According to the US "World Journal" report, a 16-year-old 11th grader from San Marino High School went to Orlando, Florida to participate in the "Miss American Coed Pageant" Teenager Finals. Anna Cui, a Chinese-American girl, lived up to expectations on the 6th and won the "Miss Goodwill" title of Miss Teen USA 2009/2010. At the same time, she set a record of being the first talent champion and runner-up in the Miss Teen USA pageant for two consecutive years in the 26 years of the pageant. Six awards including "Supermodel" runner-up, "American Spirit Award", "Outstanding Performance Award", etc.
Sixteen-year-old Cui Qingqing said that the most exciting thing this year is winning the most trophies, especially when her talent is recognized by everyone, and all the hard work is worth it.
Main Awards
Won the Miss Goodwill USA, Cover Girl, Talent, Super Model, Best Shot and many other titles from 2005 to 2012
2006, 2011 Won the Miss California USA Queen in 2011
Won the Miss International Teen Ambassador, Talent Champion, and Speech Champion in 2011
Won the Honorary Certificate from the Mayor and City Council of San Gabriel in 2006
Joined UNICEF as a volunteer from 2006 to 2012 and won the honorary certificate and image representative.
In 2010, he won the Gold Medal of the Presidential Volunteer Service Award issued by President Obama
In 2011, he won the Silver Medal of the U.S. Congress' Outstanding Social Contribution Award
2013 Won the U.S. Congressional Bronze Medal and Certificate in 2011.
In 2008, he published the book "Cui Anna Little Chinese Queen - A Record of the Growth of Quality Education in the United States", which won the Certificate of Honor from the National Library of China and was collected by THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS in the National Library of the United States
2007 Miss California USA and Miss Arizona Competition Award Presenter
2008 Honored in the 11th and 12 Monthly Issues and Certificate of Honor of the International Magazine SUPERMODELS UNLIMITED
2012 Miss California USA Award Presenter
Won second place in the MTAC Mozart Piano Competition in 2001
Won the MTAC San Francisco Year-End Piano Performance and Performance Award in 2001
Won the National Youth United Music Award in 2001-2002 National Federation Junior Festival
The highest prize in the piano competition SUPERIOR RATING
Won the 2003 National Youth Artist Dance Competition Kids Artistic Revue National Dance Competition
Runner up, artist star Award and many other awards
In 2003, he won the gold medal and special performance award at the International Dance Challenge
Won the gold medal, platinum award, and double platinum award at the American dance competition SHOWSTOPPER from 2000 to 2011
Won the STAPOWER Gold Medal in the American Dance Competition from 2000 to 2006
Won the MTAC Piano Level 10 Honorary Certificate in 2004
Won the Hollywood JRP Art Institute TV and Film Award in 2007 Graduate Certificate in Acting, Advertising Acting.
Received the black belt certificate in Taekwondo in 2008
Obtained the US registered trademark 'Anna TIARA' in 2011, designed by Anna Cui
Boston Dance Company from 2011 to 2013 Static Noyze actor and choreographer
1999-2003 BES Elementary School won the school’s Outstanding Citizen Award, etc.
2004-2006 HMS Middle School won the school’s Outstanding Citizen Award, etc.
2007-2010 SMHS High School won the Scholarship Honor Student Award, etc.
2011-2013 Chairman of the Boston University Student Union Liaison Department
Media reports
1997 Recorded in the United States KCET TV STORY TIME (3 years old), Education Channel's "Storytelling Time" program
Recorded in 2001, China Central Television CCTV1's "Windmill" program Ballet Doll (8 years old)
2006 American International Channel LA18 TV News Report International Channel LA 18 TV News
2006 North American Phoenix TV News Report Phoenix TV News
2007 American International Channel LA18 TV "Los Angeles Today" 》Interview International Channel LA 18 TV Interview
Exclusive interview with North American Phoenix TV "Daily Topics" in 2007Phoenix TV Interview
In May 2007, CCTV International Channel CCTV4 "Chinese World" Chinese girl Winning the first and second episode of the Southern California, USA
In December 2007, CCTV4’s “Chinese World” featured a talented woman from the family—a Chinese-American beauty queen
In 2008, the USA International Channel LA18 TV news reports and interviews International Channel LA 18 TV News amp; Interview
2010 American International Channel LA18 TV news reports and interviews International Channel LA 18 TV News amp; Interview
2011 Phoenix TV's "A Date with Lu Yu"
2012 Los Angeles CCTV News Program Overseas Chinese New Year Greetings for the Year of the Dragon
2005-2013 World Daily Chinese Daily News
2006 People's Daily Overseas Edition
2007 San Marino Tribune
2006-2013 China Press
2006-2013 Sing Tao Daily
2006-2013 Zhong Guo Daily News
2006-2010 International Daily News
Taiwan News from 2006 to 2013
Growth History
Perhaps some people think that beauty pageants only require a beautiful face and a graceful figure. Not really. Although the Miss Teen Southern California USA competition follows the Miss America pageant model, the age of the contestants is limited to 12 to 18 years old. The most distinctive feature of the competition is the comprehensive requirements for the comprehensive development of the contestants. In addition to emphasizing appearance Appearance, speech, talent and other talents are all included in the competition. Cui Qingqing, a Chinese-American girl, won eight individual awards including modeling, talent, performance, and spirit.
