"In this world, all love is for the sake of being together, only maternal love, for separation." When Mingyue wrote in "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty" that Ming Guangzong Zhu Changluo met with his mother for the last time, this sentiment expressed the normal state of maternal love in time.
At that time, Zhu Changluo's mother, Wang Guifei, was close to the end of her life, and after finally seeing her long-departed son, she cried and said, "When my son grows up like this, I will die and hate." ”
She was originally just an ordinary palace maid in the deep palace, because her son was crowned prince and was crowned as an imperial concubine, although she was snubbed and lonely all her life, but because she saw that her son could expect to die in the future.
Inside the high walls of the ancient deep palace, due to the cruelty of political struggle, many mothers were forced to separate mother and child after giving birth to their children, but for the future of their children, they could only be forced to accept the separation of flesh and bones. After the end of the Qing Dynasty, although the feudal imperial system was overthrown, the separation of mother and child caused by the ensuing years of war was only a lot more.
Still
Children born during the war, because their parents face transfer at any time, are almost always cared for and raised by their fellow villagers.
He Zizhen and Mao Zedong's eldest daughter Mao Jinhua was born during the battle in Longyan, Fujian Province, but because the troops were to be transferred, the child was raised by them before the full moon was given to the local shoemaker Weng Qinghe.
In a chaotic world, everyone lives a precarious life, not to mention that it is not easy for a child who is waiting to be fed to survive in the war years.
He Zizhen and Mao Zedong
Therefore, when Mao Zedong led the Red Army to march east to Zhangzhou, he thought of his daughter who had been fostered in Longyan two years ago, and specially sent someone to visit, and when he was told that the child had died a long time ago, he did not suspect that there was a fake, and after a long time of sadness alone, he sighed: "What a pity!" ”
However, the mother-daughter connection is probably that there is really an inexplicable telepathy between the mother and the daughter, but He Zizhen does not believe that her daughter is no longer alive, and she has never given up looking for the child who stayed in Longyan.
In the end, he found his daughter, who had changed her name to Yang Yuehua, but due to various reasons, the two sides could not meet, and this incident also became a major regret for He Zizhen before her death.
Yang Yuehua
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > fell in love with each other in the midst of war</h1>
He Zizhen first met Mao Zedong in the late autumn of October 1927, when mao Zedong led the autumn harvest uprising failed, and led his troops to Jinggangshan. He Zizhen participated in the Yongxin rebellion organized by Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo as early as July of that year, and after the failure of the riot, he came to Jinggangshan with the team and stationed himself.
After Mao Zedong came to Jinggangshan, he won the trust of Yuan Wencai, and the two teams carried out the revolution together on Jinggangshan, and He Zizhen was the person who was sent by Yuan Wencai to Mao Zedong to assist in the work.
The young and beautiful He Zizhen was known as the "Flower of Jinggangshan" at the time, and Mao Zedong was stunned at the first sight of her.
He Zizhen had a sweetheart, Ouyang Luo, who had participated in the Yongxin Rebellion with her, so Mao Zedong was just an ordinary working relationship in her heart. Later, Ouyang Luo was unfortunately killed in the battle against the Kuomintang reactionaries, and He Zizhen gradually became dependent on Mao Zedong in the day-to-day relationship.
Mao Zedong and He Zizhen
At the beginning of the establishment of the revolutionary base area, once the two went to Tangbian Village together to lead the work of dividing up the land among local tycoons, and a small incident occurred that changed He Zizhen's feelings for Mao Zedong.
At that time, they were in the house analyzing the information returned from the investigation, when they suddenly heard a gunshot from the village entrance, and then they heard someone shouting "capture Mao Zedong alive" and walking towards the village.
The Red Army and Mao Zedong's guard squad stationed nearby were not in the village, and when the situation was so critical, He Zizhen couldn't help but panic: "What should we do?" ”
Divide the fields with local tycoons
But when she looked up, she saw that Mao Zedong was motionless, still smoking a cigarette slowly and methodically, and after thinking for a few minutes, she made a judgment: "Without knowing the enemy's details, the risky battle cannot be fought." Notify the crowd immediately and evacuate quickly! ”
After the masses withdrew, the whole village became an empty village, and the enemy could not find anyone after entering the village, so he casually threw a sigh of relief and left.
But after this risk, Mao Zedong's wisdom and calmness made He Zizhen admire him.
