On October 1, 1949, Chairman Mao solemnly announced from the upper floor of Tiananmen Square: "The People's Republic of China has been founded, and the people of Chinese have stood up!" ”
The loud sound resounded throughout the land of China, and the whole Tiananmen Square was boiling.
Since 1840, when the British knocked on the door of China with their ships and cannons, our Chinese nation has fallen into an incomparably long history of humiliation, but countless of my Sons and Daughters of China have not been willing to be enslaved, and have risen up to resist, the Boxer Rebellion, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Northern Expedition Revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the Chinese War of Liberation.
Why did Chairman Mao cry bitterly on such a big and exciting day?
On the night of September 30, the day before the founding ceremony, Mao Zedong, who returned to his office, began working at night as usual, and did not sleep until the early morning of October 1.
Zhou Enlai was concerned about Chairman Mao's body, and made three phone calls in a row to ask Chairman Li Yinqiao, the guard on duty, whether he had slept or not, and ordered Li Yinqiao to do everything possible to give Chairman Mao a good rest.
Premier Zhou's orders were still in his ears, but Chairman Mao did not like to be disturbed the most when he was working on the case, and the other guards did not dare to enter, so Li Yinqiao, who had been following Chairman Mao since Yan'an, had to go in hard and remind Chairman Mao that it was time to rest.
But Chairman Mao ignored it and kept concentrating on the documents until six o'clock the next morning, when Chairman Mao, who had worked all night, got up and said to Li Yinqiao: "I want to rest at Yinqiao, and wake me up at one o'clock in the afternoon." ”
Li Yinqiao hurried to help Chairman Mao take a bath, and then helped him to bed.
Chairman Mao, who was fifty-six years old at the time, had a hard time sleeping, and he tossed around in bed until ten o'clock in the morning.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, when the other guards immediately whispered, "It will be one o'clock soon." ”
At this time, Chairman Mao had only rested for less than three hours, but Li Yinqiao had to wake him up, because the afternoon was the founding ceremony of the founding of New China, and if the time of the founding ceremony was delayed, then he would become a historical sinner.
So Li Yinqiao went forward and gently shook the bedbell, woke up Chairman Mao who was asleep, and wiped the chairman's face with a hot towel.
Chairman Mao, who was much more sober, ate his meal, took a short rest, and immediately set out to attend the relevant matters of the founding ceremony.
The founding ceremony lasted from the afternoon to 10 p.m., and Chairman Mao, who had watched the flower performance, was originally going to go to the Beijing Hotel with other central leaders to attend the first banquet of the founding of the People's Republic of China, but because Chairman Mao had many urgent official documents and matters that needed to be handled overnight, Chairman Mao did not go to the Beijing Hotel, but went directly to the Ziyunxuan office.
The night was silent, Chairman Mao buried his head in the process of official documents, sometimes frowning, sometimes thoughtful, and in the blink of an eye, it came to three o'clock in the night.
The guard Li Yinqiao looked at Chairman Mao and stretched out his waist, judging that Chairman Mao might be hungry, so he immediately went to heat up four dishes and a soup, including Chairman Mao's favorite braised pork.
"Chairman, hungry, today the founding of New China, the kitchen specially prepared your favorite braised pork for you!" Li Yinqiao said.
Chairman Mao nodded, got up and walked to the table, smiled, and said, "You can't go to the opening banquet to celebrate, and it is very beautiful to eat some braised pork here to celebrate." ”
Then Chairman Mao asked Li Yinqiao if he had eaten, and Li Yinqiao replied that he had already eaten.
Chairman Mao then picked up the chopsticks and sat down.
But just when Chairman Mao picked up a piece of braised meat, he suddenly burst into tears and cried bitterly.
This frightened the guard Li Yinqiao, who did not know what was wrong with Chairman Mao, and hurriedly asked, "Chairman, what is wrong with you?" Good day, how to cry? ”
Chairman Mao said while crying: "I think of my dead comrades-in-arms and my relatives, Kaihui, Zeqin, Zemin, Zejian... They'll never see this scene today..."
