On September 15, Hong Kong media reported that Xu Shaoqiang, a veteran actor in martial arts films in the 1980s, had passed away due to esophageal cancer. Not long after, his wife suffered a heart attack and passed away while dealing with his funeral. Hong Kong media summed it up

On September 15, Hong Kong media reported that Xu Shaoqiang, a veteran actor in martial arts films in the 1980s, passed away due to esophageal cancer. Not long after, his wife suffered a heart attack and passed away while dealing with his funeral.

Hong Kong media summed it up in five words: "The fate of mandarin ducks and butterflies."

Xu Shaoqiang passed away earlier this month.

Xue Li, who had had emotional entanglements with Xu Shaoqiang, wrote a cross on Weibo: "I wish Mr. Xu Shaoqiang a good journey."

The past is like smoke, and now there is only a place to lament.

He can finally drink to his heart's content with Gu Long

Mentioning Xu Shaoqiang, the younger generation of audiences now feel familiar, maybe because they have seen him play Bi Changfeng, who is both good and evil in "The Order of Mountains and Rivers".

Xu Shaoqiang also appeared in a series of summer vacation movies such as "Water Moon Cave" and "Legend of the Spiritual Realm".

In Stephen Chow's movie "Su Qier", the leader of the Qilin Sect played by Xu Shaoqiang is extremely skilled in martial arts but extremely evil. The sentence "Young people don't know how high the sky is" perfectly interprets the leader's domineering attitude.

"The New Crane" starring Anita Mui and Rosamund Kwan, netizens still discuss the force value of each character, and Xu Shaoqiang's Lan Haiping is regarded as the highest.

But more people may know him through the ATV drama. In my favorite early version of "The Young Master", Yang Zongbao is Xu Shaoqiang.

The most classic is the period of Li's. Xu Shaoqiang played the role of Feiyang in "The Transformation of the Silkworm". He was handsome, broad-minded, affectionate and meaningful. At the beginning of the broadcast, millions of viewers tuned in, breaking various ratings records in Hong Kong and helping the TV station Li's Earn two million and it's extremely popular.

Xu Shaoqiang also became a popular martial arts actor at the time with this drama.

Because of filming martial arts, Xu Shaoqiang also became Cologne’s drinking buddy through the help of friends. Once, Gu Long and Xu Shaoqiang lost in a drinking contest. When he went to visit Xu Shaoqiang's crew, he invited Xu Shaoqiang to fight again...

Xu Shaoqiang didn't want to fight, so he responded with the words in Gu Long's novel, "The winner has won, the loser has lost."

Gu Long was so angry that he was speechless on the spot. He could only go home and sulk. At that time, Gu Long was already in the advanced stage of liver cirrhosis, but he refused to listen to dissuasion and insisted on drinking. Finally, he died of liver cirrhosis and esophageal tumor on September 21, 1985. Died of hemorrhage at the age of 47.

Hearing the sad news, Xu Shaoqiang said guiltily, "I would have stopped drinking with him if I had known he would die. My friends all said that I drank cologne to death. I am also very sad that he passed away so early."

some media He took this passage out of context and accused Xu Shaoqiang of "killing" Gu Long.

Unexpectedly, nearly forty years later, Xu Shaoqiang would also die of esophageal cancer, which is largely related to alcohol.

I believe that if two people met in another world, the first thing they would do would be to drink the wine they didn’t fight that time.

Celestial Silkworm Transformation: Evil Fate

makes people’s blood boil. In the theme song of the same name of "Celestial Silkworm", there is a hidden lyric: "Throwing aside love and suffering, I knew the price would be high."

In terms of career and friendship, Xu Shaoqiang has paid the price for his words and deeds.

"Celestial Silkworm Transformation", a classic costume IP, is actually a product of the "TV War" of that year.

Faced with Shaw Brothers, which has superstars such as Ti Lung and David Chiang, Li's TV station came up with a unique strategy - "dig potential stocks and sneak into Chencang to create hit dramas."

Xu Shaoqiang, who was tall but had played supporting roles in various martial arts dramas, was attracted by Li's. She approached Shaw Brothers and asked to "borrow" Xu Shaoqiang to guest star in their TV series "The Big Husband".

At that time, Xu Shaoqiang also acted in many Gulong works, such as "Meteor Butterfly Sword", "The Sword of the Third Young Master", "End of the World Moon Sword", etc.

At that time, Shaw Brothers saw that Xu Shaoqiang was not a big star, so he let him go.

Unexpectedly, filming "The Big Man" was just a cover. Li's real plan was to find Xu Shaoqiang to film their long-planned big production "The Transformation of the Silkworm". The original script was filmed while broadcasting, which was quite bold.