He Zizhen
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > He Zizhen gave birth to his eldest daughter and moved with the army Mao Jinhua was displaced as soon as she was born</h1>
After Mao Zedong took root on Jinggangshan, some of the rebel troops led by Chen Yi and Zhu De also came here in the spring of 1928, and the two teams successfully met the division and merged into the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which was later renamed the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and strengthened the armed forces of the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area.
At the same time, although Chiang Kai-shek controlled the National Government in Nanjing, the country was still in a state of warlord division, and Chiang Kai-shek's crackdown and suppression of other warlords had been in a state of high pressure. Finally, in March 1929, the Gui warlords were dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's rule and the Chiang-Gui War broke out.
Taking advantage of the scuffle between Chiang Kai-shek and the Warlords of the Gui clan, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and others led the Red Fourth Army to conquer western Fujian in the east, captured Longyan, Yongding, and other places, established a revolutionary regime, and opened up a revolutionary base area in western Fujian.
He Zizhen is in Jinggangshan
At the end of 1929, the Red Fourth Army held the Ninth Party Congress in Gutian Village, Fujian Province, correcting the historical problems that existed at that time and pointing out the direction for party building and the development of the Red Army.
He Zizhen, who was pregnant with Liujia at the time, worked with Mao Zedong in Fujian and gave birth to their first daughter, Mao Jinhua. Before the child was full moon, the troops made a strategic decision to avoid the enemy's front and retain their strength, and planned to temporarily withdraw from Longyan.
He Zizhen, who wanted to be transferred with the army, did not want her child to go through the war with her, so she had to entrust the child to Deng Zihui, secretary of the Minxi Special Committee, who introduced the child to a local hometown.
Deng Zihui
At that time, Deng Zihui gave the child to Weng Qinghe, a shoemaker in Longyan City, and he took care of it on his behalf. Who knows that the superficially simple and simple shoemaker is still self-preservation in the face of interest choices, and does not care at all whether a little girl in swaddling is dead or alive.
Later, some insiders said that he sold all his own flesh and bones for money, not to mention the little girl left by the Red Army, and he did not have the heart to try his best to raise her. In addition, shortly after the Red Army retreated, the Kuomintang army recaptured Longyan.
Weng Qinghe, fearing that he would be affected, placed the woolly flower in front of a store and pretended that he had never adopted the child. The poor little girl did not get enough warmth from the moment she left the womb, and the adoptive father entrusted by her mother was such an unreliable person that she suffered from displacement at a young age.
The third from the left is Mao Zedong and the first on the right is He Zizhen
Fortunately, there is a small vendor selling fritters near the store called Zhang Xianzhi, who has been married to his wife for many years without childbirth, so when he sees this little girl abandoned, he is moved by compassion and will be taken back home to raise.
Zhang Xianzhi was originally a soldier in the Kuomintang army, and he was separated from the troops in the battle between Longyan and the Red Army, so he set up an early stall and began to do small business.
The wife was also very happy to see him bring back a little girl, and the two treated the child like their own flesh and blood, and Mao Jinhua spent several years of good life around Zhang Xianzhi and his wife.
Small street vendors during the War of Resistance
However, the good times did not last long, when Mao Jinhua was five years old, her adoptive mother died, and the death of his wife made Zhang Xianzhi extremely painful, and he no longer had the heart to raise Mao Jinhua. At this time, she returned to her previous state of being unattended, and played outside by herself every day.
One day, while she was playing at the well, she was seen by a passing coal kiln owner, Qiu Yingsong, so he took the woolly gold flower from Zhang Xianzhi and raised the little girl by his side. Just as Mao Jinhua was circling between several dependents, Chairman Mao once led the Red Army to capture Longyan again.
It was in 1932, due to the continuous invasion of the enemy forces in Guangdong into the revolutionary base areas in western Fujian, the Central Bureau of the Soviet Union formed the Eastern Route Army of the Red Army to march to Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, to defend the fruits of victory in the revolutionary area.
During the Battle of Zhangzhou, Mao Zedong personally went to this place to direct the battle in the command post on the front line, and the Eastern Route Army of the Red Army brilliantly completed his strategic deployment, won the liberation of Zhangzhou, and established the Minnan Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Committee.
The battle was fought heartily, but another piece of news overshadowed Mao's joy.
