At 7:12 a.m. on November 27, 1940, a healthy baby boy of five-eighth Chinese, one-quarter British, and one-eighth Jewish descent was born at Tung Wah Hospital in San Francisco.
Li Haiquan, the father of the baby boy, shared his joy with his colleagues in the same troupe after learning of his son's birth, and the colleagues said: "Ling Gongzi will become a great instrument!" This statement was later verified.
Bruce Lee's family of three
But no one expected that the development of this boy in the future would attract the attention of the world, but it would make countless people pity.
Originally, his mother, He Aiyu, gave him a Chinese name: Li Zhenfan, which means "Wei Zhen San Francisco". Later, Li Zhenfan followed his father to start making movies, and when the movie was broadcast, the opening subtitle was written "Li Long", and because of his thin stature, he was soon officially renamed "Bruce Lee".
Bruce Lee's stage name also officially accompanied him throughout his life. His life is full of legends and thought-provoking.
The biography of Bruce Lee: Myth and Truth that we are going to recommend today is a detailed and objective account of his life, let us follow this book together to see the real Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee: Myth and Truth
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Bruce Lee's father, Li Haiquan, was a troupe actor, and at that time, he was known as the four famous uglinesses of Cantonese opera, and his status in this industry was not low.
Later, after escaping the Japanese occupation in Hong Kong, he seized the early stage of the vigorous development of the film industry and became a well-known film actor.
It was because of the influence of his father's work that Bruce Lee had the opportunity to show his face on the set from an early age.
Bruce Lee's first appearance in the film was in "The Golden Gate Girl", and there were several scenes that required a newborn girl to play, which was the first performance in his life.
At the age of 6, Bruce Lee officially starred in his first play, "The Life of Man", playing a boy who ran away from home, and finally became a pickpocket, and was eventually crushed to death by a truck.
In his subsequent acting career, he constantly experimented with different roles, sometimes as an out-of-school child and sometimes as an orphan.
But because his father Li Haiquan was unwilling to let his son continue to develop in the show business circle, bruce Lee rarely appeared on the screen since the release of the movie "Fine Road Xiang".
Bruce Lee who practiced diligently
Bruce Lee, who returned to school, like most adolescent children, was active, rebellious, and developed a keen interest in fighting, and often questioned what his parents asked him to do, earning him two nicknames: "StopLess" and "Point B.".
His reputation has also changed from being someone you don't want to mess with to being the one best to hide from. Anyone who made fun of him or embarrassed him would fight with them on the spot, so much so that the parents of the other children began warning their sons to stay away from Bruce Lee.
With poor grades, frequent fights, increasingly violent pranks, and bullying of classmates, Bruce Lee was suspended twice during his fifth year at La Salle College and expelled from the school in 1956.
After being expelled from school, Bruce Lee became obsessed with Wing Chun and became Ip Man's official apprentice and began to learn Wing Chun formally.
But because of this, the active, provocative nature, with the blessing of Wing Chun, Bruce Lee and another classmate, Zhang Xuejian, were once included in the police's list of juvenile offenders.
This was a big blow to his father, Li Haiquan, who was not of low social status, and after thinking about it, he decided to send Bruce Lee to the United States.
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On the afternoon of April 29, 1959, Bruce Lee had no choice but to go to Victoria Harbour to prepare for the United States.
No one expected that the rebellious teenager in Hong Kong would change his appearance after going to a foreign country.
When Bruce Lee arrived in San Francisco, he immediately faced the first difficulty:
In order to make his son independent, Li Haiquan cut off his financial resources. In order to survive, Bruce Lee had to work part-time to earn money while completing his studies.
No matter how difficult life was, Bruce Lee still did not forget the kung fu dream in his heart.
In order to bridge the gap with his brothers in Hong Kong, he decided to explore the mysteries of other kung fu schools and integrate them into a super system.
This also laid a solid foundation for him to eventually become a kung fu superstar.
Bruce lee
At the Summer Ocean Festival in Seattle in 1959, he met his first foreign apprentice, a young black American named Jesse Glover.
From this one apprentice, he began to "form a gang".
In the months that followed, more and more people were attracted to Bruce Lee's expressive and aggressive boxing and willing to become his "little brother".
When more and more people want to join, Bruce Lee is ready to open a kung fu gym, and he can compete with different people and earn some living expenses for himself.
But it has to be said that Bruce Lee may be a good martial arts enthusiast, but he is not a qualified businessman.
One of the most important reasons is because Bruce Lee is so obsessed with improving his martial arts that he ignores many students following him in order to learn kung fu.
It was precisely because of this that many apprentices later left him dissatisfied with his lack of serious teaching of kung fu.
Perhaps, in Bruce Lee's world, opening a museum to make money is not his ultimate dream, and as he puts it, "I want to become the highest-paid oriental superstar in the United States." You can live as you please and achieve inner harmony and happiness. ”
On February 3, 1965, Bruce Lee got a role that could enter Hollywood and prepared to go to Los Angeles. At this time, his son Li Guohao had only been born three days ago.
But this trip to Hollywood was not smooth sailing, and "Son of Charlie Chen", which promised to start shooting immediately, was delayed again and again. Not only that, but another important film role was missed.
This made Bruce Lee start to disappoint Hollywood.
