6 | Monday, October 21, 2019 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY 7 In 1980, the Hong Kong TV series Wong Kar-wai’s fi lm, Days of Being Wild, played by Chow in 1990, brought Leslie Cheung his first Yun-fat, The Bund, Best Actor trophy in the Hong Kong Film Popular mainland TV dramas in HK swept up both Hong Awards. Along with many other classical and TVB rating rankings Kong and Chinese diverse screen images In the 1990s, Hong Kong mainland television he created, Cheung actor and director Stephen Fashion changes over time. But closer interaction and mutual infl u- Ye a r Drama Ranking In the ’70s, Hong Kong audiences with its remains one Chow gained fame through ence can be seen through ever-changing fashion styles of Hong Kong 2000 Records of Kangxi’s Travel Incognito 10 kung fu star Bruce Lee checkered plots and of the most his unconventional “silly and the mainland over the past 70 years. The two parallel fashion took Chinese martial arts powerful theme song. iconic actors talk” humor, earning him styles began to overlap in the 1970s when Hong Kong movies and TV 2006 The Return of the Condor Heroes 3 to Hollywood for the fi rst in the city’s the nickname dramas dominated the Chinese-speaking world. The interaction of the time. His movies gained movie “the king of two places grew much more intense under the impact of globalization 2015 The Empress of China 2 enormous success around history. comedy”. in the 21st century. 2018 Story of Yanxi Palace 1 the world. He is recognized as an all-time kung fu and movie icon. Hong Kong Mainland Bulaji, transliteration Cheongsam of Russian for “one-piece dress” Western-style suit Records of Kangxi’s Travel Incognito ’50s Mao suit The Return of the Condor Heroes A-line Military dress uniforms in green, gray and blue Shirt with tight Memories in 70 years trousers The Chinese mainland and Hong Kong share a lot of common memories. For many people who grew up on the mainland, Hong Kong has been the doorway to the newest fashion trends and pop culture since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Over the past 70 years, the interaction has become a two-way flow on all fronts, with the nation’s growing ’60s influence and the closer links between the mainland and Hong Kong. Story of Yanxi Palace The Empress of China Aviator sunglasses V-line Diqueliang dress Popular Chinese mainland cuisines shirt (Diqueliang is a type of chemical- Number of restaurants in HK listed on OpenRice, a popular local fi ber cloth) Turtleneck “Exchange foods” between the mainland and Hong Kong: online and mobile dining guide: Sweatshirt Bell-bottom Sichuan & Hunan 707 Baked with a mix- Filtered by a sackcloth bag First introduced to The pineapple bun doesn’t really contain Popular toys on the mainland that Pleated ture of egg, sugar, that smoothens the tea, Hong Hong Kong by chefs from pineapple; the name refers to the look skirt fl our and evapo- Kong-style milk tea is also called Guangzhou, the Hong Kong of the characteristic topping of the were made in Hong Kong: rated milk, the egg silk-stocking milk tea style egg tart features a bun, which resembles the skin Shanghai 434 ’70s wa e is one of the because the bag smooth and refl ective fi lling of the fruit. Hong Kong people The wind-up jumping frog and most traditional usually turns ingredient. love to cut the bun and stu moving tank were among the Hong Kong street brown after a piece of butter inside to earliest movable toys on the snacks that are still prolonged tea make it a Hong Kong-style Chaozhou 430 mainland in the 1960s. Most of popular today. drenching. ice fi re pineapple oil. them were made from metal can factories’ materials leftover. Oversized Aviator suit sunglasses Yunnan 310 Floral High-waist dress jean Cabbage Patch Kids, which were wildly popular worldwide “Forgive me, I’ve been an Because of their Legendary Wuxia novelist and Hong Kong comics always had Bell-bottom in the 1980s and 1990s, were unruly, untamed freedom- popularity in HK- essayist Jinyong (Louis Cha a massive reader base on the mass-produced in Hong Kong. lover all my life” (Boundless pop, Jacky Cheung Leung-yung) published his mainland: Oceans, Vast Skies) Hok-yau, Andy Lau fi rst novel in 1955. When The strip comic, Old Master Q, for ’80s Beyond, one of Hong Tak-wah, Aaron he died in 2019, over 300 example, holds childhood memo- Kong’s most infl uential Kwok Fu-shing and million copies of his 15 works ries for many in the days before rock bands in the history, Leon Lai Ming were had been sold worldwide. television and the internet. released the song in 1993. named the “Four His novels have infl uenced Fung Wan, a Wuxia comic set in The encouraging lyrics and Heavenly Kings” in the cultural development of Ming Dynasty, became well-known Hong Kong became a major Aaron well-written rhymes made the 1990s. Chinese-speaking communities around on the mainland after being production base for plastic Kwok’s it a trans-era classic. the world. adapted into TV series and movies. products in mid-1950s. hairstyle High-waist Jumpsuit jean Loose sportswear Late HK philanthropists who donated billions of dollars to the mainland: Born in Hong Kong in Henry Fok Ying-tung Born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Sir Run Run Shaw Born in Meizhou, Tin Ka-ping Born in Meizhou, Guang- Tsang Hin-chi 1923, Fok was one of the fi rst province, in 1907, Shaw — Guangdong province in dong province, Tsang was ’90s businesspeople from the city Hong Kong’s renowned movie HK$4.75 billion 1919, Tin made a fortune Schools named after one of the four business Over HK$1.2 Over HK$15 billion Tin Ka-ping to invest in the mainland. It donations in total mogul and philanthropist — donations to educational as an industrialist in leaders from Hong Kong billion Hair perms was reported that Fok invest- was also known as Shao Yifu. institutions on the Hong Kong. Known for Kindergartens 9 who was awarded a reform- became a ed HK$10 billion ($1.27 Founded a high-technology The Shaw Prize Foundation, his philanthropic legacy pioneer medal in 2017 for donations since the mainland since 1985 fashion billion) to support major business park in Nansha founded by Shaw, established of building schools on Primary schools 41 his profound contributions end of 1970s Secondary schools 164 infrastructure, plus educa- Macao Henry Fok Foundation the Shaw Prize in 2002 to the Chinese mainland, to the reform and opening- tion, culture and healthcare. recognize signifi cant break- he was hailed as a “great up. Asteroid No 3388 was Metal was founded in 2002 and had Fok, who died in 2006, was throughs in academic scien- educator”. The plastics named after Tsang. He was Loose chains approved around 6,013 Short awarded posthumously in tifi c research. Shaw, who died industry magnate, who also one of the fi rst recipi- shirt and and skirt MOP 1 billion from construction projects HK$1 billion 1,400 pant rivets 2017 for his outstanding con- in 2014, made extensive dona- died in 2018, led a simple ents of the Grand Bauhinia donated projects tributions to China’s reform 2002 to 2017. tions in cultivating young built on the mainland and frugal life despite donations in total Medal, in 1997. and opening-up. minds on the mainland. his fortune. 2000s.