When it comes to Jianghu, we have to mention a name-David Henry Hwang.
In the Chinese music scene, the popularity of David Henry Hwang's works is almost equal, and his magnificent music and passionate lyrics have made him stand firm in the Jianghu. Aside from his works, James J.S. Wong's life can be described as unrestrained and heroic.
David Henry Hwang is an unavoidable name in Hong Kong literary and art circles. Besides writing songs and composing music, David Henry Hwang also writes novels, makes programs, makes movies and is addicted to making friends. David Henry Hwang was named as a "genius" because he was born with a flamboyant personality and didn't follow the routine.
When James J.S.Wong was studying, one of his most famous things was fighting with Bruce Lee.
In the 1950s, teenage James J.S.Wong and Bruce Lee both studied in Lhasa College. Once, James J.S.Wong heard that his cousin was bullied by Bruce Lee, and he was angry from the heart and clamored for a one-on-one fight with Bruce Lee. At that time, David Henry Hwang was a weak scholar, while Bruce Lee was very strong and had a kung fu. It's brave to dare to provoke so recklessly.
Although James J.S.Wong was beaten up in the end, he didn't know Bruce Lee and even became friends. James J.S.Wong even often used this experience to brag that I was the one who hit Bruce Lee.
This is when James ·J·s· Wang was young. Later, as he grew older, he stopped fighting with others, but his wanton temper remained unchanged.
One night in the 1980s, James J.S.Wong was drunk in a bar. When he went downstairs from the second floor, he met Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan, who were also going downstairs. Drunk James J.S.Wong unzipped his pants and peed on Jackie Chan, which made everyone stunned. When he woke up, he forgot all about it. After a week, he read the news in the street tabloids, only to know that he had lost his virtue after drinking and regretted it.
James J.S.Wong personally visited Jackie Chan and told him to stand still. Jackie Chan was surprised. James J.S.Wong knelt on the ground and asked for his forgiveness, but the other party was startled.
In addition, David Henry Hwang also bluntly criticized Andy Lau's lyrics as "nonsense". Later, Andy Lau's diligent and earnest working attitude moved David Henry Hwang, and David Henry Hwang wrote an article praising Andy Lau.
Anyone familiar with James J.S.Wong knows that he loves swearing, smoking and drinking, and making beautiful women laugh. He evaluated himself as "lecherous and fearless, with unlimited good wine and incompetent good money." Deep and true.
In today's society, many people like to flaunt themselves with their true temperament, but those who truly live their true temperament should be as frank and natural as David Henry Hwang, free and lively.
In the music industry, David Henry Hwang almost exists as a "god", and his life can be described as numerous works of God. Many well-known classics, such as Laughing at the Sea, Ghost Story, Shanghai Beach, Hello Every Time in the World, are all in Huang Zhen's hands. Best of all, a masterpiece like Shanghai Beach was suddenly inspired when it had diarrhea, and it was finished in 20 minutes. I have to praise it as a "genius".
When Tsui Hark filmed the legendary swordsman, he asked James ·J·s· Wang to compose music for the film. David Henry Hwang wrote A Beautiful Smile, but Tsui Hark was not satisfied with it every time. He wrote six drafts and still found it almost boring.
James J.S.Wong, who lives a free and easy life, is serious about music. After repeated creative failures, he began to think hard about how to achieve the artistic conception that the director wanted.
James J.S.Wong leafed through old books and saw a sentence called "Laughing is easy." It means that sometimes the more master's works, the simpler they may be, and it is also a realm to delete the complex and simplify. Huang Zongxi believes that simplicity is the ultimate, that is, the traditional scales, Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu, so Huang Zongxi turned them upside down and wrote the classic masterpiece Laughter at the Sea.
When the music reached Tsui Hark, James ·J·s· Wang's playfulness came back to life. He attached a piece of paper full of dirty words and drew a reproductive organ to vent his dissatisfaction. Tsui Hark knows David Henry Hwang's mind. Instead of being angry, he smiled.
From then on, whenever I mentioned the legendary swordsman, I always remembered the melody of "A Beautiful Smile". The prelude is the tinkling sound of guqin, which, with the sound of flute in the distance, instantly catches people's ears and the atmosphere is melodious. The Jianghu world of satisfaction and vendetta is all in sight.
During 1987, Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong filmed the classic film Ghost Story, and David Henry Hwang wrote the theme song Ghost Story with the same name, which showed greed, ignorance and resentment to the fullest.
