China s wealth is in circulation, and the truth is hidden in the century old history of Shanghai and

The Chinese beauty circle, with Shanghai in front and Hong Kong in the back, is undecided in the future.

In "The Myth of Love" and "Flowers", the strongest tone of Shanghai men is the uncle, and the other "totals" are always not so natural, they have forgotten the tone of the previous generation and have not yet learned the new tone.

However, the Shanghai women in it are both delicate and independent, and they have seen the fireworks in the world, which are difficult to find anywhere else.

Of course, Shanghai in the 90s was not a gathering place for beautiful women, let alone a fashion distribution center. In the era of thousands of purples and thousands of reds, after the opening of Shanghai, just look at Hou Xiaoxian's movie "Sea Flower" based on the late Qing Dynasty.

(Screenshot of the movie "Flowers of the Sea").

In the era when Shanghai women were comparable to those at that time, all kinds of natural beauties gathered together, with a complete range of styles, and the Hong Kong entertainment industry of several years was the time when the walls of the era were covered with posters of Hong Kong stars.

Beauty is an industry, looks are an asset, and women are a mirror of the economy.

When the salt industry was developed, the beauties were in Yangzhou;

When grain and Huiban entered Beijing through the canal, the beauties stayed in Linqing and other cities for a while;

When the world's best flow into the rich land of Jiangnan, famous beauties such as Dong Xiaowan and Liu Rushi are either in Jiangning Mansion or Songjiang Mansion;

After the opening of Shanghai, it was gradually concentrated in Shanghai;

When Xiang won the financial victory, he went south to Hong Kong.

Shanghai started as a small fishing village, and its development has benefited from the general trend.

Before and after the Opium War, Shanghai belonged to Songjiang Prefecture, with only 200,000 to 300,000 people.

Shanghai's economic status is not worth mentioning. According to Qi Meiqin's "Research on the System of the Qing Dynasty", in 1795, the tax data reported by the customs showed that the Shanghai Jiang Customs had more than 70,000 taels of Kuping taels that year, which was far inferior to the most important Guangdong Customs (more than 1.17 million taels), and not as good as the Wuhu Customs (more than 230,000 taels) for domestic trade.

Hong Kong was even worse, with only 7,450 people on the island at the time of its opening, and the British considered it to be a "small, barren, unhygienic and worthless" place that was "worse than Sierra Leone in Africa because it was more unhygienic".

After the opening of the port, because of the favorable time and place, coupled with the impact of the war, the concession area absorbed a large number of people and capital, Shanghai's economy developed rapidly, to what extent?

On June 3, 1862, twenty years after the opening of Shanghai, on the banks of the Huangpu River, where the ships were full of ships and sails, a humble three-masted ship sailed into the river, with a red jade flag on a white background hanging on the mast, and most of the people on board combed the heads of samurai who seemed strange to people, and long knives stuck in their waists.

This was the first research ship at the beginning of the Meiji Restoration.

It includes Takasugi Shinsaku, the founder of the Choshu Clan and one of the pioneers of the Meiji Restoration, and Tomohiro the Satsuma Clan, who is known as the pioneer of Japan's colonial industry, and the first official visit to the new port of Shanghai during the shogunate period.

These pioneers of the Meiji Restoration were shocked not only by the prosperity of Shanghai, but also by the chaos and barbarism brought about by the war at that time.

There are many people who have written down that when they approached the port, they were struck by the bustling of the port.

Takasugi wrote in his diary that he was approaching the port of Shanghai, the most prosperous port in China. Merchant ships from European countries, thousands of them, anchored here, and became a forest of masts, which seemed to bury the entire port. On the shore are the merchant halls of various countries, with white walls thousands of feet high, like a city pavilion, and its grandeur cannot be described in words.

In 1860, Hikojiro Shiozawa visited the United States with a Japanese mission, and he believed that Shanghai was far more prosperous than "New York and Washington in the United States".

Decades later, the Japanese sinologist Hunan Naito said that Shanghai was "the first port in the East" and "the land of beauty in the south of the Yangtze River, and the incompetent".

