After He Zizhen married the great man, she was pregnant with 10 children and gave birth to 6 children, but only 4 children survived. However, 3 of the children were left in the Soviet zone because of the transfer of the Red Army, and they were not heard, and in the end, only Li Min survived healthily.
In 1929, He Zizhen gave birth to his first child in Changting, Fujian Province, a daughter, named "Jinhua", which is a "Jingui" name. However, less than half a month after the birth of this child, the Red Army team was about to be pulled out again, so she could only send the child to a local compatriot to raise. A year later, when He Zizhen entrusted Mao Zemin to look for it, he heard the news that the baby girl had died, and He Zizhen was sad at the time. At this time, He Zizhen was only in her early 20s, and she was a new mother, and her heartache could be imagined.
In 1932, He Zizhen gave birth to a healthy child, and her first son, his nickname was Xiao Maomao, and his big name was Mao Anhong, which was probably taken from the red zone and the red army. He Zizhen loved this child very much and raised Xiao Maomao, which became a rare happy time in He Zizhen's life.
In 1934. The Red Army was forced to go north to the Long March, because the Red Army troops at that time had regulations that they were not allowed to take children on the Long March, so He Zizhen had to tearfully entrust Xiao Mao to Mao Zeqin and He Yi, who remained in the Soviet area, to take care of him. Later, in order to ensure the safety of Xiao Maomao, Mao Zeqin entrusted him to one of his personal guards to take care of him, and soon after, Mao Zeqin died in a battle. Since no one knew the whereabouts of the guard, the clues were interrupted
In 1935, before and after the Red Army crossed the Chishui River for the second time, He Zizhen gave birth to another girl during the Long March. According to the recollection of the then cadre cultivation company commander, He Zizhen gave birth to a child after the Zunyi Conference and during the Red Army's World War II Zunyi, when he crossed the Chishui River and was in the "Baimiao area of Guizhou." "It was raining lightly that day, it was gray, and when she cried out that her stomach hurt, the enemy was coming after her, and the gunfire was very tight. Seeing that the child is about to be born, we must quickly find a place! It's a stroke of luck that there are no houses on either end of the road, except for a lonely little grass hut in the middle. We quickly carried He Zizhen into the grass hut, there was no one in the house, and the hanging copper pot was still steaming."
At that time, Mao Zemin's wife Xi Jun, who was working as an assistant, said: "Later, Deng Yingchao told me that He Zizhen gave birth to a girl. At the same time, there was also a female Red Army production, also a girl, and Sister Deng gave her a name, called 'Double Phoenix'. He Zizhen gave birth to the child, only looked at the child, and was carried on a stretcher on the road. ”
According to the recollection of the commander of the recuperation company, "After the child was washed, we wrapped the child in a white cloth, and I consulted with Elder Dong, who wrote a note, and we put thirty pieces of ocean and two bowls of opium smoke." How big are two bowls? It is a coarse bowl that is usually eaten. Up and down, buckled two bowls. Smoke and strips together in the child's bag. The note written by Elder Dong basically said that now we must set out to fight Wang Jialie and avenge the cadres. The march can't take children, this newborn child is fostered in your home, give it to you as a granddaughter, she can grow up and help you do some work.
In just a few years, three children, none of them stayed, this time, this child still can not stay, He Zizhen is distressed. What mother in the world can bear to watch her child be separated from her own flesh and bones when she is just born? Inside the memorial hall, there are several Guangyang that were used during the Long March, what are they used for?
It is said that these guangyang are somewhat related to the baby sent by the female Red Army. Because the troops have always stressed the need to streamline equipment and carry only the necessary daily necessities, after the female Red Army in the Long March gave birth to children, they did not even have special gifts representing personal information to leave for their children, and they could only hold their military salaries, gold and silver jewelry or guangyang copper coins with their children and then entrust them to some good local farmers.
And in order to protect the safety of the children, these female Red Army soldiers could not tell the fosters the names of the parents of the foster children, so most of the children could not be found in the end.
We can put ourselves in the shoes of a woman who was pregnant in October, and the hard work of giving birth was exchanged for a parting, which is a sad and torturous thing.