As the saying goes, "People are refreshed when they are happy", ordinary people are like this, and so are great people. Everyone may not know that although Chairman Mao loves to smoke, he does not seem to be very good at drinking, and he rarely drinks with people in his life, even his birthday is a drop of wine.
But chairman Mao, who is the same one, has also made "exceptions" twice. Chairman Mao took the initiative to drink alcohol twice, once when his son Mao Anying got married, and once when his daughter Li Min got married.
As a father, the greatest happiness in life is to watch his children grow up and settle down, and Chairman Mao is no exception. On the question of children, Chairman Mao had many regrets; he had ten children, but unfortunately six of them were lost or died in the revolutionary years.
It may be that after experiencing too much pain of separation, Chairman Mao cherished and loved the children who could grow up safely. We can also imagine how happy Chairman Mao really was at his children's wedding, and it is no wonder that he would drink freely.
Chairman Mao
Li Min was the child of Chairman Mao and He Zizhen, and when Li Min was born, shortly after the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Li Min was born on the kang in Yan'an. In the winter of 1936, He Zizhen was already in labor, and they had been living in a dark and damp cave all along, which was obviously not conducive to production for a pregnant woman.
So Chairman Mao arranged for He Zizhen to move to a watchtower, a watchtower made of stone but topped with mud on a sorghum pole.
Although the new residence was no longer damp, such a simple residence was difficult to resist the cold wind, and He Zizhen lived here, always frozen by the cold north wind on the leaking plateau. But fortunately, the strong He Zizhen still gave birth to a daughter safely.
When He Zizhen gave birth, Deng Yingchao came to visit their mother and son, and she happily held the baby and said lovingly: "What a little petite baby, a little petite!" ”
When Chairman Mao on the side heard Deng Yingchao's words, he couldn't help but think of such a sentence in the "Miscellaneous Records of Xijing": "Wenjun is good, his eyebrows are like looking at distant mountains, and his face is as pure as a hibiscus." ”
Photo of Lee Min when she was a child
Therefore, Chairman Mao gave the newborn baby a nickname of "Jiaojiao", and people habitually called her "Jiaojiao", which was Chairman Mao's eldest daughter Li Min.
And the name Li Min will not exist until ten years later. Everyone may wonder why Chairman Mao's daughter is surnamed Li, even if she follows her mother's surname, it should be "He"?
That's because Chairman Mao had a pseudonym called "Li Desheng," which was created during the revolutionary years for covert work, and this is Chairman Mao's favorite pseudonym.
Later, when Xiao Jiao graduated from primary school and was about to go to middle school, she could no longer use her nickname as before, so Chairman Mao said to his daughter: "My baby is going to middle school and has become a big child, and the big child will have a big name. ”
Li Min also has a half-sister, Li Ne, whose names come from an old saying: "A gentleman is sensitive to his deeds and to his words." Such a name is precisely the expression of Chairman Mao's deep expectations for children.
Li Min (right) and Li Ne pose
Chairman Mao was a Native of Hunan, and the concept of clans in Hunan was still very deep, and Chairman Mao's own name followed the character format in the family tree and belonged to the "Ze" generation, and there were eleven people in the Mao family at that time who were all Ze characters.
But when chairman Mao arrived, he completely broke through the old clan family law and pinned his desire to transform the country into the names of his descendants.
For example, the word "shore" in chairman Mao's son's name only takes the meaning of tall, and for example, the daughter Mao Jinhua, who died prematurely, Xiao Maomao, the lost son, and Li Min, whose nickname is Jiaojiao, and Li Ne, whose original name was Mao Lan, and then "Mao Xinyu" of his grandchildren.
Not following the norm, but only expressing affection or placing expectations on oneself, this is exactly the alternative manifestation of Chairman Mao's lifelong ambition.
Chairman Mao attached great importance to the cultivation of his daughter, and after Li Min returned to China, for a long time he studied cultural knowledge under the guidance of his father. Because she grew up in the Soviet Union in her early years, Li Min's foundation in Chinese was very poor, Chairman Mao asked her to read the four famous works, and strictly forbade her to "cut corners" to read the Russian version.
Chairman Mao and Li Min
During her studies in Beijing, in addition to completing her daily schoolwork, Li Min spent almost all her time reading and studying. Once, Li Min saw chairman Mao's "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty" on his desk and asked Chairman Mao, "Daddy, can I read this book well?" ”
Chairman Mao was naturally very happy to see his daughter becoming more and more motivated to learn, and cheerfully let the children take away the books. In addition, Chairman Mao also took Li Min to listen to cross-talk, watch Peking opera, and ask the teacher to tutor her tang poems, Song ci, Yuan qu and other traditional Chinese studies.
