Text | Miss Cat
A few years ago, the great director Wu Yusen made a movie called "Taiping Wheel". This movie can be called a group of stars, star-studded, gathering Zhang Ziyi, Jin Chengwu, Huang Xiaoming, Tong Dawei, Song Huiqiao, Nagasawa Masami and other big stars in China, Japan and South Korea, and even the supporting roles are Qin Hailu, Yu Feihong, Lin Boyi and other senior powerful actors.
And the whole movie is about a huge shipwreck. On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1949, due to the turbulent domestic situation and the panic of the people, everyone rushed to catch the ship that fled from Shanghai to Taiwan. On January 27, the ship, which was required to carry more than 500 people, finally set off from Shanghai with more than 1,000 people, 600 tons of steel and more than 100 tons of materials, and headed for Keelung. However, during the course of transportation, it collided head-on with a freighter called jianyuan, and the entire ship sank, and only 40 of the more than 1,000 people on board survived.
In fact, in this movie, Wu Yusen did not play well, and the film came out and was insulted by the market, and he himself was pulled off the altar because of this, and the first-class Hong Kong director has since become a second-rate Hollywood director in everyone's heart.
However, although the movie is not good, the story is very attractive.
This is a tragic event that really happened in history, known as the "Oriental Titanic" by posterity, and it is the largest marine accident in China in recent centuries. And this ship is called the Taiping Ship, and one of its owners is Cai Tianduo, the father of Cai Kangyong, whom we all know.
At that time, the person who could own a cruise ship must have been a person who was not rich or noble, and Cai Tianduo was the one who was more expensive, because he did not just own a ship, but a shareholder of China's largest steamship company. Before the Taiping Ship sank, their family was in Shanghai, but there were rich merchants with heads and faces, connections and power.
His father was associated with some of the most famous figures in politics and business. Cai Kangyong once said in a program that he could still see a pair of taut wooden bone armchairs in his mahjong room, which was very comfortable to sit on, and his father told him that it was the chair where Chiang Kai-shek (Chiang Kai-shek) sat. It can be seen that the social status of his family is not ordinary.
This can explain why Cai Kangyong's body exudes a gentlemanly demeanor of a dancing prince, no matter when and where people can feel like a spring breeze, in and out of the right place.
Unlike your circle, which likes to create a rich second generation, Cai Kangyong is a real aristocratic young master. The reason why he is said to be a noble prince is because compared with the second generation of the rich, Cai Kangyong's family has an extra layer of life in the old Shanghai high society. Under the influence of his ears, he also cultivated his aristocratic spirit.
In 1989, director Xie Jin wanted to adapt Bai Xianyong's novel "Who Immortals" into a movie, so Bai Xianyong went to Cai Kangyong of the UCLA Film Institute in the United States to help rewrite the script. The story is about several aristocratic ladies who traveled to the United States in the turmoil of history and experienced the ups and downs of fate under the tide of the times.
Bai Xianyong sought out Cai Kangyong because he was interested in the aristocratic background of his family's old Shanghai and wanted to use his experience to assist in the adaptation of the entire script. However, after reading the script, Cai Kangyong found that the protagonist Li Tong's parents both sank on a cruise ship, which was the story of the sinking of his own Taiping ship.
Fate is doomed, Bai Xianyong knew and couldn't help but sigh, "No wonder the script will find you." In the end, the play was renamed "The Last Nobleman", which was adapted by Cai Kangyong himself, and it also seemed like some kind of life revelation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > the Cai family living in the old era</h1>
After the taiping shipwreck, Cai Tianduo's steamship company, Zhonglian Steamship, also declared bankruptcy because it could not afford to pay huge compensation. They moved to Taiwan with their families, and in Tsai's words, they fell into the middle of the family.
But as the saying goes, bad ships also have three-point nails. Even though their family situation is not as good as before, the original connections are still there, so even if they go to Taiwan, they still belong to the upper class.
After coming to Taiwan, Cai Tianduo regained his college major and became a barrister. However, in Cai Kangyong's impression, his father seems to have never fought a lawsuit and is "socializing" every day.
