Ying Li of Carrollton, Texas passed away on May 12, 2016 at the age of 38. She was born on September 22, 1977 to Heyu and Huiliang Li in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. Ying married Xinwu Zhu on June 29, 2010 in China. Ying was an outstanding dance artist and teacher. She graduated from Beijing Dance Academy in 2003, after which she began teaching at Beijing Children’s Palace, and had had hundreds of students for more than ten years. She participated twice in China's CCTV New Year Eve Gala dance performances, both of which won the National Most Popular Performance Awards. Ying was also gold medals winner in dance performances of Beijing Teachers Contest and “Sunflower” Dance Contest, and numerous other competitions. Many of her students were admitted to top-rated schools and art academies. Ying moved to the United States with her family in 2014, and continued to make great success in dancing, choreographing and teaching. Her dance piece “Mulan Resurrection” for her student won the Double Platinum Award in Texas Division and the Platinum Award in National Finals of the Show Stopper Dance Competition. In 2015, in pursuit of her long-time dream, she founded her own dance school in Plano, Texas. Her unique way of teaching had enjoyed great favorable reception not only from her students and their parents, but also from her peers in dancing. She was loved so much by her students. Ying was a lovely wife, a caring mother, a respectful daughter, and a passionate friend. She managed to take good care of her family, while having a full time job at her own dance school at the same time. She was warm and sincere to people around her, and had made so many good friends in her short life.
Ying is survived by her husband, Xinwu Zhu of Carrollton, Texas; son, Anthony Zetong Zhu also of Carrollton; parents, Heyu and Huiliang Li; sister, Jing Li and husband Yuhua Wang all of Shijiazhuang Hebei, China.
A funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, May 21, 2016 at Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Funeral Home chapel in Allen, Texas. Interment will follow at Ridgeview Memorial Park in Allen, Texas. The family will receive friends during a visitation on Friday evening, May 20, 2016, from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Memorial donations may be made in Ying’s honor to: APS Foundation of America, Inc., P.O. Box 801, La Crosse, WI 54602-0801 or www.apsfa.org/donate
Tribute from family
Ying's life, although so short in time, was never short of love. She loved living. She loved her family deeply. She gave her family all the good memories. She was a beautiful, smart, and gentle wife. She was a warm, caring, and forgiving mother. She was a respectful and dutiful daughter. She was a virtuous and hard-working daughter-in-law. She was a lovely and adorable sister and sister-in-law.
Her departure in such a young age reminded her family that life is just so short. She took all the good and beautiful, and left with endless sorrow and sadness.
When her husband saw her leaving step by step, without anything he could do, he couldn’t help sighing that science was not advanced enough to even save a life, that human life could be so helplessly fragile, that she won’t be able to see her son growing up into a man along the coming years.
When her young son heard from daddy that mommy would never come back home from hospital, he couldn’t help asking: Why can’t we cure her illness? “I don’t have my mom”, he kept saying.
When her parents knew of the loss of their lovely daughter, they were too sad to speak. She left them with their pride and hope.
When her 80 year old mother-in-law was told, she asked God with grief: why did you let her pass so early if only you gave me such a good daughter-in-law? She kept saying that in the refrigerator there are still her favorite foods, dried lamb meat, that she won’t have chance to enjoy anymore.
When her sister, brothers in law and sisters in law heard she was in hospital, they wished she could recover as soon as possible so she could continue dancing with another magnificent chapter in her life. But that never happens. She left, with the good, and with the sorrow.
The past has passed forever,
But the love will never be over.
If you can still hear,
We want to say with tears:
"Live well in the Heaven.
If there is a second life,
We will be with you ever".
