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[quote=Anonymous]Sebastian: means “venerable” or "revered" in Latin, and comes from the Latin word “Sebastianus,” which was used to refer to a person from Sebaste, the name of a town in Asia Minor that is now the city of Sivas in Turkey).

Sebastian is popular in countries as widespread as Austria, Denmark, Romania, Australia and Chile. Some more down-to-earth nicknames for Sebastian are Seb, Baz and Bas.

Eliza, a variation of Elizabeth, Hebrew name meaning “God's oath; dedicated, Consecrated to God.” According to Social Security Administration data, Eliza is slowly increasing in popularity after breaking the top 200 in 2015. It broke the top 120 in 2019 and has been steadily increasing since. It is the 3rd most popular name on FamilyEducation.com. Eliza may also be used as a variant of the Hebrew name Aliza, עַלִיזָה meaning "joyful"

🇨🇳 Your parents were Chinese dissidents who narrowly escaped from The Tiananmen Square massacres following student protests in 1989. Although they were highly disorganized and their goals varied, the students called for greater accountability, constitutional due process, democracy, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech. At the height of the protests, about one million people assembled in the Square.

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre were widely blasted on Western TV. Chinese troops armed with assault rifles and accompanied by tanks fired at the demonstrators and those trying to block the military's advance into Tiananmen Square. The protests started on 15 April and were forcibly suppressed on 4 June when the government declared martial law and sent the People's Liberation Army to occupy parts of central Beijing. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more Wounded.

🌎 Angry Denunciations came reigning down from many countries in both Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Australia and some east Asian and Latin American countries. But, many Asian countries such as India remained silent throughout the protests and violent suppression so as not to jeopardize thawing in relations with China. Authoritarian regimes in North Korea, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany (just before their own Wall with West Germany and the iron curtain came down), among others, supported the Chinese government and denounced the protests. Overseas Chinese students demonstrated in many cities in Europe, America, the Middle East, and Asia against the Chinese government.

Your parents felt betrayed by China and many neighboring Asian countries. They decided to get out, preferably to the USA, which was then still the number one favored destination for many political Asylum seekers, but really anywhere with a functioning democracy would have done.

Miraculously, your parents were among seven of the twenty one most wanted student protest leaders of Tiananman Square revolt who managed to get out along with their good friend Zhang Boli who wrote Escape from China. Mr. Zhang is currently a Christian pastor at the Harvest Chinese Christian Church near Washington, D.C. Your parents are deeply religious realizing how precious and arbitrary their freedom is.

Your parents wanted to honor their new homeland and Western countries who supported their idealistic pursuit of democratic and civil rights in China by choosing names that have illustrious Christian meanings and can be pronounced in multiple Western countries with subtle uplifting meanings in Chinese.

They named you Eliza and your brother Sebastian, which was considered very unusual among their Chinese American friends who usually went for more traditional names such as Andrew and Jennifer. Your parents have never been afraid to take important risks both symbolic and actual though.

Sebastian in simplified chinese:
塞巴斯蒂安
Sebastian in traditional chinese:
塞巴斯蒂安

Elizabeth 以利沙伯 (You can magnify in Chinese)
Eliza in simplified chinese:
伊丽莎
Eliza in traditional chinese:
伊麗莎

Meaning of Sebastian characters in chinese:
Character Meaning
塞 stop up, block, seal, cork; pass, frontier; fortress
巴 greatly desire, anxiously hope
斯 this, thus, such; to lop off; emphatic particle
蒂 peduncle or stem of plants
安 peaceful, tranquil, quiet

Saint Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot with arrows, though this did not kill him.

Meaning of Eliza characters in chinese:
Character Meaning
伊 third person pronoun; he, she, this, that
丽 beautiful, magnificent, elegant
莎 kind of sedge grass, used anciently for raincoats (protector against the elements)

Elizabeth is revered as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church on November 5, and in the Orthodox and Anglican traditions on September 5, on the same day with her husband Zacharias/Zechariah.

You are a big fan of Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston and Frank Chin. You are delighted that Asian Americans are being better represented in Hollywood since Crazy Rich Asians.

❤️ SAHM (born in year of the Tiger/ a toothless Tiger mom but not Asian).[/quote]

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