Cai Kangyong's "socializing" is playing mahjong. Mahjong is a very important social pastime in old Shanghai, and many literary images about old Shanghai will put a lot of ink on mahjong. At the beginning of Ang Lee's "Color Ring", several officials and wives get together to play cards, which is Zhang Ailing's Shanghai Futai Circle. And Cai Kangyong's childhood is such a life.
His Cai Mansion had a special room for people to play mahjong, and the chairs that Jiang Gong had sat on were placed in their mahjong room. He comes home every day, and there are always 3 tables of mahjong in the house, and the arrival is sent, and the smoke is thick and not busy.
His mother in his memory is a beautiful and elegant Shanghai celebrity. Every day I slept until 12 o'clock, got up to wash my hair and do my hair, wore a tight cheongsam, and played mahjong with the rich wife I had agreed to in the afternoon, either at home or to someone else's house. Mother was always beautiful and shiny, "Tulle pajamas neckline, with fur, slippers worn at home, sandwiched with peacock feathers ..."
Maggie Cheung's cheongsam costume in Wong Kar-wai's "Fancy Years" was widely praised, but when Cai Kangyong saw Wong Kar-wai, he said, "The cheongsam in your play seems to be not the same as my mother, and my mother's qipao has a collar higher than Maggie Cheung." ”
Their dinner table is full of restaurant dishes, braised hooves, pickle yellow fish... There is never a home-cooked home-cooked side dish. What's more, no one in his family could cook, let alone cook, not even the kitchen.
The kitchen was a mysterious place in their home, and the mother stood in the kitchen door every time, discussing with the chef what to eat today. His mother was a very good person, and she could always say a whole table of powerful dishes with one mouth.
And his father, at home, almost did not have to do anything, just like the previous brother, there was always someone around to wait. It wasn't until he was old that Cai Kangyong saw his father holding a water cup and pouring water by himself.
And the beloved little young master naturally did not have any life skills. It wasn't until he went to the United States to study for a master's degree that Cai Kangyong boiled water for the first time.
People who have never boiled water have no idea how to count the boiling water. Someone told him that when the water was bubbling, it was boiling, so he stood there staring at the water. He sweated when the water began to bubble, "the man didn't tell him that the first few blisters meant the water was boiling." ”
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > father and new son living in memory</h1>
In an interview, Cai Kangyong said that his childhood was boring, and his father always reminded him that he had missed all the good things.
They watched Peking Opera together, and when they saw Sun Wukong flipping down from three tables, Dad would say, "Shanghainese people have turned over from five tables"; when eating yellow fish, Dad only took one bite and said, "The yellow fish in the West Lake is not this taste, this is fishy." When the hairy crab came up, Dad would say, "Hairy crabs are not like this." ”
Cai Kangyong knows that his father is the kind of person who reminisces about the past glory years depicted in Bai Xianyong's "Taipei People". Gradually, dad's attitude made him no longer enthusiastic about everything around him, and he seemed unfazed when he saw anything good.
In addition, as a nobleman, his growth trajectory was completed in a specific environment. From a young age, I read Zaixing Middle School, the most famous aristocratic school in Taipei, just like F4 in "Meteor Garden", reading all the way up, and my classmates were either the sons of political leaders or the children of business tycoons.
Cai Kangyong is a good student president, editor-in-chief of the school magazine, and has participated in inter-school competitions such as composition, debate, and speech. It is common for exams to be at the top of the exams, and Cai Kangyong never likes to go home.
In his memory, the first place is the same as playing mahjong hu cards, both of which are part of social interaction. In the past, when the wives learned of his achievements, everyone would give a happy compliment after the hu card, and then ushered in a red envelope with money wrapped in money. After a long time, Cai Kangyong felt bored.
It's not fun to take the first exam, and it's not fun to go to school.
When he was a child, his mother always forbade him to play with other children, and other children were "wild children". Every time he came home from school, he sat in the car and looked at the children playing outside the window, and he would feel a kind of envy, because he had never played with others like this.
