Preface
One day in 1942, Mao Zedong was reviewing the documents with all his attention. Suddenly, the guard walked in and handed Mao Zedong a letter, "Chairman, this is your personal letter."
Mao Zedong took the letter. This letter was written by a woman named Zhou Wennan. She said:
"Chairman Third Brother, I am in love with Wang Yingqiao, the teaching director of the Central Nursing Hospital. I want to get married and hope to get your approval."
Who is Zhou Wennan? Why did she seek Mao Zedong's consent when she got married?
Picture丨Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong's third brother - Mao Zetan
In fact, Zhou Wennan is the wife of Mao Zedong's third brother Mao Zetan, that is, she is Mao Zedong's sister-in-law.
Mao Zetan, born in 1905, is 12 years younger than Mao Zedong. Because of this, the whole family loves this overly naughty and clever little guy very much.
One year, it was the season when the beans were harvested. Mao Zedong's father Mao Yichang asked Mao Zedong to take his younger brother to the fields to collect beans.
Mao Zetan is very clever. He specializes in finding places where beans grow sparsely, and after a while, he finished collecting a large area.
After my father came to the field, he saw Mao Zetan collecting a large area, but Mao Zedong only collected a small area, so he scolded Mao Zedong indiscriminately.
Mao Zedong knew the truth, but he didn't say anything. In the end, Mao Zetan couldn't bear to be scolded by his elder brother, so he took the initiative to tell his father that he had found a sparse place to cut it, and that he didn't have much cut it.
Mao Yichang looked carefully and then understood the truth of the matter.
pic丨From left: Mao Zetan, Mao Zemin, Wen Qimei, Mao Zedong
In fact, similar scenes are not uncommon in the Mao family. Mao Yichang was a somewhat "feudal" grandparent. He believed that "reading is useless". He asked Mao Zedong to study for a few years, but he hoped that he could settle accounts and could defend the people who bullied him.
. Mao Zedong really likes reading. He wants to walk out of the small Shaoshan Chong and go to the "big world" outside to take a look.
At that time, Mao Zedong, his mother Wen Qimei, two younger brothers Mao Zemin and Mao Zetan stood on one side, while Mao Yichang stood on the other side.
After fierce "struggle", Mao Zedong finally got his wish and went to Xiangxiang and Changsha to study.
In order to support the elder brother's study, Mao Zemin dropped out of school very early. Like his father, he felt that it was nothing wrong to devote his life to the land.
But Mao Zetan is like Mao Zedong. Under Mao Zedong's words and deeds, he likes reading, is also good at reading, and has an ideal that he wants to go out and take a look.
Picture丨Mao Zetan
918, after Mao Zedong graduated from Hunan Provincial First Normal School, he was hired as the main staff by the First Normal University Affiliated Primary School. After had a stable income, Mao Zedong took Mao Zetan to Changsha and asked him to study in the first primary school affiliated to the First Division. From then on, Mao Zetan followed his elder brother to receive the baptism of the new culture.
Especially after Mao Zedong founded " Xiangjiang Commentary ", Mao Zetan developed great interest in Marxism-Leninism . Soon after, Mao Zetan joined the Socialist Youth League and became the vanguard of the revolution.
922, 17-year-old Mao Zetan entered Changsha Private Xiejun Middle School to study. At the same time, Mao Zedong returned to Hunan to serve as secretary of the CPC Cheng District Committee. At that time, Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui had just married. Because his father-in-law Yang Changji passed away, Mao Zedong lived with his wife and mother-in-law. Not long after, Mao Zetan also came to the district committee to live with his brother and sister-in-law.
Picture丨Mao Zedong
One day, Mao Zetan and his classmates played hide-and-seek games. In Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui's room, they found a box.
Mao Zeqian knew that there were some important documents in it, and Yang Kaihui was also very attentive to keep the box. However, the more you are not allowed to move things, the more curious the children are about it.
