On February 22 Beijing time, in the women's freestyle skiing halfpipe final at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Chinese athlete Eileen Gu won the championship.
At the post-race press conference, Eileen Gu revealed that she had just learned of her grandmother's (Eileen Gu refers to her grandmother as "grandma") passing.
Eileen Gu said her grandmother held an extremely important place in her life, serving as a role model she always admired. "She was incredibly strong, a warrior," she recalled. "Many people just drift along with life, but she didn't. Like a ship steering its own course, she shaped her life into what she desired."
Eileen Gu's grandmother, Feng Guozhen, was a top student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in the 1950s and a key player on the university's women's basketball team. After graduation, she became a senior engineer at the Ministry of Transport. After her granddaughter was born, Feng Guozhen moved to the U.S. to care for her daily life and education. She taught Eileen Gu Chinese, Chinese cuisine, and Chinese stories from a young age, and took her back to Beijing for summer stays each year, allowing her to experience Chinese culture firsthand.
Eileen Gu introduced her grandmother as being from Nanjing, Jiangsu.
```△ Eileen Gu's Weibo screenshot```
R1: "Hukou" must be translated as registered residence. The staff at the Nanjing Municipal Archives located Feng Guozhen's hukou card and student records based on existing leads. On February 26, the archives staff showed these precious documents to reporters.
Stroke by stroke, it records the image of this elderly woman in her youth: she lived, studied, and grew up in Nanjing. This city was also a part of her life journey.
Now, Eileen Gu's grandmother has passed away
But her name
Her household registration booklet
carefully preserved by Nanjing
No comments:
Post a Comment