On March 23, 2007, in a hospital in Beijing, Chairman Mao's only surviving son, Mao Anqing, died of ineffective medical treatment at the age of 84.
At Mao Anqing's memorial service, many national leaders and countless people spontaneously came to see him off, and his relatives cried into tears.
Son Mao Xinyu held the portrait of his father in his hand, grief-stricken, his wife Shao Hua's tears have not been broken, and the two younger sisters Li Min and Li Ne are even more difficult to hide their sad emotions...
Although compared with his brother Mao Anying, Mao Anqing's life seems to be slightly ordinary, but in fact, his 84 years of years are also magnificent, ordinary and great.
1: Lost his mother in childhood and wandered for five years
Mao Anqing, the second son of Chairman Mao and his wife Yang Kaihui, was born in Changsha in 1923. Although mao Anying had been in the family before him, Chairman Mao and Yang Kaihui were still excited and excited about the arrival of the second son.
However, because it was a critical period of the revolution, Chairman Mao was running around and had very little time at home during the year, so the time when Mao Anqing and his father were together in his childhood was extremely short.
Fortunately, with the company of his mother Yang Kaihui and brother Mao Anying, Mao Anqing's childhood was not too lonely. However, such happiness did not last for several years.
On November 14, 1930, Yang Kaihui was killed by the enemy, which also meant that Mao Anqing, who was only 7 years old, lost his mother who loved him, and from then on, he and his brother and brother were dependent on each other.
But that was just the beginning of his bumpy life. After his mother was killed, in order to avoid the capture of the enemy, under the escort of his grandmother and aunt, the three brothers of Mao Anqing were sent to Shanghai.
However, in the five years in Shanghai, Mao Anqing's life was still difficult. During this period, the youngest brother Mao Anyong unfortunately disappeared, and he and his brother Mao Anying began a five-year wandering time.
In order to survive, his brother took him to do all kinds of hard work, but even so, they still lived a life of starvation, and sometimes the brothers could barely eat a meal a day.
They did not have enough to eat and did not wear warm clothes, and they were often bullied, but they were too young, even if they were greatly wronged, they could only swallow their anger, when they often squatted on the road, missing their dead mother and father who did not know where.
In addition to the hardships of life, during his wanderings, Mao Anqing was severely beaten by Shanghai police officers for writing the words "Down with imperialism", resulting in head injuries, which also left Mao Anqing's body with lifelong illness and hidden dangers.
In 1936, Mao Anqing and his brother, who had been wandering in Shanghai for five years, were finally found by the underground party. At this time, the two brothers' faces were sallow and skinny, and whoever saw them could not help but cry.
Subsequently, under the arrangement of the party organization, the brothers went to the Soviet Union to study and finally lived a relatively stable life. But in that era, the Soviet Union was not absolutely peaceful, because the War-torn Soviet Union lacked food, and Mao Anqing and his brother, who were growing up, once again faced the days of not having enough to eat.
At that time, He Zizhen also came to the Soviet Union, and His mother regarded their brothers as her own, always on weekends, as far as possible to improve their food, and was also full of concern for their diet and living.
The arrival of He Zizhen made Mao Anqing and his brother feel the long-lost "maternal love", which was a rare happy time in the Soviet Union.
2: Study in the Soviet Union and participate in the war
In 1941, five years after Mao Anqing and his brother arrived in the Soviet Union, the Great Patriotic War broke out in the Soviet Union. 18-year-old Mao Anqing and his brother took the initiative to ask for help and contributed to the war.
At that time, his brother Mao Anying went to the front line, and Mao Anqing actively participated in activities to support the front line such as digging trenches and transporting wounded soldiers.
In 1947, after eleven years of separation, Mao Anqing finally returned to the embrace of the motherland and smoothly joined the Communist Party of China, and from then on he was not only chairman Mao's son, but also a party member who was willing to work hard for the motherland and the people.
At that time, Mao Anqing obeyed his father's arrangement and stayed in the northeast. In order to facilitate his work, he chose to hide his name and actively participated in the pilot work of land reform.
Mao Anqing in his work has made active efforts, never engaged in specialization, and insisted on working with the peasants. All this is because he has always kept in mind the teachings given to him by his father in the letter and strives to be a useful person to his country.
In the northeast, Mao Anqing stayed for two years. In 1949, he returned to Beijing and met his father, who had been thinking about it day and night, when the father and son had not seen each other for more than ten years.
Subsequently, Mao Anqing threw himself into intense work, and he used his proficiency in Russian to translate a large number of Marxist-Leninist classics and political theory books.
Although the work that Mao Anqing is engaged in is not earth-shattering enough, each position has his unique value.
The books translated and published by Mao Anqing are very valuable cultural assets, and he has also made great efforts behind this, and it is common to work all night.
He lost his mother at an early age, wandered in childhood, and experienced the pain of war in the Soviet Union as a teenager, and Mao Anqing had a very difficult first half of his life.
He thought that after the founding of the Country, his life would be more stable, but the arrival of a bad news made his emotions collapse, and even led to a headache attack, that is, the sacrifice of the second brother Mao Anqing.
3: Brother sacrifice, headache recurrence
For Mao Anqing, his brother Mao Anying is the most important person in his life, in his childhood and adolescence, because his mother died of illness and his father ran for the revolution, his brother became the only relative who accompanied him.
And the elder brother Mao Anying is also a delicate and loving person, who takes good care of his brother, and even willingly accompanies him to play chess on the wedding night in order to make his brother happy.
