In the summer of 1953, on an ordinary holiday, Chairman Mao was still too busy to spare, and he wanted to go to the Ming Tombs Reservoir to inspect the work.
Chairman Mao thought this was a good time to relax, so he took his daughter Li Min with him.
This day was clear, and when the two were enjoying the scenery along the way, Li Min glimpsed a stone monument carried by a stone turtle, and the chairman asked the driver to stop the car and walked over with Li Min.
The two looked back and forth, and Chairman Mao suddenly smiled and asked Li Min, "Do you know why Wang Ba is carrying a stone stele?" ”
For her father's question, Li Min was a little dazed, she didn't know why her father asked herself this question, she just shook her head.
Chairman Mao's answer made Li Min deeply aware of his shortcomings and strengthened his determination to serve the party and the country.
So what exactly did the Chairman answer?
Chairman Mao and his daughter
Li Min, whose original name was Mao Jiaojiao, was the daughter of Chairman Mao and his second wife, He Zizhen, and the "Jiaojiao" was personally given to her by the chairman, and from her daily relationship with the chairman, we can see the ordinary and great side of the great man.
In 1936, shortly after the Long March of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to northern Shaanxi, He Zizhen gave birth to Li Min in a cave in Bao'an County.
At that time, the conditions were difficult, He Zizhen and his comrades-in-arms often ran short of food, and they had to fight against the enemy at all times, and Li Min's arrival brought endless joy to Mao Zedong and He Zizhen.
Deng Yingchao, who hurried to visit, hugged the petite little doll and said with great pity: "It's really a little baby, a little petite!" ”
Mao Zedong, who was now thinking of a name for the child, suddenly looked up and said, "Yes! Just call it a 'petite', this is our little petite baby! ”
Since then, Petite has become her name.
Chairman Mao and He Zizhen
However, after that, because Chairman Mao and He Zizhen ran on the road of revolution for a long time and did not have much time to accompany her, Li Min was fostered in a hometown in Yan'an when she was a child, and later sent to a nursery school in Yan'an to be raised.
With the outbreak of war, In 1940 Li Min was sent to the Soviet Union He Zizhen again.
There is not much of her father in her childhood memories, only that the auditorium of the International Children's Institute of the USSR hangs a portrait of a Chinese leader, and it depicts her father.
After returning to China in 1948, Li Min, who was full of infinite curiosity and yearning for the image of his father in his heart, personally wrote a letter to Chairman Mao.
Chairman Mao:
Everyone says you are the father who gave birth to me, and I am your own daughter. But I have not seen you in the Soviet Union, and I do not know this matter, whether you are my own father or not, whether I am your own daughter, please write to me quickly.
Petite
After seeing the letter, Chairman Mao was also very excited in his heart, and he immediately wrote a reply letter with a pen, and in order to let his daughter see the letter as soon as possible, he specially sent it in the form of an urgent telegram.
When he received Chairman Mao's reply, Li Min almost jumped up with joy.
In the summer of 1949, with the help of his aunt He Yi, 13-year-old Li Min finally came to Chairman Mao's side.
Chairman Mao's tall, burly and amiable image is exactly the same as li min's portrayal over and over again in his mind.
Perhaps inspired by the affection of father and daughter, Li Min, who has always been silent and taciturn, did not feel detained when he saw Chairman Mao, but was extremely happy.
She couldn't help but plunge into the chairman's broad arms and shouted happily, "Daddy! ”
Chairman Mao couldn't help but wet his eyes, picked up Li Min, put his face on Li Min's white and tender little face, and said in his mouth: "Jiaojiao, my little petite, Daddy has finally seen you!" ”
Since then, Li Min has stayed with Chairman Mao, and many warm stories have occurred in the daily life between the two of them.
Chairman Mao and Li Min
However, as the leader of a country, Chairman Mao was also quite strict in educating his children, and he set an example by himself, often teaching Li Min not to be special and not to mention to others that she was the president's daughter.
When Li Min first lived in Zhongnanhai, because he had just returned from abroad, his eating habits had not changed for a while, and he still ate bread and milk.
