Mao Zedong and He Zizhen's second child, Mao Anhong, whose breast name was Mao Mao, was fostered by the two-year-old Mao Mao during the Red Army's Long March.
In 1950, someone went to the countryside of Jiangxi and took away a 19-year-old young man named "Zhu Daolai", saying that he was his own child.
In 1953, He Zizhen found Zhu Daolai and thought that he was his own child, and by this time, 21 years had passed since Mao Mao had lost contact.
There are many leaders of the Party Central Committee who have met Mao Mao, and they also believe that Zhu Daolai is very similar to Mao Zeqin when he was young, and his blood type is also the same.
The detailed history of this matter should be started from 1927, when He Zizhen was eighteen years old, with the troops climbing JinggangShan. She was the first female party member and the first female soldier in Jinggangshan.
He Zizhen's first impression of Mao Zedong was that he was wearing a gray Zhongshan suit that was slightly worn, and a red identification tape was wrapped around his neck, and at that time, the dry revolution was naturally not good to eat and wear, so Mao Zedong was thin and tall, and his cheekbones appeared to be very prominent, leaving a middle part. Because of the wind and sun, the skin is dark.
Mao Zedong had just come down from the battlefield, and although he looked tired overall, his eyes were shining brightly. Because life on the battlefield was very difficult, Mao Zedong's feet were worn out, coupled with the poor medical conditions in Jinggangshan, the wound had become suppurative, and he was slightly unable to walk.
Mao Zedong's first impression of He Zizhen was that the young "Yongxin Yizhihua" grew beautifully.
Mao Zedong mistakenly believed that He Zizhen was Yuan Wencheng's daughter, and after Yuan Wencai's introduction, Mao Zedong smiled and said: Very good, very good, in the future we will fight together.
At that time, He Zizhen's sweetheart was Ouyang Luo, who served as the secretary of the provisional county party committee in Yongxin and was also he Zizhen's introduction to the party.
However, He Zizhen never showed his feelings for Ouyang Luo, and coupled with the fact that the revolutionary comrades turned to the north and south, it was difficult to contact each other.
He Zizhen saw that Mao Zedong's foot was injured, so he took out a potion and hot water to treat his wound.
Mao Zedong was a native of Hunan, and in Yongxin Tangbian Village, under the Jinggang Mountain, the villagers spoke in the Hakka dialect. In the case of communication barriers, He Zizhen did Mao Zedong's translation to inspire the revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses.
Mao Zedong's wife, Yang Kaihui, had always been wanted by the Kuomintang, so Mao Zedong wrote a letter asking Yang Kaihui to come to Jinggangshan quickly. But this letter was delayed for a long time in the chaotic world.
Later, Mao Zedong received news that Yang Kaihui was killed by the warlords, and Ouyang Luo was also brutally poisoned by the enemy.
The revolution was in a difficult period, and Mao Zedong and He Zizhen were secretly in love in the process of fighting together.
Once, during a meeting at Jinggangshan, the enemy suddenly came, and Mao Zedong and He Zizhen immediately threw themselves into the battle. In the process of fighting together, the friendship was further sublimated, and the two were married in 1928.
The ceremony was very simple, but the revolutionary comrades gathered together, so the atmosphere was very lively, Yuan Wencai personally made a few dishes, and joked with each other, saying that "Hunan Yankees" and "Jiangxi Sisters" came together.
Mao Zedong and He Zizhen's first child, Mao Jinhua, was born in 1929, when he was liberating Longyan, and belonged to the revolutionary descendants born in the war.
Not long after, the enemy launched the so-called "three provincial capital suppression", so the Red Army withdrew from Longyan, Fujian Province, in this era of soldiers and horses, revolutionaries dancing on the tip of the knife, the baby naturally could not bear the pain of the southern conquest and the northern war.
So for the sake of safety, Mao Zedong made a decision to temporarily foster Mao Jinhua in his hometown. And He Zizhen also knew that the child would definitely suffer if he followed him, so he did not give up and put the woolly golden flower in the shoemaker's house in the north of the city.
Before He Zizhen left, he took out twenty silver dollars and cried that the child's name was Mao Jinhua.
