Donnie Yen was born in July 1963, and his brother Jet Li was only three months older than him.

Donnie Yen's mother's name is Bow Sim Mark, and her family is a martial arts family. She studied martial arts with her parents since childhood and later became an internationally renowned martial artist.

Mckinchan's family was in good condition, and later he was designated as the landlord, so his family life was difficult.

Donnie Yen's father is a normal student, and he can also play the violin and erhu. He is very versatile.

After they got married and had Donnie Yen, the domestic situation changed greatly, and the family came up with the idea of living in Hongkong.

When Donnie Yen was one year old, he and his father went to Hongkong. Because his mother's family is a landlord, it is very difficult to apply for leaving the country. It was not until he was nine years old that the family really got together.

When Donnie Yen 1 1 years old, his family moved to Boston and became an American.

My mother is a martial artist and my father is a literary lover. Both of them are very talented.

Donnie Yen was trained in two aspects since he was a child, and gradually showed his talent in martial arts. Only then did his parents decide his future study direction.

Because he studied martial arts with his mother since childhood, Donnie Yen not only laid a good foundation for martial arts, but also learned many kinds of kungfu such as boxing in Tai Ji Chuan and the West.

197 1 Bruce Lee's kung fu films became popular. Donnie Yen regarded Bruce Lee as an idol and began to imitate his movements, thus falling in love with movies and free fighting.

In the year when Donnie Yen fell in love with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan had just started his martial arts career from Yu Zhanyuan Theatre Academy, Jet Li had just entered Beijing Shichahai Sports School and Chiu Man-Cheuk had just been born.

Years later, Donnie Yen continued to practice martial arts with his mother, and Jackie Chan became a stuntman in Bruce Lee's second film, Jingwumen. Later, Jackie Chan also served as body double in Bruce Lee, which was closer to idols than Donnie Yen.

Although Donnie Yen fell in love with free fighting, his mother Bow Sim Mark was not good at it, so she wanted to find a master to learn from him.

During the period of 1977, the Beijing Wushu Team performed in the United States. By the way, it exchanged views with some local Wushu people in Boston and got to know Bow Sim Mark and Donnie Yen.

The captain of Beijing Wushu Team heard that Donnie Yen wanted to learn free fighting, so he invited him to study in Beijing.

1978, 15-year-old Donnie Yen became the first international student in Beijing Shichahai Sports School, and his coach happened to be Jet Li's master Wu Bin.

In this way, under the cross of fate, Donnie Yen became Jet Li's younger brother.

Donnie Yen grew up eating hamburgers.

Donnie Yen and Jet Li have similar fates, but Donnie Yen is not as lucky as Jet Li.

In the year when Donnie Yen entered the sports school, Jet Li had just been invited by Hongkong to shoot Shaolin Temple, which lasted for two years.

During the filming, although Jet Li returned to school and met his younger brother Donnie Yen, they didn't know each other at all.

Coincidentally, an American journalist followed Jet Li back to Beijing for an interview and took many photos at the sports school. In some of these photos, Donnie Yen really appeared.

Donnie Yen was very passive when he first arrived at the sports school. Although I have been studying martial arts with my mother, I have not received systematic training and my body is not very flexible.

In order to make Donnie Yen catch up with the progress, master Wu Bin asked him to practice with the female players, and even lied to him that it was to practice his legs. Donnie Yen was very happy. He practices very hard every day.

In the early 1980s, China had just opened up, and the average person's monthly salary was only 30 to 40 yuan. Jet Li goes to Hong Kong to film, and the actor who plays the dead body in Hong Kong can earn 50 yuan in one day, while Jet Li, the leading actor, can only 30 yuan in one month.

At that time, wages were very low, and food stamps were needed to buy things. Donnie Yen felt particularly uncomfortable. Later, Beijing opened its first foreign-funded hotel, the Jianguo Hotel, and Donnie Yen was relieved.

