Bruce Lee is a world-class martial arts movie star. As a Chinese star, his status is unparalleled in the international movie circle.
Everyone knows Bruce Lee, has seen his works, and knows the martial arts Jeet Kune Do he created. But very few people know about Bruce Lee's family life, or the woman behind that Bruce Lee - his wife Linda Emory .
What kind of person is Linda ? How did she and Bruce Lee meet? What happened to her life after Bruce Lee died? Today we are going to tell you everything about Bruce Lee and Linda.
Few people know that Bruce Lee was once a child star. He starred in his first movie " Golden Gate Girl " when he was three months old, and became the leading actor in the movie " Xiluxiang " at the age of 10.
Bruce Lee's acting skills were well received in his childhood, but he was dissatisfied with only appearing in dramas. His real interest was in martial arts.
Bruce Lee began to learn Tai Chi at the age of seven, and began to learn Chinese boxing at the age of nine. He has always been very interested in martial arts, and has exhausted all resources to find famous teachers, hoping to learn from a well-known martial arts master. At the age of fourteen, he officially joined Ip Man and learned Wing Chun .
Bruce Lee practiced Wing Chun diligently. In addition, he also extensively studied Hongquan , Tanglangquan , Baihequan and other popular boxing styles in Hong Kong at that time.
Bruce Lee devoted himself to martial arts and practiced hard every day, but at the same time, his excessive focus on martial arts also made him unwilling to study, and his academic performance became very poor. Moreover, he often made appointments with people, which made his family very worried.
Ye asked, how will Bruce Lee
develop in the future? If you continue to fight like this, not only will you not achieve anything, but you may even go down a bad road because of the fight before you grow up? What's more, he might lose his life. Bruce Lee's family was so worried, and finally made up his mind to send Bruce Lee to the United States to study.
They think that as long as Bruce Lee leaves Hong Kong, his martial arts master and classmates, he should be able to study and change his mind.
Just like that, nineteen-year-old Bruce Lee stepped onto American soil and began the second phase of his life. It was also here that he met his wife Linda.
Bruce Lee entered the University of Washington in Seattle , where he majored in drama and psychology, and devoted himself to martial arts practice in his spare time.
He not only practiced martial arts himself, but also hoped to carry forward Chinese martial arts so that the world can see the wonderful creations of the Chinese people.
Therefore, he formed a Chinese Wushu team when he was in college, and often performed Wushu with the team members on campus. After watching the performance of the Bruce Lee martial arts team, many American students were deeply attracted by the broadness of Chinese martial arts , and they all wanted to learn this kung fu.
Therefore, Bruce Lee rented a small space in the school, put up a sign Zhenfan Martial Arts Hall , and began to recruit students who wanted to learn martial arts.
During this period of time, Bruce Lee has defeated the world judo champion Kimura Masahiko and the world karate champion Yamamoto Gango, has been famous for a while.
During this time, he had many apprentices, such as his first apprentice Jesse Glover , Yan Jinghai and others.
Linda is one of many students from nearby universities who go to Bruce Lee's martial arts hall to practice martial arts. But at that time, Bruce Lee had another love, and he was dating Japanese girl Amy Miyuki.
Bruce Lee loves this Japanese girl very much and has proposed to her many times, but Amy does not plan to marry Bruce Lee. After graduating from Amy University, she went to work in New York and disappeared into the world of Bruce Lee gracefully.
Bruce Lee, who is brokenhearted, begins dating Linda, who is only nineteen years old. Linda is a virtuous and helpful girl. She admires Bruce Lee and is willing to devote herself to Bruce Lee. The two dropped out before graduating from university to concentrate on Bruce Lee's martial arts career.
Linda loves Bruce Lee, she doesn't love Bruce Lee's fame or money, sheHe was willing to give everything for him when he was still a nobody.
The two entered the palace of marriage after dating for a year. This year, Bruce Lee was 24 years old and Linda was 20 years old.
Linda gave birth to their first child seven months later, their son Li Guohao . After another four years, the two gave birth to their daughter Li Xiangning .
Just the second year after the two got married, in 1965, Bruce Lee officially signed a contract with 20th Century Fox and became a Hollywood actor.