At the age of 8, he made only one request to his mother, that he should fight. After hearing this, his mother said to him, "Yes, but you have to take the first place." This was not a difficult task for Cai Kangyong, and soon he took the first place report card and exchanged promises with his mother.
Therefore, his mother found a famous singer in Taiwan at that time and dressed him up as a Peking Opera costume, and his mother specifically instructed him to choose a role with a fight. Peking opera became the only pastime he wanted to have fun in his childhood. Many years later, Xiao S hosted "Kangxi Lai", and Xiao S always liked to laugh at him singing with a Beijing accent.
Everything changed from high school. After high school, the school began to open some students in, and unlike the children of rich families, these were ordinary people but high-achieving children.
It was also after that he learned that not every family would play mahjong, not everyone had a well-decorated and luxurious court in their homes, and the books in the world were not only books before the Qing Dynasty, but also many people who did not know Wen Zhengming. He saw another world in these classmates, and that world was also very colorful. They're playing with nice glass marbles, they're reading interesting underground magazines.
So the hidden rebellious factor finally broke out. At that time, he was in charge of editing the school magazine at the university, and the strong desire to express it led him to publish articles criticizing the party and government in the press. Because Taiwan was still under martial law at that time, the matter was very big, and officials were sent down to investigate. In the end, cai Tianduo's identity saved him, but he was secretly remembered by the school.
It was a small splash in his life, but it was like a watershed that cut him apart from the past. After that, he was like a bird out of the original order, no longer following the rules of the family, but soaring freely towards his heart.
After graduating from Tunghai University in Taiwan, his father made a request to him that he did not have to go to a doctorate, but he had to go to the best school to study for a master's degree. Why you must study for a master's degree, my father did not explain, and Cai Kangyong did not ask. But he agreed, in exchange for the fact that he would study his favorite major.
And the major he chose was the film major that his fathers had never looked up to in their lives. The father did not say anything on his lips, but whenever he was asked by the card friends, his flickering words showed his displeasure.
But Cai Kangyong did not care, he returned to Taiwan after completing his master's degree and entered the entertainment circle, doing screenwriting, writing film reviews, writing columns, all of which were jobs that his father thought could not be on the table.
He published a hot column in the newspaper, and his father was an old-fashioned man who never said anything when he saw those "no threes and no fours" articles. It would just fold him up and put him on Cai Kangyong's desk, silently reminding him, "Boy, don't scribble anymore." ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > the clever Cai Kangyong</h1>
In fact, he has always known that he has achieved what he has today, half of which is due to his family background. China is a country that pays attention to human feelings, and Cai Tianduo's strong connections naturally opened many skylights for him.
When Cai Kangyong was 9 years old, he took to the stage to perform a Peking opera of "Shilang Visiting His Mother", which was published in Lianhe Bao and China Times the next day, and he was praised as a model among children.
Other children may be happy about this for a long time, but Cai Kangyong knows that it is because the owners of these two newspapers at that time were their father's brand partners, "otherwise who would have made a big report for a group of children." ”
Group photo of the scene of "Shiro Visiting Mother"
He was admitted to UCLA's Film Institute because of the help of his father's friend, a letter of recommendation from the famous Hong Kong martial arts director Hu Jinquan (Hui Anhua's master). The first time he went to the United States to study that year, it was Hu Jinquan who personally went to the airport to pick him up.
After returning to Taiwan, he published a column in the newspaper "Lianhe Bao" of his father's friend Wang Tiwu, and was recommended by his father's friend Zhou Naizhong to become the planning and production manager of Xu Anhua's "Kelu Autumn Hate", thus successfully entering the film and television circle.
While lamenting the good fate, I had to admire Cai Kangyong's wisdom. The opportunity is given, but how to seize the opportunity to stand out depends on Cai Kangyong himself.
When he got the opportunity to open a column, he came back and seriously considered it. At that time, he was just a nameless person who no one knew, so why did he compete with long-established writers such as Long Yingtai and Nanfang Shuo. After thinking about it, he finally decided to make a different column and use a bold and weird style to attract the attention of readers.
