On this day, 64 years ago, on September 27, 1961 (August 18, 1961 in the lunar calendar), Andy Lau, the "Four Great Kings" of Hong Kong, was born. Andy Lau, MH, JP(Andy LauTak-wah, born on September 27, 1961) was born in Hong Kong and is a famous actor and singer. Liu Furong was given the scientific name when he was in school. In the 1990s, he was named one of Hong Kong's "Four Great Kings" and one of the most representative artists in Greater China. Andy Lau is an artist with multiple development: as a singer, he is the Hong Kong singer with the most awards in the Guinness Book of World Records; In terms of film, he has won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor three times and won two Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor. As of 2010, he has starred in more than 140 films. Andy Lau is now the owner of Yingyi Group and has participated in the production of many Chinese films as an investor. In 1999, Andy Lau was awarded the honor of "Hong Kong's Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons". In November 2000, he was successfully honored as the "World's Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons" and became one of the few Hong Kong artists to receive this honor. On July 7, 2006, he was "one of Hong Kong's most respected and loved performing celebrities and made a lot of contributions to Hong Kong films and music." His rigorous and professional working attitude is enough to become a model for young people "and" in recognition of his achievements in performing arts ", he was awarded the title of honorary academician by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, becoming one of the few Hong Kong actors to receive this honor. Andy Lau believes in Buddhism, is known as Huiguo, is enthusiastic about public welfare and often participates in charity activities. In 2008, Andy Lau was appointed as a Justice of the Peace by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. On April 23, 2010, Andy Lau was appointed as a director and vice chairman of the China Welfare Foundation for Disabled Persons. On May 2, 2010, Andy Lau was awarded the 12th "World Outstanding Chinese Award" and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ramsbridge University in New Zealand, Canada. Life brief introduction to Andy Lau was born in Tai Hang Village, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. There are three older sisters, one younger brother (Liu Desheng) and one younger sister, ranking fourth in the family. His father, Liu Li, was a firefighter at Kai Tak Airport when he was young. When he was a child, his family later moved to Diamond Hill in Kowloon, and later moved to Block 15 of Lam Tin Estate. When Andy Lau was five or six years old, his father, a firefighter, also opened a snack grocery store to make money to support his family. Andy Lau and his sisters often work together as helpers in the store. At that time, he was responsible for writing the names of dishes, laying the foundation for writing good calligraphy in the future. There is a "Jiancheng Studio" not far from the store. While delivering takeout to the set, he can often see the appearance of popular actors such as Cao Dahua, Shi Jian, and Feng Baobao when filming. Because his father loved eating barbecued pork, Liu Geng later bought the "East China Roast Meat" on the ground floor of Block 15 of Lantian Estate and gave it to his father. Now his parents both live in the Kadori Mountain Mansion, while his eldest sister's family live in the public housing of Xincui Estate, Tai Wai. Andy Lau once took the scientific name "Liu Furong" when he was in school, and "Andy Lau" was his real name. Regarding this matter, Andy Lau publicly clarified by himself in a Taiwan program. After graduating from Wong Tai Sin Catholic Primary School, Andy Lau was promoted to Kole Secondary School. After being promoted to Keli, Andy Lau did not concentrate on his studies. Instead, he walked with the fun classmates in school and called himself the "Seven Heroes of Keli". However, at the same time, he also enthusiastically participated in the performances of the school drama club on campus, participated in behind-the-scenes production and was responsible for the screenwriter, and the teacher who taught him about drama was the later famous stage drama screenwriter Du Guowei. Andy Lau received a score of 1B3D2E (Chinese Reader A) in the Secondary 5 Examination. After the first semester of Secondary 6, he attended the artist training class of Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB). In terms of film and television, Andy Lau was admitted to the 10th TVB Artist Training Class in 1981. Famous classmates during the same period included Wu Jiali, Liang Jiahui, Qi Meizhen, Zhang Zhiliang, Xu Jinjiang, etc., and became TVB actors after graduation. He performed for the first time in the TV unit drama "Hong Kong Hong Kong: Goodbye in Jianghu" produced by "Radio Television Hong Kong". Later, he became popular as the first male lead in the TV series "Falcon" produced by Li Tiansheng. In 1983, he was promoted by TVB to form the "Five Wireless Tigers" with Huang Rihua, Liang Chaowei, Miao Qiaowei and Tang Zhenye, and starred in many popular wireless series such as "The Condor Heroes" and "The Deer Ding Ji". Among them,"The Condor Heroes" is not only Andy Lau's most important masterpiece of TV series, Moreover, it was also selected by Mr. Jin Yong as one of the two TV series adapted based on his novels that he was most satisfied with in 2003 (the other was "The Book, Sword, Grace and Revenge" starring Zheng Shaoqiu in 1976). Andy Lau began to participate in films in 1982, and his first work was "Colorful Clouds Song" directed by Wu Xiaoyun. The first film to play an important role was "Fleeing to the Furious Sea" directed by Anhua Hui in 1982, and this film was nominated for Best New Actor at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1985, Andy Lau and Ye Dexian starred in the court drama "Outside the Law", which was a well-known work in the early films they starred in. Andy Lau played a young lawyer. The wonderful scenes of verbal battles in the court and the emotional drama outside the court based on his life experience made people tear. From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Andy Lau performed in many triad films, including "Carmen in Mong Kok", which won him the first nomination for Best Actor at the Hong Kong Academy Awards,"The Supreme", which launched the trend of gambling films, and "If the Sky is Love", which describes deep love. These characters, who were in the triad but had affection and righteousness, deeply influenced young people at that time. Even in the Hong Kong gangster comics published in 1992, There is a comic male protagonist who uses a portrait of Andy Lau to represent Chen Haonan. Andy Lau has also filmed a large number of commercial films based on his idol appearance. Among them, he has collaborated with famous director Wang Jing the most times. The most representative works in the romantic comedy category include the "Best Bad Friends" series and "Dancing with the Dragon". In the film, Andy Lau gave excellent play to his comedy talent; The other type starts with Chen Daozi in "The God of Gamblers" in 1989 and goes through "The Gambler" to "The Gambler 1999" and "The Gambler vs. Las Vegas" in the late 1990s, making Andy Lau's "Gambler", Chow Yun-fat's "God of Gamblers" and Stephen Chow's "The Holy Gambler" become representative characters in Hong Kong-produced gambling films. In the 1990s, Andy Lau began to change his image. Since 1991, he has starred in biographical films, such as the "Legend of Lei Luo" series. For the first time, the film successfully interprets characters with a huge age span. He was also nominated for the Hong Kong Academy Award for the second time for this film. The box office of the two works in the series has also totaled 53 million yuan in Hong Kong. The success of "The Legend of Lei Luo" also led Andy Lau to take on the "Casino Tycoon" series in 1992, which featured the biographies of Macau's gambling kings, and received good responses. In 1995, he starred in the racing film "Chariots of Fire", and his interpretation won Andy Lau a nomination for Best Actor at the Third Academy Award. The period from 1999 to 2004 was the peak period of Andy Lau's film career. A series of works such as Ya Zihua in "The Dark War", Hua Shao, the department manager in "The Lone Man and the Widow", Meng Hu in "The Fat Man and the Fat Man", Liu Jianming, the gangster undercover agent in "The Infernal Affairs" and "The Ultimate", and the monk in "The Big Guy" have not only won good results at the box office and reputation, but have also been nominated for Best Actor in five Hong Kong Film Awards from the 19th to the 23rd. They won two awards and were shortlisted for the 38th. The 40th and 41st Golden Horse Awards won one award. In 2005, he was nominated for Best Actor for the movie "Childhood's Dream". In 2006, he participated