Sixty years ago, in a dilapidated house in Hong Kong's Yau Tsim Mong district, a pregnant mother with three children was crammed into a small bed.
At this time, the woman did not know that her life would be completely changed by the fetus in the womb, from a difficult survival to a drunken fan.
The child's father has died early, leaving the mother's family of four, the three children are called Aifang, Deming, Qiming, so the new daughter will be named "Yanfang" along the name, with the father's surname Mei.
Mui Yanfang, a superstar who is revered as the "daughter of Hong Kong", today we want to talk about her legendary but short, brilliant and tragic life.
You probably never think of how a family with a gambler mother and a vampire brother could nurture such a pure heart as a diamond.
After the birth of Mei Yanfang, the already poor family made the already poor family worse, the two brothers need money to prepare for school, and the mother wants to go out to gamble and need money.
With even food almost unable to eat, the mother decided to sell this "useless" little daughter for some money, but for some reason, this mother, who was seriously patriarchal, still kept Mei Yanfang.
This stay also set mei Yanfang's brilliant life path, but it also brought her the greatest pain in this life.
When Mei Yanfang was four years old, she was just able to express herself fluently and was pushed by her mother onto the singing stage of the Liyuan Amusement Park, and together with her sister Mei Aifang, she went to sell singing at dawn, went to sell singing at night, and sold singing in the middle of the night.
For a four-year-old child, the place where you are most often located every day is not the classroom with the sound of books, but the noisy and chaotic performance stage.
God rewarded a mouthful of rice, Xiao Mei Yanfang's voice was loud, and an ordinary song could also be sung under Mei Yanfang's mouth with tears.
Gradually, more and more people came to listen to this little girl singing, and the people who stopped to watch were the three outer layers, and the final audience could not even see the little Mei Yanfang, but the loud and moving song could always hit the listener's heart through the crowd.
The mother was overjoyed to see the situation, and hurriedly used the family savings to pull up a broken troupe called "Jinxia", and the two sisters became the main force of singing and dancing. But in this way, Mei Yanfang's "working hours" are more, and she has to leave school and enter the society early.
The song and dance troupe gradually became famous because of Mei Yanfang, from the bright and upright restaurant performance to the late night, the invitation of the people in the bar disco was all taken over by the mother, and a song of five yuan and ten yuan could be raised to fifty in the restaurant, only for Mei Yanfang to open her mouth.
Day by night, hundreds of dollars were collected into my mother's pocket. However, the young Mei Yanfang went in and out of the wind and flow place every day, and had already been infected with a "big sister atmosphere", and was often harassed and teased by hooligans.
At that time, Mei Yanfang was afraid of the dark, and at the end of each performance, she clung to her sister to go home, and her sister Mei Aifang became the only person in the family who could rely on it.
Although the money earned was large, none of it was spent on Mei Yanfang. After paying the tuition fees to the brothers, the delicious and fun ones also had to reward the brothers, and the rest was also used for the mother's daily card playing, until the age of ten, Mei Yanfang had her own pocket money.
Mei Yanfang prepared a piggy bank, saved the money penny by dime, and gradually the jar was about to be filled with change, and the snacks she thought about day and night seemed to be waving to herself, but her mother came. "You little girl, what do you want so much money to do?" While teaching Mei Yanfang a lesson, Mei Mu took the piggy bank into her arms.
Mei Yanfang did not say anything, the dilapidated stage can no longer accommodate the 19-year-old her, Mei Yanfang decided to officially challenge the entertainment industry. A song "Season of the Wind" won the "First Rookie Singing Contest" and released his debut album "Heart Debt" to enter the circle strongly.
The following year, the new record "Red Plum Yanfang" won five platinum sales, and the Tokyo Music Festival won the Asian Special Award. This made Mui Yanfang realize that not only the audience under the Stage of the Li Yuan Small Drama and the second-rate people in the Mixed Bar bought her account, but her singing voice was loved by all hong Kong!
