Chairman Mao, the founder of the new China, made great achievements. His contribution was not limited to the development of New China, but also to the great sacrifices he made for the cause of revolution and the liberation of China, including his family.
Chairman Mao's younger brothers, Mao Zemin and Mao Zeqin, sacrificed their precious lives for the revolutionary cause. Mao Zemin was assassinated by the old warlord Sheng Shi in September 1943, while Mao Zeqin died in April 1935 to cover the breakthrough of the soldiers.
However, it is Chairman Mao's children who fought heroically for the cause of New China. From a father's point of view, not being able to protect his children is probably the most unspeakable pain for a father.
Chairman Mao had ten children in his lifetime, widely known as his sons Mao Anying and Mao Anqing, and daughters Li Min and Li Ne. However, little is known about the remaining six children, let alone their life experiences and destinations.
In April 1949, Mao Zedong and Mao Anying, Liu Songlin, and Li Ne were in Xiangshan
Chairman Mao and Yang Kaihui, two people who devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the revolution, jointly gave birth to three sons, Mao Anying, Mao Anqing and Mao Anlong. However, their lives, their hearts, were so focused on the revolutionary cause that there was little time for them to accompany and take care of their children.
Just one month after Mao Anqing was born, Chairman Mao had to leave his hometown and go to another country because of his busy work and duties. And this situation, in the days that followed, happened repeatedly, so that the heavy responsibility of taking care of children could not fall on their own shoulders, but could only be borne by the elders in the family.
Therefore, Mao Anqing's childhood had almost no time spent with his parents. When Mao Anqing was four years old, Chairman Mao led the people to launch the historic Autumn Harvest Uprising.
This was a new starting point on the road of the Chinese revolution, and the beginning of Mao Anqing and his father's inability to reunite. From then on, for the next two decades, the father and son did not see each other.
In 1930, the reactionary government headed by He Jian arrested Mao Anqing's mother, Yang Kaihui. Although the reactionaries tortured her to ask her about Chairman Mao's movements, Yang Kaihui, a woman with a strong will and firm conviction, remained silent and adhered to her beliefs.
On November 14, 1930, the embarrassed reactionaries escorted Yang Kaihui to Literacy Ridge outside the Liuyang Gate in Changsha to be executed. This great mother was so heroic and righteous.
After Yang Kaihui's sacrifice, the young Mao Anying and the brothers Mao Anqing and Mao Anlong became orphans in this world. However, among these three brothers, the one we are most familiar with is undoubtedly Mao Anying. He was Chairman Mao's most beloved and proud child. It's just a pity that Mao Anying eventually died on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
Mao Anqing, Mao Zedong's second son, was born in Beijing on November 23, 1923. At the age of 7, his mother Yang Kaihui heroically took up righteousness, and Mao Anqing had almost no clear impression of his father.
In July 1949, Mao Anqing returned to Beijing and reunited for the first time with his father, who had been separated for more than 20 years. However, life's troubles have not dissipated. Mao Anqing's brain lesions have always existed and cannot be completely eradicated, and whenever stimulation comes, the disease recurs.
In 1950, Mao Anqing learned the news of the death of his eldest brother Mao Anying, and fainted too grief-stricken. The blow was almost unbearable, and everyone was deeply worried about his condition.
After his condition stabilized somewhat, he was sent to the Soviet Union for medical treatment. It took several years for Mao Anqing to return to the motherland. In 1960, Mao Anqing married Shaohua, held a wedding in Dalian, and had Chairman Mao's only grandson, adding new hope for the reproduction of the Mao Zedong family.
In March 2007, Mao Anqing died of illness at the age of 84.
Mao Anlong is the youngest son of Chairman Mao and Yang Kaihui. In April 1927, when Chairman Mao's family arrived in Wuhan, Yang Kaihui welcomed their third child, Mao Anlong. However, the trick of fate left the family in misfortune.
Yang Kaihui's sacrifice forced the three brothers Mao Anying, Mao Anqing and Mao Anlong to be displaced in Shanghai. Later, Mao Anlong was accidentally lost, and to this day, Mao Anlong's whereabouts remain a mystery.
After Chairman Mao went to Jinggangshan, he fell into the dilemma of inconvenient transportation and closed information, and misbelieved the rumor that Yang Kaihui had died. Despite falling into grief for a while, Chairman Mao eventually came out of it and decided to marry He.
In 1929, in Changting, Fujian, He gave birth to a girl for Brother Mao, which was Chairman Mao's first daughter, and Chairman Mao was very happy. And name this child Mao Jinhua!
