The gambling king Stanley Ho was officially buried, and the four brothers Ho Youjun looked sad. Why was the gambling king not buried until a year after his death?
Ho Hongshen is the most powerful, most profitable, most famous and longest-reigning gambling king in the history of Macau gambling. His life is full of legend.
Ho Hongshen was born in Hong Kong in 1921. He has a prominent family background and is the grandnephew of Hong Kong businessman Sir Robert Ho Tung. However, his achievements and fame did not rely on the protection of his ancestors. When he was a boy, his family was in dire straits. When he was a young man, he fled to Macau to escape the war. During his stay in Macau, he started from scratch and narrowly escaped death. He was also forced to leave Macau by the underworld, and then moved to Hong Kong for development. After unremitting struggle, by the 20th century In the mid-1950s, Stanley Ho finally became a famous tycoon in Hong Kong.
Ho Hong-shen was an important figure in Hong Kong and Macao. During his lifetime, he actively participated in the economic construction, cultural charity and other undertakings in the mainland of the motherland. As a patriotic entrepreneur, his contribution to national construction was Support is also reflected in practical actions. After learning that Beijing had successfully bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games, Stanley Ho donated funds to build the National Aquatics Center. He also donated privately acquired bronze statues of pig heads and horse heads from the Yuanmingyuan Garden, as well as some precious oil paintings and other artworks to the country. This will encourage more people to participate in the work of protecting Chinese cultural relics and jointly promote patriotism and national awareness. Because of his patriotism, he also served as a member of the Standing Committee of the 9th to 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In addition to career success, the fight for the wealth of wealthy families, the four-bedroom wife and seventeen children, and who will be the leader of the huge industrial empire after the retirement of the gambling king. These wealthy gossips and speculations have frequently appeared in the newspapers. In Stanley Ho In his later years, there was even a farce in which he sued his wife and daughter twice in the Court of Appeal. Macau's legendary gambling tycoon Stanley Ho died in Hong Kong, causing a sensation.
All the rich and famous people in Hong Kong attended the funeral to see them off. Many people in the mainland also mourned Ho Hong-shen. Stanley Ho not only made great achievements in business throughout his life, but also did many good deeds. The gambling king died at the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital at the age of 98. News of the gambling king's funeral came out on the third day after his death, but He Chaoqiong immediately made a clarification, saying that the details of the funeral would be announced later.
No gift money will be collected at the gambling king's funeral. If guests bring gifts, the gambling king's family will donate it to charity. After the funeral, the gambling king's body will be temporarily sealed in Donghua Yi Zhuang.
After the funeral, the body of the gambling king was not buried. In fact, the coffin in which the gambling king was buried had been selected. It was a Chinese-style coffin worth 8 million Hong Kong dollars. The whole body is made of nanmu, which is extremely luxurious. Even the burial place has been set in the He family cemetery, but the burial time has not been determined yet. Moreover, the body has undergone high-level embalming, and the Yi Zhuang where it is stored is the most famous corpse storage place in Hong Kong. In the past, many big figures have stored their bodies there.
And everyone knows that the cost of freezing a body varies from place to place, and the market price given by mainland funeral homes is about 200 yuan per day. If you save for one year, 365 days × 200 yuan = 73,000 yuan, which is a considerable amount for an average family. It is worth noting that after the gambling king’s body was stored in Donghua Yizhuang, his family members also increased the number of security personnel for their own safety. The security fee for a month was as high as one million, and up to tens of millions a year.
This Yizhuang is called Donghua Yizhuang. It once stored Cai Yuanpei and some Guangdong warlords during the warlord melee. Why was Stanley Ho not buried so quickly? He was not cremated, but planned to be cremated. The reason for burial is because these rich people have great trust in traditional culture and believe in things like Feng Shui. On the contrary, ordinary people don't believe it and don't know why.
In fact, it is mainly the descendants of the royal Feng Shui master of the He family. After calculation, there is no suitable auspicious day in 2020, so it can only be postponed to 2021 to choose a suitable auspicious day for burial. This can bless He. The descendants of the family will continue to prosper. To put it bluntly, the rich believe in Feng Shui, so many things must be done from the perspective of Feng Shui metaphysics. As for why these rich people believe in Feng Shui, only they themselves know this. As one of the legendary figures in Greater China, Stanley Ho has many legendary stories in his life.
Characters like this must appear in books and movies.
Precisely because he is such a legendary figure, there are naturally some twists and turns behind his death, which is more in line with people's imagination of a legendary figure. Speaking of which, there are indeed quite a lot of anecdotes about the He family, and the affairs between He Chaoqiong and Chen Baiqiang can be considered the same. This family is destined to be noticed by the public!
According to media reports, Stanley Ho was buried in the Zhaoyuan Cemetery, next to his father, mother, and the eldest daughter. Even though it was near the cemetery, the surrounding The environment is very good, not only facing the sea, but also shaded by trees. According to reports, his cemetery cost nearly one million Hong Kong dollars, which is very expensive. Stanley Ho's family also attended the funeral. Stanley Ho carried his father's portrait to the cemetery. Although Stanley Ho had passed away for a year, the family members still had expressions of grief on their faces.
May the deceased rest in peace, and may the family of gambling king Stanley Ho live forever.