Li Min returned to Chairman Mao in 1948, when she was 12 years old.
Unlike children who grew up in China, 12-year-old Jiaojiao is unfamiliar with Beijing and knows almost nothing about China.
However, she was already in Beijing, and everything in Beijing made her feel new and excited.
Pictured| Chairman Mao and his daughter Li Min
Beijing, which has been liberated, is full of people dancing and smiling faces.
Jiaojiao was taken out of the settlement for the first time and first went to Tiananmen Square. In the wide square, flocks of birds rose and fell, chirping, and they flew so safely that there was no more gunfire to disturb them.
Petite looked at them from a distance, eager to go forward, but afraid of flying them.
Later, she went to the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Earth. Her uncle told her that this was the Temple of Heaven, and that ancient emperors had come here to sacrifice to the heavens for the sake of agricultural harvests. "What is an emperor?" "What is the sacrifice of heaven?" Petite asked in a low voice.
When she asked this, she stopped those people.
Beijing is novel, and everything makes her not see enough. But what made her happiest was that she could be with her father, even though sometimes she missed her mother.
Pictured: Chairman Mao
But she couldn't understand why she couldn't live with her father and mother at the same time. How happy that would be! Why can't my mother come to Beijing? Why can't I live with my dad?
With intuition, she understood that it was because of Jiang Qing. Shortly after jiaojiao arrived with her father from Harbin, she also returned to Beijing from the Soviet Union. Jiang Qing was also recuperating in the Soviet Union.
However, Dad loves petite, loves petite, and this love brings joy to petite. Jiaojiao also knew some uncles, such as Uncle Ye Zilong and Uncle Li Yinqiao. They all love to be petite.
Dad was busy at work, and when She got up, She didn't know how long she had been working on her desk, and when She slept, the lights in Her Father's room were still on.
Whenever Chairman Mao rested on a chair between his work, the sensible petite gently ran forward, wrapped his arms around his father's neck, and kissed his father face to face, so that his father laughed and his father kissed her.
Pictured chairman Mao and Li Min
Dad was no longer the majestic dad in the portrait, the serious leader, but a good father who was affectionate and loving to her.
She saw her father alone in the study, silent, and Jiaojiao was a little frightened, not knowing what was wrong.
She asked Dad. Dad said that aunt He Yi sacrificed to find his brother Xiao Mao.
Aunt He Yi was the wife of her uncle Mao Zeqin, and her father had fought for the Chinese revolution all his life and sacrificed so many relatives, but he did not expect that his aunt had died when most of China's territory had been liberated.
Jiaojiao knew that her father remembered the past and was even more distressed by her aunt's sacrifice.
Jiaojiao has only seen her aunt a few times, she likes her aunt, likes her wind and fire, likes her warmth, and her aunt also loves Jiaojiao very much.
Picture 丨 Mao Zedong and Li Min
It was so sad to see Daddy, and it was also very sad for Petite.
In the eyes of Jiaojiao, 1949 was the busiest time for Dad. At this time, she could not yet appreciate the deep meaning of this busyness.
The guns of the Chinese People's Liberation War were only sporadically sounded in the northwest, southwest, and other frontiers of the Chinese land, and for Chairman Mao, the sound of guns and firecrackers was no different, but was sounded for the establishment of a new China.
On October 1, Chairman Mao walked out of his study, ascended the Tiananmen Tower, proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China, and personally raised a bright five-star red flag for the republic he created.
Below Tiananmen Square, a mighty procession slowly walked along Chang'an Avenue. The sound of the salute resounded through the clouds. People are immersed in joy and happiness.
Mao Zedong stood on Tiananmen Square in a new costume, reading out China's past, present, and beautiful tomorrow: the People's Republic of China was founded, and the Chinese people stood up!
Thousands of people gathered in front of Tiananmen Square to listen to the voices that had been longing for more than a hundred years.
Chairman Mao Zedong solemnly declared: The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China was established today
Before and after this, the Monument to the People's Heroes was erected, and Chairman Mao inscribed an inscription for it: "The People's Heroes will never die."
On October 1, the day, Chairman Mao stood on the tower of Tiananmen Square, drawing a boundary for Chinese history.
On this day, Chinese people began to have their own country. Shine your own sun on your own land.
A nation was established, a land traumatized by war was slowly waking up, and a new historical stage was placed in Mao Zedong's vision. This made him busier than before liberation, and his brain was moving at a higher speed.
"What we're familiar with is going to be idle, and what we're not familiar with is forcing us to do it."
However, for Jiaojiao, this means that Dad will become busier and busier, and it will be more and more difficult for her to see Dad.
Later, she moved into Zhongnanhai with her father, and she also reached the age when it was time to go to school.
Lived in the Soviet Union for eight years. According to the ten-year education system, she should go to secondary school.
But she still couldn't speak Chinese, not only could she not speak, but she just sounded like a stumble. There was no way, the organization had to send her to Yuying Elementary School.
