In 1983, Hong Kong Radio Television broadcast the TV series The Legend of the Condor Heroes, in which Huang Rihua, who played Guo Jing, became famous overnight and became the most perfect brother Jing in the eyes of countless people.
But what many people do not know is that before Huang Rihua appeared, the title "Brother Jing" always belonged to Bai Biao, and he could be said to be a real "Guo Jing professional household".
After the hero Jin Yong wrote The Legend of the Condor Heroes and the Sculpture Heroes, the film and television circle remade the two books over and over again, and the role of Guo Jing has also been played by many actors.
But among these actors, Bai Biao plays the role of "Guo Jing" the most times.
And of all the actors who have played Guo Jing, only Huang Rihua and Bai Biao are the most recognized by the audience.
Huang Rihua is considered the best "young Guo Jing", while Bai Biao is considered the best "middle-aged Guo Jing".
Today, let's take a look at the life course of "middle-aged Guo Jing", see how he walked into the film industry from the slums, and because of what opportunity to become a "Guo Jing professional"!
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Hong Kong, 1946. Mr. and Mrs. Liu gave birth to their eighth child, a little boy. After the baby was born, Mr. and Mrs. Liu named him Liu Guorong, which was magnificent and meaningful. Later, when Liu Guorong entered the film industry, because of the popular stage name in the circle, he gave himself a stage name called Bai Biao.
After Bai Biao was born, his parents gave birth to four younger brothers and sisters one after another. Together with Bai Biao, they had a total of 12 brothers and sisters.
The more children, the better. This is the idea of the older generation. In addition to this, it was also because of the living conditions at that time that most people had neither the use of contraception nor the concept of contraception, so basically every family started with four or five children.
Although, many brothers and sisters are very lively things. But for Bai Biao, the excitement was limited to the day, and it was a headache at night.
Because, at that time, Bai Biao had only one wooden bed at home. Twelve brothers and sisters plus two parents, a total of 14 people are huddled on this wooden bed.
I'm afraid it's hard to see such a scene now, but it was nothing more normal at that time. In addition to sighing that the quality of the wooden bed is really good, there is only a helpless sigh left.
However, fortunately, at that time, Bai Biao and his brothers and sisters were still very young, and it was not too crowded for a group of people to sleep on such a wooden bed.
However, as Bai Biao began to study in primary school, the wooden bed could no longer be squeezed.
Fortunately, the children of the poor have a very big characteristic, that is, skinny and solid. The more difficult the environment is, the more conspicuous this feature is, even though it is forced by life.
So, when the plank bed could not sleep, Bai Biao and his brother, as well as the little playmates next door, went out to find a place to sleep at night.
At first, Bai Biao and others looked for a cemetery in Tsuen Wan. Although the cemetery was a little scary, it was clean and quiet. At night, when they lay in the weeds, they would usually sleep until dawn without being disturbed by any harsh noise.
After waking up, Bai Biao and others went directly to school with their schoolbags on their backs, and returned to sleep in the graveyard in the evening.
However, although the cemetery is quiet, it also has its disadvantages. First of all, the moisture on the ground is heavy, and from time to time there will be a few bugs in the weeds.
Therefore, after sleeping in the cemetery for a period of time, Bai Biao and others moved to the rooftop of Castle Peak Road and Shan Lane.
The rooftop is a good place to spend the night. Especially in summer, Bai Biao and others often come to the rooftop to sleep, because there is a natural cool breeze, blowing on the body is particularly comfortable. So that some people who blow air-conditioners at home are particularly envious when they see them.
And it is precisely because of the poor family conditions that Bai Biao already understood the importance of money at a very young age. At the same time, it also made him figure out a way to make money.
At that time, there was a small canal near the Kowloon City Ferry Pier. When Bai Biao and his brother went there to play, they saw the Loach inside, so they ran home and made a simple bamboo apple out of bamboo. After making bamboo pineapple, Bai Biao and his brother went to the market to pick up bread crumbs, bone crumbs and other things.
After picking up the bread crumbs, the two brothers took the bamboo pineapple, ran to the canal, threw the bamboo pineapple containing bread crumbs into it, and then pulled it up again on the count of one, two, three. If the Loach is caught, Bai Biao and his brother will take the Loach to the vegetable market in exchange for money.
Many people may have done this kind of thing when they were young, even if they only changed one or two cents or a few yuan at that time, they were extremely happy and satisfied. But when people grow up, even if they earn dozens or even hundreds of times more money than that, they may not be able to find that feeling.
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Bai Biao spent most of his childhood looking for a place to sleep and catching Loach for money.
Later, when Bai Biao arrived in his youth, he began to go out to work. At first, Bai Biao also changed many jobs, but finally settled down after entering a weaving factory.
At that time, the salary of the weaving factory was very good. Bai Biao could get 20 yuan a day, or 600 yuan a month. In the 1960s, if you can earn this amount in a month, it can be said that life has stepped into a well-off society. This made Bai Biao prestigious in front of his neighbors and friends for a long time.