Considering that the children were still growing up, the master in charge of their diet often used flour to make bread for them, and often bought some milk to supplement her nutrition.
At that time, New China had just been founded not long ago, most of the people could not even eat enough, coupled with the serious natural disasters, many places were grainless, Chairman Mao was deeply distressed, so he took the lead in responding to the call, eating only one or two meters a day, let alone allowing the people around him to engage in special.
Therefore, when he saw that his children's expenses in terms of diet exceeded the budget, he specially called Li Min over and gave them a critical education.
At that time, although Li Min felt more or less aggrieved, she was already a teenager after all, and she also understood her father's good intentions, so she followed her father and set strict dietary standards for herself.
After the first grade of junior high school, Li Min lived on campus.
But she was still like the original, not taking the Zhongnanhai car, not doing special, eating in the canteen with other classmates, the classmates all thought that Li Min was just like herself, just a child of an ordinary family, and never thought that she was actually Chairman Mao's daughter.
As Li Min grew older and more and more affairs in New China, it usually took her long to see her father, or when she had dinner on Saturdays, to see him in a hurry.
But the sensible Li Min never made any demands on his father, but when the chairman was free, he would take the initiative to go to him to ask him some questions.
For his father's teachings, Li Min has always kept in mind.
Of course, in his spare time, Chairman Mao would also make special time to accompany his children and enjoy the happiness of ordinary people.
Chairman Mao has always known how to entertain and educate, and although the requirements are strict, the education of children has never been rigid.
In 1953, during the mainland's first five-year plan, several large reservoirs were to be built on the outskirts of Beijing, and Chairman Mao planned to make a field trip to the upcoming Ming Tombs Reservoir.
At the thought of being able to go out for a long time, Chairman Mao deliberately brought Li Min with him, which made Li Min also flattered, and she could not remember how long her father had not taken her out of the house.
Sitting in his father's car, Li Min, who has always been introverted, seemed to open the conversation box and pulled his father to ask this and that.
Just when Li Min was chattering, Mao Zedong suddenly found that Li Min was still wearing a very worn-out uniform, and he couldn't help but say painfully: "Jiaojiao, you are already a big girl, you must dress up and dress yourself, otherwise you will not find an object in the future!" ”
This sentence made Li Min blush in an instant, and for a moment he did not know how to answer, and Chairman Mao looked at her like this and couldn't help but laugh twice.
Just as the two were on their heads, Li Min suddenly saw a stone stele dragged by a turtle not far from the side of the road.
She had only seen it in books, so she couldn't help but look at it two more times curiously.
Chairman Mao sensed his daughter's sight, immediately asked the driver to stop the car, and walked over with her daughter.
Looking at Li Min's excited look around these stone tablets, Chairman Mao's face was full of relief, and suddenly as if he remembered something, he mysteriously asked: "Jiaojiao, do you know why Wang Ba is carrying the stone stele?" ”
Li Min looked at her father blankly, she didn't know the answer.
Chairman Mao smiled and sang softly in Mandarin with a slight Hunan accent: "Looking east to look west, looking at Wang Ba's stone stele, I asked Wang Ba what crime he had committed, and in his previous life he sold wine for cold water." ”
Li Min looked at his father's humorous look and laughed out of breath.
Chairman Mao thoughtfully told her: "It is not Wang Ba who is dragging the stone stele, but Gantu, because in folklore, the power is infinite, and it resembles a turtle, so it is often placed under the stone stele." ”
In his father's earnest teachings, Li Min gradually realized his father's true intentions, he wanted to teach himself not to be like this "Wang Ba, who sells fake wine", the most basic principle of being a person is to talk about integrity.
From his father, Li Min not only saw profound knowledge, but also saw the careful teaching of his children as a national leader.
Although Li Min never feels complacent because of her identity, at this moment, she is deeply aware of the unreachable gap between herself and her father, and she is determined to work harder to live up to her father's expectations of her.
After she returned, she often took out her father's book and read it over and over again, and when she encountered something she did not understand, she personally asked her father for advice, and later she also applied to become an honorable party member.
Not only that, Li Min is equally strict with his other half.
