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Bruce Lee

He was born on 27 November 1940 at the Chinese Hospital in Chinatown, San Francisco. His father, Lee Hoi-chuen, was Chinese, and his mother Grace Ho , a Catholic, was of German and Chinese ancestry. Lee was the fourth child of five children.

After the world war ii, Bruce lee followed her parents going back to Hong Kong. In 1949,he entered the Tak Sun School, and then changed his school to the La Salle College. Until the fourth grade in second school, he had been kicked out of school for fight and truancy, so he turned to the St Francis Academy to continue his studies. He was frail when he was a child, and his father taught him Taijiquan to exercise for his health and strength of his body since he was seven years old.

During the period of his returning to the school in his age of 16, he went to the Leader Street, Yau Ma Tei, for learning Wing Chun from Yewen. In boxing terms, he practiced a lot with the senior fellow apprentice who had also learned the west boxing. In addition, he has learned Hong Quan, the white crane boxing, boxing skill, Cai Lifo, Tai Chi, Tan legs, Shaolin boxing, stamp feet, boxing and lots of others boxing sections. In 1957, he won the champion of the Hong Kong Inter-school boxing competition in the junior group. Furthermore, he was very fond of Cha-cha.

In May of 1959, because of fighting with others, his achievement wasn’t good enough, so his parents decided to send him to the birthplace, the United States. In the United States, he firstly entered the Edison Technical School in Seattle, he admitted to the University of Washington to study in Seattle later. He majored in philosophy, and also had the minor subjects of psychology, drama, and so on. While studying, he met his future wife--Linda.

In April of 1962, he rented a corner of a parking area, and hung out a board of " Bruce Lee Martial Arts Studio" in his sophomore year. He tried hard to temper himself while taught others, so he had a great progress in his martial arts. On July the ninth, 1967, he officially established the name of his own philosophy of the martial arts--"Jeet Kune Do", in the Bruce Lee Martial Arts Studio in the Chinatown of Los Angeles.

In the summer of 1971, he accepted the invitation of the Hong Kong Golden Harvest Films, signed two films for the fee of 1.5 million. The first film named "The Big Boss" was taken in the subject of Chinese martial arts .The budget of the films was only $ 100,000, and the film-script was written as the movie making, but this film took the top grossing since the inception of Hong Kong, reached 300 million Hong Kong dollars in this case.