Source: Beijing Youth Daily
News anchor Liang Shunyan
Liang Shunyan's work "Young Huang Feihong" when he was on Li's TV station
Liang Shunyan attended the wedding of gan's son Li Keqin
Liang Shunyan and her husband Ruan Liming
Liang Shunyan and his youngest son, Nguyen Hue Xiong
On August 13, Hong Kong Radio Television (TVB) announced that Hong Kong veteran actress Leung Shun Yan (Lily's sister) died peacefully in the hospital accompanied by relatives in the afternoon of the same day, at the age of 90.
Liang Shunyan's grandson Ruan Hao brown also tweeted: "Thank you for your love for grandma, she walked very peacefully and beautifully, still elegant and noble." She is an eternal legend, she is my best role model, she is my biggest idol. Grandma, good way to go, love you. ”
Leung Shun Yan is the first news flower anchor in Hong Kong, the first actress of Hong Kong TV drama, and a living dictionary of Hong Kong TV history. On her birthday in 2018, Liang Shunyan said that she would never give up and would continue to act until death. In May this year, she just finished the role of "Chinatown" and at the end of June, she also attended the promotion of the TVB drama "Good Day".
Liang Shunyan fulfilled her promise and left her beauty and elegance in the world. On August 5, another veteran actor in Hong Kong, Xia Ping, had just passed away, and the two elderly people who had witnessed the golden age of Hong Kong film and television had left one after another, which was lamentable.
The flower of Hong Kong's first generation of news was once Wang Mingquan's mentor
Liang Shunyan, formerly known as Liang Shuzhen, was born on January 7, 1929, graduated from Pililuoshi Girls' High School and is proficient in Chinese and English. Perry Roth Girls' High School is a government girls' high school located in the East District of Hong Kong Island, founded by the former Director of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and a well-known Jewish philanthropist, Perry Roth, who has trained many celebrities, senior officials and artists for Hong Kong over the years.
Liang Shunyan's family is well-off, his father opened a cooked tobacco shop, Liang Shunyan, who loved literature and art since childhood, joined the Spring and Autumn Drama Club at the age of 14 as the protagonist of the drama "Female Shopkeeper", and also performed "Thunderstorm", "Sunrise", "Woman Woman", etc., and thus got acquainted with Ruan Liming, who loves drama, married at the age of 17 and had two sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Nguyen Hue Yuen, is a director and former producer of Asian television series, and the late second son, Nguyen Hue Hung, was a costume director and actor for Lai's television. Grandchild Nguyen Ho Brown is now also an actor.
Before entering the industry, Liang Shunyan worked as a salesman in the perfume department of Xianshi Department Store, and had the reputation of "perfume queen". In 1957, Hong Kong's first television station "Li's Yingsheng" (the predecessor of ATV) began broadcasting, under the encouragement of her husband Ruan Liming, Liang Shunyan went to apply for the voice actor, she went to apply for the exam when the quota was full, the producer let her try dubbing, successfully admitted to the "Li's Yingsheng", Liang Shunyan first did children's programs, and later broadcast the evening news.
In 1960, Leung Shun Yan temporarily entered the army and broadcast news in English, becoming the first news flower anchor in Hong Kong. At that time, she hosted three nights of news and five TV shows a week. Liang Shunyan's temperament is classical and elegant, and she is deeply liked by the audience and has become the most popular female anchor of the year.
In 1963, Liang Shunyan was promoted to senior newspaper clerk, and personally selected Pang Biyun and Huang Jenny as the newspaper curtain, collectively known as "Li's Three Flowers". This year, Li's television was separated from Chinese and English stations, and Liang Shunyan worked on the Chinese station and became a tutor in the artist training class, and Wang Mingquan was one of his students.
At that time, Liang Shunyan had three nights a week to broadcast the news, and one night to be an instructor of the artist training class, which was a huge workload. As for Wang Mingquan being her student, Liang Shunyan has always rarely mentioned it, because she said that she did not want to stain Wang Mingquan's light, and Wang Mingquan had her current status, which was the result of her own efforts.