At that time, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Osaka and other cities in East Asia could not look at Shanghai, and it would take a long time for Singapore to enter the economic stage.

Even in 1939, HSBC, the most profitable of the foreign banks in China, was operating "business as usual." In the middle of 1941, the net profit of the Shanghai branch was 2.4 million yuan, accounting for 28% of the total net profit of HSBC, and the net profit of Hong Kong was 1.8 million yuan and that of Singapore was 1.6 million yuan during the same period.

(HSBC Shanghai Branch).

In 1928, Coca-Cola was introduced to Shanghai department stores, and drinking Coca-Cola became fashionable, but Coke was nowhere to be found in Hong Kong.

Before the Anti-Japanese War, high-end apartments in Shanghai already had elevators, flush toilets, refrigerators and other electrical appliances.

In ** "The Siege of the City", Zhao Xinlin, a child of the family, wanted to please Su Wenjun, set up a table of wine and food, provided a bottle of fresh milk to the philosopher Yu Shenming, and said:

Didn't I coax you? I know your temper, and after this bottle of milk was delivered to my house, I left it in the electric refrigerator and froze. ”

Seeing the righteousness of the small section, Shanghai's first economic city in the Far East is by no means in vain.

Behind the special culture is a special economic foundation and social structure, in the early years of the first year, due to the great improvement of the governance structure and the development of public services, the situation of garbage and feces everywhere seen by Japanese visitors has been greatly improved.

The peerless flower show Shanghai beauties can't withstand the ups and downs of the times

Business is the promoter of entertainment, and a relaxed environment can produce people who live a beautiful life.

In 1909, there were 10,528 firms in Shanghai.

Entertainment is based on power and business. In the late Qing Dynasty, in the era of "Sea Flowers" and "Nine-Tailed Turtle", the bamboo branch wrote that the three beauties sat in the carriage of the high-headed horse:

The horse body is also colorful, and the new leather leaf is high-spirited. Dressed as a groom, it is the most four King Kongs.

Daiyu and Lan Fenyan boasted, today and yesterday are different cars. For the windy day of the skin leaves, the sedan glass is covered on all sides.

From 1893 to about 1919, the distribution center of maritime politics, culture and fashion was in Zhangyuan, where there were speeches by Zhang Taiyan, Ma Xiangbo, Sun Yat-sen, Cai Yuanpei and Wu Zhihui, as well as the clothes and sideburns of all kinds of beauties, as well as photography exhibitions and roller coasters, which was the first public space in modern China.

The earliest awakened women in the late Qing Dynasty fought for their rights here.

On December 6, 1897, 122 Chinese and foreign women discussed the establishment of the Shanghai Women's School in Zhang Yuanzhong's Ankaidi, and Mrs. Cai Jun of Shanghai Daotai attended the meeting, adding a touch of official color to the women's school, which was the first large-scale gathering of more than 100 people in Zhang Yuan.

From public intellectuals, politicians, businessmen, ** to celebrities, everyone listens to speeches, listens to stories, does business, looks at other people's fashion, and also shows their own brilliance, "Bamboo Branch Words" wrote:

Marlon chariots across the plains, and sits on the birds laughing and laughing. Skimming at the Hua Qi ran a few times, he whipped and went to Zhang Yuan.

When Qiyuan Loujun eats tea, it is appropriate to sit with sideburns and fragrant clothes. To learn to be fashionable and look fine, gold wire glasses nose bridge riding.

In order to publicize and conform to the taste of Shanghai-style citizens, from 1914 to 1920, Zheng Mantuo, a painter of the month card excavated in Zhang Yuan, painted a lot of moon card beauties, and since then it has been out of control, and more painters have joined the ranks.

Until now, we have seen some packaging labeling old Shanghai goods with Datouyue brand beauties printed on them.

There are not only Oriental beauties, but also Western beauties that make people dazzle.