in "The Disciples" directed by Er Dongsheng, in which a drug lord was vividly portrayed, and this film won the Golden Academy Award for Supporting Actor Award for the first time. As the number of film collaborations between Hong Kong and the mainland of China has increased since 2003, Andy Lau has often starred in co-productions. In 2004, he first collaborated with famous China director Zhang Yimou in the martial arts film "Ambush from All Sides"; Then he collaborated with director Feng Xiaogang on "There are No Thieves in the World". In 2006, he starred in the China-Japan-South Korea co-production costume film "Ink Attack" directed by Hong Kong literary and artistic director Zhang Zhiliang. Andy Lau's role of Ge Li was also nominated for Best Actor at the 2007 Asian Film Awards. In 2007, Andy Lau was nominated for Best Actor at the 10th Hong Kong Academy Awards for his reckless image of Zhao Erhu in the film "The Warlords" directed by Chan Kexin. In 2010, in the film "Di Renjie's Imperial Empire", which was the return of Tsui Hark's martial arts, Andy Lau showed the image of the Tang Dynasty detective. The film also won praise from the epic entertainment giant as "the Chinese-language genre currently closest to Hollywood standards." In 2011, Andy Lau invested in and starred in "Sister Tao", which is based on real people. The film's very convincing and restrained performances made him claim to be emperor at the 48th Golden Horse Awards and the 31st Hong Kong Academy Awards. In October 2012, he was invited by the Golden Horse Awards Executive Committee to serve as chairman of the 49th Golden Horse Awards Jury. In 2013, he was invited to serve as chairman of the jury of the 7th Asian Film Awards. In terms of box office, since Andy Lau is the male actor with the largest number of films among Hong Kong's A-list movie stars (a total of more than 50 films from 1988 to 1992), in 2005, he won the Hong Kong Highest-grossing Male Actor Award with 108 films totaling approximately HK$1.73 billion in box office. In 2007, at the first Asian Film Awards hosted by the Hong Kong International Film Festival, Andy Lau won the Asian Film Box Office Superstar Award. As of 2012, there were 25 works in which he starred (first or second starring) had box office exceeding HK$20 million in Hong Kong, 14 of which exceeded HK$25 million. They were "God of Gamblers","Gambler","The Legend of a Hundred Million Hundred Million Detective Inspector Lei Luo","Trick Expert","Chariots of Fire","Lonely Men and Women","Slimming Men and Women","Full-time Killer","Infernal Affairs","Big Guy","Infernal Affairs III","Disciples","The Warlords" and "Peach". In terms of partners, as of 2010, the director with the most collaborations was Wang Jing, who had as many as 20 films. In terms of male actors, the male artists who have the best relationship with them are the other four tigers Liang Chaowei, Huang Rihua, Miao Qiaowei and Tang Zhenye who became famous in the wireless television era. There are also many actresses who have worked with Andy Lau. Among them, the one who has collaborated most times is Guan Zhilin, who has worked with him 11 times from "The Dragon Seizes the Treasure" in 1988 to the filming of "Wesley Blue Blood" in 1999. Therefore, the two sides were also called "screen lovers" by the media in the 1990s. When Guan Zhilin was a guest at his Hong Kong concert in January 2011, Andy Lau even laughed and said,"I really thought I would marry her"; In the 1990s, Andy Lau and Wu Qianlian acted as a couple five times; in the 2000s, the person who collaborated with Andy Lau the most times was Zheng Xiuwen, who played a couple in six films from 2000 to 2004. In addition, because Yip Tak Hen and Wah Tsai performed touching mother-son scenes in their famous TV series "Falcon" and "Outside the Law" series, Yip Tak Hen became Andy Lau's godmother. At Andy Lau's Hong Kong New Year's Eve solo singing in 2010, Yip Tak Hen participated in every performance as a resident guest. Singing career When Andy Lau and Lin Zixiang co-performed "Farewell to the Furious Sea", Lin Zixiang invited everyone to sing karaoke one day after the set ended work. Lin Zixiang appreciated Andy Lau's songs very much, so he greatly praised and encouraged Andy Lau to sing. So with Lin Zixiang's encouragement, Andy Lau began to develop his own singing skills, so Lin Zixiang can be regarded as the bole and first teacher of Andy Lau's singing career. In 1985, Andy Lau entered the music industry, and his first album,"I