Bruce Lee's life

Li, the founder of Jeet Kune Do, was born in San Francisco, USA+0940.1.27-1973.7.20, and spent his childhood in Hong Kong.

Bruce Lee's father, Li Haiquan, was born in Nanhai County, Guangdong Province. At that time, he was one of the four comedians in Cantonese opera and was good at martial arts. Mother He is the daughter of Shanghainese. They are married and have two daughters.

From 65438 to 0937, Japan stepped up its invasion of China, and Hong Kong Cantonese opera was gradually suppressed by the war. Therefore, Li Haiquan took the troupe and his family across the Pacific Ocean to perform in the United States. The eldest son, Li Sheng, was born in San Francisco. One year later, that is,1940165438+1October 27th, the second son was born. He made a long-distance call from San Francisco to inform her husband who was performing in Washington to discuss naming the boy Li, hoping that he would become famous in San Francisco in the future. This Li is the world-famous Bruce Lee in the future. In order to declare an account, Li gave an English name, BruceLee. Bruce Lee, a stage name, was named by the director when he played the leading role in the Hong Kong film Little People at the age of 9.

Bruce Lee spent his childhood and adolescence in Hongkong.

About four months after his birth, his father Li Haiquan ended his performance in the United States and returned to Hong Kong with his family. Bruce Lee was very thin when he was young. Li Haiquan taught his son to practice Tai Ji Chuan when he was 7 years old and had a strong physique. /kloc-at the age of 0/3, Bruce Lee studied Wing Chun with the famous teacher Ip Man, and set up a wooden stake at home, practicing diligently against it every day. In addition, he also practiced Hongquan, Baihe Boxing, Tan Leg, Shaolin Boxing, Poke Foot and other boxing methods, which laid a solid foundation for later creating Jeet Kune Do. He loves martial arts and can be described as "obsessed with martial arts". On one occasion, he and his friends went to the street and walked, suddenly sitting on the side of the road thinking, and then flew to practice, and passers-by looked askance.

In order to improve the level of martial arts, Bruce Lee not only learned China's boxing, but also learned western boxing. When attending a western boxing training class, he saved pocket money and bought a boxing team video of world champion Louis. Learn the footwork, posture, boxing and training methods of the champion. He also often participates in boxing competitions inside and outside the school. Constantly enrich actual combat experience.

/kloc-at the age of 0/8, Bruce Lee decided to leave Hongkong to study in the United States. Before leaving, my father earnestly told me, "Study hard and be a promising person." Ye Wen, an old boxer, also earnestly expects him to "practice Kung Fu while learning" and promote Chinese Wushu.

Go to the United States for further study and establish Jeet Kune Do.

1958165438+1At the end of October, Bruce Lee took the ship "President Cleveland" and went to San Francisco via Kobe, Yokohama and Hawaii. At first, he took refuge under the care of his father, and then moved to Seattle to live in his brother Jong Li's office.

Bruce Lee's life in Seattle is quite hard. Every morning, he rides his bike to the newspaper office to get newspapers, and then delivers them door to door. Later, he went to China restaurant to wash dishes. In his spare time, he also has to cram English and practice kung fu. Three years later, he graduated from Edison Vocational School and was admitted to the Philosophy Department of Washington State University. After entering the university, he devoted all his energy to studying martial arts except studying.

He organized a "China Kung Fu Team" at school, and often trained and performed on campus, which won unanimous praise from teachers and students. There is a Japanese student named Yamamoto, a three-stage boxer in Japanese karate. He always pretends to be a master, and he always tells Bruce Lee's martial arts and China Kung Fu Team what to do. The players were very angry after hearing this, and they all said they would hit him. However, deeply influenced by China Wushu, Bruce Lee said to the players, "The purpose of China Kung Fu is to strengthen self-defense and not to attack others unless absolutely necessary." Once the China Kung Fu Team performed, Yamamoto came to "destroy Taiwan" again. Bruce Lee warned him, but he not only refused, but also challenged Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was fed up and decided to play with him. Two men had a fight. With his strong body, Yamamoto stormed frequently, but Bruce Lee was temporarily on the defensive. After three or four rounds, Bruce Lee saw the flaw, turned from defense to attack, caught up and knocked Yamamoto down with a heavy punch. Yamamoto was about to strike back when Bruce Lee feinted and suddenly kicked Yamamoto to the ground. Since then, Bruce Lee's kung fu is even more admirable.

