Many people know that Bruce Lee and Macau gambling king Stanley Ho are related, but what they don't know is behind Bruce Lee, so in fact, it is a very large and wealthy family in Hong Kong, so this family can be said to have huge wealth in Hong Kong, so today, let's talk about the story of the family behind Bruce Lee.
He Shiwen, Shi Di
So the beginning of all this, to start from Bruce Lee's great-grandmother Shi Di, then she is a very poor child, born in Bao'an, Guangdong Province, a poor family, then of course there is another version that he was born in Shanghai in the early years of his father, in that era, life was very difficult, Shi Di was also sold to the fishing boats in the port, but in fact, sold to fishing boats, not as a fishing girl, in that era many small boats were parked in the port to live on the water and they were called the people, So the status is very low, then you can understand to become a water people,then until the middle and late Qing Dynasty did not abolish their untouchable identity, today's Cantonese snack boat porridge why is it also called boat boy? In fact, in the beginning, it was because there were some people who created it, then they had a lot of small boats that would stop in the harbor, in fact, secretly what they did was the skin and meat business, there were customers who were in love, they paid for the boat, in that year, Shi Di this kind of woman was called a bitch, that Cantonese is called chicken, that is, the meaning of prostitutes, then in fact, do not blame her to survive in that era, it is already a very difficult thing, we can no longer blame her.
Shi Di did not want to live such a life for a lifetime, then he went to Hong Kong, met Bruce Lee's Dutch great-grandfather in Hong Kong, his Chinese name was He Shiwen, then he was a Jew born in Rotterdam, the family was selling meat, of course, the kind of meat that sold, really sold meat, he sold kosher certified meat, then the kosher law originated in the 3rd book of Leviticus in the Pentateuch, the purpose is to promulgate God's laws and principles, Believe it, that the people of Israel were told to live like God's people, and they were taught how to live a clean life?
He Shiwen actually did not want to take over the family's business, maybe, he did not want to be said to be selling meat, others asked you what to do, you said that you sell meat will always be a little strange, he joined a Dutch ocean caravan when he was not yet an adult, then in that year, there was no child labor, so he came to Hong Kong, so many years later, also met Shi Di, we have to know ah, in that era like Shi Di, a wandering and helpless woman, can find a foreigner as a reliance, That is very lucky, at least ah she does not have to worry about survival, and in Hong Kong, many foreigners, ah, are also far away from home, but also happy to find a Chinese woman half as a nanny and half as a wife, then after playing, leave the so-called wife and children, pat their butts and go back to Europe.
In the past 10 years, The master and disciple Shi Di gave birth to 4 sons and a daughter to He Shiwen, then He Shiwen's economic pressure gradually became very large, and the business did not have much improvement, that in retrospect, it was better to know that it was better to sell meat at home with his father, and the one who sold meat was also called selling meat, then he could not take Shi Di back, you think about it, if the Jew who eats meat has to eat clean meat, if he knows that his son has brought 5 mixed-race grandchildren back, he will not chop He Shiwen into meat paste, So Ah He Shiwen and Shi Di had a showdown, saying that he wanted to go to other countries to try his luck, and promised to come back, then Shi Di did not have the right to say, because ah with foreigners in the year of Chinese women's status is very low, I have said before half as a nanny and half as a wife, so He Shiwen left their mother and son, He Shiwen went back and never came back, died in Britain.
And Shi Di's side has lost its dependence, 5 children still have to be raised, and the situation at that time is that the mixed-race children are also blind and cannot get help, you may think that the current mixed-race children are beautiful and beautiful, then in that era, the rejection is very strong, before they were all the fate of the parents, the words of the matchmakers, like Shi Di, who is with foreigners, has not been a woman, she is not even recognized by the Chinese marriage law, then she also gave birth to mixed-race children, many mixed-race children can only intermarry internally, Even at that time in many places in Hong Kong did not allow mixed-race children to be buried in the cemetery, then later Shi Di's family heirs even founded the Zhaoyuan Cemetery, specifically for the burial of Eurasian mixed-race children, you can imagine how difficult Shi Di's situation was at that time, and Shi Di, she also did any work, the female Ben was weak as a mother, this sentence was vividly reflected in her body, for the sake of her children, Shi Di did not hesitate to rely on her appearance to do temporary work as a dancer, and finally, she was favored by the rich Hong Kong businessman Guo Xingxian and became his concubine So although Guo Xingxian showed respect for her, but you think for yourself, is such a rich life really easy, not to mention, ah, with so many mixed-race drag oil bottles, ah, suffered from exclusion, but for the sake of children, Shi Di endured, then Shi Di's mixed-race children, although they suffered from white eyes, they have an advantage, that is, to enjoy the cultural influence of the two countries, grow up in a rich family, and get a good elite education, In the context of that year, it was active in the Sino-foreign trade and played the most important comprador role, so it was possible to establish the most powerful family in the history of Hong Kong, so of course, there was a gray part, in that era, what kind of business could rise so quickly and accumulate the first wealth, this can only play your own imagination.
