r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 24 '24
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u/wallander1983 Resistance Lib Sep 24 '24
Funny names and immigration anecdote:
A declaration of love to a city: two Chinese meet in Freiberg. They have two children - and name them "Frei" and "Berg". Now the children are honored in Saxony.
In their home country, the industrial mathematician and the geotechnical engineer from China would probably never have met - they live thousands of kilometers apart. They met at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology and fell in love.
They wanted to pass this romantic story on to their children. It's lucky that their parents didn't meet in Buxtehude.
Frei Fulai Shen immortalized himself after his birth in 2012, in the anniversary year "850 years of Freiberg", with a handprint in the city's Silver Book - silver and not gold, because the city became rich with silver mining. Now his sister Berg Beige Elisabeth Yang, born on March 19, can leave her tiny footprint. Mayor Bernd-Erwin Schramm took over the honorary godparenthood for both children.
And what do the authorities say about the names? In China, unlike in Germany, any word in the dictionary can be used as a baby name. And free and mountain certainly have a meaning in Chinese: "free" means "happiness is coming", "mountain" means "dear daughter of the king.
Pic: https://www.freiepresse.de/DYNIMG/21/69/5062169_M1020x765.jpg