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"Macau gambling king", Hong Kong and Macao well-known patriotic entrepreneur Ho Hung Sun passed away at the age of 98, a generation of business legends came to an end.
With the death of the gambling king, the "palace fight" between the 4 wives and 17 children has just begun.
The mountain rain is about to come to the wind full of buildings, making people sigh endlessly, eating melon masses sit and wait for the second wife, three too four too much to fight for family property war,
Coincidentally, there is an old drama bone that almost no one knows - known as "Uncle Shrimp" Guan Haishan, known as the "gambling king of the entertainment industry".
Guan Haishan's 4 wives bore him 7 children, and after his death, the children staged a drama of the family property war, and became the most miserable star second generation.
Hong Kong Cantonese opera industry has a long reputation, I believe that netizens who like old Hong Kong films, will not be strangers to him.
He is the golden supporting role of many Jin Yong martial arts dramas, playing Murong Bo in the 82nd edition of "Tianlong Babu", Lu Chengfeng in the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", and Lin Zhennan in the 84th edition of "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu".
Today we want to tell the legendary story of "Uncle Shrimp" Guan Haishan.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 Cantonese Xiaosheng, Confucian "Shrimp Uncle"</h1>
Guan Haishan, born in 1925 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, Guan Haishan, formerly known as Guan Jueming, also known as Guan Ning. Since he was a child, he studied art with his father, Kwan Yiu-fai, at the Pear Garden Cantonese Opera Troupe.
At the age of 11, he entered the drama industry on stage, is a Cantonese opera student with all-round talents in literature and martial arts, active in the Cantonese opera stage on the street, and is good at playing handsome young students and dignitaries. He once joined the New Voice Theatre Troupe led by Cantonese opera celebrities Ren Jianhui and Bai Xuexian.
After the Anti-Japanese War, Guan Haishan came to Hong Kong to develop, and in 1950, because of his stage experience, he began to enter the film industry, and the first film he starred in was "Blood Debt and Blood Payment".
He is like a lone hero, up and down in the turbid waves of the showbiz, running dragon sets in various crews, acting passers-by A knife to death, the background wall of the characters, which is too much sour, sweet and bitter.
Behind every good fortune is a myriad of efforts.
In the 10 years of dragon set career, Guan Haishan has practiced a solid basic skill and become the "chief student" of Cantonese films.
At the age of 51, he joined TVB in Hong Kong and subsequently participated in the filming of more than 100 TV series. Guan Haishan has been in the industry for more than 60 years, and his last work was "Public and Private Love Affair" filmed in 2001, after which he was hospitalized for treatment due to a stroke, which caused him to be paralyzed and forced to quit the show business circle.
In people's memory, Guan Haishan is often equated with roles such as rich people, family parents, and jianghu big brothers, although he always plays supporting roles, his superb acting skills cannot be ignored. He raised his hands and feet, and there was a kind of gentlemanly and intelligent, calm and self-assured, and strategic gangster temperament.
He played Inspector Chen Tong in "The Biography of Inspector Leiluo of 500 Million" and won both the Golden Horse Award and the Academy Award for "Best Supporting Actor", and in "Rogue Tycoon" he played The father of Cheng Yu Ling, the richest man in Hong Kong, Song Yongran.
Guan Haishan has been involved in filming for decades, shooting more than 200 film and television drama works, and playing countless roles.
From the richest man in the emperor, down to the carpenter's laborer, as good as the helpful old bad bones, and as bad as the adulterous thief with the heart of the human face and the beast, all of them play flesh and blood, which is convincing.
Guan Haishan is revered as "Uncle Shrimp" in the circle, and this nickname is still given by Jackie Chan. When he participated in Jackie Chan's movie "Plan A", he often bent over and hunched over, and his body resembled a shrimp, so Jackie Chan jokingly called him "Uncle Shrimp". Since then this nickname has followed him all his life.
"Uncle Shrimp" looks very deep in the city government, playing a father, a big brother, a rich family parent and other roles out of the blue. In some scenes, you forget the protagonist, but you keep in mind the supporting character Guan Haishan, who does not appear much and only has three words and two words.
Guan Haishan can be said to have witnessed the glorious growth of the Hong Kong film industry, and many heavenly kings and film emperor-level actors have grown up in cooperation with Guan Haishan.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 Wine in haojie, promoting the younger generation</h1>
Guan Haishan is a man of temperament, who was fond of spirits when he was young, and he was also good at smoking and gambling horses, betting tens of thousands of dollars at any time, and was described as a "million gambler".
And he had good luck, winning the lottery from time to time. There have been two works related to "gambling", that is, "The Legend of the New Brother of the Casino Tycoon" and "The Thirty-Six Schemes of the Supreme Thirty-Six Schemes".
Later, he switched to beer, almost using beer as water, and before starting work, he also took beer bottles, and the wine happened to enter the play when he entered the intestines. "Good drama" is recognized in the circle and can be called "green leaf king" in TV series.
Guan Haishan, who once said never to rest, unfortunately suffered a stroke at home in 2001 and was half paralyzed, and was forced to quit the entertainment industry.
Although he gradually recovered, he had difficulty moving, relying on a wheelchair to enter and exit, and having difficulty speaking, but his heart was still worried about work.
In 2001, Guan Haishan won the "Thousands of Brilliant Performing Arts Awards" issued by TVB. Liu Kaiwei's father, liu dan, an old drama bone, also won this award. This award brought Guan Haishan's acting career to a perfect end.
He took the stage in a wheelchair to receive the award, winning applause from the audience.
