Mei Yanfang, a name not far away from many Chinese-speaking audiences. In the Chinese entertainment industry, Mei Yanfang is a rare female legend. Like Zhang Guorong, who died in the same year, Mei Yanfang still has many fans and movie fans. However, when it comes to her life, Mei Yanfang is not as lucky as Zhang Guorong. As a legend in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, Mui Yanfang has a bumpy childhood and family lineage. It is also under such circumstances that Mei Yanfang in her childhood relied on her singing talent to make a living, and since then, Mei Yanfang and the entertainment industry have formed an indissoluble relationship. Perhaps it is this childhood experience of walking the rivers and lakes that makes Mei Yanfang full of heroic jianghu qi.
As a woman, Mei Yanfang has never been married in her life, and it has to be said that it is a pity. In the last days of her life, Mei Yanfang once put on a wedding dress and finally stood on the stage, which had two intentions, the first was to make up for the regret of being unmarried in her life, and secondly, Mei Yanfang used this way to marry her life to the stage and give it to the stage. Mei Yanfang became famous in the early 1980s, and when she became famous, Mei Yanfang was just a little girl under 20 years old. But soon after, Mei Yanfang achieved the same status as Jackie Chan's big brother, Zhang Guorong, Zhou Runfa and other superstars. You know, in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, the status of actresses is generally low, like Mui Yanfang, the pyramid tip of the female star, very few, and the career is generally not long ago, they married the rich man.
But Mui Yanfang is a faction of her own, as a top actress in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, in the heyday of her career, she has the same box office appeal as Zhang Guorong, Chow Yun Fat and Jackie Chan. And we see the role played by Mei Yanfang in the film, but also mostly the costume of a chivalrous woman, whether it is the infatuated Ruhua in "Rouge Buckle", or the female policeman in "Letter to Daddy", or the Dongdong in "Three Heroes of the East". Mei Yanfang's unique temperament makes it easy for her to control the heroine roles who are full of pride and resentment.
In Mei Yanfang's body, we can see the same two-sidedness as her movie role. On the one hand, Mei Yanfang behaves freely and cheerfully, on the other hand, Mei Yanfang will also be trapped by love and full of resentment. Just like, many people saw the brilliant moments of Mei Yanfang's 40 years of life, but did not see her finally fall on the stage in her wedding dress. Although Mei Yanfang was only 40 years old when she died, Mei Yanfang at that time had begun to live a semi-retired life. It can be seen that Mei Yanfang's life's achievements.
Mei Yanfang is an all-rounder in the entertainment industry, she not only sings well, but also plays a super movie. Throughout her career, Mei Yanfang has had the privilege of working with many big-name male stars, including Chow Yun-fat, Jackie Chan, Zhang Guorong, Jet Li, Chow Sing Chi and so on. Although Mei Yanfang had many fans at that time, Mei Yanfang's participation in the movie was by no means the nature of playing tickets, nor was it just a box office gimmick of the movie. Even in the movie "Rouge Buckle", Mei Yanfang's performance overshadowed the limelight of Zhang Guorong, who was not yet enlightened at that time.
In addition, Mei Yanfang's style is also very changeable, before Faye Wong, Mei Yanfang was almost the only female singer who could compete with Teresa Teng in the Chinese music scene. Compared with Teresa Teng's naturally good voice, the songs performed by Mei Yanfang have another flavor of "women's flowers". In the field of music, Mui Yanfang has many students, including famous musicians such as Grasshopper Band and Nicholas Tse. Therefore, in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, in addition to the title of the family class, there is also the saying of mei family class.
In addition to being versatile, Mei Yanfang also has super social organization skills. And her organizational ability depends on her natural bold temper. The days of mixing rivers and lakes allowed Mei Yanfang to see through the sophistication of people, and after arriving at the entertainment circle, although the fish and dragons were mixed, Mei Yanfang was mixed in it, but she was at ease. It can be seen from this that this strange woman is not simple. It is precisely because of Mei Yanfang's bold temperament that Mei Yanfang can have such free music, as well as the characters in the film, and finally have her free and legendary life.
Mei Yanfang's life is not very long, but she has devoted herself to the entertainment cause. In the entertainment industry, there are very few stars like Mei Yanfang who can make entertainment into art, rather than commercial. In the Hong Kong music and film world, Mui Yanfang counts as one, and Zhang Guorong counts as one. Similar to Zhang Guorong's career, both are exemplary figures who sing and perform well. And the two have a similar characteristic, that is, they have super high requirements for their careers.
In the late 1980s, the music scene began to become sluggish. Many singers began to change careers to make movies, at this stage, many singers made movies mostly of the nature of playing tickets, they relied on their fan appeal, and starred in a less important figure in the film, in order to use their popularity to provide a box office gimmick for the movie. But Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang are not exactly the same, when they participate in the movie, they must think of integrating themselves into the role, and it is precisely because of this professional attitude that they have created a legendary treatment after their deaths.
After many years of debut, Mei Yanfang recalled her 20 years in the entertainment industry, and she used "friendship years" to summarize these 20 years of career. After Mui's death, the Hong Kong government used the term "daughter of Hong Kong" to refer to Mui Yanfang. Indeed, as a representative legend in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, the legendary life of Mui Yanfang has long been integrated with the stage, and her performance is also integrated with Hong Kong culture. Personality has created Mei Yanfang's art, and art has created Mei Yanfang's legendary life.
Hong Kong's entertainment industry is a place that values sons over women. In the Hong Kong entertainment industry, few female stars can achieve the status of "big sister" like Mui Yanfang, and being able to have such a title is enough to show that Mei Yanfang's "friendship years" are not lies. Mei Yanfang's own bold personality has also prompted her to make many friends, and it is this bold personality that has also allowed Mei Yanfang to create many classic works.
However, now that Qianying has been gone for nearly 20 years, we can no longer find the flowers on the screen, and we can no longer hear anyone singing the most authentic "woman flower". As the saying goes, "women are like flowers, flowers are like dreams." To summarize the legendary life of Mei Yanfang with this sentence, it should be more appropriate.