Battle of Zhangzhou
After coming to Zhangzhou, he missed his daughter Mao Jinhua, who was fostered in his hometown two years ago, but the war situation was very severe, and he himself was alone, so he sent his brother Mao Zemin to visit on his behalf.
At that time, the Red Army's re-capture of Longyan was just around the corner, and in the face of Mao Zemin, who had come to look for relatives, Weng Qinghe was afraid that the Red Army would be unfavorable to him when he learned that he had abandoned the Children of the Red Army at the door of the store.
Therefore, he told Mao Zemin that soon after the Red Army left that year, the little girl died of a wounded wind.
Mao Zedong was very sad about the news that Mao Zemin brought back, and he was silent for a long time before saying, "It's a pity." ”
Mao Zemin
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="21" > years later, the search for relatives has experienced many twists and turns</h1>
During the Battle of Zhangzhou, He Zizhen did not travel with the army, so she did not personally search for the whereabouts of her daughter. Although she learned from Mao Zedong that her daughter had died long ago, the natural feelings between mother and daughter made her reluctant to believe that this was the truth.
After all, it is two people who have shared ten months of heartbeat together, and there are some connections that others cannot feel. She has always believed that her daughter is still in the human world, and she has been waiting for her to meet. However, the turbulent situation during the war years did not make it convenient for her to go directly to her daughter's whereabouts.
Until the founding of New China, the domestic political environment gradually settled down, and He Zizhen continued to entrust people to find her daughter in many ways. At the same time, Mao Zedong also held the attitude of trying it out, and entrusted a delegation to the old district of western Fujian to help find the whereabouts of his daughter Mao Jinhua, but after many searches, there was no result.
In 1953, Deng Zihui, then head of the Central Rural Work Department, wanted to return to his hometown and relatives, he was a native of Longyan, Fujian Province, and it was through him that he also sent the wool golden flowers to the hands of weng Qinghe, a shoemaker. Therefore, before he returned to his hometown, Chairman Mao specially explained to him to help inquire whether his daughter was still there.
Deng Zihui assured Chairman Mao: "To untie the bell, you must still tie the bell, and I will definitely investigate it carefully after I go back!" However, when he found Weng Qinghe, the shoemaker was still adamant that the little girl who had been brought by the Red Army was long gone.
After Deng Zihui returned to Beijing to report the news to the chairman, Chairman Mao expressed great sorrow and handed Deng Zihui an envelope containing 300 yuan and asked him to forward it to Weng Qinghe.
He Zizhen and Chairman Mao never gave up looking for their daughter, but Yang Yuehua, who had been living in Longyan, did not know her origins.
Until 1963, Yang Yuehua, who was an officer of the Longyan County Federation of Industry and Commerce, carried out socialist education activities in the local area in accordance with the instructions of the "Two Ten Articles" of the central authorities, mobilizing everyone to tell everything they heard about the abandonment of their daughters.
It was then that her adoptive mother told her that she had also been a little girl abandoned on the street. Only know that her parents are the Red Army, but the specific who is not clear, in the past the situation was turbulent and worried that telling the truth would bring disaster, and now that the political situation is stable, it is also common for her to want to find her own biological parents.
So Yang Yuehua wrote a letter to the Longyan Bureau to tell the story of the incident, asking for organizational help to investigate her origins, and her letter was valued by Wei Jinshui, the governor who guided the work here.
Therefore, under the auspices of Wei Jinshui, the Longyan County Party Committee summoned Yang Yuehua and her adoptive mother Qiu Lanzai, shoemaker Weng Qinghe and his wife to carefully investigate the causes and consequences of the matter.
According to Qiu Lanzai, Yang Yuehua is indeed not her own biological daughter, but a Red Army child brought by her brother, and after she was hugged, she took her husband's surname yang.
Wei Jinshui, then governor of Fujian Province
Weng Qinghe explained that shortly after the Red Army left Longyan, the Kuomintang White Army came again, and he was very afraid in his heart and gave the child away again.
At that time, Yang Fengnian, the commander of the Kuomintang brigade, personally examined the whereabouts of his child, and he was afraid that he would be affected, so he insisted that this child was dead, and no matter who asked him later, he never changed his mouth.
At this point, governor Wei said that he would invite the two families to have a meal together the next day and add up the specific situation.