1964, the United States held a national karate competition in California. Bruce Lee, then only 24 years old, swept all the contestants and won the championship. Later, three karate champions and a judo champion came to the door to compete with him, and he struggled to beat them one by one.

Through continuous improvement, Bruce Lee gradually became proficient in Kung Fu and even reached a higher level. Among them, "Li", "Cunquan" and "Hooking Hands" are his unique skills.

Bruce Lee is called "Li". Once, in Chinatown, Florida, he saw four gangsters with knives molesting a Chinese girl. He immediately rushed up and fought with four gangsters with his bare hands. He is good at serial flying feet and agile boxing, and beat four gangsters out of the water and fled. Since then, his story of bravely saving the girl has been widely praised in America.

Bruce Lee's Save Boxing is also famous. He was invited to perform inch boxing at the Canadian Boxing Association. He aimed at the boxing scale and hit it hard, and the pointer on the scale immediately pointed to 350 pounds. At that time, the audience exclaimed: "World record! World record! " Because Bruce Lee, who weighs 145 Jin, issued such a heavy punch, which is unprecedented. ..

"Hooking hands" is another trick of Bruce Lee. The so-called "easy to get". It means sealed and hit, hit and close, cut and hit. On one occasion, Bruce Lee was invited to Hong Kong to make a platinum film. After seven or eight coaches heard the news, they asked to "fight" with him. Bruce Lee knows that this is a challenge in disguise. He asked the coaches to choose the strongest opponent, and claimed that this time he only used two hands instead of using his leg skills. As soon as the elected Master Huang came to power, Bruce Lee immediately shut up. Master Huang tried to escape many times, but Bruce Lee's hands were tightly closed like magnets, and he could not escape. When Master Huang was embarrassed, he only felt that his face was suddenly slapped, which caused a burst of ridicule from the onlookers. Master Huang became angry from embarrassment and immediately took off. Bruce Lee is agile, agile, and uses his hands to "bang" twice. Master Huang slipped and couldn't get up on the ground.

Once, martial artist Zhang Zhongwen went to the United States to perform, and Bruce Lee was invited to perform as a guest. I saw him clench his fist in front of the microphone and suddenly punched out. Suddenly, the fist of "Fast" sounded in the microphone, and the audience at home and abroad were shocked and applauded.

Bruce Lee is a generalist. In addition to mastering all kinds of boxing techniques, he is also good at various instruments such as long sticks, short sticks and nunchakus, and he also learned to persuade people and do coolies. It is said that his finger was bitten by a tooth, and it didn't hurt.

Starting from actual combat, based on China Wushu, Bruce Lee absorbed the advantages and specialties of western boxing, karate, Daoquan, Muay Thai and other martial arts, and developed a kind of boxing-Jeet Kune Do by summing up years of experience.

Set up a museum, widely teach students and promote real kung fu.

In order to promote China Wushu, Bruce Lee rented a corner of a parking lot on campus in his sophomore year and hung the sign of "Fan Zhen National Art Museum". The monthly fee for each apprentice is 15 USD. He practiced while teaching, studied hard, and made great progress in technology, especially in leg skills.

In Guo, he met a female medical student who came to study martial arts. After more than a year of contact, they gradually developed feelings. Finally, in August of 1964, they officially got married. After getting married, Bruce Lee and his wife both dropped out of school, joined forces to run a martial arts school, and even canceled their honeymoon trip, and devoted all their energy to martial arts.

