At the Wong Tai Sin Ancestral Hall in Hong Kong, there is a first-hand incense event every year on Chinese New Year's Eve night, but this year it was discontinued due to the epidemic. This makes Huang Xiahui, a veteran Hong Kong artist who has participated in the first incense blessing for 60 consecutive years, a little disappointed, but she is 88 years old and still comes to the incense on the first day of the first year, which is still the most different scenery here.
This is because Huang Xiahui will set her makeup according to the New Year's zodiac every time she grabs the head incense, for example, this year is a expensive Bull Devil King dress. Her appearance has become a fixed part of the huang tai sin shrine incense activities for so many years, and generously cooperates with tourists to take pictures, as far as possible to meet everyone's requirements, New Year blessings, good and not lively. But many tourists who do not know the inside story, see this scene will think that she is grandstanding.
Among the sisters who met together to grab the first incense, first Guan Peiying could not come, because she died of suicide; then Deng Biyun could not come, because she died; and then the phoenix girl could not come, and now she died after going abroad... Only she took the place of her sisters, comforted the spirits of her friends, wished herself a long life, and prayed for the blessings of the world. Every time in order to grab the first incense, she would rush to the Wong Tai Sin Temple in the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve and stay up until the New Year's bell rang, although the process was hard, but 60 years of wind and rain. And she came from a Cantonese opera background, she believes that the more elaborately dressed up in public, the more she shows her respect for others, so she will wear heavy makeup and will decide her appearance based on the zodiac sign. However, because of this, in the eyes of many people, Huang Xiahui's image is quite "crazy", why is this?
The reason lies in Huang Xiahui's face. Originally, at such an advanced age, facial sagging was a normal thing, but due to the failure of Huang Xiahui's plastic surgery when she was young, her face now looks very unnatural. She is also a very emotional person, in such a long life, whenever a friend dies, she will personally go to mourn, and even by Liu Luanxiong jokingly called the funeral star. However, even in serious occasions, she will try her best to dress herself up out of respect for the other party, but she is often criticized for this. For example, when he attended the funeral of gambling king He Hongshen, his family thought that Huang Xiahui, who was dressed in heavy makeup, was not solemn enough.
As for why she chose plastic surgery when she was young, it was another different life for her.
The young Huang Xiahui is actually very beautiful, but she is overwhelmed by love and chooses to marry Hu Baiquan, a married and famous lawyer. It was precisely because of this relationship that Huang Xiahui was worried that she would slowly grow old and choose to go for plastic surgery, but the plastic surgery technology at that time was not perfect, and the result ended in failure. Huang Xiahui gave birth to 6 children for Hu Baiquan and was loved by him, but was unanimously opposed by the Hu family, and did not receive the so-called name until Hu Baiquan's death. Moreover, the original will of Hu Baiquan to leave her some property was also denied by his wife, and this dispute over the family property was boiling over at the time, and the 6 Children of the Hu Family were unwilling to serve her when they grew up. Unrecognizable, rebellious, public opinion ridicule, in the face of such pressure ordinary women are likely to go to the end of the road. Fortunately, Huang Xiahui has a very good mentality, and there is even no depression.
Some people once met Huang Xiahui at a roadside stall in Hong Kong and were surprised that she was so kind and easy-going, and she said that "what star is not a star", just as she mingled with everyone in the head-grabbing activities. Birthday parties never accept gifts and gifts, but only accept greeting cards and flowers sent by friends; when they learned that they were seriously ill, they specially held a funeral for themselves; when the epidemic broke out, they paid out of their own pockets and personally went to the street to distribute masks. Even if what he does sometimes causes some controversy, he does not argue with people about anything, and still appears in front of everyone with heavy makeup. In this way, she finally had the name of a wife at the age of 50.
Huang Xiahui's current husband is Pan Binglie, who has the reputation of "the father of Hong Kong racing". The relationship between the two is very harmonious, and the relationship is also very stable, even if one likes to live in Hong Kong for a long time, and the other likes to live in peace and often live abroad. Even if Huang Xiahui often behaves out of line in the eyes of the outside world, in Pan Binglie's view, it is his true love. For example, on Pan Binglie's 83rd birthday, Huang Xiahui was responsible for organizing the birthday party, but due to improper arrangement, the number of people was misestimated, resulting in many guests having no place to sit, which made her husband feel very faceless. In order to express her apologies, Huang Xiahui gave him a special apology, that is, she went to take an artistic photo for him. For this matter, let alone the outside public opinion, even many relatives and friends feel exaggerated, but as a husband, Pan Binglie believes that this is the sweet move that his lover will make.
Huang Xiahui said: No matter what life is like now, I have always been myself and become the person I want to be. She was fortunate that Pan Binglie, who was so different from her personality, fell in love with her like this. The most rare thing between husband and wife is to know and tolerate each other. She showed herself in front of him without reservation or scruples, and he felt her heat and sincerity, so everything that seemed to outsiders to behave obediently was a touching place. It is not that the same personality or complementarity is suitable for being together, the real right person is that you know what kind of person he is and can accept each other completely.
In the face of her acting career, she did not leave too many works, let alone any classics, but she would invest, especially for jade jewelry, and gained a lot, so she did not fall into poverty after Hu Baiquan's death and rebellion.
In the face of friendship, she has adhered to the agreement between her girlfriends for decades, insisting on personally sending off every relative and friend. Their departure will make her sad, but it will not make her depressed, so she will elaborately dress up and incense, comfort the souls of the deceased, pray for the health of the living, and that's it.
In the face of love, she dared to fight the fire with no regard for her body and even a moth, so that she was once scaled all over her body. But she will publicly reflect on her own little three behavior, and still believe in love, and finally wait for the confidant who will not look at her differently, and is still happy.
Perhaps when studying Cantonese opera, Huang Xiahui decided how to interpret the stage of her life. The script of your own life will never be changed by the gossip of outsiders, insist on what is right, correct if you are wrong, it is not so complicated, it is not so special, because for others, everyone will have their own different life.