Chapter 9 Materialism

When I first became a martial artist, it cost 5 yuan a day, and later it rose to 35 yuan.After a day of blood and sweat, I got this little money and went to gamble with others.If I win 30, I bet 60, if I win 60, I bet 100, but in the end I will always lose, which is very bad.Sometimes I lose more than 300 yuan at once, which is equivalent to 10 days of labor, and I feel very depressed, and I have nothing to eat, let alone buy things.At that time, I envied those rich people and bought whatever they wanted. When I start to have money, which way should I buy things? When I went to visit those famous brand stores in London, the whole store was directly closed, and I would buy a few large boxes in the end.After all, I have to be worthy of the treatment of closing the store. Could it be that if they close the store, I will only buy a belt in the end?

I usually tell the shopping guide that the bag on this wall, this, this, don’t want it, and everything else is required.These glasses, these three are not required, and all others are required.Don't want these pairs of shoes, but everything else.When I go back to the hotel after shopping, a group of friends or colleagues will help me distribute the things.Who is this one for and who is that one for? I will remember it very clearly.Over the years, I have gotten used to it. I can’t remember what others owe me, but I can remember very clearly who I promise to give, or who I want to give. When I was filming "A Good Man", I was shopping in Australia with a family member. I passed by a famous watch store. There was a Chinese man standing at the door. When he saw me, he said, "Hey Brother Long, come in and have a look."I said I don't buy anything, but he said it's okay not to buy, just come in and have a look.I think people are so enthusiastic, well, then go and have a look.As soon as I entered, the clerk poured coffee and tea for me. They were very attentive, so I felt embarrassed, so I went to check their watch. When I finally checked out, I saw that it cost 580,000 yuan.As a result, each person in the family-making class had a brand-name watch, which was about 20,000 yuan at that time.Originally, I only took three people from the family-building class to go shopping, and I thought it would be fine for each person to give one piece, but the three of them said, "What about the others?" I said, "Okay, then give them all away." Go back Afterwards, each of them shared a piece, watching them huddling together to discuss, I want to change the style, I want to change the color, everyone is happy, and I am also very happy.

For a while, when I was filming in Australia, when I had nothing to do, I went to the art director Oliver's room.He has worked with me for many years and was also one of the designers of the bronze head in the movie "Zodiac". He passed away before the movie was released, and I cried for a long time. When I went to his room, he was a collector. I saw some cups in his collection, which were very beautiful, so I asked him why he bought these cups.He told me a lot about the culture related to cups, and some brand knowledge, saying that these in his collection are all small antiques.He also told me why the cups and saucers of the British are flat now, but they used to be bowed. If you don’t write anything, it will be a little red or a little blue at the back, and then there will be Made in England. If you see those with a dot or a scribble, they are old. Only writing England is also old, Made in England is new... I found it very interesting when I heard it, and he gave me some after it was over.From then on, I became interested, and I started to find someone to learn this knowledge. After learning, I went to study the cups and saucers by myself, and then went crazy buying.People collect these, but they can’t receive 10 or 20 in 10 years. I bought 1,200 in just one month. I often saw the cups in a store look good, so I bought the whole store.Learn while buying.Later, I took these cups back to the mainland and gave them to the people who make purple clay pots in Yixing for reference. They made three or four English-style teacups and German-style teacups for me, which are very special.

When I bought flashlights in the United States, I bought five or six thousand dollars at a time. People looked at me like I was crazy. At that time, no one in the United States knew who Jackie Chan was.Later, when I became famous all over the world, I liked to make all kinds of famous brands exclusive to "Jackie Chan", my red wine, my luxury car, my glasses, my clothes...sometimes they produce a batch of Jackie Chan limited editions , it sold very well as soon as it was launched, but only this batch was sold out, and I became nervous again, fearing that they would sell out soon, so I started to buy back from all over the world. I did it once, and finally bought it back at several times the price.I like the bat sunglasses that I often wear. At the beginning, the two brands cooperated to help me out. Later, when I wanted to continue to make them, the two brands did not agree. I bought all the rest on the market, and now only I have that type of glasses, and they are no longer available outside.

Thinking about it now, what I did at that time was to make up for all the hardships I suffered after suffering, so I wanted everything, wanted to buy everything, and bought a lot as soon as I bought it.When I buy red wine, I go to the winery to buy out a whole warehouse. Sometimes I don’t buy red wine for drinking, but to fill up my own wine warehouse. When it’s full, I don’t want to drink it, and then I buy something else. drink.For a while, I liked to buy books again, filling the big bookshelf at home.When I was decorating a house, I bought three books on home improvement. I put one on the bookshelf, read one for myself, and showed another to the designer, so that communication was easy. Those foreign books are very expensive .

