On March 23, 2007, Chairman Mao's second son, Mao Anqing, died of illness in Beijing. At the time of his death, Mao Anqing lay on a hospital bed and said his last words: "I only have one wish, that is, to bury me next to my mother's grave, and I hope that you will help me complete it." ”
On December 21, 2008, Mao Anqing's son, Mao Xinyu, brought the ashes of his parents to Yang Kaihui's martyrs' mausoleum. In the bitter cold wind, he personally buried Mao Anqing's ashes.
Chinese pay attention to the roots of the fallen leaves, after death will generally be buried in their hometown, Yang Kaihui's mausoleum is located in Changsha Bancang, Hunan, Mao Anqing's hometown Shaoshan and Bancang are far away, then why does Mao Anqing insist on burying with his mother? What's the story behind that? From Mao Anqing's bumpy and tortuous life course, it is not difficult for us to find the answer.
Picture | Yang Kaihui with Mao Anying and Mao Anying and Mao Anqing
Mao Anqing was born in 1923 as the second child of Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui. The husband and wife gave birth to three sons, namely Mao Anying, Mao Anying, Mao Anying, and Mao Anyring, who originally thought that life could always be happy.
But is there a finished egg under the nest? At that time, social turmoil and poor people were living in the depths of the water, in order to save the country from danger, Mao Zedong and his wife Yang Kaihui, who were dedicated to the country, "gave up their small family and for everyone" and resolutely embarked on the revolutionary journey.
The times are pressing, the Mao Anqing brothers have been running around with their parents since they were young, it is difficult to have a stable life, most of the time, their father is running for the revolution. In Mao Anqing's impression, his father rarely stayed at home, he was a very busy person.
When Mao Anqing was just full moon, Mao Zedong received orders from his superiors to move from Changsha to Shanghai. When Mao Anqing was 4 years old, Mao Zedong was ordered to launch the Autumn Harvest Uprising, and in order to save the country, he had to leave his family again and devote himself to the revolutionary cause.
Since then, the reunion has become elusive. In Mao Anqing's childhood, mao zedong was hardly seen, and his father was like a guest living at home, you don't know when he will come back, only that he will leave at any time. Because of Mao Zedong's absence in life, young children did not yet understand what fatherly love was, and the status of mothers was extremely important.
For a long time, Yang Kaihui became the pillar of the family, and under her careful care, the three brothers slowly grew up. When they grew up a little, their mother taught them to read and write, and sometimes told them some revolutionary stories, and Yang Kaihui was their enlightenment teacher, not inferior to any mother.
In his later years, Mao Anqing recalled his mother, always full of happiness, and his words were full of thoughts of his mother: "My mother has always been very gentle to us, never reprimanded us in front of outsiders, and she always protected our self-esteem as children." She taught us self-love and self-improvement, and also taught us to strengthen our faith, and I have always remembered my mother's teachings and never dared to forget. ”
Figure | Chiang Kai-shek (second from right)
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek staged a counter-revolutionary coup. After the defeat of the Great Revolution, the reactionaries arrested communists everywhere, and white terror pervaded and people were panicked. In order to avoid being pursued by the reactionaries, Mao Zedong could not stay at home for too long, and after a brief farewell, went to Jinggangshan.
As a member of the Communist Party, Yang Kaihui is naturally on the arrest list of the reactionaries. For safety reasons, she returned to the countryside of Hunan with her three children to live, taking care of the children while continuing the underground armed struggle.
What she did not expect was that the reactionaries were more difficult to entangle than expected. They went door to door looking for traces of the Communist Party, making a mess of the house, and The chickens and dogs were restless, and Yang Kaihui and his children were overwhelmed.
The agents, seeing the young age of the Mao Anqing brothers, tried to get clues about the Communist Party from their mouths. But no matter how the reactionaries seduced, the children clenched their teeth one by one, and each time the spies could only leave in a hurry.
But the good times did not last long, and later they still found a hint of it and began to doubt Yang Kaihui's identity. So he ambushed at the door of his home, and without saying a word, he arrested Yang Kaihui and Mao Anying and put them in prison together.
