Kung Fu Master

Well, did I surprise you with this topic I choose? I really want to see your facial expression when you are reading this.

Chinese Kung Fu, the fantastic combat skill, is also known as Chinese Material Arts. It is not only about the techniques that teach people how to fight, but also with great philosophy in it. OK, there’s too much to be talked about of Kung Fu, and I want to focus on the most famous Kung Fu master in the world: Bruce Lee, the Kung Fu Master, famous Hollywood Actor and National Hero in China.

Bruce Lee was born in November 27^th 1940 and named Li Zhen Pan as his original Chinese name. He was born in a performer family which means both of his parents are actor/actress. He learned Tai Ji Quan when he was 7 and Yong Chun Quan (these are two branching of Kung Fu) when he was 16 as his Kung Fu foundation. Moreover, he learned some other branching including Shao Lin Kung Fu. These helped him when he built Jeet Kune Do, his own branching, in the following time. He joined some film shooting when he was young but none of them succeed; on the other hand, his Kung Fu quite good, he set up his own Kung Fu School when he was studying in University of Washington.

At that time, Kung Fu was not known by the world until Bruce Lee’s first Kung Fu Movie. In his movie, Bruce Lee made himself famous by the powerful aerial-triple-whirly kick and loud squeaking. After that, the strange squeaking has even become a mark as Bruce Lee., the movie that made people remember his name, was considered very successful in Hong Kong by selling 3 million Hong Kong Dollar. Thereafter, in his movie , he introduced a new weapon to the world: nunchaku (two sticks connected with iron chain). Because of his perfectly performance, nunchaku was once considered a fashionable in America; the police office in some states of the US even taught nunchaku to the cops after the nunchaku fashion swept across America.

So far, he was already quite popular in both Asia and America. However, Hollywood refused Bruce Lee to join them because the reward he asked was too much for an oriental actor in their biased mind. As a strike back, Bruce Lee made himself even more famous by his and with great ticket office income for both them; and that made those bosses of Hollywood have to surrender. After joining Hollywood, Bruce Lee had become well-known all over the world and began his life as a cinemastar.

However, it was really a pity that he died just after he had becoming more successful. He died before he finished his . There are many guesses for how he died, but even until now, there is no conclusion. His death has become a mystery. However, some people said he knew he was dying, because the he designed, he was acting like an peerless Kung Fu master who was trying to get a treasure at the top of a tower with defeating other five masters from other countries. In the end, he found out there’s no treasure but a piece of paper with this sentence: Life is a journey waiting death. No one knows he set up this sentence for purpose or not, but in the end, it became true.

Bruce Lee owned a lot of honor even after his death: Los Angeles city set July 8^th as Bruce Lee Day; Times magazine evaluated him as the Hero and Idol in 20^th century. Moreover, Bruce Lee is also the first Chinese People whose name and image had been printed on USA Stamp; such kind of honor that has only been given to three people as an actor or actress all over the world, they are Marilyn Monroe, Sean Connery (known as 007, James Bond) and Bruce Lee.