Debut is the peak, Mei Yanfang frantically held a personal concert, "Bad Girl", "Like a Year of Water"... The golden songs and bold and exposed shapes during the singing have fascinated countless Hong Kong people, and everyone did not know what words to use to describe the strength of this overwhelming force, until LadyGa used the same cool form to spread around the world, people knew that they had their own "LadyGaGa" thirty years ago.
In 1985, the first film "Fate" won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and after two years, he filmed a "Rouge Buckle", and the Golden Statue Bonus Horse Golden Dragon Award came to queue up for her to receive, and Mei Yanfang was also famous in the film and television industry for the second drama in her life.
Mei Yanfang has no difference between in front of the camera and behind the lens, she will not change her posture and style because the camera is turned on or off, although she is called "the queen of change" for forty years, she has never changed her heart of a cheerful and generous female heroine.
Mei Yanfang naturally did not shy away from the scene, allowing her to easily win countless awards, and the true temperament that did not change before and after people also made the big names in the entertainment industry popular to death.
Andy Lau and her in and out of pairs, Zhang Guorong took care of her, although the two superstars said that Mui Yanfang is their "best friend", but will it really be unmoving? Perhaps because Andy Lau was too dazzling, Zhang Guorong left early, Mei Yanfang and them were not suitable, under the introduction of her brother, she finally chose Zhao Wenzhuo, a small actor who had just debuted at that time.
The two soon fell in love, but the Hong Kong media at that time always spoke only for the heat. "Eat soft rice", "rich woman", with the success of Zhao Wenzhuo, the conspiracy theory-like voice is also getting higher and higher, Mei Yanfang grew up mixed with society, has long been indifferent to gossip, but Zhao Wenzhuo can't stand the accusations after this person.
Unable to withstand Mei Yanfang's dazzling light in the sky, she chose to break up and work hard silently, but Mei Yanfang thought that Zhao Wenzhuo had a new love, and she did not say much and agreed to Zhao Wenzhuo.
In this way, Mei Yanfang, who has been searching for love all her life, and the real love of her life passed by. But the terrible thing came, Mei Yanfang was found to have cervical cancer, a family genetic disease, like her sister.
Mei Yanfang refused to remove the uterus, because she did not yet have a lover, nor did she have the crystallization of love, and she was not willing to let herself lose her fertility. So the cancer cells spread wildly on Mei Yanfang's body, torturing her to bone.
Lying on the hospital bed, Mei Yanfang received a call from her mother, without a word of concern, only asking for money. Every time she answered the phone, Mei Yanfang would cry in her hospital bed.
It was in this way that against the pressure of the family, Mei Yanfang decided to draw a perfect end to her life. In 2003, Mei Yanfang walked slowly onto the stage wearing a white wedding dress, dragging a heavy urine bag and a thin body.
Singing a "Sunset Song" on the stage, her life is as beautiful as the sunset, but it is also close to dusk. Lacking and seeking true love all her life, she married herself to the stage.
A month after the concert, Mei Yanfang left this cruel and cold world. Like taking away her piggy bank, the mother wanted to take away her hundreds of millions of inheritances.
But this time her mother failed to do so, and Mei Yanfang made a meticulous treatment of the inheritance, and she could only get a pension of 70,000 yuan per month. The mother and brother saved the money to hire a lawyer to sue the daughter, who had died, but lost the lawsuit and owed more debt.
Today, Mei Yanfang's mother and brother still live a dashing life with this money, and have never officially engaged in a job so far, but Mei Qiming, who is over seventy years old, is still exposed to the scandal of cheating.
Mei Yanfang has left, but she has existed longer than others. The difference between life and death may lie here, life and separation, long away, others do not even remember their relatives; as for the death parting, even if it is long, but whenever someone talks about Mei Yanfang, they will still remember that this "daughter of Hong Kong" died at a regrettable age.