Liang Wendao

Liang Wendao

Liang Wendao, born in Hong Kong on December 26, 1970, is known as "Taoist priest". His ancestral home is Shunde, Guangdong Province. He is an intellectual and media man in Hong Kong.

He graduated from the Department of philosophy, Chung Chi College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Since 1998, Liang Wendao has been active in the cultural and intellectual circles of Hong Kong. His footprints range from university lecturers, cultural practitioners, freelance writers, TV and radio program hosts, Dean of Niupeng academy, middle school principals, commercial radio station directors, film creators and drama critics, writers, Book Critics, food culture researchers, current affairs commentators, music critics, to public crisis Processing specialist, environmental rights defenders, animal conservation ambassadors and observers of the Hong Kong Society for the protection of animals, monuments researchers, cultural promotion researchers, AIDS rights volunteers, etc.

Liang Wendao once said that his favorite city is Hong Kong. Not long after liang Wendao was born in Hong Kong, his parents had to send him to take care of his grandparents in Taiwan because of the economic factors at that time. He received education in Taiwan when he was in middle school, and returned to his parents' home in Hong Kong when he was 15 years old. However, the situation turned upside down, and he began to realize the social and political conflicts between the two sides of the Strait. Wandering between three sides of the Strait, Liang Wendao's article analyzes the social dynamics of Chinese mainland, Hongkong and Taiwan.

Liang Wendao launched the audio program eight minutes on Dragonfly FM.

Character experience

Childhood segments

Liang Wendao's childhood is one of the typical life portraits of many poor families in the 1970s. Because they were poor, their parents had to go out to work for food and clothing. When they couldn't afford a babysitter to take care of a four month old baby boy, they finally chose to entrust the baby boy to their grandparents. The only difference was that his grandparents were in Taiwan, like near and far away. Liang's parents couldn't pay $1.80 to visit him by bus at any time. Or because he had been sent away from his parents before he was sensible, Liang Wendao didn't think it was a childhood defect at all, and used "good free" to describe his childhood. "For the old people, it's a pleasure to have a grandson to live with them, so they take good care of me. In addition, after three years of boarding life in junior high school, they become very independent."

Recalling his childhood, Liang Wendao, whose family is Catholic, especially remembers the teaching mode in primary school. "At that time, the scale of the Catholic Primary School was very small, with only one class in each grade and only a few teachers coming and going, but it was very open. In the second and third grade, the teachers began to ask the students to take turns in groups to teach as teachers, and they assisted from the side, so as to cultivate the students' ability of self-learning, exploring and solving problems. In middle school, priests will also discuss philosophical issues with us. They attach great importance to knowledge training. " Liang Wendao said that his Chinese foundation was based on reading a large number of books and newspapers in primary school. His grandfather also cultivated him to read outlaws of the marsh, romance of the Three Kingdoms and four books, which made him form the habit of reading and thinking since childhood. "My grandfather made me learn basic education and values that I couldn't learn in many schools.".

nationalist

Perhaps influenced by different political environments, children who grew up in the colony of Hong Kong in the 1960s, 1970s and even 1980s were rarely cultivated a sense of patriotism. Liang Wendao, on the contrary, has been a strong nationalist in Taiwan's education system since childhood. He worships Sun Yat Sen. even though from the beginning to the end, Taiwanese regard them as mainlanders. "Many of us from other provinces only make friends with people from other provinces. In this group of people, China is a big China that has been lost and can no longer be found. They still talk about Beijing as Beiping. They miss eating bean milk for breakfast, listening to Peking Opera, and reading Liang Shiqiu's books with Beijing as the background. All their thoughts are still in the period of the Republic of China. I am a immersion People who grew up in the culture of the Old Republic of China. "

When I returned to Hong Kong in the summer vacation of my third year of secondary school, I had the opportunity to contact domestic publications. I felt that something was wrong. When I returned to Hong Kong to study in the fourth year of secondary school, my strong national sentiment towards the Republic of China collapsed overnight. "It turns out that the Chinese literature and history I read in Taiwan in the past is only a incomplete part. Many of the Chinese history I have already known turns out to be a different matter. Looking at the domestic history books, there are also problems. Only in Hong Kong can you see the problems on both sides, so you will begin to doubt on what basis your past understanding and feelings about China are based 。”

"It was Hong Kong that enlightened me!" Liang Wendao sighed.

