From left: He Zizhen and He Yi
In the late autumn of 1948, in front of the station in Shenyang, a woman looked anxious, pacing back and forth near the station, her eyes fixed on the trains coming and going.
Finally, the person she was waiting for appeared, a middle-aged woman who had experienced many vicissitudes slowly got off the train, she rushed forward quickly, the two embraced each other and cried bitterly, and years of thoughts and pains turned into tears at this moment, all flowing down.
The woman waiting at the station was named He Yi, and she was hugged closely by her sister He Zizhen. At that time, the sisters had been separated for thirteen years.
Speaking of He Yi, everyone may feel a little strange. She is a great revolutionary fighter in our country, the wife of Mao Zedong's third brother Mao Zeqin, the sister of He Zizhen, and the mother of missile expert He Lucheng.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > teenagers to be taught and follow the revolution</h1>
In 1911, He Yi was born in a family of squires in Yongxin County, Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province, and his father He Huanwen was a xiucai in the late Qing Dynasty, who often wrote complaints for civil injustices and justice for the people, and was affectionately called "litigation teacher" by the villagers.
Later, he also opened a private school for his children and neighbors to learn about culture.
Under this excellent family environment, he Minxue, He Zizhen and He Yi, the three brothers and sisters of the He family, have longed for democracy and justice and pursued liberation since childhood.
He Minxue's family and He Zizhen
In 1926, he Yi, the young daughter of the He family at the age of 15, joined the Chinese Communist Youth League as a member of the Women's Association, and began her life of fighting for communism.
In the old society a hundred years ago, the backward feudal system created the backwardness of people's thinking, and the closure of thinking further consolidated the feudal system.
In this traditional view, the preference for sons over daughters is serious, and most women are of inferior status, both in the father's and husband's family.
The ambitious Little He Yi naturally did not want to watch generations of Chinese women continue to live in the depths of the water, so she and nine other educated girls in her hometown formed the "Ten Girls Speech Team".
In the area of Yongxin County, speeches were widely held, new ideas and revolutionary principles were widely publicized, and women were called for liberation, and their reputation in the local area was greatly shaken.
In May 1927, He Yi joined the Communist Party of China and continued to pursue her lofty ideals. After the defeat of the Great Revolution, she was organized to study at the Ji'an No. 4 Girls' High School.
Soon after, He Yi was appointed county women's minister — at the time, He Yi was not yet twenty years old.
He Yi
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > Ganxi first seen, there is no reason to distinguish</h1>
In February 1929, He Yi transferred to the work of the Ganxi Special Committee of the Communist Party of China. At that time, He Yi's sister He Zizhen was sent by Yuan Wencai to work with Mao Zedong after Mao Zedong went to Jinggangshan.
In the day and night together, the feelings of the two quickly warmed up and they became married. But He Yi never had the opportunity to meet this mysterious and great brother-in-law.
At that time, under the constant interference of the enemy army, the situation in the Revolutionary Base Area of Jinggangshan was becoming increasingly severe, and Mao Zedong immediately decided to leave a small part of the Red Army to hold jinggangshan and be commanded by Peng Dehuai.
He and Zhu De led a large army to attack Ganxi and Gannan to break the enemy's economic blockade. He Yi, who was then the chairman of the Women's Federation of the Ganxi Special Committee, finally had the opportunity to meet her long-separated sister and legendary brother-in-law.
In the revolutionary period, it is rare to see each other, and we will eventually part ways, and the party's journey will soon be reopened. After a brief reunion with their sister, the He sisters were separated again.
But this time, the party left He Yi with a task - to take care of the injured Comrade Mao Zeqin.
Although the two also met for the first time, the young revolutionary comrades soon became acquainted, and coupled with their kinship, they soon became good friends.
During the days when they were recuperating in Ganxi, the two talked very happily, from the trivialities of life to revolutionary ideals, from local customs to astronomical geography, the feelings of the two deepened step by step, regarded each other as confidants, and talked about everything.
Once, Mao Zeqin revealed his true feelings, and he told He Yi about his two wives, the first wife had been sacrificed, the second wife's life and death were uncertain, and the marriage relationship had to be dissolved during the special period.
Speaking of this, Rao is Mao Zeqin, who has been in the battlefield for a long time, is used to parting, and even sighs and is sad. The sympathetic He Yi was sympathetic to his plight and often comforted him.
Mao Zeqin and He Yi
Under her careful care, mao Zeqin recovered as before in a month, and after bidding farewell to He Yi, he set off to join the large army and continue to follow the revolution.
Although He Yi and Mao Zeqin saw each other as they were, the conversation was very speculative, but it still stopped at the number of etiquette. At that time, she had a marriage contract, and her fiancé was Liu Shiqi, who was then a member and secretary general of the Ganxi Special Committee.