However, the shoemaker was afraid of retaliation by the Kuomintang, so he abandoned the maojin flower at night at the door of the Zanfeng shop. When the Kuomintang came looking for him, the shoemaker said that the child had died prematurely.
In 1932, when the Red Army came to Longyan again, He Zizhen entrusted Mao Zemin to find the shoemaker, who also said that the child had died prematurely.
(Gross Gold Flower)
In fact, the child is still alive, someone picked up the woolly flowers, and was adopted by Zhang Xianzhi, who sold fritters, after several turns. (Retrieved in 1974)
Mao Zedong and He Zizhen's second child, Mao Anhong, was born in November 1932 at Changting Gospel Hospital.
The person in charge of delivering the baby is Fu Lianzhang, who is also the future founding lieutenant general and the founder of our medical career in China.
At that time, He Zizhen was suffering from malaria and was afraid of transmitting it to the baby, so he found a Jiangxi nurse for the child.
The birth of his son, his parents were very happy, and Mao Anhong had always grown up around Mao Zedong and He Zizhen, and he was pampered in one. According to the habits of the nursing mother and the mother's family, the child was given a smooth milk named Mao Mao.
Mao Zedong had high hopes for his son Mao Mao, and once said with a smile that Mao Mao was more successful than himself, that he was only one Mao, and that he had one more child.
In the revolutionary years, Mao Zedong was very busy, and when he went back to rest, it was often late at night, and Mao Anhong was just walking, always sitting on the threshold, waiting for his father to return.
Mao Zedong left early and returned late, and even if Mao Anhong waited hungry, he also said that he was not hungry and wanted his father to come back before they could eat together.
When he was a child, Mao Mao was very sensible and very attached to his father, and from an early age, he showed his amazing and brilliant learning ability, especially in writing, and he was actually self-taught.
According to the recollections of some old revolutionary comrades, Mao Mao always took a stick, wrote and drew on the ground, copied the piece of paper in his hand, and the paper was Mao Zedong's handwriting, and children over two years old had shown great interest in learning.
In 1934, the Red Army was in internal and external difficulties, and not only did the millions of Kuomintang troops come to "encircle and suppress" the Central Soviet Region, but also internally because of Wang Mingbogu's wrong command, they had to start the Long March.
Mao Zedong had already foreseen that there would be countless ups and downs and tribulations in the future, so children over two years old naturally could not be carried around.
Not only Mao Zedong and He Zizhen, but also many revolutionary families in the Soviet area had to leave their children in the Soviet area and give them to the local guerrillas or compatriots.
Mao Zeqin and his wife He Yi stayed in the Soviet area to fight guerrillas at that time, and He Yi said: "Mao Mao will leave it to me and Ze Qin to take care of." ”
The mother naturally did not want to have children, He Zizhen she took out scissors to cut her own clothes, made a slightly larger cotton coat, so that children can wear until three or four years old.
As a result, this cotton coat has become a souvenir left by He Zizhen to the child, and maternal love is like three rivers of water, and they are always full of love.
He Zizhen cried while making clothes, but the long march was slow, for the safety of the child, so leaving Mao Mao in the Su District was the best choice.
According to Qian Xijun's recollection, all that was left for Mao Mao at that time was the jacket and a bag of sugar, and then the team left in a hurry.
According to the recollection of Former Vice Premier Tao Zhu of the State Council, he said that when the Red Army troops began the Long March, Mao Mao waved to himself and bid farewell to everyone.
(He Zizhen and He Yi)
Two-year-old Xiao Mao lives with Mao Zeqin and He Yi. Since the Long March of the Main Force of the Red Army, the Kuomintang still brought huge military pressure to the Soviet zone, and war became the theme of this era.
Mao Zeqin and his wife fought bitterly with the enemy, because the gap between the enemy and us was too large, and they were forced to move to the deep mountains.
Mao Anhong was fostered in the home of a fellow villager, and Mao Zeqin and his wife often crossed the enemy's blockade to visit Xiao Maomao.
Young children, in these war-torn years, the descendants of the revolution and the magnificent times collide head-on, like dandelions in the wind, and like duckweed in the water.
Mao Zeqin did not dare to put Mao Mao in the same place for too long, mainly for fear that the child was in danger.
