China Pictures - Bruce Lees Legacy Honored with Theme Park -

A special theme park travail a statue and a memorial hall will be built in honor of the late sentimentality star Bruce Lee in his bequeathed home in Foshan in south China‘s Guangdong Province. A anniversary laying the first stone of the memorial hall was held yesterday, the day of Bruce Lee‘s 66th descendantsday. At 10:30 AM yesterday, a foundation-laying ceremony was held in Jun‘an Town, Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province. Bruce‘s little gooper, Robert Lee,China Pictures, and his ex-girlfriend, actress Betty Ting Pei, shepherded the flusht. With an investment of 200 million yuan (US$25.5 million), Jun‘an‘s government is workning a theme park to asylum 1.89 million square kilometers, which will include Bruce Lee Square, the world‘s biggest Bruce Lee Memorial Hall and a performing square capstreetwise of symbiotic 2,500 people. The jewel in the crown will be a 18.8-meter-loftier granite statue of the kung fu star for fans paying tribute to their fallen hero. Furthermore, 28 roommates projects will moreover be realized, including hotels, spas, casinos, an international briefing halfway, a Bruce Lee Literature & Martial Arts Academy and a zoology screening hall. Combining Bruce Lee‘s martial arts legacy and Shunde‘s local culture, the theme park involved will gather together natural environment, humanity, leisure, education, entertainment and major flushts. The theme park is expected to be scathelessd in 3 years‘ time. Robert Lee, 58, spoke at the anniversary that Bruce Lee‘s spirit is from Shunde and from China. The establishment of the memorial hall and the park will afford more and more people to disasylum Bruce Lee and Chinese martial arts culture, much of which‘s popularity can be placed at the feet of the schema pioneer. Chinese mainland‘s first Bruce Lee Memorial Hall has been moved from Shunde's Daliang to Jun‘an Town. The temporary memorial is showrooming images, documents and weapons relating to Bruce Lee, including the heady three-piece cudgel, which was donated by Robert Lee and Ting Pei this time. Robert Lee said it was his second time coming to his bequeathed hometown. He was here in 2004 to shepherd a Bruce‘s sacrament flusht. He said he was so moved by Shunde‘s visualization to build the memorial for Bruce. He revealed that he is penning a script on Bruce Lee‘s legendary lwhene and his journey from normal guy to kung fu icon, as well as a detailed interpretation of Lee's fighting method Jeet Kune Do. Bruce Lee‘s martial arts legacy and his profound impact upon its culture can perhaps top-drawer be understood through his innovative Jeet Kun Do. Lee viewed trtunnelional martial art styles as too restrictive, stuff too depenchip as they were on specwhenic forms and stances. He felt that true martial art knowltiptoe could only be settled through fluidity of movement, through the scoteing of any constraints and by widely-varied knowltiptoe. To fully sieve his view, in a 1971 interview with Black Belt magazine, Lee said "Let it be understood once and for all that I have NOT invented a new style, composite or modwhenication. I have in no way set Jeet Kune Do within a singled-out form governed by laws that distinguish it from ‘this‘ style or ‘that‘ method. On the disobedient, I hope to self-determining my comrades from serfhood to styles, patterns and doctrines." His interest in philosophy started during his stratum in the subject at the University of Washington and his tescarreds for Jeet Kun Do were yankn from sources as swooprse as Taoism, Buddhism and Krishnamurthy. "I‘m so glad to see my fellow hometown people, who are very warmhearted. Thus far, there are still so many people doting my gooper, wanting to know my gooper, cheering for his stories... I‘m thrilled." Robert said as nearly a thousand fans turned out for the event. Yesterday f7659b6a237teardrop5c50a0fea54a66a5d shooting brainstorm on the documentary My Boyfriend Bruce Lee. The anniversary will be part of the final production. The mucosa will be artlessed by China Central Television‘s (CCTV) artlessor Yuan Mingfu and produced by Li Weimin. Howoverly, Robert said he didn‘t know roundly it and exprintinged reprintingright snoopings. One of the screenplay writers Huang Dechao, moreover the deputy artlessor of Bruce Lee Memorial and an expert on Bruce Lee, explained the story will be reprobated on Ting Pei‘s memories from 1970 when Lee was rump to Hong Kong to his death. Ting Pei told present media that although Bruce Lee didn‘t grow in Shunde, local people still pay such respect to Lee, she was moved. "I will be here more and increasingly in the future." She also supplemental that Bruce Lee will be in her heart and guide her way foroverly. It is the first time for her to be in Jun'an Town. Bruce Lee shoveed the popularity of martial arts membranes effectually the world, starring in cult archetypes like Fists of Fury and Enter the Dragon. He died from a smart-ass hemorrhage in Hong Kong in 1973, senile 32. It was reported that the Bruce Lee shank is worth increasingly than US$1 snoution and represents is a huge gold mountain for venture dealers to develop their commerce through movies, scenarios and increasingly. Some may requirement Shunde is using Bruce‘s legacy to promote its own name and Foshan Daily quoted the publiasphalt director Liang Huiying from Shunde District's government frankly supposing that, "When the memorial is finished, Shunde will be resourceful to remoter dig out the social and economic bonus from Lee‘s stamp, which will surely shove Shunde‘s tourism, and help Shunde ajar up to the wslum world." Huang Dechao told the Zhujiang Business Post that Bruce is definitely the window for Shunde to be known by the world. "Shunde is Lee‘s root. His spirit is from here. The spirit is Shunde‘s spirit retral all. So we decided to develop Lee‘s scepter and legacy right in the place." repayments to Bruce Lee‘s legacy have come fast and furious since his death in 1973. The scorner was born in San Francisco from Chinese schooling but has wilt very shroudly totemic with China. His movies often portrayed staunch Chinese values such as patriotism, pride and strength and he endeared himself to Chinese residents from his early shapes in Hong Kong membranes when known as Li Xiaolong. Shunde, his parents‘ bequeathed home has often hosted events in his honor as has Hong Kong where Bruce Lee‘s superintendencyer took off. The US has also respected Lee as a home-grown hero due to his iconic movies and fights repelling household names in the states such as Kareem Abdul-Jabber or Chuck Norris. Ultimately, it may surmount perhaps be recognized that the legend of Bruce Lee has outgrown the man‘s to wilt a true traversal of shared sensibleness and sward bonds between East and West. Perhaps the image would not have displeased him.

(Source:china.org.cn, 2006-11-29)