It is impossible for me to declare that I am separated from Mao Zedong from conjugal relations. We are husband and wife, and more importantly comrades-in-arms, and declaring our disassociation means political and religious betrayal that my personality absolutely cannot tolerate. (Yang Kaihui)
On November 14, 1930, Yang Kaihui bravely took up his righteousness at the age of 29 at the Age of 29 at the Age of 29. In fact, Yang Kaihui could have been without sacrifice, and after the enemy caught her, as long as she wrote a statement announcing her disassociation from Mao Zedong, she released her, but she refused, and she would rather be shot than betray Mao Zedong. She generously went to the righteousness and said a sentence before the righteousness: "It is not a pity to die, but I hope that the revolution of Runzhi will succeed at an early date."
In 1982, 52 years after Yang Kaihui's heroic righteousness, when people were repairing his former residence, they found her manuscript in the cracks in the wall of his bedroom. The manuscript is full of thoughts and worries about Mao Zedong, but unfortunately, the manuscript was only discovered 6 years after Mao Zedong's death.
Yang Kaihui was born on November 6, 1901 in Bancang, Changsha County, Hunan Province. Her original ecological family is very good, her father Yang Changji is a well-known scholar in Sanxiang, not only has the ambition to save the country and save the people, but also has the idea of equality between men and women, and has always attached great importance to his daughter's education. When Yang Changji went to study in Chongyang, he repeatedly wrote to his wife Xiang Zhenxi to send Yang Kaihui to school.
At that time, the Girls of Itakura had no precedent for going to school, but Yang Kaihui made an exception to enter changsha No. 40 Primary School, which was the first batch of female students in the school and the youngest student in the class. Yang Kaihui later transferred to the county's first women's college near Malin Bridge, where she studied until graduation. In 1913, Yang Changji returned from abroad and taught at the Hunan Provincial First Normal School in Changsha, where Mao Zedong was his student.
In June 1918, Yang Changji was hired as a professor at Peking University, and his family moved north. In the autumn of the same year, Mao Zedong also went to Beijing, and under the introduction of his mentor Yang Changji, he worked as an assistant in the library of Peking University. Mao Zedong temporarily lived in Yang's house, and there were more opportunities for contact with Yang Kaihui. The two young people, both with the ideal of serving the country and the people, attracted each other, got closer and closer, and became lovers.
In January 1920, Yang Changji died of illness. Mao Zedong participated in the vigil as a student and son-in-law to help take care of the aftermath. After Yang Changji died of illness, Yang Kaihui returned to Hunan with his mother and brother. At the end of 1920, Yang Kaihui and Mao Zedong were officially married.
Yang Kaihui and Mao Zedong were both progressive revolutionary youths with very good feelings. In 1922, their first child, Mao Anying, was born; in 1923, their second child, Mao Anying, was born; and in 1927, their third child, Mao Anying, was born. It's just unfortunate that none of the three children ended well. Mao Anying was killed in the Korean battlefield under the bombardment of U.S. aircraft; Mao Anqing was beaten and injured in the brain while living on the street, leaving him with mental illness; and Mao Anlong died of bacterial dysentery at Shanghai Guangci Hospital.
In the years of war, Yang Kaihui's end was even more tragic, she was brutally killed by the enemy.
Mao Zedong carried out revolutionary work in Changshan, Shaoshan, Guangzhou and other places, and Yang Kaihui has always followed her husband, not only taking care of her husband's and children's lives, but also helping Mao Zedong sort out materials, write manuscripts, and also be responsible for liaison work.
At the end of August 1927, Mao Zedong left Yang Kaihui to direct the Autumn Harvest Uprising. Before leaving, Mao Zedong instructed Yang Kaihui to take good care of his children and participate in some peasant movements. In Yang Kaihui's humble bedroom, Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui hurriedly bid farewell, and the two never saw each other again.
In the following three years, Yang Kaihui took the child with him and carried out underground struggles in Changsha Bancang and other places. Yang Kaihui, having lost contact with higher-level organizations, organized and led armed struggles in Changsha, Pingjiang, Xiangyin and other places, and persisted in the struggle for 3 years.