In addition, there is "Love of the Year" for the film "The True Color of Heroes", which is full of youthful heroism; The book "Men Should Be Self-reliant" written for Huang Feihong is a household name. The classic duet between men and women is full of tenderness and majestic chivalry and has become a classic repertoire. This song was reinterpreted by Master Xing in The Mermaid, and it is still very moving.
I have to admit that James J.S.Wong's music always seems to have a magic power, which can instantly substitute people into an emotion, just like a big net woven with music, which makes people have to fall.
To the outside world, David Henry Hwang is always laughing and cursing, laughing and laughing. But in his bones, David Henry Hwang's thoughts are profound, and he is full of understanding of life and society. As a child, David Henry Hwang left the mainland with his parents and went to Hongkong, which brought David Henry Hwang a more complicated life experience.
1992, James J.S.Wong wrote "My China Heart" with a stroke of a pen, which became a classic: "Although the dress is worn in my heart, my heart is still the heart of China ... The Great Wall of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River of Huangshan Mountain are very important in my heart".
Look carefully at James J.S.Wong's works, and every song has his truest feelings. He expresses his inner feelings about life through creation, criticizes society and inherits culture.
David Henry Hwang, who can create such rich works, is a passionate person by nature.
Romantic wit, naturally there is no lack of all kinds of gossip. David Henry Hwang's most famous emotion in his life was his love with Lin Yanni, a famous talented woman in Hong Kong.
When I met Lin Yanni, David Henry Hwang had a wife named Huawa. They have been married for fourteen years and have a son and a daughter. This happy marriage was ruined.
At that time, Wang Jiesheng was already a gifted scholar in Xiangjiang, while Lin Yanni was the daughter of a rich and talented family. They fell in love at first sight and became bosom friends with each other. Their love affair soon spread all over Hong Kong. Huawa was very painful when she learned about it. With her third child, she divorced James J.S.Wong and emigrated.
This incident brought great pain and shame to Huang Hong. He once said: "I was with my ex-wife for twenty years and separated when she was pregnant." In the middle of the night, I felt that I owed a lot to my predecessors and blamed myself. I am a coward. "
After the divorce, David Henry Hwang and Lin Yanni entered a period of intense love. The two are inseparable, and even in each other's pen, they are full of love for each other. Lin Yanni often helps David Henry Hwang to modify the lyrics, and the two discuss and create together. They are both lovers and bosom friends.
Finally, on New Year's Eve at 1988, Huang Jie proposed to Lin Yanni at Jin Yong's home. Everyone thought that they would go on forever. As a result, the relationship between the two did not get better after the proposal, but there were various contradictions and finally broke up.
Perhaps the love of talented people and beautiful women can't compete with all kinds of trivial details in life in the end.
1990, the two broke up. The collapsed David Henry Hwang got drunk and broke into Lin Yanni's house, causing Lin Yanni's family to call the police. At this point, the once romance has completely turned into a chicken feather.
After more than ten years of vigorous love, I finally became a stranger who didn't communicate with each other, making fun of people's fate very embarrassing. But as James J.S.Wong wrote in the lyrics: Do something happy with your lover, don't ask if it's robbery or fate.
In David Henry Hwang's later years, life became very lonely. The fashion of China music has changed. In the past, people praised the great righteousness of the country and the lofty sentiments of the rivers and lakes, but now it has become a little sentimental and sentimental love. The glory of that generation is hard to continue.
James J.S.Wong once lamented that many lyrics have become nonsense, but why do many people still like them? He said, "people who don't believe are deaf."
After 2000, few people asked David Henry Hwang to write songs. So, he began to study culture, learning ancient poetry and Cantonese, very seriously.
Besides the loneliness in her career, David Henry Hwang's health is slowly declining. In 200 1 year, James J.S.Wong suffered from lung cancer, received chemotherapy and resection, and died in 2004. A generation of legends dies, and an era ends.
James J.S.Wong once said that no one should cry at his funeral. He wanted to show his pre-recorded clips, which started with three "ha ha ha" laughter. I hope everyone can send him away happily. It is really an open-minded "smile at the sea."
Throughout the life of Mr. James J.S.Wong, songs are like people and words are like things. It can really be said that "success or failure in the world is fleeting, and the weak and the strong have sacrificed a lot." I don't remember the loss, I don't remember hate and love, I only remember the meeting. "