Chairman Mao, who devoted his life to breaking through the ideological shackles of the old era, had a rather bumpy road to enlightenment when he was a child. The chairman's father, Mao Shunsheng, like most fathers at that time, felt that it was enough for boys to read and recognize a few words, and it was the right thing to do when they were teenagers to farm and earn money.
Every time my father saw him reading, he felt that it was useless, wasting lamp oil, and the president's student career was about to be ruined. Fortunately, the chairman's hometown returned to a maverick young man who was very knowledgeable and rich in books. The inquisitive Chairman impressed the gentleman with his sincerity.
Not only did he open his collection of books to the chairman free of charge, but he also personally educated the poor student. And it turned out that his vision was indeed correct, and when they met again in 1952, the chairman was already the head of the new China. Li Shuqing, a young and vigorous teacher at that time, couldn't help but admit frankly: I was a little scared when I saw you.
Kind teacher of poor students
In 1952, a special guest came from Zhongnanhai, only to see the old man trembling and walking out of the car door, he wanted to see Chairman Mao today, who was also his former student. As soon as the two met, the chairman was very happy, and before that, the chairman had written to the enlightened teacher many times. Because I was really busy with official business and missed too much, I asked the teacher to come to Beijing to meet.
The reason why the chairman remembered this teacher was that this old gentleman was more than just teaching him to read. To elaborate on the feelings between the two, we must also start from the chairman's childhood. The chairman's father, a hard-working farmer in the local area, was subject to the old ideas of the time, and felt that boys only needed to be enlightened, and that farming or doing business in their teens was the right way out.
Seeing that the chairman's age was approaching, his father also forced him to drop out of school. Just when socialism was about to die at the hands of the chairman's father, Li Shuqing returned to his hometown after completing his studies at the Changsha Law and Politics School. This knowledgeable new teacher was different from his previous master, and he only used the ancient books of the past as one of the subjects he taught.
In addition, he also taught mathematics, science, literature and many other subjects that the locals had never seen before. In order to have enough places to open schools, he rebuilt all the temples and ancestral halls that he could requisition, and he received a new education to spread a large number of ideas such as equality between men and women to his students. This is tantamount to a book of heaven for people who have always been conservative, and the local adults regard him as an outlier, saying that he is admiring the foreign and forgetting his ancestors.
But the children liked Li Shuqing very much, and the chairman also felt that following this teacher could learn a lot of knowledge. So when he was young, he went to the teacher's home to ask the teacher to teach him, and according to Li Shuqing's son's recollection, the two talked for a long time. Chairman Mao was impressed by the teacher's arrogance, and Li Shuqing was also amazed by the child's extraordinary insight, and promised him: In the future, you can read my family's books.
But if you want to continue your education, you must first pass the level of your father. Reading a book in the eyes of his father is not as suitable as a little bit of land, and the chairman who does not dare to disobey his father can only read the book secretly. By the time my father found out about it because he had discovered that there was much less lamp oil, the activity of secretly reading books had been going on for some time. In order to calm his father's anger, the chairman promised his father to read only in his free time.
In this way, the chairman planted the land, settled the accounts, harvested wheat, and did chores during the day, and opened books at night to find spiritual comfort. Chairman Mao read from Li Shuqing such masterpieces as "The Evolution of the Fengshen Gods" and "The Complete Biography of Yue Fei." I also read such works as "Dangerous Words of the Prosperous World" and "On the Danger of China Being Divided by the Great Powers", which commented on the current situation of the country and emancipated the mind, laying a good foundation for a better understanding and application of socialism in the future.
During this period, Li Shuqing also devoted himself to teaching this student who did not pay tuition, and he was even approached by the angry chairman's father for reading the chairman's book. But he did not give up on the student at all, and when the president's father wanted to send the chairman to an apprenticeship, he also stood up to stop it. He said: "Runzhi can read and have ambitions, so it is better for him to enter the academy for further study." Then he contributed to the chairman's study.
Pioneer on the road of revolution
The teacher did not choose to stand idly by while the Chairman was carrying out the revolution, and he sent all his sons and grandsons to our Party. At that time, the strength of our party was relatively weak, and there was always a danger of extinction, and Li Shuqing's move made the chairman very moved. In 1925, the chairman returned to Shaoshan to launch a peasant movement to recuperate from illness, and after Li Shuqing knew about it, he sent his eldest son to the chairman as a secretary.
On the way to the revolution, the eldest son Li Genghou and grandson Li Deshen were killed together in 1982. After this, Li Shuqing's other son, Li Gonghou, was also killed in the struggle in 1929. Because Shaoshan is the chairman's hometown, it is constantly monitored by the enemy, and it is even more difficult to pass on the news related to the chairman. Li Shuqing later learned of the sacrifice of his children and grandchildren from the chairman's handwritten letter, and the elderly people burst into tears.
But he never blamed anyone for this, and during the long time he waited for information from his family, he presided over a peasant uprising in Shaoshan to promote the new idea of equality for all. He served as the editor-in-chief of the Political Weekly, and passed on the ideas of our party to more people through words. This old man, who was called a radical at that time, maintained a pure heart no matter how old he was. After the chairman became the head of the new China, he never flew by the grace of that year, but preached and taught in his hometown, still serving as a teacher.
The chairman in Zhongnanhai missed this spiritual guide more and more. In 1952, the chairman wrote twice to his cousin, hoping that Li Shuqing and others could "live for one to two months." In this way, Li Shuqing, a rare young man, came to Zhongnanhai and met the students who asked him about the problem. At the first sight of the Chairman, he said, "Chairman, I was a little scared to see you." The chairman laughed and told him not to be formal.
Under the chairman's arrangement, Li Shuqing toured the city of Beijing, flew into the blue sky, and finally witnessed the founding of New China at Tiananmen Square for the two children and one grandchild who died. Li Shuqing, who returned to his hometown, remained low-key and became a member of the Museum of Literature and History with his own efforts.
brief summary
Li Shuqing can be said to be the enlightener of the chairman's thought, and fortunately, he did not give up, and the chairman was able to come out of the depths of the mountains and understand and develop communism. Thanks to the ideological flame he brought to Shaoshan, it eventually became one of the driving forces of the new China's burning momentum. His whole life was not to be happy with things, nor to be sad with himself. Whether or not the chairman became the president of the new China, he did not want to do anything with the kindness of the past. He is a man of high wind and light.
Although the achievements of the Chairman are inseparable from the help of foreign objects, the most important thing is his own unremitting efforts. In the midst of hardships and hardships, the chairman still did not give up the opportunity to study, he tried his best to improve himself, and finally achieved today's achievements. We should also have this kind of hard-working, self-motivated excellent character.
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