Escape from life

Liang Wendao said that he was a bad student in junior high school. He had poor grades and bad conduct. He was very rebellious. Even if his parents didn't send him to Taiwan, he thought he was still a rebellious person. Liang Wendao's rebellion, which came back to Hong Kong from Taiwan, has never changed. However, with the change of ideology and environment, the form of rebellion has changed from fist to cultural rebellion. At the age of 17, while coping with the advanced level examination (the current advanced supplementary level examination), he contributed to the cultural edition of Xinbao and wrote drama reviews, which is said to have provoked a battle of words. As the exam approaches, he is still addicted to Huo Qilin. Liang Wendao says that it is not that writing has special magic power, but that he is not happy and wants to express his opinions through words. "Writing is also an outlet for me to escape from school, system and life." Liang Wendao said, "stuffy" is the reason why he is eager to escape. He has hated living under any system since he was a child. He is dissatisfied with his walking corpse. He has never thought about what kind of life he wants, just because he thinks that his long-term goal is too unrealistic.

As seen in newspapers and magazines, rebellious young people always like to make some eye-catching moves as an exit from reality. The most classic scene of Liang Wendao is that in 1989, when he was a freshman in University, he took off his pants and sat on a sputum can to confront the police in order to protest against the "four insistences", which made him famous in the academic world. Looking back at it more than ten years later, "well done!" He laughed. "It's something that needs courage to do. I didn't expect to take off my pants at the beginning, but it's the same movement when I went there. For me, who was more than 10 years old at that time, I felt very proud to have such calm and thoughtful thinking to do something that reflected my personal opinions, which may not be possible today. " He also said with a smile that it was only a few days later that Liang's mother knew about the earth shaking incident through Sparrow's feet, and that his family was not surprised by his appearance.

Footless sparrow

In the true story of a Fei, Xu Zi says that he is a bird without feet and there is no place for him to stay. Before joining the commercial TV station, Liang Wendao never had a long-term job in an office where he would return to Korea nine to six. Even Phoenix Satellite TV, who has worked for five years, has only done a seven month contract long-term job. He only needs to return two and a half days a week, just like a bird without feet. Compared with those in his early 30s, who had not graduated and had already made plans for their own future, Liang Wendao was really extraordinary. He explained: "I am a philosophy student. If I choose this subject, I don't have to worry at all. If I think clearly, I can engage in academic work. However, because of my poor grades, I went to an afternoon School of a primary school for half a year as a substitute teacher. I rode a bicycle from Tai Po to Sha Tin every day and had a good time." From a free man to a director of commercial one, this footless bird seems to have found a place to settle down, but he says that he still has a lot of things to do. Joining the commercial one does not mean that he wants to stop from now on. "I never think about what career I can do, because for me, as long as I meet two conditions, I can do anything. First, I must like it; second, I must like it It can make me accomplish my dream. "

When it comes to ideals, the bird, who claims that he will never think too far away, suddenly becomes very serious and divides his ideals into two aspects: Tai Wai and individual. "The ideal of Tai Wai is abstract and illusory, but it is very specific to me, that is, how to help Hong Kong and China become better. I feel that all the work I have done in the past is under this premise. For example, the chat TV program I presided over was aimed at the middle class, intellectuals and businesses in China. In the program, I discussed with them environmental protection issues, functional issues and criticism of nationalism. I just wanted to enhance their identification ability and learn to see things from multiple perspectives. " Just as he set up the cowshed academy, he only wanted to build a more open and knowledgeable group for Hong Kong, while he wanted to participate in cultural policy discussions and current affairs criticism, so as to make Hong Kong a more open, democratic and free society. "Although outsiders may think that what I have done is scattered or even irrelevant, I know very well that what I have done is to move in the same direction. As a director of a commercial TV station, I just take one more step in the same direction." Liang Wendao often said, "we should believe in ourselves!"

Add flavor of thinking

Liang Wendao hopes to do something for Hong Kong and the mainland through the enormous power of the media, and chooses to become the director of a commercial radio station with the highest listening rate in Hong Kong. Sima Zhao's heart is obvious to all, which proves that he is not the one who has no long-term goal in his own words. Half a year later, under the supervision of Liang Wendao, some people think that it is middle-class, but he doesn't like the word "middle class". It should be that the scope of thinking and concern is wide. Although it is only some subtle things, it has impact The reason why he is interested in broadening the vision of Hong Kong people is that he has found that in the past ten years, Hong Kong people

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