Who are you standing with?

By chance, today I am fortunate to learn an interesting history about the two veteran Hong Kong teams, Yuyuan and Dongfang. Yuyuan was founded by leftists and was regarded as a leftist team; Dongfang was a rightist and had a pro-Taiwan background. In the middle of the last century, the two teams played against each other on the court, which was dubbed the "Kuomintang-Communist War". Look, it's really impossible to play football without politics. It is said that politics and sports should be separated, but in fact they have never been separated. Up to now, basketball players have publicly supported Xinjiang, badminton players have called Taiwan a country, 47 elite athletes from Hong Kong who have signed a joint statement to support the anti-extradition campaign, etc. As a spectator, do you need to examine the athletes' political stance in advance before deciding whether to support or not? What about their athletic performance?

Just last Sunday afternoon, we were stuck on National Highway No. 1. When we were bored, the young master suggested that I play the song Beyond. Listening to Ka Kui's accusing and sad singing, gossip about Ekin Cheng with his husband - he did not become a big brother in the Greater Bay Area like other young and dangerous boys, but chose to come to Taiwan to film. As a Ka Kui fan, I couldn't help but think of a question.

"If Ka Kui hadn't died, you said, would he choose to stand with the 1.4 billion people today, or with the people of Hong Kong?"

"I don't know, but now it seems that Huang Guanzhong and Ye Shirong are both making money in the mainland." The husband paused, "Fortunately, Jiaju is gone, so don't bother standing."

If Jiaju is still alive and he chooses to stand with 1.4 billion people, will I still love him? This question really makes me scratch my head. I turned to a question, people are just eating (making money), why should I be so sensitive to the choice of Hong Kong artists to stand with 1.4 billion people? Should mainland artists come to Hong Kong to perform or exhibit their works, should they be regarded as pro-Hong Kong? It doesn't seem right.

Compared with Hong Kong, Ding Dian Dian is a big place. The mainland has 1.4 billion viewers. It is indeed a good place to eat. There are also many friends from Hong Kong and Taiwan around me who will follow the variety shows or dramas in the mainland. I also listened to them to know that Cai Shaofen said that Hong Kong is so funny. Look, everyone is entertained, and the artists have money in their pockets. What a happy thing. What position do I have to ask everyone to be the same as Brother Ming (Huang Yaoming), stand with the people of Hong Kong, and limit the acting career to Hong Kong? ? What am I resenting? So I thought about it on the stop-and-go National Highway 1.

I think of a Hong Kong director Peng Haoxiang who I used to like very much. The slapsticks and bastards, swear words and dialogues in his films are all full of Hong Kong flavor, and they always make people sad after laughing. My favorite piece of his work is "Aberdeen", and when I heard Tsang Chi-wai say "Exhale, Inhale" in the play, I burst into tears. Although the film was released in the first half of 2014, when I actually watched the film during the Umbrella Movement, it was hard to avoid double the sadness. During that time, Peng Haoxiang also wrote a column in "Apple Daily". I remember that he wrote a letter to his nephew in the United States to introduce the Occupy Central Movement and express his support for young people. I specially forwarded the article to my mainland friends who are also fans of Director Peng. I also said to her, "Peng Haoxiang is really a man with a heart, and we don't like him for nothing." After that, I also bought Peng Haoxiang's book "Breakthrough of Strange Forces" Flower Skirt", which still contains vague comments criticizing the mainland. I remember that I took this book to accompany the young master to the primary school interview. While waiting in a solemn Christian primary school auditorium, I read the vulgar and wise words in the book, laughing until my shoulders kept shaking.

What is shocking is that in August 2019, without warning, Peng Haoxiang publicly declared himself to be a "flag bearer" on social media. At that sensitive moment, such an announcement was undoubtedly a stand-up. Du Wenze scolded his former friend with foul language on Facebook. It is not surprising that as people grow older and know more about the world, their political stances change accordingly. But just a sentence of "flag bearer", without the context, inevitably makes people feel that there is a strong sense of surrender. It is said that even if he declared himself to be a flag bearer, he did not allow Director Peng to obtain approval to start a show in the Mainland. He has now immigrated to Canada. What I still don't understand is, does an Aberdeen who is so talented and advocates freedom really need to be a flag bearer? If you say I'm not disappointed with his line-up behavior, you'd be lying.

I don't think I have an opinion on the artist going north to eat food. What I am disgusted with is probably the artist who bows to the bottom of the RMB for the sake of RMB. Especially in the past two years, I saw that Hong Kong artists survived cautiously in the mainland, and sometimes they were labelled as Hong Kong independent artists just because they narrated a sentence in their daily life. At that time, I would be intimidated. Not only did I have to explain carefully, but also I apologize to the vast number of netizens for not doing well enough. When I saw this news, I couldn't help but cry. The most terrifying thing is that no matter whether some Hong Kong artists actually want Hong Kong independence or not, in short, those who do not rely on the mainland, if they do not say something to please, they are all "Hong Kong independence artists" and they will all be banned. But the good news is that even if they are labeled, there are still many artists who are deeply involved in the local entertainment industry, especially the music world. I feel that a lot of good Cantonese songs have been born in the past two years. When I hear the lyrics full of fables, I think about the meaning behind the words, which warms my scarred heart.

A long, long time ago, Hong Kong football was all about politics, not to mention the media, entertainment and all walks of life. No one can be alone. Of course, choosing which side to stand on is a very personal issue, but when choosing, it is best to touch your chest to see if your conscience is still there.

At this time, the song of Beyond in the car has been put on Amani, whom the young master likes very much, "...Walking through the sky just looking for freedom/heart/Hundreds of billions of hearts are broken/today all the troubles/as if the truth disappeared on the earth/ Helpless and Frozen Eyes / Looking at the sky with tears and grief / Complaining about the war to the end / Pain is a child", this song composed by Ka Kui 31 years ago is still timeless to listen to today. Well, if Jiaju is still there, he can either go to the mainland to be a teacher of Huang Jiaju or a brother. I believe he will definitely compose a song for Ukrainian children and world peace, and I will still love him so much. of.