Since 1964, Leung Shun Yan has been awarded the title of "Most Popular Tv Actress" for four consecutive years, and in 1966, she was also praised as "Hong Kong's First TV Lady" by the British head office publication of "Li's Yingsheng".
The first actress in a Hong Kong TV drama, playing a "superior person"
Leung Shun Yan is not only the first news flower anchor in Hong Kong, but also the first actress in a Hong Kong TV series.
In Lai,Lam, in addition to hosting work, Leung also filmed the first TV series in Hong Kong history, "Happy Family", which was still in the form of live broadcasting, so the actors needed to spend a lot of time rehearsing and memorizing dialogue.
Because Liang Shunyan's image is dignified and her temperament is noble, Li's TV station also specially added a new program "Women's World" for her, explaining makeup and manners, which can be called the ancestor of women's programs. Because of this specialty, in 1968, after Liang Shunyan left Li's, with the support of her husband, she opened a beauty school.
However, acting is Liang Shunyan's favorite. In 1968, Leung Shun-yan switched to TVB Hong Kong, and Zhong Jinghui, who worked at TVB, invited Leung Shun-yan to star in the feature-length drama "Dream Breaks love day", cooperating with Feng Quefan and Huang Shuyi. This was the first series produced in Hong Kong, setting a precedent for Cantonese TV dramas to become the mainstream of Hong Kong TELEVISION programmes, and was very popular after broadcasting. After that, she was invited by Cai Heping to do "Happy Tonight", which later became a popular variety show on TVB, but Liang Shunyan felt that she did not have the ability to adapt to the scene, was not suitable for hosting variety shows, and was still more interested in acting.
Liang Shunyan returned to Li TV from 1976 to 1989, and returned to TVB service after 1989.
Liang Shunyan starred in hundreds of works in his lifetime, the most classic of which is "superior people". In 1995, Liang Shunyan played the rich wife Liang Shangyan in the TVB TV series "True Feelings", commonly known as "superior people", a noble and arrogant wife with no one in sight, who despised Liu Dan and other family members of the "char siu family", and a city servant's face was abhorrent. Liang Shunyan's performance into the wood three points, let the audience love and hate, hate is that the "superior people" are too hateful, love is Liang Shunyan acted too well.
"True Feelings" ran from 1995 to 1999, with 1129 episodes, which was the second longest series in the history of TVB, and at that time it was a TV series that everyone in the streets and alleys did not chase. This drama made Liang Shunyan a big fire, and the audience also loved to call her "superior person" afterwards.
The role of "superior people" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but when Liang Shunyan filmed this drama, she encountered the pain of the loss of a son sent by a white-haired person to a black-haired person.
In 1998, Liang Shunyan's youngest son, Nguyen Hue Xiong, suffered from anorexia and contracted pneumonia due to eating diet pills, resulting in pneumonia and organ failure and died at the age of 41.
Liang Shunyan and her son have a deep affection, the degree of sadness can be imagined, in order not to affect the progress of "True Feelings", she still endured the pain of losing her son without stopping work, and continued to shoot. In an interview before her death, Liang Shunyan said that among the three children, she loved her youngest son the most, and she almost couldn't help but commit suicide that year. At that time, she coincided with the filming of "True Feelings", had to smile at the camera every day, and after the end of work, she washed her face with tears and became sad, and her body eventually collapsed and was hospitalized. Later, the doctor said that this was a heart disease that could only be treated by itself.
"My children want to force me not to work anymore, but I like acting"
Liang Shunyan has also starred in many works such as "Golden Branch Desire 2", "Storm of Hearts 3", "Half a Pound Eight Two" and many other works, which can be called "Golden Green Leaves", and won the Thousand Brilliant Performing Arts Award in 2004.