Blood is connected, brotherhood is deep, and having such an older brother is the luckiest thing in Mao Anqing's life. However, in the 1951 War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Mao Anying sacrificed his life for the country, and when his father told Mao Anqing about this bad news, he was always strong and collapsed in tears.
Even the words "grief-stricken" were not enough to describe his mood.
Mao Anqing said sadly to his father: "Father, I want my brother, I want my brother." But his father responded with only tears and comfort, and at that moment Mao Anqing knew that his brother really could never come back.
Such a blow, like a bomb, directly led to the recurrence of Mao Anying's head pain, and he suffered from pain and suffering every day.
In order to let Mao Anqing get better treatment, his father decided to send him to the Soviet Union for treatment. Although Mao Anqing's headache had eased, it could not be eradicated, and he missed his motherland and relatives more and more.
Therefore, Mao Anqing wrote a letter to his father and expressed his desire to return to China. Soon, under Chairman Mao's arrangement, Mao Anqing returned to the motherland and came to Dalian Nanshan Hotel for recuperation.
Soon after returning to China, Mao Anqing ushered in the most important event in his life, that is, he met a lifelong partner, she is Liu Siqi's half-sister Shao Hua.
4: Meet a partner and work together for a lifetime
At that time, Mao Anqing was over thirty years old, and as a father, Chairman Mao had been worried about his son's marriage, hoping that he would meet a lover who was in love.
Unfortunately, Mao Anqing had no feeling for the objects introduced by others, and it was not until Shao Hua's appearance that Mao Anqing obviously felt that his heartbeat was different.
Although there is a teenage age difference between them, it does not affect their love in the slightest. On Labor Day in 1960, Mao Anqing and Shao Hua held a simple wedding ceremony in Dalian.
Because of his work, Chairman Mao did not come to witness his son's wedding, but he carefully prepared gifts for a couple and wished them a good year of love and love.
Mao Anqing's life was enriched by Shao Hua's participation. As a wife, Shao Hua loves her husband very much, she will accompany her husband to the park for a walk, personally take pictures of him, accompany him to play chess....
In addition, in life, Shao Hua also takes good care of Mao Anqing, and every time Mao Anqing goes out, Shao Hua will prepare the items he needs in advance.
Although Mao Anqing's headache is still there, Shao Hua's appearance has alleviated the pain of losing his brother and made his life no longer boring and lonely.
Of course, as a husband, Mao Anqing's love for his wife Shao Hua is also very strong.
After marriage, the two people, no matter where the opportunity is inseparable, and Mao Anqing will also intimately give his wife a leather coat, a scarf here, these seemingly tiny details, is the best embodiment of love.
In the tenth year after marriage, they also welcomed their son Mao Xinyu, and since then the family of three has lived a simple and warm life.
For Mao Xinyu, Mao Anqing has always been a loving father, he is reluctant to scold his son, even if his son makes a mistake, he will use a gentle tone to guide and educate him.
Occasionally, his wife is too strict with his son, Mao Anqing is still very distressed, or he lacks fatherly love in his childhood, so he wants to give all his love to his son.
However, although he loves his son very much, Mao Anqing is absolutely not spoiled by his son, and will guide him how to behave, especially tell him not to engage in anything special because he is a Member of the Mao family, low-key and humble is the Mao family's family style.
After Chairman Mao's death, Mao Anqing even taught Mao Xinyu to inherit your grandfather's legacy and serve the people all his life. In fact, Mao Anqing himself did the same.
5: Conscientious, do not ask for returns
Mao Anqing spent most of his life in translation work, he was quick-witted, had a high level of Russian, and was deeply respected by his colleagues in his workplace.
But Chairman Mao once told Mao Anqing not to be proud and complacent, but to always maintain a humble mentality. Mao Anqing kept his father's teachings in mind, and although he published many books, he never publicized it and always buried his head in hard work.
Mao Anqing has very high requirements for his own translations, and every sentence is carefully considered and revised repeatedly, and strives to be perfect. His work spirit has also deeply infected the people around him, and everyone admires him.
At the same time, although he was chairman Mao's son, Mao Anqing was loyal and approachable, and maintained friendly relations with every colleague and established feelings.
Mao Anqing's talent is not limited to the field of translation, even if he later quit the translation position, he is still playing his talents. He has buried himself in the creation of theoretical television films and television dramas, and has also written a large number of essays, leaving valuable spiritual wealth for the mainland.
Despite his remarkable achievements, Mao Anqing never asked for anything in return for his work, and in the words of his wife Shao Hua, he always "did more and asked for less", like a candle, willing to burn himself in order to illuminate others.
In his later years, Mao Anqing and his wife often did public welfare undertakings together, and through their own efforts, they brought light and strength to those who needed help, and at the same time, he also actively propagated revolutionary ideas, re-walked the old revolutionary areas, and passed on the red spirit as low as possible.
Compared with other people in the family, Mao Anqing seems to be somewhat "ordinary", he did not dedicate himself to the revolution like his mother, aunt and uncle, he did not throw himself into the battlefield like his brother, heroic sacrifice, for a long time, the public was even stranger to him.
But this was also Mao Anqing's choice; he did not publicize his origins everywhere, did not feel superior because he was Chairman Mao's son, and did not exercise any privileges.
His whole life has been spent in "silence", he silently runs his family, works silently, only for dedication, not for return.
Throughout his life, he did not seek fame and fortune, but only to be worthy of his father's teachings, worthy of his motherland and people, and in the end he also achieved !!!
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