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Author: Le He
▲（1941-2004）
March 16, 1941,
There was a child born in Guangzhou,
Later with Jin Yong, Ni Kuang, Cai Lan,
Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s,
And called the four talents of Hong Kong!
▲ The four talents of Hong Kong; from left to right, Huang Xia, Jin Yong, Cai Lan and Ni Kuang
No matter how much the outside world praises him,
He gave himself only a twelve-word evaluation:
"Lustless and fearless, good wine immeasurable, good money incompetent."
Scolded Andy Lau for the rotten writing of the song,
And Fought with Bruce Lee,
He has written more than 2,000 popular songs,
Did hosting and advertising,
Sang songs,
Wrote books.
It is a ghost talent that Hong Kong and even the Chinese music scene can't get around,
He is Huang Xia!
Huang Xia's original name was Huang Zhansen,
Eight brothers and sisters in the family,
He's the sixth oldest,
during the war years,
Huang Xia's parents in order to escape the war,
With the young Huang Xia,
Take a ferry from Foshan to Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.
April 30, 1950,
The British government of Hong Kong announced the abolition of the free entry policy for Chinese,
Since then, Hong Kong and the mainland have been separated into two different worlds.
Huang Xia's family settled in Sham Shui Po,
I hope that one day I can return to my hometown of Guangzhou,
After all, although there is no war in Hong Kong at this moment,
But most people are begging for a living under the British.
And Huang Xia's father mourned the troubles of his homeland,
And when I think of my hometown, I burst into tears,
Deeply affected the young Huang Xia,
Chinese sentiment is also slowly imprinted in the heart,
It laid the groundwork for Huang Xia's later writing of "My Chinese Heart".
There is a La Salle College in Hong Kong,
is a well-known school,
Xu Guanjie, Lin Xi, Bruce Lee, and Huang Xia all studied here,
Once,
Huang Xia's cousin cried,
Saying that he was bullied at school,
Huang Xia, who was arrogant in heart, could not sit still,
To stand up for your cousin,
Rolled up his sleeves and rushed out,
Only later did I find out,
Bullying his cousin is the "campus bully" Li Yuanjian (Bruce Lee's scientific name),
Shame can not lose face,
Huang Xia hardened his scalp,
In less than ten minutes,
And he lost,
The bruised nose and swollen face of the beaten.
Because Huang Xia is not soft,
The two of them played for the rest of the month,
And then I was asked about it.
He still does not regret the original "to die a battle",
And it's often hanging on the lips,
Proud,
He was the one who fought with kung fu superstar Bruce Lee!
Besides, later,
The two don't fight and don't know each other,
It has also become a friend of Mo Rebellion.
Huang Xia's old friend Cai Lan once told a story when he was in middle school:
Huang Xi once said to his classmates of the same level:
Retiro has a very red dancer,
Very beautiful,
Ask everyone if you want to try it,
When you see everyone nodding,
Huang Xia said that her overnight fee was very expensive,
Two thousand at a time,
Classmates are very disappointed,
Shaking his head and sighing,
Two thousand is astronomical.
Huang Xia thought of a way,
Twenty out of each person,
A hundred people is two thousand,
Then draw lots to decide who goes,
The last winner was of course the promoter Huang Xia himself.
With two thousand dollars,
Huang Xia looked for the dancer,
The dancer wondered where Huang Xia,the little devil, got so much money,
Huang Xia said that it was donated by more than a hundred students,
After the dancer listened,
Say you look up to me so much,
I want to repay you,
Do something for you that I've never done before,
Don't charge you money,
So he gave huang xia's twenty back to him.
Back to the point,
In middle school, Huang Xia fell in love with music and classical literature.
Under the tutelage of Liang Rizhao,
Joined the school harmonica team,
Won the championship for five consecutive years,
In 1960, he was admitted to the Department of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong.
During my studies,
The talent of writing began to show its prominence,
Soon after,
Participated in the dubbing of Li Xianglan's last Chinese film, "One Night Wind".
After this,
Successively participated in amateur singer competitions,
Afraid of losing face,
So I took the english nickname "Jim" in harmonics,
Changed to 霑字,
Since then, Huang Zhansen has become Huang Xia,
After graduating three years later, Huang Xia went to Peisheng Middle School to teach the Bible.
