Leslie Cheung and Mount Kadoorie 32A: A coordinate carrying time and longing

32 Kadoorie Avenue, a white poem opened by a key

In the early morning of October 2, 1997, the mist hanging over the streets of Hong Kong had not yet dissipated when the engine sound of a silver Porsche broke the tranquility of Mount Kellett.Leslie CheungThe moment the car door was opened, the crisp sound of the keys colliding awakened the sleeping morning light. This white villa, carefully built by his close friend William Chang, has since become the key to decoding the inner world of the superstar.

The architect used minimalism as a brushstroke to outline the owner's ultimate imagination of "home". The Italian custom sofa lazily embraces the morning and evening, the antique piano reflects the amber rings in the flow of light and shadow, and the second-floor terrace is always waiting for red wine and cigars for late-night conversations. On the afternoon of the day of moving, Leslie Cheung specially invited his godmother, Mrs. Zhang Yulin, to share Ceylon black tea. The ripples in the crystal cup reflected his desire for a stable life - this simple wish became the most luxurious decoration for a superstar standing at the pinnacle of the entertainment industry.

Duet on the Keys of Destiny

Between 2001 and 2002, 32A Mount Kellett witnessed its owner's departure and return twice. The white key repeatedly rubbed out the ravines of time in the palm of the hand, and the porch light flickered like breathing in the middle of the night. The security guards always remember those ordinary moments: the superstar took off his fancy clothes, trimmed roses in cotton home clothes, hummed "The wind continues to blow》The tune of "The Night of the Dog" whispers with the Araucaria trees, and the dog's walking tracks wet with morning dew meander into a private musical score.

Real life outside the spotlight quietly unfolds here. Neighbors remember that he would carefully select dog food in the supermarket and carefully treasure the concert tickets he casually gave away. On a rainy night, the waiting fans unexpectedly received an umbrella he sent in the rain. The remaining warmth on the umbrella ribs is still hot in his memory. These fragments together form a gentle soul that will make way for garden ants.

A building that freezes time

Pushing open the carved iron gate, the Araucaria trees on both sides of the private driveway still maintain their upright posture at the beginning of the century. Dark green curtains replaced the youthful white gauze of the past, and the children's swings formed new arcs in the courtyard. Only the rainwater pipe entangled with wisteria on the outer wall still stubbornly maintained the curvature angle of twenty years ago. In the memory drawer of the old convenience store clerk, there is always the gentleman who would come to buy mints at midnight - the rhythm of his fingertips tapping the counter when paying is just like theSilence is golden》Prelude.

The architectural space creates a strange montage under the erosion of time. During renovation, the current tenant discovered that the light blue primer of the vinyl record rack in the mezzanine floor, which was exposed by the peeling paint, was actually the same as theOver the years》The color of the album cover matches perfectly. A trace amount of gold powder used for stage makeup was detected on a rusted rivet on the rainwater pipe, which still flickered faintly in the moonlight.

Silent dialogue across the longitude and latitude

This white building has long been sublimated into a spiritual totem. The white roses on the ramp in front of the door never faded, and the vinyl records flown in from Buenos Aires were spinning outside the wall.red》, the Japanese poems written by the Tokyo girl on the back of the paulownia leaves always arrive on time during the vernal equinox. True pilgrims are well versed in the art of silent commemoration: when ordering lemon tea at a corner café, they deliberately let the sugar particles settle to the bottom of the cup; when gazing up at the terrace, they switch their camera to silent mode, as if treating a fragile dream.

On a humid April afternoon, a Norwegian architect discovered an amazing coincidence while surveying - the east-west axis of the villa corresponds exactly to the trajectory of the star Alpha Leo. This may explain why, when night falls on every anniversary, a strange star pattern of light appears on the ground in the courtyard, as if some kind of code that transcends dimensions is being slowly deciphered by the moonlight.

Moonlight Pier, where the sun stays forever

32A Kedoorie Hill has ultimately become a time capsule of collective memory, capturing the crisp trill of keys turning, the lonely chords flowing through piano keys late at night, and all the eternal moments of gazing at the stars on the terrace. When tourists raise their cameras, local residents always remind them softly: "Ah Zai likes quietness." True commemoration never needs to disturb the bricks and tiles, just like we never question the meaning of the moonlight's existence - just knowing that a soul once lived seriously here is enough to make every night of looking up feel a gentle tide.

Leslie Cheung(English: Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing, September 12, 1956 - April 1, 2003), formerly known asZhang Fazong,HongkongMale singer, actor, songwriter, and has worked as a film composer, choreographer, music video director, art director and film director.

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