Since the news that Bruce Lee subdued four knife-wielding gangsters in Chinatown, Florida, and bravely saved a girl from China was reported in newspapers, Bruce Lee's name has spread all over the United States, and TV stations such as Florida have invited him to perform leg skills, and China Kung Fu has attracted much attention. And Guo, which he founded, has gradually flourished?

Open martial arts branches in Auckland, Los Angeles and other places to teach students. The scale and equipment of the martial arts school are constantly improving. For example, the martial arts branch in Los Angeles has a building area of 600 square meters, and its training equipment includes fist springs, iron piles, finger piles, knives and guns. Sword, stick, fist gauge, arm; Vision trainer, leg strength trainer, etc. Because Bruce Lee is famous, many scholars come here for advice, and the fees are greatly increased. In the past, each person only received 15 USD per month, but the charges ranged from 27 USD to 50 USD per hour. Although the tuition is expensive, it is still very crowded. Many famous martial arts stars in the world, such as American karate champion Rolex, are competing to learn from him. James Henping, Steve and other famous Hollywood movie stars are all his disciples. World champion Ali also paid a visit to exchange experiences with him. American boxers of various factions often gather in the martial arts school in Bruce Lee to learn martial arts, and his aim of "making friends with martial arts" has achieved the expected results.

Set foot in the film industry, kung fu shocked the world.

In the early 1970s, a wave of China Kung Fu movies swept the world. Bruce Lee's resounding name shocked the whole world.

As early as 1965 to 197 1, Bruce Lee made guest appearances in Hollywood TV series Dawn, Batman, Blangy and Yaan Choate, and filmed for American film companies such as Fortune, Yuan Ramon and MGM. However, American directors often let him play a China gangster, which was defeated by the hero's western boxing. He felt very angry.

At the same time, some Europeans and Americans threatened: "Judo and karate originated in China. But Japan and other countries have surpassed shine on you. China Wushu has fallen behind and even reached the edge of elimination. " Therefore, Bruce Lee made up his mind: "In order to win a sigh for China Wushu, I decided to put China Kung Fu on the screen and win glory for China Wushu." This is the starting point of Bruce Lee Kung Fu movies. More importantly, "I am from China"-this is something that Bruce Lee will never forget, and it is also the aspiration of millions of China people living abroad.

197 1 In the summer of, Bruce Lee accepted the invitation of Hong Kong Golden Harvest Film Company and made a film with the theme of China's martial arts, called "Tangshan Mobile". This film describes the struggle story of overseas Chinese. In the film, he plays Zheng Chaoan, a young overseas Chinese, who comes to Bangkok from Hong Kong to work as a worker in an ice-making factory. The boss hid drugs in ice and sold them, and the workers who knew the secret were killed one by one. Zheng Chaoan witnessed the arrogance of evil forces. Finally, he couldn't bear it, so he stepped forward and cracked down on the evil party and killed the people. In the film, Zheng Chaoan's sharp fist and fist in the struggle with the evil side made the audience crazy. Cheers and applause continued. "Tangshan Big Brother" set the highest box office record since the opening of Hong Kong, when it reached HK$ 3 million. Bruce Lee's fame spread from Hongkong to Southeast Asia.

After Brother Tangshan, Bruce Lee filmed Jingwumen, which caused a greater sensation. Zhen Chen, played by Bruce Lee, is a young man who went back to Shanghai to attend the funeral of Huo Yuanjia, the founder of Shi Si Jason Wu Club. The film depicts Zhen Chen breaking into the Japanese martial arts school after learning that Master died under the poison of Japanese martial artists: breaking the cards of "Sick Man of East Asia" and "China people quarreling with dogs"; Then he fought Japanese karate boxers and Russian martial artists with fearless spirit, and was shot by Japanese thugs after a bloody battle. Bruce Lee's fearless spirit and amazing fighting skills in the film, especially his performances in Li and Lie Quan, are full of praise. Thanks to Bruce Lee's unremitting efforts, Kung Fu movies have once again brought people to a new height, breaking the record of over one million Hong Kong dollars at the box office.

