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●—≺ Preface ≻—●
Mao Anqing took three photos, and when the Chinese people saw the location where the photos were taken, they shed tears for Mao Anqing's experience, and each photo contained the blood and tears of the Mao family.
●—≺ Remembrance of Itakura ≻—●
This photo was taken at the former residence of Yang Kaihui in Itakura, and Mao Anqing, his wife Shao Hua and son Mao Xinyu left this image in the room of his biological mother Yang Kaihui.
Mao Anqing has lived in Itakura House since he can remember, and there are too many precious memories here, such as his mother Yang Kaihui, his brother Mao Anying, his younger brother Mao Anlong, and his father Mao Zedong, who left home early to make a revolution.
Mao Anqing's childhood impression of his father Mao Zedong was very vague, since he was born, his father has been running around for work reasons, and Mao Zedong has not even been able to take a photo with the family due to party discipline.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei successively aimed their butcher's knives at our party, and the revolutionary situation in China became more and more critical.
Before leaving, he went home to visit his wife Yang Kaihui and the children, and left in a hurry after a short reunion, Mao Anqing was only 4 years old that year, and he didn't understand why his father couldn't stay for a few more days.
In the days that followed, Yang Kaihui had to work underground while taking care of her three children, and she spent three years like this.
On October 24, 1930, Yang Kaihui's whereabouts were discovered by the warlord's secret agents, and she was arrested and imprisoned late that night.
In the face of the enemy's shameless behavior, she only left this sentence: Kaihui's death is not a pity, I hope that Runzhi's revolution will succeed.
Yang Kaihui's actions completely angered the reactionaries, and on November 14 of the same year, Yang Kaihui died heroically at the age of 29 at the age of 29.
After the death of the mother, the underground organization of the Chinese Communist Party immediately sent people to find the whereabouts of the three children, and after finding them, the three brothers were transferred to Shanghai.
However, not long after he arrived in Shanghai, bad news came one after another, and the third brother Mao Anlong had an illness and passed away after treatment in Shanghai Guangci Hospital.
Not long after, the CCP's party organization in Shanghai was severely damaged by the betrayal of the traitors, and the three brothers were forced to live on the streets.
The brothers wandered for 5 years, until in 1936, Mao Anying and Mao Anqing were found by party comrades in a ruined temple in Shanghai, and were sent to Moscow to study the following year.
Whenever Mao Anqing recalls his childhood past, he can't help but cry bitterly, although it was bitter at that time, he had his mother, brother and younger brother by his side, but he didn't expect that in less than a year, his mother and younger brother left one after another.
●—≺ Reunited with my father after a long absence ≻—●
In this photo, Mao Anqing sits on the bed where his father, Mao Zedong, once slept, holding his father's autographed manuscript, where he spent a brief happy time.
In May 1947, Mao Anqing, who had been in the Soviet Union for 10 years, returned to his motherland under the leadership of He Zizhen.
However, he was not sent to Yan'an, but to Harbin, where he temporarily lived in the home of Li Fuchun and Cai Chang, and joined the CCP under the introduction of the two.
When He Zizhen heard the news, he decided to let Mao Anqing go to exercise, so that he could not only temper his will, but also understand the situation in rural China.
Mao Anqing was not very fluent in reading and writing Chinese not long after returning from the Soviet Union, and the unique "ballast" flavor of Northeast people's speech made it difficult for him to communicate with the people around him at first.
In addition, he also felt a lot of discomfort in terms of diet, the staple food of the Soviet Union was Daleba, milk, meat and eggs, while in the Northeast it was mostly cabbage, tofu and corn.
But Mao Anqing quickly overcame these problems, he ate a big pot of rice with the farmers, slept on the same kang, and even integrated the way of speaking into the local environment.
At the beginning of 1949, with the victory of the Pingjin Campaign, the city of Beiping was liberated, and Mao Anqing went to Beiping in the autumn of the same year to reunite with his father Mao Zedong and his brother Mao Anying.
Those days were the happiest time since his mother's death, and every weekend, he would go to visit his father with his brother and other sisters, but such happy days did not last long.
●—≺ Brother's Departure ≻—●
In 1950, the war on the Korean Peninsula began, and the South Korean army was defeated by the Korean People's Army.
With the intervention of the United Nations forces, the situation on the battlefield was reversed in an instant, and the Korean People's Army retreated all the way in the face of the United Nations forces, and finally retreated to the border area between China and North Korea.
The arrogant US military sent planes into the northeast of the mainland and shamelessly bombed the northeast of the mainland, causing casualties among ordinary people and the collapse of many buildings.
In such a situation, the Chinese army announced that it would enter the DPRK to fight, and Mao Anying was also on the list of joining the DPRK, but neither Chairman Mao nor Mao Anqing could not have imagined that Anying would never be able to return to the motherland if he went.
On November 25, 1950, just over a month after entering the DPRK, at noon on the same day, a US enemy plane suddenly appeared in the sky above Mao Anying's place of work.
General Hong Xuezhi, who was the deputy commander at the time, immediately ordered his comrades to move to the air-raid shelter for refuge, and Mao Anying did not leave for a long time in order to rescue important documents.
Before Anying could enter the air-raid shelter, four U.S. bombers dropped napalm, and the surrounding area was surrounded by fire in an instant, and Mao Anying died in the raging flames at the age of 28.
After this news spread to China, Mao Zedong, as a father, cried to the end of his liver and intestines, and the grief of his younger brother Mao Anqing was also indescribable, since the death of his mother, he and his brother depended on each other, to some extent, it was Mao Anqing who brought Mao Anqing up, and in the days when there was no adult to take care of, Anying taught Anqing to be brave and independent.
The death of his brother hit Mao Anqing hard, he had physical and psychological problems, and his temper gradually became irritable, and he often quarreled with colleagues over trivial things at work.
Considering his son's physical condition, his father Mao Zedong asked Mao Anqing to move out of Zhongnanhai for hospitalization, stayed in the local hospital for a period of time and did not improve, and then went to the Soviet Union to recuperate, until 1959 before returning to China, and married Shao Hua the following year, and gave birth to a son Mao Xinyu 10 years after marriage.
After Chairman Mao's death, Mao Anqing took his wife and children to many places to search for the footprints of his parents and elder brother, for which he stepped on the Yalu River Bridge, hoping to feel the breath of Anying's brother here.
●—≺ Summary ≻—●
Having lost his mother and younger brother since he was a child, and his brother who raised him in his youth sacrificed on the battlefield, Mao Anqing experienced three farewells with his relatives in less than 30 years.
Mao Anqing's father was the founding leader, and his mother and brother were martyrs, but even if he grew up under such an aura, he did not engage in specialization, but spent his life ordinary.
Key sources of information:
1. The original article was published in Wen Wei Po on December 16, 2020: "Why did Mao Anqing, the second son of the chairman, stay in Heilongjiang incognito for eight months?"
2. The original article was published in China Economic Net on June 6, 2007: "Reminiscences of Mao Anqing: Wandering in Shanghai as a Child, Picking Up Rags and Selling Newspapers to Survive"
3. The original article was published on March 29, 2007: "Remembering Mao Anqing: I Can't Forget Mao Anying in My Life"