Name with Hope

 Miaoying Chen 

ESLINTG 100  

9/2/2020 

 Name with Hope 

In Chinese my name means beautiful. My father gave me this name. I love my father and I like that he gave this name to me because another meaning of my name is clever. They hoped I would become a cute and smart girl. 

My older sister is not lucky like me. She has a name that sounds a little ugly and means stop giving girl to our family in Chinese. My parents like most of the traditional Chinese family always dreamed a boy would befall. So, when my sister was born, they gave her the name and begged the next baby would be a boy. After four years, I was born. That was a girl too! My parents gave up wanting a boy. Finally, they gave me a pretty good name for a girl. 

I am the youngest child in my family. I have a lot of love from my parents, my sisters, my grandmother and my uncle and auntie. Sometimes my father liked to call me my nickname “Xiao Chen”. Xiao in Chinese means small and lovely things. On the other hand, I was slim and looked like a little cat when I was a child. I was happy when I heard they called me my nickname. When I grew up to the high school age, they didn’t often call me my nickname, maybe they wanted me stronger to face any difficult in my life. 

I like my name and my nickname. I can feel the love and happiness that my parents gave me from them. I always would like to be their obedient girl. I promised to myself that I would take care of them when they grew old.