Chairman Mao loved mountains all his life, and this hobby did not change until his old age, but Chairman Mao never climbed the Huangshan Mountains in his life. This is a bit interesting, Huangshan is known as "the world's first strange mountain" reputation, but also one of the top ten famous mountains in China, why did Chairman Mao not climb Huangshan?
After checking the information, it was found that Chairman Mao did not climb the Huangshan Mountain because he did not take a sedan car. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong once asked Zhang Zhizhong to accompany him on inspections. When he inspected Anhui, Zhang Zhizhong proposed that Chairman Mao climb the Huangshan Mountains to have a look.
Chairman Mao loved mountains, so his heart was moved, so he asked Zhang Zhizhong, "Where has this mountain road been built?"
Zhang Zhizhong himself is an Anhui native, and he still knows something about Huangshan, and he replied: "The mountain road has been built to the foot of the mountain, and the car cannot be driven up, but you can take a palanquin up the mountain." ”
After learning that he could not drive up the mountain, Chairman Mao twisted his head: "Then I will not go, I cannot make a palanquin." ”
At this moment, the surrounding staff was very puzzled. Chairman Mao liked mountains so much, why didn't he climb the Huangshan Mountains to have a look? As the president of the country, it is easy to sit in a palanquin, why doesn't Chairman Mao sit?
Chairman Mao saw the confusion of the people around him, so he explained: "The sedan is riding on the head of the working people. I Mao Zedong can't make a car. ”
As a result, Chairman Mao was unable to ascend the Yellow Mountains. This has also become a major regret of Chairman Mao, and it is a pity that those who love mountaineering have not been able to reach the top of the "world's first strange mountain."
Chairman Mao liked mountains so much, why did he never climb Huangshan mountain in his lifetime? Why did he insist on refusing to sit in a car in his later years? Let's take a look.
Chairman Mao's fondness for mountains is indisputable, and mountains can be seen everywhere, both in his itinerary and in his poems. In 1917, chairman Mao traveled with his classmates (Xiao Zisheng) and traveled to five counties in more than a month. Including traveling with Cai and Sen later, during which time Xiangyin, Yueyang, Liuyang and other areas were almost played.
Moreover, when he was in The Yuelu Mountains of Changsha, Chairman Mao also wrote "Qinyuan Chun Changsha." Among them, the verse "Pointing out the country and mountains, stirring up the words, and the dung soil was ten thousand households in the year" is a classic in the classic.
When he was in the Hunan region, Chairman Mao went to Shaoshan, Yuelu and Hengshan. Because he himself is a Hunan native, plus after studying and working in Hunan, "near the water tower platform first get the moon", there is this opportunity naturally to go mountaineering.
In 1918, Mao Zedong went to Beijing, but because of his work, he did not go to any mountain. The following year, on his way to Shanghai, Mao Zedong made a special tour of the Shandong Confucius Temple and climbed Mount Tai. If you can deliberately go to Mount Taishan in Shandong, you can see Mao Zedong's love for mountains.
After that, however, Chairman Mao deliberately had few opportunities to climb the mountain. Jinggang Mountain, Wuyi Mountain, Baiyun Mountain, Wumeng Mountain, Cangshan Mountain, Liupan Mountain, and so on, all of which were climbed because Chairman Mao was engaged in revolutionary work. Because the revolutionary forces were relatively weak at that time, there was no way to shake the Kuomintang reactionaries, and Chairman Mao could only lead the troops to fight in the mountains.
On the one hand, he liked mountains since he was a child, and on the other hand, because of revolutionary work, the intersection of these two points made Chairman Mao get along with mountains day by day, so that the poems he wrote could see mountains in many places. However, because the revolutionary work had been in the Xianggan region for a long time, Chairman Mao rarely went to Anhui, so Chairman Mao had no chance to climb the Huangshan Mountains in the early days.
The Central Red Army's Long March also did not pass through Anhui on the way, and all the way to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region, which jumped to the anti-Japanese period. At that time, the Anhui region belonged to the Kuomintang region, and Chairman Mao had become the leader of the Red Army, so naturally he would not go to Anhui, so he could not go to Huangshan during the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War.
During the Liberation War, from Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia to Xibaipo to Beijing, he did not leave Beijing after that. Because he was the president of the country at that time, his every move would cause a great reaction, and naturally there was no way to travel at will. Only when he went out to inspect did Chairman Mao have the opportunity to climb the mountain. But when I went to Huangshan (1958), Chairman Mao was also a little older and physically weak, so it was difficult to climb the mountain independently.
Because at that time, the road could only be built to the bottom of the mountain, no, and now the road has not been built to the mountain. Building a highway on the world's first strange mountain is very difficult. There is now a cable car in Denghuangshan, but at that time there was no cable car, and only manpower could be relied on. Either climb the mountain yourself, or make a palanquin carried by the sedan driver.
Zhang Zhizhong knew that Chairman Mao liked mountains and knew the reputation of Huangshan Mountain, so he proposed that Chairman Mao climb Huangshan Mountain. Considering Chairman Mao's physical weakness, Zhang Zhizhong also proposed that Chairman Mao sit in a palanquin.
As a result, Chairman Mao insisted on refusing to sit in the sedan car, and also said: "The sedan rides on the heads of the working people." I Mao Zedong can't make a car. Here, Chairman Mao said very clearly that the palanquin was the means of travel of the great master of the old social era, an exploitation of the working people, and a product of what should be swept into the garbage heap. Moreover, according to the information I have found so far, Chairman Mao refused to be a palanquin at least twice in his life, and his original partner, Yang Kaihui, did not make a palanquin.