After two years of teaching,
Seeing the rapid development of Hong Kong,
This Huang Xia, who often scolds the Three Character Sutra,
Decided not to "mislead people's children",
Left school,
Plunge into the advertising industry,
It turns out that Huang Xia, a graduate of the Chinese Department of HKU, has a very poisonous vision.
This halfway layman,
Revolutionized the advertising industry in Hong Kong,
At that time, Hong Kong was dominated by foreign advertising.
or English,
Or a poor Cantonese dubbing,
Inaccurate translation
Blunt is not image,
Sounds awkward,
Nature is difficult to spread,
But the fledgling Huang Xia dared not dare to be a man,
Write the Cantonese vernacular into it,
He wrote the slogan for the head horse:
"As soon as the head of the horse is opened, good things will naturally come",
Catchy to read,
It's amazing,
It is easy for young and old to remember,
It's so wonderful that it's a stroke of genius,
Huang Xia's mixed up in the advertising industry,
Also won the highest honor in the American advertising industry "Keo Award",
He was also the first Hong Konger to receive the honor.
In addition to advertising,
Huang Also writes books, fills in words, sings, acts, and hosts.
I've been involved in a wide range of topics,
The talents of a generation of ghost talents are fully revealed.
In 1967,
Huang Xia married the singer Huawa,
A year later,
Their eldest son, Yuhan, was born,
In the same year he wrote his first commercial release song, Forget Him.
Forget Him Music: Teresa Teresa - A Thousand Words of Jun - Concert 2
What is difficult for people to understand is that
This song,
From melody to lyrics,
Filled with grievances,
Forgetting and loneliness,
How can there be such a sad love song,
At that time, Huang Xia's family and career were smooth sailing,
It can be said that the spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease.
Composed three songs for the movie "Rose of Youth",
"Hui Huang" two people are strong and soft,
Huang Xia is heroic and uninhibited,
Singing and drinking;
Gu Jiahui has an introverted personality,
Hidden deeply,
But both of them are full of talent,
Shine against each other,
The magic is boundless,
Created a series of popular masterpieces,
Prop up half of the Cantonese music scene.
1975，
Lin Yanni first saw him, a man full of "dirty words",
I didn't even look at him,
Huang Xia and Lin Yanni met when they were writing for Happy Family,
She is a famous lady in the city,
Talent and appearance,
She was evaluated by Jin Yong as "the best female prose writer in modern times",
Huang Xia met Hong Kong female writer Lin Yanni,
Talent meets talented woman,
Electric Flint,
Out of control,
In 1976,
Huawa, who has just conceived her third child,
Knowing that her husband was out in the wind and snow,
Decisively signed a divorce agreement with Huang Xia,
Hua Wa's temperament is really strong,
In the face of media insults,
Huang said he was the worst man in the world.
In 1978,
Huang Xia has filled in two songs, "Oath to Enter the Sword Mountain" and "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon",
"Oath to enter the Knife Mountain" is the theme song of the TV series "Lu Xiaofeng" that year,
"Yitian Slaughtering Dragon" is the theme song of the TV series of the same name "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon",
These two dramas are starred by one person,
Zheng Shaoqiu, the emperor who dominated Hong Kong and Taiwan at that time!
And "Oath to Go into the Mountain of Knives" has been continuously covered in many subsequent films,
The most famous is in "Eavesdropping",
The scene of Liu Qingyun, Gu Tianle, Lin Jiadong, Fang Zhongxin, and Lin Jiahua singing together.
Vowing to Enter knife mountain music: Zheng Shaoqiu - Family Heirloom Concert 2005
Huang Xia's talent is even more vividly displayed,
He changed his style,
A very Hong Kong humanistic style of the work came out,
To this day,
Still called the "City Song",
This song has been sung by Rowan, Ren Xianqi and so on,
It is "Under the Lion Rock".
Music Under the Lion Rock: Rowan - Selected Lyrics of Universal Songs - Gu Jiahui + Huang Chen
meanwhile
After Gu Jiahui hummed the score,
Huang Li hung up the phone and wrote,
Write and rewrite,
About twenty minutes before and after,
A classic song sung by millions of people was born,
It was the song "On the Beach", which is still not outdated today.