In 1930, the Red Army attacked Changsha twice. The Hunan warlord He Jian vented his hatred for the Red Army on Yang Kaihui and offered a reward of 1,000 silver dollars to arrest Yang Kaihui. On October 24, 1930, Yang Kaihui sneaked back to Bancang to visit her mother and children, but was discovered by the warlord's secret agents and arrested.
After Yang Kaihui was imprisoned, Yang Kaihui's brother Yang Kaizhi found Yang Kaihui's father Yang Changji's old friends Zhang Shizhao, Cai Yuanpei, Tan Yanmin and other professors and celebrities to rescue Yang Kaihui, and they had jointly sent a letter to the Kuomintang authorities. And the traitor Ren Zhuoxuan offered advice to He Jian and said, "If Yang Kaihui can turn himself in, it is better than tens of millions of people to surrender." “
Out of consideration on all sides, the enemy proposed that yang kaihui would be free as long as he issued a declaration of disassociation from Mao Zedong. However, Yang Kaihui refused, and she resolutely replied: "It is impossible for me to declare that I am separated from the conjugal relationship with Mao Zedong." We are husband and wife, and more importantly comrades-in-arms, and declaring our disassociation means political and religious betrayal that my personality absolutely cannot tolerate. ”
Unable to persuade Yang Kaihui to surrender, He Jian and others knew that things were changeable for a long time, so they decided to execute Yang Kaihui. On November 14, 1930, Yang Kaihui, who was only 29 years old, bravely took up his righteousness at The Literacy Ridge outside Liuyang Gate. Yang Kaihui was not afraid before his execution, and he still wished her husband an early success in the revolution: "Death is not a pity, but I only hope that the revolution of Runzhi will succeed as soon as possible."
When Mao Zedong learned of Yang Kaihui's sacrifice, he was so grief-stricken that he wrote to Yang's family: "Kaihui's death will not be redeemed." Many years later, when Mao Zedong wrote back to Li Shuyi, the widow of the late Liu Zhixun and a good friend of Yang Kaihui, he wrote the famous "Butterfly Loves Flowers and Answers Li Shuyi", and the first sentence of the opening chapter was "I lost my pride yang jun and lost willow". Mao Zedong did not use the "jiao" commonly used for women but used "pride", and his explanation was: "Women lose their heads (heads) for the revolution, and they are not proud?"
Mao Zedong always missed Yang Kaihui, and he was very busy, so he asked Mao Anying to go to Bancang many times to visit his mother's grave and visit Mrs. Yang. What he didn't know was that after he left that year, Yang Kaihui had also been thinking about him bitterly, and wrote a large number of love letters for him that could not be sent.
In 1982, workers repaired the former residence of martyr Yang Kaihui. When he opened the back wall of the bedroom, he found a stack of Yang Kaihui's manuscripts. The manuscript was written by Yang Kaihui from 1927 to before his arrest in 1930. The manuscript is well preserved, the font is clear and smooth, and it is full of thoughts and worries about her husband Mao Zedong.
After Mao Zedong left, she was very worried about her husband, and she wrote affectionately:
"Couldn't sleep anyway, though it was collapsed on the bed. This has been the case for several nights in a row, and when they have not slept for more than one night, they have not seen a letter for more than ten days..."
Mao Zedong's revolution was dangerous, and Yang Kaihui was determined to live and die with her husband:
"I imagined that if (there was) one day when he died and my mother was gone, I would have to follow him to death, and if he was caught and killed, I would have to share this fate with him!"
Yang Kaihui wrote about the hardships of bringing children and hoped to see her husband soon:
"Another night without falling asleep. I couldn't stand it anymore, I was going to run to him. Little child, poor little boy dragged me back again. My heart has picked up a burden, one is him, the other is a child, and no one can take it. ”
It is a pity that Yang Kaihui did not see these love letters to her husband. In 1982, when workers were repairing the former residence of the martyr Yang Kaihui, they found that Mao Zedong had been dead for 6 years. How nice it would have been if I had found out sooner.