THE ANNA JIANGS

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Sanna K

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“85% of Anna Jiangs use the 江 character to write their last name.”

“15% of Anna Jiangs use the 将 character to write their last name.”

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Anna Jiang - Texas

Where are your parents from? Your family?

I think my mom is from Beijing and my dad’s family is from Guangzhou.

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Anna Jiang - California

Do your grandparents talk about their lives/when they were your age?

My grandma says that she was married when she was my age and had to cook and clean for my grandpa’s family and that I’m lucky that I don’t have to do all of that. But honestly, she’s just saying that I’m lazy because she only says that whenever I’m using the washing machine or microwave. 

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“When my dad first came to the U.S. he thought that American kids ate zebra cakes as birthday cakes, even now we’d have zebra cakes on our birthday.”

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✨OK LADIES NOW LET’S GET IN FORMATION✨

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If we’re sisters, does that mean we’re a girl gang? Requirements: must be named Anna Jiang.

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Anna Jiang - California

Are your parent superstitious or traditional? Do you believe in those traditions as well?

My dad isn’t and my mom is. Sometimes my dad would stick his chopsticks in his rice and my mom would yell at him saying it’s bad luck because it looks like incense they use to pray to dead people and my dad would just joke around and roll his eyes a little. 

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“When I was a kid, I asked my grandma why her hands were so wrinkly and she told me that her hands were rough so that in the future, mine wouldn’t be.” 

-- Anna Jiang

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A story about sister, non-related, but through traditions, language, and hardship. 

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Anna Jiang - Ohio

Do your parents or grandparents talk about their lives/when they were your age?

My grandma only lived with me and my family for a few years before returning to China. We didn’t really talk much.

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Anna Jiang - Vancouver

Have your parents/grandparents ever told you a children’s fable? If so, what was it?

There’s this story my parents use to tell me about where there was this princess who was so beautiful that she became a political pawn. She was a honest girl and when the court painter came to paint her portrait to be a concubine for the emperor, she wouldn’t bribe him like the other girls so he painted her in a very ugly way. She eventually did become one of the concubines but was supposed to die alone in the palace without a visit from the king until the gods felt sorry for her and arranged so that the emperor had to give away one of his concubines in a political marriage to another country. And he decided to pick his ugliest concubine who he thought was her because of her court painting and because he never met her. But when he gave her away to the foreign king, he was surprised to see that she was one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen, but it was too late. And the princess became happy and married the foreign emperor, not sure what my parents were trying to tell me...maybe the moral of the story was to be pretty and to wait until the gods arrange your life?

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Anna Jiang - New York

Do your parents or grandparents talk about their lives/when they were your age?

My Mother always tells me about her childhood. How she was more flexible and more adventurous than I am. I also know that she was very good at making everything already by the time she was my age. She was able to make all her own meals and clothes if she needed to.

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Anna Jiang - Vancouver

Are your parent superstitious or traditional? Do you believe in those traditions as well?

My parents are very superstitious, they tell me about how if my bed is facing the window that ghosts who can’t descend to heaven and don’t have a body to use will come through my window while I’m sleeping and take over my body, leaving me as a ghost to wander the earth. I think it’s because in Chinese tradition, only the dead are laid out facing doors or windows so their souls can leave the household or something like that. I’m not that superstitious but sometimes the things my parents tell me freak me out a bit.