Only Know I Love You Now", did not receive much response. The first successful song was the title track of the same name in "Emotional Forbidden Zone" released in 1987. The first song to win an important award (the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards) was the title song of the same name in "Can I" released in 1990. The Mandarin album "If You Are My Legend" released in 1990 has sold 1.5 million copies in Southeast Asia. In 1991, the album "Endless Love" was released. On its first day of sales, it sold 160,000 audio tapes and 72,000 compact discs, with total annual sales in Hong Kong exceeding five platinum (250,000 copies). In the same year, another hit album,"Days Together", sold six platinum (300,000 copies), making it one of the three highest-selling albums in 1991. "Endless Love" and "Days Together" have both accounted for two of the 20 best-selling albums on Polarkin Records over the years. In 1992, the Cantonese album "My Own Style" released on Warner Records reached eight platinum records (or 400,000 copies) sales. Under the idol craze in 1992, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Liming, and Aaron Kwok were named the "Four Great Kings" by the media. By the 2000s, Andy Lau's record sales totaled more than 48 million in various places, making him the best among Chinese singers. Since 1990, Andy Lau has insisted on pursuing the development path of equal emphasis on Mandarin and Cantonese in order to strive for greater development space. By 2010, Andy Lau had released more than 50 new songs and albums. From the 1990s to the early 2000s, he has been at the peak of the Chinese music industry; In the mid-to-late 2000s, due to the rise of the new generation of singers and their own age, the influence of new songs was not as strong as before. However, record sales have always achieved certain results. Among the more representative Cantonese albums are "Can You" in 1990,"Can You","Love Never End","Days Together" and "Don't Don't Believe in Fate" in 1991. Andy Lau has won 500 pop song awards, making him the pop singer with the most awards in the Chinese music industry to date. As early as 2000, he had already won a total of 292 music awards and became the crown of Cantonese singers and was ranked among the Guinness World Records. Among them, he won six of the most popular male singers (1990-1992, 1994, 1999, 2004) and ten of the most popular Hong Kong male singers in the Asia-Pacific region (1993, 1995-1996, 2000-2006) at the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony held by TVB TV. A total of 21 songs won the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards (in 1991, three songs won both in 1992 and 1993). Won seven national most popular male singer awards at the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards Concert held by Radio Television Hong Kong (2000-2006) and 15 times Outstanding Pop Singer Awards (1994 to 2008), from 1990 to 2006, a total of 22 songs won the Chinese Golden Melody Award, and 11 Mandarin songs won the Outstanding Mandarin Song Award (The gold medals include six songs "Can't Be Without You","Forgiveness Water","China","Stupid Child","Wooden Fish and Goldfish" and "I Love You Not Enough". The silver medals include three songs "True Forever","Lovesickness Disasters" and "Practice". The bronze medals include two songs "My Heart Can Only Hold You" and "I Say I Love You Again"). He also won four joint music awards-Media Awards Singer Awards in 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2002, becoming the biggest winner of the four major music awards ceremonies four times. He won three Most Popular Male Singer Awards in the Global Chinese Song Rankings jointly organized by seven Chinese radio stations in Asia (the second in 2002, the third in 2003 and the sixth in 2006). Over the years, Andy Lau has held more than 400 solo concerts around the world based on his influence. In January 1993, Andy Lau held his first solo concert in Hong Kong at Hung Hom Stadium (his first solo concert was in South Korea). As of June 2011, a total of 141 performances have been held in Hong Kong Red Hall (20 performances each in 1993, 1994 and 1996, 15 performances each in 1999, 2001 and 2004, and 16 and 20 performances at the end of the New Year in 2007 and 2010 respectively); 118 performances have been held in the mainland of China. Although he spends a lot of time and energy on movies throughout the year, Andy Lau can also create a ticket sales boom in cities across China.On