Shanghai Beach Music: Ye Liyi - EMI Classic 101 Vol.1
Whether it's a songwriter,
As soon as it rings,
Then he pulled people to the beach.
Of course, these are all afterwords.
Since the 1980s,
Huang Xia believes that the writing standard of Cantonese songs is declining,
Indignant about this:
"I have to write now, and I will write,
Desperately written,
Write that no one listens,
Write that no one wants,
Write to death. ”
It also made people engrave a seal ——— "Unbelievers are deaf in the world."
Compatriots on the mainland of the motherland know Huang Xia,
It mainly starts with a song,
That is the 1984 Spring Festival Gala Zhang Mingmin sang "My Chinese Heart",
In 1982, Hong Kong entered the stage of return,
At that time, the owner of Eternal Records, Deng Bing, found Huang Xia,
I want to ask him to write a Chinese song,
Huang Xia rarely writes Chinese,
He politely refused.
But Deng Bing said that this is a song with patriotic themes,
When the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan approves textbooks for primary and secondary schools,
Blatantly falsifying the history of aggression against China,
The people of the country are indignant,
It really takes a song to stir up emotions.
Thinking of the suffering of my hometown,
and the sorrows and sorrows of my father's homeland,
The scene of tears,
There were a thousand words in Huang Xia's chest,
So he and Wang Fuling co-created "My Chinese Heart".
My Chinese Heart Music: Zhang Mingmin - My Chinese Heart
The famous lyricist Mr. Yan Su,
When you hear this song,
It is difficult to hide the surging heart,
Do not hesitate to praise Huang Xia's words,
"The lyrics of this song are atmospheric,
The melody is surging and the melody is
Without decades of experience,
I can't write that word. ”
▲ Zhang Mingmin at the 1984 Spring Festival Gala
Sing "My Chinese Heart"
1983 can be called the year of the Yellow Xia,
This year, a TVB extremely important TV series was released.
Huang Rihua and Weng Meiling starred in "The Legend of the Archery Hero",
This drama that caught fire as soon as it was released,
From theme songs to interludes,
And then the ending song,
All wrapped up by Huang Xia and Gu Jiahui,
A writing word,
A composition,
This is also the most intensive year of cooperation between the two.
"When I was young,
We went all over Xi Murong,
Sanmao and Neruda,
Just to find a love sentence that can be fully expressed.
Later, I found that what profound love words were not as good,
You are always good in the world.".
Huang Xia's favorite is "The World Is Always Hello",
This song is the theme song of "The Legend of the Eagle Hero on the Sword of Huashan".
Hello In the World (TVB Drama [The Legend of the Shooter Hero] Theme Song) Music: Zhen Ni; Rowan - Laughing at the song world Huang Zhuan's classics of thousands of years and thousands of years of special collection
Huang Xia has a total of two marriages, three relationships,
Who are you?
Married to Hua Wa,
Or lin yanni, a female writer who has been divided into fifteen years?
Or is it his ordinary wife Chen Huimin, who is 17 years younger?
Outsiders don't know.
One is to marry and have children for him;
One is at first sight, he pursues bitterly,
After many marriage proposals failed,
Even resorted to brutal tactics:
The good news of their marriage was published in the newspaper,
And the witness is the highly respected Jin Yong,
Lin Yanni also angrily posted a personal statement,
Accusing Huang of his madness is just wishful thinking;
One is a lover, an old man and a young wife,
Thrilling to the long stream of thin water,
Can't say which is better,
Who can say love clearly?
▲ (from left) Ni Zhen, Lin Yanni, Jin Yong, Huang Xia, Li Jiaxin
In 1987,
It's another crazy year,
This year gave birth to a film that is still the highest rated film in Hong Kong martial arts movies.
Ghost of a Woman,
Huang Xia composed lyrics for the film,
Wrapped up three of these works,
Expressing three distinct styles,
The extremely crazy "Tao",
Gentle and beautiful "Dawn Don't Come",
And the movie of the same name as "Ghost of a Woman".
