Bruce Lee is a world-class martial arts movie star. As a Chinese star, his status is unmatched in the international film industry. He is an unprecedented and brilliant star.
Everyone knows Bruce Lee. After reading his works, he knows the martial arts he created Jeet Kune Do . But few people know Bruce Lee's family life, and few people know the woman behind Bruce Lee - his wife Linda Emery .
What kind of person is Linda ? How did she and Bruce Lee meet? What kind of life did Bruce Lee have after her death? Today we will introduce everything about Bruce Lee and Linda.
Self-few people know that Bruce Lee was once a child star. He starred in his first movie in his life " Kinmen Female " in three months, and became the male lead in the movie " Xilu Xiang " at the age of 10.
Bruce Lee's acting skills were well received in childhood, but he was not satisfied with only starring in drama films. His real interest lies in martial arts.
Bruce Lee started to learn Tai Chi at the age of seven, and started to learn Chinese boxing at the age of nine. He has always been very interested in martial arts and has used all resources to find famous teachers, hoping to learn from well-known martial arts masters. When he was fourteen years old, he officially joined the Ip Man and learned Wing Chun .
Bruce Lee practiced Wing Chun diligently. In addition, he also widely studied Hongquan , Mantis Boxing , Baihe Boxing and other boxing species that were popular 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 concentration on martial arts also made him unintentionally study and his academic performance became very poor. And he often made appointments with others, which made his family very worried.
Ip Man, how will this child develop in the future? If you continue fighting like this, you will not only not achieve anything, but you may even go on a bad road because of the fight before you grow up, right? What's more, maybe you will lose your life. Bruce Lee's family was worried so much that they finally made up their minds to send Bruce Lee to study in the United States.
They think that as long as Bruce Lee leaves Hong Kong, his martial arts master and classmates, he should be calm and reincarnated.
In this way, the nineteen-year-old Bruce Lee set foot on the land of the United States and began the second stage of his life. It was also here that he met his wife Linda.
Bruce Lee went to the University of Washington in Seattle . He majored in drama and psychology, and devoted himself to martial arts practice in his spare time.
Not only did he practice martial arts hard, he also hoped to carry forward Chinese martial arts so that the whole world could see the wonderful creations of the Chinese.
Therefore, he formed the Chinese martial arts team in college and often performed martial arts on campus with his team members. After watching the performance of the Bruce Lee martial arts team, many American students were deeply attracted by the breadth and breadth of Chinese martial arts and wanted to learn this skill.
Therefore, Bruce Lee rented a small place in the school, hung up the signature Zhenfan Guojiu Museum , and began to recruit students who wanted to learn martial arts.
During this period, Bruce Lee defeated the world judo champion Masahiko Kimura and the world karate champion Yamamoto Okao Yamamoto, and has become famous for a while.
He accepted many apprentices during this period, such as his first apprentices Jesse Glover , Yan Jinghai and others.
Many students from nearby universities go to Bruce Lee’s National Museum to practice martial arts, and Linda is one of them. However, Bruce Lee had something else at that time, and he was dating a Japanese girl named Emmy Sanyu.
Bruce Lee loves this Japanese girl very much and has proposed to her many times, but Emmy does not intend to marry Bruce Lee. After graduating from Emmy University, she went to New York to work and disappeared into Bruce Lee's world in a casual manner.
The broken heartbroken Bruce Lee began to date Linda, who was only nineteen years old. Linda is a virtuous girl. She admires Bruce Lee and is willing to contribute to Bruce Lee wholeheartedly. Both of them dropped out of school before they graduated from college and focused on Bruce Lee's martial arts career.
Linda loves Bruce Lee deeply. She does not love Bruce Lee's fame or money. She was willing to give everything for him when he was still an unknown person.
The two entered the marriage hall after dating for a year. Bruce Lee was twenty-four years old and Linda was twenty years old.
77 months later, Linda gave birth to her first child, her son Li Guohao . Four years later, 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 an Hollywood actor.
Bruce Lee starred in the first TV series of his life, "The Green Hornet". Modern people are accustomed to such superhero 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, and Bruce Lee has gained great fame for this TV series. After that, he made guest appearances in many film and television works and served as a martial arts director in Hollywood.
At the same time, his National Museum also promoted his career success. As the National Museum of War is becoming more and more famous, many American martial arts stars and boxers gather in the National Museum of War to exchange skills. More and more people are learning from Bruce Lee as their teacher to learn from 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 learn the essence of various Chinese martial arts, but also integrates Western boxing techniques. The name of Jeet Kune Do is actually easy to understand, it means intercepting the opponent and punching. Jeet Kune Do pays attention to letting things go naturally, not restricting to fixed moves, taking action naturally, and resolving them naturally.
Although Bruce Lee is talented, in the United States where racial discrimination is serious, his career is inevitably suppressed by discriminatory ideas.
In an unfair environment, a person cannot freely show all his talents. Bruce Lee, who understood this, decided to leave the United States and return to Hong Kong to find a way out.
With the reputation of Green Hornet, Bruce Lee successfully signed a contract with Jiahe Film Company to shoot the movies " Tangshan Big Brother " and " Jingwumen ".
These two movies have achieved unprecedented success. Bruce Lee not only became famous in Hong Kong, but also became a highly anticipated idol throughout Southeast Asia. After the movie was introduced to the United States, it set off a martial arts craze in the United States. Countless young Americans admire Bruce Lee. They learn from Bruce Lee's clothes, learn from Bruce Lee's kung fu, and learn from the sounds that Bruce Lee makes when he makes moves.
Bruce Lee became an international movie star. He took advantage of the victory and set up a film company himself to shoot "The Dragon Crossing the River" and "The Dragon and the Tiger Fight". Both films also achieved good results.