He is Andy Lau's "benefactor", privately guiding Andy Lau to act, Andy Lau said, "Uncle Shrimp personally handed me a lot of things, inside and outside the play are like my master, do the play first, work hard to win three points, let me unforgettable for life."
At the low point of his life, Wu Mengda once owed more than 300,000 gambling debts, he met Guan Haishan, Uncle Shrimp mentioned him, and also gave a book about actors, "Six Lectures on Acting".
It is worth mentioning that this book was later passed to Liu Qingyun, Wu Zhenyu, and Zhou Xingchi, and the book "Self-Cultivation of Actors" in "The King of Comedy" is the story of this book.
Lu Liangwei and Guan Haishan have cooperated many times, once played his son, and outside the play, he also recognized Guan Haishan as a dry father. Many years after Guan Haishan's death, Lu Liangwei still thanks Gan Dad for his care.
At Guan Haishan's funeral, Lu Liangwei, Du Qifeng and other film bigwigs supported the spirit.
Wireless issued a eulogy: Guan Haishan's illness and death, Wireless issued a statement expressing regret and mourning, and praised his contribution to the performing arts industry, and his death is a major loss to the performing arts industry. Uncle Shrimp played for WIRELESS for a total of 26 years (1976 to 2001), participated in countless dramas, acted superbly, and won unanimous praise; he spared no effort to support his descendants and was deeply admired by all parties.
Zeng Di Rong (Shrimp Aunt) showed her friends More than 100 suits of Uncle Shrimp, she said: "Uncle Shrimp wears a private suit when filming, so there are many collections, and he also loves to collect pipes." ”
His apprentice Ai Wei and Shrimp Aunt's friend Huang Xiahui have been accompanying Shrimp Auntie, and When Ai Wei recalled his master, he said: "There is no doubt about his professionalism in acting, in recent years he has been unable to move because of stroke, but his personality is still optimistic and funny. ”
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 Tortuous marriage, property struggle</h1>
Guan Haishan's personality of "great love and great sage" has made people in the circle very popular, and his emotional life in reality is also colorful.
He had 4 marriages, 4 daughters and 3 sons under his knees, of which the first three were not officially registered.
Only the fourth Zeng Dirong was officially registered, and became a "shrimp sister-in-law" in the circle.
Therefore, the aftermath of Guan Haishan's hundred years of death triggered a war for the children's property, and they were indisputable.
Compared with before He Hongshen's death, the fourth wife Liang Anqi was often with him, and the youngest sons He Youjun and Xi Mengyao also bore him grandchildren, which is a complete life.
However, Guan Haishan was unfortunate, and Hong Kong media reported that in the early morning of September 11, 2006, Guan Haishan was found to be stiff at his wife's residence and was taken to Guanghua Hospital, where he died at about 7:00 a.m. on the same day, at the age of 82.
Guan Haishan met his first wife in Guangzhou and had an adopted daughter. This short-lived relationship, in the end, is also hurried to go, and the fate is scattered and forgotten in the rivers and lakes.
The second wife, Huang Li, met in Vietnam and had two sons and two daughters: the eldest son, Guan Chuhong, the second son, Guan Cong (a former TVB student), and the daughter, Guan Wanqing.
From the naming of his son, it can be seen that he has high hopes for his children.
Guan Cong has performed in TV dramas with his father and son, and in 1991, Guan Cong was imprisoned in Taiwan, and since then, father and son have rarely contacted each other.
The third wife, Ye Rui'e, met in Malaysia and had a daughter, Kwan Chi-ying. The fourth wife, Tsang Di Rong, met in Singapore and had a son, Guan Ke.
Four feelings, four countries of acquaintance and love, charming, romantic Guan Haishan, experienced the style of foreign countries.
During the hospital period, Uncle Shrimp had an incident in which his former wife and daughter went to the hospital to argue for his father, and Aunt Shrimp once refused to allow 4 people to visit the ward, and the two sides quarreled over this.
Guan Haishan and his fourth wife, Zeng Dirong, worked together for more than 30 years, accompanying Uncle Shrimp through the final stages of his life after his stroke in 2001 and before his death in 2006.
Zeng Dirong was dissatisfied with several other wives and children, saying that she had hardly visited Guan Haishan in the three terms before his death, but brought her children to mourn after her death.
When Guan Haishan died, he was found in his own apartment, and at that time he was already stiff and dead for a long time; at the moment of death, there was no relative to take care of him in front of the bed, which was inevitably lonely and miserable.
On September 14, 2006, three days after Guan Haishan's death, on his way to the funeral home, Guan Chuhong, the son of the second wife, and Guan Zhiying, the daughter of the second wife, intercepted the hearse and knelt in front of the funeral home.
Zeng Dirong scolded his former wife and daughter, while the younger son Guan Wei looked at his mother helplessly.
For his father's death, there was nothing wrong with kneeling, but then his children turned against each other for the sake of Guan Haishan's inheritance, and made a lot of trouble in the courtroom, so that the glasses of the melon-eating masses were shattered.
Not only did the children not serve their father's hospital bedside, but they also cheated and imprisoned, abused children... It's staggering.
Born, old, sick and dead, rich and noble in the world, none of them can be taken away. After the end of the fierce battle for property by the giants, the family declined, and the relatives turned against each other, and both sides were defeated.
Guan Haishan, a legendary figure in the circle, has bid farewell to the stage of life for 14 years, and his wives and children have left us with more to think about after the inheritance dispute.
Successful parents are not about how much knowledge they impart to their children, let alone how much property they leave behind, but about teaching by example and cultivating their lifelong character.
I believe that in the film and television circle, there will be countless artists, like "Uncle Shrimp", to promote the younger generation, dedication to the cause, this is not exactly the role model of the star?