this day, 64 years ago, on September 27, 1961 (August 18, 1961 in the lunar calendar), Andy Lau, the "Four Great Kings" of Hong Kong, was born. Andy Lau, MH, JP(Andy LauTak-wah, born on September 27, 1961) was born in Hong Kong and is a famous actor and singer. Liu Furong was given the scientific name when he was in school. In the 1990s, he was named one of Hong Kong's "Four Great Kings" and one of the most representative artists in Greater China. Andy Lau is an artist with multiple development: as a singer, he is the Hong Kong singer with the most awards in the Guinness Book of World Records; In terms of film, he has won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor three times and won two Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor. As of 2010, he has starred in more than 140 films. Andy Lau is now the owner of Yingyi Group and has participated in the production of many Chinese films as an investor. In 1999, Andy Lau was awarded the honor of "Hong Kong's Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons". In November 2000, he was successfully honored as the "World's Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons" and became one of the few Hong Kong artists to receive this honor. On July 7, 2006, he was "one of Hong Kong's most respected and loved performing celebrities and made a lot of contributions to Hong Kong films and music." His rigorous and professional working attitude is enough to become a model for young people "and" in recognition of his achievements in performing arts ", he was awarded the title of honorary academician by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, becoming one of the few Hong Kong actors to receive this honor. Andy Lau believes in Buddhism, is known as Huiguo, is enthusiastic about public welfare and often participates in charity activities. In 2008, Andy Lau was appointed as a Justice of the Peace by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. On April 23, 2010, Andy Lau was appointed as a director and vice chairman of the China Welfare Foundation for Disabled Persons. On May 2, 2010, Andy Lau was awarded the 12th "World Outstanding Chinese Award" and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ramsbridge University in New Zealand, Canada. Life brief introduction to Andy Lau was born in Tai Hang Village, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. There are three older sisters, one younger brother (Liu Desheng) and one younger sister, ranking fourth in the family. His father, Liu Li, was a firefighter at Kai Tak Airport when he was young. When he was a child, his family later moved to Diamond Hill in Kowloon, and later moved to Block 15 of Lam Tin Estate. When Andy Lau was five or six years old, his father, a firefighter, also opened a snack grocery store to make money to support his family. Andy Lau and his sisters often work together as helpers in the store. At that time, he was responsible for writing the names of dishes, laying the foundation for writing good calligraphy in the future. There is a "Jiancheng Studio" not far from the store. While delivering takeout to the set, he can often see the appearance of popular actors such as Cao Dahua, Shi Jian, and Feng Baobao when filming. Because his father loved eating barbecued pork, Liu Geng later bought the "East China Roast Meat" on the ground floor of Block 15 of Lantian Estate and gave it to his father. Now his parents both live in the Kadori Mountain Mansion, while his eldest sister's family live in the public housing of Xincui Estate, Tai Wai. Andy Lau once took the scientific name "Liu Furong" when he was in school, and "Andy Lau" was his real name. Regarding this matter, Andy Lau publicly clarified by himself in a Taiwan program. After graduating from Wong Tai Sin Catholic Primary School, Andy Lau was promoted to Kole Secondary School. After being promoted to Keli, Andy Lau did not concentrate on his studies. Instead, he walked with the fun classmates in school and called himself the "Seven Heroes of Keli". However, at the same time, he also enthusiastically participated in the performances of the school drama club on campus, participated in behind-the-scenes production and was responsible for the screenwriter, and the teacher who taught him about drama was the later famous stage drama screenwriter Du Guowei. Andy Lau received a score of 1B3D2E (Chinese Reader A) in the Secondary 5 Examination. After the first semester of Secondary 6, he attended the artist training class of Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB). In terms of film and television, Andy Lau was admitted to the 10th TVB Artist Training Class in 1981. Famous classmates during the same period included Wu Jiali, Liang Jiahui, Qi Meizhen, Zhang Zhiliang, Xu Jinjiang, etc., and became TVB actors after graduation. He performed for the first time in the TV unit drama "Hong Kong Hong Kong: Goodbye in Jianghu" produced by "Radio Television Hong Kong". Later, he became popular as the first male lead in the TV series "Falcon" produced by Li Tiansheng. In 1983, he was promoted by TVB to form the "Five Wireless Tigers" with Huang Rihua, Liang Chaowei, Miao Qiaowei and Tang Zhenye, and starred in many popular wireless series such as "The Condor Heroes" and "The Deer Ding Ji". Among them,"The Condor Heroes" is not only Andy Lau's most important masterpiece of TV series, Moreover, it was also selected by Mr. Jin Yong as one of the two TV series adapted based on his novels that he was most satisfied with in 2003 (the other was "The Book, Sword, Grace and Revenge" starring Zheng Shaoqiu in 1976). Andy Lau began to participate in films in 1982, and his first work was "Colorful Clouds Song" directed by Wu Xiaoyun. The first film to play an important role was "Fleeing to the Furious Sea" directed by Anhua Hui in 1982, and this film was nominated for Best New Actor at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1985, Andy Lau and Ye Dexian starred in the court drama "Outside the Law", which was a well-known work in the early films they starred in. Andy Lau played a young lawyer. The wonderful scenes of verbal battles in the court and the emotional drama outside the court based on his life experience made people tear. From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Andy Lau performed in many triad films, including "Carmen in Mong Kok", which won him the first nomination for Best Actor at the Hong Kong Academy Awards,"The Supreme", which launched the trend of gambling films, and "If the Sky is Love", which describes deep love. These characters, who were in the triad but had affection and righteousness, deeply influenced young people at that time. Even in the Hong Kong gangster comics published in 1992, There is a comic male protagonist who uses a portrait of Andy Lau to represent Chen Haonan. Andy Lau has also filmed a large number of commercial films based on his idol appearance. Among them, he has collaborated with famous director Wang Jing the most times. The most representative works in the romantic comedy category include the "Best Bad Friends" series and "Dancing with the Dragon". In the film, Andy Lau gave excellent play to his comedy talent; The other type starts with Chen Daozi in "The God of Gamblers" in 1989 and goes through "The Gambler" to "The Gambler 1999" and "The Gambler vs. Las Vegas" in the late 1990s, making Andy Lau's "Gambler", Chow Yun-fat's "God of Gamblers" and Stephen Chow's "The Holy Gambler" become representative characters in Hong Kong-produced gambling films. In the 1990s, Andy Lau began to change his image. Since 1991, he has starred in biographical films, such as the "Legend of Lei Luo" series. For the first time, the film successfully interprets characters with a huge age span. He was also nominated for the Hong Kong Academy Award for the second time for this film. The box office of the two works in the series has also totaled 53 million yuan in Hong Kong. The success of "The Legend of Lei Luo" also led Andy Lau to take on the "Casino Tycoon" series in 1992, which featured the biographies of Macau's gambling kings, and received good responses. In 1995, he starred in the racing film "Chariots of Fire", and his interpretation won Andy Lau a nomination for Best Actor at the Third Academy Award. The period from 1999 to 2004 was the peak period of Andy Lau's film career. A series of works such as Ya Zihua in "The Dark War", Hua Shao, the department manager in "The Lone Man and the Widow", Meng Hu in "The Fat Man and the Fat Man", Liu Jianming, the gangster undercover agent in "The Infernal Affairs" and "The Ultimate", and the monk in "The Big Guy" have not only won good results at the box office and reputation, but have also been nominated for Best Actor in five Hong Kong Film Awards from the 19th to the 23rd. They won two awards and were shortlisted for the 38th. The 40th and 41st Golden Horse Awards won one award. In 2005, he was nominated for Best Actor for the movie "Childhood's Dream". In 2006, he participated