At this time, Bruce Lee's career reached its peak. He is a martial arts star known to everyone and 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 guide in American martial arts films.
It was from Bruce Lee that martial arts movies began to become popular in Hong Kong, and also laid the foundation for the future emergence of martial arts guidance worldwide.
However, we who have seen the development of history must also know that Bruce Lee's life has come to an end. In his legendary life, unexpected death undoubtedly became part of his legend.
Bruce Lee will not grow old. Because he died of brain edema at the age of 32. There is also a hidden story behind this death that broke Linda's heart.
Ding Pei is a beautiful actress with a prominent family background. Her uncle is Zhang Xueliang . She has been handsome since childhood and has a cheerful personality. She loves her acting career and is willing to give everything for it. When she was still a student, she became famous in Taipei because of her outstanding dance.
In 1967, Ding Pei, who was only 20 years old, came to Hong Kong from Taiwan and officially signed with Shaw Brothers Film Company and became an actress.
Ding Pei has an open and hot personality and a very avant-garde mind. She does not reject sexy characters that other actresses avoid, and becomes a famous sexy female star at that time.
Bruce Lee met Ding Pei when he came to Hong Kong to sign a contract with Jiahe Company. Bruce Lee is in his prime and handsome; Ding Pei is also young and beautiful, hot and sexy. Somehow, the two of them sparked love and started an underground relationship.
The misfortune of both of them began from then on.
This relationship was of course hidden from Bruce Lee's first wife Linda. One day in 1973, Bruce Lee told Linda that he wanted to discuss the script with the boss of the film company Zou Wenhuai and 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 lie down on the bed and rest. After that, Ding Pei left the room and did his own thing.
I don’t know how long it took, but Zou Wenhuai had arrived at the agreed place with Bruce Lee, but Bruce Lee was not showing up for a long time, 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. Only then did Ding Pei realize it was strange that Bruce Lee had been silent. Could it be that he had overslept without realizing it?
Ding Pei went to the room and found that Bruce Lee was motionless and his whole body was cold. This scared her and she quickly asked Zou Wenhuai to come to her house.
Zou Wenhuai called the first aid number after arriving, but it was too late and Bruce Lee had already passed away.
Linda was in pain when she learned 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 and his promise to stay together for the rest of his life.
Linda's pain was heavy, and from then on she had no husband and could only live with a pair of children alone.
, and Ding Pei's career was ruined because of this incident and was insulted and ridiculed by countless people. Bruce Lee's fans often call her to die, and she becomes a slut that everyone calls to beat.
The newspaper at that time even wrote clearly: Bruce Lee died on Ding Pei's bed, such a sensational title. This made many people think that Bruce Lee died of taking too much aphrodisiac.
Ding Pei couldn't argue, not knowing how to fight back on these rumors. Even from the present, we cannot understand the attitude of the spectators at that time: Bruce Lee is a martial arts master who is proficient in martial arts and has a strong body. How could he easily die without warning?
Many years later, Ding Pei explained to the media that she believed that Bruce Lee removed his sweat glands in order to shoot, which may have affected his physical health.
After examination, the cause of Bruce Lee's death was found to be cerebral edema. Some people also believe that Bruce Lee was allergic to the painkiller given to him by Ding Pei, which caused cerebral edema.
Ding Pei suffered from mental illness due to countless verbal violence from the outside world 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 devotes herself to Buddha, eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddha's name every day, and staying in the door.
Later she married Xiang Huaqiang and gave birth to a daughter. She divorced soon after. She has no real feelings for Xiang Huaqiang, because the one she truly loves in her heart has always been Bruce Lee.
Ding Pei's life was ruined on the day Bruce Lee died. Why was Linda not? Losing her husband, Linda begins her life raising two children alone.
Although Bruce Lee was very popular, he didn't have much inheritance. Linda had to save money with her two children.
This woman was strongly raising her two children, and let them learn martial arts and inherit the spirit of Bruce Lee.
But after all, a person's life is lonely. At this time, a man quietly approached Linda's life. He is the 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 ignore Bruce Lee. After all, she has been influenced by Bruce Lee too much.
Tom's identity just meets Linda's needs. Linda originally thought that this man loved Bruce Lee like her and understood everything about Bruce Lee. They can support each other and just go on like this.
So, in 1988, 15 years after Bruce Lee's death, the two got married.
But people's hearts are unpredictable. Linda never expected that Tom did not really love her, but wanted to use her!
That's right, Tom is a writer, he really wants to explore the details of Bruce Lee's life. It would be even better if there is an unknown scandal.
He approached Linda for the sake of profit. He wanted to write a book about Bruce Lee. If Linda married, who would doubt the authenticity of his book?
After all, he can be said to be the widow of Bruce Lee, his current wife Linda told him.
Linda also discovered Tom's ugly side, and just two years after they got married, the two divorced.
After the two divorced, even though Linda tried every means to dissuade Tom and hoped that Tom would not publish his book about the cause of Bruce Lee's death, Tom still published it.
Poor Linda was deeply hit and from then on all her life was placed on her two children. Unfortunately, just three years later, her son Li Guohao died in a prop accident on the set at the age of 28.
After that, Linda remarried with her third husband. This time the marriage lasted peacefully and lasted until now.
Now Linda is 77 years old. Sometimes she appears in the family photos released by her daughter Li Xiangning. In the photo, she is a kind old lady.
Life is too unfair to her, and she took everything from her again and again, but she survived strongly and still walked forward hard. People in the world say that Bruce Lee is full of courage, but who can say that Linda is not brave in facing fate?