Liang Qichao and other reformers once compared the "Western beauty" to an abstract "civilization", referring to both the body of a Western woman and Western civilization, which is based on the same tradition as Qu Yuan's metaphor of vanilla beauty.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the literati Huang Fumin came to Shili Yangchang in order to flee, and he was both infatuated and hated by the foreign market, especially the Western beauties who looked for opportunities to show their arms and chests.

In "Foreign Field Fu", he described "Western beauties, prodigal sons in the north; The language is like a warbler, and the mu is like a sting. Fang walked side by side, Qiang shook hands and stared. took the jade arm and helped Tan Lang to tighten his waist; Qi Bi Zhu lips, call Song Que Cha Hao teeth".

In 1909, Zhu Wenbing's "Bamboo Branches on the Sea" described Western women as much friendlier: "There are beauties in the West, and European women are so rich." The light gauze skirt mops the floor, and Chu Chu's slender waist is dusty. ”

By the time of the ** period, Ruan Lingyu, Shangguan Yunzhu and others were not Shanghai natives, and they were all concentrated in Shanghai, a fashion and entertainment center.

The hot celebrities in the current society were mainly concentrated in the north and south cities, that is, Beiping and Shanghai, and the representatives of them were Lu Xiaoman and Tang Ying, known as the North Continent and the Southern Tang Dynasty. In fact, after marrying Xu Zhimo, Lu Xiaoman lives in Shanghai.

Lu Xiaoman's story is widely circulated, talking about Tang Ying, his father Tang Nai'an studied medicine in Germany because of Gengzi's indemnity, and his brother Tang Yulu graduated from Harvard and served as the confidential secretary of Song Ziwen, the Minister of Finance of the National People's Republic of China.

The so-called lady is able to be traditional and Western, Tang Ying graduated from the Chinese and Western Girls' School of Shanghai Church School, is good at Chinese and English, can sing Kunqu opera and dance, and Lu Xiaoman worked together to perform Kunqu opera "Pick up Paintings" and "Call Paintings", worship Liu Haili to learn painting, and performed China's first English Peking Opera "Wang Baochuan". Xu Zhimo, Hu Shi and others became the guests of the beauties.

Interestingly, Xu Zhimo's ex-wife Zhang Youyi, Lu Xiaoman, Tang Ying, Jiang Xiaolu and others founded Yunshang Fashion Company.

Tang Ying used Chanel No. 5 perfume, Ferteramo high heels, CD lipstick, Celine clothing, LV handbags, and the same thing was high heels and cheongsam. These people are leading the fashion trend in Shanghai, and everyone follows what they wear.

After the Anti-Japanese War, Tang Ying was no longer active, and in 1948, Tang Ying moved to Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States in her later years.

Tang Ying's withdrawal, basically, can be regarded as the exit of the power of sea beauties, they went to Hong Kong, overseas, and scattered all over the world.

Its rise is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden.

At the end of the day, the feminine consciousness that grows on the soil of poverty and war is deformed and cannot be sustained. It is Hong Kong that inherits the beauty culture of Shanghai. Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers" is a reflection of Shanghai's beauty under Hong Kong's aesthetics.

Necessity in Chance Hong Kong has become the new Shanghai

Hong Kong and Shanghai complement each other, and the status of these two cities can be substituted for each other to a certain extent.

In terms of geographical location, Hong Kong does not have an advantage, but the continuous wars and famines in the mainland have made Hong Kong a success.

Most of Hong Kong's talent and capital are heading south, especially from Shanghai.

After the fall of Shanghai in 1937, a large number of bankers and wealthy businessmen went south to Hong Kong. In the late 1940s, capital continued to pour into Hong Kong, and the wealth brought by Shanghai immigrants alone accounted for more than 50% of Hong Kong's total wealth at that time.

(Movie actress Bai Guang went to Hong Kong in the 1950s **Douban).

After 1949, nearly 1 million residents of all kinds poured into Hong Kong, and in the following nearly 30 years, another million immigrants entered.

After entering the 50s, Hong Kong ushered in two strategic opportunity periods, one is the development of Southeast Asia's manufacturing industry, and the other is the capital to the north, becoming the first and the capital center.

