If you want to elect a person who has made outstanding contributions to the promotion of Chinese martial arts, Bruce Lee must be on the list.
As the first promoter of Chinese kung fu in the world, many martial arts stars or film and television stars have promoted Bruce Lee as their idols.
Bruce Lee, although born in the United States, always remembers that he is a Chinese, always promoting traditional Chinese martial arts. It's just that this superstar, a legend in the martial arts world, died young in 1973 at the age of 32, and the only fortunate thing is that he also had a son and a daughter before his death, his son was called Li Guohao, and his daughter was called Li Xiangning.
Especially his son Li Guohao, from a young age, he learned boxing with Bruce Lee, and when he was five years old, he could kick off a wooden board, until he was eight years old, his sudden death, leaving him with only his mother and sister around him, living together in the United States.
Fortunately, with Bruce Lee's life, Li Guohao himself is also very interested in martial arts, and has been unremittingly learning martial arts, handing over his father to his own boxing and really playing it.
At that time, Hong Kong films were also just starting out, and we all knew that Bruce Lee had such a son, and I was looking forward to his growth and was bound to become the next Bruce Lee.
When he grew up, there was a boss who couldn't wait to let Bruce Lee's former friend, Chen Huimin, become an intermediary and invite Li Guohao to shoot martial arts films.
Li Guohao was also very interested in making movies at that time, especially martial arts films, and readily agreed.
The other party also paid a high price of 2.5 million, which was a sky-high film remuneration at that time.
But things didn't go as smoothly as they thought, they only remembered that Lee Waswolf was Bruce Lee's son, but they forgot that Lee was also an adult, especially growing up in the United States, and his sense of self was very strong.
When the director and others asked him to imitate Bruce Lee, Li Guohao directly refused, he felt that he was himself, why should he imitate his father? Not even one or two movements are willing to imitate, only willing to be themselves.
Chen Huimin, who was Bruce Lee's former friend at the time, was also very angry, and he felt that there was no reverence for Bruce Lee in Li Guohao's tone, so he asked him at the time, "Are you Chinese?" ”
Unexpectedly, Li Guohao immediately replied, "I am not Chinese, I am an American." "I didn't expect bruce Lee's son, who had been promoting Chinese culture, to only admit that he was an American.
Chen Huimin's patriotic feelings are also very strong, and he can't stand that he has no respect for Bruce Lee, and now he says that he is an American, which is even more inflammatory.
At that time, he slapped Li Guohao.
"If your father wasn't Bruce Lee, don't say 2.5 million, you're not even worth 20,000."
This slap also shattered this opportunity for cooperation, and finally Li Guohao returned to the United States, and Chen Huimin mentioned this matter, or kept sighing, a stomach fire.
The aura of the father is too big, is it a good thing or a bad thing for the children?
At that time, Li Guohao could not understand why the outside world had always said that he was the son of Bruce Lee, for him, his father died at a very young age, and the impression left behind was increasingly blurred, and there was no such a sense of admiration from the outside world.
He didn't feel like there was anything wrong with imitating Bruce Lee, and li Guohao, who returned to the United States, continued his life, and this problem has always been with him.
Later, as he grew older, Li Guohao understood his father, understood his rare companionship since childhood, understood why the outside world admired him so much, and he also said that he would start learning like his father.
Li Guohao, who was willing to learn, finally had his first play "Kung Fu Circle" in 1986, and finally cooperated with his uncle to make a movie "Dragon in the Jianghu" and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Newcomer.
Although he was willing to learn from his father, not everyone could become Bruce Lee, even Bruce Lee's own son.
Lee's achievements are still not comparable to Bruce Lee's, because they have not achieved the expected effect of Hong Kong investors, Lee Guo-ho returned to the United States after shooting a few plays, but this time, he still chose to continue shooting martial arts films in the United States, although there is no splash, but it can also be regarded as continuing to promote Chinese kung fu.
Until 1965, Li Guohao, who filmed "The Crow" on the set, was preparing as usual, this kind of martial arts film must use weapons, but fortunately it is all fake, only guns, in order to create a real atmosphere, chose real guns and fake bullets, there will be no danger.
But when a real bullet shot out of the gun and into Lee's abdomen, everyone was shocked.
Li Guohao was urgently sent to the hospital, the blood in the abdomen instantly stained the clothes, even if he was in a hurry, Li Guohao still unfortunately died on the way to the hospital, only 28 years old.
Like his father, he died young, but there is still no explanation as to why the fake bullet became a real bullet, and the outside world also has different opinions about the cause of Li Guohao's death.
When Chen Huimin heard the news of Li Guohao's death, she also expressed shock, and did not expect that the last play was the last side of her son with her former friend.
Chen Huimin also finally expressed his high praise to Li Guohao, "If he is not dead, he will be the next Bruce Lee." ”
Although it is still evaluated in the name of "the next Bruce Lee", for people who practice martial arts, this evaluation is tantamount to the highest honor and the greatest affirmation. Bruce Lee in their hearts, like a god being.
In the last few years, Li Guohao did not know whether he recalled the scene when he was a child, his father Bruce Lee accompanied him, from a very young age, Bruce Lee especially liked, took him to various program scenes, watched him practice martial arts, let him also be exposed to the camera, so when he grew up, he would want to enter the show business circle.
He also followed Bruce Lee, learned boxing from an early age, and wanted to grow up like Bruce Lee, promoting Chinese martial arts, but this was shattered when he was eight years old.
Bruce Lee's unexpected death not only shocked the world, but also made the Li Guohao family lose its dependence, and the eight-year-old Li Guohao's memory of Bruce Lee became more and more blurred, living abroad with his mother for many years, which also made his personality more independent.
But the title of "Son of Bruce Lee", which surrounded him since childhood, inspired his rebellion, and he began to fight everywhere to see who was upset, skipping class, like an adolescent bear child.
So when the Hong Kong boss asked him to become Bruce Lee 2.0, this kind of words that had been around his ears since childhood came again, and he refused without even thinking about it, and even the boss took a step back and asked to imitate only a few actions, he also refused.
He was bruce Lee's son, but he didn't want to be covered with his shadow.
This kind of thinking could not be understood until he was a little older, and he remembered bruce Lee's companionship when he was a child.
Although he did not remove the title of Bruce Lee's son until his death, Li Guohao also left his own works and impressions.
It's just a pity that he died young.
Only his sister Li Xiangning continues to promote Bruce Lee's fitness brand and continues Bruce Lee's martial arts spirit.
It is also a successor.
There are many martial arts, but Bruce Lee is not only famous because of martial arts, but also his love for Chinese martial arts, as well as his own spirit, which has influenced generations of people, and what is more powerful than Bruce Lee's martial arts is the spirit of Bruce Lee, and it is this spirit that is the reason why Bruce Lee can enjoy a worldwide reputation.
Therefore, no one can become Bruce Lee, but anyone can become "Bruce Lee".
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