The incredible little dragon
For the past three decades watching martial arts movies from Hong Kong has been a trend among young people in the West. Some people say that this is due to one man bruce Lee. He has been called the most influential martial artist of the twentieth century achieving an amazing amount in his short life. He even established his own martial art called jeet Kune Do which took techniques from a few different eastern style of fighting and combined them with western ideas of fitness and health. Bruce Lee was indeed an amazing man for many reasons.
Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco on the twenty-seventh of November 1940. He was given the name Lee Jun Fan by his parent and the doctor added the English name of Bruce.
He came in to this world during the house of the dragon .which is between seven o’clock in the morning ,in the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese Zodiac calendar. His father was Chinese and his mother was Chinese and German. When Bruce was three months old, they decided to move the family to Hong Kong.
Bruce,s teen years ware spent training in various martial arts, including Wing Chun. While attending high school at St. Francis Xavier,s college in Kowloon,he began learning tha western form boxing and led his school in boxing compertitions. In fact ,young Bruce won the boxing Championship of Hong Kong and the Crown Colony Cha Cha Championship. Hower,In 1959 ,at the age of eighteen , Bruce got into a serious fight and was arrested by the police. His parent decided to send him back to America because of this. After living in San Francisco for a while, Bruce moved to Seattle to focus on his university education. While he was studying at the University of Washington, he met Linda Emery. She later became his wife in 1964
As for his acting career, that actually began when he was ten years old.However, in the United States, he did not exhibit any desire to be in movies.then, in 1964 , a man who worked for the TV series Batman saw Bruce while he was fighting in a tournament . that man got Bruce an audition and in 1966 he acted in the role of Kato in the show The Green Hornet. Although this seemed promising, Bruce was not known by the public and had .no more significant roles. So , in 1971, he again moved back to Hong Kong .