Chairman Mao led the sons and daughters of China to establish a new China, and made great contributions to the people of the country, and in the existing video materials, it was found that the chairman was still very tall compared to others;
According to the traditional understanding, the southerners will not be particularly tall, so what is the height of the chairman? There are also many different statements in the anecdote.
One of the sayings: 172 cm
There are many rumors about the height of the chairman, some say 1 meter 83, some say 1 meter 75, and even 1 meter 72. Each of these claims has its own corroboration.
During the Chongqing negotiations, Chairman Mao vigorously defied the public opinion and decided to go to Chongqing to participate in the negotiations with the Kuomintang, and also left many photos at that time.
There is a photo of him and Chiang Kai-shek standing together, both dressed more formally, Chiang Kai-shek standing in the center position, the chairman standing on the right side, looking calm.
The chairman was slightly taller than him, and from official sources it can be found that Chiang Kai-shek's height was 169.5 centimeters. It can be assumed that the height of the chairman will be about 172.
Another photograph was also taken during the Chongqing negotiations, when the chairman took a photo with Premier Zhou and the U.S. ambassador to China during the negotiations in Chongqing.
The ambassador to China is about 188 years tall, and the chairman stands next to him, wearing a hat, still not as tall as the ambassador.
Probably about half a head shorter than him, so there is speculation that the chairman should be 10 centimeters lower than him, and his height will be about 175.
The above are all inferred from the photos, and in the process of taking pictures, taking into account the lens, angle and other reasons, these speculations do not corroborate, and many people do not recognize.
But the son of the economist Zhang Naiqi once published an article in which he mentioned the height of the chairman.
He said that his height was about 173, and when he contacted the chairman, the chairman's height was slightly higher than his, so it was about 1 meter 75.
Because he himself did have contact with the Chairman, many people believed this statement.
Statement 2: 183 cm
But there are still many more people who firmly believe that the height of the chairman should not only be 1 meter 72, but also more than 180cm, and even some people have pulled out the mysterious guard unit next to the chairman.
Legend has it that the chairman has a guard number of 8341, and the chairman is 183 years old, aged 83, and the shoe size is about 41.
The mysterious color contained in it has also made many people convinced that Chairman Mao's height should be 1 meter 83, so is there any evidence for this height of 1 meter 83?
In fact, there really is!
Luo Ruiqing's son once mentioned the height problem in an interview, he said that his father was 1 meter 82 tall, and chairman Mao was only a little taller than the chairman when taking pictures, so he guessed that the height of the chairman was about 1 meter 8.
There are still many photos of Premier Zhou and Chairman Mao, and premier Zhou's height is about 169 to 170 officially, and Deng Yingchao also agreed with this statement.
When Premier Zhou and Chairman Mao stood together, the chairman was obviously half a head taller than Premier Zhou. Therefore, Chairman Mao's height should be around 180, which is definitely far greater than 172.
Wang Hebin once served as Chairman Mao's personal doctor, his height is about 1 meter 7, according to his later recollection, in his youth with the chairman, Chairman Mao's height is about 10 centimeters taller than him, that is, about 1 meter 8.
Guards
If Chairman Mao had really measured his height at that time, then everything would have been revealed, and in fact, the chairman really measured his height, accompanied the chairman for 13 years as a guard, and Li Jiaji recalled that experience when he was 90 years old.
Li Jiaji was born in 1932, his hometown is in Mengxian County, Shanxi, the family conditions are still good, originally he was also a large landlord, but then he went bankrupt, and life became more and more difficult.
At the age of 13, he joined the Eighth Route Army, followed the team to Hebei, and merged into Nie Rongzhen's team.
At that time, because he was not old and relatively thin, he had been serving as a correspondent and a service soldier in the team, and he was not very satisfied with this arrangement, and he was bent on going to the front line to kill the enemy.
In 1948, when he received a notice that he was going to be transferred to the Central Committee, he was still very sad, and even secretly cried, and later learned that he had been sent to work with Chairman Mao, and he was happy again.
On July 25, 1948, under the arrangement of the organization, he came to Xibaipo to serve as Chairman Mao's correspondent.
At that time, everyone also took great care of him, and his job was very simple, passing some letters during the day and making a supper for the chairman in the evening.
At that time, someone specially taught him how to make noodles, but after working for several days, he never saw Chairman Mao, and he was also a little disappointed in his heart.
One night in August, he was preparing for a supper for everyone when he suddenly heard someone talking outside, and then he saw Ye Zilong.
There was still a person standing next to Ye Zilong, and later Li Jiaji learned that that person was Chairman Mao, who had worked late and smelled the aroma of noodles before he found him.
He also praised Li Jiaji for making a very good night snack, but at that time, Li Jiaji was too nervous to even see the chairman's appearance clearly.
In March 1949, he was sent to the Chairman's side as a bodyguard, who accompanied him for 13 years.
Tell the truth
Chairman Mao had just met Li Jiaji and said, "We know, you are not the little devil who made noodles before!"
Unexpectedly, after so long, Chairman Mao still remembered himself, and Li Jiaji was very excited and admired Chairman Mao's approachability, and since then, he has been with Chairman Mao.
After the founding of New China, Chairman Mao visited the Soviet Union, and Li Jiaji was with him that time.
The Soviet side specially prepared the villa, at that time the bed was made of soft mattresses, but the chairman was accustomed to hard board beds for many years, and it was very uncomfortable for soft mattresses.
The Soviets were ready to make a hard-plate bed for Chairman Mao. Ask the staff around the chairman about Chairman Mao's exact height.
After obtaining the consent of the chairman, Li Jiaji measured the height of the chairman with a soft ruler, and he recalled that when the chairman stood up straight, his height was about 1 meter 8.
Although the height measured by the soft ruler is not so accurate, the data is still worth believing, and the chairman was 56 years old at the time, and his height will shrink a little compared to the young adulthood.
So we have reason to speculate that the chairman should be around 183cm tall when he was young,
In later years, it can be basically maintained at 180cm.
In such a difficult period, Chairman Mao, a southerner, reached a height of 1 meter 8. Many people call the chairman "the southerners and the northerners."
No matter how tall Chairman Mao is, it will not affect everyone's admiration and love for him in the slightest.
No matter how tall he is, in the minds of countless people, he can be called a "giant", which is worth remembering forever!