"If you fall in love and find a partner, don't say that you are Mao Zedong's son. You just say that you are a translator of the Central Propaganda Department... I advise you to find someone who is a worker or a peasant, and it may be of some help to you. ”
This is Chairman Mao's earnest teachings to his son Mao Anqing in the 50s of the 20th century, when the industrial construction of New China took off and ushered in earth-shaking changes, but Chairman Mao was also very busy, and he needed to take a lot of sleeping pills at night to fall asleep.
But even so, he still has to take the time to care about his son's marriage, because Mao Anqing is 37 years old, and Chairman Mao is 67 years old, and he has not yet started a family, how can Chairman Mao not be in a hurry?
Speaking of which, Mao Anqing's identity is very special, Chairman Mao has a total of 10 children, however, because of the revolution, most of these children died or disappeared.
For example, Chairman Mao and He Zizhen had 6 children, leaving only one Li Min. Later, there was also a daughter, Li Ne. and Yang Kaihui had three sons, Mao Anlong died of illness, Mao Anying died in battle, leaving only Mao Anqing.
Therefore, among Chairman Mao's 10 children, Mao Anqing is the only son who survived, which also corresponds to the sentence in "Ming Dynasty 1566" - when a good official cannot have a family, because loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, and it is impossible to take care of the family.
Chairman Mao is such a person, for the sake of the revolution, he is desperate, and his family has paid an unimaginable price for it.
It stands to reason that Mao Anqing, as Chairman Mao's only son, deserves the best education and attention, so what about his upbringing? But we can only sum it up with Chairman Mao's words: I sympathize with Anqing... Suffering.
Mao Anqing's mother, Yang Kaihui, was a great woman who accompanied and helped Chairman Mao in the process of the germination of Mao Zedong Thought, and made important contributions to the early revolutionary development of the Communist Party of China. Of course, it is precisely because of the revolutionary contributions of his parents that Mao Anqing is destined to have ups and downs from birth.
At that time, in September 1923, Chairman Mao began to prepare the Kuomintang organization in Hunan in accordance with the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and built Hunan into one of the provinces with the most developed Kuomintang organization in one fell swoop.
At that time, Chairman Mao was highly valued in the Kuomintang, and the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party made the revolutionary situation very good. At the same time, Chairman Mao was happy to have his second son two months later, this is Mao Anqing.
It is conceivable that Chairman Mao must have been very excited at that time, the revolution ushered in the dawn, and he had a son, all of which indicated a bright future. However, all happiness and beauty are so short-lived, including this newborn baby Mao Anqing.
Mao Anqing was born only a full moon, and Chairman Mao had to go to the First National Congress of the Kuomintang, and before leaving, he could only write poems to bid farewell to his wife and children, and shed tears. Since then, Mao Anqing has rarely seen his father again, and his father's image has never changed from vague to clear.
Later history, everyone knows that Chairman Mao was so busy that he fell ill, and the husband and wife were naturally separated and combined, although Mao Anlong was added during the period, Chairman Mao had three sons, but he and his sons rarely met.
Finally, Mao Anqing reached the age of 4, but Chairman Mao, who returned home for a short time, had to leave because he was ordered to launch the Autumn Harvest Uprising.
The Autumn Harvest Uprising has always been extremely important in the party, and its historical value can be compared with the Nanchang Uprising, the "first shot of the uprising". However, for the young Mao Anqing, he only knew that his father was gone again, and he hadn't seen him for a long time.
In the years that followed, the young Mao Anqing heard a lot of news that his father had failed and that the Kuomintang was arresting him everywhere. Then news came that the Kuomintang wanted to arrest his family, and his mother Yang Kaihui could only hide in Tibet with her children.
Since then, Mao Anqing's family has not only failed to see his father, but even lost his home, and has been displaced every day, fearing and fearing.
But even such a day could not be sustained, because the worse news came, when he was 7 years old, Hunan warlords arrested his mother Yang Kaihui, and then the news of his mother's death came.
At the age of 7, a child has not yet reached real maturity, but he is already facing the departure of his parents and the fear of life and death. In desperation, Mao Anqing could only go into exile with his brother Mao Anying, and after several tosses and turns, they even went to Shanghai.
It was an even darker time, they had no food to eat, so they could only do child labor, just as Mao Anying later recalled: Except for not stealing people's things, I didn't give the rich people as a godson, everything else is the same as Sanmao in Sanmao's wanderings.
Then, his younger brother Mao Anlong fell ill and died, leaving only two of the three brothers; Later, in desperation, Mao Anqing wrote a slogan to defeat imperialism, but was beaten by foreign governors, resulting in a serious head injury, which affected him for the rest of his life.
At that time, Mao Anqing faced a desperate situation several times, but fortunately, the two brothers helped each other and survived; At the same time, Chairman Mao also encountered struggles on the road to revolution.
It is said how happy the children of the leader are, but who knows how much a revolutionary leader will have to pay, and how much his children will pay?
Fortunately, Chairman Mao crossed Chishui four times, went north to northern Shaanxi, and later the Xi'an Incident, successfully survived the crisis, and once again promoted the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the situation gradually improved.
It was also in this process that Chairman Mao sent someone to find the Mao Anqing brothers who had been wandering in Shanghai for 5 years, Mao Anqing was 13 years old at this time, but when they faced the members of the underground party, they were so vigilant and panicked, like a wounded little beast, everyone present wept.
However, everyone was able to recognize each other, and the underground party organization sent the brothers to study in the Soviet Union, and the brothers were able to exchange letters with their father, who had been missing for nearly 10 years.
