Not Saying Goodbye to My Daughter (Part 1)

>Zhang Zhaohong’s daughter Xue Wei passed away on January 10th and held a memorial ceremony on January 18th, which lasted eight days. Xue Wei donated all the available organs in her body, and every part of her body...

Zhang Zhaohong

Different from traditional Chinese culture, the true feelings of the deaf-mute friend were revealed in Shiqi In terms of love, the disabled even threw their crutches on the ground when delivering their speeches, and some old women hugged Weiwei's body and kissed her cold forehead, just like when Weiwei said goodbye to them every time, she would give them a warm hug before leaving.

Weiwei serves the disadvantaged groups with kindness, love and responsibility. The deaf-mute people respect her, praise her, and thank her for bringing warmth to their hearts. Weiwei adds brightness and luster to the image of our Chinese people.

Weiwei was born on February 23, 1980. I was working away from home and came back a few days later. I held her sleeping body in my arms. After a while, she opened her eyes and smiled at me. This scene will always be engraved in my heart. From then on, we had a fate that lasted for decades.

I named her Xue Wei. "Xu" means concentration, and "Wei" is a small purple-red flower. There is an allusion in history that "Bo Yi and Shu Qi starved to death and did not eat Zhousu millet, but picked Wei for food", which added the value of morality and justice to "Wei". This name contains the parents' hope that their daughter will have a happy life and a beautiful life.

Weiwei loves purple, so we chose a set of black clothes with purple flowers that she liked during her lifetime for her to wear. We also specially customized a purple flower crown to send her off.

Weiwei has been loving and compassionate since she was a child, lively, cute, considerate, and courageous. I remember that when she first learned to swim, she jumped into the swimming pool with two small blisters on her arms and quickly learned to play in the water. Weiwei is beautiful, innocent and very popular. When she was a child, she liked to learn to write poems and dance, and she was well-behaved and sensible. After having a younger brother, she had a close sibling relationship for decades.

Weiwei majored in sign language interpretation in college. At that time, she was the only Chinese-American in Arizona who studied American Sign Language.

After graduation, she began to work as a translator for the deaf-mute. Among the deaf-mute people, there are also people who become blind after becoming deaf-mute. They cannot see sign language, so Weiwei has to take care of her relatives and pass on the messages of her relatives so that the blind people can understand. In order to translate better, she needs to continue to learn and acquire more comprehensive knowledge, so that she can even translate for deaf-mute students in different subjects. One year she had to go to Northern Arizona University to translate for deaf-mute college students. It took five hours to go up and down the mountain. She was pregnant at the time, so I could only drive her to school carefully.

She provides live translation for operas so that deaf and mute people can also enjoy them. The art of opera is higher than life, and the performer must understand the historical background and the detailed content of the plot. She collected a thick book of information for that performance.

She has been engaged in sign language translation for 20 years. Sign language work is not easy, and your hands are tired from long hours of work. She had pain in her wrist for a long time and had surgery. According to regulations, sign language work cannot exceed forty-five minutes at a time. In addition to fearing that you will be tired, you are also worried that translation errors will occur when your hands are stiff and painful.

Weiwei is naturally beautiful. When she was 19 years old, she participated in the Miss Chinese Beauty Pageant in Fengfeng City and won the championship.

Weiwei is caring and grateful. She gives back to the Chinese community and society. She volunteered at a TV station, participated in beauty pageants of the Overseas Chinese Federation, etc.

Weiwei gave a sign language demonstration for the Chinese school's performance of "We Are All Together". The teacher choreographed this program into a dance, which was widely circulated on the Internet and became an art performance program with the highest click-through rate.

In addition to the deaf-mute group who came to attend Weiwei’s memorial service on the 18th, there were also Deng Junquan, chairman of the Greater Phoenix Overseas Chinese Association, UCA AZ Chairman Deng Chaoju, founder of the Alberta Chinese Restaurant Association Xu Guofu, directors Wu Yizhao and Zhou Jinfang, directors of the Alberta Chinese Historical Association Xie Chengyan, Wang Yicheng and Zhuang Shuhua, founding president of the Overseas Chinese Federation of Alberta Yang Wentian, chairman of the Science and Engineering College Xu Qiang, Alberta Chen Zhigang, executive president of Sichuan and Chongqing Association, Lu Lihua, principal of Arizona Art School, Liu Lihua and Liu Chen Aiqing, directors of Phoenix Longgang Office, Sunny, president of Phoenix Herald, accountant Li Woyi, insurance and financial management Wang Zhenmei, US-Western International Trade Xu Wei, etc.

Because it is not a weekend or a holiday, many friends can only convey their condolences and condolences through phone calls or WeChat. Good-hearted people in Phoenix made donations online or by mail and delivery. Members of the California Cantonese Association also supported Weiwei's family through donations. A lot of information is still being collected. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all my relatives and friends!

At the last moment, I stared at my dear daughter again, her body was filled with white roses and red roses. She lay quietly, her eyes still a little sunken after the makeup because she donated her corneas. She seemed to be asleep, just like when I held her in my arms for the first time, but she could no longer open her beautiful, watery eyes, and I could only see her smile and hear her laughter in my dreams.

January 21, 2024