So, a group of naughty boys secretly hid the box. After Yang Kaihui found out that the box was missing, she was sweating profusely and searched wildly with her mother. At this time, Mao Zetan told her sister-in-law the whole story.
Later, Mao Zedong learned about this and he severely criticized Mao Zetan. Mao Zetan, who had a little understanding of the revolution in the past, finally realized the importance of the revolution.
In October 1923, Mao Zetan joined the Communist Party of China , and after that, he became Mao Zedong's "right-hand man".
Picture丨Shuikoushan Lead and Zinc Mine Workers' Movement
At that time, the Hunan workers' Movement had just reached its climax, and Mao Zedong sent him to the Shuikoushan Lead and Tin Mine in Hunan to carry out workers' work.
During the day, Mao Zetan works with the workers, and at night he goes to the workers' night school to give lectures to publicize the principles of revolution and inspire everyone's revolutionary awareness.
925, Mao Zedong brought Mao Zetan back to his hometown to launch a peasant movement. htmlIn June, the Shaoshan Party Branch, the first party branch in rural China, was secretly established in the attic of Mao Zedong's home. Under the dim candlelight, the three brothers of the Mao family imagined a future that seemed impossible at the time.
pic丨Zhu De
1927, Mao Zetan participated in the Nanchang Uprising . One month later, Mao Zedong organized the Autumn Harvest Uprising .
After the failure of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, Mao Zedong led his team to Jinggangshan , finding a promising new path for the Chinese revolution.
At the same time, the Nanchang Uprising team was surrounded by enemies in the Chaozhou area. During the fierce battle, Mao Zetan was separated from the team, and later through the underground party comrades, they found the team that was finally preserved in the Nanchang Uprising.
In October of that year, Zhu De learned the exact news that the Autumn Harvest Uprising troops arrived in Jinggangshan. After discussion, he decided to go to Jinggangshan to meet with Mao Zedong.
When considering who to send to contact, Chen Yi and recommended Mao Zetan to him. In late November, Mao Zetan set off with the certificate of the adjutant of the 16th Army of the Kuomintang.
Picture丨Jinggangshan
With his own flexibility and wit, Mao Zetan successfully passed multiple blockade lines and came to Jinggangshan to reunite with his elder brother who had not seen him for half a year.
When he saw Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong was also shocked, "Zetan, why are you here?"
Mao Zetan replied, "It was Zhu De who sent me to contact you."
Then, he gave a detailed report to Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was so happy after hearing this. It turned out that he had sent He Changgong to Changsha a few days ago to contact the Nanchang Uprising troops.
Then, Mao Zedong sent a company to Chenzhou to specifically support the Nanchang Uprising troops. Mao Zetan stayed in Jinggangshan and continued to follow his elder brother to revolution.
pic丨He Changgong
sacrificed for the revolution
928, Mao Zedong led the Red Army and occupied the county town of Suichuan . Not long after, Mao Zetan led the local guerrillas and cooperated with the regular troops to capture the county town of Ninggang. htmlIn 22, Mao Zetan, under Mao Zedong's personal command, participated in the battle to attack Xincheng. He not only killed the puppet battalion commander, but also captured the puppet county magistrate alive. After the battle of , Ninggang held a meeting of 10,000 people, and officially established the Ninggang County Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Government, with Mao Zetan as the Minister of Propaganda.
Of course, on the road to revolution, Mao Zetan will also "make mistakes". In 1930, Mao Zetan was appointed as a member of the Southwest Jiangxi Special Committee and director of the rear office of the Communist Party of China, responsible for "expanding the red".
On a day, Mao Zedong led the leadership of the General Front Committee of the Red Army by Junbu where Mao Zetan was. saw two Red Army soldiers forcibly pulling a young man to join the army.
Mao Zedong was furious and criticized the two soldiers, "When the Red Army has to voluntarily, how could you kidnap people directly like this! You are seriously violating the party's policy of expanding the red blood! Which unit are you? I'll go find your leader!"