In prison, in order to get Chairman Mao's whereabouts, the mad jailers did everything they could. Using torture such as tiger stools and wooden boards to clip fingers to force Yang Kaihui to open his mouth, they poured a large amount of pepper water on Yang Kaihui's wounds, and his body trembled with severe pain. But even so, the strong Yang Kaihui still did not spit out a word.
Seeing that Yang Kaihui was so tenacious, it seemed that he could not get useful information, and the enemy who was embarrassed and angry decided to kill Yang Kaihui. On November 14, 1930, Yang Kaihui, who was only 29 years old, was killed by Kuomintang agents. Before his death, his last words were still concerned about his husband and the revolution: "I am not sorry to die, but I hope that the revolution of Runzhi will succeed as soon as possible!" ”
Pictured| Mao Zedong
Mao Anqing couldn't believe it, and without the slightest warning, his mother left him like this. Because Mao Zedong has been revolutionizing abroad for many years, he has always been accompanied by his mother, who is the only reliance on his life and the warmest place in his life.
Mao Anqing was not yet 7 years old at the time, and he could not imagine how he would live without his mother. It is precisely because of his mother's sacrifice that he has been immersed in the abyss of losing his mother and longing for maternal love all his life.
After many efforts by the underground Communist Party, Mao Anying in prison was rescued, and after Yang Kaihui's heroic righteousness, the ruthless reactionaries did not spare her children. In order to trap Mao Zedong, he planned to use his three sons as bait.
The party organization considered that the three brothers were not suitable to stay in Hunan. As a result, Mao Anqing, his brother and brother were forced to leave their hometown, and the organization secretly transferred them to Shanghai to live in the house of his uncle Mao Zemin.
By their uncle's arrangement, they attended a kindergarten founded by communists. I thought I could repair the trauma of my mother here, who knew that misfortune followed, and the 1-year-old little brother Mao Anlong died of illness, and the brothers were seriously injured again.
I thought it was safest for children to enter school. Unexpectedly, however, because of the defection of some people inside, the underground party organization in Shanghai was seriously damaged, a large number of Communist Party members were arrested, and the kindergarten was also damaged by the enemy and forced to close.
The party organization placed them in the home of Dong Jianwu, an underground party member, and life was relatively stable at first. Until Dong Jianwu temporarily left Shanghai due to the crisis of the White Terror, he entrusted the brothers to the care of Huang Huiguang.
Pictured| Dong Kengo
But Huang Huiguang not only did not try his best to take care of the two, but also forced Mao Anqing and Mao Anying to go out to work to subsidize the family. Because they lived in other people's homes, the young brothers could only go to child labor, do some garbage picking up, selling newspaper chores, and their small shoulders took up the burden of life prematurely, and at night they lived in a leaky stairwell.
Even if they were so contrived, the brothers did not get Huang Huiguang's good looks. One day, Huang Huiguang was counting the money they had earned from selling newspapers, accidentally found a counterfeit currency, and immediately threw a big tantrum at the brothers, and also moved his hands. In this home, beatings are commonplace.
Under Huang Huiguang's reprimand, Mao Anqing tried to recall the scene of selling newspapers during the day, and locked in a foreign soldier, and this counterfeit currency was most likely given by him. Mao Anqing, who was full of grievances, rushed out of the door to the street, wrote something in chalk on a telephone pole, and when he looked closely, he wrote "Down with imperialism" in large characters.
Coincidentally, a foreign patrolman came, and after seeing these words, he was furious and punched and kicked Mao Anqing. The young Mao Anqing was powerless and was knocked to the ground, his thin body curled up together in severe pain. Since then, Mao Anqing has left sequelae, and when it comes to rainy days, he has a headache that becomes more and more serious as he grows older.
Their father was not around, and his younger brother Mao Anlong also left them. Now the two brothers are the only one to rely on each other, Mao Anying takes good care of his brother, and Mao Anqing always follows his brother and depends on each other in this chaotic world.
