The one introduced to you today seems to be out of tune with the times, but is frequently active in our public's field of vision, which will cause many topic waves from time to time. He is Mr. Cai Lan, one of the four great talents in Hong Kong, who is on par with Jin Yong, Huang Jingsheng and Ni Kuang.
Infinitely brilliant young years
Cai Lan's achievements today can not be separated from the influence of his family factors, and his father is an out-and-out artist. Cai Lan's father, Cai Wenxuan, is a poet and calligrapher. His sideline also includes film promotion.
His mother is equal, too, and she is a primary school principal. Cai Lan was born in a high-level intellectual family.
His later films and books must have been more or less influenced by his parents. Apart from an enviable family, Cai Lan is also very talented. 14 years old, published a film review in a magazine and became famous in one fell swoop. From then on, he can live on the manuscript fee.
It is no exaggeration to say that Cai Lan is a genius. Shaw Film Company, a well-known film company in Hong Kong, is no stranger to friends who like Hong Kong films. Cai Lan 16 is the company manager in Japan.
In addition to talent, genius has endless curiosity and desire to explore. Cai Lan is like this. He is still young and has a lot to learn and do. In this way, Cai Lan went to Japan to study film art.
If you are talented and work hard, you won't marry badly. After returning to Hong Kong from school, Cai Lan worked as a producer, and almost all the famous films were quite famous.
After that, Cai Lan left the film industry for various reasons and started other TV programs. The talk show No Defender Tonight, co-hosted by him, James J.S.Wong and Ni Kuang, became popular in Hong Kong because of its bold scale and informality.
Leslie Cheung also talked about his private life in this program. Even the British BBC sent a team to shoot a feature film, saying that it had never seen such a bold and unrestrained program.
You can imagine how exciting and interesting this program is, which can surprise westerners who have always been known for their openness and radicalism.
Unfortunately, this program didn't last long. Everyone should have heard that Hong Kong's art and entertainment industry is at the forefront in Asia. At that time, the fashion trends in Korea and Japan were imitating Hong Kong.
Just like we are chasing Korean Wave now. However, with the fading out of Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong and Andy Lau, the literary market in Hong Kong has gradually disappeared.
After experiencing all kinds of worldly wisdom, Cai Lan lost his enthusiasm and turned to the kitchen to study the doorway of food.
The attitude towards feelings is once again hotly debated.
In recent years, a program called Thirteen Invitations produced by Xu Zhiyuan, an intellectual, has caused quite a controversy. The interviewees of this program are basically outstanding people from all walks of life, especially in the literary and art industries.
Cai Lan, one of the four great talents in Hong Kong, is knowledgeable, so Xu Zhiyuan rushed to Hong Kong to interview Cai Lan. At this time, Cai Lan was already a gray-haired old man.
Perhaps all scholars like to talk about love affairs, and Xu Zhiyuan and Cai Lan have not bypassed this topic. When Xu Zhiyuan asked how many girlfriends Cai Lan had, Cai Lan said that one a year was not too much.
Xu Zhiyuan jokingly quipped: That's 6 1 in total. Cai Lan smiled and replied: Yes. In fact, it was not a big deal to have a lot of contacts in Cai Lan's era. Even today, there is nothing wrong with enjoying sexual relations.
After all, love is an urgent need in life. What is controversial about Cai Lan is that his understanding of emotional relationship seems to be avant-garde and almost conservative.
Mr. Cai Lan has never been out of touch with the times. It has been popular for a long time for him to answer questions and earn money on the Weibo.
Because most questions are asked by young people, their professional and emotional puzzles seem difficult to answer, but Cai Lan usually answers them sharply in just a few sentences.
However, while constantly outputting opinions, he also exposed some old ideas. He thinks polygamy is reasonable, and even thinks it is understandable and acceptable for men to cheat.
This view is hard to be accepted by young people nowadays. We still think that monogamy is more reasonable and progressive. There is nothing wrong with making friends with the opposite sex, but try to keep an honest and clean life in your marriage.
In the case that many young people don't agree with Cai Lan's emotional view, the evaluation of Cai Lan has become mixed.
Some people think he is charming, while others think he is romantic. In fact, in the Internet age, it is normal for public figures to be controversial, and Cai Lan is not a special case.
Genius scholars at that time now support happiness.
Mr. Cai Lan's emotional experience is rich and colorful, but it is consistent. He counted the number of girlfriends he has had since he was 14 years old. There are no fewer than 60 girlfriends, which Jin Yong is not as good as.
However, in those days, in addition to his romantic life, he still had dreams, was positive, hoped to achieve something, and did not let his family down.
He also has a youthful chivalry, unwilling to fall into the secular world, and thinks that fame and fortune are vulgar. This is also the purpose of Xu Zhiyuan interviewing him. Xu Zhiyuan, who is also an intellectual, is curious about why young people who were in high spirits at the beginning became "old people" who enjoy life today.
But Cai Lan is obviously unwilling to give an accurate answer. In Cai Lan's view, it is totally unnecessary to pursue profundity. The best way to resist desire is to surrender. Therefore, Cai Lan began to indulge in studying food and how to earn more money to spend.
He bluntly wants to eat the best ingredients, wear the most comfortable clothes and travel around the world. However, Xu Zhiyuan is unwilling. Xu Zhiyuan regrets to know a thing or two about his master's self-slackness. But Cai Lan didn't want to delve into it, and the conversation with Xu Zhiyuan only stayed on eating, drinking and having fun.
Our attitude towards Xu Zhiyuan is not very different. Most people will regret that talented people have fallen into cynicism.
What's more, this era is an era where glitz is not deep enough. The four great talents in Hong Kong have basically passed away, and only Cai Lan is still active in the media. Young people must hope that the old man will give them some advice.
Perhaps it is the times that determine the direction of people. As a talented and prestigious elder, Cai Lan also gave up the struggle and surrendered to the secular world, so he could not lead the way for the confused young people.
In fact, living in any environment will have all kinds of temptations that we need to resist. Trying to achieve something is definitely not the way to surrender to temptation.
But there is certainly no standard answer to how to live. If you like to live a relaxed life like an old gentleman in Cai Lan, there is nothing wrong with it.