Not only that, in the past, unit dramas were usually broadcast in Hong Kong from 8 to 9 pm from Monday to Friday, but Li's innovatively changed them to all the long dramas "The Incident", creating an unprecedented viewing frenzy.

In the past, TV dramas were remakes of novels. This was the first drama to have a novel after the TV series was filmed. This also laid the foundation for the later creative model of the famous "Flying Paper Boy" in Hong Kong.

Wireless saw that the situation was not good and urgently pulled Zheng Shaoqiu, who is already a movie star, also teamed up with Wang Mingquan and Zhao Yazhi to remake Cologne's "Chu Liuxiang" with an all-star cast to win over the audience and turn out to be a classic.

However, "Celestial Silkworm Transformation" continues to be very popular, and the popular male lead Xu Shaoqiang suddenly disappeared after being filmed... It is said that he became a big star after becoming famous, and some said that he was addicted to drinking and could not get out of bed to go to the set. So the screenwriter could only design "Yun Feiyang" to wear a mask.

After that, Yun Feiyang was simply written as practicing the magical skill of the silkworm, and his appearance changed. In the end, Gu Guanzhong barely finished the role.

Even if you like drinking, you shouldn’t be so ridiculous...

The truth is that originally "The Transformation of the Silkworm" will be shot for thirty episodes, but Li's popularity is good and another thirty episodes will be added, which will collide with Xu Shaoqiang's future movie. At the end of the day, Xu Shaoqiang, who has a stubborn personality, once ran to fight with McDonald's table.

There was originally an intermediary to mediate, and Xu Shaoqiang also returned to the crew of "The Transformation of the Silkworm", but the next day Li's senior management directly told him that the actor had been changed, and Xu Shaoqiang was so angry that he left Li's TV station with makeup on. As a result, he offended TVB and Li's, so he could only develop into the film industry.

In 1984, Shaw Brothers hired Xu Shaoqiang to film "The Transformation of the Silkworm". In the same year, a Taiwanese drama producer approached Gu Guanzhong to shoot "The Transformation of the Silkworm". In the end, Gu Guanzhong actually received high ratings.

Xu Shaoqiang, who was "not as brave as he used to be", could only play supporting roles and villains in the film industry. He once made romantic movies, and it was not until 1992 that he acted in Stephen Chow's "The Warriors", which is a story later.

Because when Stephen Chow was playing a small role in TVB, he was invited by Xu Shaoqiang once, and I was grateful to him.

In the same year that "The Transformation of the Silkworm" was broadcast, a 14-year-old girl entered the entertainment industry.

Her original name is Yan Huiming. Her elder sister is the actress Michelle. Her stage name is Xue Li. She was brought into the industry by her elder sister. In 1979, she became the heroine in the movie "The Eight Levels".

Sydney's first love was at the age of 16, with the 24-year-old Leslie Cheung. It is said that because of the age difference at that time, his brother still sought Michelle's consent before officially dating Sydney.

979 This year, a big event also happened to Xu Shaoqiang ——Divorced from his wife Zhang Xiaofeng.

At that time, it was rumored that actress Judy Li and Xu Shaoqiang had a close relationship, and the couple had a relationship crisis.

In 1981, Sydney went to Thailand to film the movie "Raising Ghosts" and met Xu Shaoqiang, who was 15 years older than herself. The movie was invested by Xu Shaoqiang. At a dinner party, Xu Shaoqiang kissed her in public, and his love blossomed from then on.

What she didn’t know at the time was that as early as 1980, Xu Shaoqiang had a second wife, He Shukuan. It was said that he married his son, and He Shukuan gave birth to her eldest son, Xu Yidong.

After learning about this, it is said that Michelle rushed to Thailand urgently to stop her sister from falling in love, but it was too late...

At that time, Xue Li was determined to make peace. Xu Shaoqiang stayed together, regardless of his family's objections, and even broke off with Michelle and others In 1982, he announced that he would quit the entertainment industry to give birth to Xu Shaoqiang's child.

At that time, Xu Shaoqiang said that he would marry Xue Li when she gave birth to a son. When she gave birth, he did not marry her; she just waited obediently. In 1987, another daughter was born to him, but he still did not marry.

The most amazing thing is that Xu Shaoqiang was already single one year before Xue Li gave birth to a daughter. However, when Xue Li escorted him to go through the marriage procedures, Xu Shaoqiang said that he "forgot to bring the divorce certificate", and Xue Li asked him to go home to get it. , and he said "I don't know where to throw it"...

Waiting and waiting and procrastinating made Xue Li feel discouraged. At the age of 23, after another quarrel with Xu Shaoqiang, she moved away with her son and daughter. Go to Canada.

