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| 王春燕老师 |
The Purple Swallow Is Gone, and Even the Wind Mourns Deeply
-----In Memory of Ms. Wang Chunyan
王春燕女士是一位外表温和、内心坚强，独立而有尊严的女性；也是一位认真负责、追求师道、深受学生和同事尊敬的教育工作者。
2026年8月16日，王春燕老师在美国特拉华州纽瓦克市（Newark），克里斯蒂娜医院（Christiana Hospital），因病离开了她深爱的家人、亲友和这个曾经努力生活过的世界，安息主怀，荣归天堂，与神同在。
1975年春，王春燕出生于中国黑龙江省勃利县双河镇。“勃利”一词源于满语，是“幸福、吉祥”之意。历史上，勃利曾经是女真族人的发祥地之一，因朝代更迭变迁，其祖籍和血脉渊源不祥。改革开放初，她的父母经营一家杂货店，成为镇上少有的“万元户”。她在一个朴素而温暖的家庭中，度过了快乐的童年。
勃利地处东北边陲，毗邻俄罗斯。上世纪八十年代，当地学校的外语课只教授俄语。为了能够学习英语、寻求更广阔的未来，年仅12岁的她，便独自离开家乡，远赴西安求学，寄宿在姨母家中。高中阶段，为了能够参加高考，她又辗转寄宿在黑龙江密山市的叔父家。
懵懂少女独自离开熟悉的家乡，开始异地求学，这段特殊的经历，也成为她人生性格的重要起点。青少女时代的独立生活，使她很早便学会了照顾自己、面对挑战，也逐渐塑造了她独立、自强、坚忍不拔的性格。
1996年，王春燕毕业于哈尔滨师范大学，随后进入天津一家外贸公司从事财务工作。凭借认真、细致、负责的工作态度，她很快获得了领导和同事的信任。数年后，她被委派到北京分公司担任财务主管，办公地点在北京西边的石景山区。
十多年的职业经历，使她积累了丰富的工作经验，也赢得了公司上下的高度评价。即使离开原单位后，她仍然与昔日的老板和同事保持着长久而真挚的友谊。这份稳定和谐的人际关系，正是她为人处世真诚可靠的见证。
2007年，她与一位文化学者结婚，随后在北京东部的燕郊潮白河畔购房安家。2011年，生育女儿之后，为了上班路程更近，能够更多地照顾家庭和孩子，她离开贸易行业，入职北京东三环的一家大型房地产公司，从事工程项目审计和结算工作。在事业与家庭之间，始终努力寻找平衡，把母亲的责任放在心中重要的位置。
2015年3月19日，她带着女儿移民来到美国纽约与丈夫团聚，后定居特拉华州纽瓦克。初到美国，面对一个完全陌生的语言和生活环境，她在安顿好家庭之后，一边努力学习英文，一边与丈夫共同经营电商业务。她从未因为语言和文化的差异，而感到畏惧或退缩，始终保持自我提升的脚步。
从2020年起，她投身公立学校，成为一名中文代课教师。后又历任小学的中文助教、英文助教及数学教师。她热爱教育，也喜爱孩子，有不同种族和肤色的学生。她始终相信，教育不仅仅是传授知识，更是帮助孩子建立自信、学会责任、懂得尊重，并在成长过程中找到自己的方向。为了成为一名更专业的教育者，她在威尔明顿大学修习教育学本科专业，并取得了州教育部颁发的助教资格证书。
近年来，她加盟春晖中文学校，周末教授华裔学生中文和数学。对于这些在美国成长的孩子，她成为一名传播中国优秀文化的老师。她希望孩子们能够学习中文、了解中华文化，同时在美国社会中自信地成长。她用自己的实际行动诠释了一个教育工作者的责任与使命。
王春燕是一位热爱生活的女性。来美后，美东著名的城市、景点、公园和海滩，都曾留下她的足迹。她喜欢亲近大自然，喜欢阳光、海风和开阔的天地；公园和海滩，是她生活中经常喜欢去的地方。
她把生活过得真实而自然，不求奢华，不喜攀比。她崇尚简单、朴素而有品质的生活，有着属于自己的审美标准和价值判断。在她身上，人们能够看到一种难得的生命气质：外表温和，却有着坚定的内心；生活朴素，却有着自己的精神世界；经历各种挑战，却依然愿意相信生活、热爱生活。她从不张扬，却总是在默默承担、快乐付出。
作为母亲，她深爱唯一的女儿。作为老师，她和蔼又庄重，为人师表；作为朋友和同事，她真诚、善良、值得信赖。
她的一生，虽然没有惊天动地的感人事迹，却有着生在大漠北，学于古都西安，嫁到大江南的人生历程。她从勃利赴西安；从西安去密山；从哈尔滨下天津；再从北京飞纽约，最后定居美国第一州的纽瓦克，其人生的励志轨迹甚为炫丽而传奇。
王春燕不仅象一只春天的燕子那样勤奋不懈，又象一只勇敢翱翔天际的鸿雁，更象一位传播文化的天使，穿越长城内外，纵横神州南北，飞越东西半球。不仅如此，她还有着一个普通人最真实、最珍贵的坚持——努力工作，认真生活，爱自己的家人，也努力成为一个更好的自己。
令人痛心的是，她刚年过半百，人生旅程就戛然而止，这让所有人都感到非常意外。疾病来的太突然，病情发展的太迅猛，错过最佳医治时间，以至于几个医疗团队经过三周多的全力医治，仍未能挽救那年轻而美丽的生命。这是让所有认识和接触她的人，包括医生、护士，都难以接受的残酷现实。生命竟然这般脆弱，死神却是如此冷酷！
然而，人生的价值与意义不在于生命的长度，而在于生活的广度，理想的高度，亲情的厚度。在常人眼里，她的生命长度或许不够，但她的人生价值和意义，却已经充分彰显。她病危的消息在华人社区传开后，春晖中文学校发起募捐活动，有学生将积攒两年多的零花钱六百多美元全部捐献了出来。可见，为人师表的她，多么受学生的尊敬与爱戴。
美中两国各族裔的亲朋好友追思缅怀，深切怀念她曾经的笑容，回味她温和而坚定的声音，追思她在家庭、学校和朋友之间留下的美好印象。她虽然离开了这个世界，但她曾经给予家人的爱、给予学生的教诲、给予朋友的真诚，都不会随着生命的离去而消逝。
愿她卸下尘世劳苦，在上帝的怀抱中得到永恒的安宁。愿天堂没有病痛，只有平安与光明。愿她所爱的人，带着她留下的爱，在漫长岁月里继续前行。
撰挽联一副，以示悼念：
上联：女真紫燕，十二岁背井离乡，为求知闯荡南北，铸就坚强品格；
下联：黉门丹心，芳华年教书育人，为授课跨越东西，赢得天下桃李。
横批：师表永怀
乔木
08/18/2026 于全美第一州 禅易轩书
The Purple
Swallow Is Gone, and Even the Wind Mourns Deeply
-----In Memory of Ms. Wang Chunyan
Ms.
Wang Chunyan was a woman who appeared gentle yet was strong at heart,
