Chairman Mao
Chairman Mao's family sacrificed the lives of 6 relatives for the Chinese revolution and composed a touching story that can be sung and wept. For a long time, people's understanding of Chairman Mao's children has been mainly concentrated in his sons Mao Anying and Mao Anqing, and his daughters Li Min and Li Ne, while the other children are little known.
According to the data, Chairman Mao had 10 children in his lifetime, except for the four children mentioned above, the remaining 6 children were either unaccounted for due to war or the Long March, and some fell ill and died. However, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the search for Chairman Mao's children whose whereabouts are unknown has not stopped.
Kong Dongmei, the granddaughter of He Zizhen, once wrote about the story of Mao Jinhua, the eldest daughter of Chairman Mao. Kong Dongmei said: "The story of Mao Jinhua did not end here, and it has never stopped searching for decades after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and finally Mao Jinhua was identified as a woman surnamed Longyan and Yang. His uncle, He Minxue, who had been a hero all his life, recognized the niece he had targeted, and neither his grandfather, who died in 1976 nor his grandmother, who died in 1984, could never meet with this person, so the matter could not be confirmed. ”
So, what is the untold story of Mao Jinhua? In May 1929, in Changting, Fujian Province, He Zizhen gave birth to her first child with Chairman Mao. The birth of his daughter brought great comfort to Chairman Mao, who was busy commanding the war, but it was inconvenient to put the child in the army, so he consulted with He Zizhen and temporarily left Mao Jinhua in the local area to raise.
Chairman Mao and He Zizhen
For the sake of safety, He Zizhen approached Deng Zihui, secretary of the Minxi Special Committee, for help, hoping to find a reliable family for him in Longyan City and help take care of his infant daughter. Deng Zihui quickly found a person, Weng Qinghe, a shoemaker in the north of Longyan City. Why this person?
Weng Qinghe had participated in the workers' and peasants' movement in his early years, and Deng Zihui had met with him several times. One night before the full moon of Mao Jinhua, He Zizhen, accompanied by Deng Zihui, carried her daughter to Weng Qinghe's home. When parting, He Zizhen repeatedly told Weng Qinghe to take good care of her daughter and handed over 20 silver dollars as a reward to his wife.
However, it was this Weng Qinghe that caused Mao Jinhua to go through ups and downs in his life, and he did not recognize them until the death of Chairman Mao and He Zizhen. In April 1932, Chairman Mao led the Red Army to capture Longyan City again. Returning to Longyan City again, Chairman Mao thought of leaving his daughter here 3 years ago, and he did not know how she was doing, so he wanted to meet her.
At that time, Longyan City was quite chaotic, military affairs were extremely busy, and He Zizhen was not in the army, Chairman Mao entrusted his second brother Mao Zemin to go to Weng Qinghe's home, hoping to bring Back Mao Jinhua. Mao Zemin successfully found Weng Qinghe, and when the other party saw the Red Army coming, he was frightened and his back was cold, so he lied that the baby girl had already died.
When Chairman Mao heard the news, he was silent for a long time and said, "Oh, what a pity! So lovely daughter. After this matter was later known to He Zizhen, she was sad and did not want to believe that her daughter had died. However, I saw an article from the "Party History Collection Magazine" in charge of the Party History Research Office of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Chairman Mao and He Zizhen
The official account of the magazine "Party History Bocai" once published an article entitled "He Zizhen and Her Children", in which it was believed that He Zizhen's eldest daughter Mao Jinhua died tragically when she was fostered. The original words went like this:
In April 1932, when the Red Army came to Longyan again, He Zizhen was busy raising grain and money for the army in the county town, while thinking about his daughter. According to He Zizhen's memory, Mao Zemin found the sister-in-law, but the answer he got was: The child is no longer alive. At first hearing this news, He Zizhen could not speak for half a day and sat there stunned. Mao Zemin's wife, Qian Xijun, comforted her and said: 'Sister-in-law, don't be too sad, for the sake of the revolution, we can only do this, what can we do?' In fact, He Zizhen did not have more time to immerse herself in the pain of losing her daughter, and the harsh environment and complicated struggles at that time took up all her energy. ”
He Zizhen may not have guessed wrongly, Mao Jinhua did not die prematurely, but was sent away by Weng Qinghe, and Weng Qinghe himself admitted this. It turned out that after Chairman Mao led the Red Army to evacuate Longyan City, the enemy occupied it again. There were no impermeable walls in the world, and the enemy soon spied that Chairman Mao had a child hiding in Longyan City, so he posted bounty announcements everywhere. Weng Qinghe was timid as a rat, and he was full of pessimism about the future of the Red Army, fearing that he would set himself on fire.