Throughout the 50s, there was a special historical background.

On the one hand, in 1951, the United Nations imposed an embargo on China, and Hong Kong basically cut off exchanges with the mainland, and Hong Kong's entrepot ** plummeted.

On the other hand, there is a massive influx of money and population. With the influx of capital, labour and technology from the mainland, coupled with close ties to the international market, Hong Kong has entered a rapid cycle of labour-intensive manufacturing and low-end services to feed its large population.

In 1953, textiles and garments accounted for more than 50% of Hong Kong's export output, and until 1970, the proportion of Hong Kong's manufacturing industry was as high as 8103%。

For example, many of the older generation of Hong Kong tycoons of Li Ka-shing's generation started in the manufacturing industry, Li Ka-shing started as a plastic flower, and Guo Desheng started as a daily department store.

At that time, Hong Kong caught up with the express train of Southeast Asia's economic take-off and became one of the "Asian Tigers", which was not much different from other Southeast Asian countries at that time.

In the 80s, with the market-oriented reform of the mainland, Hong Kong once again ushered in a period of strategic opportunities and became the window city of the mainland to the outside world.

Hong Kong's local capital is going north, mixed with funds to pan for gold in the mainland, and Hong Kong has always been the largest FDI (foreign direct investment) place in the mainland, accounting for more than half.

The background of "Laughing at the Wind and Cloud" starring Zheng Shaoqiu is that Hong Kong funds went north to Dongguan to open a textile factory; Since 1990, mainland enterprises have begun to list on the Hong Kong market, and Hong Kong has become the most important platform for international financing of mainland enterprises.

Thanks to the Mainland, Hong Kong's GDP has grown substantially.

Official figures show that from 1970 to 1994, Hong Kong's per capita GDP rose from US$925 to US$21,421, maintaining double-digit growth rates for more than 20 years (except in 1985).

The annual growth rate is as high as 313%，27.4%，20.6%, and 205%。

Population growth combined with economic growth led to the first round of the property boom in Hong Kong in the late 1950s.

In 1958, he gritted his teeth and built a building in North Point, the most prosperous area in Hong Kong, and the rent continued to rise, so that he tasted the sweetness, and two years later built another building, and as a result, he became a financial and real estate giant in Hong Kong.

Li Ka-shing's sense of smell is sensitive, and in 1967, the atmosphere in the mainland spread to Hong Kong, and people were panicked and the property market plummeted. Li Ka-shing chose to buy bargains and use all the funds to buy low-cost land, old buildings, unfinished buildings, everything.

In 1970, when Hong Kong's economy took off and the property market hit the bottom, he owned 1.9 million square meters of real estate and had a rental income of more than 4 million Hong Kong dollars a year. Now, Li Ka-shing has bought all over the world.

The grievances of Hong Kong's wealthy families are just a footnote of the times, people are insignificant, even if they are like Li Ka-shing, they have only caught up with the tide of the times, and his ability is shining.

Shanghai and Hong Kong can be said to be mutually reinforcing and complementing each other. Without external forces, these two places were originally nothing more than obscure small fishing villages.

There's a Hollywood in Hong Kong that is under the Lion Rock of beautiful women

Hong Kong used to be synonymous with economic development, fashion trends, and entertainment centers, the Four Heavenly Kings, martial arts**, and Hong Kong movies, which are indelible memories for two generations.

The early development of Hong Kong's film industry had a lot to do with the mainland.

From 1933 to 1934, because of the ban on monster martial arts films and costume barnyard historical films, "Tianyi" moved south to Hong Kong, after which the Shaw brothers (Shao Chuenren, Shao Yanmei, and Run Run Shaw) sat in Hong Kong and established a film empire. More than ten years later, because of the Anti-Japanese War, some people from the Shanghai film industry flowed into Hong Kong to produce "national defense films".

Since the 50s, Shanghai beauties have poured into Hong Kong on a large scale to enhance Hong Kong's appearance. By the 90s, Hong Kong beauties were popular all over the country, and even influenced the aesthetics of the whole of East Asia.