Bruce Lee starred in the first TV series "The Green Hornet" in his life. Modern people are accustomed to such superhero-themed film and television works, but at that time this TV series was a great innovation.
This is also the first time that a Chinese hero has appeared on the TV screen. Bruce Lee has gained a lot of fame because of this TV series. After that, he has guest starred in many film and television works, and also served as a martial arts instructor in Hollywood.
At the same time, his martial arts hall has also contributed to his career success. Due to the growing reputation of the martial arts hall, many martial arts stars and boxers in the United States have gathered in the martial arts hall to exchange skills. More and more people are taking Bruce Lee as their teacher and learning his original Jeet Kune Do. Speaking of Jeet Kune Do, many people often confuse it with karate, taekwondo, etc.
Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do not only learns the essence of various Chinese martial arts, but also incorporates Western boxing techniques. The name of Jeet Kune Do is actually very easy to understand, it means to intercept the opponent's punch. Jeet Kune Do is about going with the flow, not sticking to fixed moves, shooting naturally, and resolving naturally.
Although Bruce Lee is brilliant, in the United States, where racial discrimination is serious, his career is inevitably suppressed by discriminatory thoughts.
In an unfair environment, a person cannot freely show all his talents. Knowing this, Bruce Lee decided to leave the United States and return to Hong Kong to find a way out.
took the fame of The Green Hornet, and Bruce Lee successfully signed a contract with Golden Harvest Film Company and filmed the movies " Tangshan Brother " and " Jingwumen ". The two films
achieved unprecedented success, and Bruce Lee became famous not only in Hong Kong, but also in the entire Southeast Asia region. After the
movie was introduced to the United States, it set off a wave of martial arts in the United States. Countless young people in the United States worship Bruce Lee. They learn Bruce Lee's clothes, learn Bruce Lee's kung fu, and learn the sound of Bruce Lee when he makes moves.
Bruce Lee became an international movie star, and he took advantage of his victory to set up a film company by himself to shoot "Dragon Crossing the River" and "Dragon Fighting Tiger Fight". Both films also scored well.
At this time, Bruce Lee's career reached its peak. He is a martial arts star that no one knows about, and is the pride of China. His martial arts also brought a new trend to the American film industry. In the past, there was no martial arts instruction in American martial arts films.
started with Bruce Lee, and martial arts movies became popular in Hong Kong, which also laid the foundation for the emergence of martial arts instructors around the world in the future.
However, we who have seen the historical development must also know that Bruce Lee's life has come to an end. Unexpected deaths in his storied life have undoubtedly become part of his saga.
Bruce Lee is not getting old. Because he died of cerebral edema at the age of 32. There is also a heartbreaking secret behind this death.
Ding Pei is a beautiful actress, her family background is prominent, her uncle is Zhang Xueliang . She has a beautiful appearance and a cheerful personality since she was a child. She loves performing arts with all her heart and is willing to give everything for it. When she was still a student, she became famous in Taipei for her excellent dancing skills.
In 1967, Ding Pei, who was only 20 years old, came to Hong Kong from Taiwan and officially signed a contract with Shaw Brothers Film Company and became an actress.
Ding Pei has an open and hot personality, and her thoughts are very avant-garde. She did not reject the sexy roles that other actresses avoided, and she became a famous sexy female star at that time.
When Bruce Lee came to Hong Kong to sign with Golden Harvest, he met Ding Pei. Bruce Lee is in his prime, handsome and handsome; Ding Pei is also young, beautiful, hot and sexy. The two somehow sparked a spark of love and started an underground romance. Both
's misfortunes began here.
Of course, this relationship was hidden from Bruce Lee's first wife, Linda. One day in 1973, Bruce Lee told Linda that he was going to discuss the script with Zou Wenhuai, the boss of the film company, and he would not go home for dinner tonight. But in fact, Bruce Lee went to Ding Pei's house first.
After Bruce Lee arrived at Ding Pei's house, he felt a headache for some reason. Ding Pei took his own painkiller for Bruce Lee and asked Bruce Lee to go to bed to rest. After that, Ding Pei left the room and went about his own business.
I don't know how long it took, Zou Wenhuai had arrived at the place agreed with Bruce Lee, but Bruce Lee didn't show up, which made Zou Wenhuai feel very strange.
