On January 13, 1972, after Chairman Mao's cardiac arrest, his physical condition took a sharp turn for the worse, and pneumonia, high fever and other conditions were repeated. Since then, for nearly a year, the Chairman has not attended important meetings, and even the instructions on the document have been very small.
Therefore, everyone is very happy that the chairman can attend the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. With the order of the president "the start of the conference", the applause on the field was thunderous. ”
After the end of the conference, in accordance with the usual practice of leaving the venue, the departing delegates should cheer with warm applause and bid farewell to the president and other leaders. But to everyone's surprise, the delegates applauded for a long time, but the chairman still sat still in his chair and then said, "If you don't go, I won't go." ”
At this time, Premier Zhou also found that something was wrong and rushed to stand up to break the siege, and the deputies left the scene one after another. What's going on here?
On August 24, 1973, the much-anticipated Tenth People's Congress of the Communist Party of China was officially opened. At this time, although the chairman's thinking was still very clear, years of labor and illness made the chairman often suffer unbearable pain for ordinary people.
Therefore, many informed staff members believe that the chairman of the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China is likely not to participate. However, as a new round of party congresses that had just ended at that time, which was a major event in the country, this was very important for New China. Therefore, Chairman Mao, who was extremely weak at this time, still reluctantly supported himself and participated in this meeting.
With the chairman's consent, the staff helped Chairman Mao move from the Zhongnanhai swimming pool to the Great Hall of the People, which is relatively close to the venue.
In order to avoid being seen by other deputies of the chairman's physical condition, before the start of the congress, Chairman Mao was helped by the staff to sit on the rostrum early, and then he made a little grooming and sorted out the back, quietly waiting for the deputies to enter the table one after another.
After the delegates to the congress entered, they were very happy to see Chairman Mao sitting upright on the rostrum. Because in the past year, they have not seen the chairman, they are worried and miss the chairman, and now when they see the chairman again, how can people be unhappy? Therefore, while everyone was seated, in order to welcome Chairman Mao's arrival, the agitated crowd stood up and applauded with joy.
After the clapping stopped, Chairman Mao, who was in charge of presiding over the meeting, announced word for word in his familiar Hunan accent, "The congress has begun." Chairman Mao then went on to announce that "Premier Comrade Zhou Enlai is invited to make a report."
After the report, which lasted about an hour, the President announced that "the report is complete, and today the Assembly has ended here and adjourned the meeting." ”
As was customary, the delegates all stood up and applauded to bid farewell to the leader's departure. However, he did not wait for the chairman to get up for a long time, when the chairman's head nurse Wu Xujun found that something was wrong. In the distance, she waited nervously, only to see the chairman's two hands tightly grasping the handle of the chair, and the inconspicuous dark used all her strength to press down, hoping to use the strength of her whole body to support herself to stand up, but she had not been able to stand up.
Wu Xujun, who discovered this situation, hurriedly asked people to help the chairman up. At this time, Premier Zhou, who was next to the chairman, also found that Chairman Mao's legs hidden under the table were trembling, and knowing the shape of the chairman's body, he hurriedly asked the chairman to sit down.
The excited delegates in the audience were still cheering and clapping, looking at the chairman without blinking, and no matter how Premier Zhou gestured, the delegates refused to leave first. For this leader they loved to the bone, they couldn't see enough, so the chairman didn't leave, and they refused to go, hoping to see the chairman a few more times and send the dearest chairman with the loudest applause.
At this time, however, Chairman Mao knew very well that he was afraid that he would not be able to withdraw from the scene with his own ability, but he did not want the deputies to see his weak appearance, and still less did he want them to worry about himself, so he said to the enthusiastic deputies, "If you don't leave, I won't be able to go." ”
Premier Zhou also continued, "The chairman wants to see everyone leave, and asks all the deputies to take action and leave the scene in an orderly manner." ”
At this time, the deputies were reluctant to retreat, and slowly withdrew from the Great Hall amid the smiles of Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou.
In fact, before the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Chairman Mao's body had already appeared in a very worrying situation, in addition to the obvious aging in the body, the old comrades-in-arms left one by one, which made him even more sad, which also made Chairman Mao often talk about the issue of life and death to the people around him.
In December 1963, after the death of Luo Ronghuan, who was in his prime, Chairman Mao bid farewell to Luo Ronghuan with many comrades-in-arms. However, the departure of the old comrade-in-arms has made the chairman rarely speak, eat rarely, and look worried every day.
But for his own life and death, the chairman has always been indifferent, in the chairman's view, "people are going to die, this is a concept." "Everyone is no exception. Not only that, he also told Wu Xujun, the head nurse who took care of himself, that if one day he died, everyone could have a celebration party and dress up beautifully. I ate more fish in my usual time, and after my death, I cremated myself and scattered my ashes to the Yangtze River to feed the fish.
However, compared with the chairman's open-mindedness, everyone hopes that the chairman can live a long and healthy life, live a little longer, and live a little longer. However, the traces of time brought about by time are not as everyone wishes.
In 1972, when It was the cold spring in Beijing, Chairman Mao's condition became more and more serious, and he could still swim in the Yangtze River, and his ability to walk gradually became much slower, and then because of physical weakness, difficulty in walking and other reasons, sometimes needed nurses to support him, in order to move on the ground, but it did not take long, he would be breathless because of the high blood pressure.
Not long after New Year's Day of that year, Marshal Chen Yi, who had contributed his life to New China, died of illness. Chairman Mao's departure made Chairman Mao very sad, and in order to send his old fellow on his last journey, the chairman attended Chen Yi's memorial service despite the obstruction of others.