independent and dignified; she was also a conscientious and responsible
educator who upheld the calling of teaching and was deeply respected by both
teachers and students.
On
August 16, 2026, Ms. Wang Chunyan passed away due to illness at Christiana
Hospital in Newark, Delaware, USA, leaving behind the family and friends she
deeply loved and this world in which she had once strived to live, resting in
the Lord’s embrace and returning to Heaven to be with God!
In the
spring of 1975, Wang Chunyan was born in Shuanghe Town, Boli County,
Heilongjiang Province, China. The word “Boli” originates from the Manchu
language and means “happiness and auspiciousness.” Historically, Boli was once
one of the birthplaces of the Jurchen people; due to the changes brought about
by successive dynasties, the origins of her ancestral home and bloodline are
unclear. At the beginning of the Reform and Opening-up period, her parents ran
a grocery store and became one of the town’s few “ten-thousand-yuan
households.” She spent a happy childhood in a simple and warm family.
Boli is
located on the northeastern frontier, bordering Russia. In the local schools
during the 1980s, the only foreign language offered was Russian. In order to
learn English and seek a broader future, at just 12 years old she left her
hometown alone and traveled far to Xi’an to study, boarding with her maternal
aunt. During high school, in order to successfully take the college entrance
examination, she moved again and boarded with her paternal uncle in Mishan,
Heilongjiang.
As a young and inexperienced girl,
she left her familiar hometown alone to pursue her studies away from home. This
special experience also became an important starting point in shaping her
character. Living independently during her teenage years taught her at an early
age how to take care of herself and face challenges, gradually shaping her into
an independent, self-reliant, and persevering person.
In 1996, Wang Chunyan graduated
from Harbin Normal University and subsequently joined a foreign trade company
in Tianjin, where she worked in finance department. With her conscientious,
meticulous, and responsible work attitude, she quickly earned the trust of the
company’s management and colleagues. Several years later, she was assigned to
the Beijing branch as the head of finance, with her office located in Shijingshan
District in western Beijing.
More than a decade of professional
experience enabled her to accumulate extensive work experience and earn high
praise throughout the company. Even after leaving her former employer, she
continued to maintain long-lasting and sincere friendships with her former boss
and colleagues. This stable and harmonious network of relationships is a
testament to her sincerity and reliability in dealing with others.