As the political, economic and cultural center of western Fujian, Longyan was highly valued by the Kuomintang, and they immediately sent a large number of troops to recruit the revolutionary forces. The current revolutionary situation is still very grim.
Chairman Mao realized that if he took his daughter with him, he would likely encounter danger. Therefore, Chairman Mao decided to send his daughter into foster care and wait for the victory of the revolution before picking her up.
Yang Yuehua (Mao Jinhua)
So, on the tenth day after Mao Jinhua was born, He Moumou brought his infant daughter to the home of a cobbler on Guanbei Street, Longyan County.
The owner of this cobbler is named Weng Qinghe. After the Red Army left, Weng Qinghe and his wife, fearing that they would be implicated, abandoned Mao Jinhua in the town. After several twists and turns, Mao Jinhua was adopted and raised by a family surnamed Yang. By chance, she learned about her life history and wrote to the organization for verification.
Since there was no DNA identification technology at that time, it was impossible to be 100% sure that Yang Yuehua was Mao Jinhua. But Weng Qinghe has confessed to abandoning the child that year, and witnesses can also be found during the adoption process. Therefore, Yang Yuehua is likely to be Chairman Mao's daughter.
However, unfortunately, Yang Yuehua was unable to see her parents in the end, which also became the biggest regret in her life.
Chairman Mao's fifth son and ninth son Liao Wa were both born to He Moumou. In 1930, He welcomed his second child and Chairman Mao's fifth.
However, due to the harsh environment at the time, the baby boy died before he could even be given a name. Such tragedies are heart-wrenching.
In May 1938, while studying in Moscow, the Soviet Union, He gave birth to his sixth child, Liova, Chairman Mao. However, the cold weather in Moscow and the lack of nutrition in Liova after birth caused him to suffer from pneumonia. What is even more regrettable is that he failed to receive timely treatment and eventually passed away.
The seventh son, Mao Anhong, was born in 1932, but at the beginning of the Long March in 1934, in order to ensure his safety, He Moumou could only leave her in the care of Mao Zetan and his wife, who remained in the Soviet region. After the death of Mao Zetan and his wife, the seventh son Mao Anhong disappeared, and no one knew his whereabouts.
Mao Zetan
In February 1935, when the Long March passed through Guizhou Province, He gave birth to a baby girl, her fifth child and Chairman Mao's eighth.
The newborn baby girl had not yet chosen a name, because the pursuers of the Kuomintang reactionaries were already about to catch up. In the environment of that era, for the safety of the baby girl, He had to hand her over to the local people to raise.
Because it happened suddenly, no important clues were left when it was sent to the local people to raise. Later, when the revolutionary situation stabilized and tried to find the whereabouts of the baby girl, the masses were nowhere to be found. As a result, the baby girl has since lost track and her whereabouts are unknown.
Li Min, she is the only one of the six children born to He and Chairman Mao who are healthy and strong. Born in the winter of northern Shaanxi in 1936, she was deeply loved by Chairman Mao.
Once again, when Deng Yingchao picked up this infant child, he couldn't help but praise: "What a little petite!" Chairman Mao was deeply attracted by this sentence, and Xiao Jiaojiao became her nickname.
In October 1937, He insisted on going to the Soviet Union. Chairman Mao's persuasion was fruitless, so he had to respect her choice. Their marriage came to an end.
However, when Chairman Mao learned that He Moumou was not doing well in the Soviet Union, he still couldn't bear it in his heart and decided to send four-year-old Li Min to the Soviet Union to accompany his mother. Since then, Li Min has shuttled between his parents.
Among all Chairman Mao's sons and daughters, Li Ne was undoubtedly the happiest. She is the only child who can spend a full childhood with her parents.
Reading Mao Zedong's life is like looking for pearls in the vast sea of history, and every detail shines brightly. His life, like his children, was at the mercy of the hand of fate, but on the stage of life, he showed incomparable tenacity and brilliance.
Mao Zedong, the great helmsman, led China's huge ship through storms and prosperity to today. However, his family is like a small cabin on this ship, full of joys and sorrows, ups and downs.
He had a total of ten children, the eldest son Mao Anying died heroically on the Korean battlefield, and Mao Anqing spent his life in a stable life until his death. The other six children had a bad fate, or were missing, or unknown. The only two living pearls - Li Min and Li Ne.
Mao Zedong once said: "The purpose of doing revolution is to benefit the next generation." Such a sentence made people feel his firmness and determination. However, as a revolutionary practitioner, he was unable to protect his children.
Faced with the loss of his children, Mao Zedong's inner pain is indescribable. However, he did not fall, he stood tenaciously on this land, leading thousands of Chinese people to the other side of victory.