The two soldiers told him that they were sent by Mao Zetan to recruit soldiers, "Because the task is very heavy, we have to do this."
Mao Zedong was even more angry when he heard this name, and he immediately sent someone to call Mao Zetan. As soon as he saw Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong taught him a lesson. Mao Zedong did not know what his subordinates did, so he defended him a few words.
This made Mao Zedong even more angry. The two of them became more and more fierce. Mao Zedong even raised his hand to beat Mao Zetan.
Mao Zetan shouted loudly, "You want to hit someone? This is the place of revolution, not the Mao family ancestral hall!"
Mao Zedong was stunned for a moment. He suppressed his anger and told Mao Zetan calmly what the two soldiers did, and also talked about the discipline and program of the Red Army.
The next day, Mao Zetan found the young man who was forced to be recruited, personally apologized to him, and sent him home.
pic丨The fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression"
934, because of the "left" opportunistic line of Wang Ming 's "left" opportunistic line, the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" in the Central Soviet Area, the Red Army was forced to start the Long March . At that time, Mao Zedong was arranged to follow the army, while Mao Zetan was kept. He was appointed as the commander of the Independent Division of the Red Army and led his troops to fight on the border of Fujian and Jiangxi.
On April 25, 1935, Mao Zetan's independent division was besieged by the enemy. After breaking through the siege, Mao Zetan led some soldiers to the Honglin area of Ruijin.
hid in the mountains and forests for a day and a night, and the next morning, the enemy chased after him. In order to cover his comrades' evacuation, Mao Zetan ran to another place to attract the attention of the enemy. was unfortunately surrounded and died heroically at the age of 30.
The two brothers Mao Zedong and Mao Zemin were unaware of the news of their younger brother's death. It was not until the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi that Mao Zemin learned about the bad news from the captured enemy radio station.
He immediately rushed to Mao Zedong's residence and informed Mao Zedong of the news. Mao Zedong was silent for a long time after hearing this, and then he sighed:
"After we broke through, the situation there may be more serious than we thought. I guess my younger brother has been sacrificed for some time. When my mother was alive, she told me that I must take good care of Zetan. I have not fulfilled my responsibility to be the eldest brother."
pic丨Mao Zetan sacrificed the place
Mao Zetan and Zhou Wennan
937, Mao Zedong wrote a letter to Mao Zetan's wife Zhou Wennan, inviting her to work in Yan'an. However, for various reasons, Zhou Wennan never made a journey. It was not until 1940 that Zhou Wennan came to Yan'an and entered the Central Nursing Hospital to be a teacher.
Speaking of Mao Zetan and Zhou Wennan, they met in Changsha in 1924. At that time, Mao Zetan was a teacher at the Yanzi Temple, Huangjiaping, Changsha for half a day, and Zhou Wennan's grand niece Zhou Guoying happened to be studying here.
Because Mao Zetan often visits Zhou's home, he met Zhou Wennan who was studying at Hanguang Women's Vocational School in Changsha after a while.
Zhou Wennan is small, but she has a sense of heroism and decisiveness. This temperament deeply attracted Mao Zeqian. It just so happened that Zhou Wennan was also curious about the story behind the revolutionary family of the Mao family, so the two got closer and closer.
Picture丨Yang Kaihui
925, Mao Zetan followed Mao Zedong to Guangzhou to engage in revolutionary work. After Zhou Wennan graduated in 1926, Mao Zetan invited her to Guangzhou. Here, Mao Zetan and Zhou Wennan got married.
At that time, Mao Zedong didn't know much about Zhou Wennan and was not particularly familiar with it. Once, Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui brought a cart of books to Mao Zetan's house. Mao Zetan just happened to go out. Seeing this, Zhou Wennan hurried over to help.
Mao Zedong saw that she was busy and was afraid of getting tired of her, so he joked, "I am Confucius moving - it's all books."
Yang Kaihui happened to have a book "The Analects of Confucius" beside her. She pulled out the book and asked Zhou Wennan, "Wennan, have you read this book?"