After consulting with his wife, Weng Qinghe finally abandoned Mao Jinhua one night while she was asleep at the door of the Zanfeng shop, which specializes in selling non-staple foods. This is from the mouth of the Weng Qing River, and the authenticity is difficult to verify. After the founding of New China, He Zizhen repeatedly entrusted people to help inquire about the whereabouts of Mao Jinhua and wrote to Chairman Mao.
Chairman Mao
In 1951, Xie Jueya, minister of internal affairs of the State Council, led a central condolence delegation to the old district of western Fujian to offer condolences, and before leaving, Chairman Mao specially asked him to help investigate the whereabouts of Mao Jinhua. Chairman Mao demanded that everything be carried out in secret, that if she was found, that she be brought back to Beijing, and that if she could not be found, that she should not be embarrassed by Weng Qinghe.
Xie Jueya found Weng Qinghe very smoothly, but he still said the same thing he said to Mao Zemin, or that Mao Jinhua had already died. This time the investigation was fruitless, and He Zizhen also learned the news, but she was still unwilling. In 1953, Deng Zi returned to Longyan to visit his relatives. As a direct participant in the events of that year, he decided to personally investigate the whereabouts of Mao Jinhua.
Like Xie Jueya, Deng Zihui found Weng Qinghe, but he still insisted that the daughter of the female Red Army soldier had died prematurely. After Deng Zi returned to Beijing, he reported the matter to Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao was very sad, and he took out 300 yuan from the manuscript fee and asked Deng Zihui to help send it to Weng Qinghe.
Logically, things should end at this point. In 1963, Kang Keqing, vice chairman of the All-China Women's Federation, learned that He Zizhen was looking for the whereabouts of her eldest daughter, so she instructed Ren Manjun, secretary of the party group of the Fujian Provincial Women's Federation, to conduct a thorough investigation. Under the direct leadership of Ren Manjun, the Fujian Women's Federation, together with the Longyan Public Security Bureau and the Longyan Women's Federation, jointly established a secret working group.
Perhaps there are own arrangements in the dark, this year a woman named Yang Yuehua in Longyan served as an officer of the Longyan County Federation of Industry and Commerce. At that time, Chengguan Commune held an education on the comparison of new and old societies, and Yang Yuehua, as a cadre, mobilized her relatives to actively participate. Coincidentally, Yang Yuehua's aunt Zheng Qiudi had no intention of saying that Yang Yuehua was adopted and that her mother was a female Red Army soldier.
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Yang Yuehua was shocked, she remembered that when she quarreled with her brother Yang Rongfu when she was young, her brother scolded her for "filling the head meat" (Note: The local dialect of Longyan means not to be biological. Yang Yuehua didn't think about it and kept asking herself, "Isn't Qiu Lanzai really not my mother?" ”
Shortly after New Year's Day in 1964, Wu Chaofang, deputy commissioner of the Longyan Special Office, received a letter of help signed "Yang Yuehua", hoping to help her investigate her true identity. The letter reads:
"I am a person who has lost my biological parents for more than 30 years, and after the lunar calendar year is about 35 years old. Because my current mother has a serious superstitious thought, saying that I was born in a broken year, so I was secretive... According to my adoptive mother's recollection, the person who entrusted me to her said that this little daughter was born of an old Red Army, and because the White Bandit Army came and took her away, she sent it to Weng Qinghe to raise. Weng Qinghe was afraid and transferred to others, and finally reached my adoptive parents..."
