{"id":13532,"date":"2019-11-22T06:08:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T06:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/donnie-yen-king-of-kungfu-in-china\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T06:08:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T06:08:39","slug":"donnie-yen-king-of-kungfu-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/donnie-yen-king-of-kungfu-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Donnie Yen-King of Kungfu in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Do<em><\/em>nnie Yen-King of Kungfu in China<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Background\uff1a<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Born to a newspaper editor and a martial arts master,<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Do<em><\/em>nnie Yen<\/strong>(\u7504\u5b50\u4e39Zh\u0113n Z\u01d0d\u0101n) began practising tai chi and<strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>wushu<\/strong>(\u6b66\u672fw\u01d4sh&ugrave;) at the age of four. At 16 he was sent to the Beijing Wushu Academy, wher he studied under the master who taught Jet Li. Upon graduating he moved to Hong Kong and was discovered by action director Woo-ping Yen, the man respo<em><\/em>nsible for making Jackie Chan a superstar. Success eluded Yen for a few years, until he made o<em><\/em>nce Upon A Time in China II in 1992, which paired him with Li in a fight scene that revolutio<em><\/em>nised the genre and is still widely regarded as one of the best ever committed to film. Less than 10 years later he was making films in Hollywood &#8211; Blade II.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What&rsquo;s he up to now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Playing Bruce Lee&rsquo;s mentor Ip Man in the biopic of the same name. Yen being a big fan of Lee&rsquo;s, it&rsquo;s a sweet role for him to play. However, it required Yen to learn a whole new martial art, wing chun, the venerable(a venerable person deserves respect because they are old and wise) less-is-more fighting style characterised by short, powerful punches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-152086772\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donnie Yen-King of Kungfu in ChinaBackground\uff1aBorn to a newspaper editor and a martial arts master,&nbsp; Donnie Yen(\u7504\u5b50\u4e39Zh\u0113n Z\u01d0d\u0101n) began practising tai chi and&nbsp; wushu(\u6b66\u672fw\u01d4sh&ugrave;) at the age of four. At 16 he was sent to the Beijing Wushu Academy, wher he studied under the master who taught Jet Li. Upon graduating he moved to Hong Kong and was discovered by action director Woo-ping Yen, the man responsible for making Jackie Chan a superstar. Success eluded Yen for a few years, until he made once Upon A Time in China II in 1992, which paired him with Li in a fight scene that revolutionised the genre and is still widely regarded as one of the best ever committed to film. Less than 10 years later he was making films in Hollywood &#8211; Blade II.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2856,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-chinese","category-chinese-culture"],"views":230,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}