On October 25, 1993, at the age of 35, Hong Kong music superstar Chen Baiqiang died, and at his funeral, Chow Yun Fat, Zhong Chuhong, Mui Yanfang, Ye Qianwen and other showbiz stars supported him.
What is even more unexpected is that He Chaoqiong, the gambling king who has just been married for 2 years, actually appeared here.
Chen Baiqiang's funeral
Speaking of the Hong Kong music scene, there have been a large number of singers that we are familiar with, but there are very few people who can really be called superstars.
In the past 80s, Hong Kong has successively produced singers with considerable dominance and influence, such as Hui Guanjie, Tam Wing Lin, Cheung Kwok Wing, Mui Yan Fang, Chan Wai Yin and so on.
The four superstars of the Hong Kong music scene: Tam Mei Cheung Chan
At that time, the "Four Heavenly Kings" were still just fledgling newcomers, the song god was unique, "Tan Zhang Contending", they were the most shining superstars in the entertainment industry.
Among them, there is a person who also has to mention that he won the top ten golden songs at the age of 21, and then many albums have set platinum sales, and works such as "How Precious Tonight", "Prefer You", "What to Ask for in Life" and other works have become classic songs that have been sung to this day.
He is Chen Baiqiang, a crystal clear like amethyst, a child-like singing superstar.
There are many stories about him, but the most lamentable is his love and unavoidable relationship with the gambling king Qianjin He Chaoqiong.
As the most beloved daughter of the gambling king He Hongshen, He Chaoqiong did not have much interest in business, but he could not resist her daughter's insistence, and He Hongshen also acquiesced to her choice.
At the age of 18, He Chaoqiong signed up for the wireless actor training class and opened his own way in the entertainment industry.
You must know that if you want to get ahead in the show business, you must have both talent and capital support.
Although the gambling king acquiesced to his daughter's desire to be a star, he would not provide her with resource help, in his opinion, this is just a small fight of the child's anger, and when the time is right, He Chaoqiong still has to return to the family.
Without capital support, He Chaoqiong did not go well in the entertainment industry.
In 1981, He Chaoqiong made a cameo appearance in a TV series called "Breakthrough", starring Chen Baiqiang, Weng Jingjing and Mao Shunjun.
These three starring actors are quite promising, Weng Jingjing and Chen Baiqiang and Zhang Guorong have cooperated, turned to insurance, got the global top 10 that year, and later married a husband, that is, Liu Jialiang, a famous martial arts master in Hong Kong.
And Mao Shunjun is a famous comedy star in Hong Kong, the queen of the Academy Awards, and the only girlfriend that "brother" Zhang Guorong has ever admitted.
At this time, Chen Baiqiang not only emerged in the music world, but also showed a high talent in film and television performances, participated in and starred in a number of film and television works, and Zhang Guorong and Paul Zhong were called "three musketeers".
At that time, one of the two was only 19 years old, one was 23 years old, called a young boy and girl talent with a beautiful person, Chen Baiqiang intimately taught He Chaoqiong to perform, He Chaoqiong often joked to make Chen Baiqiang happy, the two fell in love at first sight, and the relationship was getting closer and closer.
In 1985, Chen Baiqiang released the tenth album "Deeply in Love with You", the mv heroine of the title song "Deeply in Love with You", he invited He Chaoqiong and Mei Yanfang.
Mei Yanfang needless to say, the champion of the 82-year rookie competition debuted, and the first album in 1982 set a five-platinum sales as soon as it was launched.
However, He Chaoqiong in the show business circle is only through the nameless small characters, even if there is a gambling king Qianjin's identity blessing, like Chen Baiqiang, who is extremely proud in his heart, but also extra sensitive, wealth is unlikely to affect his choice of interaction with people.
Otherwise, he would not have given up inheriting the family property to break into the complex and changeable entertainment circle.
Chen Baiqiang declared to the media in an interview that He Chaoqiong is his "confidant with a red face", but whether it is the affectionate confrontation in the mv or the two people getting along in life, they can always faintly see a shadow of love.
There was a photo of Chen Baiqiang resting his head on He Chaoqiong's shoulder on the Internet, and He Chaoqiong's smiling expression was also very real, as if to explain to us how much a pair of lovers once loved each other.
In 1981, the gambling king's eldest son, He Youguang, died, and He Youguang was the first son of Ho Hung-sun and his original partner Lai Wan-wah, and if there were no accidents, he might become the heir to Ho's vast business empire.
Left one He Chaoqiong
However, with his death, Ho had to reconsider the future inheritance of the family property. More and more, he set his sights on his most beloved daughter, He Chaoqiong.
When Ho Hung-sun and his second wife, Lan Qiong, she had just turned 14 years old, and in the fifth year she gave birth to her eldest daughter, He Chaoqiong, and in the year of Ho Chao-qiong's birth, the gambling king took over the Macau gaming franchise, so he called He Chaoqiong his lucky star and was doubly pampered.
Although she has no interest in business, where she can tolerate her own decisions in the rich, in the face of family pressure, He Chaoqiong still had to accept the arrangement of her father He Hongshen, leaving the entertainment circle to enter the family business.