Although she has played many strong and mean roles, for more than 60 years, Liang Shunyan has gained respect for her dedication and kindness, and has been praised as an actor model. Producer Wen Weihong praised Liang Shunyan as the professional aura behind the stars, saying: "Sister Lily is widely respected by her peers, not only because she is dedicated and happy, but more importantly, she has a very noble personal cultivation. Sister Lily is gentle and courteous to everyone, not restless, not boastful, adhere to professionalism, and never lose the scene. I remember one time I saw her unwell on set and asked her why she didn't tell me to let her rest. She said that because there are many actors in the same scene, you can't drag others down because of your illness, with Lily's current qualifications, who dares to disagree if you want to rest? But she just has a lofty cultivation behavior, does not bully the old and sell the old, does not exercise privileges, which is why we respect her from the bottom of our hearts. Working with her not only makes me feel at peace of mind, but also reflects a lot of times, can I deny myself like her? ”
For more than 60 years, Liang Shunyan has been active on the screen. Her last work, "Chinatown," was released at the end of May this year, and none of her partners knew her illness, and she even stayed up until 3 p.m. to sleep while filming.
In 2018, everyone held an 89-year-old birthday party for Liang Shunyan, who said that her birthday wish was for her children and grandchildren to have a good life, and people all over the world had a stable life. She also said that although she is already an old woman, she never says a word: "When there is a play, I will act, and my children want to force me not to work anymore, but I like acting, and I don't know how to play mahjong and I don't like to go shopping." I am not a superior person, I am a disrespectful person, and I play a superior person who is a rich friend who buys diamonds, eats shark fin soup, and looks at others. ”
Liang Shunyan, who is 89 years old, said that she likes acting more than before, even if it is not too hard to shoot three sets of dramas a day, the most important thing is to enjoy drama. She said: "I don't work for money, every time I go to WORK at TVB, I am happier than I am when I go back to my own home." I like acting more and more, have the opportunity to enter different roles, experience different lives, I don't know how much fun, people are spending money to buy happiness, I am happy and have money to collect, you say I am not particularly lucky? ”
Liang Shunyan sang a song "Thousands of Rivers and Mountains Are Always Love" at the birthday party, and also told TVB executive Du Zhike that he wanted her to play a singer once and fulfill his wish. In recent years, she has fallen in love with singing: "Do you know what role I want to play most in my 60 years of art?" I want to play a singer the most, and I hope that the company will arrange for me to play a singer and give me the opportunity to show my singing skills. ”
At the birthday party, Wang Mingquan came to the stage to present flowers for Liang Shunyan, thanking Liang Shunyan for serving as her own etiquette teacher when she debuted, teaching herself a lot of makeup and etiquette things, and still unforgettable teaching her how to draw eyelashes. Wang Mingquan praised Liang Shunyan for her years of dedication to work, careful care for her family, and doing a very good job from the inside out, which can be called a model of "real woman".
"I only have one lover, and that's my husband."
Long-lasting love in the show business circle is very scarce, and the love between Liang Shunyan and her husband Ruan Liming is therefore particularly precious. Liang Shunyan knew Ruan Liming at the age of 14, and despite the opposition of his parents, he still insisted on marrying Ruan Liming at the age of 17. In 2012, Ruan Liming died, and Liang Shunyan said that she still missed her husband: "My love is not as romantic as the TV series, I only have one lover, that is, my husband, he is really too good." 」 He was gone in 2012 and I missed him so much that now every time I eat, I fantasize about him sitting next to me. It was he who encouraged me to enter the TV scene, and he was a good husband. ”
Ruan Liming once played Inspector Downing in "I Am a Detective" and was well received. Liang Shunyan recalled that at that time, the office building where Ruan Liming's company was located was opposite Li's TV station, and Ruan Liming often made a cameo appearance as a theater consultant, "When filming "I Am a Detective", the company wanted to find someone to play a detective, and the appearance needed to be a little more upright, and the top management said: 'It is better to find Lily's husband!'" When asked, he expressed interest and came to act after work at 5 p.m. Although it was very popular, Ruan Liming only acted this time, expressing that he did not want to be in front of the curtain and should be a good man behind Liang Shunyan.
