01 Reunion with Tang Hede
December 9, 1982, Hong Kong Regent Hotel.
At the birthday banquet of Mrs. Zhang Yulin, 26-year-old Leslie Cheung reunited with 24-year-old Tang Hede.
The two of them are family friends and have known each other since they were young. They used to fight together, but Leslie Cheung has never contacted since he was 13 when he went to study in the UK.
hasn't seen him for many years. Tang Hede has become a tall, handsome young man. He is handsome, low-key and elegant, and left a deep impression on Leslie Cheung.
Before reuniting with Tang Hede, Leslie Cheung was a straight heterosexual.
He had a crush on Kwong Manxian, a girl in his class since elementary school, and his first love was a girl named Huang in the same class when he was in middle school. After entering the industry at the age of 20, he also had two girlfriends, Mao Shunyun and Ni Shipei.
▲ Leslie Cheung’s most well-known relationship is when he was 20 years old, he pursued 17-year-old Maomao.
Probably he didn't expect that he would like a man, but he always lingered on Tang Hede. After only 20 days, Leslie Cheung found friends he knew and set up another party.
On January 2, 1983, he and Tang Hede officially became friends.
Many years later, after making his relationship public, Leslie Cheung was asked about homosexuality in an interview. He frankly said: "Accurately speaking, I am not gay, that is, I don't care whether the other party is the opposite sex or the same sex. I can love both. As long as I like it. Why can I only love one kind and not the other? The space and universe of love should be allowed to be broader." (Chitose Chitose-"Leslie Cheung's Time")
Leslie Cheung had been in business for 6 years. He works as a host at Li's TV station, holding a monthly salary that can barely support his own life, and at the same time filming some film and television works, and the response is mediocre. When singing, he will be booed by the audience.
▲ Leslie Cheung in 1983.
Leslie Cheung is the youngest child in the family (ranking tenth). He is alienated from his parents and has never lived together since he was a child. The closest to him is the six sisters who took care of him since childhood. Ask for money from home.
At that time, only the person named Tang Hede, who had just started in the banking industry, was willing to support him, help him, and lent all the salary and bonus he had accumulated for most of the year to Leslie Cheung to help him tide over the difficulties.
Leslie Cheung said, "I didn't have a name at the time, and I had no advantage, only him."
What kind of person is this Tang Hede who made Leslie Cheung fall in love with regardless of the world?
Tang's high school classmate, Lin Chaorong, who later became a big entertainment star, described in the text:
"He (Tang Hede) was the class leader and the basketball star of the school team. He was six feet tall, handsome in appearance, combed the front babyface, She smiles a little like Xu Jie, a lady of the eighties, but she is able to walk like flying in basketball, and she is very skilled. She is usually very gentle, facing a group of bulls and anti-stars, he is the purest, and sometimes he has to look lonely. . Although there are friends, there are not many close friends who are familiar with each other. They often overlook the railings of the library on the second floor, like a literary niche. He is well-dressed, and I often don’t understand him. He is in a white shirt, white pants and white trousers The shoes are always clean and tidy, and the white shoes will not be stained even if you sweat your back."
In May 1983, "The Wind Continues Blowing" was officially released, which made Leslie Cheung famous. There was a song "Fragment" in the album with lyrics. Leslie Cheung himself wrote this song. This song is a portrayal of his relationship with Tang Sheng. There is also a narration:
I remember I asked you: Do you know the most expensive department in the world?
(I remember asking Pass you: Do you know what the most expensive thing in the world is)
You can answer without twisting: sincerely
(Answer without thinking about it: sincere)
is true! It is true
(yes! It is true)
If you ask Leslie Cheung and Tang Hede, what can impress each other the most? That must be sincere.
More than ten years later, Leslie Cheung still has a sweet face when talking about his relationship: "I always feel the sweetness now. I don't remember why I just picked up the song "Fragment". Everything is in retrospect. We started It’s like that, it’s impossible to control it like this, like a fool who has never talked about it.”
At that time, Leslie Cheung and Zheng Peipei, who came back from the United States, were filming a sibling relationship "Woman 33", and I couldn’t help but talk to her while filming. Talk about the feelings between him and Tang Sheng. He felt that Sister Peipei came back from the United States and would not be the same as other Chinese to deny his different emotional destination with prejudice. However, he was also a little depressed at the time.
