The Lifelong “laodao”
If you have a Chinese friend who live and work in your country far away from his or her parents, you may ever hear the words “my parents used to say…”. It’s a kind of Chinese homesickness “laodao”, which means parents’ repeated-and-repeated words out of love and care. How do your parents call you? Baby, boy/girl or honey? But we have so many different ways of calling our children, no matter old or young. You can listen to the following reordings. These “names” can company us for life if our parents can give out voice. Unlike the non-participant figure in your country, China’s parents take care of their children in great detail, from baby stage to adult stage. In Chinese family, there are more perceptual elements and less rational basis. The Chinese nation attaches great importance to family emotional ties since ancient times and regards emotion as the core strength of family education.[2] So they want to help their children to smoothly get through every stage of their life. And in their opinion, young people can get happiness from marriage so they tell us to find our couple and this gradually becomes part of “laodao”.
After all, Chinese parents give the final decision-making power to their children and maybe they just want to have something to talk to their grown “Baobei (which means my baby,my forever treasure)”.
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If you have a Chinese friend who live and work in your country far away from his or her parents, you may ever hear the words “my parents used to say…”. It’s a kind of Chinese homesickness “laodao”, which means parents’ repeated-and-repeated words out of love and care. How do your parents call you? Baby, boy/girl or honey? But we have so many different ways of calling our children, no matter old or young. You can listen to the following reordings. These “names” can company us for life if our parents can give out voice. Unlike the non-participant figure in your country, China’s parents take care of their children in great detail, from baby stage to adult stage. In Chinese family, there are more perceptual elements and less rational basis. The Chinese nation attaches great importance to family emotional ties since ancient times and regards emotion as the core strength of family education.[2] So they want to help their children to smoothly get through every stage of their life. And in their opinion, young people can get happiness from marriage so they tell us to find our couple and this gradually becomes part of “laodao”.
After all, Chinese parents give the final decision-making power to their children and maybe they just want to have something to talk to their grown “Baobei (which means my baby,my forever treasure)”.
#中国##China##留学中国##催婚##oversea students#
