Chairman Mao was the first leader since the founding of New China and a well-deserved historical great man in our country, who made tremendous contributions to Marxism-Leninism, military theory, and Communist Party theory.
In addition to his political and military achievements, Chairman Mao was also a poet and calligrapher, writing popular poems such as "Seven Laws, The People's Liberation Army Occupying Nanjing" and "Seven Laws and long marches", and was once selected by Time magazine as "one of the 100 most influential figures of the 20th century".
But in the life of such a great man, he was a very simple man who was very opposed to extravagance. On Chairman Mao's last birthday, the longevity noodles were all crushed in the pot, and the chef choked up: "I am guilty!" ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > Chairman Mao who refused the birthday party</h1>
As the leader of a big country, it is perfectly normal for Chairman Mao to hold a grand birthday banquet, but Chairman Mao himself has always practiced frugality and economy, and has also advocated the new trend of "not wishing for a happy birthday and not giving gifts" within the party.
In 1958, after someone saw the end of the cadres' decentralization and labor training, he returned to the canteen and saw that someone had dumped a large amount of leftovers, and he reflected this to Chairman Mao.
After listening, the chairman lamented: "Alas, every grain of rice is hard-won, how can they bear to lose it?" If you think about it, if everyone is like this, there are three hundred and sixty-five days in that year, and there are 800 million people in the country, how much food will be wasted, and there are still many people in our country who are hungry. "But it has been suggested that hygiene and no waste are themselves contradictory.
Chairman Mao gave an example of his own torn pajamas, saying: "You can wear your clothes when they are torn and sewn, and you can wear them when your clothes are dirty and washed." ”
A few more years later, Chairman Mao ushered in his own fiftieth birthday.
According to the custom, the president of the country must make a special event on his birthday to make the whole country celebrate, so they also made a report to Discuss the matter with Chairman Mao, but They were rejected by Chairman Mao, on the grounds that the extravagant birthday banquet would damage the reputation, and the current timing was not the best.
In Chairman Mao's view, birthdays are just a form, and if we can really live a long life, then can't everyone in the world live forever? But having said that, Chairman Mao was particularly attentive to other people's birthdays, sending his most sincere wishes in letters every time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > the longevity side of the last birthday is all broken</h1>
December 26, 1975, was Chairman Mao's eighty-second birthday and his last birthday.
Chairman Mao himself knew that he had lived to this age, and that it was time to face the end of life, old age, illness and death, and often said to the people around him: "The eighty-odd kings of Yama do not call themselves to go." Indeed, Chairman Mao's physical condition during this period was much worse than before.
A few years ago, his hometown would always entrust people with something called longevity noodles, and Chairman Mao gladly accepted it out of the consideration of being sincere to the people.
On the occasion of the chairman's eighty-second birthday, many people came to celebrate his birthday, such as Li Min, Jiang Qing and some other staff around him.
At that time, Wu Liandeng also hired the most powerful pastry master Tian Shubin to make longevity noodles for the chairman, but when he put the noodles into the boiling pot one by one, the scene that appeared really frightened him: all the noodles after the pot were broken.
How can this be done? In a hurry, Tian Shubin chose to replace it with noodles, and read words in his mouth: I am guilty, how can I let the chairman eat the broken longevity noodles, it is really a sin that deserves death. This incident was not known to Chairman Mao's death.
In today's view, in the era of new China, which was still relatively superstitious, the meaning of the longevity noodles was of course that the longer the better, and the longer the noodles, the longer the life expectancy of the people who had a birthday, but now the noodles were boiled and completely broken.
It was probably for this reason that the pastry chef at that time choked up afterwards: I am guilty.
"Although the turtle is long-lived, it is still timely" The great Chairman Mao sacrificed six of his close relatives for the revolutionary struggle, and the voice on Tiananmen Square said: Today New China has been founded.
It is you who have led the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation to a new glorious course. Today, we can only choose to remember a great man like you.
You once said: "The fate of China must be in the hands of its own people, so that it will be like the sun rising from the east and illuminating the earth."
Dear Chairman Mao, we solemnly promise that your thoughts will always spur us forward, and I believe that in the near future, China will surely receive the attention and respect of the whole world.