When it comes to Chinese kung fu, this is bound to be a culture that makes the whole world applaud madly, and when it comes to people who make Chinese kung fu go global, in addition to many powerful film and television superstars, Bruce Lee can be called the first person.
During the Republic of China, Bruce Lee not only brought Chinese kung fu abroad and to the world, but he also became an American idol in the last century.
Bruce Lee was Ip Man's apprentice, having learned Wing Chun, Hong Quan, Mantis Fist, Jie Quan, and was particularly good at short sticks and double sticks, and it is no exaggeration to say that even if he stands still, you can feel the oppression from him.
In addition to these, he also painstakingly studied and created his own boxing. Even so, there will be some "self-sufficient" people who will not be happy with him, and eventually they will inevitably flee in a hurry.
How exactly did Bruce Lee grow up? What difficulties did he go through?
01 The turbulent situation and the "martial arts" culture in the chaotic world
During the Republic of China period in the last century, the political situation in China was very unstable, and many slightly capable families would run to the United States to develop, and at the same time, a wave of "staying in the west" among students was also set off.
At that time, Chinese martial arts were also like the current situation, and with the decline of Chinese kung fu, many martial artists would also go abroad to develop.
However, according to the international situation at that time, China and the United States did not establish diplomatic relations, coupled with the patriotic ideas of martial artists, and their ideas were still very feudal, resulting in some martial arts masters who went abroad, but they only wanted to build martial arts halls there to teach Chinese, and were unwilling to teach foreigners, lest they be beaten after being learned by foreigners.
In the 1960s, although there were many martial artists in San Francisco, there were very few young people who could cross the ocean and run to the United States to learn martial arts, so many martial artists in Foshan could not recruit apprentices after passing.
At the same time, there is an unwritten rule in the circle of their martial arts, that is, if a new person wants to open a martial arts center in San Francisco, he must get the consent of the "seniors" and know how to "honor" them.
They even engage in vicious fights, malicious "kicks" and even assassinations between them for admissions and rankings.
When kicking the museum, only the party that wins the battle can continue to open the museum to collect apprentices, and the losing party must close the museum, so during that time, the foreign Chinese martial arts community can be said to be a miasma.
It wasn't until 1964, when a young man named Bruce Lee appeared, that the situation gradually changed.
Born in San Francisco in 1940, Bruce Lee learned Wing Chun with Ip Man and became proficient in various other martial arts and weapons.
When others were only able to be younger brothers and thugs in their twenties, he had already begun to establish the "Zhenfan Guoshuguan" to teach Chinese willing to learn and Americans to learn martial arts.
In the San Francisco martial arts world at that time, Bruce Lee was well-known and the most likely to receive apprentices.
Bruce Lee has countless fans with his personal super martial arts ability and philosophical speculation on the nature of martial arts, and many Chinese and Americans are willing to learn from Bruce Lee.
In the face of Bruce Lee's spirit of promoting Chinese martial arts culture and treating the world equally, the Chinese martial arts community not only did not respond positively to Bruce Lee, but felt that Bruce Lee touched their interests.
Because they have long determined in the traditional concept that Americans have learned Chinese martial arts, they will definitely turn back to fight Chinese, so they have never allowed anyone to accept "foreign disciples".
Faced with bruce Lee treating everyone equally, the united gangs naturally could not tolerate it, plus Bruce Lee was a newcomer and thought he did not understand the rules, so he wanted to teach this young man a lesson.
"You challenge him, not only to teach him a lesson, but also to win and let him close the museum"!
On this day, Huang Zemin was sitting in the middle of a group of Chinese martial arts gangs, and they were planning how to kick Bruce Lee's pavilion.
The name Huang Zemin may be very unfamiliar to everyone, but he was an excellent young martial artist from a famous family in that era, his age was as old as Bruce Lee, and he inherited the famous martial arts masters Ma Jinfeng and Yan Shangwu at that time, and was also good at taijiquan and shape-meaning boxing, and he was also a new generation of disciples who had high hopes from the division.
So this equally young and promising Huang Zemin had just settled in San Francisco, and he was targeted by the Chinese martial arts community at that time, with the purpose of using him to challenge Bruce Lee, even if the worst result was to lose to Bruce Lee, he would also kill Bruce Lee's might.
"No problem! I've heard of him for a long time, and if you don't say it, I'm planning to compete with him too! ”
Huang Zemin is full of confidence in challenging Bruce Lee, so enthusiastic! At this time, his heart was full of energy, full of thoughts about the beauty of his victory over Bruce Lee and then his fame in the Chinese martial arts world.
02 "Finding fault" has become "self-inflicted humiliation"
One day, Huang Zemin not only brought seven helpers he thought he could fight, but also brought a group of younger brothers to Bruce Lee's Zhen fan guoshu hall, the crowd surged and looked at a large piece of black pressure, the battle was very large, but any clear-eyed person could feel Huang Zemin's mood as long as he thought about it a little.
Unfortunately, the day Huang Zemin went was just in time for Bruce Lee to go out to the Auckland Martial Arts Hall for class, and the little brother of bruce Lee Martial Arts said that he would notify Bruce Lee and ask him to come back another day, but Huang Zemin was very face-saving.
"No need for another day! I'm going to find him myself now! ”
After saying that, Huang Zemin took his brother to the Oakland Martial Arts Gym to find Bruce Lee.
Huang Zemin handed Bruce Lee a letter of challenge, which read. "If Huang Zemin wins, then Bruce Lee closes the martial arts hall and leaves the United States."
Bruce Lee had been out for four days, exhausted, cold, unwell, and his wife, who was accompanied by him, was eight months pregnant.