She sat with boys and girls who were almost half a head shorter than her, learning the long-learned and familiar method of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
For her, the obstacle was only in Chinese, and the square characters were arranged one by one, which was difficult to remember and difficult to understand.
Although she had studied in Harbin, it was too difficult to really familiarize herself with. However, she felt that learning life was still interesting and that she could be with a large group of children.
Since then, Jiaojiao has officially owned her own name: Li Min.
Analects day: A gentleman is sensitive to words and sensitive to deeds. Mao Zedong took two words from this sentence, one for his daughter's name. The name has what a father expects of his daughter.
In addition to Jiaojiao's self-study, Chairman Mao also invited teachers for her.
Starting from the simplest word recognition, grouping words, listening, writing, reading and teaching, starting from the most critical stage.
What a difficult step. Chinese characters are no more complex than Russian, it is too complicated, how much effort jiaojiao has to put into it. Time is too limited, usually to follow the class, she only uses her spare time to learn.
Sundays and holidays were gone, and she couldn't play like any other kids anymore. Petite can only go to the window for ten minutes in an intermittent period of time, watching the other children jumping leather bands and checkers together.
One point of hard work and one point of harvest, the kung fu pays off, and the delicate language level quickly improved.
In those days, there wasn't much to play with. In order to let his daughter rest well, Chairman Mao often took her to a dance party held in Zhongnanhai.
Chairman Mao also had another intention: to let Li Min often go to public places to contact people, so that he could be physically and mentally healthy.
At the dance, Li Min met Uncle Zhou Enlai and Zhu De's father. Uncle Zhou Enlai danced freely and turned quickly. Daddy Zhu De's dancing style is leisurely, steady, and loves to move forward, and everyone calls him "cart style".
Pictured| Li Min and his father Chairman Mao
Chairman Mao danced with great range and boldness, swinging his shoulders on the left, swinging his shoulders on the right, and taking big strides. Everyone jokingly called his dancing style "swinging style"
This is the world of adults, and Li Min is not used to it.
On several occasions, after accompanying her father to the dance hall, she sat for a while and then quietly slipped away. Later, when Dad discovered her "covert operations," he asked her, "Why are you leaving?" ”
"I don't do ballroom dancing." She said.
"The threesome must have my teacher, learn from others." Chairman Mao said.
Later, her sister Li Ne and others became her dance "instructors", so that Li Min learned to dance ballroom dance.
Chairman Mao was very pleased. When he went to the dance hall again, as soon as the music sounded, he asked Li Min to accompany him to dance the first dance music, saw Li Min's skillful dance skills, and said happily: "Right, this is called the combination of work and leisure." ”
Dad was tall, and in front of him, Li Min looked particularly small.
In the dance of dad swinging and striding forward, Li Min was busy with his hands, often stepping on his father's feet, every time he stepped on it, Li Min looked at his father with embarrassment, and his father smiled at her, and he swayed again, and Li Min was encouraged to jump up with his father.
Relaxation is relaxation, but Li Min does not relax on her own requirements, she knows what her father means, relaxation is to let her learn better.
So, when she was making up for her class in her father's study, there was a ping-pong table next to her, and she didn't play. Stalin gave her father a television, and she couldn't remember watching it.
In the eyes of everyone, a child like Li Min should be the happiest child in the world, who should open his mouth with food, stretch out his hands in clothes, wear silk and silk, and eat mountain treasures and seafood.
But who would have thought that she was no different from ordinary children, and in some respects she was even inferior to ordinary children.
Many years later, as an ordinary person, Li Min will be grateful to his father for this, and it is he who makes it possible for Li Min to integrate into the public and into all sentient beings in the future life path.
Figure | In 1951, the first volume of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong was published and distributed, and the relevant departments of the central government held a grand celebration meeting
Li Min's dining table can be said to be the first dining table in China, what is on this table?
In fact, it is extremely simple, and breakfast is the same as most people in the country: thin porridge, steamed buns and small pickles.
Li Min has lived independently since childhood, especially in the Yan'an Nursery and the International Children's Hospital, which has enabled her to have the ability to take care of herself. After returning to China, her father let her do things independently, so her independence was already very strong.
After hard work, Li Min's learning has improved by leaps and bounds, and soon, she jumped from the second grade of Yuying Primary School to the fourth grade of Bayi Primary School.
A year later, she jumped to sixth grade. In the autumn of 1953, she was promoted to the Girls' High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University.
In addition to his father and mother, Li Min's closest people are the two brothers of Shore Ying and Shore Youth.
Picture 丨 Mao Anying and Mao Anying when they were children
They and Li Min suffered a lot during the war, they lost their mother Yang Kaihui, and since then, they have been wandering children for several years with their youngest brother, Kishi Long, who eventually died.
They cannot reveal their identities, so they have begged and lived on the streets like suffering children.
