Around the early hours of the evening of July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee, a generation of kung fu superstars, fell to the age of 32, and the place of death was quite strange.
Bruce Lee died in the boudoir of Hong Kong actress Ding Pei, and the only person who accompanied him before his death was also Ding Pei.
Bruce Lee's family felt that the matter was not honorable, so when announcing Bruce Lee's death, they falsely claimed that Bruce Lee died in his own home, accompanied by his wife Linda before his death.
The all-pervasive Hong Kong media inquired about the ambulance records of the hospital and found that Bruce Lee was sent to the hospital from Ding Pei's boudoir and eventually died.
As soon as the conclusive inside story was revealed, Ding Pei was quickly pushed to the forefront, speculation about Bruce Lee's various causes of death drifted like snowflakes, but none of them were beneficial to Ding Pei, a large number of fans spilled their nowhere sadness and anger on Ding Pei, some people constantly cursed her to die, and even some people issued death threats to her.
Born in a wealthy and solid family, this rich lady who has never experienced any storms in her life, 26 years old, suddenly encountered great changes and chaos, and was afraid and uneasy all day, and had to quietly quit the entertainment circle.
Now that nearly half a century has passed, how is Ding Pei's life? What was the truth about Bruce Lee's death?
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On February 19, 1947, Ding Pei was born in a prominent family in Beiping, which is also the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva.
There is a folk saying that people born on the same day as the gods and immortals have "immortal roots", if they do more good deeds in their lives and accumulate blessings, their fate will be better than others, and if they do more bad things, the retribution and punishment will be more serious than others.
Ding Pei's life also seems to confirm this rumor.
Ding Pei's original name was Tang Meili, his grandfather was the chief of the Beiping police station in the warlord era, his uncle was the famous Zhang Xueliang, his father's family practiced medicine for three generations, and there were only a few rich and prominent in the whole of Beiping, and the first car in the country during the Republic of China was subordinate to the Ding Pei family.
Born into such a famous family, Ding Pei did not have the insight and cultivation of everyone at all, and from childhood like a wild boy, he did not learn any techniques.
Her parents changed more than a dozen schools for her, her grades never left the class to the bottom, often went home with zero points, truancy was even more commonplace, and was jokingly called female Afei by relatives around her, worthy of the name of a female.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industry entered a golden age, and a large number of excellent film companies, directors and film and television stars emerged, and many young girls dreamed of becoming stars, and Ding Pei, who had a good posture, also began to enter the film and television circle.
In 1962, at the age of 15, Ding Pei was admitted to the first training course of China Film.
Who knows that movies and advertisements have detoured with Ding Pei, the original industry is afraid of her family's huge power, afraid of burning herself and dare not cooperate with Ding Pei, in desperation, Ding Pei had to turn to Hong Kong and prepare to save the country.
In 1967, Ding Pei came to Hong Kong through Pan Lei's introduction to join Shaw, and changed his name to Ding Pei, debuting with the drama "Purple Shell", the person who signed the contract with Ding Pei on behalf of Shaw, who was also Bruce Lee's later agent Zou Wenhuai, seemed to be doomed to Ding Pei's bad relationship with Bruce Lee.
02
Ding Pei was indeed ambitious to leave Taiwan to fight in Hong Kong, she originally wanted to establish a great achievement in the showbiz circle, and make a name for herself, what she did not expect was that the competition in the Hong Kong showbiz circle was white-hot.
Ding Pei grew up in the West, with a cheerful personality and no taboos, Shaw's development direction for her in order to let her get out of a group of beautiful women is to take the sexy route, Ding Pei himself gladly accepted, in the sixties and seventies of the last century, Ding Pei dared to wear a bikini in a generous way.
Shaw arranged for her to shoot a series of works such as "Call Girl", "Generation Of Superstars", "Double Star Annunciation" and so on, in which she played a beautiful role, daring to show it, but did not expect that the response after broadcasting was flat.
Fortunately, Ding Pei's family has deep roots in the tree, and there is no shortage of her to make money.
As early as the 60s of the last century, Ding Pei drove a sports car in and out of the set, and she did not have such a strong desire to become famous, doing a good job of fame and fortune, and doing the same wanton and happy life, she simply participated in it with a playful mentality.
Around 1971, Ding Pei's family saw that her boss was not small enough to accept her, so they set her a family affair, the other party was a rich family that was the opposite of the Ding family, and had settled in Switzerland for a long time, so Ding Pei flew to Switzerland to prepare for marriage.
Ding Pei, who had long been in Vanity Fair and was accustomed to the life of a drunken fan, was difficult to adapt to after arriving in Switzerland, so she left Switzerland in early 1992 and prepared to return to Hong Kong to develop.
Just at this time, Bruce Lee's wife Linda's birthday was approaching, and Bruce Lee's agent Zou Wenhuai invited Ding Pei to come to help, and Ding Pei gladly went to the appointment.