In fact, almost all the books on the bookshelf have never been read, they are just decorations.I remember when the media came to my house for an interview, I asked my colleagues to help me take down a few books, tore off the tape on the outside, and deliberately put a bookmark inside, pretending to be reading these books, for fear that people would read them My book is just for display. One year, TVB held a banquet. At that time, they had a banquet every year.At that time, I was discussing cooperation with Johnnie To, and he said that he would go to the banquet that day, so I said I will go there to find you.At that time, I was not an invited guest, and I didn't want to cause trouble with the organizer, so I didn't tell anyone, and I went quietly by myself. With my mobile phone, I squatted there and talked to Johnnie To, and made an appointment where we would meet later, and then I got up and prepared to leave.At this time, the people on the stage saw me and said, Huh?Brother Jackie Chan is here, so you might as well join us!I didn't understand what was going on at the time. I stood up and raised my hand to say Hi to everyone, but the people on the stage said, OK!Brother Jackie Chan offered 500,000!I was stunned, why is it only 500,000?500,000 was quite a lot in those days.I thought they were joking, told Johnnie To again and then turned and walked out. At this time, I heard "one, two, three times" from above, clang, and knocked the mallet, and said "Thank you Jackie Chan".I was a little embarrassed at the time, but I couldn't say anything, so I left helplessly and told the staff, no matter what, send it to my office later.Later I complained to Johnnie To, you see, I lost 500,000 yuan just because I came to see you.When I saw what they sent, I realized that what I bought was a painting of Xu Beihong, a large horse. This must be fate.

Today, many people come to my house to see this painting, and they all say it is very valuable. I don’t know how much it is worth. Some say it’s worth tens of millions, and some say it’s worth hundreds of millions. To me, it doesn’t matter anymore .Later, there were some charitable activities, and I wanted to put them up for auction, but they were stopped by one person, Jaycee Jaycee, who said, "Dad, I don't want your money, you just need to keep this painting for me in the future. ’ Then I said, ‘Okay.’ I like collecting all kinds of antiques very much, but I don't have time to attend various auctions, so I always ask my friends to help me.There was an oolong once, which made everyone laugh at me every time.I forgot what kind of auction it was, and I asked a friend to help me attend.When my friend reported it to me, he said that there was a lot on it, which was a red sandalwood and boxwood table with a thousand-character text, and the starting price was 500,000. I thought there was such a good thing?Such a good thing only sells for 500,000 yuan, so tell him to sell it directly to 1 million yuan!After he finished asking the price, no one snatched it from him, and that item was mine.I was very proud, and told the people around me, look at how good I am, I bought a red sandalwood table for 1 million!The next step is to arrange the delivery. I called the Hong Kong company specifically and asked them to arrange workers to help me put it back home. A girl from our company called Maggie answered the phone. She said: "There is no need to find someone, I It’s been set up for you, and I’ve placed your window.” I was stunned, what’s going on?You set a table by yourself?Still in my window?She said, yes!

I found out later that it was a very small kang table that a girl could pick up with one hand, no wonder no one snatched it when I offered 1 million... I often make such silly mistakes because I am impatient and love to buy things, which makes people laugh. Now my mentality is different from before. There are too many things at home in Hong Kong, and several warehouses are placed there, and I feel that they are all burdens.If you go and take a look, you will be scared to death.Now I set up my own museum in Shanghai, called "Jackie Chan Film Art Museum". I moved all my movie props over the past 40 years, and sent all 47 containers to the art museum. Dropped things, including bicycles, motorcycles, cars, helmets, glasses, etc.I also want to find a place to build the "Jackie Chan World", donate all my collections over the years, and put them there for everyone to appreciate.Except for the four old houses that my family bought by myself, they were also donated and put in the mainland.

In short, I wanted to buy everything before, but now I want to donate everything. Jaycee Jaycee Fang said that he didn’t want anything but a painting by Xu Beihong. If he wanted it, he would leave it to him.In fact, I donated half of my property to my charitable foundation more than ten years ago. In this regard, I feel very lucky. After becoming famous, I have a very good family. Jaycee Jaycee can already make money by himself, and my wife is very rich. Neither she nor my son need to use my money. Now it only needs to be enough for the company’s expenses and Apart from the expenses of their own family, the two of them have nothing to worry about, and the rest is to donate.I have seen too many cases where the family fights for property after the death of a rich man. The mother sues the son, and the son sues the daughter. Our family must not do this.Now my wish is to have zero bank balance after my death.