After moving to the Soviet Union and catching up with the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Kishi's brother took part in the war.
In the Soviet Union, my mother and my two older brothers, Li Min, relied on each other for their lives, and they formed a deep friendship between them.
Kishi is old, like an adult. Li Min only spent a few years with him.
In the Korean War in 1950, Chairman Mao sent Kishi Ying to the front line and serve as a staff officer at the headquarters of the Chinese Volunteer Army. He often accompanied Peng Dehuai to play chess. Unexpectedly, he died there, and his bones were buried in North Korea.
Pictured chairman Mao and Mao Anying father and son taking a group photo
During that time, Dad seemed to be much older, and he quietly shed tears when no one was there, and he ate less.
At this time, Li Min just sat next to his father and comforted him. She didn't know what to say to her father, Brother Kishi was his father's first son, and he had suffered so much, and Kishi was very talented and capable.
How could his father, who had lost him, not grieve? This is the white-haired man sending the black-haired man.
Li Min's kindness is known to her friends around her. Her character, her personality, when she was in school, her classmates and teachers liked her.
22-year-old Li Min is in the flower season, although she is not beautiful, but she has a touching charm of a girl. She was like a girl of this age, like a bud waiting to bloom.
Figure | Kong Linghua and Li Min
The moment of love has arrived when the fire of youth rushes through the heart. Li Min, this young girl who has been tempered by life, has received the sincere, pure and warm love she yearns for.
Kong Linghua, Li Min's boyfriend, is not only talented, but also handsome. More importantly, others are good and have good hearts and eyes. He was the son of General Kong Congzhou.
When he was studying at Bayi Elementary School, he and Li Min were classmates. This matter was soon known to Chairman Mao, who called Li Min to his side and cordially inquired about his daughter Kong Linghua.
After learning that Kong Linghua was the son of General Kong Congzhou, Chairman Mao was very happy. Li Min's dangling heart finally let go.
After the stage of love, the fruit of love has been quietly ripe in the hearts of Li Min and Kong Linghua.
In the second half of 1959, they agreed to get married, which was a great joy in those poor years, and nothing could reduce this level of happiness.
The wedding date is set.
Figure | Li Min and Kong Linghua were at Chairman Mao's side
The wedding was imminent, but Chairman Mao went to Lushan for a meeting and could not return to Beijing for a while.
At this time, Li Min was sweetly planning his wedding. Chairman Mao came to the long-distance telephone to inquire about the preparations for the wedding, and suggested that it be postponed for a while, and that he must wait for his return.
Finally, the Lushan Conference was over, but Chairman Mao had not yet returned, and he went to Beidaihe, where he convened a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
At this time, Li Min is also a student who has just come out of school, the wedding is imminent, her parents are not around, and many things do not know how to prepare.
She called her father and asked when he could come back. Chairman Mao could not come back for a while because of the matter of the meeting, and Li Min was a little anxious, and she said to her father on the phone: "You are so big, please don't come back, we are not waiting!" ”
Chairman Mao knew that his daughter was anxious, comforted her on the phone, and wrote a letter. The letter was the same as on the phone, and he was going to officiate at their wedding.
At the turn of mid-to-late August, chairman Mao finally returned to Beijing, and Li Min and Kong Linghua went to the train station to meet their father and drive home with him.
Early the next morning, Chairman Mao went to Li Min and Kong Linghua to discuss the details and draw up a list of invited guests.
Figure | Li Min and Kong Linghua were married
Among those invited were Cai Chang, Deng Yingchao, Wang Jifan, Wang Jifan's granddaughter Hairong, grandson Wang Qihua, Mao Zedong's confidential director Ye Zilong, guard chief Li Yinqiao, and secretary Luo Guanglu.
On the 29th, the wedding ceremony was officially held in Zhongnanhai. There was no ceremony at the wedding, and there were not many guests invited, but the atmosphere was very pleasant.
Mao Zedong was particularly happy that day, he personally officiated the wedding for his beloved daughter, he wished Kong Linghua and Li Min happiness, hoped that they would learn from each other and make progress together.
Mao Zedong happily had a light meal with his family, drank celebratory wine together, and took photos as a souvenir. After the wedding banquet, he also invited the guests to watch a movie at the Spring Lotus Festival.
The wedding of several children, for various reasons, Chairman Mao did not attend. Only Li Min's wedding, he not only attended, but also personally presided over.
After marriage, they lived with their father in Fortress Garden, and lived in the small south house of Kikusho-in where Li Min lived.
Figure | Li Min and her husband Kong Linghua are together, with their first child Kong Jining in the middle
Their interiors are devoid of valuable fittings and new furniture, the house is not renovated, not even the walls are well painted, but they are still happy.
They finally developed from lovers to husband and wife. After all, they lived by the side of the great leader of the people, their father, Mao Zedong.
Mao Zedong liked them very much, cared about their growth, talked to them often, and poured great fatherly love into them.