On the day of the meeting, Ding Pei wore an emerald green tight suit jacket, black velvet pants, feet hated the sky, the youthful and full body was wrapped exquisitely, Bruce Lee missed half a beat at the first sight of his heartbeat.
Ding Pei did not know to attend Bruce Lee's birthday party when he went to the appointment, but he had just seen Bruce Lee's movie "Big Brother Tangshan" in Switzerland, and he shouted in surprise without waiting for the introduction of Ding Pei: "Wow, Bruce Lee!" ”
Bruce Lee, who also grew up in the United States, was also very enthusiastic about Ding Pei's unruly and generous and enthusiastic personality, and the two actually did not shy away from Linda's birthday party, and quietly held hands with each other under the table that day.
03
Maybe love was shaking at the beginning, maybe Bruce Lee and Ding Pei really loved each other, in short, the two were high-profile after being together.
People who practice martial arts are a bit grumpy, and Bruce Lee is no exception, but no matter how big his anger is, he can calm down when he sees Ding Pei, so every time he is unhappy or wants to get angry, Bruce Lee can't help but go to Ding Pei.
Growing up in a wealthy and prosperous environment, Ding Pei also developed a keen sense of fashion and good taste, Bruce Lee gladly invited Ding Pei to be his own styling consultant, Ding Pei also took the opportunity to visit Bruce Lee from time to time, and the love affair between the two became an open secret in the circle.
Friends around him saw Bruce Lee's disregard for this state of disregard, very worried about him, unanimously felt that Ding Pei's mind was too open, knowing that Bruce Lee had a legitimate wife Linda, but people before and after but did not know how to avoid it, the future will definitely ruin Bruce Lee's future and career.
The most incredible thing is that once Bruce Lee and Ding Pei had a little conflict, Ding Pei looked like a lost soul and went directly to Bruce Lee's house, and told Bruce Lee's wife Linda that she really loved Xiaolong, a deep affection that could not be suppressed.
Seeing that the situation was about to develop uncontrollably, friends urged Bruce Lee to leave Ding Pei, and Bruce Lee ignored these dissuasions.
In order to help Ding Pei increase his fame, the two knew each other for less than a year, Bruce Lee and Ding Pei cooperated in two movies, but unfortunately, after the broadcast of "Cold Face Tiger" and "Dragon Fighting Tiger Fight", Ding Pei's fame was still not happy.
Bruce Lee is ready to make a big move, directly arranging for Ding Pei to be the heroine of his movie "Game of Death", which has the plot of Bruce Lee and Zou Wenhuai coming to Ding Pei's home to discuss the script.
It was also this time that he came to Ding Pei's home to discuss the script, so that Bruce Lee and Ding Pei's private lovers were well known, and Bruce Lee was also in the middle of his prime.
04
On July 20, 1973, Zou Wenhuai and Bruce Lee discussed the next part of the new movie "Game of Death", and both went to Ding Pei's home.
In the process of discussion, Bruce Lee suddenly had a headache and was difficult to insist on, Ding Pei helped Bruce Lee to his room to rest, to see his uncomfortable appearance, Ding Pei remembered that there were painkillers at home, and simply took it out to give Bruce Lee a next one.
That night, Bruce Lee also asked the male protagonist in 007, George Lysonby, to dinner, zou Wenhuai saw that the discussion could not progress, so he simply left first to arrange the meal.
About two hours later, Zou Wenhuai called Ding Pei and asked her to accompany Bruce Lee to the banquet, at this time Ding Pei went into the bedroom to wake up Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee had fallen into a coma without any reaction, and Ding Pei had no master for a while.
Finally, Ding Pei called to tell Zou Wenhuai that the situation was not good, and Zou Wenhuai hurried over.
In fact, two months ago Bruce Lee had already fainted from a headache.
On May 10, 1973, Bruce Lee was on the set of "Raptors Crossing the River" when he fainted in the bathroom door because of a sudden attack of headache, and the person who first found Bruce Lee said that Bruce Lee's lips were trembling badly, like a sheep's crazy attack, and the situation was very critical.
Bruce Lee was immediately sent to the hospital for rescue, and afterwards the doctor diagnosed it as cerebral edema, and said that if Bruce Lee came ten minutes late, his life would be in danger.
Worried about his physical condition, Bruce Lee also did a comprehensive examination in the hospital, the examination report showed that there was no problem, his health was like a young man in his twenties, Bruce Lee let down his guard and came to Hong Kong.
Bruce Lee fainted in the United States Ding Pei did not know, Zou Wenhuai and Bruce Lee's wife Linda knew, so as soon as he heard that Bruce Lee was unconscious, Zou Wenhuai rushed over and contacted Linda to wait in the hospital.
However, it was still too late, Bruce Lee had no vital signs when he was taken to the hospital, and around the early hours of the night, Zou Wenhuai issued an obituary news announcing the news of Bruce Lee's death.
Subsequent forensic evaluations also revealed that Bruce Lee died of a sudden condition, and doctors said that it was cerebral edema that took his life.