Although the relationship between two people is determined, it is difficult to tolerate same-sex love in the society at that time. In the first year of being together, the two of them broke up for the first time.
02 Split, split, and merge
may be because of young and vigorous, personality is still running in, maybe because Leslie Cheung has emerged in the entertainment circle, and his idol status has made them scrupulous about secular concepts.
Leslie Cheung was filming "Yang Guo and the Little Dragon Girl" that year. Because Tang Hede broke up with him, he cried home from the set and drove the car. The popular "Old Dreams Never Need to Remember" was broadcast in the car. He wept while listening. When he came home and was bumped into by his mother, he cried as well. He was really an arrogant little prince.
▲In 1983, Leslie Cheung and Weng Jingjing in "Yang Guo and the Little Dragon Girl".
There are two people who have each other in their hearts, but they are not so easy to separate. They quickly reconcile.
In those years, the paparazzi in Hong Kong was not so rampant, and the artists at that time were also willing to speak heartily to the media. After
and Tang Hede were together, every time Cai was asked about their relationship, Leslie Cheung would say that he already has a partner, "but I can't tell you who he is."
He never denies that he actually has a very fixed love now: "Two people have been together for a long time. I can even say that the only thing that can be determined in my life is the love of my spouse for me."
Tang Sheng has always been referred to as the "lover", and he is only called the "lover".
As early as 1981, Leslie Cheung had a relationship with Ni Shibei . As it became popular, it was turned out by the media and spread more vigorously.
▲ Leslie Cheung and Ni Shibei were once the golden boys and girls favored by Li's TV station.
Leslie Cheung and the media complained that the other half is jealous for this:
"In short, I don’t know which bad guy is hurting me. I was so tired that I was scolded by him. I was so aggressive that I had to explain it. He It's not a jealous jar, but recently I have had more opportunities to meet Ni, so he doubted it."
"I have a very good relationship with him. Although he won't get married too early, as long as there are no problems among us, we will definitely get along."
Leslie Cheung is a member of the entertainment industry and has contact with many female stars. Various scandals are flying all over the sky, which still affects the relationship between him and Tang Sheng.
At that time, the relationship between him and Tang Sheng was known by the family, and of course his conservative parents opposed it. Regardless of the family's opposition, Leslie Cheung said that he would insist even if he left the family, but Tang Sheng flinched for him. This made my brother feel that the other party was not brave and sincere, so he broke up again between 1984 and 1985.
▲ Leslie Cheung and Alan Tam in 1985 are the hottest male singers in Hong Kong.
"I am eager to be loved by others, but I have a very indifferent view of love. It can be said to be very contradictory. I have tried that others like me, so I devote myself to that love wholeheartedly. Even if I leave the family, it is a pity that I run into a nail. Others do not have my sincerity. I think it is very unfair, but the so-called unfairness is actually caused by my environment in the same year. I am neither right nor wrong, but everyone's background is different. "(Interviewed by City Weekly in 1985.) During the time when Zhang Guorong broke up with
, Leslie Cheung had another relationship with Yang Leshi, the daughter of Emperor Yang Shoucheng, the boss of the Emperor Group.
Yang Leshi played an artist basketball game when he was twelve or thirteen years old. During the match, Leslie Cheung became a super fan girl. At the age of 19, she returned from studying abroad for vacation. One evening, she took Leslie Cheung home for dinner, and the two began a brief transnational love.
Many magazines in Hong Kong in the 1980s have circulated the story of "the Yang family has grown up with a girl and has a crush for many years."...
I don’t know if Leslie Cheung had been in love at the time, and I don’t know if Tang Sheng faced Leslie Cheung and Yang Da. What's the feeling in the news of Miss.
But no matter what, this transnational relationship is very plain and quickly ended.
In 1985, Leslie Cheung announced that he and Yang Leshi had become brothers and sisters.
▲Zhang Guorong and Yang Leshi became good friends 5z
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5. Later, Miss Yang married the famous director Zhang Jianting. After the breakup of
, Yang Shoucheng went to ask Leslie Cheung to chase his daughter back. He really wanted Leslie Cheung to be his son-in-law.