When he was in high school, Li Min and Kong Linghua, the son of Kong Congzhou, the former deputy commander of artillery, gradually came together.
But Li Min did not delay his study, they have common ideals, and have always encouraged each other to work hard for the future of the motherland.
She said that if Kong Linghua's grades do not go up, the two of them will reduce their contacts or not, let him focus all his energy on studying, and wait until his grades go up.
For some time, Kong Linghua's grades declined somewhat, and Li Min, who had always put study first, really ignored him, and this incident even alarmed Chairman Mao, who personally came forward to persuade his daughter: "Even if the study is not good for a while, we should not talk about heroes based on success or failure!" You told him to study hard and come to our house to play when he had time. ”
Chairman Mao and the children
Soon after, Kong Linghua was admitted to the Beijing Aeronautical Institute with excellent results, and Li Mincai took him to Zhongnanhai to visit his father.
In the summer of 1959, the always solemn Zhongnanhai was full of jubilation, and Li Min and Kong Linghua entered the palace of marriage under the witness of Chairman Mao.
Their wedding was very simple, it was in the difficult period of the country, they did not put on a big banquet, only invited Cai Chang, Deng Yingchao and others, as well as Kong Linghua's relatives to have a rare gathering for a meal, Li Min took Kong Linghua to his residence in Zhongnanhai.
More than a year later, Li Min successfully gave birth to a son.
Chairman Mao loved this little grandson to the extreme, and from time to time he would let Li Min bring the child over to him to see, and he personally named this white and fat little grandson, Jining.
Kong Jining means to inherit Lenin's will.
Li Min looked at his father's loving love for Ji Ning, as if he saw himself when he was a child.
Later, after Li Min gave birth to a daughter again, it was still Chairman Mao's personal name- Kong Dongmei.
"Dong" is taken from Chairman Mao's own name, and "mei" is Chairman Mao's favorite flower, which shows Chairman Mao's love for children.
In 1963, Li Min and her husband moved out of Zhongnanhai with their children and moved to an ordinary house in Terracotta Hutong, where they began to live a civilian life.
Although her father is not around, Li Min always keeps her father's teachings in mind, never uses her identity to make special, and always teaches her children that she cannot talk to others about her identity outside.
The two of them are meticulous, using their own salaries to support a family of four, in addition, Li Min will also take out a part of the salary to send to his mother He Zizhen who is far away.
For such a plain as water life, Li Min is very satisfied in her heart, she thanked her father for her teaching, so that her "little princess" experienced the people's livelihood and suffering as soon as possible, so that she could still live such a simple and happy life after leaving his old man's home.
The only regret is that after leaving Zhongnanhai, Li Min has no way to see his father all the time.
After they moved out of Zhongnanhai, the documents for entering and leaving were handed in, so if they wanted to enter and exit Zhongnanhai, they had to type the report layer by layer to enter.
During Chairman Mao's illness, because she needed to recuperate, Li Min had only seen her father three times before and after, and whenever she had free time, she would look at his father's photos and miss the days of living by his father's side.
When she received the last news of her father's serious illness and rushed to Zhongnanhai, Chairman Mao was already lying in bed unable to move.
Li Min looked at her father, who had gray hair and a haggard face, and couldn't help but have a sour nose and shed tears, she couldn't imagine that her father, who had once spoken so loudly and so energetically, was now even extremely difficult to speak.
When Chairman Mao heard the movement, he opened his eyes with difficulty, took Li Min's hand, and said softly: "Jiaojiao, have you come to see me?" ”
Li Sensitive was a little cold by her father's wide palm, no longer as warm as before, and she held his father's palm in her hand, just like when her father held herself when she was a child.
Li Min has always been bad at words, she has many things she wants to say to Chairman Mao, but she does not know how to open her mouth, and can only watch her father silently shed tears.
On September 9, 1976, Chairman Mao left the motherland and people he loved forever.
Since then, Li Min's life has become more and more simple, and she always remembers the words her father once taught her, living a simple life, not arrogant and impatient.
Li Min's two children also under her earnest teaching, regarded themselves as ordinary people, and became the pillars of the country by their own ability.