However, as an emotional advanced animal, it is too difficult for human beings to be calm in the materialistic contemporary society. First of all, if you want to be calm, you need to give up most of your desires so that you can forget. It is estimated that most of what this realm can achieve has already become a monk.
Living in the earthly world of mortals, itself will be wrapped in various desires, and it is too difficult to get rid of desires and seek truth. Nothing is absolute, Michael Lee did it! After more than 90 years of life, he has experienced various ups and downs, but he always looks at everything with an indifferent and optimistic attitude.
First, don't lose face. Look at Bloom's flowers in front of the court.
"Don't be surprised, just look at the flowers in bloom before the court;" I don't want to stay, and I don't want to stay, just floating around with the clouds outside the sky.
This is a famous sentence in Caigen Tan written by Taoist Hong Yingming in the early Ming Dynasty. This sentence contains the author's endless indifference to impermanence. Few people can do this, but Michael Lee is certainly one of them.
1, "Young and fearless"-Michael Lee.
Although Michael Lee is very open-minded and indifferent to many things. But in his life, Michael Lee has been trying his best to pursue a better life.
Michael Lee was born in Hunan on March 27th, 2007. It was only when Michael Lee was very young that he lost his father. Without the support of the Li family, Xiao had to go to the church to queue up for relief food in order to survive and make a living. Michael Lee is different from other recipients. While receiving food, he also took the initiative to talk to the staff. Therefore, Michael Lee, who is good at learning, can learn some simple English communication in this process.
After that, Michael Lee was sent to a school run by the church to study. In this way, even Michael Lee, who was born in poverty, accepted the advanced western ideas at that time at an early age. When Michael Lee graduated from school, he not only mastered the knowledge and ideas taught by the school, but also spoke fluent English. Such knowledge is rare even today, let alone in that era!
Michael Lee, who knows that reading can change his destiny, went to Shanghai, which is already a brightly lit city that never sleeps. St John's University, which was famous in Shanghai at that time, was an aristocratic school and the first English-taught school in China. Michael Lee, who studied martial arts, entered St. John's University with his rare English skills. Lin Yutang and I.M. Pei were alumni of his school days.
In addition to his study experience at St. John's University, Michael Lee also studied under Lu Xun for a short time. When Michael Lee first arrived in Shanghai, he accidentally rented a house near Lu Xun's home, so he became neighbors with this national writer who used a pen as a gun. At that time, Lu Xun organized a young woodcut class, and Michael Lee went to study out of interest, so he naturally became a student of Lu Xun.
After graduating from college, Michael Lee chose to stay and teach college physical education, and later worked as the head of the physical education department at his alma mater for more than ten years. From then on, Michael Lee began his career in Shanghai. Rao is Michael Lee mature and steady again, and how many young people are not warm-blooded young people? At that time, Michael Lee was young and energetic. After saving enough money, he spent all his money to buy a second-hand Harley motorcycle.
Michael Lee, riding a motorcycle, instantly changed from a calm university teacher to a handsome young man, shuttling through the streets with many foreign buildings, enjoying the tolerance and prosperity of Shanghai. How can such a smart young man not be appreciated and cared about? Michael Lee admitted that he once fell in love with someone when he talked about emotional topics in an interview in his later years. That is a gentle, kind and studious girl. This girl has a nice name: Yun, she is the teacher's daughter.
Michael Lee fell in love with her at first sight, rented a house for the girl and helped her study. Slowly, I began to plan the future in my mind, and the eyes of the cloud gradually got a halo and became dazzling and amiable. Perhaps it was a simple girl who fell in love with Shili Yangchang. After meeting a rich aunt, Yun began to frequent luxury cocktail parties. Later, Yun Xi never appeared in Michael Lee's sight. This originally romantic love was shattered before Michael Lee's confession.
2. A one-way ticket to Hong Kong!
On the eve of the founding of New China, Michael Lee bought a boat ticket to Hongkong from a friend. From then on, Michael Lee began his journey in a foreign land. Michael Lee, who first arrived in Hongkong, had a hard time. He makes a living by teaching English and ballroom dancing. When you leave home, you always need friends. At that time, the daughter of a Hong Kong friend was celebrating her birthday in Michael Lee. Cash-strapped Michael Lee couldn't afford the gift in the shop, but she had to go. In order not to hurt the child's heart, he made a Tang suit doll out of rags. Unexpectedly, this low-priced doll turned out to be a child's favorite gift.
Many parents present asked where Michael Lee got it, and Michael Lee saw business opportunities here. He began to make dolls full-time and then set up stalls to sell them in crowded places. Because Michael Lee's dolls are unique and lovely, only he sells them. So as long as he set up a stall, he would be snapped up, and later even attracted foreigners to order in bulk.
Michael Lee took this opportunity to set up his own doll factory. When the business was booming, it can be said that he was getting richer and richer. He once said frankly: "At that time, 40,000 yuan could buy a floor. When my business is at its best, I earn tens of thousands of dollars a month. " Li Ka-shing, a famous entrepreneur now, just started his business at that time, and Michael Lee has become a veritable wealthy businessman.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. In 1980s, foreign toys began to enter the China market, impacting the domestic toy market. Under the impact of foreign toys, toy factories in Michael Lee gradually declined, making ends meet and going bankrupt. After this battle, Michael Lee worked hard for most of his life. Once back before liberation, he fell into poverty again.
Second, bamboo sticks and straw sandals are lighter than horses. Who's scared? A raincoat and hemp fiber, despite the wind and rain, still live my life.
Michael Lee, who fell from the cloud to the bottom, didn't complain or collapse. On the contrary, he still faces life with a smile. It is because of his indifferent optimism that he can burst into a sincere smile. In this dilemma, the sunny smile was captured by photographers and printed into postcards, which was called "the smile of Hong Kong" by the world.
1, life is like a play, and play is like life.
Infected by this smile, Xiao Fangfang, a smash hit, immediately expressed the hope that the old man could participate in his own filming. In this way, Michael Lee entered the film and television circle because of his indifferent optimism about life.
He has performed abroad in film and television dramas such as The Man in the Cage, Shaolin Pop ii, shaolin popey's Chaos Temple II and Shaolin Pop, among which the role of "Old Abbot" is well known to more people. Maybe it's because the old people have rich life experience. Although Michael Lee has not received professional performance training, his performance is natural, sincere and natural.
Life is like a play, and a play is like life. The ups and downs experienced by Michael Lee are far more wonderful than drama. Although he plays someone else in the play, isn't he playing his old self?
He has never been a father, but he has many children.
Michael Lee has always played a supporting role in the film. However, this does not affect the audience's love for him at all. Taiwan Province Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor twice. Faced with this coveted honor, Michael Lee refused to accept the prize, because he made movies only out of interest, not as a profession.
The nearly 100-year-old man was unmarried and childless all his life. He has never been a father, but his love for children is pure. Michael Lee often exchanges all his income for milk powder and candy to give to the children in the refugee camp. Whenever he is called "grandpa" by a group of gray-haired children, he will happily agree. Once upon a time, he was just like these children. Mr. Li's life is really wonderful and sad. The most commendable thing is his calmness and calmness in the face of setbacks.