When Chairman Mao chose names for his children and grandchildren, he did not limit the names of the children to the genealogy of the Mao family, but integrated the trends of the times and the development of the Chinese nation. Each name has its own unique connotation and is also quite Maoist. The spirit of a chairman.
In the old days, in order to accurately indicate the surname and seniority of each person in the name, each surname and each clan had its own seniority song, which was a set score specially used for naming. However, when Chairman Mao named his descendants, he did not follow the genealogy and had new ideas.
Chairman Mao had 6 sons and 4 daughters in his life, and a total of 9 of them were named. Yang Kaihui gave birth to three sons: the eldest son Mao Anying, the second son Mao Anqing, and the third son Mao Anlong. These names are very consistent with Chairman Mao's style.
An, means tall and majestic; Ying, means extraordinary intelligence; Qing, means young and long-lasting; Dragon, the totem of the descendants of Yan and Huang, is the symbol of the Chinese nation, implying the soaring Chinese dragon.
When he was young, Chairman Mao often visited the Yunlu Palace on Yuelu Mountain. When he visited here again in 1955, he once asked the relevant personnel: It turns out that the "One Rain Hangs White River" hanging on the pillars of Yunlu Palace, How come the poem "The isolated city is green on the other side" is missing? When Chairman Mao named his second son "An Qing" in Changsha, was he influenced by these two poems?
Children Mao Anying, Mao Anqing and Mao Anlong
Mao Anying and Mao Anying
"Dragon" rhymes with "Nong". Mao Anlong was born on April 4, 1924. That afternoon, Chairman Mao, known as the "King of the Peasant Movement", attended the opening ceremony of the Central Peasant Movement Institute held in Wuhan and gave birth to his son on the same day. He named his son Mao Anlong, which showed that the peasant movement was now in full swing, and also meant that the Chinese dragon was taking off.
After Chairman Mao married He Zizhen in June 1928, they gave birth to 6 children in 10 years, and 5 of them were named.
In May and June of 1929, the Red Army had just won the battle in Longyan county and established a revolutionary regime. Amid the joyful celebrations of victory, He Zizhen gave birth to a daughter. It was a double happiness, and Chairman Mao was naturally overjoyed.
Chairman Mao could not restrain his inner joy and gave his daughter an even more joyful name: Mao Jinhua. This name may seem a little tacky, but when you understand Chairman Mao's state of mind at the time, it seems that you can better understand Chairman Mao's profound meaning.
Shortly after the birth of his eldest daughter, Chairman Mao wrote the famous poem " Picking Mulberries·Double Ninth Festival ": "Life is easy
God never gets old. It is Double Ninth Festival every year, and now it is Double Ninth Festival. The yellow flowers on the battlefield are especially fragrant."
Natural on the battlefield. It refers to the rural base area of in western Fujian where it was located at that time. The "yellow flower" is also a chrysanthemum. This is a battle song filled with proletarian revolutionary feelings and expresses Chairman Mao's joy at the victory of the war. At this time, there is a "golden flower" that adds joy to the joy, which symbolizes the flower of victory. The poetic charm is all in this seemingly tacky name.
In November 1932, He Zizhen gave birth to her third child, a boy, at the Gospel Hospital in Changting, Fujian. Chairman Mao named him Mao Anhong. At that time, in the Central Soviet Area, red hat badges and red collar badges were everywhere, red flags were waving, and the Red Army gathered. The name Chairman Mao gave his son could not be more fashionable.
On August 3, 1940, Chairman Mao and Jiang Qing gave birth to his last child in Yan'an . She was a girl. At first, people called her "Mao Lan", the daughter of Chairman Mao and Lan Ping. Later, Chairman Mao named this daughter Li Na, after her mother's surname, because Jiang Qing's original surname was Li, and her name was Li Yunhe.
On the eve of Mao Jiaojiao, the daughter of Chairman Mao and He Zizhen, going to middle school, Chairman Mao actually looked up the Analects of Confucius to name this daughter. Li Min wrote in the book "My Father Mao Zedong":
After graduating from elementary school, he will go to middle school. One day, my father called me to him and said seriously: "My Jiao baby is going to middle school and will become a big child. When you become a big child, you need a big name. My Jiao baby's surname is Li, which is a single character." Min. "
"Dad, why do I need to be named Li?"
Regarding the child's question, Chairman Mao gave two reasons: First, when he moved to northern Shaanxi, he used the pseudonym Li Desheng, which was his favorite pseudonym.The second is that he "took a word for each of us from the sentence "A gentleman is slow in words but quick in deeds" in Confucius "The Analects": My sister's name is Li Na, and my name is Li Min."
Chairman Mao The only grandson, Mao Xinyu, was born on January 17, 1970. After his grandson was born safely, Chairman Mao was deeply relieved. The old man personally named his grandson Mao Xinyu.
Chairman Mao once wrote this: "The destruction of the universe will never result in its destruction. What destroys this will surely end in that. There is no doubt that we really hope for its destruction. How can we build a new universe by destroying the old universe? It will not heal the old world!"
Mao Xinyu was born during the "Cultural Revolution" period when Chairman Mao wanted to smash the old world and create a new one. Judging from the name, he had high hopes for his grandson. Xinyu represents a new world. The old man hopes that his grandson will make contributions to society and the country in the future.
Chairman Mao also has a grandson Kong Jining and a granddaughter Kong Dongmei, who are the children of his daughter Li Min.
Kong Jining was born on October 27, 1962, which was two days later than October 25 of the Soviet Union October Revolution in the Russian calendar. Therefore, Chairman Mao named his child "Jining" in the hope that his grandson could inherit Lenin's legacy. cause, inherit the cause of realizing communism.
Chairman Mao chose names for his children. The names are more or less related to his revolutionary years. Whether it is the expectations for his children or the records of the times, an obvious trajectory can be seen from it, that is, these names gradually gradually It has crossed the threshold of Mao's genealogy and integrated the trend of the times and the development of the Chinese nation.
We can also feel how the great leader led the Chinese people to build such a new China.
