preface
Once, when Chairman Mao and Mei Bai, secretary general of the Hubei Provincial CPC Committee, talked about the education of the children of leading cadres, Chairman Mao asked him: "Do you remember Cao Cao's words about Emperor Xiandi of Han?" Mei Bai said, "Remember." Two of them are: Born in the deep palace, grown up in the hands of women. ”
In fact, since Chairman Mao asked this question, Mei Bai had already guessed that Chairman Mao was worried about the education of his children.
Subsequently, Chairman Mao praised: "Yes, you have read a lot. ”
"Aren't the children of our high-ranking cadres the Emperor Xiandi of Han, who grew up pampered and habitual, couldn't eat bitterly, were flowers in the greenhouse, and some people were 'Ah Dou.'"
Originally, this problem ended here, but Chairman Mao said very bluntly, he said: "Now in the kindergartens and primary schools of our central and provincial organs, the children are compared with each other in what kind of cars, what their fathers are doing, and whose officials are the biggest. I'm worried. ”
Mei Bai only realized the seriousness of the problem after listening to it, and it seems that Chairman Mao has already understood a lot. Mei Bai did not dare to speak, and Chairman Mao directly asked: "Is your child sitting in your car?" ”
Mei Bai coughed twice and quickly said, "Sit, I won't sit." Chairman Mao then asked, "Then what do you do?" Mei Bai said honestly: "Girls be honest, I don't let you sit, I don't sit, the boys get on the car, I will push them down!" ”
Chairman Mao smiled and said with satisfaction: "You are so good, I should promote your experience." ”
The reason why Chairman Mao said this is because Chairman Mao found that there are great problems in educating children, for example, when local cadres go to Beijing for meetings, they often take their children with them, although it is good for children to feel the atmosphere of the capital, but this is a pampering habit, and it is easy for children to develop a comparison mentality.
At the end of this conversation, Chairman Mao said a very serious sentence: "No matter how good the children of senior cadres are, one day there will be problems." ”
This sentence was not only said to Mei Bai, but actually to senior cadres across the country.
The reason why Chairman Mao has such a great feeling in educating his children stems from everything his daughter has experienced in school, although she is her own daughter, Chairman Mao is often selfless and selfless, setting an example for many cadres.
Don't say your dad is Mao Zedong
Before the founding of New China, Chairman Mao stayed at the Xiangshan Villa in Beijing, and it happened that the eldest daughter, Li Min, was also sent to Beijing, and the two daughters surrounded their father, and Chairman Mao was happy to blossom.
The youngest daughter, Li Ne, is 4 years younger than Li Min, and during the war years she has been learning cultural knowledge around Li Yinqiao and his wife, and has not yet officially been to school, and now that the environment is stable, Chairman Mao decided to send Li Ne to school.
Li Min had attended primary school in the Soviet Union, and it wouldn't be long before he could attend junior high school, and his biggest concern was Li Ne.
The night before going to school, Chairman Mao and his daughter Li Neyue went to the school and were not allowed to mention their father's name, their father's position, and even less allowed to go to school in Zhongnanhai's car.
Li Ne asked, "Dad, the teacher asked me, whose child are you?" What does your dad do? What do I say? ”
Chairman Mao thought for a moment and said, "You say your father is an ordinary cadre." In fact, in the information column of Li Ne's enrollment, the name of the guard is always filled in in the parent column.
But Li Ne also did not expect that the primary school comparison was serious, and she shed tears many times because of grievances.
Li Ne's classmates have many boys, and as soon as she went to school, she was asked by several children: "Why are you dressed so badly, what does your father do?" ”
Li Ne always remembered her father's words, she said: "My father is a worker! The boys laughed: "It turned out to be a worker, you see what you look like." ”
In fact, this is not a big deal, mainly because even the teacher misunderstood Li Ne.
The first lesson of the school was "Dongfang Hong", and there is a sentence in this textbook: Dongfang Hong, the sun rises, and China has a Mao Zedong.
Figure | Li Min Li Ne in the film and television drama
This is a popular lyric, but the teacher asked the students to read the text with emotion, and each student read it well, but When it was Li Ne's turn, he got stuck.
