, who was still a singer, saw the opportunity of real estate, and she used her income to invest in real estate, and Hong Kong people called her "the first person in Hong Kong actress to speculate in real estate". At her peak, she held ten suites in her hands, earning 7 figures a month.
In 1996, Hong Kong house prices rose to the peak, with a keen sense of business, Kwong Meiyun decisively sold the property in his hand to cash out, made a lot of money, and fortunately escaped the financial crisis that broke out in 1997.
Some people say that Kwong Meiyun is really a good fate, the financial crisis of that year made many Hong Kong stars lose their homes, but she was able to earn countless dollars on real estate and successfully escaped the disaster.
In fact, it is not so much a matter of fate as it is her personality. Kwong Meiyun has a decisive personality, a clear head, and a crisp approach to things, these personality traits make her always make quick judgments and make the right choices when facing the crossroads of life.
Whether it is a relationship or an investment, she can always restrain her greed and have the courage to stop the loss in time.
Society's hostility to women is always greater than that of men, especially when women succeed, it will always be accompanied by a lot of gossip, and Kwong Meiyun is no exception.
Since her business has been doing well, there have been some news coming out from time to time, and the connotation is that she has noble people behind her to help. Once rumored that she almost became the fifth aunt of the gambling king, and it was rumored that she was in contact with some rich people, for these rumors, Kwong Meiyun chose to laugh at them, she was open-minded and optimistic by nature, and did not like to calculate.
In her opinion, it is not necessary to take everything said by others to heart, but to regard these words as a blessing for others to herself, which is also very good.
For Kwong Meiyun, who is famous and rich and beautiful, there is never a shortage of suitors around him, and Kwong Meiyun naturally knows it in his heart.
But what she is good at is that she can always keep a clear head and the courage to say "no", and when talking about suitors, Kwong MeiYun mentioned that she would not choose to associate with men who have marriages or girlfriends.
What she needs is single-minded feelings, and she thinks that she values herself very much, so she will not be wronged in her feelings, and she will not put herself in the role of competing with others.
Whether when she was young or now, she has never changed, firmly believing that feelings are not stolen.
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Kwong Meiyun's life is actually not very smooth, the family is poor, the young lost her mother, the feelings experienced are all over, unlike the female stars in the same period who are deeply involved in the resentment of the giants, mental madness and other endings, Kwong Meiyun but in one setback after another, the road of life is getting wider and wider.
In Kwong Meiyun's view, others think that she looks outstanding, but the position she gives herself is not Cinderella, but a man who works her own.
She had seen some friends become depressed because they were abandoned by the giants, and she firmly believed that everything was unreliable, and only what she earned was the most secure.
Kwong Meiyun has put down the emotional thing and completely gone with the flow, for such a mature woman who has gone through the age of fifty years of knowing the destiny, she has already seen through the essence of life.
Her life now is obviously multi-layered, and love is only one aspect of it, and the proportion is not so heavy.
Kwong Meiyun is still very confident about her own personality, she said that she never worried about others not liking her, because she felt that people would like her personality through many interactions, and it is also for this reason that Kwong Meiyun has many friends in life.
Now Kwong Meiyun, in addition to the identity of a businesswoman, is also a philanthropist, but also has multiple political identities.
Kwong Mei-yun has been a standing committee member of the Overseas Friendship Association in Jiangxi Province since 2006 and later a member of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In 2017, he was elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress of Hong Kong.
On 1 July 2021, Kwong Mei-yun was awarded the Justice of the Peace by the Hong Kong government for her many years of enthusiasm for public welfare and philanthropy, and the role of the Justice of the Peace in Hong Kong is to inspect the punishment house, detention center or other institutions to ensure that no one is treated unfairly or exploited, playing the role of social supervision, Kwong Mei-yun is the only one to receive this award in many years.
Kwong Mei-yun's opportunity to engage in philanthropy came in 2003, when she met a person who was doing education in Jiangxi at an event, and he told Kwong mei-yun that there was a school under Yunju Mountain that needed to be rebuilt, asking if she could help.
Kwong Mei Yun's origin made her more empathetic to children from poor families, and then she set up the "Kwong Mei Yun Scholarship" at Nanchang University in Jiangxi Province, and donated the first "Kwong Mei Yun Fo Guang Primary School" in Jiujiang Yunju Mountain.
Since then, Kwong Mei Yun has participated in charity many times. In the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Kwong MeiYun donated HK$5 million. Today, Kwong Mei Yun has participated in the donation of more than 60 Hope Primary Schools, just like when she was a singer and opened a jewelry store, Kwong Mei Yun is also as conscientious and responsible as ever when she was doing charity.
She doesn't just pay for it, she looks at the school on the ground. She is very concerned about the impact of the school environment on children, and when she has time, she will teach them herself.
After doing charity for so many years, she has also witnessed many changes. In the first years, the quality of teachers in some schools was not good, some people would speak foul language, some would cut in line, smoke.
She is very concerned about these and headaches, because the teacher is not behaving correctly, and the child will naturally be affected in such an environment. But now, everyone's quality has been greatly improved.
Speaking of charity work, Kwong remembers some memorable moments. She said that when she went to Guyuan in Ningxia in 2003, she saw that no children were wearing shoes. The average local household income is 350 RMB. Now, Guyuan's per capita income is also more than 20,000 yuan.
As a deputy to the National People's Congress, she has devoted herself to the development of Hong Kong's artistic undertakings for many years, and also put forward her own proposals for promoting cross-strait art exchanges as a deputy during the two sessions.
Kwong Meiyun is one of the few people's congress deputies who integrate singers, businessmen, and philanthropists, if it were not for some charity and public welfare related reports, her deeds were actually not well known to the public, Kwong Meiyun has always been silently doing things, low-key, do not like to flaunt their own behavior, and do not like to put on a show in front of the public.
During this year's two sessions, as a deputy to the Hong Kong Regional People's Congress, Kwong Mei-yun said:
"I am really happy to see the success of our country's poverty alleviation. With China's population of 1.4 billion, from the beginning of poverty alleviation eight years ago to the current 98.99 million people out of poverty, I think our country's governance system and governance capabilities are really very superior. And under the epidemic to achieve the "three firsts", this is the result of the joint efforts of the people of all ethnic groups in our country, I believe that no country in the world is as united as our nation, I think our success can also make the world a reference. ”
From being a singer to a jewelry merchant, he is now a member of politics.
Kwong Mei-yun has challenged one role after another in her life path.
With tenacity, self-confidence, and bravery, she lived out the best look of a woman.