Looking at his younger brother with a blue nose and swollen face, Mao Anying couldn't bear it and fled with Mao Anying overnight. For a long time, the brothers lived a life of upheaval and displacement in Shanghai, a time full of hardships and hardships.
Picture | Mao Anying and Mao Anying group photo
On December 12, 1936, the Xi'an Incident, which shocked China and foreign countries, broke out, and the Shanghai underground party organization regained its vitality. After many efforts, Mao Anying and Mao Anqing, who were yellow-faced and thin, were found. Dong Jianwu and Zhang Xueliang could not bear to see their two children suffer again, so they opened up relations and sent them to the Soviet Union to study.
Upon arrival in the Soviet Union, they entered local schools to study. The two worked very hard, tried to keep up with the progress of the school, and finally ushered in a stable day. Soon after, a family letter written by Mao Zedong himself was sent to the Soviet Union, holding the family letter, the brothers cried with joy, and the long separation, coupled with the fact that their mother left them, made their thoughts about their father more and more intense.
"Now that my father knows we are in the Soviet Union, the days of our reunion are not far away." Mao Anqing said excitedly. In the days that followed, Mao Anqing studied harder and harder, and he wanted to succeed in his studies and return to his father as soon as possible to serve the country.
The founding of New China in 1949 ushered in a comprehensive victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the country was in ruins waiting to be rebuilt, and everything was developing in a good direction. Mao Anying had returned to China, and soon Mao Anying also returned to his father, and stayed in Heilongjiang under the pseudonym "Yang Yongshou".
The little boy with the yellow muscles at the beginning has now become a talent, and the father and son hug each other and cry, telling the love of these years with surging tears. At this time, Mao Anqing's age was not small, the marriage could not be postponed any longer, just when the situation was too peaceful, Mao Anqing decided to follow the advice of his father Mao Zedong and consider his life's events well.
However, at this moment, a bad news came, breaking this peaceful life. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Mao Anying took the initiative to ask Miao to go to the Korean front, but unexpectedly he died more than a month later, and his young life immediately fell. Mao Anqing's heart collapsed once again, and in this world, he was left with only his father, a relative.
It can be said that in the days of wandering in Shanghai, it is only by relying on the protection of his brother that he can survive well; in the Soviet Union, it is also the brothers who take care of each other, and the brother is the most special existence in Mao Anqing's heart, and he has accompanied himself for many years like a brother and a father.
For a long time after that, Mao Anqing often could not sleep at night, and his condition became more serious. After the doctor's examination, Mao Anqing's disease could not be cured.
Pictured| Mao Anying
But whenever Mao Anqing wanted to give up, he always remembered what his mother said to him, life is not so easy, you have to stick to it. His mother's words always rang in his head, supporting him all the time.
Every time in the trough and unhappiness, Mao Anqing always thinks of his mother, remembers her feat of sacrificing for the country, and feels that the dilemma in front of him is nothing. Sometimes Mao Anqing felt as if his mother had never left him, and had been silently accompanying himself, and when he thought of his mother's voice and smile, he felt that life was full of hope.
Time erases all trauma. Mao Anqing gradually came out of the haze of his brother's sacrifice and began a new life. It was also at this time that he met the person who wanted to hold his hand for a lifetime, and this person was Shao Hua.
Perhaps it was providence in the darkness, when Mao An was young, he had followed his brother to his mother-in-law Zhang Wenqiu's house as a guest, Shao Hua was also present at the time, and he did not expect that many years later, the two would actually meet. At this time, Shao Hua had graduated from the department of Chinese of Peking University, and after a period of contact, the two had a deeper understanding of each other.
At a later dance, the two formalized a relationship. Zhang Wenqiu took Shao Hua to Mao Anqing, and the two talked happily, and it seemed that there was always an endless topic between them. That night, Mao Anqing, who has always been shy and introverted, actually generously pulled Shao Hua into the dance hall, and even Shao Hua was very surprised, seeing this scene, there was a burst of applause from the crowd.
