ESL Integrated 100 Spring 2020 - A New Deacde!

   My name is Jianqiu Yu, who was born and raised in China. When someone meets a new friend, they always ask for the name and introduce themselves by their name first.     To begin with, the meaning of my name is sword and autumn. In china, autumn usually means harvest for farmers and the sword means the spirits to overcome difficulties. It is obvious that my parents wanted me to be successful in the future and achieve my dream.      In addition, my name also includes autumn because I was born in September and in my village, it is a relationship for a family to include the same thing in their name, just like the last name.     Finally, there is an interesting story about my name, which happened when I was studying in primary school. I have a friend and  classmate in my village called Jianqiao Yu which is so similar to my name, so the teacher and my other classmates thought we were brothers. Everyone used to ...

All Beautiful Names   My name is special for me, and it has a  special  role in my life. It was my grandfather’s sister’s name, and she died when she was just five years old. She was too young to die. After she died, my grandfather was so sad. My father decided to name   me  to  remember her. My father didn’t just give her name to me , and h e also gave  me  her character.    My name is Esma, and its meaning includes all beautiful  names' meanings  because the word in Turkish means good names not just a name. Imagine a forest, and every forest has many kinds of tree. My name  is   like  a forest  because it  has many kinds of meanings. If you say  an other  good name instead Esma, you don’t make a mistake. However, I prefer to be called Esma.    Saying Esma to me makes me special because in Turkey there are a few people that have  this  name. It is not a...

My name is Kailin Luo （罗凯琳） , which is the pronunciation of my Chinese name. I got this name from my mother and an aunt who suggested kai （凯） . Then my mother came up with lin （琳） to match kai and finally combined   them   to create my name.            Over the years, I have been asked this question many times, what is the meaning of your name?  In fact, there is no story or any special meaning about my name. The biggest reason why I am called Kailin is just because it is easy to read not only in Mandarin and Cantonese, but also in the Taishan dialect which is the language of my mother ’ s hometown. Regardless of this, I like my name. According to my own understanding, I think my name means cheerfulness, success, and preciousness. Besides, I think Kailin sounds good when someone calls me. In China, I used Karen as my English name, which was from my textbook in the middle school. It was an easy translation of Kailin that is Karen. How...

In Chinese my name has two meanings. It means wonderful. It means clouds in sky.  It is like wonderful clouds spreading in  the  blue sky  on a sunny day.    My family has a tradition which is that  all   family members ’  names  have two Chinese  characters . Family members in the same  generation have the same first Chinese  character in their names, and males and females have  a  different   second  character .  In my generation, my name starts with the character “Miao”   (妙) , so do my  female cousins and my younger sister.   It was chosen by  my  oldest uncle  when my oldest female cousin was born .  It means wonderful.   In my name, t he character after “Miao”  is “Yun”   (云) . It was chosen  by my father.  What it means is just like what my father  expected me to be. It means  clouds in the sky ,  stay   ...

My name is Juming Li, and in Chinese characters, it is李烥明. It was given to me by my grandfather when I was born. My last name was named after my father because it’s common in China. About a thousand years ago, one’s last name was named after one’s father that symbolizes the status and dignity of the father in China. However, it’s just a custom, and this custom pass down to now. In addition, the first name is the most important name for everyone because it will accompany everyone’s whole life. Before I was born, my grandfather was very busy looking for the perfect name for me. He hoped I could have blood and passion like fire. Therefore, he spent three months, and then he found a satisfying name, which means burning flame. I like this name very much. In China, there are about 1.5 billion people, so inevitably there are some people that have the same name. However, my name is very rare, and it is only used for me. Every time I hear my name, I know it means passion and power, so this na...

My name is Ailing, and it is spelled with the Chinese characters. Furthermore, one of the most interesting things is the similar pronunciation of my name between English and Chinese. Actually, my name is not unique because I named after a famous Chinese writer - Ailing Zhang (Eileen Chang). She was talented and pretty and she wrote a lot of poems and essays from the 1940s to the 1950s. One of her classic writings is called Legend , which was focused on the females from the society led by the males in the 20th century. Although she passed away, what she left will never disappear. It was a cold day in the winter and after I was born, my father said, “  Let ’  s get a great name for our baby! ”  Some of our relatives provided some names which sounded good, and then my parents chose the best one for me. Finally, my father picked the name - Ailing for me. He hoped that I could be an intelligent girl like the famous writer. I like my name because it was given by my par...

NawLel   Pwe   ESLINTG 100 CE   January  27 ,   2020         Hope   My name is  NawLel   Pwe ,  and it  means fulfilled  in Karen . My real name that my mother gave me was  Naw  Tar Mu Lar  Lel   Pwe   Htun , which means fulfilled hope or dream. In Karen’s culture every girl needs to have their first name as  Naw  and Saw for boys. She gave me that name for a specific reason. My mother gave me that long name because she wanted to have two sons and two daughters. I am the fourth child and the youngest in my family. She was sad before she had me because she  miscarried  her third child. She wasn’t young ,  so she was worried that she wouldn’t have any more children.  She prayed to God to give her two more daughters because she already had two sons. She prayed every day and night and cried a lot. I believe God heard her prayers ...