At this moment, Huang Zemin came to look for stubble, which made Bruce Lee very irritable. "That's what you want? That's how you want to fight? ”
Bruce Lee was already furious at this point, but he didn't want to hurt anyone, and as a Chinese, he was very reluctant to fight with Chinese because he felt that it would make others see jokes and feel that he was not united.
Watching Bruce Lee angrily question himself, Huang Zemin not only did not answer but pulled away from his own people, at this time Bruce Lee's wife Linda still secretly encouraged him in his ear: "He is not your opponent." ”
In order to solve the trouble, and in order to get his wife who was 8 months pregnant to stand up and be clean, Bruce Lee took on the challenge, although he was uncomfortable, he never worried about his strength.
Moving slowly, Bruce Lee raised his hand and used Wing Chun. Saying that it was late and fast, Bruce Lee was as fast as lightning, and the flood of beasts poured out on Huang Zemin one after another.
It can be said that at this time, Huang Zemin immediately regretted that he chose to fight with him, and he thought that he was very rich in combat experience, training experience and experience in resisting enemies, and he never expected bruce Lee to have such a fast and fast man.
Bruce Lee's Wing Chun is not a traditional Wing Chun in the general sense, but a more powerful and lethal punch, the two people fought for a minute, while Huang Zemin has been defending, not even having the opportunity to make a move.
Seeing Bruce Lee's stormy attack on Huang Zemin, who was unable to resist at all, the "seniors" of the martial arts world next to him were like ants on a hot pot, and they began to sit still, and even broke the rules and stopped the game.
Fortunately, Bruce Lee's apprentices stopped them, so that their ruse did not succeed.
After about another minute, Huang Zemin was almost unstoppable, he only felt that his two arms were as painful as a broken bone, and every time he was hit, he changed from severe pain to numbness, and he felt that he was about to be crippled.
At this time, every second was extremely painful for him, and he knew that he and the person in front of him were not on the same level in terms of martial arts attainment, combat skills and reaction ability, so he began to plan to escape.
After a total of about three minutes, Huang Zemin finally couldn't resist the defeat, but at this time he suddenly did something that stunned everyone present and fled.
After being beaten, he scurried around like a rat and tried to leave Bruce Lee's side, but was immediately grabbed by Bruce Lee and pressed to the ground, and bruce Lee's fist was also hanging in mid-air, that is, Huang Zemin's face.
"Is it enough?" Enough is enough! ”
Bruce Lee looked angrily at the defeated general in front of him, as if he was angry that his fist would fall at any moment.
"Enough, enough!"
Huang Zemin hurriedly conceded defeat, and the old guys who sent Huang Zemin to the side saw this scene and beat their chests one by one and lost their faces, and they were so angry that they stomped their feet, they knew that their faces could be said to have been lost by Huang Zemin.
If you can't fight, you can't fight, what's going on, those people are blue in the face, and when Huang Zemin was dragged to the door, they left one step ahead.
And this big farce lasted only three minutes, and Linda was always around, watching in the eyes.
Later, Huang Zemin was thrown out of the martial arts hall by Bruce Lee by the collar, and since this incident, no one has dared to protest against Bruce Lee, and Bruce Lee has gained a foothold in the American martial arts world.
03 Superstar shines and illuminates the world
After that war, no one heard from Huang Zemin, some people said that he was psychologically shadowed by Bruce Lee, some people said that he gave up martial arts and left the United States.
In short, this brief confrontation between the two young Haojie became the talk of people after dinner, and bruce Lee's three-minute defeat of his opponent also became a popular story in San Francisco, Bruce Lee's kung fu not only impressed everyone, his ability and skills and even physical strength also surprised people.
As Bruce Lee's fame grew, people in China and the United States who liked to learn martial arts came to bruce Lee to learn the art.
Later, Bruce Lee entered Hollywood with fame and strength, became a hot superstar in Hollywood, and won the love of countless people.
Linda recalled the battle that year: "I never worried about my husband, I have confidence in him, and the facts have proved that I am right, Huang Zemin and my husband are not on the same level, that's why he lost so quickly." ”
To tell the truth, I think all Chinese will like the confidence of Sister-in-law Long.
Unfortunately, this martial arts genius and film and television superstar fell early. Bruce Lee died of an accidental illness on July 20, 1973, and was buried at lakeview cemetery in Seattle, Washington.
For many years, countless Hollywood stars and Chinese and American citizens have remembered this genius in various ways, the United States has awarded him a number of film commemorative awards, China has also held commemorative events for him, whether in China or the United States, Bruce Lee is everyone's favorite person.
"We can only see through others when we know ourselves, and cut boxing is to move towards understanding ourselves."
Once, when Bruce Lee commented on the interception of boxing, he once said that the interception of boxing is not a method created for the purpose of attack and injury, but a kind of avenue and heaven.
The philosophical ideas and mysteries in martial arts are the main research directions of Bruce Lee's study of martial arts, and he is great not only because he has forged steel and is a genius martial artist, but also because of his perseverance and sincerity in martial arts.
Although he has been dead for many years, the great spirit of Bruce Lee still has a strong influence on future generations, when Westerners remember Chinese martial arts, they will invariably think of Bruce Lee of China, he passed on to the world the spirit of the Chinese nation's unremitting self-improvement and never-say-die, he is the pride of our nation.
Resources
- What happened to Huang Zemin, who challenged Bruce Lee? " Pin Reading Network
- "Bruce Lee" Baidu Encyclopedia
- "The Life of Bruce Lee Will Be Made in Hollywood" and named "The Birth of the Dragon"