In Yongxin County, Jiangxi, "Yongxin Sanhe" is famous, namely He Minxue, He Zizhen and his sister He Yi, of which He Zizhen's experience is full of legend, especially attracting attention, He Zizhen also has a nickname, she is known as "Yongxin Yizhihua", is a famous beauty.
He Zizhen was slender, taller than the average woman at that time, plus she had fair skin, which was very conspicuous among the people, and after Mao Zedong took the team of the Autumn Harvest Uprising to Jinggangshan, He Zizhen went to work next to Mao Zedong, and the contact between the two increased.
According to He Zizhen's granddaughter Kong Dongmei, He Zizhen and Mao Zedong got along for a long time, the two married in May 1928, the life after marriage was very difficult, when the Red Army encountered many difficulties, He Zizhen and Mao Zedong married the ten years, but also the most difficult decade for Mao Zedong and the Red Army.
During this period, He Zizhen always accompanied Mao Zedong and did not abandon him, during which He Zizhen became pregnant many times, unfortunately, she and Mao Zedong's children were only Li Min's daughter around, and the rest of the children either died prematurely or were separated in the war, He Zizhen suffered too much.
He Zizhen almost died on the Long March road, when she was in order to save a wounded person, she was hit by 17 pieces of shrapnel, some small shrapnel could not be taken out, causing great damage and torture to her body, even so, He Zizhen still completed the Long March with tenacious perseverance.
After arriving in northern Shaanxi, He Zizhen stopped working due to his injuries and illness, on the contrary, after arriving in northern Shaanxi, Mao Zedong was very busy at work, He Zizhen could not adapt to the new changes for a while, it was easy to get angry and quarrel, and finally in the winter of 1937, he left Yan'an in a gamble.
Even though Mao Zedong repeatedly retained her and insisted on going to Moscow, He Zizhen hoped that when she arrived in Moscow, she would be able to heal her injuries and resume her work, but after arriving in Moscow, He Zizhen found that her injuries could not be healed, but she was still unwilling to return to Yan'an.
He Zizhen insisted on studying in Moscow, but living alone in Moscow was not good, when both Kishi Ying and Kishi Qing were studying in Moscow, He Zizhen took the initiative to take care of them, and she squeezed out part of her monthly allowance of only 70 rubles to buy things for them.
In 1941, He Zizhen's daughter Li Min was also sent to her side, after which the 4 of them lived together in Moscow, in order to maintain their lives, He Zizhen would sometimes spend the night knitting socks, but also to help people wash clothes to earn money, after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, He Zizhen's life was even more difficult.
Finally survived to August 1947, with the help of Wang Jiaxiang and his wife, He Zizhen returned to the northeast with her child, she first lived in Harbin temporarily, and then she went to Shanghai after the liberation of Shanghai, and her brother He Minxue worked in Shanghai, and He Zizhen was well taken care of in Shanghai.
He Zizhen has always hoped to be able to resume work, Tan Zhenlin learned about it and invited her to work in Zhejiang, from the women's federation, so He Zizhen became the vice chairman of the Hangzhou Women's Federation, she also undertook the responsibility of taking care of her sister He Yi's children, and He Zizhen has been working in Zhejiang since then.
It was not until 1959 that she and Mao Zedong met again, this time arranged by Mao Zedong himself, and when Mao Zedong learned that she enjoyed the treatment of the vice-provincial level, he was very pleased, and he Zizhen did not see Mao Zedong again until his death in 1984.