Four Golden Flowers

Biography

Four Golden Flowers was a four-member female vocal group that appeared on Hong Kong's TVB Jade channel in early 1973 as part of the evening variety programme "Enjoy Yourself Tonight." The group consisted of Lydia Shum (Fat Fat), Liza Wang, Wong Oi Ming, and Teresa Cheung (Round Round / Cheung Tak Lan). The group was not intentionally formed; it came about by chance when the four members were rehearsing at TVB studios and happened to sing an English song together, catching the attention of a director who proposed they perform a joint singing segment on the programme. They were initially nicknamed "Four Pumpkins" by emcee Tam Bing Man before he changed it to "Four Golden Flowers," which became the official name. All four studied singing under teacher Hsu Pei. They performed singing and dancing on the programme, appeared in television dramas, and released an album featuring Western, Mandarin, and Cantonese pop songs, most notably the 1974 Cantonese pop song "Four Golden Flowers" composed and lyricised by So Weng. In the late 1970s, as Hong Kong television dramas flourished, each member pursued her own path, though they continued to use the group name when reuniting. The age gap between the oldest member Lydia Shum and the youngest Teresa Cheung was 15 years, a record that stood in Hong Kong for 49 years until 2022.