The East is red, the sun is rising, and China is out of a...
Li Ne had called Chairman Mao his father since she was a child, and she had never pronounced his father's name so rudely, and she could not pronounce it.
The teacher said, "Li Ne, what's the matter with you, why are you so emotionless, don't you like Chairman Mao?" ”
A group of classmates laughed loudly, and Li Ne was extremely aggrieved, lying on the table in front of everyone and crying.
In fact, li ne's identity is almost unknown to the principal and some teachers, and this language teacher does not know that this little girl surnamed Li is actually the child of the founding leader Mao Zedong.
Figure | Li Ne was with his brother Mao Anying and his father Mao Zedong
After Li Ne returned home, he told his father about this matter, and cried in his father's arms in grievance, and Chairman Mao lit a cigarette and thought for a long time, he did not expect that in an ordinary elementary school, he would be so comparable.
Li Ne pleaded: "Dad, can I tell them that my father is Chairman Mao?" ”
Chairman Mao did not feel sorry for his daughter because of this, and he said solemnly: "No, you don't say that you are Mao Zedong's child." ”
Under the strict requirements of Chairman Mao, from primary school to high school, almost no one knows Li Ne's identity, she went home by taking the bus herself, eating was the same treatment as everyone, and Chairman Mao also strictly ordered that the school not allow her to give her special treatment.
Once the guards went out to run errands, and just on the weekend, they drove Li Ne back, and Chairman Mao was furious when he learned about it: "I have always stressed that it is not allowed to use a special car from Zhongnanhai to pick up Li Ne, and the impact is very bad!" ”
The guards said, "It's too dark, and it's not safe for girls to walk at night..."
Chairman Mao then snapped, "Other people's children are not children, other people's children can go home by themselves, why can't my children?" ”
No matter how the guards argued, the guards ordered without question: "Don't pick up, you said you will do it, let her ride back by herself, or come back by bus!" ”
This is how Li Ne grew up in chairman Mao's arms, and when he returned home, his father was a loving father, but in his study and life, his father was serious, and it was precisely in this way that Li Ne was admitted to Peking University with excellent results.
The youngest daughter born in times of suffering
Compared with Li Min, although Li Ne has been by her father's side since she was a child, she was born during the arduous War of Resistance, and she has a deep memory of her childhood.
Chairman Mao said that when Li Ne was born, northern Shaanxi was experiencing the devastation of artillery fire, and in order to safely transfer, the central leaders all took a pseudonym, and Chairman Mao's name was Li Desheng at that time.
As for "ne", it comes from a sentence in the Analects: A gentleman is sensitive to words and sensitive to deeds.
From the names given to his daughter, it can be understood that Mao Zedong was a person who hoped that his daughter would grow up to do more practical things and talk less empty words. It was for these two beloved daughters that Mao Zedong did not dot on them in the slightest, always allowing them to exercise in various difficult environments and live the lives of ordinary people, never allowing specialization.
In the winter of 1947, when Li Ne was 7 years old, Chairman Mao had just moved to northern Shaanxi to Yangjiagou, and it was very difficult to eat grain, the most of which was the black beans of the Jinsui Military Region to support northern Shaanxi.
Black beans eat too much teeth are black, Li Ne is still young, seeing that every uncle and aunt's teeth and mouth are black, he laughed. Chairman Mao frowned and said, "Don't laugh, the uncles of the People's Liberation Army in the front are all fighting by eating black beans, and if you eat black beans, you can grow fat and grow tall." ”
Li Ne listened to his father's words and said, "Okay dad, I also eat black beans." Chairman Mao touched his daughter's head and said, "Good daughter, you must be a good child in the future." ”
Since then, Xiao Li Ne has often followed her father to the big canteen to eat, and she also eats what everyone eats, because of the war, she has eaten many times to the homes of ordinary people, but she has never cried bitterness.
