What was Bruce Lee's childhood like?

Answer 1

• Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, at the Chinese Hospital, in San Francisco's Chinatown.

• Bruce was the fourth child of five children: Phoebe Lee, Agnes, Peter Lee, and Robert Lee. Lee and his parents returned to Hong Kong when he was three months old.

• Lee's mother, Grace Ho, was from one of the wealthiest and most powerful clans in Hong Kong, the Ho-tungs. She was the niece of Sir Robert Ho-tung, the Eurasian patriarch of the clan. As such, the young Bruce Lee grew up in an affluent and privileged environment.

• Despite the advantage of his family's status, the neighborhood in which Lee grew up became overcrowded, dangerous, and full of gang rivalries due to an influx of refugees fleeing communist China for Hong Kong, at that time a British Crown colony.

• After Lee was involved in several street fights, his parents decided that he needed to be trained in the Martial Arts. Lee's first introduction to martial arts was through his father, from whom he learned the fundamentals of Wu-style t'ai chi ch'uan.

Answer 2

As a child Bruce Lee was an actor who appeared in several Hong Kong films. He was an excellent dancer and won the 1958 Crown Colony Cha-cha contest. Martial arts wise Lee trained in Tai Chi Chuan under his father before switching over to Wing Chun Kung Fu under master Yip Man.

Answer 3

Yes. Of course. Everyone does

Answer 4

Bruce Lee was raised in Hong Kong.