So he wrote in his column "how many layers of underwear can be worn", "what positions can be urinated", "fart can also win awards" and other other articles. The result is that if it doesn't sound, it will be a blockbuster. At that time, few people in Taiwan would write these strange things with such a pen, and his articles were very popular as soon as they were published.
It turns out that "to do it is to be the most alternative" is the most correct criterion regardless of the era in which it is placed. Soon he won the attention of many insiders with his sharp and funny style.
The first to find him is Ms. Shi Nansheng of Hong Kong (also a classic character, interested to click here to view). Shi Nansheng, like Xu Ke, is a person who prefers eccentrics, and Cai Kangyong, who dares to publish such things as urinating and farting, is exactly what she likes. Just when she wanted to open up the Taiwan market, she hired Tsai Kangyong to open his first TV show "Pop City - Taipei" for him.
▲ In the early years, Cai Kangyong was dressed straight, smoke did not leave his hand, and looked untamed, but it also deepened the unique image of his strange coffee talent, and then several programs found him.
At first, it was all reading programs, after all, from the identity of the literati, and then slowly transitioned to talk shows. One of the most successful was the "Truth Index" that he hosted, which made him a benchmark in the hosting world. This is a serious talk show, the show is full of leaders in various fields, and Cai Kangyong has a kind of magic ability, which can follow the good temptations and let the guests on the other side show their true hearts.
Cai Kangyong also privately asked the planner of the show why such an important program was given to him as a newcomer to the screen, and the planner only said one reason, he was the first person in so long to do an interview in front of the TV set and always looked at the interviewee.
In fact, Cai Kangyong and "True Love Index" are complementary to each other, this show allows Cai Kangyong to give full play to his super high hosting skills, one more point is too much, less point is lacking. The success of the program also depends on cai Kangyong's hosting and identity, because many of the political and businessmen on this program cannot be invited by ordinary programs, and most of them are willing to go on the face of Cai Kangyong, a Cai-style nobleman.
The next is the "Kangxi Lai" that everyone is most familiar with, and the super tacit cooperation between Kang Yong and Xi Di makes the whole show spark different. However, in the 12th year of the show, Cai Kangyong took the lead in deciding to take it.
In fact, it was right to think back and think about Cai Kangyong. He retained the glory of this show in a timely manner, so that everyone on the Internet is now nostalgic for the "Kangxi Lai" of that year. It's hard to imagine how competitive this talk show can be today in today's era of the rise of the Internet, and perhaps the result of continuing to broadcast is slowly forgotten.
Today's nostalgia is the best belonging to "Kangxi Lai".
Cai Kangyong's ability is not only here, he can be keenly aware of the changes in the market, and at the same time, he is embracing the changes in the market.
After the Internet, he seized the opportunity of the Internet and came to the mainland to cooperate with Ma Dong and Gao Xiaosong in "Strange Story". The magical Internet has made him popular for the second time in the younger generation, and he is also one of the more successful Taiwanese artists in breaking into the mainland, even Taiwanese variety show king Wu Zongxian looks up to him.
Perhaps it is the business genes inherited from his family that allow him to grasp the window of change in each era. He once said that his father Cai Tianduo was a very intelligent person, and in the graduation examination of the law department of Fudan University in Shanghai, his father missed a morning exam because he was addicted to playing mahjong, and he still won the third place, which made him very impressed.
I believe that the same wisdom has also been passed on to Cai Kangyong, who has been clever and insightful since he was a child, allowing him to navigate this complex society very smoothly, that is, to know how to judge the hour and size up the situation, and to know how to be alone.
The world's impression of him is changeable. You would say he was a gentleman, you would say he was a reader, some would call him a fallen nobleman, but I think the most appropriate ones are old and new.
Under the influence of his family, he still has a certain shadow of the old society, and at the same time, he can accept the glitz of the new world intact. Navigating the old and new worlds with ease, finding a balance between the world.
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