Seventy-two years have passed since the founding of New China, and China is no longer what it used to be.
Today's China has gradually embarked on the ranks of world powers, and the status of Chinese people in the world has also undergone earth-shaking changes.
China's ability to reach this step is inseparable from the selfless dedication of its revolutionary predecessors.
These revolutionary predecessors were not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice in the war to liberate China, and after the founding of New China, they still contributed their strength regardless of personal gains and losses for the construction and development of the motherland.
Deng Yingchao, known as one of the "Eight Elders of Governing the Country," made outstanding contributions to the cause of women's liberation in our country, and after a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee, she was to be appointed vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, but she was strongly opposed by her husband Zhou Enlai.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > know each other and love each other</h1>
Teenager Deng Yingchao
Deng Yingchao was born on February 4, 1904 in Nanning, Guangxi.
Her father, Deng Tingzhong, was a high-ranking military attaché of the imperial court, who was given the title of Wu Hanlin by the imperial court because of his superior military strength, and was also a former imperial bodyguard of the Guangxu Emperor, and was later appointed to the position of Zhentai in Nanning, Guangxi.
Because of his upright personality and relatively grumpy personality, he offended high-ranking officials at the top and was sent to Xinjiang.
In 1911, he died of illness, leaving 7-year-old Deng Yingchao and his mother to live together.
His mother, Yang Zhende, was a doctor, and after his father's death, the mother and daughter survived on their mother's practice of medicine. Her mother was a person who understood the great righteousness, and was very supportive of Deng Yingchao's revolutionary activities, and for a long time she covered zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao as a doctor to engage in underground revolutionary work, and in 1932, she entered the Central Soviet Region and became a doctor who specialized in treating the Red Army.
Yang Zhende
Deng Yingchao studied at the Beijing Civilian School and the Tianjin First Girls' Normal School.
After graduation, he was hired as a teacher by The Affiliated Elementary School of Peking Normal University and Tianjin Daren Girls' School.
In 1919, the "movement" broke out, and Deng Yingchao, who was just 15 years old, showed great enthusiasm and bravery in this movement, and once became a leading figure in the tianjin women's student movement.
Zhou Enlai, who was studying in Japan at this time, heard about the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, and he immediately returned to China to devote himself to the movement, when he was 21 years old.
At the beginning of the student movement, male and female students were separated, but with the development trend of the movement, in order to enhance the strength of the struggle and facilitate better unified coordination and management, the leaders of the student movement, after some deliberation, merged the male and female organizations together and established a unified student organization.
Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai, who rushed back from Japan to China, was very influential in the tianjin student circles.
At a student conference, Zhou Enlai wore a duck-tongue hat, a suit, and a pair of white leather shoes on his feet, standing on the podium to give a speech, Deng Yingchao stood under the stage, looking at the handsome man on the stage with a polite temperament, and sincerely expressed her admiration, she felt that Zhou Enlai looked really good-
In 1919, the student organization was preparing to establish an enlightenment society, and Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao, as the soul figures of the student world, decided to select 10 backbone men and women after consultation, and this enlightenment society later became the core organization of the Tianjin patriotic movement.
From this point on, Deng Yingchao and Zhou Enlai began to have contact.
In November 1920, Zhou Enlai went to France to study in order to find the truth to save the country.
Deng Yingchao taught and educated people in school, and for the sake of the Enlightenment Society, the two people often exchanged letters.
At the beginning of the period, the two of them only talked about some work matters, and as the correspondence became more and more frequent, they began to share their own anecdotes with each other.
With the deepening of the relationship, Zhou Enlai unconsciously fell in love with this cute little sister and began to convey love to Deng Yingchao in the letter, but Deng Yingchao did not care about Zhou Enlai's show of love at that time, because she knew that Zhou Enlai had a beautiful girlfriend.
Seeing that Deng Yingchao did not respond to his show of love, the wise Zhou Enlai probably guessed some reasons, and he told Deng Yingchao in the letter that he and his previous girlfriend had long since broken up, because the gap between the two individuals in political ideology and outlook on life was too big to continue to get along, so they parted ways.
Deng Yingchao faced Zhou Enlai's more and more clear confession, the heart is still hesitant, and then she consulted her mother,Mother has seen Zhou Enlai, and her impression of him is very good, her mother said that through intuition, she feels that Zhou Enlai is definitely a reliable person, if you also think he is good, the two can look everywhere, Deng Yingchao listened to her mother's advice and decided to agree to Zhou Enlai's courtship.
At this moment, Deng Yingchao happened to receive a postcard sent by Zhou Enlai with a letter, the front of the postcard was a portrait of LiEbknecht and Luxemburg, and the message on the back of the postcard read: "Xiao Chao, I hope that in the future, the two of us will go to the guillotine together like the two of them." ”
After reading this letter, Deng Yingchao was completely moved by Zhou Enlai's persistent pursuit, and she no longer held back and did not hesitate, and immediately replied to Zhou Enlai with a letter clarifying the relationship between the two.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > revolutionary couple close comrades-in-arms</h1>
After Zhou Enlai returned to China in 1924, he threw himself wholeheartedly into the united front work of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
He really couldn't find time to meet his beloved first, and then went to Guangzhou and began to work on the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy.