He knew that Bruce Lee was at Ding Pei's house, so he called Ding Pei and asked if Bruce Lee had left. It was only now that Ding Pei realized that it was very strange. Bruce Lee had been silent all this time. Could it be that he unknowingly overslept?
Ding Pei took a look in the room and found that Bruce Lee was motionless and cold. This made her startled, and she quickly called Zou Wenhuai to her house.
Zou Wenhuai called an ambulance when he arrived, but it was too late, Bruce Lee had passed away.
Linda was overwhelmed by the news of her husband's sudden death. What surprised her even more was that Bruce Lee died in the bed of a woman she didn't know. Bruce Lee actually betrayed himself, betrayed the promise of a lifetime.
Linda's pain was severe. Since then, she has no husband and can only live alone with a pair of children.
And Ding Pei's career was ruined because of this incident, and was insulted and ridiculed by countless people. There are often Bruce Lee fans calling her to die, and she has become a slut everyone yells at.
's newspaper at the time even brightly wrote: Bruce Lee died in Ding Pei's bed, such a sensational headline. This can't help but make many people think that Bruce Lee died from taking too much aphrodisiac.
Ding Pei was speechless and didn't know how to respond to these rumors. Even looking at it now, it is not impossible for us to understand the attitude of the spectators at that time: Bruce Lee was a martial arts master who was proficient in martial arts and had a strong body. How could he die so easily and without warning?
Many years later, Ding Pei explained to the media that she thought Bruce Lee had his sweat glands removed for filming, which may have affected his health.
Bruce Lee's cause of death was found to be cerebral edema after examination, and some people believe that Bruce Lee was allergic to the painkillers Ding Pei gave him, thus causing cerebral edema.
Ding Pei suffered from mental illness because of countless verbal violence outside and his inner pain, and took medicine for a whole year. She also changed herself because of this, from that hot girl to a woman who is devoted to Buddhahood, eats fast food and recites Buddhahood every day, and stays behind closed doors.
later married to Huaqiang , gave birth to a daughter, and divorced soon after. She has no real feelings for Xiang Huaqiang, because the real love in her heart has always been Bruce Lee.
Ding Pei's life was ruined on the day Bruce Lee died, so why was Linda not? With the loss of her husband, grief-stricken Linda began raising her two children by herself.
Although Bruce Lee is a smash hit, he doesn't have much legacy on his hands. Linda has two children and must be frugal.
This woman pulled her two children to grow up, and let them learn martial arts, inheriting the spirit of Bruce Lee.
But a person's life is lonely after all, and a man quietly approached Linda's life at this time. He is American writer Tom Brick.
Tom is Bruce Lee's former friend and one of his apprentices. Linda needs a man to enter her heart, but this person cannot understand Bruce Lee, after all, she has been influenced by Bruce Lee too much.
Tom's identity is exactly what Linda needs, Linda originally thought that this man loves Bruce Lee as much as she does, and understands everything about Bruce Lee. They can support each other and go on like this.
So, in 1988, 15 years after Bruce Lee's death, the two got married.
is unpredictable, Linda never thought that Tom didn't really love her, but wanted to take advantage of her.she!
That's right, Tom is a writer and he really wants to dig into the details of Bruce Lee's life, even better if there is an unknown scandal.
He approached Linda purely for profit, he wanted to write a book about Bruce Lee, and married Linda, who would doubt the authenticity of his book?
After all, he can be said to be Bruce Lee's widow, his current wife Linda told him.
Linda also discovered Tom's ugly side, and just two years after their marriage, the two divorced.
After the two divorced, even if Linda tried to dissuade him and hope that Tom would not publish his book about the cause of Bruce Lee's death, Tom still published it.
Poor Linda was devastated, and since then she has pinned everything in her life on her two children. Unfortunately, just 3 years later, her son Li Guohao died at the age of 28 due to a prop accident on the set.
After that, Linda remarried with her third husband, this time in a peaceful and long-lasting marriage that has continued to this day.
Linda is now 77 years old, and she sometimes appears in family photos released by her daughter Li Xiangning, in which she is a kind old grandmother.
Life was too unfair to her, taking everything from her again and again, but she survived it strong and still moved forward hard. The world says that Bruce Lee is full of courage, but who can say that Linda is not brave in the face of fate?