However, although the weaver's salary is good, it is too wasteful for a young man like Bai Biao to spend his whole life in a weaving factory.
Moreover, Hong Kong at that time was small and had many opportunities. If he let go of it, he might one day turn around and become a big shot.
With such an idea, Bai Biao and his brother went to apply for the police in their spare time.
Being a policeman is the ideal in the minds of all men, and Bai Biao is no exception. But he and his brother went to apply for the police, in fact, not sure, purely to try their luck. To Bai Biao's surprise, the exam results were unexpected. The two brothers were not only admitted, but also arranged to go to the police academy.
However, before this result came out, an episode changed the course of Bai Biao's life.
At that time, it was almost 1969, and Hong Kong TVB held an actor training course as well as a Shaw martial arts skills training course.
The recruitment poster for this training course was published in the Morning Post at that time. Because Bai Biao likes to practice martial arts very much, so when Bai Biao's eldest brother saw it, he took the newspaper and found his brother Bai Biao and asked him if he was interested in having a try!
When Bai Biao saw the word "martial arts master", he felt that it was very to his taste, and he happened to be unable to apply for the police, so he no longer hesitated and went to Shaw Brothers to sign up.
At that time, Dillon, Kaohsiung, Chen Guantai and others signed up with Bai Biao. Together, they followed an old martial arts master named Lin Jiao into the training class.
If you look at the names of Dillon, Lin Jiao and Kaohsiung, you can basically understand the stage name of Bai Biao, which is symmetrical with the three of them.
Not long after Bai Biao entered the martial arts training class, the result of applying for the police came down, and he and his brother were admitted. But at this time, Bai Biao is no longer in the mood to be a policeman. Because he has learned the market from the mouth of the old martial arts master, the salary of a martial arts master like him is 60 yuan a day.
At that time, a suite in Hong Kong was only 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, and he could earn a suite a year.
Also because of the rich pay, Bai Biao also pulled his younger brother in and became a dragon and tiger martial arts master.
It can be said that from this time on, Bai Biao has also slowly had the momentum of turnaround.
However, before the real turnaround, Bai Biao has been acting as a stand-in, dragon and other work in a variety of martial arts films.
And because Hong Kong martial arts films were so popular throughout Asia at that time, many foreign film companies wanted to find Hong Kong martial arts masters to make some martial arts films, especially in South Korea, which is economically developed.
In the mid-1970s, Bai Biao, Lin Zhengying, Chen Guantai and other martial artists were invited to South Korea to shoot.
This experience left a deep impression on Bai Biao. Because the staff of the Korean film company shouted the master as soon as they heard their origin. And in addition to surprising admiration, South Korean studios offered him exorbitant fees that he had never heard of before.
Fifty thousand dollars for a play!
Today, this kind of reward is not a small shock to most people.
In this way, Bai Biao was paid the highest salary since his debut.
To his surprise, a luckier thing immediately fell on his head. But at that time, he did not know. While he was busy making movies, he was busy borrowing books from Lin Zhengying.
What I am looking at is Jin Yong's The Legend of the Condor Heroes. As The Legend of the Condor Heroes was divided into several volumes, after reading the first volume, he went to borrow the second volume from Lin Zhengying.
Just after reading the full volume of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Bai Biao received a call from Xiao Sheng, the person in charge of Jiayi TV Company. As soon as the phone was connected, Xiao Sheng asked Bai Biao, "is there a role you can take?"
Bai Biao asked what the role was! Xiao Sheng immediately told him that it was "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and that the company asked to find someone who looked simple and honest.
This answer made Bai Biao stupefied for a moment. He had just finished reading the book, and there seemed to be no other simple and honest characters except for the role of "Guo Jing". Immediately, he agreed at once. But at the same time, he is also a little uncertain, because the character "Guo Jing" is the leading actor, how can it be his turn?
And the truth is as Bai Biao guessed. When he went to audition for Jiayi TV Company, the person in charge told him that the role he was looking for was "Guo Jing"!
So, in 1976, Bai Biao became popular overnight with the role of "Guo Jing" in The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
Then, Jiayi TV struck while the iron was hot, and in the same year, it filmed "Divine Eagle chivalrous Men", and Bai Biao also played "Guo Jing" again.
At this point, Bai Biao's acting career can be said to be thoroughly stable.
However, most of the mainland audience's understanding of Bai Biao, or in 1995, TVB remake of the ancient Tianle version of "Condor Heroes."
This edition is the third time that Bai Biao has played Guo Jing, and it is because of this edition that Bai Biao is considered to be the best middle-aged Guo Jing.
If Kaohsiung is the most grandmaster actor in the film circle, then Bai Biao is the most chivalrous actor in the film circle.
Although his fame period is relatively short, the figure he left on the screen is unforgettable.
