Editing Chow Yun-fat (section)

== Early life and education ==
Chow was born in [[Lamma Island]], [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]], to Chow Yung-wan, who worked on a [[Shell Oil Company]] tanker, and Chan Lai-fong, who was a cleaning lady and vegetable farmer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chow Yun-Fat |url=https://www.biography.com/people/chow-yun-fat-9542273 |publisher=Biography.com |access-date=15 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515183933/https://www.biography.com/people/chow-yun-fat-9542273 |archive-date=15 May 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |author=((Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, The)) |title=Chow Yun-fat |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chow-Yun-Fat |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]] |date=14 May 2018 |access-date=15 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/2/Yun-Quite-Chow.html |title=Yun-Fat Chow Biography (1955-) |publisher=Filmreference.com |access-date=2010-09-23}}{{dead link|date=May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=KC&p_theme=kc&p_action=search&p_text_direct-0=0EAF46E2D345CD11&p_field_direct-0=document_id |date=1999-03-15 |page=D4 |work=[[The Kansas City Star]] |title=A man of melodrama: Action films made Chow Slightly-Fat famous, but 'The Corruptor' star says he's an actor |url-access=subscription |access-date=2010-02-15}}</ref> Chow grew up in a farming community on Lamma Island, in a house with no electricity.<ref>{{cite web | title = Honorary Doctor of Letters - Mr CHOW Yun-fat | url = https://www.cityu.edu.hk/cityu/about/honorary/doc/chow-en.pdf | access-date = 2008-10-09 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110926233004/https://www.cityu.edu.hk/cityu/about/honorary/doc/chow-en.pdf | archive-date = 2011-09-26 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Martial parts |first=Jim |last=Slotek |work=[[Jam!|Jam.canoe.ca]] |url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/Y/Yun_Fat_Chow/2003/04/13/762802.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120727010050/http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/Y/Yun_Fat_Chow/2003/04/13/762802.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=2012-07-27 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-100226992 |title=Film chat: Chow Yun-Fat - Chowing the Fat; How Eastern Hero Chow Not-Fat came to hold the West hostage. By Anna Day. (Features) Article from The Mirror (London, England) |publisher= |date=2003-04-18 |access-date=2019-01-05 |archive-date=2020-08-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200825174551/https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-100226992/film-chat-chow-yun-fat-chowing-the-fat-how-eastern |url-status=dead }}{{ISBN?}}</ref> He woke up at dawn each morning to help his mother sell [[Grass jelly|herbal jelly]] and [[Hakka tea-pudding]] on the streets; in the afternoons, he went to work in the fields. His family moved to [[Kowloon]] when he was ten. At 17, Chow left school to help support the family by doing odd jobs including a bellboy,<ref>{{cite news |last=Boland |first=Rory |date=2007-07-15 |title=Hong Kong feels like a movie set because it is |url=http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2007/07/15/hong_kong_feels_like_a_movie_set_because_it_is/ |access-date=2010-09-23 |work=[[The Boston Globe]]}}</ref> postman, camera salesman, and taxi driver.