My grandmother

Everyone has stories about their ancestors. When I read the article of “Lost lives of women”, I can understand why there are a lot of women’s stories. In China, women stand up a big part of the family especially in the old time of China. A man can get married with more than one woman at the same time. This article told the story about each of women who was showed on the photo, for instance, mother’s story, grandmother’s story, mother’s grandmother’s story. They are all the women’s stories. From now on, I want to talk about my grandmother’s story. My grandmother is 87 years old and is an industrious person. She got married with my grandfather when she was young and moved into her husband’ family. So she needed to take the family’s burden early as a wife. She did a lot of housework and took care of her husband’s father and mother while my grandfather went outside to earn money. Unfortunately, when my grandmother was over 30 years old, my grandfather was gone. There was not economic support. My grandmother needed to support this big family including two old person and four young children alone. She went to the farm at 5:00AM and went back home at 8:00PM. She worked on farm year by year. Under her diligent work and good education to children, this family was full of happy although a little poor. Each of her children went to the school and got the good education. So, I respect and admire her. She also joined the institute of women in the small town. Due to her hard working, she was to be the chairman of the institute of women. Although she knew few words, she was very intelligent. She learned anything quickly and did them very well, so she was always praised by the most of villagers. This is my grandmother and she walks on her hard way for over the half of her life but she complete them very well.

Padaung's beauty

People need beauty but it must be a healthy beauty that doesn't hurt your body or change your natural growth. I will talk about the Padaung which is a minority that live in the northern Thailand. This Padaung are keeping its language and tradition. They think the females who have a long neck are very beautiful, so they start to wear the copper collar to fit closely their neck and add one more follow their age growth up to the twenty five years old. Due to the weighth of copper collar from five to ten kilogram, females' shoulder are forced down and their neck will appear long. It's obvious that changing natural growth for beauty will cause a lot of serious injury such as bleeding of attrition from the hard copper collar. It's said that it will endanger females' life if they take away the copper collar from their neck after their twenty five years old. People can seek beauty but it's not means that they need devote body damage or life to obtain beauty.

Beauty and two styles

What is beautiful? It’s a complicated question and every person has their own standards to judge the beauty. However, we have a basic concept and define beauty as that which brings enjoyment to the person who looks or contemplates. When you see a beautiful subject, you would like to acquaint it and interested in it. For example, you will choose the best beautiful notebook you think when you want to buy a notebook. Also, it could be a beautiful person. So, beauty can be used to describe a person or a thing. Then, I will tell you that there are two styles of beauty. One is natural beauty and another one is artificial beauty. Natural beauty is defined as looking great without enhancement. For example, one person gets up in the morning and spends less time to make up and just show enough tidy appearance. Unlike the super model, the person in natural beauty doesn’t need to spend hours dealing with hair, clothing and make-up. From above example, we can see the meaning of artificial beauty is opposite to the natural beauty and it explains that it’s necessary to do something to change the original appearance. Nevertheless, we can’t say that which is better between these two styles of beauty. We only can express that you need to undertake no more than you can perform when you choose any style of beauty. The most important point is that you should choose the suitable way for you to make yourself beauty.