A few days ago, Xia Yu's son Huang Yichen shared a photo of a family having a reunion dinner on social networks, and the recent situation of 78-year-old Xia Yu.
Xia Yu sat between his wife and son, his hair was gray and his eyebrows were sparse, he looked old.
Now that Xia Yu has aged so much, many people are shocked that they can't recognize it.
After all, everyone's impression of him has always been like this in "Heart Storm".
So, what exactly has he been through all these years?
Speaking of which, Xia Yu's life is really up and down.
Xia Yu, formerly known as Huang Chengzhi, was born in Guangzhou in 1946. His family was prominent in Guangzhou, his grandfather was the founder of the Guangzhou Cotton Cotton Cigarette Factory and the Cotton Tree Biscuit Factory, his maternal grandfather was a lawyer, his father was a businessman, and he was the daughter of the second house.
It's a pity that no matter how prominent his family background is, he can't withstand the torrent of the times, and the development of the mainland can't be done, so Xia Yu also followed others and smuggled to Hong Kong to make a living.
After arriving in Hong Kong, he did everything for three meals and Xia Yu, a site security guard, a cold storage porter, as long as he could make money, he was willing to do it.
However, the days of coolie labor soon ushered in a turning point, and the next year he saw in the newspaper that Shaw Brothers' Nanguo Experimental Theater Training Class was recruiting actors, so he signed up and successfully stepped into the entertainment industry and became a classmate of Yue Hua and Chen Honglie.
But at that time, the Shaw Brothers liked tall and powerful handsome actors, like Dillon and Jiang David, so Xia Yu didn't have many performance opportunities, and basically he could only play the role of a dragon.
In 1974, he was recommended by Zhong Jinghui to jump from Li's job to wireless development, and began to be praised as the leading actor in many TV series.
However, because he entered the industry later than others and grew older, Xia Yu was soon forced to transform into a father, such as in 1988, he and Stephen Chow collaborated on "Fighting Family", playing the father of Xingye.
Speaking of this drama, at that time, Xing Ye had already shown nonsensical skills, and some small actions would be added to the play, such as touching his stomach or something.
After that, he himself realized that the years were not forgiving, and began to transform into a comedy route, such as participating in the hosting and comedy performance of "Happy Tonight".
His humorous eloquence and ghostly image soon became deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
During "Happy Tonight", he also met his current wife Ma Huiling, who soon chose to marry his wife at the age of 42 and gave birth to a son and a daughter.
Around 1994, Xia Yu was worried about the follow-up development of Hong Kong, so he immigrated to Canada with his wife and children, left TVB, and stopped filming for a long time.
But in fact, when he immigrated to Canada, his life was not as good as he imagined, and all kinds of life pressures became more and more intense, and in 2000, he finally couldn't survive and decided to return to Hong Kong and TVB.
Although he came back again, he definitely no longer had the status of the former Xiaosheng, but he also gradually accepted the current changes and began to work hard to play the father of various protagonists.
In 2005, he won the TVB Best Supporting Actor Award for the fashion drama "Sweet Grandpa", which is also an affirmation of his many years in the industry.
In 2008, "Storm of the Heart" brought his career to its peak.
In the play, he plays the role of Gan Taizu, who is indecisive and likes to be muddy, but loves children very much.
As soon as this drama was broadcast, it became a hotly discussed TV series in Hong Kong, and the topic of every teacher's milk tea after dinner was the plot of the "Gan family" competing for production.
After the battle for the emperor, Xia Yu and Chen Hao, the "father and son", fought from the Gan family to TVB.
When the first part of "Heart Storm" was a big hit, TVB awarded Emperor Shi to Chen Hao, the old drama bone Xia Yu was very unhappy, and publicly complained in front of **, thinking that most of the jokes in this drama were designed by himself, and even Chen Hao was taught by him how to act, but in the end, Emperor Shi gave it to Chen Hao, and he felt very unfair.
After the broadcast of "The Home of the Heart Storm" in the second year, TVB hurriedly gave Xia Yu the emperor of the year, which can be regarded as calming the turmoil.
Therefore, Xia Yu has also become TVB's oldest TV emperor.
In 2012, Xia Yu left TVB again and began to shift his focus to his native hometown - Guangzhou.
Because he is famous and has a good sense of humor, he mixes well on Guangdong TV, and he can often be seen in various short dramas and sketches or TV shows.
The Ruyi life in Guangzhou also changed Xia Yu's view of the mainland.
In an interview with Wang Manling, a senior ** person in Hong Kong, Xia Yu once sighed and said: "I really regret the decision to immigrate to Canada, if I know that the mainland has today's development, I would rather go back to Guangzhou to live, but this may be the arrangement of fate." ”
In 2010, he bought a 700-square-foot flat in Sai Kung with an underground garden village house for 2.68 million yuan, renamed it "Rain House", which is now worth 10 million.
A few years ago, he spent more than 20 million yuan to buy two units in Tai Wai for investment, and now his investment has appreciated a lot, ensuring that he will have no worries in his old age.
It's really enviable.
No wonder many people have said before that it is better to speculate on real estate than to do business, which seems to be quite right.
However, seeing Xia Yu's legendary life, from a smuggler to a property speculator with a net worth of tens of millions, not everyone can have this opportunity, just like he said, this is the fate arrangement.
When everyone mentions Xia Yu, which role does he think of?