At that time, He Yi's father He Huanwen served as a clerk of the Ganxi Special Committee, and his mother Wentuxiu also helped take care of trivial matters in the special committee.
At the same time, Liu Shiqi also secretly admired He Yi, who was cheerful and generous, enthusiastic and capable, and pursued He Yi fiercely.
After He Huanwen and his wife learned about it, they tried their best to promote this marriage, and He Yi also admired Liu Shiqi very much and agreed to the marriage.
In April 1929, the two were married. In this way, Liu Shiqi also became a brother-in-law with Chairman Mao.
After marriage, her husband Liu Shiqi's career was rising steadily. After the establishment of the Sixth Red Army, he was appointed political commissar and secretary of the Military Commission.
The organization was very satisfied with his work, and later, he officially became the head of the Gan Southwest Special Committee.
While He Yi was happy for her husband's career success, she was surprised to find that she was pregnant, which was really a double happiness. She gave birth to a son for Liu Shiqi, and the relationship between the two gradually stabilized.
Liu Shiqi
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > meet again, husband and wife side by side</h1>
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, just when He Yi thought that life would go on like this, in 1930, Liu Shiqi made a left-leaning mistake, all his positions were revoked, and the work of his wife He Yi and father-in-law He Huanwen was suspended, and the marriage between the two was also broken.
Before Liu Shiqi left Ganxi, the two dissolved their marriage relationship, and what is even more unexpected is that the separation of the two is a farewell.
After that, He Yi raised her son alone, although life was not easy, the lofty ideals in her heart always urged her, so she devoted more enthusiasm to the revolutionary cause and the women's liberation movement.
In June 1931, the Ganxi Special Committee reviewed He Yi's work, gave high praise to He Yi's performance, and transferred her to the CPC Yongjitai Special Committee and head of the Security Department.
Perhaps fate has long been buried, and people with connections are always inextricably linked. Mao Zeqin was also transferred to the secretary of the Yongji Tai Special Committee at this time, and the two became working partners who fought side by side.
First from the left: Mao Zeqin
Looking back, it is like a lifetime away, and there are many emotions. During these days of working together, they gradually developed a love for each other.
On July 20, 1931, with the approval of the organization, Mao Zeqin and He Yi were married legally. After marriage, the couple's life is mixed with oil, qinser and ming, which is enviable.
From 1932 to 1933, there were contradictions within the party, and the work of brother-in-law Mao Zedong and husband Mao Zeqin was affected.
He Yi was dismissed from his post as head of the organization department of the Ruijin County CPC Committee, and when she was three months pregnant, she was sent to the party school to study and reform, endure criticism during the day, write reviews at night, and was once expelled from the party.
However, the will of the communists is stronger than gold and stronger than steel, and in the face of difficulties and obstacles, He Yi is still indomitable.
In 1934, in the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Operation of the Red Army, the Red Army repeatedly lost battles, suffered heavy casualties among soldiers, and the Soviet area was shrinking day by day, and the situation was very grim.
In early October, the Kuomintang army attacked the central area of the Central Soviet District. In the end, our Party decided to carry out a strategic shift, and the twenty-five thousand mile long march began.
Before leaving, He Yi and Mao Zeqin met briefly with Mao Zedong and Mao Zemin, and the family gathered together for a long time.
Mao Zedong told He Yi and his wife that in order to preserve the mass foundation laid by the CPC Central Committee in the southern region over the years, the painstaking efforts of countless comrades would not be wasted.
The party organization decided to send Mao Zeqin and He Yi to stay in the south and work with some of the Red Army to take advantage of the mass base and geographical advantages in the local area to carry out guerrilla warfare with the enemy.
The journey was arduous and life-threatening, and according to the regulations, military personnel could not take children with them. Therefore, her sister He Zizhen decided to entrust her and Mao Zedong's son, two-year-old Mao Anhong (nicknamed Mao Mao), to her younger sister He Yi to raise.
Looking at her sister who was clinging to her young son, He Yi promised He Zizhen that she would take good care of this child and wait for the victorious return of the Red Army.
In this way, the family once again embarked on different paths for the sake of common revolutionary ideals and goals.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > the world is unpredictable, and the sky is forever separated</h1>
Soon after, Mao Zeqin was appointed commander of the Independent Division of the Red Army, and in October 1934, He Yi and Mao Zeqin received orders from their superiors: Mao Zeqin led the Red Army guerrillas to the Fujian-Gansu border to engage in guerrilla warfare with the enemy.
Considering that He Yi was pregnant, the party organization decided not to let her fight with her husband, but to take her parents to Ganzhou to engage in underground party work and serve as the secretary of the Ganzhou County Party Committee.
Leaving the familiar base area, the working environment has also changed from a relatively safe red zone to a white area with dark tides, and the work risk factor of the couple has greatly increased.