in "The Disciples" directed by Er Dongsheng, in which a drug lord was vividly portrayed, and this film won the Golden Academy Award for Supporting Actor Award for the first time. As the number of film collaborations between Hong Kong and the mainland of China has increased since 2003, Andy Lau has often starred in co-productions. In 2004, he first collaborated with famous China director Zhang Yimou in the martial arts film "Ambush from All Sides"; Then he collaborated with director Feng Xiaogang on "There are No Thieves in the World". In 2006, he starred in the China-Japan-South Korea co-production costume film "Ink Attack" directed by Hong Kong literary and artistic director Zhang Zhiliang. Andy Lau's role of Ge Li was also nominated for Best Actor at the 2007 Asian Film Awards. In 2007, Andy Lau was nominated for Best Actor at the 10th Hong Kong Academy Awards for his reckless image of Zhao Erhu in the film "The Warlords" directed by Chan Kexin. In 2010, in the film "Di Renjie's Imperial Empire", which was the return of Tsui Hark's martial arts, Andy Lau showed the image of the Tang Dynasty detective. The film also won praise from the epic entertainment giant as "the Chinese-language genre currently closest to Hollywood standards." In 2011, Andy Lau invested in and starred in "Sister Tao", which is based on real people. The film's very convincing and restrained performances made him claim to be emperor at the 48th Golden Horse Awards and the 31st Hong Kong Academy Awards. In October 2012, he was invited by the Golden Horse Awards Executive Committee to serve as chairman of the 49th Golden Horse Awards Jury. In 2013, he was invited to serve as chairman of the jury of the 7th Asian Film Awards. In terms of box office, since Andy Lau is the male actor with the largest number of films among Hong Kong's A-list movie stars (a total of more than 50 films from 1988 to 1992), in 2005, he won the Hong Kong Highest-grossing Male Actor Award with 108 films totaling approximately HK$1.73 billion in box office. In 2007, at the first Asian Film Awards hosted by the Hong Kong International Film Festival, Andy Lau won the Asian Film Box Office Superstar Award. As of 2012, there were 25 works in which he starred (first or second starring) had box office exceeding HK$20 million in Hong Kong, 14 of which exceeded HK$25 million. They were "God of Gamblers","Gambler","The Legend of a Hundred Million Hundred Million Detective Inspector Lei Luo","Trick Expert","Chariots of Fire","Lonely Men and Women","Slimming Men and Women","Full-time Killer","Infernal Affairs","Big Guy","Infernal Affairs III","Disciples","The Warlords" and "Peach". In terms of partners, as of 2010, the director with the most collaborations was Wang Jing, who had as many as 20 films. In terms of male actors, the male artists who have the best relationship with them are the other four tigers Liang Chaowei, Huang Rihua, Miao Qiaowei and Tang Zhenye who became famous in the wireless television era. There are also many actresses who have worked with Andy Lau. Among them, the one who has collaborated most times is Guan Zhilin, who has worked with him 11 times from "The Dragon Seizes the Treasure" in 1988 to the filming of "Wesley Blue Blood" in 1999. Therefore, the two sides were also called "screen lovers" by the media in the 1990s. When Guan Zhilin was a guest at his Hong Kong concert in January 2011, Andy Lau even laughed and said,"I really thought I would marry her"; In the 1990s, Andy Lau and Wu Qianlian acted as a couple five times; in the 2000s, the person who collaborated with Andy Lau the most times was Zheng Xiuwen, who played a couple in six films from 2000 to 2004. In addition, because Yip Tak Hen and Wah Tsai performed touching mother-son scenes in their famous TV series "Falcon" and "Outside the Law" series, Yip Tak Hen became Andy Lau's godmother. At Andy Lau's Hong Kong New Year's Eve solo singing in 2010, Yip Tak Hen participated in every performance as a resident guest. Singing career When Andy Lau and Lin Zixiang co-performed "Farewell to the Furious Sea", Lin Zixiang invited everyone to sing karaoke one day after the set ended work. Lin Zixiang appreciated Andy Lau's songs very much, so he greatly praised and encouraged Andy Lau to sing. So with Lin Zixiang's encouragement, Andy Lau began to develop his own singing skills, so Lin Zixiang can be regarded as the bole and first teacher of Andy Lau's singing career. In 1985, Andy Lau entered the music industry, and his first album,"I