Since then, Bruce Lee has set up Concord Film Company, written, directed and acted in the films Crossing the River by Raptor and The Game of Death, and also won enter the dragon jointly with Warner Film Company of the United States, and personally starred in the leading role. The above four films made by Bruce Lee have shocked the world cinema and the world martial arts.

In the tense filming days, Bruce Lee still did not forget to practice hard, and learned from military businessmen all over the world to improve his actual combat level. When Bruce Lee filmed "Big Brother in Tangshan" in Bangkok, he fought against Chaerchai, a Thai boxing champion who won the championship for many times. After some fierce fighting, Bruce Lee defeated this opponent, thus rewriting the history that the China boxing champion and the Thai boxing champion would lose every battle. Win glory for China Wushu.

When Bruce Lee filmed the third kung fu film "The Raptors Crossing the River" in Hongkong, he chose two international champions, Rolex and Rob Wall, as opponents and was defeated by him. At first, the two karate champions were unconvinced. So Bruce Lee and both of them took their assistants to a designated place in the suburbs for a "friendship contest" before filming. As a result, Bruce Lee won by points in just a few rounds; These two international karate champions have to be persuaded verbally.

Sudden deaths during the day have not decreased.

Just as Bruce Lee was ambitious to finish filming The Game of Death, 1973 died suddenly in Hongkong on July 20th due to drug allergy. He is only 33 years old. Bruce Lee's life is short, but like a dazzling comet, he has made great contributions to the development of modern martial arts and film performing arts.

Kung Fu movies starring him are popular overseas, and China Kung Fu is world-renowned. A new word "Kung Fu" appears in many foreign dictionaries and dictionaries. In the eyes of many foreigners, Kung Fu is China Wushu, and Bruce Lee has become the incarnation of Kung Fu. Many foreign martial arts businessmen, karate fighters and Thai boxing masters have admitted after watching the kung fu film starring Bruce Lee: "Bruce Lee really has real kung fu." Indeed, few eastern martial artists can break through the national and racial fields like Bruce Lee, and his prestige remains undiminished after his death.

Because of his outstanding contributions to martial arts and movies, Bruce Lee was rated as one of the seven greatest martial artists in the world by the international authoritative martial arts magazines Black Belt 1972 and 1973. 1972 was also rated as one of the top ten stars in Hong Kong. American newspapers praised him as "forbidden kingdom", Japanese people praised him as "the saint of martial arts", and Hong Kong newspapers praised him as "a wizard in the history of contemporary China martial arts and movies". The United States, Japan, Britain, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province and other countries or regions publish various magazines and special issues in memory of Bruce Lee at the same time, all calling him "the best in promoting China Wushu".

Bruce Lee is versatile, both literary and martial arts. Whenever he practices martial arts, he is immersed in the study of martial arts theory and training methods. In order to facilitate research, his family has more than 2,000 martial arts books, and has also collected various martial arts movies and videos from all over the world. Before his death, he left seven martial arts notes and six manuscripts: Jeet Kune Do, Research on Jeet Kune Do, Kung Fu Record, Two-stage Stick Technique, Illustration of Bruce Lee Boxing (English version) and Bruce Lee Martial Arts Techniques (English version). Martial arts magazines all over the world are still studying and introducing his martial arts. Los Angeles has also opened the Bruce Lee Museum, and established the World Friends of Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee Club and other organizations. Bruce Lee Society has been established all over the world, and martial arts lovers all over the world still worship him. Looking back on Bruce Lee's life as a martial arts legend in China, people will always miss his sincere heart of loving the Chinese nation, inspiring its spirit and yearning for its prosperity.