However, this cold weather, Rao is how the staff tried to keep the chairman warm, after returning from the memorial service, the chairman still had an aggravated lung infection and a severe cough. For this reason, the Chairman often had to sleep on the sofa every night because of the problem of lung discomfort.
During this period, it coincided with a critical period of transformation in Sino-US relations, but a few days before Nixon's visit to China, Chairman Mao, whose mental state took a sharp turn for the worse, suddenly suffered a cardiac arrest. Under the full rescue of medical staff, it was barely out of danger.
The sad thing for everyone is that, despite all their efforts, they still can't stop the president's physical condition from deteriorating, or make the chairman's condition better.
Not only that, as he grew older, the appearance of cataracts made the chairman's eyesight drop significantly, and finally he had to read newspapers and documents for himself.
Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou
His poor physical condition prevented Chairman Mao from attending important meetings or speaking for a year in 1972. This has led many people to think that the chairman of the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China will not attend, but what everyone did not expect is that when the staff asked the chairman for advice, the chairman still said very firmly that he wanted to attend the meeting.
The long-term illness has caused great damage to the president's body, which has led to the fact that when he attended this meeting, although the chairman wanted to leave in the warm applause of the crowd as he had done when he attended the npc earlier, he was unable to do anything. At this time, Premier Zhou had also been diagnosed with bladder cancer, and the torture of illness made his body lose weight rapidly, and what everyone did not expect was that this meeting would become the last meeting that Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou would attend together.
After this, over time, the chairman also had to accept the fact of aging, from receiving feeding to the medical staff to provide the chairman with nasal feeding according to nutritional needs. However, lying still in bed for a long time, resulting in pressure sores on the chairman's body, but rao is how unbearable the pain is, the chairman does not say a word, seeing the chairman's warm smile, the staff who take care of it on the side often secretly wipe away tears.
Fast forward to 1976, and many of the great events that happened during the year are still painful for everyone to think about today. On January 8th, Comrade Zhou Enlai, a good prime minister who Chinese people, died of illness, and during the period when Premier Zhou was treated, one treatment report after another was delivered to Zhongnanhaili together with many documents.
When listening to the staff read the newspaper and read about Premier Zhou, Chairman Mao would pay special attention to it, and when he heard the details, he would ask to read it twice more, so Chairman Mao knew exactly when Premier Zhou had surgery and what his physical condition was every day.
Although he had already made preparations earlier, when he heard xiao Meng, the nurse on duty, read that "Comrade Zhou Enlai, the great proletarian revolutionary of the Chinese people and an outstanding communist fighter, died suddenly on January 8, 1976 due to cancer and ineffective medical treatment..." The chairman could not help but burst into tears.
After the death of Premier Zhou, Chairman Mao's personal secretary, Zhang Yufeng, found that the chairman's mental state had become depressed. When asked if the chairman wanted to attend Premier Zhou's memorial service, the chairman patted his leg with sadness, regretting and painfully saying, "I also want to go, but my feet no longer listen to me." ”
After the death of Premier Zhou, Chairman Mao devoted more energy to the handling of government affairs, despite opposition.
In May 1976, after meeting with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, the chairman had just stood up and shook hands with Lee Kuan Yew, and because of his lack of physical strength, he pounced and sat down on the sofa, which made Zhang Yufeng and Meng Jinyun, who were nervously observing the chairman, anxious.
Soon after, Chairman Mao met with Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto, and this time was the chairman's last meeting with foreign guests.
On July 6 of this year, he was admitted to the hospital due to a small cold, and finally Mr. Zhu, whose condition had deteriorated sharply, unfortunately passed away. When this news reached the chairman's office, this sudden message stunned the chairman, and he asked in some disbelief, "What kind of illness did Mr. Zhu get, and how did he get it so quickly..."
At this time, the chairman's physical condition is not optimistic at all, and the successive deaths of two friends have made the chairman feel sad. Moreover, with the gradual development of the disease, the chairman has been in a semi-comatose state, and everyone is worried about the chairman's state at this time, hoping that the chairman can get better as soon as possible.
However, shortly after the death of President Zhu, the outbreak of the Tangshan earthquake, which caused hundreds of thousands of people to lose their lives in this catastrophe, made Chairman Mao, who had just woken up from his coma, cry again.
Ignoring his physical discomfort, he refused the request of others to read the newspaper for him, and he took a magnifying glass and read it word by word, then grabbed a pencil and drew a circle on the document. Then he called Hua Guofeng and asked him to take him to visit the people in the disaster area.
During this time, the chairman was concerned about the people in the disaster area, and as soon as he woke up from the coma, he would immediately come to the disaster area to check the information and check it word by word.
On September 8, 1976, due to the chairman's severe physical condition, the doctor inserted an infusion catheter in the chairman's hands and feet, and connected an ECG monitoring line to the chest.
However, under such circumstances, the chairman was also concerned about the relevant matters of the Japanese general election, and asked about the election of Takeo Miki, the president of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party and the prime minister of the cabinet, and the chairman also watched 11 times in a row, which lasted for nearly 3 hours.
At 7 o'clock that night, the chairman's blood pressure dropped suddenly, and all the doctors gathered around, and after more than twenty minutes of rescue, it was only reluctantly freed the chairman from danger. But before long, the chairman's pupils gradually dilated, and the original undulating electrocardiogram gradually became a straight line.
The medical staff rushed to rescue the chairman again, strong needles, heart pacing... Nearly 4 hours of rescue, but in the end they could not stop the chairman from leaving.