Many people say that Hong Kong is a "cultural desert". This means that Hong Kong is a small place, and citizens live a fast-paced and stressful life. They are busy running for life every day and have no time to enjoy cultural life. Therefore, it is difficult for Hong Kong’s cultural undertakings to become a major success.
However, Hong Kong still has unique cultural undertakings and has nurtured a large number of talents engaged in cultural and artistic undertakings. Among them, 4 people are known as the four great talents in Hong Kong. They are: Jin Yong , Ni Kuang , Huang Zhan and Cai Lam .
Today, we will talk about the life and destiny of Hong Kong’s four great talents.
1. The reporter Jin Yong
Jin Yong is well known to the world, mainly relying on martial arts novels. Indeed, Jin Yong spent more than ten years writing 15 martial arts novels, which were widely welcomed by readers at home and abroad, earning him the reputation of "Jin Yong exists wherever there is well water".
In fact, what Jin Yong was best at was not writing martial arts novels, but running newspapers. At that time, it was in order to open up the market of "Ming Pao" that Jin Yong serialized martial arts novels in the newspaper. Once the sales of the newspaper are no longer a problem, Jin Yong will not hesitate to stop writing martial arts novels for the rest of his life.
It can be seen that for Jin Yong, running newspapers came first and writing novels came second.
In 1945, Jin Yong started his newspaper career as a field reporter at the Hangzhou Branch of Southeast Daily. The unit he worked for the longest was "Ta Kung Pao". He served at Ta Kung Pao for a total of 10 years until he founded Ming Pao. Ming Pao was a huge success and became one of the best-selling newspapers in Hong Kong. Jin Yong continued his efforts and successively founded "Ming Pao Evening News", "Ming Pao Monthly" and "Ming Pao Weekly", as well as Malaysia's "Shin Min Daily News" series of newspapers and periodicals, established Ming Pao Publishing House and Ming Window Publishing House, and registered "Ming Pao Enterprise Co., Ltd." .
On March 22, 1992, Ming Pao Enterprises Co., Ltd. was listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. As the stock rose, Jin Yong immediately became "the richest writer" and "the wealthy businessman who is best at writing novels."
In 2018, Jin Yong died of illness in Hong Kong at the age of 94.
2. Ni Kuang, a miscellaneous scholar
Among the four great talents in Hong Kong, Ni Kuang is the only one who has not received higher education. But as a writer, Ni Kuang seems to be omnipotent.
He writes in a wide range of fields: martial arts novels, science fiction novels, romance novels, detective novels, supernatural novels, mystery novels, and literary novels. In addition, he is also good at writing essays, prose reviews, scripts, etc. The important thing is that he is able to master almost every genre to an extremely high level.
Ni Kuang’s main business is writing science fiction novels. The Wesley series of science fiction novels he created has influenced an entire generation of young people. For this reason, Jin Yong once praised him: "The infinite universe, endless time and space, infinite possibilities, and the eternal contradiction between the impermanent life are woven from this head." But the martial arts novels and scripts he wrote also superb.
Take martial arts novels as an example. Ni Kuang’s masterpiece " Six Finger Piano Demon " has been adapted into movies and TV series many times. The fact that he helped Jin Yong ghostwrite "天龙八部" is even more talked about. .
Taking scripts as an example, Ni Kuang helped the famous Hong Kong director Chang Cheh to write scripts including " One-Armed Knife ", " Iron Hands Ruthless ", "Thirteen Taibo", "Jingma", " Fang Shiyu and Hong Xiguan" , achieved both word-of-mouth and box office success.
Therefore, Ni Kuang posted a couplet on the door of his house: "He has repeatedly written scripts for Zhang Che; he once wrote novels for Jin Yong."
3. The poet Huang Zhan
"Wandering, wandering, thousands of miles of turbulent rivers will never end... "In the 1980s, the TV series "Shanghai Beach" starring Chow Yun-fat, Zhao Yazhi, Lui Liangwei, etc. set off a ratings boom in the mainland. Whenever the kids hear this familiar song drifting out of the room, they know it's time to go inside and watch TV.
The theme song of the same name for the TV series "Shanghai Beach" is one of the masterpieces of Huang Zhan, one of Hong Kong's four great talents.What's interesting is that when Huang Zhan was composing this song, he suddenly got inspiration while squatting on the toilet with diarrhea, and he immediately completed this classic in 20 minutes.
Huang Zansheng was born in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province in 1941. After composing his first song "Forget Him" in 1968, he got out of control. In his 35-year creative career, he has contributed many popular songs to us. Classic songs, such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Family Change", "Frenzy", "The Strongman", "The Tycoon", "The Choice", "The Storm", "A Better Tomorrow", "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Green Snake", "Once Upon a Time" and other film and television dramas The theme songs all come from Huang Zhan’s generous work. His composition "Under the Lion Rock" is familiar to thousands of households in Hong Kong and is known as the "city song" of Hong Kong. His creation "My Chinese Heart", with the performance of Hong Kong singer Zhang Mingmin at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, spread all over the country and entered the hearts of 1.3 billion Chinese people...
Huang Zhan is known as As a "geek", he even helped write advertising slogans for the French company Rémy Martin, which is the famous sentence "When Rémy Martin starts, good things will come naturally". It's very familiar, right?
In 2004, Huang Zhan died of illness in Hong Kong at the age of 63.
4. Eater Cai Lan
"Food, clothing, housing and transportation" are a person's basic living needs. But did you know that someone has become one of the four most talented people in Hong Kong because he “knows how to eat”. He is Cai Lan.
Chua Lam is a famous gourmet, known as the "God of Food" in Hong Kong. Since the 1980s, he has been writing food columns in newspapers such as Oriental Daily and Ming Pao to introduce his experience of enjoying food to readers. He has opened restaurants and food courts, launched "Bao Bao Series" snacks, sauces, tea drinks and other products, hosted travel and food programs "Cai Lam Sighs the World", " Cai Lam Sighs Famous Dishes ", etc., and appeared in the domestic food program " Top Chef" " and other food programs as judges.
In 2012, CCTV successively launched the TV documentary series "China's on the tip of the tongue" and the movie documentary "New Year's on the tip of the tongue", both of which hired Cai Lam as the general consultant.
However, "foodie" is only one of the more well-known labels on Cai Lam. He is also an excellent program host. In the 1980s, Chua Lam, Ni Kuang and Chua Lam co-hosted a Cantonese talk show "Undefended Tonight" launched by Hong Kong ATV, inviting Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-fat, Jackie Chan, Luo Dayou, Brigitte Lin, Xu Guanwen, etc. , Wang Zuxian, and other Hong Kong's most popular celebrities at the time served as guests, and achieved high ratings with their relaxed and humorous style. As a result, Chua Lam, Ni Kuang, and Huang Zhan are collectively known as the "Three Famous Mouths of Hong Kong".
Not only that, Cai Lam has also published more than 120 books of prose, essays, travel notes, reviews, letters, etc., making him a prolific writer. Even today, when he is already successful and famous, Cai Lam still keeps writing and is a role model for many young people to follow.