In order to protect the young MaoMao, He Yi and his wife decided to give the child to the local simple villagers to raise.
After settling mao mao, He Yi and Mao Zeqin bid farewell at the white goose wharf in Huichang County, He Yi went north to Ganzhou to take up his post, and Mao Zeqin went south to fight on the border of Fujian and Gansu, and the two were separated.
Who would have thought that this distinction would be a lifetime!
In 1935, when the revolutionary situation was extremely uncertain, He Yi was struggling to carry out underground work in Ganzhou while taking care of his elderly parents and monks' infant children.
At the same time, she also deeply missed her husband who was fighting abroad, and silently prayed that he would return victoriously and succeed in the revolution.
On April 25 of the same year, Mao Zeqin's troops were scattered, and he led other soldiers to wander through a large mountain called "Red Forest". The next day, the enemy suddenly rushed up the hill and surrounded them.
Mao Zeqin immediately made a decision in the chaos and commanded his troops to retreat to the back mountain, while he shot at the enemy while covering the retreat of his comrades.
Two bullets flew in and hit Mao Zeqin's legs, and he endured severe pain, gritted his teeth and insisted on continuing the fight.
In the melee, a bullet hit him in the chest, the young proletarian Red Army soldier fell in a pool of blood, fell on the road where the revolutionary cause was not yet completed, and Comrade Mao Zeqin died heroically on the battlefield at the age of thirty.
Mao Zeqin
On the day the news came, He Yi was attending the meeting, and halfway through the meeting, Wang Xianxuan, a traffic officer, and a comrade hurried in, who said that he had been sent by Chen Yi.
He Yi suddenly felt that something was wrong, her heart seemed to have fallen to the bottom, and sure enough, Wang Xianxuan tearfully told her the news of her husband's sacrifice.
He Yi suddenly felt that the sky was dark, like falling off a cliff, even if he knew that there were no victims of the revolution since ancient times, life and death were like a common thing for revolutionaries like them.
But when he personally experienced the sacrifice of his loved ones, He Yi was still grief-stricken and tears fell like rain.
In the face of great grief, He Yi was visibly haggard, but she knew that her husband's spirit in heaven did not want to see herself living so passively.
She still has unfinished revolutionary causes, parents and children to take care of, and she must reinvigorate herself and her husband's ideals.
In addition to grief, she also relayed the news of Mao Zeqin's sacrifice to her husband's second wife, Zhou Wennan, and although the two women did not know each other, they both felt each other's strength and stubbornness.
Zhou Wennan
After the death of her husband, in the face of the enemy's search, in order to let the children grow up safely and not run around with themselves, the newborn son He Lucheng was painfully raised by his mother He Yi to his relatives and friends He Tiaoyuan.
Since then, He Lucheng has grown up peacefully in the countryside and knows nothing about his own life.
In 1940, He Yi was arrested and imprisoned in Shaoguan, where she strictly guarded party secrets and kept her mouth shut, causing headaches for the enemy. In order to make He Yi spit out what the enemy wanted from his mouth, they severely tortured He Yi and did everything they could.
He Yining, who was covered in iron bones, was unyielding, preferring to commit suicide by swallowing the gold ring rather than yield to the enemy.
Later, under the intervention of Premier Zhou, He Yi was released from prison, but the torture she experienced in prison caused incurable damage to her body: He Yi's stomach was severely sagging as a result of swallowing a gold ring.
Later, under the leadership of Premier Zhou, He Yi was rescued from prison. She needed to do a gastrectomy and remove the gold ring.
According to the regulations, the signature of relatives must be required for surgery, but her sister He Zizhen is in the Soviet Union. So Chairman Mao visited her and wrote the three words "Mao Zedong" (Mao Zedong). This surgical list full of brother's love has been cherished by He Yi for many years.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > the great cause was finally completed, unfortunately killed</h1>
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, He Yi successively worked in the Headquarters of the New Fourth Army and the Central Organs, and also went to the Party School of the CPC Central Committee for further study.
In August 1948, He Yi missed her son who had been fostered by her relatives and friends, and she returned to Ganzhou to find her son, whom she had not seen for many years.
After meeting He Tiaoyuan and his wife, He Yi burst into tears, poured out to them his long-term long-cherished feelings for the child, and expressed his gratitude.
He Tiaoyuan and his wife expressed their understanding of He Yi's helplessness and difficulty. After He Lucheng finished school, the grandfather "Grandma" who adopted He Lucheng told He Lucheng his true origins, and after more than ten years of separation, the mother and son were finally reunited.
After that, He Lucheng came to Ji'an and lived by his mother's side.
In the late autumn of 1948, with the end of the Liaoshen Campaign, He Zizhen, who had been trapped in the Soviet Union for ten years, returned to China with her children and moved to Shenyang.