In 2007, she married a cultural
scholar and subsequently purchased a home and settled down along the Chaobai
River in Yanjiao, eastern Beijing. In 2011, after giving birth to her daughter,
she left the trade industry and joined a large real estate company on Beijing’s
East Third Ring Road, where she worked in engineering project auditing and
settlement, in order to shorten her commute and spend more time caring for her
family and child. Throughout her career and family life, she always worked hard
to find a balance, keeping her responsibilities as a mother close to her heart.
On March 19, 2015, she immigrated
to the United States with her daughter, joining her husband in New York, and
later settled in Newark, Delaware. Upon arriving in the United States, she
faced a completely unfamiliar language and living environment. After getting
her household settled, she worked hard to learn English while running an
e-commerce business together with her husband. She never felt intimidated or
retreated because of differences in language and culture, and always continued
striving for self-improvement.
In
recent years, she joined Chunhui Chinese School, teaching Chinese and
mathematics to Chinese American students on weekends. For these children who
are growing up in the United States, she has become a teacher who helps pass on
the finest aspects of Chinese culture. She hopes that the children can learn
Chinese and understand Chinese culture, while also growing up with confidence
in American society. Through her actions, she has demonstrated the
responsibility and mission of an educator.
Ms.
Wang Chunyan is a woman who loves life. Since coming to the United States, she
has left her footprints in many of the East Coast's renowned cities,
attractions, parks, and beaches. She enjoys being close to nature and loves
sunshine, sea breezes, and wide-open spaces; parks and beaches are places she
often enjoys visiting in her daily life.
She
lives her life authentically and naturally, seeking neither luxury nor
comparison with others. She values a simple, unpretentious, yet high-quality
lifestyle, with her own standards of aesthetics and values. In her, people can
see a rare quality of spirit: gentle on the outside, yet steadfast within;
living simply, yet possessing her own rich inner world; facing all kinds of
challenges, yet remaining full of hope and love for life. She never seeks the
spotlight, yet is always quietly shouldering responsibilities and giving with
joy.
As a
mother, she deeply loves her only daughter. As a teacher, she is kind yet
dignified, setting an example for her students; as a friend and colleague, she
is sincere, kind, and trustworthy.
Although
her life was not marked by any earth-shaking or deeply moving deeds, it was a
remarkable journey: born in the border of northeast of China, educated in the
ancient capital of Xi'an, and married into the family south of the Yangzi River.
She traveled from Boli to Xi'an; from Xi'an to Mishan; from Harbin to Tianjin;
then from Beijing to New York, and finally settled in Newark, the First State
of America. The inspirational trajectory of her life was truly dazzling and
legendary.
Wang Chunyan was not only as
diligent and tireless as a swallow in spring, but also like a brave big goose
soaring across the sky, traversing the lands within and beyond the Great Wall,
ranging across the north and south of China, and flying across the Eastern and
Western Hemispheres. More than that, she possessed the most genuine and
precious perseverance of an ordinary person—working hard, living earnestly,
loving her family, and striving to become a better version of herself.
Heartbreakingly, just after turning
fifty-one, her journey through life ended abruptly. The illness came far too suddenly
and progressed far too rapidly. Missing the golden window for treatment, even
after several medical teams devoted more than three weeks to treating her with
all their might, they were still unable to save that young and beautiful life.
This was a cruel reality that everyone who knew and encountered her, including
the doctors and nurses, found difficult to accept. Life could be so fragile,
while the Grim Reaper could be so merciless!
Yet the value and meaning of life
lie not in its length, but in the breadth of one's life, the height of one's
ideals, and the depth of one's family bonds. In the eyes of ordinary people,
the length of her life may perhaps have been insufficient, but the value and
meaning of her life had already been fully revealed. After news of her critical
condition spread through the Chinese community, Chunhui Chinese School launched
a fundraising campaign, and one student donated all of the more than six
hundred dollars in pocket money they had saved for over two years. This shows
how deeply respected and beloved she was by her students as a teacher.
Friends and relatives of all
ethnicities in China and the United States mourn and remember her, deeply
missing her smile, recalling her gentle yet resolute voice, and remembering the
beautiful impressions she left within her family, school, and circle of
friends. Although she has left this world, the love she gave her family, the
lessons she imparted to her students, and the sincerity she showed her friends
will not disappear with the passing of her life.
May she lay down the burdens and
hardships of this earthly world and find eternal peace in God's embrace. May
there be no illness or pain in heaven, only peace and light. May those she
loved to carry the love she left behind and continue moving forward through the
long years ahead.
A Memorial Couplet Composed to
Express Condolence:
Upper Scroll:
A Jurchen lady named
Purple Swallow, leaving hometown at twelve, roamed far and wide for knowledge,
forging an unyielding character;
Lower Scroll:
A loyal heart
dedicated to the academy, devoting prime years to teaching, traveling across
regions for lectures, nurturing students all over the world.
Horizontal Scroll:
The Mentor's
Virtue Shall Be Forever Remembered
Written
by David C. Wu
08/18/2026
in Delaware
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