Dao Dao Music: Jacky Cheung - An unchanging heart
Dawn Don't Come to Music: Ye Qianwen - Ghost of a Woman Movie Soundtrack
Qiannu Ghost Music: Zhang Guorong - Qiannu Ghost Trilogy Movie Soundtrack
At that time, the sentence "The road of life, the dream is like a long road",
The whole Hong Kong music scene exclaimed,
"Huang Xia's talent,
It's almost over,
It's too hard to surpass "Ghost of a Woman",
But this is not the end of the Yellow Xia,
Three years later,
Huang Xia took out the song,
Undisputed,
The eternal number one martial arts song "A Laugh in the Sea".
A laugh in the sea: Xu Ke; LUO Dayou; Huang Xia - Fenghua Guole
Speaking of this song,
Naturally, it is inevitable that Xu Ke will direct the movie "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes".
It is said that before it was written,
Huang Xia has changed his draft six times,
Xu Ke was not satisfied,
Until one day,
Huang Xia flipped through the ancient book "Lezhi",
Occasionally see the four words "great music will be easy",
It's like an empowerment!
Use the five-tone scale (palace, shang, horn, sign, feather) in the opposite way,
The music also only chooses three kinds of flutes, three strings, and guqin.
Gao Mai Yiqun,
Full boundary,
Sing the pride of heaven and earth.
Proud of it,
Huang Xia also pulled Xu Ke and Luo Dayou,
Together recorded a version of "A Laugh in the Sea",
Before recording,
The three of them staggered,
Rejoice in the wine,
Although flawed,
Huang Xia insisted that it was the best,
Later it became a masterpiece.
Reportedly
At that time, after Huang Xia wrote the seventh edition,
Under the score is drawn a large JB,
Meaning: the last edition!
Lao Tzu does not change!
Love or not!
And everybody knows it.
Not only did it,
The degree of singing is still very high,
This is why there is the "Laughter in the Sea" sung by Hu Chong, Qu Yang and Liu Zhengfeng in the same boat in the film!
"A Laugh in the Sea" is the peak of Huang Xia's life' work,
Although he later made "Boys Should Be Self-Reliant",
"Green Snake" and other classic songs,
But there is no longer such a surprise to the world as the wild and uninhibited "laughter in the sea".
Boys when self-improvement music: Lin Zixiang - Tiandi Golden Song Selection One
Flowing Water Floating Lights Music: Huang Xia - Green Snake Movie Soundtrack
Friend Ni Kuang falls in love with Sang, the mother of a nightclub,
Often called Cai Lan and Huang Xia to see beautiful women together in the name of "holding the scene",
The three talents gathered,
Nature makes the women in the nightclub laugh a lot every time,
Later, Cai Lan felt,
Why do we spend money to make people laugh?
Huang Xia proposed to simply do a talk show,
Invite big stars to drink, chat, talk about paragraphs, and be happy, eye-catching, and make money.
So in 1989,
There's "No Defense Tonight."
Where the excitement goes,
Cut in a joke
Zen Machine Magic Theory,
The three famous mouths are well deserved,
And because of all kinds of explosive foul mouths, yellow strips,
Known as an "adult show"
In fact, Huang Xia is a very hard-working person,
The literati he admired very much were the "three uncles" of Hong Kong.
It is rumored that the third uncle 15 minutes into a 1000-word article,
In order to improve,
Run to ask the idol,
The third uncle replied: Practice more
For this purpose, Huang Xia pinched the table to practice,
Nine months later, 1,000 words an hour and a half,
Tenth month, 1000 words forty-five minutes,
Then 1000 words for half an hour,
Twelve months later,
It can be compared with the speed of the third uncle,
The fastest one,
An hour while writing a belly draft,
Out of a 4,000-word essay,
Word for word,
And it was handed over to the editor,
Since then Huang Xia has written a column,
Drop the pen like a knife, directly hit the point,
His "No Anthology",
Borrowing to write gender jokes,
Explain the philosophy of life,
Fast people speak fast, meat is not taboo,
Some people commented that "The Collection of Non-Texts" is full of foul language,
Temperament words,
Huang Xia, however, joked that the word "love" should be removed.
Huang Xia's extreme affection can be seen.
