My Mother

My mother is 50 yeas old, but she looks like a young woman. She had my little cute brother at 45 years old. That is why she must be younger than other women in the same age group.

My mother was born in a village which is 20 miles away from the village where I was born. She was very beautiful when she was young. She liked to sing pop songs and always sang while she was doing housework. I do remember her singing The Love of The Pull-man, which was very popular in the 1990s. Until now, I can still recall her sweet sound. I grew up listening to her songs before she left our hometown in 1997.

She started to work for a factory with other women who came into cities in Guangdong, a province in south China, from many different villages in middle China. They, including my mother and her younger sister, were called "factory girls". Ninety percent of factory workers are female. They worked hard and got up at 7 a.m. and went to sleep at 10 p.m. After she had the job in a factory,she could not come back to our home. That was a sad thing for either her or me. She said she had cried with her colleagues who all could't go home when they were having dinner while the boss was setting off firecrackers in the Spring Festival. This traditional festival is the most important day for us Chinese. On that day, all the family members must come back and treat ourselves big meals and set off firecrackers while waiting for the new year at home together. My mother could't eat with her daughters,husband and parents in that festival.

However, it became more and more difficult for her to return home. During those years,she just got a few money every month although she worked harder and harder,  but the traffic expenses were high. She operated a recycling store after my father went to Guangdong province too. Later, they had a grocery shop, providing the groceries,breakfast,mahJong and rental housings and so on. They had their young boy in Guangdong Province too.

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