It can be imagined how deeply the brothers missed Chairman Mao at that time, and from Chairman Mao's reply, it can also be seen how much this tenacious revolutionary leader needs comfort in terms of emotion.
Fortunately, because of the hardships they experienced, Mao Anqing and his brother were very motivated, and Mao Anying later became an excellent Red Army soldier and entered Berlin with everyone, and was a real war hero. And Mao Anqing is not inferior, he studied very hard, not only had excellent grades, but also skipped grades, and was later successfully admitted to Oriental University.
In 1945, when Mao Anying returned to China, Chairman Mao was very happy, and he then wrote a letter to Mao Anqing. It is worth noting that at this time, New China was about to usher in a bigger war, and Chairman Mao had already begun to suffer from neurological disorders, but he still wrote excitedly in the letter: Anqing, my dear son... I hope that you will continue to study there and return to China in the future so that you can serve the people.
It is not difficult for us to see between the lines that Chairman Mao is also a human being, not a god, and he also has a strong desire to express his emotions, but he knows how to exercise restraint and restraint, and he can reflect his selflessness when expressing his personal feelings, and he never forgets to educate his son to serve the people.
In 1947, Mao Anqing finally returned to China. For this son who has been separated for more than 20 years, Chairman Mao also misses him a lot, looking at this son who has just joined the Communist Party with great confidence but thin stature, he once couldn't bear to look at him because of guilt.
However, Chairman Mao thought about it again and again and made a decision that made people feel unkind - to appoint Mao Anqing to go to Heishan County, Heilongjiang Province under the pseudonym Yang Yongshou to participate in the pilot work of land reform.
I have to mention here that Mao Anqing was hit on the head by a foreign governor when he was young, and his body has always been very poor, his spirit can't stand the stimulation, and he can't withstand the cold. However, at that time, it was more than minus 30 degrees Celsius in Montenegro County, and there was a serious epidemic of Keshan disease and bandits.
But Mao Anqing did not complain about his father's decision, and took the initiative to participate in the pilot of that year, and was quickly recognized by the local people.
According to the memories of the older generation of soldiers: Mao Anqing did not have a little frame back then, and he went deep into the peasant masses to eat, live and work with everyone. In addition, he made use of his expertise in Russian, familiar with abacus, and able to play a variety of musical instruments, and constantly publicized policies and enlivened rural life, leaving a deep impression on the minds of the masses.
But Chairman Mao did not commend him, but kept his affairs under pressure and did not let them be announced. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mao Anqing worked as a translator in the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee with his expertise in Russian, and since then he has translated a large number of works, and has made small achievements in the translation department.
However, Mao Anqing and Chairman Mao's personalities are very similar, and they are focused on work, which leads to the situation that the 37-year-old mentioned in the opening chapter is not married. In this regard, Chairman Mao had to take time to care about his life events.
Fortunately, Mao Anqing later really found the love of his life, which was his sister-in-law's sister Ms. Shao Hua, and the two hit it off at first sight and soon became friends. During this period, Chairman Mao inquired about the relationship between the two many times, and finally contributed to the marriage of the two on the eve of May Day in 1960.
Chairman Mao is actually very concerned about his sons, although he shows "unkindness", and every time he tells them in his letters to serve the people. But when Mao Anqing and his wife have conflicts, he will always take the time to mediate.
When Mao Anqing was sick, he kept writing letters to encourage him. Especially in 1970, when Mao Anqing gave birth to his first son, Chairman Mao personally gave his son a resounding name - Mao Xinyu.
It's a pity that until his death in 1976, Chairman Mao couldn't get along with this son who made him feel guilty all his life, because he still had to deal with a lot of big things back then.
After Chairman Mao's death, Mao Anqing was like a bolt from the blue, and his health was getting worse and worse.
However, he then cheered up and continued to engage in revolutionary work. In the days that followed, he had been implementing Chairman Mao's ideas, and had led everyone to re-walk the Long March, recorded the history of the Red Revolution, and left a large number of revolutionary propaganda works. He spent the rest of his life practicing his father's teachings.
In March 2007, Mao Anqing passed away at the age of 84. For Chairman Mao's only surviving son, both in the people and the central government, they are very concerned about him.
Less than 20 minutes after his death, central leaders and friends immediately came to visit him in the hospital and called to express his condolences. Later, the relatives also set up a mourning hall in Xishan to accept the condolences of people from all walks of life.
In the early morning of April 2, 2007, the auditorium of Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery welcomed Mao Anqing's family, and more than 20 Mao family members came to bid farewell to Mao Anqing and see him off for the last time.
In addition, five or six thousand people from all walks of life came to mourn. According to a gentleman who did not want to be named, he got up at five o'clock, and his daughter, who is in college, also took leave to mourn.
The mourning and joy are low, the crowd is crowded, and the layers of wreaths and couplets extend from the auditorium to the outside of the courtyard. With the pain of Mao Anqing and the special feelings for Chairman Mao, people bid farewell to this revolutionary soldier here.
Of course, the staff also organized the masses to enter the farewell room, and the whole condolence process lasted more than two hours, and the mourners bowed to Mao Anqing's body in a row of four, and Mao Anqing's family members, namely Li Min, Li Ne, Shao Hua and others, also shook hands with each mourner one by one.
At the same time, "People's Daily" praised Mao Anqing: calling him an ordinary and great person. The more you know about him, the more you admire, the more you understand, the more you are educated, and the more you understand, the more you miss.
Netizens also commented with tears in their eyes: Mao Anqing suffered so much in his life, but he didn't write a biography. Although he was the son of the founding leader, he remained unknown for decades. It is really worthy of being the son of a plain and unassuming leader, the son of an honest leader.