When she marched to fight, she ate and slept in the same way as everyone else, with the same aircraft bombing, and at a young age, she withstood the test of war, and of course, withstood the test of her father.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao suddenly asked while walking with Li Yinqiao, the head of the guards: "Do you feel that Li Min is good or Li Ne is good?" ”
Li Yinqiao said: "The two children are very good, they do not have the superiority of the children of those high-ranking cadres, they are very motivated, very hardworking, they are also strict with themselves, and they also listen to the chairman's words." ”
Chairman Mao, as the leader of a country, took care of Li Yinqiao's life and study, and his words should have carried a lot of weight.
Chairman Mao was overwhelmed with emotion after listening to it, and even his tears were blurred, because he was very relieved to hear Li Yinqiao's words, which also showed that his father had done a good job. But Chairman Mao said:
I see that they are not as good as you, they do not suffer as much as you, and only those who can suffer can have a job.
Li Yinqiao smiled and said, "Chairman, you always compare hardships with hardships, which is not fair. You also want the children to suffer, they eat more than ordinary children. ”
Chairman Mao also laughed, and he said: "Your thinking of suffering is not right, they are my daughters, but I am also an ordinary person, and people should be compared with low, not more than contributions than enjoyment, that is, they have not come out." ”
Chairman Mao's words touched Li Yinqiao very much; Chairman Mao, as the leader of a country, actually set such strict demands on his children, and it was understandable that Mao Anying and Mao Anqing were boys, but he still had strict requirements for his daughters.
In 1960, when the country was in economic difficulties, Li Yinqiao once sent a pack of biscuits to Li Ne, and after Chairman Mao learned about it, he was very angry, and Chairman Mao said such a sentence, which Li Yinqiao remembered for a lifetime:
The child did not have enough to eat, and I felt bad in my heart. But I am a state cadre, and the state gives me certain treatment according to regulations. She is a student, and she cannot enjoy what is not supposed to be enjoyed according to the regulations. Again, who called her my Mao Zedong's daughter? Or good to stick to your duty!
After Li Ne graduated from university, in order to let Li Ne exercise at the bottom, Chairman Mao did not hesitate to ask his daughter to go to the "May Seventh" cadre school for exercise.
Li Ne got married, and Chairman Mao entrusted someone to send a dowry
Time flies, time is like an arrow.
30 years of time, at the snap of a finger.
In 1959, the eldest daughter Li Min married in Zhongnanhai, and less than two years later, Li Min gave birth to a boy, which was Chairman Mao's first grandfather.
As a father, the marriage of a daughter is a big thing, Li Min and Li Ne are not a few years apart, and now after Li Min is married, Chairman Mao has been worried about Li Ne's marriage.
During college, some people also chased Li Ne, but Li Ne did not reply for a long time, so that by 1970, Li Ne was not yet married, when Li Ne was 30 years old, which was considered to be an older leftover woman.
Chairman Mao once asked Li Ne: "Father is very concerned about your marriage, you are not young, find someone to marry." ”
Li Ne said grievously: "It's not that I don't look for it, it's that I can't find it!" ”
Chairman Mao said solemnly: "You are high above, how can you find it?" Dad doesn't want you to marry well, he just wants you to live a good life like your sister, you can find a teacher, find a worker! ”
Li Ne had always listened to her father's words, and this time she was also concerned about her marriage, and soon she happened to meet a good boy at the May Seventh Cadre School.
Soon, the two people fell in love with each other and planned to enter the palace of marriage.
In September 1971, Li Ne wrote a letter to Chairman Mao and reported his marriage, and Chairman Mao, after understanding it, hoped that his daughter would make her own decisions.
In late September, Chairman Mao arranged for Wang Dongxing, director of the CPC Central Committee, to find someone to go to Ruijin, Jiangxi, and send a gift to his newly married daughter.
According to the custom of Chinese, a woman who marries her father is to send a dowry, and Chairman Mao also intends to send a dowry to her daughter.
At that time, Wang Dongxing found a guard road to be humble, and Wang Dongxing said: "Comrade Xiaolu, now give you a special mission. You are a staff member of Chairman Mao's office, that is, Chairman Mao's family. Chairman Mao agreed that you should be Li Ne's mother-in-law and go to Jiangxi To run the "May Seventh" cadre school and attend Li Ne's wedding ceremony. ”
Lu Laiqian saw that the large envelope read: Li Ne received.