The training in Beijing Shichahai Wushu School is very strict. Only on Sundays will students be given a day off. On this day, Donnie Yen will go to Jianguo Hotel to buy a hamburger from 6 yuan and 5 yuan, and eat up one third of the wages of ordinary workers.

Donnie Yen stayed in Shichahai Sports School for five years, returned to the United States to participate in the martial arts competition of 1982, and won the championship in one fell swoop.

Winning the championship greatly enhanced Donnie Yen's confidence, and his inner desire to become a kung fu star began to stir again.

From 65438 to 0982, Jackie Chan has long been a well-known kung fu superstar, and has made famous films such as Brothers Coming Out, Heizi Ditch and Dragon Master.

Jet Li also became popular because of Shaolin Temple. He filmed Shaolin Kid and became a famous action star in Hong Kong. His performance also attracted Shao's attention. He made films such as Shaolin in the North and South and Heroes.

At this time, Chiu Man-Cheuk was just 10 years old, still practicing dance with his father as a martial arts coach, and won many prizes in martial arts competitions for primary and secondary school students.

Donnie Yen's film starting road.

Since winning the American Wushu championship, Donnie Yen has always wanted to be a kung fu star.

Bow Sim Mark, the mother, has been helping her son find a relationship since she found out what he thinks. Later, Bow Sim Mark found one of her female apprentices.

It turned out that this female apprentice happened to be the younger sister of director Yuan Heping, and under her matchmaking, Donnie Yen met Yuan Heping.

Yuan Heping's family is great. His father is Yuan Xiaotian, a Hong Kong martial arts coach and actor. Yuan Xiaotian is the man who plays the old beggar in Jackie Chan's film Drunken Boxing.

They are all martial arts lovers. Yuan Heping is the elder brother of Sammo Hung and others. After he left Yu Zhanyuan Theatre Academy, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan began to stir.

Yuan Heping entered the film circle one step ahead of others and began to be a martial arts instructor. However, Yuan Heping was always unhappy in his early days, and he didn't become a "great director" until he won the title of Jackie Chan, his younger brother, through snake-like tricks and drunken fists.

Later, Yuan Heping, a dashing man, set up Yuan Jiaban, began to train "apprentices" and gradually became a big shot in the Hong Kong film circle.

When Yuan Heping met Donnie Yen, he was planning to make a movie called Laughing Tai Chi, but he never found a leading actor who was good at Tai Ji Chuan. After a short audition, he decided to cast Donnie Yen as the leading actor.

After Donnie Yen and Yuan Heping cooperated in two films, he found that the martial arts presented in the films were "far from the real martial arts" and far from his inner expectations.

Especially, the brothers of "Yuan Jiaban" are basically from Beijing class. They pay more attention to "film effect" in design actions and rarely pursue real martial arts.

After filming Yuan Heping's film, Donnie Yen was very uncomfortable, and there were no friends or acquaintances around him, so he lifted his feet and returned to the United States.

Seek the balance between martial arts and movies.

In fact, Donnie Yen's maladjustment was also experienced by Bruce Lee.

How to present the real martial arts with the most sense of stage to the audience has always been a question that many people think about, but no one has been able to break through.

After Donnie Yen returned to the United States from Hongkong, he practiced martial arts and started a martial arts school to think about this problem. This idea lasted for more than three years.

1986, Donnie Yen returned to Hongkong again. But Hong Kong is dominated by Jackie Chan and Jet Li at this time, and it is not easy for him to get a piece of it.

In those years, he was a walk-on in TV dramas and movies, and rarely got the leading role.

First of all, there are other kung fu superstars in Hong Kong. Second, because his kung fu was "too hard", he hit the flesh from his fist and had no aesthetic feeling, which was not welcomed by the market at that time.

Donnie Yen's kung fu is totally different from his brother Jet Li's. Jet Li fights, flowing, beautiful; On the other hand, Donnie Yen has always been "evil and bloody".

199 1 year, Jet Li wanted to cancel the contract with Jiahe because of his agent, but at this time he was filming the Soul of Huang Feihong by Jiahe.