Zhou Wennan nodded, "I have read it."
pictures丨Mao Zedong
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Yang Kaihui continued, "The old master never thought that two thousand years later, someone will study his books and what he said."
Zhou Wennan was amused by the couple. She took the kettle and poured water for her elder brother and sister-in-law. Mao Zedong took the water cup and looked at Zhou Wennan seriously:
"Wennan, Zetan is busy with work and cares less about you. Don't blame him. When the revolution is successful, everything will be fine."
This is the first time that Mao Zedong expressed concern for Zhou Wennan, and Zhou Wennan was flattered. In the days that followed, Mao Zedong always remembered this sister-in-law.
Picture丨Mao Chuxiong
927, after Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12 Counter-Revolutionary Coup", the Communists in Guangzhou were massacred. At this time, Zhou Wennan was just I'd love to get pregnant with my son Mao Chuxiong. For security reasons, Mao Zedong sent Mao Zedong to send Zhou Wennan, who was pregnant, back to Changsha, while Mao Zetan stayed in Wuhan to continue the revolution.
htmlIn 28, Mao Zedong returned to Changsha and went to visit Zhou Wennan specifically. Because he happened to be looking for a place to stay and seeing that the Zhou family's big place was conducive to cover, Mao Zedong proposed to Zhou Wennan's mother Zhou Chenxuan to Hunan Provincial Party Committee is located here. Although there is great danger in, Zhou Chenxuan still agreed decisively.
, Mao Chuxiong was born on September 8. However, in just six months, Zhou Wennan and his son were arrested and imprisoned.
Zhou Chen Xuan took out all the savings in the family and bailed his daughter and grandson, but a month later, Zhou Wennan was arrested again.
pictures丨From left: Mao Zetan, Zhou Chenxuan, Zhou Wennan
Since then, Zhou Wennan’s whereabouts are unknown. Everyone thinks that Zhou Wennan has died, and Mao Zetan also thinks so.
He was in pain after getting the news of Zhou Wennan and Mao Chuxiong’s death. At that time, He Zizhen’s sister He Yi was taking care of the injured Mao Zetan. Seeing that he was so affectionate, He Yi took the initiative to propose that he would make a living with him. Couple.
In July 1931, Mao Zetan and He Yi got married. But fate always likes to joke. In July 1930, Zhou Wennan was rescued by the Red Third Army led by Peng Dehuai. After that, she went to Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet Area to work.
In the next few years, Zhou Wennan failed to contact Mao Zetan, and was not sure about Mao Zetan's recent situation. Until 19 It took 34 years for Zhou Wennan to learn that Mao Zetan had become a revolutionary partner with He Yi.
pic丨From left: He Zizhen, He Yi
She voluntarily withdrew from this relationship and was determined to raise her son Mao Chuxiong to be a human. In 1936, Zhou Wennan was arrested again and was rescued after several months of being in prison.
At this time, she heard about Mao Zetan's sacrifice. News about the death. That night, Zhou Wennan hugged her son and cried, and Mao Chuxiong then learned the true identity of her father.
In 1937, Zhou Wennan received a letter from Mao Zedong, inviting her to Yan'an. Due to various reasons, Zhou Wennan never made a trip. It was not until 1940 that she went to Yan'an and entered the Central Nursing Hospital to work as a teacher.
is here, and she meets Wang Yingqiao, the director of the teaching Love. But when considering his marriage with Wang Yingqiao, Zhou Wennan hesitated for a long time and wrote a letter to Mao Zedong.
Mao Zedong was very happy after receiving the letter. He hoped that Zhou Wennan could find his own happiness. So, Mao Zedong replied to her:
"Marriage is free, I have no objection, I have only one condition, I hope you can always remember that Mao Zetan sacrificed for the revolution, his spirit is immortal, worthy of our living people. ”
In March 1942, Zhou Wennan and Wang Yingqiao became husband and wife.