It was precisely because of Chairman Mao's teachings that Li Min finally crossed the threshold of "Chinese" and gradually formed a good cultural quality.
Chairman Mao's education of children is not only for them to read and write, but also for them to cultivate an independent and self-reliant personality. Therefore, even if he later became the president of the country, his daughter would just go to school like an ordinary child.
When Li Min was studying, she never thought of herself as Chairman Mao's daughter, and the guardian column in her student records was always filled in by Chairman Mao's health doctor Wang Hebin.
Chairman Mao, Wang Hebin (second from left) and Li Min (second from right) traveled together
During her time at school, Li Min lived on campus for a long time, and only returned home to reunite with her father on weekends, enjoying a brief father-daughter relationship at dinner.
Usually, when li min went to school, Li Min only took the bus like other classmates, and Chairman Mao never allowed them to take his own bus.
In fact, when it comes to self-reliance and self-improvement, Li Min has behaved very well since she was a child, because she has gone to the Soviet Union since she was four years old to live with her mother He Zizhen.
Later, the Soviet-German war broke out, the domestic situation in the Soviet Union became very severe, He Zizhen and his children lived very hard, and Little Li Min also suffered a lot.
He Zizhen and Li Min were in the Soviet Union
Until the age of twelve, Li Min returned to China, many years of foreign life, so that Li Min not only spoke her mother tongue, even her father has forgotten what she looks like, or her brother Mao Anying told her: Our father, is Mao Zedong.
Li Min, who had been away for many years and lacked his father's care for a long time, was very much looking forward to seeing Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao was thinking about his precious daughter day and night, so as soon as Li Min returned to China, he was immediately taken to Chairman Mao.
Since then, Li Min has been living with Chairman Mao and learning and growing up under his teachings. Because he grew up in the Soviet Union, Li Min was particularly good at singing and dancing during his studies at domestic school.
When she was in Bayi School, she often participated in various cultural performance activities, and because she was kind and kind, she was deeply loved by her classmates.
It was also at this time that Li Min met Kong Linghua. Kong Linghua was the son of Kong Congzhou, the founding lieutenant general of New China, the most important comrade-in-arms of Yang Hucheng, one of the backbone forces in the Xi'an Incident, and the iron hero of Yongji City's bloody war against the Japanese Kou.
Kong Congzhou is a northwestern native and is very generous, and Chairman Mao once commented: "Kong Congzhou is an honest man. Kong Congzhou's son Kong Linghua, can be described as a "tiger father without a dog", he is the president of the student union of Bayi School, who performs very well in the school and is deeply loved by teachers and classmates.
Kong Linghua and Li Min, as talented children and talented girls of Bayi School, have become friends because of the frequent contact with the affairs of the campus.
At the beginning of the love sinus, the appreciation of the opposite sex can easily transform into the bud of love, Kong Linghua and Li Min eventually heat up their feelings from friendship to love.
After graduating from middle school, Li Min was admitted to the Girls' Affiliated Middle School of Shida University, while Kong Linghua was admitted to the Second Department of The Affiliated Middle School of Shida University.
Different from Li Min's talented female attributes, Kong Linghua is a science and engineering fan who loves new technology for ten minutes, but this does not affect the love between them, but it is the pursuit of self-motivated studious spirit, making them feel more and more that the other party is what they want in life.
Li Min and Kong Linghua
During the love affair, Kong Linghua always shared some of the latest scientific and technological publications and novel anthologies with Li Min, among which Li Min was most interested in the works of the Soviet popular science writer Yilin, and the two often discussed the knowledge together.
As the feelings between the two sides became more and more firm, Li Min, who was still in high school, decided to confess to her father.
When Chairman Mao learned of this, he was very happy and very optimistic about his future son-in-law Kong Linghua, saying: "I have always advocated that the marriage of my children should be decided by myself, and adults should not interfere. ”
At this time, Chairman Mao's appreciation of Kong Linghua was entirely out of affirmation of an outstanding young talent, and Chairman Mao did not know Kong Linghua's family background at this time, even Li Min himself was not clear, just as Kong Linghua did not know that Li Min was Chairman Mao's daughter.
One day, Li Min came to visit her father as usual, and when Chairman Mao chatted with her, he asked, "Which one is Xiao Kong's father?" Where does he work? ”
Li Min replied, "I didn't ask, and he didn't say that." ”
Chairman Mao then said, "Then how do you make friends with him?" Parents don't know what to do, how to talk about the object yo! ”
Chairman Mao and his daughter Li Min are together
Because Kong Linghua was also a student of the Bayi School, which only recruited the children of military cadres at that time, Li Min felt that Kong Linghua's father most likely also worked in the army.
