My Mother My mother is 50 yeas old. But she looks like a young woman. She had my younger brother at 45 years old. That is why she must be younger than other women in the same age. My mother was born in a village where is 20 miles from the village which I was born. She is very beautiful when she was young. She liked to sing pop songs. She always sang while she was doing housework. I do remember she sang The Love of The Pull-man. The song was very popular in the 1990s. I can recall my mother's sweet sound. I was listening her songs when I am a child until she left our hometown in 1997. She started work for a factory as the other women who came into cities in Guangdong,the province in south China,from many villages in middle China. They,including my mother and her younger sister,was called "factory girls". 90%of workers of factories were female. They worked hard and got up at 7 a.m. and went to sleep at 10 p.m..When she had the job in a factory,she could not come back our home. That was very sad for either her and me. She said she was crying with her colleagues who all could't go home when they were eating and the boss set off firecrackers in the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the most important day for Chinese. So all family members must come back and treat ourselves big meals and set off firecrackers while we are waiting for the new year at home together. My mother could't eat with her daughters,husband and parents in that festival. But she was more and more difficult to come back. In that 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 when my father went to Guangdong province too. They had a grocery shop later. They has a shop which provides the groceries,breakfast,mahJong and rental housings and so on. They had their young boy in Guangdong Province too.