Cai Lan
Cai Lan
Cai Lan, born in Singapore on August 18, 1941, is a writer, gourmet, film producer and host.
brief introduction
Cai Lan, born in Singapore on August 18, 1941 and native to Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, is a film producer, gourmet, columnist, film host and businessman.
He is now the honorary president of the world Chinese healthy diet Association. Cai Lan was specially invited as the general consultant of the Chinese food documentary "China on the tip of the tongue".
Together with Jin Yong, Huang Zhan and Ni Kuang, they are known as "four talents of Hong Kong" and "God of food".
Character experience
In 1955, the first film review "the madhouse" was published in Singapore's "Nanyang Business Daily", which was out of control.
In 1957, Cai Lan became the resident manager of Shaw film company in Japan.
In 1959, he left Singapore for a foreign country, and then studied in the film editing department of the Art Department of Japan University.
After arriving in Hong Kong in 1963, Cai Lan worked as a film producer for the largest studios in Southeast Asia, such as Shaw and Jiahe. The films supervised include: fast food truck, brother dragon and brother tiger, lucky star, city hunter, thunderbolt fire, a good man, crime squad and other blockbusters starring Jackie Chan.
In 1989, Huang Zhan, Cai Lan and Ni Kuang co hosted the TV program "no defenses tonight", which set a record for Hong Kong's TV ratings at the same time.
In 1992, Cai Lan entered the business circle and established a series of products including Baobao tea, Baobao rice coke, etc. Cai Lan's sauces include salted fish sauce, Caifu yaozhu sauce, Lanjiao yaozhu sauce, jinchili sauce, etc.
From 1997 to 1999, Cai Lan hosted TV programs such as "Cai Lan's life is really fun" and "Cai Lan sighs the world".
In 2007, Cai Lan restaurant was opened in Shenzhen.
In 2008, Cai Lan hosted TVB TV program "Cai Lan Tan famous dish".
In 2009, Cai Lan, a talented man in his late 70s, returned to the world. He joined hands with Shenzhen satellite TV to create the food ace program "Cai Lan food fashion" and served as the honorary chairman of the world Chinese healthy diet Association.
2009-2010, hosted TVB program Cai Lan taste.
In 2010, he published Cai Lan's latest collection of works: Friends of Cai Lan, map of Cai Lan's delicious food, wine tasting of Cai Lan and jokes of Cai Lan.
In August 2011, he launched his new books "restaurant of life" and "business classic of Cai Lan" in the southern Book Festival, which were widely welcomed by readers. In October 2011, he published Cai Lan's reading and traveling in the world in Guangdong Tourism Publishing House.
In 2012, he presided over the ATV tourism catering program "Cai Lan Asia Yile Ye".
In 2013, he published his works "to be open and put down is life", "to live happily", "to be old enough to say goodbye to loneliness".
In 2016, he published his work "travel and food of Cai Lan".
Personal life
member of family
His father, Cai Wenxuan, was a deputy in film distribution and publicity. He was a poet and calligrapher. He died on his ninetieth birthday. Mother, principal of primary school, retired, eats bird's nest and drinks XO cognac every day. She is 90 years old and her skin is whiter than her children.
My sister Cai Liang is the principal of Nanyang women's middle school, one of the largest universities in Singapore. Her husband is also the principal of a middle school. They all retired.
Elder brother Cai Dan, who followed his father's career, died a few years ago.
My younger brother, Cai Xuan, is a senior producer of Singapore TV, and retired. Only Cai Lan has not retired.
His wife Fang qiongwen, also a film producer, has retired and has been married for decades.
Life attitude
Since the publication of madhouse in Xingzhou daily at the age of 14, it seems that Cai Lan's orientation of work value has been doomed since then - he took a group of classmates to eat, drink and have fun when he got the contribution fee.