Hong Kong in the 1990s,
Andy Lau began to try to write his own songs.
I didn't expect that,
The debut work attracted Huang Xia's fierce criticism:
"I've never seen someone who writes songs so stupidly,
If it wasn't for his own singing,
No one listened! ”
At that time, Andy Lau was already a household name for the King of Heaven superstar,
A few years later, Andy Lau met Huang Xia and said:
"Uncle Xia,
You scold, you scold,
Can you tap the scolding? ”
Huang Xia patted Andy Lau and said:
"Don't give up,
Man will progress,
I scolded you for three years,
Your current work,
I get it. ”
He scolded the younger generations,
There is a sense of exhortation and diligence,
Right thing is not right person,
This is the basic attitude.
In 1997,
After the release of Andy Lau's "Ice Rain",
Huang Xia said happily:
"Hua Tsai has finally opened his mind."
Huang Xia scolded all over the Chinese music scene,
But he favored Zhang Guorong,
In his eyes,
Zhang Guorong is the "Good Prince of the World",
While hosting "No Defense Tonight",
Publicly praised him as "picturesque",
He also said, "Pretty boy to the extreme, I am eccentric and beautiful."
In 1999,
Jackie Chan and Wu Qili pulled out the "Little Dragon Girl" incident,
Many artists talk about it.
Zhou Huajian said:
"It's a man,
Mistakes are inevitable. ”
Jin Yong said:
"Men can have a good time,
But it cannot be obscene. ”
Huang Xia scolded:
"Mercy is not left, and the species is called the wind,
Leaving seeds without mercy is obscene,
I said it! “
He doesn't make a fool of himself,
Disdainful.
He once confessed:
"I am not a man of modesty,
But I'm a little better than others.
I'm a real person.
Sometimes it offends people,
Sometimes it makes people hate it,
But I keep this one. ”
At the age of 58,
Huang Returned to HKU to pursue a Doctorate,
In 2001, Huang Xia suffered from cancer,
Chemotherapy,
hair loss,
Then invited Mai Jia and Luo Jiaying to do a new show:
The Three Skinheads
On screen,
We don't see the grief and misery of a patient,
There is only the open-mindedness of the "Huang Xia style".
Two years later,
Huang Xia put the study of music,
Written into a 150,000-word paper,
Discuss the relationship between popular music and society,
Thesis was written for many years,
Word by word,
All have worked hard all their lives,
After the result was submitted to the University of Hong Kong,
No one dares to claim,
He is a master of Hong Kong music,
On seniority and skill,
Which dares to judge!
Alone on the tall building,
A panoramic view of the mountains,
Those who stand on the top of the peak are the loneliest.
That year,
He was sixty-three years old.
In this year,
With real talent and practical learning,
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong.
On the sickbed,
Huang Li is still worried about the Hong Kong music scene,
He will be in a situation where few singers in his later years ask him to fill in the lyrics,
Blaming oneself for the generation gap with the younger audience is too deep,
Helplessly said:
"Li Zongsheng is old,
We're all old.
Lin Xi is also getting old,
Like those of us whose hair is white,
Who else listens to us?
Can't deny,
Gone are the days that belonged to him,
Gone are the days that belonged to them,
But the classics live on.
An era is gone,
November 24, 2004,
Huang Xia's lung cancer condition deteriorated and rescue was ineffective,
Died at Yan On Hospital, Sha Tin, Hong Kong,
He died on December 31, 2012 at the age of 6
After his death,
Cai Lan sorted out the clutter in the house,
Flip through Huang Xia's IOU.
"To make up for the mistake of waking up the sister-in-law at midnight, the special letter signed a new bill to show that he owed Cai Lan's brother and sister-in-law two songs, that is, a total of four songs were owed before and after. ------------------------------ ”
Huang Xia's memorial service,
The background soundtrack is "Chu Liuxiang" written by himself,
Chu Liuxiang Music: Zheng Shaoqiu - Family Heirloom Concert 2005
The last sentence echoed for a long time:
I walk alone in a thousand mountains, I don't have to send each other...
Four tunes,
Destined to go with it,
A generation of ghosts,
A Thousand Mountains Alone,
That's it.