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In the summer of 1965, the opportunity finally came, but this role, which made him a little difficult to accept, played a personal maid in "The Green Hornet".
From the protagonist to the supporting role, from the James Bond-esque Chinese hero in the TV series in which he starred, to the oriental employer of a white billionaire who fights criminals.
According to Bruce Lee's nature, he certainly did not want to act. But in fact, Bruce Lee had no choice, he had to act.
After the broadcast of "Green Hornet", the ratings have been tepid, but it has given him an unexpected gain:
Almost overnight, Bruce Lee became America's most famous martial artist of the time with its coverage in Black Belt magazine and frequent invitations to the karate championship.
But after that, Bruce Lee became an unemployed actor.
Like water, my friend
On July 9, 1967, Bruce Lee gave his newly constructed martial arts system a Cantonese name called Cut Boxing.
On March 27, 1970, Bruce Lee returned to Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, he starred in a "Big Brother Tangshan" with unprecedented success.
On March 22, 1972, "Jingwumen" premiered, and the audience was full, and several of the basic elements together formed the iconic image of Bruce Lee, such as the double stick.
On December 30, 1972, Bruce Lee's "Raptor Across the River" was released, and the box office grossed 5.307 million Hong Kong dollars.
At this point, Bruce Lee has truly become a household name. And his boxing, as a result, is well known to more people.
It can be said that Bruce Lee's experience from a problem teenager to a global idol during this period can be described as ups and downs and wonderful.
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Bruce Lee's love life is equally colorful.
Born into high society, he came to a wealthy family, was handsome in appearance, and was known for his misdeeds. Such boys are especially popular with girls during adolescence.
Bruce Lee's first girlfriend in his life was Liang Baowen, who, like him, was born as a child star, but their relationship was more akin to Fa Xiao than a true boyfriend and girlfriend.
At that time, he was even more moved by another Chen Huixian, who later became a famous film actor, with the stage name Bai Yin.
But according to Bai Yin's recollection, the relationship between the two at that time was more similar to that of close and like-minded friends, so there was no closer development.
If any girl can be considered his sweetheart in middle school, it must be Cao Min'er. The two families are family friends and have the same hobbies, and the parents of the two families also hope that the two children can start a family in the future.
But how could Bruce Lee, who was rebellious by nature, accept such a life that could be seen at a glance?
His destined wife is waiting for his arrival on the other side of the ocean.
But dashing like Bruce Lee, there is an indescribable annoyance, he suffers from cryptorchidism, which at this time makes him think that he cannot become a father.
Until 1969, he underwent surgery to remove the cryptorchidism at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica.
Handsome face
In his freshman year of college, Bruce Lee fell in love with a Japanese-American sophomore named Amy Sambo.
Although Bruce Lee repeatedly proposed marriage to Sanbao in the future, Sanbao still refused. Because Bruce Lee's dream is so big that he will have a career alone in the future.
For a woman, it is difficult for her boyfriend to continue without her own dreams in her future.
Bruce Lee's future wife, Linda, aspired to become a doctor to get out of poverty and earn respect. But after meeting Bruce Lee, her dream became to become Bruce Lee's wife.
I have to say that when a woman really loves a man, she is very blind.
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In July 1964, Linda, who was still his girlfriend at the time, became pregnant, which made Bruce Lee, who thought he could not be a father, very happy, and the two decided to get married.
But Linda's mother, Vivian, did not agree to their being together, because at that time, interracial marriage was illegal.
After a fierce struggle, Linda married Bruce Lee as she wished, but she did not expect that the husband he loved deeply would find one woman after another.
During the filming of Scandal Blood, he had an affair with Sharon Farrell.
On the night before the premiere of "Jingwumen", he accidentally met 25-year-old Taiwanese actress Ding Pei.
For these relationships, Bruce Lee has his own explanation:
If I have an affair with a woman, it doesn't matter at all, it's just a scene. For me, the wife and children are the most important.
We have no way of knowing what Bruce Lee had in mind about marriage. But in this regard, Bruce Lee is really not a good husband and a good father in the eyes of the public.
Until the last moment of his life, he was still lying on the bed of his lover Ding Pei. His legitimate wife, Linda, only learned of the news from the doctor after his death.
Bruce Lee and daughter
Bruce Lee's life ended on July 20, 1973.
The cause of his death, as many netizens speculated, was death in his lover's bed, but because of his previous overtraining.
Bruce Lee was an excellent man, self-disciplined, driven, and eager to study, but these qualities became his own provocatives.
In order to punch faster, he practiced day and night, 100 times is not enough, he came 1,000 times, completely disregarding whether his body can withstand it.
According to the book Bruce Lee: Myth and Truth:
During the filming of Dragon Fight, he was overly stressed and physically and mentally exhausted, and in the past two months, he has drunk much more frequently than before.
In addition, a month before he fainted from heat stroke, he had just undergone surgery to remove his underarm sweat glands because he felt that his sweaty appearance looked indecent on the big screen.
Striving for perfection, Bruce Lee treated himself as a machine, so much so that it led to the final tragedy.
Throughout Bruce Lee's life, from a troubled teenager to a world-renowned one, from the early cha-cha dance champion to the final passionate years, it is both legendary and thought-provoking.
A generation of kung fu superstars has passed away, and what we can do, in addition to remembrance, is probably to fully understand the real Bruce Lee from various biographies.
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