Fortunately, after leaving Xu Shaoqiang, Xue Li's acting career also regained momentum. In 1988, she filmed "Legend of Chivalrous Women" and played the cold and ruthless Fan Qiuniang, who specializes in killing corrupt officials and heartless people in the world. She also said goodbye to her past innocence. , the weak little flower play road.

Later, talking about this past, Xueli said: "At that time, I was blind. I saw the wrong person, but I couldn't help it. I pretended that I had never known this person."

But I didn’t expect that in 1993, ATV broadcast After reading the new version of "The Transformation of the Skyworm", Xu Shaoqiang and Xue Li were actually in the same frame...

"Higher than the Sky" is actually just I used the "Celestial Silkworm Transformation" IP shell and combined the previous dramas with the characters and plots of the novel to create a new version, which basically has little to do with the original work.

In this drama, Xue Li plays Yun Feiyang’s lover Tang Ning. It is rumored that she has not given up on Xu Shaoqiang, but in fact, she is just an ordinary person and completes the drama very professionally like other tasks. Just shooting.

was let down by Xu Shaoqiang. Over the years, Xueli rarely said anything bad about Xu Shaoqiang to the outside world, just because Xu Shaoqiang's mother once hoped that she would "be merciful." She said: "Xu Shaoqiang's image is already negative enough. I Promise her, because I am also a mother, and I understand her thoughts. ” After the phone call, I burst into tears and lamented why I had to work so hard.

But even so, she still educates her children to be filial to their parents no matter what the adults do. Therefore, the relationship between the child and Xu Shaoqiang is not too bad.

Only his son Xu Weidong once complained about Xu Shaoqiang: "He is very single-minded and only goes to the girls. But I also meet him at ordinary times, and he will ask me to go to the bar for drinks."

The complaints are complaints. With the support of his parents, he grew up in Vancouver. He still entered the entertainment industry, and now signed a contract with Louis Koo's company. In his early years, he filmed works such as "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Slayer: Nine Yang Magic" and "The Chronicles of the Youth of the Song Dynasty".

Xue Li’s second daughter, Xu Yongkun, has entered the industry. She has appeared in "Heartstorm 3" and served as a host. In 2019, she married Kenneth Anthony Chow, a third-generation rich man, and gave birth to a daughter.

and Xu Yidong, the eldest son of Xu Shaoqiang and his second wife, is also a creator in Hong Kong, working in the advertising and film and television industries.

Xu Shaoqiang himself got married for the third time in 2005. The woman gave birth to a daughter for Xu Shaoqiang that year, and another son in 2011. Xu Shaoqiang was already 61 years old at that time.

Now that Xu Shaoqiang has passed away, his wife also died of a heart attack while making funeral arrangements, and Xu Shaoqiang's 11-year-old son became an orphan.

Xu Shaoqiang’s funeral affairs were left to his daughter Xu Yingkun, who had a good relationship with him. When asked about her father’s death recently, she said, “Thank you for your concern. I hope everyone will give us some space for our family to deal with this matter. There are too many others who didn’t respond, so I’m sorry to bother you."

During this time, she posted Jacky Cheung's hit song "You Are the Only Legend in My Life" on social platforms with the text "i love you".

From beginning to end, Sydney did not To gain even a little bit of credit, her career She was almost destroyed by Xu Shaoqiang and remained unmarried for the rest of her life, devoting all her energy to raising a pair of children. But if life is like a river and lake, it is also like this. The moon is missing more than the moon is full, and there are many regrets in this world, but there is always some love. Look coldly on the bloody road, loneliness is the destiny."

e sister's conclusion:

Many young friends also know Xu Shaoqiang, not only because he has played roles that are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but also because he is "hard-working" enough. If he can't play the leading role, he will play supporting roles. Network There are still many Internet celebrities waiting to be broadcast.

His life is like a mixture of various heroes in Gu Long's works, romantic, arrogant, passionate, and ruthless.

Characteristics of heroes in martial arts novels , sword eyebrows, starry eyes and a broad face, he has both. What’s rare is that despite his tall stature, he is also very malleable. He is also very charming when playing a villain. He is also very popular in the industry. Stephen Chow also remembers his loyalty. It is a pity that Romance restricts the development of acting career.

But I have to say that he is lucky. Like Lu Xiaofeng, he can always meet people who are soft-hearted and be cared about by others. Sydney, who was let down, did not carry the grievances of the previous generation to the next generation; his wife, who was 30 years younger, still stayed with him when negative news came out, and she was heartbroken to accompany him when she learned of his death.

This person has passed away, and the past has disappeared with the smoke.

Just don’t put all kinds of labels on the living people. Xue Li’s message “I wish Mr. Xu Shaoqiang a good journey” is to draw a decent end to the wrong feelings. In addition, there is nothing else. Some netizens can No need to speculate.

Today’s topic is:

Which work of Xu Shaoqiang do you like?

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