Teaching makes each other better
In fact, Cui Qingqing’s mother never thought of training her daughter to become a beauty queen. She is just like many other parents, telling her children what they should do and what they should not do in every aspect of their lives. Like many children, Qingqing loved watching cartoons when she was little. She even watched them while eating, and even competed with her parents for the TV remote control. This made Qingqing's mother realize the seriousness of the problem.
Feng Jin, Cui Qingqing’s mother, said: “First of all, we as parents should reflect on themselves. My husband reluctantly said that I don’t smoke, drink, or watch TV for a while, but for the sake of our children, parents must set an example. As long as Anna is at home after school, we adults try not to watch TV.”
Because of her mother’s strict discipline and example, Cui Qingqing has had very few bad habits since she was a child. However, are parents always right? Is what a child wants to do always wrong? This is what happened to Feng Jin and her daughter.
Cui Qingqing said: "When I was in the second grade of elementary school, there was an activity called Girl Scout (Girl Scout). Every afternoon after school, the whole class of girls participated in various activities together, including handicrafts. , sports competitions, playing games, telling stories, etc., all my classmates went there, but I was the only one who didn’t go, and my mother even took me to the school to study and tutor after class.”
The Women’s Army activity is an American activity. The purpose of traditional educational activities is to help children get in touch with society, cultivate team spirit, and let children learn things beyond the classroom. But at that time, Feng Jin didn't quite understand the significance of this activity.
"To be honest, we Chinese pay more attention to children's learning. Not being able to read and do homework in the afternoon for so many days will delay learning, so I did not agree to let Anna participate at the time."
Once, when Feng Jin was picking up her daughter from school, she saw that Qingqing was unhappy, so she comforted her daughter and said, "They go play while we study. You will definitely be the first in the class in the exam tomorrow." , as soon as I mentioned my daughter, she started crying loudly.
"Mom, you don't know. I don't know what they learn or what they say, and I have no friends." Her daughter's words made her mother very uneasy, and she realized that she was using her own subjective consciousness to force things on her child, causing her pain and depression.
So, the next day, Feng Jin found the teacher in charge of this activity and asked Anna to join the activity. However, what I didn't expect was that after participating in this activity, another unpleasant thing happened.
One day, the teacher of the Women’s Army called and asked Feng Jingtong if he agreed to let Anna and Girl Scout sell cookies in front of the store.
Feng Jin was disgusted when he heard this, thinking that the school wanted to raise funds through this method. However, it is not easy to refuse the teacher. So Feng Jin thought of a way to get the best of both worlds. She spent $300 on 150 boxes of cookies with different flavors. This not only prevents children from selling cookies, but also sponsors the school, and it is difficult for children to earn 300 US dollars selling cookies. However, the results were unexpected.
After the biscuit selling activity, all 20 girls won prizes, except Cui Qingqing. Feng Jin was puzzled, no, I think many classmates didn’t have as much money as we did.
Cui Qingqing said: "The teacher said, it is not about how much money you have, nor is it about parents' money, but about us using the money we earn to donate to the community."
Feng Jin suddenly realized that Westerners attach great importance to cultivating children's independence and sense of responsibility.
Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles
It is often said that "teaching teaches each other." Feng Jin also realized her own shortcomings in the process of educating her daughter. She learned from her children I have learned a lot and am constantly improving. While integrating into the local society and absorbing beneficial Western educational concepts, Feng Jin also paid great attention to absorbing the essence of traditional Chinese education. Feng Jin strongly agrees with the traditional Chinese educational philosophy of "reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles." When their daughter was still very young, Feng Jin and his wife took their daughter to travel to many places.
From bustling New York, to romantic Paris, to ancient Rome, these cities with different styles left a deep impression on Cui Qingqing and benefited her a lot.
“The things I saw when I traveled were different from what I saw in books, and the feelings were stronger. For example, when I went to the Great Wall, I told my mother that it was so great, so big, so beautiful. I immediately thought of Mulan. When I danced the dance of Mulan, I brought in the feeling of watching the Great Wall. "
American Culture
Chinese-American. Achievements are astounding and are no longer limited to outstanding academic performance. On the beauty pageant stage that combines both appearance and talent, in recent years we can see more and more Chinese Americans letting go of themselves and showing their confidence and talent gracefully. Not only are the number of organizations holding beauty pageants in Southern California gradually increasing, but mainstream beauty pageants are also gradually seeing people from Chinese beauties from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places.
The United States is open-minded and strongly supports beauty pageants, with a dazzling array of sponsoring institutions and organizations. From "Campus Queen", "Miss City", county "Miss Teen", to "Miss America", international "Miss Universe", and the "Rose Queen", Pasadena's annual event every October, the representative of "beauty pageant" It is beauty, temperament, intelligence and talent.
The Chinese American community has gradually put aside its "unhealthy" concept of beauty pageants in recent years. The number of organizers has increased, participants are eager to try, and parents are even more enthusiastic about it.