Fans of the Chinese martial arts icon Bruce Lee have until Sunday to catch the actor’s exhibit at Beijing SKP. The newly opened exhibit has as its theme “Be water, my friend,” one of the most famous quotes of the star of “The Game of Death.”
All the things on display are only on loan from the Bruce Lee Foundation in the U.S. The artifacts on exhibit include the breakdown for “The Game of Death” movie that Lee wrote, “The Green Hornet” mask that the actor used for the TV show and his black martial arts coat, reported China Daily.
Lee, who made martial arts a global film genre, unexpectedly died in 1973 when his second child, daughter Shannon, was only 4 years old. She is his daughter with wife Linda Emery. Shannon said that the exhibit is emphasizing her father’s message and life philosophy to “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water.”
Shannon said that the exhibit would hopefully inspire visitors to be inspired “to be the best version of themselves” instead of being copies of other people. Lee wants people to look inside themselves and gain a better understanding of themselves which would lead them to become the best version of themselves.
In January, the exhibit was at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. The 3-hour walking-talking-eating tour was described by Heraldnet as an intimate look at the five years stay of the Kung Fu legend in Seattle.
The exhibit includes the table where he dined on his favorite dishes such as oyster sauce beef and shrimp with black bean sauce.
According to Maya Hayashi, Wing Luke tour coordinator, Lee’s mother was part-German, while his father was a Chinese opera actor. He was born in San Francisco in 1940, the year of the dragon. Young Bruce grew up in Hong Kong, studied Kung Fu and came to Seattle in 1959 to work at a restaurant as a waiter.
He studied philosophy at the University of Washington where he met Linda, a Seattle native. He was discovered in 1964 when he moved to California with Linda. Lee died at age 32 from a reaction to a pain medicine.