Huang Zhan is a famous writer and lyricist in Hong Kong. He has great literary talent and free and easy personality. He is known as the four great talents together with Jin Yong, Ni Kuang, Chua Lam. He and Jin Yong have known each other for a long time. When Hong Kong TV station was filming Jin Yong's drama, Huang Zhan took the lead in cooperating.
Huang Zhan is recognized as a genius in the Hong Kong music scene. His song "A Laugh in the Sea" is the music that best matches Jin Yong's martial arts novels. Jin Yong called it "the classic among classics" .
Huang Zhan is a prolific author. He wrote a collection of super jokes called "Bu Wen Ji", which was first serialized in "Ming Pao Weekly" and then compiled into a book. It is still the best-selling single book in Hong Kong.
Huang Zhan is a talented man, and a talented man is naturally passionate. On New Year's Eve, Huang Zhan asked Jin Yong to witness the marriage and "marry" Lin Yanni. Huang Zhan knelt down to propose in public, which became a legend.
When Huang Zhan was born in Shunde, Guangdong in 1941, Jin Yong was already a 17-year-old boy. That year, he published his debut novel "A Boy Who Can Go Crazy" in "Southeast Daily". In 1949, Huang Zhan moved to Hong Kong with his parents, and Jin Yong arrived in Hong Kong a year earlier. In 1963, when Huang Zhan graduated from the Chinese Department of the University of Hong Kong, Jin Yong's " Tian Long Ba Bu " began to be serialized in "Ming Pao". He became famous after serializing and Jin Yong's novel . Huang Zhan has served as a Hong Kong TV and radio host, and has written lyrics for movies, TV series, singers, actors' works, director's works, literary creations, costume musicals, variety shows, etc.
In September 1977, Huang Zhan began to write a column in "Ming Pao" founded by Jin Yong, and then he signed a contract with TVB to exclusively write lyrics. This year, Huang Zhan was selected into the Radio Hong Kong "First Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs " based on the episode of Jin Yong's martial arts movie "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword".
In 1983, Huang Zhan was selected into the Sixth Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs with "Hello in the World" written for TVB Jin Yong's drama "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". As the play became popular in the Mainland, Huang Zhan's lyrics once again occupied the streets and alleys in urban and rural areas of Hong Kong and the Mainland. As a result, many Mainland audiences who did not understand Cantonese could understand the Cantonese singing words correctly. And many of the songs they sang were Huang Zhan's works.
The 1980s was the most glorious period for Hong Kong movies, but martial arts movies had no status, except for a few early variations. In view of this, in 1990, producer Tsui Hark launched a brand-new martial arts movie after several years of planning. He plans to use Jin Yong's novel "The Swordsman" as a blueprint to create his own world of martial arts. At this time, Tsui Hark approached Huang Zhan, and Huang Zhan approached Jin Yong. After discussing copyright, royalties and other matters, Tsui Hark began to set up the story with the famous director Hu Jinquan as the chief director.
The movie "The Swordsman" is majestic, with outstanding characters and strong political allegory. The fast rhythm is consistent with the atmosphere of the times. The music is elegant and elegant, the audio-visual effects are sharp, and the appeal is compelling and thought-provoking. It immediately set off a stir Martial arts craze.
"The sea laughs, the tides on both sides of the bank are rolling, ups and downs follow the waves. Remember the present day, the sky laughs, the tides in the world one after another, God knows who loses and wins. The country laughs, the mist and rain are far away, the waves wash away all the common things in the world. How much do you know about the worldly affairs? The breeze laughs, but it provokes Lonely, the pride still shines in the evening. The common people laugh, no longer lonely, the pride is still smiling foolishly. " 's profound and majestic song "A Smile in the Sea" perfectly embodies "Swordsman". Linghu Chong's laissez-faire, straightforward and open-minded personality traits of looking at life with a smile have achieved the perfect combination of lyrics and music with the original work, which not only established his irreplaceable status in Jin Yong's martial arts music works, but also It has also become an enduring classic in the Hong Kong music scene.