But at this time, Leslie Cheung was already "on the sea. Water, except Wushan is not a cloud".
especially experienced Yang Leshi, he knows who he loves most.
03 Say goodbye to the music world for love
In 1985, Leslie Cheung released the new album "Love for You". The album
z7 will be released on
z7. At that time, Mr. Tang gave him a cartier tri-color ring that represents love, friendship and loyalty.
Leslie Cheung was flying happily. The cover of the new album had already been shot, so he must put on the ring and take another shot.
That year, there was an important thing: Leslie Cheung’s mother, Pan Yuyao, recognized Tang Hede as his godson.
In other words, in the fight against the family, his brother won.
followed, and Leslie Cheung’s career took off. The status of the king of heaven was established, and the relationship between the two was more stable.
From 1986 to 1988, at the music award ceremony at the end of each year, Leslie Cheung won the prize softly. "Who Resonates", "Personal" and "Silence is Golden" Each capital is a classic.
▲ In 1988, "Silence is Golden" composed by Leslie Cheung and lyrics by Xu Guanjie was very popular. Every time
attends the awards ceremony, Mr. Tang sits in an inconspicuous corner and applauds him.
At that time, the four kings of Hong Kong had not yet risen, Leslie Cheung and Alan Tam, , were the two most popular male stars. Almost all the awards were between the two of them, and the fans also fought hard and scolded each other very badly.
The popular Leslie Cheung is busy at work every day, working continuously, and there is also a scandal with the gambling king daughter He Chaoqiong. Leslie Cheung and Tang Hede are facing increasing pressure from the outside world.
At the awards ceremony in early 1989, Tang Sheng was absent.
When receiving the award, Leslie Cheung said directly that he was not happy to receive the award because he was busy with work and left his friends out.
ended up in two days, he flew to San Francisco to find "friends" and stayed for two weeks before returning to Hong Kong after the Spring Festival and Valentine's Day.
That year, Leslie Cheung made a major decision to bid farewell to the music world and to hold 33 consecutive farewell concerts in Hong Kong.
Leslie Cheung’s idol is the Japanese female Yamaguchi Momoe. When she was the most popular at the age of 21, she chose to marry Miura Yuka and quit the music scene and returned to her family life.
He admires her attitude towards life. Before bidding farewell to the concert, Leslie Cheung was interviewed:
"There was a time when our relationship was on the verge of breaking up because we were often watched."
Will she come to see your concert?
"Yes, but you won’t know who he is. We have known each other for many years, but we broke up, but I believe that we have a relationship with him. He will appear at my concert, and I have reserved I gave him a seat and reserved enough tickets for 33 games." The reporter asked if he was Yang Shoucheng's daughter? Brother
replied: "I know, he knows, other people don't need to know."
But he revealed, "My girlfriend is a dog, and has short hair." (Tang Sheng is a dog.)
also said to take a test Test the reporter's eyes to see if he can meet his girlfriend.
The reporter asked, "Did your girlfriend have already given you an ultimatum to quit the entertainment industry?"
"It's not that serious. I decided to leave by myself. I think I will continue to do it and I won't give up my work in the entertainment industry." , If this goes on, the normal lifestyle of nine to five is gone. I really don’t want people to get up until I go to bed. I live too much of this life and want to live the life of an ordinary person. In short, I am not quitting for marriage. "
When Leslie Cheung's withdrawal from the music scene made many fans feel unwilling to give up, as Leslie Cheung's super fan, the famous lyrics writer Lin Xi cried at the concert and cried all the way home. At that time, he had not written a few decent lyrics to Leslie Cheung. , There are too many regrets.
04 The days of leaving Hong Kong
In 1989, Leslie Cheung officially quit the music scene and moved to Canada.
Tang Hede applied to work in Canada, and the two went together.
They have their own houses in Canada, less than 5 minutes away by car. Leslie Cheung lives with his sister, but every afternoon Mr. Tang will accompany him to run after get off work. His brother takes movie lessons during the day and goes to the town to watch movies on weekends.
Leslie Cheung and Tang Hede at home in Canada
At that time, many Hong Kong entertainment stars moved to Canada, including his brother's ex-girlfriend Mao Shunyun. It was in Canada that he met Tang Hede for the first time.