When Chairman Mao talked about the emotional place, he cried more and more fiercely, and Li Yinqiao was also infected by Chairman Mao's emotions, and he couldn't help but shed tears: "Chairman, don't cry, it is important to take care of your body..."
Why did Chairman Mao cry? Cry comrades, cry loved ones!
Since the founding of the Communist Party of China, countless good comrades of the Party, good sons and daughters and good comrades-in-arms, have fallen under the knife of the Kuomintang and the japanese for the victory of the revolution, and they have paid everything for the revolution, but they have not been able to see the founding of New China with their own eyes!
Chairman Mao once said at the memorial service of Zhang Side, a soldier of the Central Guard Corps: "We come from all over the world. For a common goal, we have come together, and there will be sacrifices to struggle, and sacrifice is inevitable. But for the happiness of the people, for the people to live in pain anymore, we die for the people, we die for what we deserve. ”
Chairman Mao comforted others with such words, but his own heart was filled with grief, and he had to bear such sorrow frequently on the revolutionary road.
In 1944, just a year before Japan's surrender, Peng Xuefeng, commander of the New Fourth Army Division, who was living and dying with Chairman Mao, was wounded by enemy stray bullets and died.
Peng Xuefeng joined the party in 1926, and during the Long March, Peng Xuefeng served as the commander of the Fifth Red Division. He was very supportive of Chairman Mao's policy and line, and as long as Chairman Mao called on him, he led his troops to open roads in every mountain, build bridges in the face of water, cross the Red River, and capture Loushan Pass, thus making outstanding contributions to the victory of the Long March.
His sacrifice was nothing less than an important blow to Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao wrote down a vice president with a stroke of sorrow for this reason:
Twenty years of arduous undertakings, about to be completely completed, endure to see the brilliant achievements, the name of heroism is eternal, the first is loyal, is a good example for communists;
Thousands of miles of broken rivers and mountains are waiting to be cleaned up from scratch, blood and flowers are splashed, sacrificed for the country, full of sorrow and indignation, and mourning heroes for the Chinese nation.
At that time, Japan was about to surrender, but Peng Xuefeng died on the eve of the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the All-Union was filled with regret, intolerance, and heartache, and it still makes people cry when they read it.
However, now that New China was founded, countless comrades-in-arms could not wait for this moment, and how could Chairman Mao not cry because of his feelings?
Chairman Mao's first wife, Yang Kaihui, the daughter of Chairman Mao's teacher Yang Changji, the two met in a young age, naïve and romantic, but at that time Yang Kaihui was still very young, and the two did not have feelings.
Because Yang Changji greatly admired Chairman Mao's knowledge, when Yang Changji was transferred to Peking University to teach, he recommended Chairman Mao to become a librarian at Peking University.
At Peking University, Mao Zedong met Yang Kaihui, who had just turned eighteen, and the two of them read books together and strolled together in Weiyang Lake.
Yang Kaihui once recalled: "Since hearing many things about him and reading many of his articles and diaries, I have fallen in love with him. ”
In the winter of 1920, Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui, who had been in love for a long time, were united. Under the influence of Mao Zedong, Yang Kaihui soon joined the party.
In life, she was a good companion of Mao Zedong, and in her career, she was a reliable revolutionary comrade of Chairman Mao.
However, after the defeat of the Great Revolution, Yang Kaihui, who returned to Changsha Bancang with his children to carry out underground struggles, was unfortunately arrested, and Mao Anying, who had just turned eight, was also arrested and imprisoned.
In prison, the Kuomintang tried all means to get her to surrender, but she could not let up. The Kuomintang saw her unyielding and tried to seduce her, saying that she could let her out as long as she publicly declared that she had severed ties with Mao Zedong, but Yang Kaihui refused: "I think that I am born to my mother for him." Suppose one day my mother is gone, he is caught, and I am going to share a fate with him. I want to sever ties with him, unless the sea is rotten!" ”
Yang Kaihui's refusal angered the Kuomintang, who shot her after torturing her in every way.