Wu Chaofang believed that this matter was not trivial, and since he was also a member of the working group for the investigation of Mao Jinhua, he immediately attached great importance to Wei Jinshui, the governor of Fujian Province, who had come to Longyan to guide the work. On January 17, 1964, under the auspices of Wei Jinshui, Yang Yuehua, his adoptive mother Qiu Lanzai, his aunt Zheng Qiudi, and Mr. and Mrs. Weng Qinghe gathered at the county party office.
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Qiu Lanzai frankly said that Yang Yuehua was indeed not biological, and was a Red Army child raised by her husband at that time, and changed her name to Yang Yuehua because of her husband's surname Yang. At this time, Weng Qinghe and his wife on the side were very nervous, which attracted Wei Jinshui's attention. After a fierce ideological struggle, Weng Qinghe recounted the process of adopting Mao Jinhua:
"In May and June 1939, I took in The Golden Flower through Deng Zihui's introduction. Soon the White Army came, and I was a little afraid to give the woolly flowers to the Weng Aunt next door to the Chamber of Commerce to raise. When the Kuomintang brigade commander Yang Fengnian came to Longyan and interrogated me, I said that Mao Zedong's child had died prematurely. ”
After Weng Qinghe finished speaking, he pointed to Yang Yuehua and said to Wei Jinshui: "Governor Wei, Yang Yuehua is Mao Jinhua, the daughter of Chairman Mao and He Zizhen. After Wei Jinshui saw the general situation and understood it, he said to the two families, "You should first go back to rest, and then think about what is missing, tomorrow I will invite you to dinner, and then make some supplements to the situation." ”
Unexpectedly, after only one night, Weng Qinghe changed his mind, saying: "Governor Wei, yesterday I was nervous and said wrong, Chairman Mao's daughter I raised until the beginning of June of the following year, unfortunately fell ill and died. Because Weng Qinghe was crying and making trouble, the investigation into Yang Yuehua's identity was forced to be suspended.
At the end of 1971, Luo Wanchang, who worked at the Fujian Provincial Transportation Department, returned to Longyan. Luo Wanchang was an old Red Army soldier, and his home was close to Yang Yuehua's family. At that time, it was a special period, and there were all kinds of rumors about Yang Yuehua in the streets and alleys of Longyan. It is also very coincidental that Luo Wanchang's superior was He Minxue, who was then the vice governor of Fujian Province.
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After receiving Luo Wanchang's report, He Minxue was very excited, and an important purpose of his work in Fujian was to investigate the whereabouts of his niece. Under He Minxue's arrangement, Luo Wanchang and another old Red Army member from Longyan began a secret investigation, and after more than two months of visiting and investigating, the two believed that Yang Yuehua was Chairman Mao's eldest daughter.
In early 1973, He Minxue took advantage of his visit to Beijing to ask Premier Zhou to forward Yang Yuehua's materials to Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao was very happy and instructed He Minxue to bring Yang Yuehua to Beijing for a reunion as soon as possible, but the next day Chairman Mao said that he would not use it in Beijing, believing that it would be better for the people to come to the people, and asked He Minxue to take more care of her.
Premier Zhou was also very concerned about this matter, and when he learned that In August of that year, Mao Zeqin's daughter-in-law Zhou Jianxia was going to Fujian to visit relatives, so he instructed her to investigate the matter. Zhou Jianxia also believes that this matter is not trivial, and she came to Shanghai to visit her aunt He Zizhen before going to Fujian. He Zizhen told Zhou Jianxia, "The most obvious birthmark on Mao Jinhua's body is that there is a large black mole on the right armpit and two small black moles on the knee. ”
After Zhou Jianxia came to Longyan, under the arrangement of Luo Wanchang and others, she did see that the birthmark on Yang Yuehua's body was the same as he Zizhen said. Zhou Jianxia carefully observed Yang Yuehua, and she said to Luo Wanchang: "Very much like Chairman Mao, the action and behavior resemble aunt He Zizhen." Since Yang Yuehua's identity was confirmed, He Minxue arranged for her to go to Shanghai to meet He Zizhen.