In the winter of 1920, Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui held a simple wedding in Changsha. Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui were both intellectuals who hated the red tape of feudal society, so their weddings rejected "tradition." One does not sit in a palanquin, the second does not have a dowry, and the third does not use the words of a matchmaker. This was "shocking" at the time, but Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui insisted on drawing a line with feudal society and did not follow the trend.
And in 1947, when Hu Zongnan's army was approaching Yan'an. Yan'an's forces were empty, so Chairman Mao and the central authorities had to leave Yan'an and move to northern Shaanxi. At that time, Chairman Mao was weak, and his pneumonia had just healed, so he was not suitable for marching and fighting. The guards got a stretcher, simply cleaned it up, and let Chairman Mao take a stretcher.
Although this is not a palanquin, it is similar to a palanquin. Chairman Mao, who had just recovered from a serious illness, did not care at all about his physical weakness and insisted on marching on foot. In the end, there was really no way, the guards found him a wooden stick, and Chairman Mao used this wooden stick as a crutch to follow the troops to fight in northern Shaanxi.
In 1958, Zhang Zhizhong persuaded Chairman Mao to sit in a palanquin. Although Chairman Mao liked mountains, he also wanted to climb the Huangshan Mountains. But when he considered that he wanted to make a palanquin and ask the working people to work hard to carry him up, he could not bear it, so he refused to sit on the palanquin, and thought: "The palanquin is riding on the head of the working people." I Mao Zedong can't make a car. ”
Chairman Mao himself insisted on refusing to sit in the sedan car, but he did not prevent others from taking the sedan car, and there are two sources that can testify to this. The first point is that Situ Meitang sits in a palanquin.
Situ Meitang was instrumental in the revolution and went to Xiangshan to visit Chairman Mao after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Considering that Situ Meitang was old, coupled with the rough road of Xiangshan, the staff made a simple palanquin for Situ Meitang and carried Situ Meitang up Toxiangshan. And because Situ Meitang's health was not good, when he went to the founding ceremony, he always sat on a "palanquin" to climb the Tiananmen Tower.
The second point is from the "Report on the Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan" in the first volume of the "Selected Works of Mao Zedong":
In many counties, there are cases of sedans, especially in Xiangxiang. The peasants hated those who sat in palanquins the most and always wanted to fight, but the peasant association forbade them. The people who run the peasants' meeting said to the peasants: "If you beat up a palanquin and pay for the broad people in a counter-example, and the car workers want to lose their jobs, won't you harm yourself?" "The peasants have figured it out and come up with a new method, that is, to raise the price of car workers by a large margin, so as to punish the rich."
It is forbidden to sit in a palanquin, which is against the exploitation of the working people by the landlords and riding on the heads of the working people. But this raises the question, which is what to do with the livelihood of the car driver? At that time, the solution of the peasant association was to raise the wages of the caravans, and the rich had to spend a lot of money if they wanted to sit in the palanquins.
Chairman Mao did not stop him here, and what Chairman Mao really opposed was the exploitation of the working people, and he could not bear to ride on the head of the working people. From Mao Zedong's life, we can see that he deeply resented feudal society. Not making a palanquin is just one of them, and he didn't even go to Zhongnanhai to live after the founding of the country.
Why? Because Zhongnanhai was once the West Garden, the Royal Forbidden Garden. At that time, Ye Jianying, the mayor of Beiping City, once made a report to the central authorities, asking Chairman Mao and the CPC Central Committee to station in Zhongnanhai. However, when Chairman Mao thought of using Zhongnanhai as an office and residence, he was also very reluctant in his heart, saying: "I will not move, I will not be an emperor!" ”
Ye Jianying and Zhou Enlai persuaded several times to no avail, and finally the Politburo meeting of the Central Committee approved Chairman Mao's move into Zhongnanhai, and Chairman Mao moved into Zhongnanhai and temporarily lived in Juxiang Bookstore. Moreover, it is worth saying that when Chairman Mao lived in Juxiang Bookstore, he also had to pay rent, water and electricity, and furniture rental fees, which were about 84 yuan per month. Chairman Mao insisted that "public is public and private is private," and the two cannot be confused.
Moreover, Chairman Mao has paid great attention to starting from himself throughout his life, set strict demands on himself, and played a leading role. Do not arrange work for relatives and friends, do not allow Mao Anying to get married early, do not make a palanquin, and do not use public funds.
Chairman Mao set strict demands on himself and on Mao Anying. When Liu Siqi was not of marriage age, Mao Anying wanted to marry Liu Siqi, but Chairman Mao insisted on disagreeing.
Mao An was angry, but said: "People who marry before they are old have been there before." ”
Chairman Mao: "Who called you the son of Mao Zedong!" Who do you observe our discipline? In the face of iron discipline, all must be treated equally!"
Are there any people who marry before they are old? Yes, of course there was, there used to be, and there are still many places now. Is there a palanquin? There were, and there are now. But these acts are not allowed by Chairman Mao to happen to the Mao family, because you are Chairman Mao and you are Chairman Mao's son, and you must observe discipline and play a leading role.
As a proletarian revolutionary and an excellent member of the Communist Party, Chairman Mao was very qualified, and his strict demands on himself were the reason why the people never forgot him. People will not forget Chairman Mao, who has his heart for the people, and will not forget chairman Mao who shouted ," "Long live the people."