My family

“Family” is important and precious to everyone in the world.

My parents are both financial workers. They are kind to everyone. Unlike ordinary families, my father is more careful and nagging than my mother.

My father is a little fat with fair skin, short hair and wears a pair of silver-rimmed glasses. He has a good sense of humour and often makes us laugh, I remember when I was little, he sometimes even danced the “cygnet ballet” to amuse me, he looks cute and funny because he is fat. He is also very perseverant, because smoking and obesity brought some problems to his health before several years, he resolutely quit smoking and lose weight now, he is already 20 kilograms lighter than he was at his heaviest.

My mother has fair skin. Unlike my dad, my mother is very thin which I like her. She is a very good mother, often tries to cook different kinds of delicious food for me. And she is like a little girl, like to eat snacks, even if my father and I play tricks on her, she will be just laugh.

Every holiday and weekend, our family (my grandparents, my sister’s family and my family) would have dinner together, the atmosphere was very warm. I’m the only child for my parents, and I was the youngest child, so all the relatives love me very much. Every time I go to my grandparents’ house, my grandma and grandpa would put a table full of fruit and food for me. Every time I went back to Macau, my grandmother would sneak food or something she thought useful into my suitcase. (Now we have a cute little corgi who likes the eighth member of our big family)

I come from Shandong province, the hometown of the famous Chinese thinker Confucius. He was the founder of Confucianism. In Confucian tradition, filial piety is rigidly observed. So, my elders are a bit influenced by Confucianism. My family pays much attention to family harmony and emphasizes respect for hierarchy and order, when I was a kid, my parents and other family members told me,” family is important and it is important to be filial.”

I still remember a scene from 15 years ago, I was only 5 years old, my friend Lucy joked with me. My parents were talking with my uncle, my uncle isn’t very tall, but he is thin with fair skin, when they were talking, I was playing with Lucy on the lawn in the distance. Suddenly, Lucy called our uncle’s name like his wife, I thought it was funny and we laughed together. (Although when I grew up, I didn’t know why this thing was funny.) Then we started calling him names and laugh again and again.

After some days, Lucy told her mother about this thing, then her mother told my parents. My parents felt really angry, they talked to me very seriously. My dad asked me with a serious face, “Did mom and dad ever tell you to respect others?”” Do not call elders by their first names!” I could feel the anger in his loud voice, I was flustered because I didn’t expect them to know the joke, and I also didn’t understand why It is impolite behaviour to call my uncle with his name. Listen to mom and dad angry words, I feel wronged and panic, I tried hard not to cry, but I failed. Every time my father said a word, I trembled ever so slightly with fear. Finally, my parents let me shout “uncle” face the wall for an hour.

“Filial piety” as a good Chinese traditional ethics, with thousands of years has deeply affected Chinese cultural and moral cultivation.

The family like a sanctuary, where I can relax and unwind at the end of the day. I am thankful that I was born in such a warm family, all the family members gave me the best love in the world. I hope all the families can be healthy and happy forever.