Her hazy emotional experience with Chen Baiqiang was also cut off by the gambling king.
The door is not right, how can the gambling king allow his heir to come together with an artist.
He Chaoqiong and Xu Jinheng
In 1991, the century wedding of He Chaoqiong and Xu Jinheng shocked Hong Kong and Macao, which was not only a powerful alliance between the two families, but also a match made in the eyes of outsiders.
As for whether there is love or not, who knows.
We only know that at this time, Chen Baiqiang was in an unprecedented state of confusion.
In his career, the media constantly hyped up his "open struggle and secret struggle" with Zhang Guorong, making the two friends who had been friends for many years more and more estranged.
Chen Baiqiang, Zhang Guorong, Tan Yonglin
Emotionally, "confidante" He Chaoqiong married as a wife, although Danny then announced to the media that he had a foreign girlfriend, but it was interpreted by everyone as a last resort to reassure his lover.
Because in the relationship, Chen Baiqiang has never been a high-profile person.
If he had the courage to confess earlier, I don't know if the ending between the two would be very different from now.
At that time, Danny had long-term insomnia, relying on sleeping pills to fall asleep, and the unhappiness of life made him have more intersection with alcohol.
On May 18, 1992, Chen Baiqiang passed out because he took sleeping pills with alcohol and was taken to Mary Hospital for treatment. After 17 months in a coma, he died of progressive brain failure on October 25, 1993, at the age of 35.
At his funeral, He Chaoqiong insisted on helping Chen Baiqiang despite his family's opposition, and the scene where she hugged and cried with Chen's mother made people feel deep regret for the lovers who could not be loved in the past.
He Chaoqiong and Mother Chen
Now That Chen Baiqiang has been gone for 28 years, He Chaoqiong divorced her husband Xu Jinheng in 2000 and has never been married since. He Chaoqiong, who is now 58 years old, has taken over the family business after the death of the gambling king.
Perhaps it is the emotional experience that she once asked for that made her lose her pursuit of love, or perhaps it was the existence of her ex-husband that made her no longer have any luxury for marriage.
For Chen Baiqiang, He Chaoqiong is a confidant in life and an emotional sustenance, and for He Chaoqiong, Danny is not a heartbeat that can never be found in her fate.
"You said that love has had joy and heartbreak in this life. You said love was by my side and quietly watched me fall asleep. I heard that you think of me at this moment, I heard that you remember me, and I remember every moment of the past. ............ I miss you in my heart, I miss you now, I miss you yesterday. Missing you, missing you, red eyes with tears in my eyes remembering, thinking of you in my heart..." Chen Baiqiang, "Deeply in Love with You"
Hong Kong's once golden age has long come to an end, and Zhang Guorong, Mui Yanfang, and Chen Baiqiang have also become the best singers in the world, but the lingering songs still echo in the ears from time to time, as if telling the sweet memories of the past.
Chen Baiqiang's interaction with He Chaoqiong is like a confidant who cherishes each other and a resentful partner who is not blessed by the god of love.
They hide their feelings behind the worldly gaze, look at each other from a distance, think of each other far away.
Life is not satisfactory, and who knows if they can get rid of the shackles of fate.
Just like my favorite 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Lin Sister Xiang xiang yu died, Bao Yu was stupid and stupid, although they are in the heart, but no matter how loyal and unswerving love is, it can not resist the world's teasing and people's hearts.
One is the Langyuan Immortal, and the other is the Jade Flawless. If there is no strange fate, this life will meet him again; If there is a strange fate, how can the heart end up talking falsely? A fool, an empty laborer. One is the moon in the water, and the other is the flower in the mirror. I wonder how many tears can be in my eyes, how can I prevent autumn from flowing to winter, and spring from flowing to summer! "Frowning"
Going around for hundreds of years, the world has changed a lot, but the same fate is still repeating, a few lines of tears of love, leaving regrets and sorrows!
Chen Baiqiang's untimely death has made the music scene lose a brilliant superstar, and also let the people who love him lose the best Danny, which can't help but make people regret that fate has brought us a lot of beauty, and often inadvertently cruelly took him away.
However, if you think about it carefully, some feelings are unforgettable, perhaps because they have never been truly possessed by us, and the more distant the emotions, the more unforgettable they are.
It is like a young first love, a lover who has to be separated, no matter how far he or she goes, will firmly occupy the unknowable position in our hearts.
Whenever I think of this person, I fall into irrepressible memories.
Maybe that's love! Even if no one has ever said it, everyone remembers it.
There was a man who had been so close to me.
If Heaven could give you a chance to do it again, would you be willing to say those three words to the person you once missed?
No matter how stormy tomorrow will be, I just want to say to you at this moment:
"Yes, I love you!"
Whether Chen Baiqiang and He Chaoqiong have ever loved is still a mystery, perhaps as they say, they are close confidants who cherish each other.
Time may be able to cover up the scars of the years, but can not hide the true feelings, there is always a late night, you will say to yourself, only wish to meet you again in the next life, be an ordinary person, can hold hands with you to walk the road of wind and rain.
That's a happy thing, too!