At that time, Hong Kong was a melting pot of aesthetics. Zhao Yazhi, Maggie Cheung, Qiu Shuzhen, Li Jiaxin, Carina Lau, Wang Zuxian, Lin Qingxia, Zhong Chuhong, they are unforgettable at a glance, but they have their own characteristics.

It is worth noting that, just like Shanghai a hundred years ago, there are many foreign beauties.

(Hong Kong actresses shine **Douban).

Generations of Miss Hong Kong, after witnessing the glory and decline of the great era, have disappeared into the dust. Now, the beauty scene has become history, and foreign beauties no longer go to Hong Kong to pan for gold.

The production of beauties often coincides with the improvement of the city's economic status.

In the 1950s, Hong Kong's economy began to transform for the first time, and the predecessor of the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant sprouted at the same time.

In the 60s, Hong Kong became one of the four Asian tigers, and beauty became the city's business card; By the 70s, Hong Kong's economy began to diversify and transform, and a large number of beauties were born in Hong Kong.

In the 80s, Hong Kong beauties entered their heyday. Correspondingly, Hong Kong TVB entered the first era after 1970, taking over the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant, increasing the frequency and changing it to once a year.

This event not only shows the singing and dancing in Hong Kong's heyday, but also becomes the strongest springboard for ordinary girls to realize their dreams in life.

In the forties and fifties of the twentieth century, beauty pageants were just a way for low-level women to find survival, and by the mid-to-late 70s, beauty pageants became an indispensable link in the entertainment chain and completed a metamorphosis.

Wealth consumes beauty, and beauty in turn creates wealth, and the feedback of wealth and beauty is getting faster and faster.

A large number of Hong Kong beauties have come to the stage, and now, Zhu Lingling, Maggie Cheung and others have already become a bookmark of Hong Kong culture, Wang Jing freezes Qiu Shuzhen, and Stephen Chow freezes Zixia Fairy.

The first decade of the last century was the peak of Hong Kong's film and television industry, and it was also the peak of beauty, and in the following two decades, it was successively overtaken by Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the mainland.

The same is true for Hong Kong's GDP. In 1976, Hong Kong's GDP of 24.2 billion surpassed Shanghai's GDP of 20.5 billion, and the GDP of Beijing and Suzhou did not exceed 10 billion at that time.

In 2008, Shanghai's GDP surpassed Hong Kong, in 2011 Beijing surpassed, from 2015 to 2017, Shenzhen and Hong Kong went hand in hand, in 2019, Guangzhou and Shenzhen surpassed comprehensively, and in 2020, Chongqing surpassed.

What is the reason for the beauty to stay?

In the past five years, the film and television industry has gradually been replaced by streaming, TVB artists have changed their way of living, and wave after wave of artists have opened short** accounts, learned the most advanced live streaming experience, and joined the team of gold panning in the north.

Sure enough, the end of the network is to bring goods.

At the end of 2023, the TVB Taiwanese celebration drama "News Queen" rushed to the hot search, triggering a wave of Hong Kong drama memory killing.

The heroine Charmaine Sheh is known as the last leading actress in the TVB** era, and she is also one of the very few Hong Kong actresses who can mix well in the mainland.

The Hong Kong media's evaluation of her is: strong grass in the wind.

In the era of immortal fights, TVB's four major actresses have changed from Cai Shaofen, Xuan Xuan and others all the way to a new generation of Myolie Wu, Xu Zishan and others, whether it is talent, appearance, acting skills or luck, Charmaine Sheh is not a fairy.

After countless hardships and hardships, Charmaine Sheh survived the opponent from the table with tenacity and dedication, which is where Hong Kong people were impressed.

The beauties of different styles are the marks of the Pentium era, and it is impossible to forget those youthful faces full of hope and ideals when we miss the Pentium era in Hong Kong.

When beauties grow old, there will always be a new generation of beauties born, and the soil is different.

The city is the same as the beauty, there will be troughs, there will always be tides, how can there be no beauty to see the white head.