Accompanied by beautiful music, they danced ballroom dancing on the dance floor. This is what Mao Anqing learned in the Soviet Union, Shao Hua's skirt is as swaying as her mood, and it is every woman's dream to be in love with her beloved. Shao Hua has an outstanding appearance and a lively and cheerful personality, which complements Mao Anqing's introverted personality.
Similar childhoods made Mao Anqing and Shao Hua's relationship better and better. When Mao Anqing was young, his mother was brutally killed, so he always lacked maternal love, and Shao Hua's father, Chen Zhenya, also died. As children of martyrs, with common trauma, Shao Hua can understand Mao Anqing's heart, and they are completely compatible spiritually. For Mao Anqing, Shao Hua was both a wife and a confidant.
Pictured| the wedding photo of Mao Anqing and his wife
In the sound of everyone's blessings, Mao Anqing and Shao Hua entered the palace of marriage. The wedding was warm and simple, and the two were inseparable and very affectionate after marriage. In 1970, Shao Gave birth to a son to Mao Anqing, who was named Mao Xinyu. For the birth of Mao Xinyu, Mao Zedong was very happy and gave him a cute nickname "Mao Mao".
As Mao's only grandson, Mao Xinyu had high hopes. Mao Xinyu, who has been clever and clever since childhood, has brought a lot of joy to Mao Anqing and his wife, and comforted Mao Anqing's broken heart.
Mao Anqing hopes that his son can have a happy and happy childhood, and he actively encourages Mao Xinyu to learn everything he loves. In life, Mao Anqing was also very tolerant of Mao Xinyu, always carefully teaching, and rarely lost his temper.
According to Mao Xinyu's later recollection, his father was very loving and tolerant of his own requirements. Mao Anqing's love for his son may come from Yang Kaihui's influence on him, after all, his mother is also gentle and prepared for herself.
In his later years, Mao Anqing often recalled the bits and pieces of his life with his mother, holding a group photo of the family and carefully examining it, and then fell into a long silence. Shao Hua understood Mao Anqing's deep thoughts about his mother very much, and it was very painful to see the depressed Mao Anqing, and she wanted to help her husband and solve his problems. She said: "Kishi's mother is like my mother, I am happy to help him, but I don't know what I can do, I have not even met Kishi's mother." ”
Later, the clever Shao Hua thought of a way, she decided to work with her husband Mao Anqing to create a book about Yang Kaihui, and also took the opportunity to get to know her husband's mother.
"Thinking of You, Dear Mother" and "The Most Beautiful Xiaguang" were both written by Mao Anqing to express his thoughts about his mother. Among them, "Thinking of You, Dear Mother" was created by Mao Anqing and his wife together, which contains Mao Anqing's deep thoughts about his mother, and the words between the lines are true feelings.
In 1990, when Mao Anqing returned to Hunan, he stood in front of his mother Yang Kaihui's mausoleum with tears in his eyes, gently brushed the dust off the tombstone with his hands, and whispered about the past he had experienced over the years and his deep contemplation of his mother.
Mao Anqing grew older, and later suffered from amnesia, often forgetting what he had to do and forgetting the people around him. But it was strange to say that he remembered everything about his mother clearly. He often sat alone in the courtyard in a daze, did not speak, but only silently shed tears, clutching the pictures of his mother and brothers in his hands. Whenever someone came to persuade him to go back to the house, he murmured, "My mother is Yang Kaihui, do you know Yang Kaihui?" ”
When Mao Anqing was still alive, he often told his wife that he wanted to be buried with his mother after his death, and his son was very supportive of this. Because they know that in his father's ordeal life, his mother is his warmest memory.
In 2007, Mao Anqing passed away, and his son Mao Xinyu fulfilled his last wish and buried his ashes next to the mausoleum of his mother, Yang Kaihui. Shao Hua once revealed: "That was his last wish. ”
Mao Anqing used his bumpy life to explain to us the hardships and bitterness of a descendant of a revolutionary martyr, and from it we can also glimpse the sacrifices made by communists for the revolution.