In October 1934, Mao Zeqin transferred the child to a guard's home in Ruijin, Jiangxi.
In 1935, Mao Zeqin, an excellent commander of the Red Army, led by the independent division of the Red Army, was besieged by the enemy army after repeated bloody battles, and after he risked his life to break through, on the afternoon of April 25, he moved with guerrillas to the mountains of Ruijin County, Jiangxi, which according to locals were called Honglin.
There was a village in the mountains called Huangtiankeng, Mao Zeqin spent the night in the village, who knew that when it was almost dawn, the enemy suddenly came, and Huangtiankeng was surrounded by the Kuomintang.
(Mao Zeqin, outstanding commander of the Red Army)
Mao Zeqin fought bravely, he let the team members behind him go quickly, and he himself held a machine gun to block the enemy. After the comrades withdrew, Mao Zeqin was already under siege.
One bullet after another hit Mao Zeqin's leg, and even though his legs were injured and he fell to his knees on the ground, he continued to strafe with his gun... Until a bullet hit the heart of the chest...
The 30-year-old Mao Zeqin, who went early without paying for his ambitions, sacrificed his precious life for the revolution. In terms of his military talent, his future achievements are unlimited, and with the sacrifice of him and the guards, Mao Mao's whereabouts are unknown...
Until May, He Yi held a meeting late at night, thinking about giving the medicine in his hand to the guerrillas in the mountains.
Just at the time of the meeting, the comrades sent by Chen Yi followed the traffic officer, and the two ran to He Yi's side breathlessly.
The comrade said, "There is one thing that Comrade Chen Yi wants me to report to you in person. ”
He Yi's face changed on the spot, and he hurriedly asked, "Is there something wrong with Ze Qin?" ”
In October 1935, Mao Zemin learned of the bad news of Mao Zeqin's sacrifice from the captured enemy radio and rushed to Mao Zedong's house, where Mao Zedong fell silent for a long time after learning of this.
He Yi had also looked for Mao Mao, but only Mao Zeqin knew where Mao Mao was hiding, so He Yi looked for no clues several times, plus the enemy was rampant and fierce, searching for communists everywhere, and this matter had to be abandoned.
In mid-June 1949, He Yi's organization was in Siye, when she accompanied He Zizhen to Shanghai, and He Yi soon received an order from the Political Department of Siye to go to Jiangxi to serve as the director of the Organization Department of the Ji'an Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China.
He Yi firmly believed that Mao Anhong was still alive, and it was at his own request that Mao Mao be left to take care of him, but now the child had no news of it, and his heart was very uneasy.
However, Mao Zedong did not agree, in fact, the reason was very simple, when the Soviet area was besieged by the enemy, in that difficult environment, the common people risked their lives to adopt the descendants of the revolution, and they certainly did not suffer less for decades.
You don't have to think about how much pressure the family that adopted Mao Mao would be.
Therefore, Mao Zedong believed that people had a hard time raising their children, and if they found Mao Mao, if they took him away, wouldn't they hurt their feelings?
From the perspective of nurturing grace, Mao Zedong believed that children and adoptive parents already had deep feelings, and as the president of a country, he first had to take into account the feelings of the people.
Empathetic thinking, what will it be like to put this thing on yourself? For decades, the kindness to Mao Mao far exceeded that of his biological father and mother.
This is the reason why Mao Zedong did not want He Yi to look for Mao Anhong, it is obvious that the great man considered it more comprehensively, he suffered the separation of flesh and blood affection, and if he found the child, he would have to repeat this scene.
He Yi has a stubborn personality and has to go looking for Mao Anhong, on November 21, 1949, she went to Gannan to look for it, but did not find any clues, and encountered misfortune on the way back... The driver made a mistake in driving, resulting in a car accident, and He Yi unfortunately died.
He Zizhen also did not give up looking for her child Mao Anhong, she wrote a letter to the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee in 1953, hoping to help find flesh and bones, born in Ruijin in 1932, named Mao Mao.
(He Zizhen and granddaughter Kong Dongmei reading a pictorial)
At that time, Jiangxi had already carried out the work of searching for the descendants of the Red Army, because there were many similar things in the Central Soviet Region at that time, so they received He Zizhen's letter and regarded it as part of their work.