Ni Kuang said that "Cai Lan is one of the few people who doesn't speak ill of him behind his back". Huang Zhan said that "Cai Lan is my most trustworthy friend". Jin Yong said that "I'm not as good as Cai Lan in terms of style and variety. He's a really smart person.". "Life is always floating. Why can we keep it steady? It seems that there is an anchor on the ship. We have the most traditional creed, which is very simple: filial piety to parents, punctuality, and kindness to friends.
”Cai Lan always insists that he will do what he promises to his friends. If he respects each other, he will be trusted by his friends.
Behind Cai Lan's natural and unrestrained is not as easy as people see. In order to understand foreign language movies, he reads Chinese School in the morning and English school in the afternoon. He always keeps an amazing amount of reading. "If a writer does not like reading, he is not qualified to be a writer.".
All the time, he is still doing his best for life: "I work very hard to be a man. Only in this way can I have this time."
Many people have asked Cai Meilan what are you? Cai Lan said: "I just want to be a person. It's not easy.
To be a man is to try not to look at others' faces. It is unnecessary to look at others' faces. There should be mutual respect between people. So no matter what occupation the other party is, I always respect them. "
Main works
Making movies
Literary works
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Main achievements
In the 1980s, he began to write and published many works, mainly about food classics and travel notes. He first wrote columns in Oriental Daily and Ming Pao, and later wrote essays and food review columns in one weekly and apple daily.
In 1990, he and Huang Zhan and Ni Kuang hosted the Asian TV talk show "no defense tonight" and interviewed superstar guests including Chow Yun fat, Jackie Chan, and Zhang Guorong.
In the mid-1990s, Cai Lan entered the catering industry. She launched the "riot series" of snacks, sauces and tea drinks. She also participated in the opening of restaurants in Hong Kong, including "coarse food restaurant" and "lard for rice".
In 1997, he hosted the talk show "Cai Lan's life is really fun" produced by TVB, and in 1998, he hosted the tourism and catering program "Cai Lan sighs the world".
In 2006, Cai Lan travel agency was established in central. In the same year, he was honored as the best screenwriter of the 25th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 2007, he presided over the Food Program "Cai Lan's vegetable basket" and published "Cai Lan's lifestyle". In 2008, he presided over the food program Cai Lantan famous dish.
In 2011, he was the host of the Asian TV tourism program "Cai Lan's happy Asia". Since 2012, he has been the general consultant of the documentary "China on the tip of the tongue" for the first and second seasons and the film documentary "new year on the tip of the tongue", and has been invited to serve as the judge of the domestic food program "Top Chef" and other food programs.
In 2013, Cailan food city was opened in Fuli Yingxin building, Zhujiang New Town, Guangzhou.
Since 2014, he has successively set up his own brand "Cailan Huahua world" Taobao and tmall stores to sell all kinds of food, sauces and tea under his supervision
In 2016, he served as the director of the food tasting group of "food forest" of Ctrip, and cooperated with Ctrip to develop high-end food tourism routes.
In July 2018, the personal brand "Cailan Vietnam River noodles" store opened in central, Hong Kong.
Character evaluation
Cai Lan, together with Jin Yong, Huang Zhan and Ni Kuang, is known as the "four talents of Hong Kong" and the "God of food".
Cai Lan has a wide range of knowledge. She knows everything about music, chess, calligraphy and painting, sex and wealth, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, literature and movies. It is the first-class access to film, poetry, calligraphy, stone and food. (comments by Jin Yong)
Although the Wei and Jin Dynasties are romantic, they are still inferior. (comments by Ni Kuang)
He is one of the "four talents in Hong Kong" as famous as Jin Yong, Huang Zhan and Ni Kuang. He perfectly combines the dual identities of a gourmet and a businessman. Cai Lan is more successful than others. (Business Review Online)
He is good at writing essays; he is good at calligraphy, seal cutting and painting; he has developed his nature of loving delicious food to the utmost, opening restaurants and serving as a food judge. He even created his own "hot tea" in 1994, that is, after drinking too much, he can drink tea without worrying, which is popular in Hong Kong and Japan. (review of Southern People Weekly)
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