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At the end of August 1973, on the pretext of arranging for Yang Yuehua to go to Shanghai for physical examination, He Minxue asked Du Fangying, head of the propaganda group of the Longyan County Revolutionary Committee, to accompany Yang Yuehua to Shanghai. Yang Yuehua stayed in Shanghai for more than a week, unable to see He Zizhen, not even Zhou Jianxia, who was preparing to meet her in Shanghai.
He Minxue, who was far away in Fuzhou, felt that something was abnormal, so he immediately asked Luo Wanchang's daughter Luo Haiming to rush to Shanghai and relayed a sentence to him: "Leave Shanghai and return to Fujian, avoid disaster, and quickly go to Fuzhou to find him." Therefore, Yang Yuehua came to Fuzhou, and when he pushed open the door of He Minxue, He Minxue cried uncontrollably: "Yuehua, I have been looking for you for many years, so hard." Your mother has also been looking for a long time, in order to find you, I was transferred from the Great Northwest to Fujian to work, I think I can find you one day. ”
In this way, after 44 years of exile, He Minxue recognized Yang Yuehua, and the two had close contacts since then. In 1974, He Zizhen learned that Yang Yuehua had come to Shanghai to find her, and in addition to being excited, He Zizhen insisted on coming to Fuzhou despite her poor health, and for various reasons, she could not see Yang Yuehua. In 1977, He Zizhen came to Fuzhou again, but still could not meet Yang Yuehua.
When He Minxue was alive, he repeatedly told Yang Yuehua not to dwell on his life. Yang Yuehua obeyed her uncle's requirements, worked hard, served the people wholeheartedly, and won honorary titles such as advanced individual, March 8th Red Banner Bearer, and excellent party member for many years in her post.
On April 19, 1984, He Zizhen died of illness in Shanghai. When the news came, Yang Yuehua lost her voice and cried bitterly. In Yang Yuehua's view, the biggest regret is that she did not see her mother. Because of excessive grief, Yang Yuehua, who was only 55 years old, retired early after just one month. Judging from Yang Yuehua's resume, she joined the Communist Party of China as early as 1958.
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Yang Yuehua has successively served as the director of women's committees of neighborhood committees, public security committees, secretaries of youth league branches, and officers of the county federation of industry and commerce. Yang Yuehua was helpful, and once it rained heavily, she mobilized everyone to fight floods and provide disaster relief, and broke her ribs for this reason. On April 16, 1988, He Minxue died of illness, and Yang Yuehua received a notice from the funeral committee to come to Fuzhou as a relative to participate in the condolences.
In February 1992, when the founding general Xiao Ke came to Longyan, he specifically visited Yang Yuehua. Xiao Ke carefully inquired about Yang Yuehua's physical condition and family situation, and also asked her what requirements she had for the government, Yang Yuehua said that everything is fine now, and there is also a pension.
Xiao Ke also proposed that Yang Yuehua change her original name, and the Fujian Provincial Party Committee also advised her to change her surname, but Yang Yuehua politely refused. In fact, Yang Yuehua is reluctant to reveal that she is Chairman Mao's daughter, and few people in Longyan know her true identity, perhaps a peaceful life is her greatest pursuit.
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Yang Yuehua has 6 children, although not very rich and expensive, but they all have successful careers and have made their own contributions in their respective positions. In the revolutionary years, Chairman Mao gave up his small family for everyone, and his family had 6 relatives who died. Even so, Chairman Mao still shouted out, "For the sake of sacrificing more ambitions, dare to teach the sun and the moon to change into a new day!" ”