In the face of his father's questioning, Li Min replied: "I just made friends with him, why do I know what his father does?" ”
Chairman Mao told her at this point: "I still have to ask about it and understand the situation." ”
Later, in the process of chatting with Kong Linghua, talking about each other's families, Kong Linghua told Li Min and Pan.
When Li Min told Chairman Mao about this, Chairman Mao was surprised and said, "Oh, it turned out to be General Kong Congzhou, I am familiar with it, I am familiar with it." ”
After that, Chairman Mao lit a cigarette and pondered while smoking it, and Li Min nervously asked, "Then do you agree?" ”
Chairman Mao smiled and said, "Good, good, I agree." It can also be seen from here that Chairman Mao was a very enlightened man, and he did not oppose his daughter's premature love, but supported her pursuit of true love.
Although Li Min was not young at that time, after all, he was still in high school, this kind of thing is placed in our modern era, it is indispensable for parents and schools to beat the Mandarin duck, but excessive intervention can sometimes backfire, and Chairman Mao's way of handling it is worth learning from us.
Li Min and Kong Linghua's love affair begins with appreciation and promotes each other, which is the most ideal state. It can be seen that the parents of both sides are very successful in educating their children, which is an important reason why this story can continue romantically.
With the consent of the father, the mother's opinion is of course very important. When Li Min consulted her mother, He Zizhen also recognized it and supported them to get married.
Li Min's mother, He Zizhen, was also a legendary woman from a family of intellectuals and businessmen, with a good family environment.
Although born in the old society, her parents did not treat their daughters with the same breadth as the old family, which cultivated her cheerful and strong personality, so that He Zizhen followed her brother in the revolution when she was a teenager, and was called "Yongxin Yizhihua" by the people in her hometown, and the three brothers and sisters were called "Yongxin Sanjie".
Chairman Mao and He Zizhen
It seems not surprising that one of her parents is a great man who has pioneered the world, and the other is a famous heroine, and it seems not surprising that their daughter has been educated and nurtured to make her an independent and wise progressive youth.
However, although He Zizhen agreed to Li Min's association with Kong Linghua and marry, she still suggested that she postpone the marriage for a year because she hoped that Li Min would complete her studies.
He Zizhen feels that it is always good for girls to read more books before starting a family, so as not to have time to study after starting a family and not be able to make progress. For her mother's suggestion, Li Min is also deeply impressed.
After that, Li Min and Kong Linghua continued to run their love, and after the two were promoted to universities separately, although one was at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the other at Beijing Normal University, the feelings between them had long been inseparable.
In 1958, Li Min brought Kong Linghua back to Zhongnanhai, and Chairman Mao was overjoyed with Kong Linghua, looking at his daughter and son-in-law with a happy look on his face.
Chairman Mao and Li Min, Kong Linghua
Kong Linghua also brought Li Min back to his home, and Kong Congzhou and his wife also liked Li Min very much, as if they were already their daughter-in-law.
Kong Linghua's sister Kong Shujing and Li Min also have a very good relationship, the two call each other sisters, during Kong Shujing's hospitalization due to illness, because Kong Linghua is busy with his studies, or Li Min often visits him, which also makes the feelings of the two sisters more and more deep.
This affair is gradually only a matter of time.
Finally, in August 1959, Chairman Mao prepared to hold a wedding for Li Min, which was set at the Summer Palace in Fengze Garden, Zhongnanhai, on August 29.
When he saw the list of guests that Li Min had determined to invite, Chairman Mao said, "Your brother is in Beijing, and you should invite him." ”
After a while, Chairman Mao said, "There is still one left, call your Sister Yuanzhi here." ”
Chairman Mao's older brother and Sister Yuanzhi mentioned here are He Lucheng and Mao Yuanzhi, who are the daughters of Chairman Mao's eldest brother Mao Zemin and the son of Chairman Mao's second brother, Mao Zeqin.
Mao Zemin gave birth to Mao Yuanzhi with his ex-wife Wang Shulan, a girl who had a difficult life in her early years and later went to Yan'an to meet her uncle Chairman Mao, but her father Mao Zemin had already died in Xinjiang.
He Lucheng was the son of Mao Zeqin and He Yi, and He Yi was the sister of Chairman Mao's wife He Zizhen, but unfortunately Mao Zeqin died for the revolution, and He Yi was unfortunately killed in a car accident while searching for his lost son for Chairman Mao.
