Today we talk about Uncle Dong Biao, who has hosted the Hong Kong horse racing show since 1967 for more than 30 years, and his personal style of daring to criticize and speak harshly is deeply loved by horse fans. In addition to being a horse critic, Dong Biao's other identity is that of a senior television and film artist.
Originally known as Chu Wenbiao, Dong Biao was born in Hong Kong on March 30, 1933. Dong Biao's life was inseparable from the "horse", and his grandfather, Chu Ping-woo, was the first Chinese horse trainer in Hong Kong, and his father also inherited the ancestral business. Tung was born at Jardine Stables on Hong Kong Island's Jardine Hill (near Happy Valley, where the racecourse is located). Its name is interpreted as the form of a galloping horse, and can also be interpreted as a brave and strong person. He grew up with horses from an early age, began to ride horses at the age of 8, learned to practice horses with his father at the age of 12 and 13, and graduated from the first horseman training class of the Post-war Emperor's Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club with the first place. In the 1850s, Tung became the first professional jockey in Hong Kong and competed in Singapore, the United Kingdom and other places. When he was young, he also participated in the Hong Kong left-wing drama group "Zhongyuan Drama Art Society", studying drama and ballet performance.
Dong Biao's first film performance was "Female Robin Hood". Many years ago, he also starred in a set of movies "Horse Farm Storm", which involved common poisonous horse tricks in the circle, Uncle Biao detoxified horses with skillful techniques, and was vigilant that the world should not bet on horses.
In the 1980s, it was the peak of Dong Biao's acting career, and the familiar "Huo Yuanjia the Great Hero" and "Journey to the Tiger Mountain" that the Chinese people were familiar with created an image of righteousness, integrity and courage. Later, Dong Biao turned to the big screen, and the image of "wife management strict" in the series of movies "Rich and Powerful" was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the movie also became a good work that was acclaimed and popular.
Later, Dong Biao also participated in the filming of many box office blockbuster films, the most famous of which are Jackie Chan's classic works "Police Story" series and "Plan A", and his cooperation with Jackie Chan can be called green leaves and peonies. When Jackie Chan's "New Police Story" premiered in Hong Kong in 2004, Dong Biao personally came to congratulate him. In the "Master Brother Colliding with Ghosts" cooperated with Zhou Xingchi, Dong Biao's image is also impressive.
Dong Biao's appearance is generous and kind, and it is easy to give people a sense of intimacy with their own parents. Although he has a serious appearance and a big voice, he is very popular, wins friendship, and is respected by his descendants. The circle friends who have worked with him, such as Shen Dianxia (fat sister), Chen Baixiang, Huang Baiming, and Lin Jianming, all praise Uncle Biao, and the descendants of Fang Zuming also regard Uncle Biao as a grandfather, describing him as a gentle and considerate old man.
Dong Biao is the father of Zheng Xinyi, the daughter of the fat sister, who graduated from high school in 2005, and Uncle Biao also watched and ate together, and at the end of December 2005, she visited him in the hospital, and she was still very energetic. Fat sister praises Uncle Xiao as a person with a good heart, and the two of them cooperated in making a series of rich and noble movies that year was a turning point in her career, and the cooperation has a chemical effect.
In July 2005, Dong Biao completely bid farewell to the media career due to heart disease, and has been hospitalized several times since then. On 16 February 2006, Uncle Biao, who had suffered from diabetes and heart disease for a long time, was admitted to St. Paul's Hospital on Hong Kong Island due to ill health. At about 11:00 p.m. Hong Kong time on February 22, he died of organ failure due to pulmonary fibrosis and died in the hospital accompanied by his close relatives at the age of 72.
At 4:00 p.m. on 13 March 2006, the Funeral Board of Tung Hom set up a funeral home in Hung Hom, Hong Kong, attended by Mrs. Tsang Lai Juan, Lei Xingfang, Yang Lihong and six children of the second, third and fourth rooms. Many entertainment circle friends including Shen Dianxia, Jackie Chan, Guan Juying, Chen Jiansheng, Zhou Huajian, Peng Jianxin, Xie Xian, etc. went to mourn.
On March 14, the funeral was held at hung hom World Funeral Home, which was held in a Taoist ceremony, with a public sacrifice from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. for horse fans to mourn, a funeral at 1:00 p.m., a funeral at 2:00 p.m., and the remains were immediately moved to Toyama Crematorium for cremation, and a liquor was set up at the Shun Tak Central Jockey Club in Sheung Wan. Among them, Jackie Chan, Xia Jiali, Tsang Chi Wai, Jacky Cheung, Mai Jia, Huang Yumin, Liang Jianmin and Cai Yuwang 8 people helped the spirit to bid farewell to their former friends.
Dong Biao's life was rich and colorful, he married four wives successively, had 4 sons and 1 daughter, one of the sons has died, most of the rest have started a family, and only the youngest son studied in the UK. Dong Biao lived with his son and daughter-in-law before his death, and during his death, his sons from abroad also rushed back to see the last side. Because there have been 4 marriages, Uncle Biao inevitably gives people a feeling of inattention, but Uncle Biao's view is that "monogamy may not be happy", and he once summed up his relationship with four wives with "all in words".
At that time, only the second, third and fourth bedroom wives Zeng Lijuan, Lei Xingfang, Yang Lihong and six children appeared in the spirit hall. The qi daughter Ruffin also wore filial piety clothes and knelt down with the family of Uncle Biao in the spiritual hall, and in the middle of the spiritual hall were placed the flower signs of four wives and girls. Shen Dianxia, who had once passed on the gossip with Uncle Biao, appeared in the Spirit Hall, and she and Xinyi each sent a wreath, and Xinyi was even more respectful of the qi woman.
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