Only Know I Love You Now", did not receive much response. The first successful song was the title track of the same name in "Emotional Forbidden Zone" released in 1987. The first song to win an important award (the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards) was the title song of the same name in "Can I" released in 1990. The Mandarin album "If You Are My Legend" released in 1990 has sold 1.5 million copies in Southeast Asia. In 1991, the album "Endless Love" was released. On its first day of sales, it sold 160,000 audio tapes and 72,000 compact discs, with total annual sales in Hong Kong exceeding five platinum (250,000 copies). In the same year, another hit album,"Days Together", sold six platinum (300,000 copies), making it one of the three highest-selling albums in 1991. "Endless Love" and "Days Together" have both accounted for two of the 20 best-selling albums on Polarkin Records over the years. In 1992, the Cantonese album "My Own Style" released on Warner Records reached eight platinum records (or 400,000 copies) sales. Under the idol craze in 1992, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Liming, and Aaron Kwok were named the "Four Great Kings" by the media. By the 2000s, Andy Lau's record sales totaled more than 48 million in various places, making him the best among Chinese singers. Since 1990, Andy Lau has insisted on pursuing the development path of equal emphasis on Mandarin and Cantonese in order to strive for greater development space. By 2010, Andy Lau had released more than 50 new songs and albums. From the 1990s to the early 2000s, he has been at the peak of the Chinese music industry; In the mid-to-late 2000s, due to the rise of the new generation of singers and their own age, the influence of new songs was not as strong as before. However, record sales have always achieved certain results. Among the more representative Cantonese albums are "Can You" in 1990,"Can You","Love Never End","Days Together" and "Don't Don't Believe in Fate" in 1991. Andy Lau has won 500 pop song awards, making him the pop singer with the most awards in the Chinese music industry to date. As early as 2000, he had already won a total of 292 music awards and became the crown of Cantonese singers and was ranked among the Guinness World Records. Among them, he won six of the most popular male singers (1990-1992, 1994, 1999, 2004) and ten of the most popular Hong Kong male singers in the Asia-Pacific region (1993, 1995-1996, 2000-2006) at the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony held by TVB TV. A total of 21 songs won the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards (in 1991, three songs won both in 1992 and 1993). Won seven national most popular male singer awards at the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards Concert held by Radio Television Hong Kong (2000-2006) and 15 times Outstanding Pop Singer Awards (1994 to 2008), from 1990 to 2006, a total of 22 songs won the Chinese Golden Melody Award, and 11 Mandarin songs won the Outstanding Mandarin Song Award (The gold medals include six songs "Can't Be Without You","Forgiveness Water","China","Stupid Child","Wooden Fish and Goldfish" and "I Love You Not Enough". The silver medals include three songs "True Forever","Lovesickness Disasters" and "Practice". The bronze medals include two songs "My Heart Can Only Hold You" and "I Say I Love You Again"). He also won four joint music awards-Media Awards Singer Awards in 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2002, becoming the biggest winner of the four major music awards ceremonies four times. He won three Most Popular Male Singer Awards in the Global Chinese Song Rankings jointly organized by seven Chinese radio stations in Asia (the second in 2002, the third in 2003 and the sixth in 2006). Over the years, Andy Lau has held more than 400 solo concerts around the world based on his influence. In January 1993, Andy Lau held his first solo concert in Hong Kong at Hung Hom Stadium (his first solo concert was in South Korea). As of June 2011, a total of 141 performances have been held in Hong Kong Red Hall (20 performances each in 1993, 1994 and 1996, 15 performances each in 1999, 2001 and 2004, and 16 and 20 performances at the end of the New Year in 2007 and 2010 respectively); 118 performances have been held in the mainland of China. Although he spends a lot of time and energy on movies throughout the year, Andy Lau can also create a ticket sales boom in cities across China.