When she took over the role of "Dream Break Love Day", Liang Shunyan began to hear that she was allowed to play the role of mother, and felt that she was still young, so she was a little hesitant and wanted to consider it. Ruan Liming heard it next to him, and said to Liang Shunyan, as an actor, you should try any role, "I think he has a reason, I immediately agreed to act, I didn't expect this drama to be very popular, my husband and I later entered the horse farm, everyone recognized me." ”
In 2012, her husband Ruan Liming passed away, and Liang Shunyan once said that the pain at that time could not be described in words. After that, she left her former residence on Hong Kong Island and moved to Kowloon District, which was also convenient for her family to take care of.
A lifetime of regret-free, long-term enthusiasm for community service
In addition to the heavy tv series shooting work on weekdays, Liang Shunyan is still enthusiastic about community service for a long time, often volunteering at Rotary Club after work, and participating in many community visits to elderly centers and activities for the elderly living alone. When she was in the industry for 60 years, rotary clubs held a simple congratulatory ceremony for her, and Liang Shunyan attended with her family, she said: "Although she has been involved in the acting career for 60 years, she only knows to do my best to do my best. As far as possible, use the spare time to engage in volunteer services, bringing a little joy to some elderly people and grassroots families, which is insignificant for individuals. Tonight's party is a shame, and I really don't dare to be ashamed. ”
At last year's birthday party, Liang Shunyan also said to her children and grandchildren: What is etiquette? Manners are not a few beautiful gestures when taking pictures. The instrument represents the appearance, the most important thing for a person is to be neat, and the attitude is to treat people and things, we must be sincere and kind, and there is "manners" to do these two things.
Liang Shunyan, who was still working on August 6, was admitted to the hospital after a sharp turnaround. On August 9, Gan's son Li Keqin went to visit her in the hospital, and the two met in the 1991 film "Wolf Clan Broad Teenager", in which they played mother and son, with deep feelings.
When I heard that Liang Shunyan was hospitalized, many reporters went to the hospital gate to inquire about the situation. Liang Shunyan still did not forget to care about the reporter, and specially asked her grandson to bring some western cakes to comfort everyone.
After Liang Shunyan's death, Li Keqin sent a text saying: "I want to respect the family of Qi Ma (Yi Ma), and if there is any news, I will wait for their family members to answer to the outside world." Hopefully, they can mourn and change. I will always miss my mother and wish her peace in heaven. ”
Liu Dan, an actor who has worked with Liang Shunyan many times, praised Liang Shunyan as a good actor who works very seriously: "When she played a superior person, she spent a lot of effort on dressing, which was really very serious. After performing "True Feelings", I called her 'Superior Family', and she called me 'Char Siu Family'. Hong Kong director Li Lizhi also tweeted: "Thank you Sister Lily for taking care of and teaching me on TV, and I will always miss it." ”
In an interview with the Hong Kong media, Leung Shun Yan's grandson Nguyen Ho Brown revealed that his grandmother died of functional exhaustion, and when he left, all his children and grandchildren were with him, and his remains were peaceful. He said: "My grandmother was admitted to the hospital for more than a month, because of the persistent fever, she has done a lot of examinations, after all, she is ninety years old, when she leaves so peacefully, her family is around." ”
Ruan Hao brown said that Concubine Has dedicated her life to the acting career, this admission, but also said that she hopes to be discharged as soon as possible and can continue to shoot dramas, but unfortunately failed to achieve her wishes. But Ruan Hao Brown revealed that his concubine had told him before that he had no regrets in his life.
Text/Reporter Zhang Jia Courtesy photo/Xiuyan