China's missile expert He Lucheng (left)
He Lucheng grew up under the care of his aunt He Zizhen, and although he lost his childhood, he studied very hard, so he was admitted to Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1952, and was later assigned to the Fifth Research Institute to study surface-to-surface missiles, while he was in Beijing.
For the two younger brothers, Chairman Mao always had a debt in his heart, so he specially promised to invite his nephew and niece to come and reunite the family.
However, because He Lucheng's work unit was highly confidential, Li Min did not contact him. Li Min's cousin Mao Yuanzhi brought her son Cao Yunshan to attend Li Min's wedding, Mao Yuanzhi and Chairman Mao have not seen each other for five years, and this time li min congratulated him, which can also be regarded as a comfort to Chairman Mao.
On the day of the wedding, Chairman Mao took out four hundred yuan out of his own pocket and set up a three-table banquet, which was also invited to some relatives and friends who were very close, in addition to Mao Yuanzhi's relatives, there were also more than thirty people such as Cai Chang and Deng Yingchao.
Chairman Mao's daughter Li Min took a wedding group photo
The specifications of the three-table banquet were actually quite high for Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao and Yang Kaihui were married, and they only spent six oceans and held a banquet.
When the wedding ceremony was held for his son Mao Anying, a three-table banquet was set up at the Juxiang Bookstore in Zhongnanhai. However, according to the daughter-in-law Liu Siqi recalled that it should be two tables, this is not important.
The key point is that Chairman Mao raised a rare glass at the wedding banquet of his daughter Li Min and drank several glasses of wine with his relatives, friends and comrades-in-arms. This is still rare in ordinary times, and Chairman Mao generally rarely drinks alcohol except for the necessary socializing when meeting foreign guests.
In the early years, Chairman Mao and his two younger brothers participated in the revolution together, and once met the second brother Mao Zeqin in Jiangxi, and Mao Zeqin wanted to invite the eldest brother who had been reunited for a long time to drink, but Chairman Mao refused, and said: "Drinking is wrong, please help yourself." It can be seen that Chairman Mao did not drink alcohol, but only out of self-discipline, he did not want to delay his work because of drinking.
Later, Mikoyan, a member of the Soviet Political Bureau, visited Yan'an and frequently gave a toast to Chairman Mao at the wine table, intending to compete with Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao sensed Mikoyan's intentions and said, "Chinese pay attention to eating fragrant and spicy, how about each of us with a glass of wine and a mouthful of chili peppers?" ”
Chairman Mao (second from left) receives Mikoyan (third from left)
Mikoyan readily agreed, and as a result, two glasses of wine went down, and Mikoyan ate two bites of chili peppers, and his face was red to the root of his neck. Chairman Mao deliberately said at this time: "What, you can't drink it?" So why don't I drink a glass of wine and you eat a chili pepper? ”
Mikoyan waved his hand repeatedly: "No, no, I will drink a glass of wine, and you will eat a chili pepper." Chairman Mao smiled and agreed, and as a result, Chairman Mao did not have anything to do, and Mikoyan was already drunk.
This kind of liquor bureau belongs to socializing, and Chairman Mao also had to do it, and in addition, he is rarely seen drinking. But at the wedding of his son Mao Anying, Chairman Mao heroically raised a glass and drank bitterly.
During the banquet, Chairman Mao also took a wine glass and said to Peng Dehuai: "The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was decided by the comrades of the Politburo through collective discussion, and it was his own decision for my son to join the Volunteer Army. You are the commander, and you see if you want to take him as a soldier. ”
Peng Dehuai also rarely saw the chairman so bold, and he also agreed very happily, and together with Chairman Mao, he drank all the wine in the cup, and then Chairman Mao took advantage of the happiness to drink several cups with everyone.
Chairman Mao at a banquet
It is just a pity that Mao Anying was not able to return safely, and I do not know what kind of complicated feelings Chairman Mao would have when he later recalled this incident.
Nearly ten years have passed, and now that another of Chairman Mao's children is about to start a family, Chairman Mao is still so energetic that he is unambiguous in drinking.
As a newcomer, Li Min, seeing his father so happy, his heart is naturally endlessly sweet and happy.
After marriage, Li Min's family first lived in Zhongnanhai, where they gave birth to Chairman Mao's first little grandson, that is, Kong Jining, which added a lot of happiness and happiness to Chairman Mao's later life.
Until 1964, Li Min's family moved out of Zhongnanhai and came to a private house in The Terracotta Hutong, living the life of ordinary people.