Under the guidance of agent Cai, he came up with the idea of going on strike. In desperation, Tsui Hark found Chiu Man-Cheuk to replace Jet Li, but he was not very satisfied after all, so Chiu Man-Cheuk was useless.

In fact, if we look at the martial arts people who went to Hong Kong to develop in the early 1990s, such as Chiu Man-Cheuk and Jason Wu, almost none of them became popular.

A large part of the reason is that Hong Kong's kung fu films have begun to decline. Everyone is studying other subjects, and the output of kung fu films has also been greatly reduced, resulting in the depression of all kung fu stars.

From 65438 to 0994, he moved to the TV drama market in Donnie Yen, where the film industry was in recession.

Unexpectedly, his TV series "Wing Chun" and "Hong Xiguan" became a hit, and Donnie Yen finally became famous overnight.

In the film and television circle, it has always been an unwritten secret that "people who make TV dramas are shorter than those who make movies".

Donnie Yen, who didn't want to be a dwarf, left the film and television circle again and moved to the film circle.

1995, Donnie Yen starred in Jingwumen, and the film sold well, which greatly increased Donnie Yen's confidence.

From 65438 to 0996, Donnie Yen was dissatisfied with the present situation and began to plan to be a director himself.

1997 Directed and starred in the movie The Legend of War Wolf. Unexpectedly, the film ended in a fiasco, which was a great blow to Donnie Yen.

At this time, he wanted to return to the film circle, but he had lost the glory of 1995. In present terms, his name is "out of breath".

An "outdated martial arts star", no one wants to use it any more, and the arrogant Donnie Yen returned to the United States in a fit of pique.

It didn't really catch on until I was 45.

By the end of 1990s, even Chiu Man-Cheuk, who made her debut late, became popular. He still didn't want to go back to Hong Kong and began to travel around as a martial arts coach.

At the beginning of 2000, he gradually withdrew from the film market and began to do action guidance in various places.

His famous films include Puma, Blade 2, Hero, Thousand Machine Change and so on.

Although there has been no breakthrough as an actor, it has steadily improved as an action guide.

In 2002, he was nominated for the "Best Fighting Award" in the world stunt award; In 2003, he won the Golden Horse Award and the Golden Award for Best Action Guidance.

After years of setbacks, Donnie Yen regained the confidence of martial arts people, and gradually felt that he saw the dawn.

In 2005, he collaborated with Tsui Hark again and starred in Seven Swords, Killing Wolves and Dragon Humen.

It was also from this year that Donnie Yen became famous again, and finally ushered in the second spring of his career after suffering for many years.

In 2007, after the release of the prequel to Kill the Wolf, the fuse, Donnie Yen finally established himself as a kung fu star.

This year, Donnie Yen was 45 years old. For a martial arts star, he has passed the golden age.

All this came a little late, but fortunately it came.

Later, the series of "Ip Man" greatly promoted Donnie Yen's position again, and he finally stopped being unhappy.

Throughout the history of Donnie Yen's fame, only beauty can achieve martial arts, but you are a little unlucky.

Although many people don't like Donnie Yen very much, his persistence in martial arts movies is admirable.

In fact, if we look at the success history of celebrities, we all put a lot of energy in the early stage and then accumulated a lot of money in the future.

A few days ago, Ye Gongzi wrote a story about Zhang Yimou and his ex-wife Xiaohua. Many people think that Zhang Yimou's success depends entirely on his ex-wife's support.

However, before being admitted to Nortel, Zhang Yimou insisted on copying books related to photography for five years, going out to shoot for many years and practicing composition.

It is precisely because of a large amount of accumulation in the early stage that they can seize the opportunity when it comes and then open another chapter in their lives.

Today, Donnie Yen still maintains good training habits, works harder than young people, and is self-disciplined.

So, young man, don't worry, don't worry, every effort you make now will give you feedback one day in the future.

Not arrogant and impetuous, with dreams, with deep love and firm belief, can we usher in the dawn of victory.