05
Bruce Lee's death has settled some things, but the emotions of fans are difficult to calm down, their voices of accountability for Ding Pei are very loud, there are constant remarks forcing Ding Pei to commit suicide and apologize, and even some people have issued death threats to her.
Ding Pei, who has lived carefree for 26 years, those who have not tasted the pain, the hardships that have not been experienced, and the sufferings that have not been suffered, have been swept by the anger of the people, and she has to quit the show business circle, close herself in her home, and even suffer from schizophrenia for a time, relying on alcoholism and DM to numb herself.
Three years later, the delirious Ding Pei was recalled by the Shaw Company, and the original director Roma saw the heat of this matter, decided to squeeze the last shred of ding pei's value, and coaxed Ding Pei to shoot the movie "Bruce Lee and Me" in the name of restoring the truth of the incident.
The fragrant plot in the movie once again pushed Ding Pei to the abyss, and the insults of Bruce Lee fans came to the mountain, and Ding Pei, who was already in the midst of the storm, could no longer bear it.
Xiang Huaqiang and Ding Pei's family are family friends, very early Xiang Huaqiang fell in love with Ding Pei, but also pursued Ding Pei for many years, desperate Ding Pei found Xiang Huaqiang, asked him if he would marry himself home.
Xiang Huaqiang is a man with a soft heart, he can't see Ding Pei being tortured, he resisted the pressure, and in 1976, he and Ding Pei held a wedding, after the marriage also had a daughter Xiang Yongheng.
At this time, the voice of the outside world gradually weakened, although every year on Bruce Lee's death day, there are still many people who repeat the old things, but Ding Pei finally carried through the most violent wind and rain.
Just when everyone felt that this matter was in the past, and Ding Pei's life had entered a new chapter, some people broke out that Ding Pei and Xiang Huaqiang were only maintaining a formal marriage, and Ding Pei could not forget Bruce Lee and had converted to Buddhism.
In 1979, Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Tai chen lan married, which confirmed that his 4-year marriage with Ding Pei came to an end, but after the divorce, Xiang Huaqiang still took on Ding Pei's daily expenses, Chen Lan had no suspicion of Ding Pei, Chen Lan's eldest son Xiang Zuo, or Ding Pei was raised from birth to 5 years old.
Ding Pei personally said in an interview that Xiang Huaqiang is a noble person in her life, and after the divorce, they are still a family, and the relationship is very good.
Talking about Bruce Lee, Ding Pei also bluntly said that she could not forget Bruce Lee, it was Bruce Lee who made her have self-confidence and fell in love with herself, although Bruce Lee's death was not directly caused by herself, but his death was in his own home after all, and it was psychologically difficult to let herself escape.
It has been 49 years since Bruce Lee's death, and for more than forty years, Ding Pei has been eating and praying to the Buddha, living in simplicity and relying on faith to save his soul.
06
Today, Bruce Lee has long passed away with the wind, and the people who liked him later did not have the obsession of the fans of that year, and no one has pursued Ding Pei's right and wrong in that year, and she herself is still confined to her own faults and is difficult to survive.
The reason is also very simple, when bruce Lee was found unconscious, even if Ding Pei, who did not look at all worldly rituals in his eyes, did not dare to risk the world's great disobedience to announce the fact that he had interfered in other people's marriages and face the scene of large-scale social death.
Under her hesitation, Bruce Lee was doomed to not be able to send to the hospital for rescue as soon as possible, and when Zou Wenhuai rushed from the hotel to the residence, it would take ten minutes, and even if the two of them continued to hesitate and judge for a while, Bruce Lee would be completely powerless to return to heaven.
Although Ding Pei immediately decided to send Bruce Lee to the hospital, Bruce Lee may not be able to cure life, but there is a glimmer of possibility of life, Ding Pei can not get rid of the responsibility of the soul.
Even if she is innocent in front of the law, the jurisprudence of judgment has an end, and when the human ethics are endless, the psychological guilt has already put a heavy shackle on her.
As the saying goes, "if you don't think twice about things, you will eventually regret it", if you were not proud of your ignorance and selfishness when you were young, and did not perceive the world's willfulness, why would Ding Pei come to the second half of his life alone and miserable, accompanied by the desolation of the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha, and spend nearly half a century to wash away the inner debt?
In the name of love, when intervening in other people's marriages, when they are not made public, they are all righteous, and everyone is ashamed and embarrassed when they are known, and Ding Pei also said in the interview: "He is a person with a family, people think I am wrong, and I don't think I am right." ”
How can we be open-minded when we do something wrong, how can we avoid adding mistakes to mistakes, and how can we relieve the torment of the soul? Even if there is no punishment for doing the wrong thing, the invisible corner is still quietly tortured.
In this lifetime, if people want to live frankly and freely, they must always walk the right path on earth.
Author: Xiaohe, born in the gravel, the heart to the warm sun, write the words of the heart, live an interesting life.
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