With Li Min's marriage and even moving away from Zhongnanhai, Chairman Mao's "little cotton jacket" is no longer as close to him as before.
Kong Linghua and Li Min in middle age
After moving away from Zhongnanhai, Li Min's Zhongnanhai access permit was confiscated, and she had to go through complicated procedures to see her father.
After his daughter left, Chairman Mao's yard was suddenly much more deserted, and he often looked at the fallen leaves in the courtyard, holding a cigarette in his hand and issuing a sigh.
Even the guards noticed that Chairman Mao seemed to be really old, and he began to have a lonely look in his eyes.
During Chairman Mao's illness, Li Min met Chairman Mao only three times. Once, at Chen Yi's memorial service, the father and daughter met, and Chairman Mao took Li Min's hand and said, rather complaining and full of pity: "Jiao Jiao, why don't you come to see me so often?" You're going to come to see me all the time." ”
In this regard, Li Min could only tears in his eyes and nodded his head unceasingly. The second time Li Min met Chairman Mao was when Chairman Mao was seriously ill, and Mao Yuanxin called her to visit.
On that occasion, Li Min only glanced at Chairman Mao and was told that the chairman had been rescued, and she was inconvenient to stay for a long time, and although Li Min did not give up, she could only leave in a hurry.
Chairman Mao in his later years
The last time Li Min saw Chairman Mao was a few days before Chairman Mao's death. Chairman Mao was lying on the hospital bed, and Li Min came to his bed with tears in his eyes, Chairman Mao saw his daughter who was thinking of his heart, and the pupils flashed with light, and he took Li Min's hand and asked her again: "Jiaojiao, you have come to see me, why don't you come to see me often?" ”
Li Min, who was bitter in his heart, could only cry silently and could not say a word for half a day.
Chairman Mao asked her again: "Jiaowa, how old are you this year?" ”
Li Min replied, "Thirty-nine." ”
Chairman Mao shook his head: "No, you are thirty-eight, and you have not yet had a birthday." ”
Thinking that his father remembered his birthday so clearly under such physical conditions, Li Min's heart was again a sour feeling, and he quickly cried into a tearful person.
A few days after Li Min left, Chairman Mao passed away.
At Chairman Mao's funeral, Li Min could no longer suppress her long-standing grievances, and she held Chairman Mao's body and cried out in pain, shouting loudly: "Daddy, Daddy..." But Chairman Mao could not come back.
Chairman Mao is dead
His father left, and Li Min seemed to have lost his mind, and his body became very weak, so he was approved to take sick leave.
During that time at home, she did not leave the house, but silently guarded her father's spiritual position. Since then, Li Min has lived a dull life as usual, running their family with her husband.
Unfortunately, Kong Linghua was hospitalized in a car accident in 1999 and died of a sudden heart attack during surgery. Her mother, He Zizhen, left her as early as 1984. Today, Li Min, accompanied by her children, quietly enjoys her old age.
Li Min is a lucky person because she has a great father. As a father, Chairman Mao's greatness lies not in the high achievements of his revolutionary cause, but in his selfless and great love for his children.
Chairman Mao was open-minded, and in the process of cultivating Li Min, his intentions could be seen everywhere, whether it was teaching her cultural knowledge or dealing with people in the world, which embodied his lofty belief as a great man.
Chairman Mao has no special care for his children; what he wants to cultivate is an independent, progressive, knowledgeable and capable successor to the proletarian cause, and his children are only one of the thousands of advanced masses in this society.
Li Min in his later years
Chairman Mao was successful, and his descendants, no matter what kind of surname and bloodline, were proud of him, proud of his great ideas, and devoted themselves to building our country.
Li Min's husband had been engaged in the cause of national defense for a long time, and after the reform and opening up, he used the money to do business in the sea to propagate Chairman Mao's thought, so much so that he died because he went to Guangzhou to attend a symposium on Chairman Mao's thought.
Their children, Kong Jining and Kong Dongmei, also inherited their parents' wishes and did a lot of work to propagate Chairman Mao's ideas.
Li Min, accompanied by his daughter Kong Dongmei, paid homage to his father in Shaoshan
He Lucheng, whom we mentioned above, completely concealed his own life as a descendant of the Mao family, but still inspired himself with the spirit of his father's generation and became a meritorious minister of China's national defense cause.
Wang Xiaozhi, the son of Chairman Mao's other daughter, Li Ne, although ordinary and low-key, named himself by his grandfather's words to spur himself on, and he actively served the society, once volunteering during the Asian Games, winning praise from people.
Everything that Chairman Mao's descendants have done is to continue the ideal of the great man and let that great soul shine forever.