Film and television superstar Jackie Chan has acted in countless movies and created countless legendary characters, but he did not expect that his parents' experience was even more bizarre than the plot of the movie.
Jackie Chan is with his parents
Jackie Chan always thought he was the only child of his parents until he saw the letter on the company desk: "Dear Father Chen Zhiping Received."
Chen Zhiping is the name of Jackie Chan's father, but this letter was sent to his father by others, which made Jackie Chan a little confused.
So he took the letter and asked his father, who replied to him: "Why ask so much!" There is no following.
Later, Jackie Chan's father felt that he was older, and the secret that had been hidden by Jackie Chan for many years should also let him know. So, I found a time to explain the details to my son.
Jackie Chan's father Fang Daolong
1.
It turned out that the people who wrote the letter were Jackie Chan's two half-brothers, but when they were very young, their father left them.
Moreover, jackie Chan's father's real name is Fang Daolong, and Chen Zhiping is his fake name.
So why did Fang Daolong change his name and surname, and still need to separate his flesh and bones? This has to start from the era when Fang Daolong lived.
Fang Daolong
In 1915, Fang Daolong was born in Yantai, Shandong.
At that time, shandong was in constant turmoil, droughts and locust plagues were frequent, and robberies by soldiers and bandits occurred from time to time, and many people were hungry and had difficulty covering their bodies, so they had to flee their homes and go to other places to survive.
When Fang Daolong was 9 years old, his family was too poor to open the pot. His father, Fang Zhengwen, escaped with him and his family and settled down in a village called Fangqiao Village in Wuhu, Anhui Province.
In order to survive, Fang Zhengwen did some small business, often traveling back and forth between Wuhu and Nanjing.
Over time, he also befriended many people, including ordinary people and powerful people in both black and white.
Relying on this strong circle of contacts, Fang Zhengwen has run the business well.
After having money, he sent his son Fang Daolong to school, hoping to change his son's fate through knowledge.
However, Fang Daolong was mischievous by nature, did not like to study, and at the age of thirteen or fourteen, he said that he was unwilling to study.
Jackie Chan's father took a group photo with relatives in Fangqiao Village, Wuhu, Anhui Province
Fang Zhengwen had to entrust a friend to find a master of a cloth trading house in Shanghai and let Fang Daolong become an apprentice weaver.
In order to let his son have the ability to defend himself, when Fang Daolong was 16 years old, Fang Zhengwen enrolled him in a martial arts class to learn the Northern Sect Xiaohong Fist. Dancing knife stick this is Fang Daolong's favorite, this learning is 3 years, Fang Daolong also practiced a good kung fu.
When Fang Daolong was 20 years old, he learned martial arts and his apprenticeship in the cloth trading house expired, so he left Shanghai and returned to his home in Nanjing.
His father entrusted his friend Gu Zhutong to help arrange a job for him, and Gu Zhutong's help made Fang Daolong's ability to play a role, but it also pushed him into the abyss of bad luck and made him restless for a lifetime.
2.
At that time, Gu Zhutong was the commander of the National Government Guard Army. Hearing that Fang Daolong knew martial arts and was a friend's child, he arranged for Fang Daolong to be a personal guard.
Fang Daolong is serious and clever, and Gu Zhutong admires him very much.
Gu Zhutong
But life is always full of accidents, once, Fang Daolong was waiting for Gu Zhutong to do things, idle, playing with a pistol, accidentally pulled the trigger, the gun sounded frightened him to quickly throw the gun to the ground.
Although there were no casualties in this incident, Gu Zhutong felt that his life was threatened and fired Fang Daolong.
After Fang Daolong was expelled, he followed his father's advice, bought a boat with a few friends, and started a business of buying and reselling between Nanjing and Wuhu.
At that time, the waterway from Wuhu to Nanjing was already the domain of the Japanese army, and they set up checkpoints everywhere and forcibly collected "protection fees" from merchants.
Fang Daolong was young and vigorous, plus he knew martial arts, and he did not pay the Japanese in his eyes at all, so he always avoided these Japanese people in a different way, that is, he did not pay the "protection fee".
He often walked by the river with non-wet shoes, and soon Fang Daolong and his friends were arrested and imprisoned by the Japanese, and the boats and cargo were all detained.
Fortunately, Fang Daolong's father opened up the relationship between the Japanese command through his relatives and spent a lot of money to fish them out of prison.
After coming out of prison, the desperate Fang Daolong had to find Gu Zhutong again, hoping that he would help find a job to make a living. This time, Gu Zhutong arranged for him to be an intelligence officer under Dai Kasa.
Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Kasa
Fang Daolong, who got the job opportunity again, cherished this job very much, and did things more seriously, and he did every job that Dai Kasa gave him well.
Soon Fang Daolong gained Dai Kasa's trust and often sent him on important tasks, however, these tasks were all dangerous.
Fang Daolong was assassinated twice during his mission, almost killing him.
Fang Daolong was very scared in his heart, he wanted to resign and not do it, but after entering this circle, it was so easy to quit.
3.
At a time when Fang Daolong was at a loss, Japan began to invade China in an all-round way.
Taking advantage of the chaos of the war, the 22-year-old Fang Daolong fled to Chongqing with his father and sister, and during the escape, he encountered Japanese bombing, and his father and sister were killed.
Burying his loved ones and having no time to grieve, Fang Daolong came to Chongqing with the fleeing crowd.
Fang Daolong stayed in Chongqing for several months, with no relatives, no fixed place to live, and the money on his body was almost spent, so he had to return to his hometown in Wuhu, Anhui.
At home, he found a job as a customs policeman through friends and married a poor girl.
After marriage, they had two sons: Fang Shide and Fang Shisheng.
Jackie Chan's two half-brothers: Fang Shisheng and Fang Shide
Later, Fang Daolong's wife fell ill, and in order to treat his wife, Fang Daolong spent all his savings, but still did not save his wife.
Before he could catch his breath, the Liberation War was in full swing, because he had been a military agent, and Fang Daolong had to start the road of escape again, leaving behind two young children and fleeing to Shanghai to make a living.
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Why did Fang Daolong flee to Shanghai? Because there is an old acquaintance of his- Chen Lili, who is also Jackie Chan's mother.
Chen Lili
Chen Lili is also a native of Wuhu, Anhui Province, and once born, she had no father, and it was her mother who opened a grocery store to raise her and her sister.
When she was sixteen or seventeen years old, she married a shoemaker by arrangement with her parents.
After marriage, they had two daughters: Chen Yulan and Chen Guilan.
Chen Guilan and Chen Yulan
At that time, although her husband's family was poor, he was willing to work hard and endure hardships, and the family's life was relatively peaceful and quiet.
However, the Japanese came, and the war took away Chen Lili's husband's life and her good life.
After Chen Lili's husband died, her mother-in-law thought she was an ominous woman and wanted to sell her and her two daughters.
Chen Lili took her two daughters and fled to her mother's house overnight.
In order to survive and feed her two children, she sold opium, and when she went out, although she disguised it well, she was discovered by the sharp-eyed Fang Daolong.
Fang Daolong called her to his office and whispered, "Do you know how dangerous it is for a woman to take a child to opium?"
Chen Lili had tears in her eyes and angrily rebuked, "It's better than starving to death!"
Fang Daolong saw that she was a woman with filial piety and a child, and thought that it was not easy for her to make a living, so he developed sympathy for Chen Lili, secretly returned the opium to her, and asked her to leave quickly.
In the days that followed, Fang Daolong deliberately let Chen Lili ride a horse, and in the long run, the two people felt good about each other and became friends who talked about everything.
Fang Daolong and Chen Lili
Just by selling some opium, Chen Lili still can't earn enough living expenses for the family.
So, she left the child in the care of her mother, left Wuhu, and went to Shanghai alone.
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In such a difficult situation, Chen Lili did not give up progress.
She works as a maid for foreigners, washing, cooking, cleaning rooms, and waxing floors during the day. In the evening, she uses her free time to learn English on her own, and her communication with employers is no longer accessible, which impresses them.
Life has forced Chen Lili into a fierce role, in order to make more money, Chen Lili also went to the mixed casino at night to sell opium. She carried a stick every day, and when she encountered a criminal, she raised the stick and beat it, showing no mercy.
Slowly, she gained a foothold in Shanghai, where she was also famous, and everyone who saw her had to respectfully call "Third Sister".
Stills from Jackie Chan's movie "Three Cities"
Fang Daolong had long heard that Chen Lili had gone to Shanghai, so he asked for an address from her mother and went directly to her.
Chen Lili has always remembered Fang Daolong's kindness, used his friendship for him, and found him a job of "playing docks".
Since then, the two people who have suffered a hard life have taken care of each other, cared for each other, and their feelings have gradually warmed up.
However, Chen Lili's mother did not like Fang Daolong very much, knew that he had done things for the Kuomintang, felt that he was a bad person, and tried her best to prevent her daughter from being with Fang Daolong.