Who knew that something had changed in the middle, and before the two families could eat together, Weng Qinghe himself found Wei Jinshui and said that he had lied yesterday and that the daughter of Chairman Mao who had been introduced to him through Deng Zihui had long since died.
It turned out that he had found Yang Yuehua the night before and wanted to ask for some benefits. He believes that it is precisely because he has explained this matter to the government clearly that Yang Yuehua can go to Beijing as Chairman Mao's daughter to live, and he will definitely have a good life in the future, and it is reasonable to give himself some money.
But Yang Yuehua had already given birth to six children at that time, and there was still an adoptive mother Qiu Lanzai to raise, and there was no extra money to give him, so Weng Qinghe changed again.
He approached Governor Wei and said that the day before, because of Yang Yuehua's presence, he had to lie to admit it, but in fact Chairman Mao's daughter had died of illness in the summer of the year after he had raised him.
Because Weng Qinghe insisted that Mao Jinhua was dead, Yang Yuehua's identity was not confirmed in the end.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > identity is public after 50 years of exile, and he and his mother have not met until their deaths</h1>
He Zizhen and Mao Zedong fell in love for many years and gave birth to six children, but in the end, only Li Min was lucky to grow up. Because the relationship between the two later cracked, Li Min also lived with Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing, He Zizhen has been living alone in Shanghai, and she has never given up finding her children who have been living away.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the whole country was in a special period of change. Yang Yuehua, who was in Longyan, was also unable to avoid the storm, and people called her a "political liar" and attacked her for pretending to be Chairman Mao's daughter in search of wealth.
At this time, He Zizhen's brother He Minxue had been transferred to Fujian as vice governor, and like his sister, he never gave up looking for his niece. When he heard the local rumors about attacking Yang Yuehua, he sent his old subordinates down to investigate the situation in the local area.
Hermione
At this time, the shoe repairer Weng Qinghe had long died, and Deng Zihui, a former introducer, said: "Yang Yuehua's birth year is the opposite, and the blood type is consistent with Chairman Mao, Yang Yuehua is a woolen flower." So He Minxue took advantage of his report in Beijing to hand over the investigation materials to Premier Zhou.
Chairman Mao, who had learned of this news from Premier Zhou, was very happy, and he immediately instructed He Minxue to take the girl to Beijing to meet him. But after a night, Chairman Mao changed his mind again, believing that the child had been living among the masses and that it would be better to remain among the masses, and instructed He Minxue to take care of her more.
Therefore, after He Minxue returned to Fujian, he recognized this niece. However, when Yang Yuehua came to Shanghai and wanted to see He Zizhen, she could not see each other for various reasons, so she stayed in Shanghai for about a month, and finally could only silently return to Fujian.
At this time, He Zizhen, who was ill, was very happy to learn that Yang Yuehua had come to Shanghai to look for relatives, but the two could not see each other in the end. So He Zizhen ignored his poor health and went to Fujian to see this daughter who had been away for a long time, but he could not do so due to many obstacles.
Later, she went to Fujian again, and after visiting her brother, she said that she wanted to see Yang Yuehua, who was cared for by her brother, but she still could not see her.
Yang Yuehua's identity was made public in 1979, on the 50th anniversary of the Gutian Conference, and it was exactly fifty years since He Zizhen left her eldest daughter to move with the army.
Site of the Gutian Conference
At this commemorative meeting, He Minxue went to Longyan to pick up Yang Yuehua and introduced her to the leaders present: "Her name is Yang Yuehua, and she is the eldest daughter of my sister He Zizhen and Chairman Mao. ”
At this point, the true identity of Yang Yuehua, who has been living in the folk for 50 years, has been made public, and everyone has said that she and her mother He Zizhen will soon be able to meet.
However, until He Zizhen's death in 1984, Yang Yuehua did not wait for the opportunity to meet her, and even the news of her mother's death she learned through reading the newspaper.
Yang Yuehua (third from left)
There is nothing cruel in this world than the separation of flesh and bones, but the mothers of the war years were forced to choose the separation of flesh and bones, which was a sacrifice for the happiness of more people.
But for He Zizhen's mother and daughter, they obviously know that the other party is there, but they can't see each other, and the pain of this birth and separation is destined to become a regret of a lifetime.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > references</h1>
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[3] The Red Army's Eastern Route Army March to Zhangzhou Sanwan Reorganization Cadre College 2020-10-14