This soul-stirring and boundless song "A Laugh in the Sea" is the pinnacle of Huang Zhan's music creation career. At that time, Huang Zhan was ordered to compose music for Tsui Hark's "The Swordsman" and he wrote six drafts. Tsui Hark was not satisfied with it. Huang Zhan was forced to become anxious. He ran to look through the ancient book "Le Zhi" and saw a sentence: : Lebiyi .I think the easiest thing is the Chinese pentatonic scale (Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, Yu), but how to use it? Everyone is using it the same way. Why don't I just use it in reverse and change it to "Yu, Zheng, Jiao, Shang, Gong" and run to the piano and play it, oh? It sounded pretty good, so I wrote out the entire melody. The five tones of "Yu, Zheng, Jiao, Shang, and Gong" happened to correspond to the five black keys of the piano (starting from D sharp and going down). The main melody was bold and powerful. , giving people a feeling of great pride.
Huang Zhan said: "When I wrote "A Laugh in the Sea", I was already in my forties, and the writing was very vicissitudes of life. I always have a sense of vicissitudes of life in my heart, and I have had this feeling since I was a child. What I wrote is all minor key and are both short keys. The short keys are more vicissitudes of life and more sad. Although I am generally laughing and joking, I still feel very vicissitudes of life, very sad and very depressed. I don’t know why, maybe because I am studying Chinese. , I have read too many ancient books. The ancients Su Shi also have this sense of vicissitudes of life, Li Bai also has this feeling, that is, the country has not changed, but the heroes have been exhausted. "
In addition to writing, Huang Zhan also has this feeling. Can sing. There are many cover singers of "A Laugh in the Sea", but he is the only one who roars like a drake, and his roar is very vicissitudes of life. In 1990, Huang Zhan released his first Mandarin album "Swordsman" in Taiwan, with sales exceeding 300,000 copies. In the same year, he won the Best Film Song at the 27th Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival for his song "A Laugh in the Sea" written and composed by .
James Wong has been in the Hong Kong pop music scene for nearly 30 years and has composed the lyrics of more than 2,000 popular songs. In the 1980s, Huang Zhan wrote many popular film and television songs. Among them, the many film and television theme songs he collaborated with his partner and friend Gu Jiahui are the most talked about, and he won the title of "Huang Ci Gu Song" Good name. Huang Zhan's song "My Chinese Heart", "Yangtze River, Great Wall, Huangshan, Yellow River ", the simple yet powerful aria made countless people's hearts swell.
Huang Zhan's preference for Jin Yong's works is also too obvious. He has successively written for Jin Yong's dramas "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Legend of Heaven and Sword of the Dragon", "Book and Sword", "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" He wrote 14 interludes and lyrics for "Liancheng Jue" and other works. Among them, "Two Forgettable Smokes in the Water" written for the 1982 edition of "Tian Long Ba Bu" is his most proud work.
Qiao Feng accidentally killed his beloved A'zhu , and the eternal oath suddenly became empty. "A promise outside the Great Wall, a poem beside the pillow, he forgot to smoke in the water" music sounded faintly at this time. We know that Qiao Feng will never forget A'Zhu, and the two forgetful memories are just A'Zhu's hope for him, hoping that he will not be too sad. Huang Zhan said that this song is affectionate with a hint of melancholy, showing a chivalrous and gentle heart.
And Jin Yong believed that Huang Zhan's greatest achievement was "A Laugh in the Sea", which was the "classic among classics". Huang Zhan wrote a few words of lyrics to express the straightforwardness and chivalry in "The Swordsman". This is also the most martial arts scene in the movie . Quyang and Liu Zhengfeng escaped pursuit and went boating on the rivers and seas. They took out the score of "Swordsman", played the piano and flute, and sang to their heart's content. Linghu Chong also played the piano and harmoniously.
At this moment, the sea is laughing outside the ship, white waves are rolling, the sky is laughing, and white birds are flying. The meaning of the so-called "smiling proudly in the world" has come true here. "Swordsman" has been remade many times, the actors have been changed again and again, and the plot has been changed again and again. The only thing that remains unshakable is the song "A Laugh in the Sea".
Huang Zhan's music is like Jin Yong's works, with strong iron bones and passionate heart. The lyrics are written in the language of poetry. The artistic conception of the world jumps out in just a few words, with a heroic voice and a proud smile.
Jin Yong commented that he "has embarked on a creative path that many songwriters cannot surpass. His straightforward and optimistic character and dependable talent have enabled the music works he created for martial arts dramas to reach a height that others cannot reach.""At this height, he freely demonstrated his thorough understanding of Jin Yong's martial arts novels and his grasp and understanding of the world of life, creating Jin Yong's martial arts drama and music works that are "unprecedented and unprecedented". "Huang Zhan Era".