Maomao said to Leslie Cheung: "I'm very jealous, he (Tang Hede) is so good, do you know? When I first met him, I really didn't feel good in my heart! Who is he? Then I saw him in Vancouver Gardens. , You know he is a good person..."
That was their happiest day. They could go out hand in hand, travel around together, and see Niagara Falls.
In "Happy Together", Lai Yaohui went to see the waterfall by himself, "I finally came to the waterfall. I suddenly thought of He Baorong. I felt so sad. I always thought that there should be two people standing under this waterfall. "
Fortunately, Leslie Cheung and Tang Hede in reality have visited the waterfall together.
But gradually, Leslie Cheung missed Hong Kong.
▲This is Leslie Cheung in VancouverWherever he likes to go, his name is also engraved on the stool. When
first arrived in Canada, he thought it was really heaven! The villa is on the mountain, and I am very excited to see the sea of clouds every day I wake up. After three weeks, he saw a little deer walking into the garden to eat his flowers. It felt very strange. After a few days, the little deer came again, and he realized that the life here is like this. What is missing, as if waiting for death here.
"I’m only thirty-three years old, and it’s too early to hide in the country. This kind of'enjoying life' is a luxury for me. As stated in "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", life is too relaxing , The value of existence in life is too scarce. "
Leslie Cheung belongs to the stage and belongs to the movie.
In 1991, he starred in "The Story of Ah Fei" won the Hong Kong Film Awards winner.
took advantage of this opportunity, and many directors called and asked him to quickly go back to film. Among them is Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine".
From 1991 to 1992, Leslie Cheung went to the mainland to shoot "Farewell My Concubine". Tang Sheng was still in Canada. At that time, he would pay for several hours of overseas phone calls every day.
have been in love for almost ten years, and the relationship between them has not diminished in the slightest. Brother
said: "I love falling in love. I think that being in love will make a person beautiful and a person shining."
Tang Sheng is the one who can make him beautiful. Although
had not yet reached the time of public romance, he never lied in interviews:
"Although I have a lot of "bad" news, I can still survive, or someone will appreciate that I am a real man."
"I can only say that people have only two preferences (choices) in terms of sex, one is a man and the other is a woman. If you don’t love a woman, you only love a man, right? There is nothing worth talking about, this It's not a very wrong thing either."
In 1993, "Farewell My Concubine" was nominated for the Oscars. After the awards ceremony, Leslie Cheung and Tang Sheng went on a night tour and met reporters by chance. He generously treated guests for supper.
is a small Japanese restaurant. He made fried dumplings for Mr. Tang and poured warm Japanese sake. Afterwards, everyone said goodbye and didn’t remember this. Later, the Hong Kong paparazzi took pictures of him and Mr. Tang holding hands in Hong Kong. It was discovered that Mr. Tang was the gentleman of the year. It turns out that their relationship can last so long.
In 1994, Leslie Cheung filmed "Wind Moon" in the Mainland, and Mr. Tang occasionally visited the class.
"I am not in Hong Kong from time to time because I am embarrassing him. Sometimes I feel unfair to him. I open up our relationship or have some help. At least I feel a little more relaxed. I have played when I want to play. I have been together for more than ten years. It’s not easy, especially people in our industry. Besides, we are still treating each other so well. He will come to visit me in the mainland from time to time, and he still feels very sweet."
"I don’t mind being public. I am 38 years old. It’s not the youth group. At this stage, there is nothing to hide. The times are different. The audience wants to see a real artist, which has nothing to do with the artist’s private life." ("There is nothing to hide in love")
In 2000, Leslie Cheung asked his friend Lin Xi to write a lyrics in "Miracles", and wrote that he and Tang Sheng have not been easy along the way. How much sadness is unseenIn exchange for today’s emotions,
, the two of them will line up like a miracle
Leslie Cheung talked about dating Mao Shunyun back then, she had several boyfriends at the same time, but he didn’t want to find other girls and said,
, “I can’t do it at the same time. With a few people, I can only be with one person. If it comes to love, I will only be for one person." When
returned to Hong Kong again, he always wanted to make his relationship with Tang Sheng public and give him a name. .
(to be continued...)
Note: This article was first published in the public account: Zhang is not the same
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