He Qidong, he is Shi Di's eldest son, he started from translation and learned finance, became the richest man in Hong Kong at the age of less than 40, now when it comes to the richest man, many people will think that the richest man in Hong Kong is Li Ka-shing, but you certainly can't think of it, the first richest man in Hong Kong is He Qidong, then Sun Yat-sen Kang Youwei and Chiang Kai-shek, are friends with him, he also funded Sun Yat-sen's revolution, overthrown the late Qing government, and even funded the National Government. And ah played a great role in the nascent National Government, this person his energy is very large, so interesting yes, He Qidong this person, he has always considered himself Chinese, and he has always insisted on wearing Chinese clothing.
He Qidong's son is He Shili, then he was once Zhang Xueliang's staff officer, but also a second-class general in the army, graduated from the Saint Cyr Military Academy, that is, the imperial military school founded by Napoleon that year, He Qidong's daughter, He Jingzi, she, married Luo Wenjin, Luo Wenjin is also the first local Chinese blood lawyer to be allowed to practice, their father, Luo Changzhao is one of the four major families in Hong Kong, Luo Changzhao's wife is the Qing Dynasty's assistant in Korea, Shi Xiangqing, Shi Xiangqing, the Hong Kong Shi family also has Jewish ancestry. They are Jews from Germany, these famous and prestigious families, they are all married to each other, and their relationship is also very similar to Luo Changzhao and He Qidong they were very good friends in their early years, so in the early years they also founded a very famous Dayou Bank, Ho Kai Fu he is also a top figure in Hong Kong, did Jardine Matheson & Co., Sassoon Comprador, once worked in the Legislative Council, his son He Shiguang, is the father of the famous Macau gambling king Ho Hung Sun, His son is also the first Chinese-American mp, and his wife is Sin Hing-yun, the daughter of Hong Kong's prominent xian defen
He Gantang, he is also a very important figure, because he is Bruce Lee's grandfather, then his industry is also all over finance, sugar, flower yarn, coal and groceries, he once founded Guanghua Hospital, once won the Jiahe Medal awarded by the National Government 4 times, of course, he is also a generation of popular figures, He Gantang has a total of 13 concubines and countless lovers have a total of 29 children, of course, not including illegitimate children, and He Gantang has an adopted daughter named He Aiyu is Bruce Lee's mother, so ah, He Gantang this person is very important in Bruce Lee's life, according to the He family descendant He Hongluan wrote the "Tracing, My, Children, s, Lineage" He Gantang was born in 1866, born of Shi Di and the rich businessman Guo Xingxian, he is no foreigner blood, is a pure Chinese, of course, we have a basis here, whether Shi Di green He Shiwen and Guo Xingxian had an extramarital affair, because He Gantang was born in 1866, And He Shiwen left Hong Kong in 1873 and returned to Europe, with a gap of seven years in between, if according to the family books written by He Hongluan, this in the early years of Shi Di had already met with Guo Xingxian and became a secret lover, but I also analyzed from the social model and cultural background at that time, based on the status of the Chinese at that time, Chinese women rarely dared to cheat in the relationship with foreigners, not to mention that Shi Di, who was half-sold and half-married, had children, and the possibility of cheating was very low, and He Gantang himself had said, He Shiwen is his biological father, but this is still inconclusive, so the whole incident is confusing, which is also the root cause of Bruce Lee's countless mysteries
Bruce Lee's mother named He Aiyu is also a mixed-race child, his mother obviously has the appearance characteristics of Europeans, then He Gantang is her adoptive father, Zhang Qiongxian is her adoptive mother, this Zhang Qiongxian herself is also a Eurasian mixed-race child, as He Gantang's last mistress adopted He Aiyu, then there is a saying, that is, this He Aiyu, in fact, He Gantang was born with Zhang Qiongxian, recognizing her as an adopted daughter, just to avoid people's eyes, Bruce Lee's father named Li Haiquan was really named Li Manchuan, His ancestral home is Shunde, Guangdong, he is the four famous uglies of Cantonese opera, this He Gantang is a person who likes to listen to the play, as a very famous Cantonese opera celebrity at that time, one or two, Li Haiquan and He Aiyu also had feelings, of course, there is a very strange thing, that is, Bruce Lee's father Li Haiquan was identified as related to a kidnapping and murder case, and he is still the main culprit, so because there was very little information left in this regard of the soldiers and horses in the past, let's just listen to it as a wild history
Aiyu He, Bruce Lee, Haiquan Lee
That 1940 ah, when the war has spread in China, then Li Haiquan took his family to the United States for refuge, on December 27 of the same year in San Francisco's Donghua Hospital gave birth to a baby, that is, the future international superstar Bruce Lee, the mother of Bruce Lee, in the United States Immigration Bureau, he was admitted to his mother as British, he has British blood, but at that time, when the world war was about to break out, they wanted to preserve Bruce Lee's American citizenship. I think there is no problem in doing this, we should not condemn him, speaking of this, we can already give a conclusion, Bruce Lee's life is indeed super complicated, here involves a special era, a special background, we should not use today's eyes to examine the people of that era can already be sure that Bruce Lee is indeed a mixed race, he is most likely a Mixed Chinese and British, then as for whether there is Jewish blood, this reason for not being able to determine is two key figures, He Gantang He Aiyu, There are too many secrets that we can't know, and the parties at that time have long been turned into a bunch of yellow earth, and many secrets, we can't study, that is, Bruce Lee's big family, it really flows with Jewish blood, this point, there is no doubt, then in the end, I just want to use Bruce Lee's own words to answer this blood question.
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