But he didn't know what kind of gift it was, and Wang Dongxing said, "You must take this gift well, this is a wedding gift from Chairman Mao to Li Ne's companionship, and you must hand it over to Li Ne." ”
At that time, Lu Laiqian thought that this gift must be very heavy and noble. He said:
After coming out of the director's office, I was particularly happy. This is what a high honor it is for Chairman Mao to send me, and it is also the representative of Chairman Mao's "family members.". When my comrades-in-arms asked me what task I had accepted, I burst into tears of excitement and could not say a word...
When Li Ne got married, Lu Laiqian arrived on time, and he excitedly told Li Ne: "Chairman Mao asked me to send you a gift." ”
Li Ne was very happy to learn about it, and he could not wait to accept the gift in Lu Laiqian's hand, reading his father's letter while opening it.
When she opened this precious gift, Li Ne suddenly burst into tears and choked up several times and could not speak.
Chairman Mao's "dowry" for his daughter is really unthinkable and impossible for ordinary people. It was a 39-volume complete collection of Marx and Engels.
According to Lu Laiqian's recollection: Great man, really a great man!
Chairman Mao's intention is very clear: he is to let his children and grandchildren, let the whole Chinese and the people learn Marxism-Leninism from generation to generation, adhere to the principles of Marxism-Leninism, resolutely follow the road of Marxism-Leninism, and strive for the realization of communism.
Li Ne's wedding was held in this courtyard, the wall facing him hung a portrait of Chairman Mao, Li Ne was carefully cared for by Chairman Mao since he was a child, and he has never slackened off in life and study.
A few years later, Li Ne returned to Beijing because of his unsuccessful marriage, when Chairman Mao was seriously ill and could not see clearly because of cataracts.
Chairman Mao touched Li Ne's face with his old hand and said, "My poor daughter, after 3 years of suffering, she can eat it, and the doll can do something." ”
Li Ne knew that his father cared about him and said, "Dad, I will never leave you again." ”
But Li Ne did not expect that after 2 years, his father would leave him.
Figure | Li Ne and father
September 9, 1976, was an unforgettable day, when the great leader Chairman Mao passed away and the people of the world burst into tears.
In Li Ne's eyes, Chairman Mao was not only a great leader, but also a loving father.
After Chairman Mao's death, for a long time, Li Nedu lived alone, and she never forgot her father's teachings, and she behaved well and low-key.
Li Ne has an unusual family background, but she is very ordinary, and like many wage earners, she also lives a rough and light meal.
Whenever Chairman Mao's birthday and the anniversary of his death, she has always been like ordinary people, lined up in a long line, quietly walked into Chairman Mao's memorial hall, to meet her father, and then into the hurried crowd to face the bittersweet and bittersweet of life.
Many years after Chairman Mao's death, when the staff was sorting out Chairman Mao's relics, they found a yellowed bookmark, and considering that it was handmade, they asked the children to identify it.
Li Ne, who was 50 years old, recognized it at a glance, it was a birthday gift she gave to her father when she was in junior high school, and she did not expect that this gift would be cherished by her father for a lifetime.
At that time, Chairman Mao's birthday had already passed, Li Ne had just made this gift, the little girl was solemn, and even if she missed the date, she had to make it by herself, and Chairman Mao was very satisfied with this gift and quietly hid it in the cabinet.
There are also words written by Li Ne himself:
Dear Dad,
This is my own hand made, although the thing is small, but to express my heart, I wish my dearest little father will always be young, kind, optimistic, you teach me how to live, how to be a person, I love you, little father, I want you to live forever with us.
Kiss you.
Passionately in love with your daughter, Li Ne.
February 8, 1955
Seeing this date, Li Ne could no longer control her tears, and she fell into deep memories thinking of the beautiful stories she had experienced with her father.
Li Ne said: "It turns out that my father loves me so much. ”