Now that the days have changed, it is no longer the period of Kuomintang rule, so it is still easy to find someone.
After more than sixty days of searching, two farmers in Yeping Township, Jiangxi Province, provided clues, saying: "The children adopted by Zhu Shengti are very similar, or you should go and see them." ”
The staff asked, "Where does Zhu Shengti's family live?" The other party said, "Zhufang Village..."
Zhu Shengti and his wife, Huang Yueying, were ordinary farmers in Zhufang Village, who were already fifty-two years old at the time. When the staff came to visit, they asked about the whereabouts of the child.
Zhu Shengti said that he had indeed adopted the children of the Red Army, and the time was completely consistent with the information left by He Yi, when two Red Army cadres came to the house.
They wrapped bags made of cloth skirts with three or four-year-old boys, one of whom was a Red Army cadre surnamed Zhu, and the other did not know whose surname he was.
The cadre said, "Fellow countrymen, we are going to fight guerrilla warfare, and I hope you will help take care of our Children of the Red Army..."
At that time, Zhu Shengti's family was also very poor, and there were already four males, but the military and civilian families were close, in order to help the Red Army solve the difficulties, so his wife took the initiative to extend her hand and held the child in her arms.
The Cadres of the Red Army thanked each other one after another and said, "Sister-in-law, please help us take good care of our children and protect this poor doll, and we will certainly repay you in the future, the pair of well-wishers, I promise." ”
But after the Red Army cadre left, he did not say what the child's name was, and there was no keepsake except clothes.
Therefore, Zhu Shengtai gave the child a name called Zhu Daolai, and the meaning of this name is the child who was picked up on the road, so he called out.
(Zhu Daolai)
For the growth of the child, for nineteen years, the couple has worked hard.
Zhu Daolai has been different since he was a child, showing amazing talent and brilliant learning talent, Zhu Shengtai and his wife, seeing that the child is talented and intelligent, do not want to delay the future of this child, so they save money and use it everywhere to borrow money and provide for Zhu Dao to study.
The family really suffered a lot for Zhu Daolai's tuition fees.
At that time, under the high-pressure rule of the Kuomintang, Zhu Dao could be allowed to study until middle school, and the difficulties could be imagined.
The staff quickly asked where the child was? Zhu Shengti said that he had been taken away, and that a widow of the Red Army came to the house and said that the children belonged to them.
And the widow of the Red Army was named Zhu Yueqian... Zhu Yueqian was originally the wife of Huo Buqing, a Red Army cadre, and after her husband died of illness, she was captured by the enemy in 1934 and married to a pilot of the Nationalist Army in desperation.
(Huo Buqing)
After liberation, Zhu Yueqian found Zhu Shengtai and said that the child was originally named Huo Xiaoqing, and Zhu Yueqian cried for a long time and begged for a long time, which brought Zhu Daolai to Nanjing.
At that time, Zhu Shengtai's idea was very simple, he lived in the countryside, the living conditions were very poor, not to mention the educational conditions, and the child Zhu Daolai had very good academic performance, the worst was also the top three in the school, belonging to the village's once-in-a-century outstanding offspring, if you go to Nanjing, won't you have a farther future in the future?
So when Zhu Shengti and his adopted son Zhu Daolai separated, it was really sent outside the village and then to the town, and the couple cried for a long time after they returned.
After the staff grasped the information on Zhu Shengtao's side, they quickly went to the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee to report, and the province naturally reported to the central authorities.
The Beijing side quickly received the photo, and Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi, after carefully looking at the photos, went to find Mao Zedong.
After reading it, Mao Zedong said: "This child is very similar to Mao Zeqin when he was young!" ”
The matter suddenly became complicated, because there was only one child, and now the mother had two.
Zhu Yueqian believed that the child was born to herself and Huo Buqing, and her superiors also wrote that the child born by Ruijin was real and could be proved to Jiangxi, so the child could be led to Nanjing.
The Jiangxi staff ran to Nanjing, and only then did they take Zhu Dao to Shanghai and meet He Zizhen.
After He Zizhen saw Zhu Daolai, he studied up and down, left, right, and right for a long time, and tears slowly poured out of his eyes, saying that this was my hair, my son.