In Zhou Enlai's view, revolutionary work is greater than everything, and Deng Yingchao understands Zhou Enlai very well and agrees with his attitude toward revolutionary work, because she herself treats work in this way.
On August 8, 1925, the like-minded lovers finally entered the halls of marriage and married.
Later in life, they were not only good partners for the rest of their lives, but also close comrades-in-arms on the road of revolution.
After marriage, Deng Yingchao was assigned to the Guangzhou District Committee Women's Work Department as a minister.
Not long after getting married, Deng Yingchao found out that she was pregnant, but when the situation was very bad, in order not to affect the work, Deng Yingchao hid from Zhou Enlai, went to the drug store to buy some fetal medicine, and decided to secretly beat the fetus off, and as a result, after taking the medicine, it was painful to die and live.
After Zhou Enlai learned of this incident, he had a big fire against Deng Yingchao for the first time.
Later, Deng Yingchao became pregnant again, and the expected date of the child's delivery should be March 1927, when Premier Zhou was not around, he was sent to Shanghai by the organization to preside over the work, and Deng Yingchao's mother accompanied her in Guangzhou.
On March 21, when Deng Yingchao gave birth, because the fetus was too large to cause difficult childbirth, the child had not been born for three days and three nights, and in the case of really impossible, the doctor could only take emergency measures to take the child out, and the child died not long after it was taken out. After this, Deng Yingchao never got pregnant again.
The child's premature death made Deng Yingchao very sad, and her body was also very weak, she dragged her weak body around, and since then her body has fallen ill and basically can no longer have children.
In 1934, Deng Yingchao was diagnosed with tuberculosis, at that time the medical conditions were extremely poor, and there was a lack of medical treatment, so there was no normal treatment, and just in time for the Red Army's fifth anti-encirclement and suppression failed miserably, she and the troops embarked on a long march, she endured the pain of illness and comrades to cross the meadows and climb the snowy mountains.
After the end of the Long March, the organization immediately arranged for her to secretly go to a hospital in Beiping for treatment.
Immediately after recovering from her illness and being discharged from the hospital, she threw herself into revolutionary work again.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="44" > worked all his life for the rights and interests of women and children</h1>
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, beacons burned on the land of China, Chinese people were poisoned by the flames of war, countless people were displaced, and countless children became poor orphans.
Deng Yingchao saw this situation and began to plan the establishment of a childcare home.
In seven years, under the call and leadership of Deng Yingchao, 53 nursery schools were successfully established, and about 30,000 homeless children lived in nursery schools.
After these children grew up, many of them became the pillars of our country and made different contributions in all walks of life.
Therefore, they all affectionately call Deng Yingchao "Mother Deng", and they deeply know that without Mother Deng's hard work, there would be no today.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="50" > support her husband's decision without complaint</h1>
In 1949, new China was founded, and the Party Central Committee began to prepare for the establishment of the people's government, and this important task fell to Zhou Enlai. In terms of personnel arrangements, Zhou Enlai was carefully considered, and everyone who made great contributions to the motherland would be assigned a suitable leadership position.
Everyone was properly arranged, but Du Du did not arrange a position for his wife.
For Premier Zhou's approach, Deng Yingchao gladly accepted, there was no objection, she has lived together for so many years, she understands what her husband thinks, she understands him.
However, others could not see it, Deng Yingchao was no worse than anyone else in terms of work ability, and she was no less than anyone else on her contribution to the revolution, and everyone felt unfair to Deng Yingchao.
Some people directly found Zhou Enlai to complain about Deng Yingchao, saying that how can there be inequality between men and women in the new society?
Premier Zhou said that this has nothing to do with equality and inequality between men and women, mainly to avoid suspicion and avoid others from giving opinions behind their backs.
In this way, during Zhou Enlai's tenure as premier, Deng Yingchao always worked silently for the women's federation of the whole country.
In 1975, in accordance with his seniority and work contributions, Deng Yingchao was elected vice chairman of the National People's Congress Committee.
Unexpectedly, he was strongly opposed by Zhou Enlai, and Deng Yingchao lost the opportunity of vice-state level.
Deng Yingchao still did not have any complaints, and she used her actions to illustrate her support and understanding for Premier Zhou.
In June 1983, at the suggestion of Hua Guofeng, she was elected by the Party Central Committee as the chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, belonging to the zhengguo level, at that time she was more than 80 years old, although she was old and frail, she still insisted on working hard at her post and played an important role in the formulation of major decisions of the party and the state.
He died in Beijing on July 11, 1992, at the age of 88.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="63" > Conclusion:</h1>
Deng Yingchao, one of the "Eight Elders of Governing the Country," made outstanding contributions to China's revolutionary cause in this lifetime, and paid a lot for the construction and reform of the motherland. She has spent her life fighting for the rights of women and the protection of children.
She and Premier Zhou have no biological children of their own, but children who call her "mother" are all over the country. She is a model among women, and she and Premier Zhou are models in the world's husband and wife.