Before the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the marriage of young men and women was decided by both parents. I did not have any right to speak. Blind marriage and dumb marriage were the most appropriate description of the marriage system at that time. He ruined his lifelong happiness. Our great leader Chairman Mao hated this system, but he himself was forced to marry a wife by his father.
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In 1906, Mao Zedong, who was only 13 years old, had many quarrels with his father because of education problems. He wanted to save the country and didn’t want to enter a private school. He yearned for a new type of education. The school, and the teacher of the private school in the chairman’s hometown at that time, not only had a bossy attitude, but also only endorsed the students. The rigid teaching method like made the chairman even more bored. In any case, he was reluctant to go to the private school.
Because of this, the conflict between the chairman and his father became deeper and deeper. Even after a big quarrel, the chairman ran away from home, his father saw him so determined, not only He didn't agree with his idea, but instead came up with the idea of marrying his son to marry a wife. My father felt that married a wife would be able to hold this son who wanted to run away every day.
The chairman’s parents have a very good impression of Luo Yixiu, the eldest girl from the Luo family. She is 4 years older than her son. Not only is her family background comparable, but also educated and educated, she can definitely beat Mao’s family business. Put it right, and the Luo family’s family style has always been very good, and the educated daughter’s character is also trustworthy.
and that’s it,This Luo family girl, who is the chairman's cousin by seniority, married Mao Zedong, who was only 14 years old when she was 18 years old.
Miss Luo knows that her cousin is resistant to this marriage, so she also has a lot of concerns in her heart, but she has been educated since she was a child. Following the family's arrangements, she married to Mao's house with deep worries.
When he got married, the chairman saw this "cousin", and there was no agility of a young girl between his eyebrows. Some of them were just numb, and when he saw her little feet, the chairman deeply felt like a cousin. The sadness of women in the old age also prompted him to make up his mind, must completely smash the feudal poison of these women.
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The chairman knew that his cousin was also a victim, so he did not embarrass her, but made it clear to her that once the time was right, he would let her marry another. At the beginning, Miss Luo felt very sad, but she had always been reluctant to accept it, and she quickly figured out that she could just use her husband as her younger brother.
After correcting the mentality, the "sister and brother" get along fairly well, and Luo Yixiu takes the role of the second elder of Mao's family well and plays the role of "daughter-in-law". Very competent.
but the good times are not long,Just when the chairman's father became anxious because his son and daughter-in-law did not complete the room, the daughter-in-law suddenly contracted bacillary dysentery during the Spring Festival of 1910. Under the hygienic conditions at that time, dysentery could be fatal, On the second day of the first lunar month, Miss Luo died.
For the death of his cousin, the young chairman felt sad, but this sadness is more of the sadness of the family’s leaving. He thinks the cousin’s young age, if not Because of feudal arranged marriages, she should have the opportunity to enjoy the happiness of love. Not only she, but I don’t know how many women are persecuted in this era. Yearn for.
After the chairman left his hometown and started running for the revolution, under his influence, many of the Luo family’s children also joined the party and devoted themselves to the cause of revolution. Chairman Mao has always been very concerned about the Luo family, always doing his best to take care of them.
After the founding of New China, he also arranged for his son An Ying to visit Luo Yixiu's younger brother Luo Shiquan. When he came back, he heard that his uncle's family was very poor, so he paid 500 from his contribution fee. Yuan, let the staff send it to Luo's family.
Luo Shiquan was very moved after receiving the money, so he wrote to the chairman and said that he wanted to go to Beijing to see. Originally, the chairman refused all the relatives in his hometown, but this time he gave Luo Shiquan an exception and agreed. At his request. When I returned to Shaoshan's hometown in 1959,The chairman also deliberately visited Luo's relatives and left a pair of leather shoes as a souvenir when he left.
