Interesting things in your family's history

[Genersis]

My great granddad was a boxer.
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That's it really.
My family is mostly descended from working class Londoners
So nothing remarkable.

[princealbertofb]

We have many different storys in our family.....

by example...

my uncle... shot in the age of 16

my granny... she bought 10 cigarettes for 125 000 000 000.00 but had not enough money for a bread

my grandpa... who killed himself by hanging..with my uncle in his hand

my mom.... who fled several times over the same border

my grandpa, who was struck by lightning and went home but died as he reached into a power line, because he could not afford glasses

and many more......

Kräftig Geschichte...

[wybf]

Well I just had a bit of an exposition on my mother's youth in communist-ruled Shanghai.

Mum read all these illegal books that her neighbour got her from looting the homes of people he lynched. She made the cultural revolution sound like a game to her everyone else just killing teachers and she was at home copying down illegal books like a boss. :3 Reminds me of Fahrenheit 451

The only sad part of her description of her past was when Grandma's qipao (chinese dress) and pretty shoes got ripped up

Then she was part of the 1980s student protests until her father learnt that 3 students from OUT OF TOWN got shot at the train station.

Years later she moved to Hong Kong to give birth to me so that I could get a UK passport and not be chinese o.o

Anyome else got fun family stories?

when reading these words, I could feel something sorrow here. I was borned on the second year of that thing in BeiJing, capital of China. My mon told me something about that. And I joined in Peking University later, which is one of the leading college during that movement. I've learned a lot about that.

Actually, those students went to protest mostly because they don't want to have those boring courses. A few students thinks that some policies made by the government had some bad affect on the society. These students leads a small-scale contest to a big movement. Several month later, the movements was still expanding and brought Tens of billions of dollars of losses on economy. At last, the govenment took up the arms, like what America government did in the 1930s, stopped the movement.
Many people died or injured that night. That was a period of painful history that we would not like to remember. In 1990, Peking University established a monument for those young students.
We don't want that things happened again. As the economy develops fast in China, people are more and more open and more rational on looking a problem.And the government has changed themselves a lot. That thing is almost impossible to happen again.

My mom says that China develops really too fast that she could not imagine brfore.(Chinese always use this kind of expression to discribe the fast changes). The income of my Mom have increased almost 300 times than 20 years before and the living standard have increased a lot.