However, Chen Lili said: "Fang Daolong is good to me, just look at this point I also want to be with him, not to mention that he is not a bad person at all." ”
Fang Daolong and Chen Lili
Fang Daolong did not defend himself too much, but only gave Chen Lili to help her mother, sister and brother-in-law after earning money.
He is extremely tolerant of Chen Lili, although he does not like her gambling, but Fang Daolong will not blame. When Chen Lili rans out of possessions to gamble money, he silently took those pawn tickets and redeemed all the belongings.
His love touched Chen Lili, and he immediately quit gambling, stopped selling opium, and lived a normal life.
When the life of the two people was getting better and better, Fang Daolong's trouble came again.
In 1949, after the founding of New China, Chiang Kai-shek and many Kuomintang soldiers retreated to Taiwan one after another, and some fled to Hong Kong.
Fang Daolong, who had a history of military commanders, had to be separated from Chen Lili in order to avoid being investigated, and once again opened the road of escape.
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This time, Fang Daolong fled to Hong Kong, and changed his name to change his surname, following Chen Lili's surname and changing his name to Chen Zhiping.
With the help of friends, Fang Daolong went to the U.S. Consulate at Victoria Hill to work as a maid, responsible for cooking, cleaning, and repairing the garden.
Fang Daolong, who has experienced the vicissitudes of the world, no longer has the impetuousness of the past, and in the face of these housework that he has never done before, he can also settle down and study with his heart.
Two years later, in order to follow her lover, Chen Lili risked her life from Macau to Smuggle to Hong Kong.
Stills from the movie "A Tale of Three Cities"
Two people who love each other, after nine deaths, are finally reunited in Hong Kong.
Later, they married in Hong Kong, chen Lili also entered the hilltop consulate to work, and the turbulent and displaced life finally returned to peace.
In 1954, their son Chen Gangsheng was born, which later became the film and television superstar Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan and his parents
When Jackie Chan was 7 years old, the consul of Fang Daolong's work was transferred to Australia to work, because he liked to eat the dishes made by Fang Daolong, he wanted to take him out together, but Fang Daolong was a low-level clerk, and he could only take his wife, not children.
In order to survive, Fang Daolong, who has endured hardships, cherishes this hard-won job, but in the face of young children, he still makes difficulties.
Finally, there was no way, he tried to send jackie chan, who was more than 6 years old, to the Peking Opera Taidou Yu Zhanyuan Drama Academy to learn martial arts.
This study is 10 years, although in these 10 years, Jackie Chan has less happiness with his parents, but it is also these 10 years of master's strict discipline that has made him successful. Jackie Chan once said that it was his master who taught him to be tough and strong.
Many times, due to the limitations of living conditions, we have to endure the pain of making trade-offs, let alone in such a chaotic world.
Whether it is leaving Jackie Chan to live alone in the drama school for 10 years, or leaving his two sons in Wuhu to escape, it is not the result that Fang Daolong wants, and leaving his two daughters to go out to make a living is not the result that Chen Lili wants.
So when the spring breeze of reform and opening up came, when Fang Daolong was sure that he would not cause trouble to his children, he was so eager to find his lost son.
Jackie Chan's father is with two older brothers
In 1985, the 70-year-old Fang Daolong met his son who had been separated for more than thirty years in Guangzhou, and Fang Daolong was in tears, with guilt, heartache, and helplessness in his tears.
After contacting his son, Fang Daolong found someone to repair the Fang family tree, and from time to time sent some money back to his sons, however, he was still afraid that his affairs would affect Jackie Chan's future and never mentioned it to him.
Until Fang Daolong had a serious illness and was worried that he would leave one day and never have the opportunity to let Jackie Chan know his origins, he found a time to tell Jackie Chan the story of his youth.
In order to document the legendary life of his parents, Jackie Chan asked photographers to shoot the documentary "The Depths of the Dragon: The Lost Puzzle" for his parents, and also filmed a movie "A Tale of Three Cities".
Chen Lili also got in touch with two daughters, the second daughter Chen Guilan has been caring for her mother in Australia until her mother's death.
In that chaotic world of frequent wars and years of famine, how many people were displaced and how many people were destroyed, but Jackie Chan's parents, these two people who were wrapped in bad luck, were not defeated by bad luck, but survived strongly in the cracks.
The story of Jackie Chan's parents is the epitome of how many people in China, war, turmoil, and change have broken up countless couples and changed the fate of many people, and the feelings of this period are more poignant and touching, and they are not easy to come by. Text/Language