Yang Kaihui was Chairman Mao's first wife, and their legendary love is now known to very few people, and people only know that Yang Kaihui is the daughter of Yang Changji, and Yang Changji is Mao Zedong's mentor. In fact, the legendary love of Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui is full of many secrets that the world does not know, and these secrets give people a sense of tragedy and regret.
First, bold love
Yang Changji is an open-minded scholar who has studied both Chinese and Western, studied in Japan and Europe, and taught at hunan first normal school after returning to China, and Mao Zedong was one of his most admired students. His daughter Yang Kaihui, who was influenced by her father's ears, grew up to be a well-known and well-known lady.
Yang Changji
In the normal school, Mao Zedong was extremely curious, and he always had to explore his essence and pursue his truth on issues such as the philosophy of life, so he often went to Yang Changji for advice. At Yang Changji's home, Mao Zedong met Yang Kaihui, who was 8 years younger than himself, but at that time, Yang Kaihui was just a 13-year-old yellow haired girl, and Mao Zedong was also a simple student who had just come of age, and the two may not have thought that they would be married in the future.
Later, Yang Changji was invited by Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University, to teach at Peking University, Mao Zedong happened to come to Beijing to organize a work-study movement, in order to make a living, Yang Changji found a job as a librarian of Peking University for Mao Zedong, although the monthly salary was only 8 yuan, but it was a great happiness for Mao Zedong, because he could read thousands of Chinese and foreign books for free, and had enough time to think.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong often had some insights in his studies, and he wanted to take the opportunity to ask some professors for advice, but because of his low position and the fact that he spoke with a Hunan accent, no one paid any attention to him. Mao Zedong later said in an interview with the American journalist Snow: "Among those who came to read, I recognized the names of some well-known leading figures of the New Culture Movement, such as Fu Sinian and Luo Jialun, and I was extremely interested in them and planned to talk to them about political and cultural issues, but they were all busy people and did not have time to listen to a library assistant speak Hunan dialect." ”
However, these busy people are not willing to listen, but there is one person who is extremely enthusiastic and willing, and this person is Yang Kaihui. After learning about some of the things Mao Zedong did and wrote some articles, Yang Kaihui fell deeply in love, and she wrote in her diary: "Unexpectedly, I also had such luck and got a lover, and I loved him very much." Ever since I heard many things about him and read many of his articles, I have loved him. Until he had many letters to me expressing his love, I still couldn't believe that I was so lucky..."
In this way, in that era when free love was rare, this pair of like-minded young people boldly fell in love, one was a library assistant with a monthly salary of 8 yuan, and the other was a famous scholar who was a pearl in the palm of his hand, who ignored these external gaps and became true soul mates.
Second, gather less and leave more
Mao Zedong was a revolutionary and had no time to take care of his own family, so gathering less and leaving more became the norm for the newlyweds. In 1921, when Mao Zedong was on a foreign expedition, he wrote the only lament in his life to express his thoughts about his beloved wife:
Pile up on the pillow, the river and the sea turn over the waves. The night is always dark, and the lonely cloak sits up and counts the cold stars.
All the thoughts of XiaoLai were ashes, and there were people left. A hook of remnants of the moon flows westward, and there is no reason not to shed tears.
Mao Zedong, who has always been heroic, faced with his beloved wife, suddenly put away the heroism of "book business spirit" and "dung soil was the marquis of ten thousand households" and became gentle and mournful.
During each short reunion, Yang Kaihui was extremely gentle and considerate, and became Mao Zedong's inner helper.
Mao Zedong often worked all night, even in the harsh winter moon, Yang Kaihui accompanied him, prepared heating utensils for him, woke up at one o'clock in the middle of the night, gave Mao Zedong a hot spot, waited for Mao Zedong to finish eating and then went to sleep, if Mao Zedong worked outside during the day, Yang Kaihui took the initiative to help transcribe Mao Zedong's documents.
However, there are also unpleasant times between the lovers, and whenever this time comes, the two deal with them differently, they often use poetry to communicate in poetry, and quickly freeze the previous suspicions and reconcile as before.
For example, Mao Zedong once wrote a poem "Farewell Friend" to Yang Kaihui:
Wave your hand away from zi. Even more poignantly, bitterly complaining. The corners of the eyes and the tips of the eyebrows seemed to be hateful, and the tears were still there. I know that I misunderstood the previous words. Passing through the clouds and fog, counting the confidants of the world and Ru. Man is sick, does God know?
The whistle has been broken, and the end of the world has been alone ever since. Nowadays, the frost weighs on the East Gate Road, illuminating the Hengtang half-day remnant moon, and it is as miserable as promised. By cutting off the thread of sorrow and hatred. It is like Kunlun collapsing on the wall, and it is like a typhoon sweeping away the world. Heavier than wings, and cloudy.
Third, love and farewell
In 1927, Mao Zedong organized the Autumn Harvest Uprising and bid farewell to Mao Zedong with Yang Kaihui and his three sons.
But this gift turned out to be a farewell.
After Mao Zedong organized the uprising, he went all the way up JinggangShan and established a revolutionary base area.
Communication was cut off by the enemy, and his correspondence with Yang Kaihui was severed.
It took more than half a year to send a letter to Yang Kaihui, who wrote a reply overnight after getting it, but she never waited for Mao Zedong's reply.
For three years, Yang Kaihui raised three children alone, thinking of her husband who was uncertain about her life and death in the distance, and she wrote her thoughts into letters one by one, but never sent them again. She has written about her husband many times in her diary, revealing her thoughts and concern for him: "Today is his birthday, I can't forget him I acted secretly, so that the family bought a little food, and ordered a few bowls of noodles in the evening... I heard he was sick... Without me next to him, he wouldn't have noticed..."
She had long thought that her husband, who was surrounded by the Kuomintang, could be sacrificed at any time, and she even made up her mind in her diary that she would die: "If one day he dies, I must follow him to die!" ”
What a magnificent declaration of love!
Unfortunately, it was not until eight years after Chairman Mao's death that people discovered Yang Kaihui's diary.
However, her husband did not die, but she fell into the clutches of the enemy.
In 1930, the Kuomintang reactionaries ordered a reward of 1,000 yuan for the arrest of "Mao Zedong's wife Yang Shi" for the arrest.
Poor and weak Yang Kaihui, surrounded by 60 reactionary bandits, was arrested and imprisoned.
The reactionaries tortured Yang Kaihui to reveal Mao Zedong's whereabouts, and Yang Kaihui vowed to die.
The reactionaries did not succeed in this move, and they made a new move, they wanted Yang Kaihui to announce the severance of relations with Mao Zedong, so as to humiliate Mao Zedong and the Communist Party, but Yang Kaihui still insisted on integrity, the enemy used up the leather whip, wooden sticks and other torture devices, Yang Kaihui endured the pain, bitten his lower lip, did not give in, and finally heroically became righteous.
She left only two last words: "Death is not a pity, but I hope that the revolution of Run will succeed as soon as possible" and "After I die, I will not do the deeds of laymen." The first sentence shows that she loves her husband deeply and would rather die for his cause, and the second sentence shows that she is a proud woman, and that she does not do the act of a layman, that is, she does not perform a funeral, which is also caused by an otherworldly state of mind.
How can these two last words not make people sigh and make people awe-inspired?