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Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, October 25 Title: Hong Kong artist Chen Baixiang: "My life is black and white"
Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Min
On this year's National Day, the Hong Kong SAR Government announced the list of awards for the year 2020, and artist Chan Pak Cheung was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star, the only person in hong Kong's performing arts industry to receive this award this year. The award speech praised him as "a good example of promoting social harmony and communication" and a "model for a new generation of entertainers".
"I'm not a model, I just did a little bit of a part." As a comedy star, singer and host, Chan Pak Cheung has an optimistic personality and likes to be funny, known as "Brother Lak", and is deeply loved by Hong Kong citizens. Last year, when the "amendment storm" and "black riot" were the most rampant, he took the lead among Hong Kong artists to stand up and speak out, openly supporting the police in maintaining social stability according to law.
"My life is black and white, there are no gray areas." Chen Baixiang said. No matter how he behaves or does things, he always has a clear position, jealousy and hatred, "the big husband has something to do and not to do, and if he is right, he must insist, this is my belief."
Brave "support the police": "I don't have the word 'afraid' in my dictionary"
Having lived in Hong Kong for decades, Chen Baixiang has never seen such a turbulent and disorderly Hong Kong in last year's "amendment storm", where thugs wantonly sabotage, citizens dare to be angry, rush to the front line to prevent violent policemen from being frantically smeared and attacked, and bear the burden of humiliation but are isolated.
Chen Baixiang, who loves to play football, often plays football with the police team before and has met many police friends. When he saw that the police had been treated so unfairly and still insisted on their duties, he was heartbroken and respectful. When the "black riot" was at its most rampant, a police friend called him and asked if he could come over and cheer everyone up? Chen Baixiang agreed, "I'll come tomorrow!" ”
"This is the first time I've walked into police headquarters to cheer them on." Chen Baixiang said, "I said to the police, you are doing the right thing, you are the last line of defense, if the police can not maintain law and order, Hong Kong will be 'finished'." We ordinary citizens firmly support you! ”
Since then, he has been on the front line of "supporting the police". Not only actively participated in the "support the police" activities, publicly voiced anti-violence, but also went to the police station many times to comfort, "many friends silently supported behind the scenes, bought a lot of materials to entrust me to bring."
Chen Baixiang once went on the radio to argue with people. "I'll just ask for it, live." Because he is afraid of being taken out of context, it is normal for everyone to think differently, "but violence must be wrong." He hopes to use his influence to "save one by one" to young people who have gone astray.
Because of the high-profile "support for the police", Chen Baixiang was repeatedly "bottomed out" and attacked on the Internet, and the thugs even threatened to burn down his family's house.
Chen Baixiang had never been afraid. At the juncture of great right and wrong in Hong Kong, "I am sorry for not standing up and saying justice." "I don't have the word 'afraid' in my dictionary." ”
Strong self-winner: Gain life experience in the "social university"
Chen Baixiang, who appeared in front of the reporter, was dressed in a jacket and jeans, had thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a strong body, and he couldn't believe that he was old.
Chen Baixiang was born into poverty, and from an early age he knew that he had to earn money to support his family. As a teenager, he went to school during the day and sang in bars at night. After high school he formed a band, and when he was doing well, he left the band to go into business, "I want to make more money." The garment factory he opened, starting from one factory and 6 workers, grew to 3 factories and 2,000 or 3,000 workers in less than two years. Wealth came and went quickly, and because it expanded so fast, the company declared bankruptcy in 1975. Chen Baixiang, who returned to zero, dragged the last batch of goods to the Middle East alone, and it took three or four years to sell out.
In 1979, Chen Baixiang returned to the show business circle, and he became a multi-habitat artist such as film, television, song and host, and has filmed dozens of film and television dramas, among which the comedy images such as Zhu Zhishan in "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Hong Kong entertainer Chen Baixiang was interviewed by a Xinhua reporter in Hong Kong (photo taken on October 19). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Shen
Chen Baixiang's stage name is "Alat", "Lak" in Cantonese means "powerful" and "sticky", "the Cantonese harmonic pronunciation of my English name is 'Lak', since childhood everyone has called me Alat, now it is called Lak Brother".
"Laky" is indeed "Lak". Most of the programs he hosted were named after "Lak", and the lead singer's golden song "I am to Lat" was popular all over The Hong Kong River that year, so he held 7 concerts in the Hung Hom Stadium. He often joked with his friend Tan Yonglin: "You have so many songs, and you only have 6 concerts in the Red Pavilion." I just sang a song, did 7 concerts, and I won. ”
"I didn't have the money to go to college, and all my life experience was learned from the 'social university.'" Chen Baixiang said, "Don't be afraid of failure, failure is also experience. ”
At the low point of his life, he did several jobs at the same time, shooting seven plays at the same time at the most, and also worked as a horse trainer, 24 hours a day.
Behind every harvest is sweat. When he was a horse trainer, he got up at 4 o'clock every morning to take the horse "morning exercise", "the horse must come out in the early morning to practice, the sun will be too hot after it comes out."
On the wall of Chen Baixiang's office hangs a painting specially inscribed for him by Mr. Rao Zongyi, a master of traditional Chinese studies- "Self-victory is strong." "Life does not need to be compared with others, and it is the strongest to overcome yourself." Chen Baixiang said.
Don't be "Mo Ji Ruo": the river flows into the sea to have a future
Chen Baixiang's biggest hobby is playing football. In addition to being fit, he has a bigger mission to play football.
In 1986, together with Tam Wing Lin, Tsang Chi Wai and other entertainers, he formed the Hong Kong Star Football Team, playing football to raise funds to help those in need. In the mainland, they have held nearly 100 charity ball games and charity concerts, raising 50 to 60 million yuan. After major disasters such as the east China flood and the Wenchuan earthquake, the star football team extended a helping hand in time.
Since 1997, every Mid-Autumn Festival, the star football team has played football with the Hong Kong garrison. "The People's Liberation Army is stationed in Hong Kong, and the citizens of Hong Kong are very grateful for their perseverance and dedication. We went to the barracks to give them a little sense of family reunion. Chen Baixiang said. There are more than 100 members of the star team, and many famous people in Hong Kong's show business are among them, "these actors, military camp boys know." After the friendship is over, everyone taking a group photo is also an important 'program'."
From the first time I went to the mainland to play football in the mainland to now walking through so many places in the mainland, "the change is too big, it is a completely different world." Expressways and high-speed rail are better than Hong Kong. In this fight against the epidemic, China is even more 'thriving'! Chen Baixiang was full of pride, talking about the feeling of traveling in the mainland, "Just one sentence: There are so many delicate rivers and mountains!" ”
Chen Baixiang named one of his beloved horses "Mo Jiruo", taken from the "Autumn Water" chapter of "Zhuangzi", saying that Hebo was very proud to see his own river rushing, turned his head to see, behind it was the endless sea, and the original sea was the biggest. "You think Hong Kong is big, you look back at Chinese mainland, that's the sea." Hong Kong people should remind themselves that they cannot be 'Mo Ji Ruo'."
"In the case of show business, in the past, the film and television products of one city in Hong Kong affected the entire Chinese region. Now you see, so many cities in the mainland have developed, and it is a market of more than 1 billion people, it depends on whether you can seize the opportunity. "Only when Hong Kong is integrated into the development of the country and the rivers flow into the sea will there be a better future." ”
Video reporters: Lin Ning, Liu Zhanwei, Liang Jiajun