Mao Zedong, who was commanding the Red Army against encirclement and suppression at the time, was deeply saddened when he learned of this bad news, and he wrote in a letter to Yang's family: "Kaihui's death is irreparable. ”
Today, new China has finally been established after all kinds of hardships and dangers, but his wife will never see this scene, and the sorrow in Chairman Mao's heart can be imagined.
His beloved gave his life for the revolution, and Chairman Mao's younger brothers Mao Zemin, Mao Zeqin, and sister Mao Zejian also sacrificed their young lives for the Chinese revolution.
Mao Zemin was Chairman Mao's eldest brother, and under the words and deeds of Chairman Mao's elder brother, he also embarked on the revolutionary road.
Mao Zemin did not command the troops to fight like Chairman Mao, but he showed outstanding talent in managing finances. He successively served as the governor of the State Bank of the Soviet Union and the minister of the Ministry of National Economy, managing money for the army, making the economy of the base area prosperous, and providing a solid economic backing for the troops to fight wars.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chairman Mao had a long-term vision, and in order not to let foreign forces split Xinjiang, Chairman Mao decided to make arrangements in Xinjiang in advance and assigned his younger brother Mao Zemin to personally go to Xinjiang to serve as director of the Department of Finance and director of the Department of Civil Affairs.
However, in 1942, the Xinjiang warlord Sheng Shicai was bribed by the Kuomintang to suddenly defect to the revolution, arrest mao Zemin, and secretly kill him the following year.
The younger brother, Mao Zeqin, participated in the Nanchang Uprising at an early age and was a hot-blooded young man like Chairman Mao. In the midst of the chaotic war, Mao Zeqin quickly grew into an excellent commander, but the revolutionary strength of the Red Army was very weak at that time.
In order to get rid of the Kuomintang's frenzied encirclement and suppression, Chairman Mao and others had to start the Long March.
However, Mao Zeqin took the initiative to stay in Gannan to persist in the guerrilla struggle, and the hardship of the guerrilla struggle was beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and it was in the kuomintang enemy-occupied areas that mao Zeqin once fell into the encirclement of the Kuomintang, and Mao Zeqin, in order to cover the withdrawal of the troops, took the initiative to stay behind and was shot and killed, only 30 years old.
Chairman Mao, who learned of his brother's sacrifice by listening to the Kuomintang radio, fell into great grief, saying: "Before my mother died, I asked me to take good care of my brother, but I did not take good care of him." ”
Mao Zejian was originally Chairman Mao's cousin, and later adopted as a daughter to Chairman Mao's parents, joined the party in 1923, was arrested and imprisoned during the revolutionary struggle in Hunan, and bravely took justice.
Mao Chuxiong was the youngest martyr of the Mao family, he was the son of Chairman Mao's younger brother Mao Zeqin, in 1946 the Kuomintang negotiations, Mao Chuxiong on the way to Xi'an negotiations, was detained by Hu Zongnan, the next night, was buried alive by the Kuomintang, sacrificed at the age of 19.
In addition, the relatives of the Mao family who sacrificed their lives included Zhao Xiangui, wife of Mao Zeqin, Mao Zeqin's second wife He Yi, And Mao Zejian's husband Chen Fen, as well as Chairman Mao's cousin Wang Deheng, Chairman Mao's brother-in-law Yang Kaiming, Xiang Jun, and Chairman Mao's niece Yang Zhan.
Behind every name is a living life, and every name is Chairman Mao's close relative.
Now that New China was founded, Chairman Mao looked back and found that most of his relatives had been sacrificed on the road to revolution.
Chairman Mao is not an iron heart, and Chairman Mao's crying is really a common sentiment of man!
Although the great man is gone, the spiritual wealth he left to our descendants will be passed down through the ages, and this article pays tribute to the great leader Chairman Mao!