According to the technical conditions at that time, at the time of blood testing, Zhu Daolai's blood type was consistent with He Zizhen. According to the blood type, it is naturally impossible to identify He Zizhen as a parent.
There is also a key keepsake, that is, he Zizhen's own sewn jacket, that is, cotton can be stuffed in winter, and cotton can be pulled out when it is cool.
When the jacket was delivered to He Zizhen's face, she cried out at the time, saying that it was a dress made by her own hand, so the child must be her own.
The people of Ruijin also began to seek verification of this matter, and the causes and consequences of that year, including what the two Red Army cadres looked like and from which road they entered the village, were all checked out one by one, and finally concluded that the child was He Zizhen's.
There is also a key person, that is, when Mao Mao was born, He Zizhen was suffering from malaria, so he was raised and cared for by his nursing mother.
When Jiangxi's nursing mother heard the news, she hurried to Shanghai, and at a glance, she could see that Zhu Daolai was definitely He Zizhen's child and would not make a mistake.
In Beijing, our Premier Zhou attaches great importance to this matter, because Chairman Mao at this time is still immersed in the pain of losing his son, and Mao Anying's death is a very big blow to Mao Zedong, so I hope that Mao Anyhong can make up for the pain in Mao Zedong's heart.
So the child's adoptive mother, the nurse, and the Staff of Jiangxi took the child to Beijing.
Li Min called out to his brother, and then brought Zhu Dao to visit the scenic spots and monuments of the capital, and his family affection was born.
(Li Min and Mao Zedong)
There were many central leaders who had seen Mao Mao at that time, so they came to identify it, and according to Zhu Daolai's appearance, it was too similar to Mao Zeqin when he was young.
Zhu Daolai's adoptive mother, after living in Beijing for a while, wants to return to her hometown in Jiangxi.
Regardless of who the child is, the adoptive mother Huang Yueying adopted the descendants of the Red Army and has been providing for reading until middle school, which is a great achievement. Therefore, the female comrades of the Party Central Committee invited Huang Yueying to dinner and cordially greeted her.
When Zhu Daolai's adoptive mother returned, she received souvenirs from a number of female comrades of the Party Central Committee and five hundred yuan from the Party Central Committee.
When Zhu Daolai came to send his adoptive mother, the mother and son hugged and cried at the station for a long time, and Zhu Daolai never felt that he was an outsider because of these years. He said that the adoptive father and adoptive mother are exactly the same as the father and mother, and if there is a dispute with the brother and brother, the adoptive mother and the adoptive father always protect themselves for the first time.
Huang Yueying naturally also had tears in her eyes, bid farewell to her adopted son Zhu Daolai, and embarked on the road back to Jiangxi.
Zhu Yueqian, who was mentioned earlier, also went to Beijing to find the relevant departments and insisted that Zhu Daolai was her own child.
Therefore, this matter has become a difficult problem, and can only be reported to Zhou Enlai for handling, and Zhou Enlai went to Mao Zedong to decide.
It is not difficult to imagine that with the mind of a great man, he will naturally consider others first, rather than himself.
He Zizhen went forward for the revolution, and Zhu Yueqian did the same, so Mao Zedong instructed not to mention this matter again, not to care whose children it was, since it was determined that it was a descendant of the revolution, it should be handed over to the people...
According to the organization's arrangement, in order not to hurt his mother's heart, Shuai Mengqi, the deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC at that time, adopted many descendants of revolutionary martyrs, so Zhu Daolai was adopted by Shuai Mengqi instead.
(Shuai Mengqi)
The next morning, according to Mao's guards, there was a piece of paper on Mao's desk filled with the zodiac signs of the four children, which was soaked with tears from the chairman.
Zhu Daolai's student days were undoubtedly very happy, under the care of Shuai Mengqi, he received a better education, and the love of the three mothers was in himself.
Zhu Daolai's learning talent was further demonstrated, and he was admitted to the university completely by virtue of his own ability and entered the high-end department of the national defense industry.
There are two theories about Zhu Daolai's death, one is that he died of advanced liver cancer in Nanjing Hospital in December 1971, and the other is that he died in 1966 on the streets of Nanjing because he participated in activities.
Huang Yueying cried all night after learning about this, saying that she had known this and left her child in the countryside.