Here, He Yi, who came to the northeast for recuperation, met his sister who had been separated for thirteen years, and the sisters finally met, and they were full of emotions, hugging and crying, and only then did they have the opening scene.
On the eve of liberation, He Yi was appointed director of the Organization Department of the Jidi Committee of the Communist Party of China. In October 1949, she returned to her hometown of Yongxin after a long absence for inspection work, and the first thing she did was to learn about the families of the martyrs.
She told the comrades of the county party committee: "The lives of the families of the martyrs must be well taken care of, their descendants must be properly arranged, those who can study should be able to study, and those who can work should be arranged." ”
She also made a special trip to visit the families of some martyrs in the county seat and expressed her deep concern and memory for them.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the revolutionary ideal that He Yi had remembered since she was fifteen years old had finally become a reality, and she felt deep comfort and heartfelt joy.
But there is also a wish in her heart, that is, to find Mao Mao, the son of her sister He Zizhen, who was entrusted to the care of her fellow villagers.
Due to the turmoil of the war after many years, Mao Mao's whereabouts are still unknown, this wish has not been fulfilled for a day, and the big stone on He Yi's heart will not change for a day. Even though there was little hope and few clues, He Yi never thought of giving up looking for Mao Mao.
On November 21, 1949, He Yi once again embarked on the road to find Mao Mao, but this time it was fruitless, and He Yi fell into a deep depression and felt very helpless.
On the way back, He Yi and his party unfortunately suffered a car accident in Taihe County, and He Yi died on the spot, only 38 years old. She was accompanied by Mao Zeqin's son He Lucheng, who fortunately was not in danger of life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > has sons and daughters, which is the pillar of the country</h1>
He Yi's coffin is buried in the Tianhuashan Martyrs' Tomb in Ji'an City. After learning of the telegram of He Yi's death, Chairman Mao's heart was heavy and it was difficult to say for a long time.
His sister He Zizhen was even more grief-stricken, and it was difficult to accept the news of her sister's death, crying bitterly, and because of the excessive impact of grief on her body, she fell ill in Shanghai.
At this time, 14-year-old He Lucheng woke up and found himself in pain after losing his mother. In early 1950, He Lucheng came to Shanghai to reunite with his aunt He Zizhen.
In his later years, He Zizhen and Li Min
Because of his frequent leg pain, He Zizhen took He Lucheng to the hospital in Shanghai for examination, only to find that his leg bone had been broken into three pieces due to the car accident. Under the careful care of He Zizhen, He Lucheng gradually got better.
He Zizhen warned He Lucheng not to carry the brand of his father's generation, but to be like the children of ordinary people. In front of others, don't talk about whose children you are. We must strive to learn scientific knowledge and become people with real talent and practical learning.
He Lucheng remembered He Zizhen's teachings and took it as his motto all his life.
In 1953, He Lucheng was admitted to the electric power department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and lived nearby in the home of his uncle He Minxue.
He Minxue taught He Lucheng many times, studied well, and contributed his strength to national defense science and technology.
In early 1958, He Lucheng came to Qian Xuesen to study missiles at the top-secret Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, becoming One of China's first missile engineers.
He Lucheng has a wide range of fields and has also contributed to the development of China's intercontinental missiles and artificial earth satellites.
Left: He Lucheng
He Lu became a low-key person, also known as Mao Ancheng, and when he became an adult, he did not change his surname to Mao, because Mao Zedong became the president of the People's Republic of China, and he was reluctant to expose his relationship with Mao Zedong.
Filling out the form in the unit, he only wrote about his death in the parents column, so that others would not know his origin. Even when he worked in Beijing, he never offered to see his uncle Mao Zedong, let alone write a letter.
Due to the secrecy of his work, he was unable to attend his sister Li Min's wedding. On September 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died, Li Min planned to write a list of relatives to guard the spirit, he Lucheng went to the funeral, he only saw the uncle in person.
It was not until 1983 that the central government issued a martyr's certificate to Mao Zeqin and asked He Lucheng's unit to inform him to collect it, and his true identity was known to his colleagues.
Although He Lucheng and his mother have limited time together, in the heroic family, the inheritance of family style will not change, and the shadow of his mother can often be seen in his aunt He Zizhen and uncle He Minxue.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > fallen leaves back to the roots, and the history will never end</h1>
On April 6, 2014, He Yi's descendants decided to move part of He Yi's remains to Jinggangshan and bury them with his brother He Minxue.
"It is not only the return of the fallen leaves to the roots, but also the place where the three brothers and sisters of the He clan joined the revolution and set out in the beginning."
The fallen leaves eventually return to their roots, and the soul lives on forever, going around and around, and finally returning to the original starting point.