919, when Chairman Mao ran around for the revolution, he arrived at Peking for the first time. Although , Beiping City was not occupied by the Japanese at that time, the inside and outside of the city walls were very depressed, and people's mental outlook was relatively haggard.
After the demise of Qing , the entire Forbidden City suffered various skin and paint loss due to disrepair. Therefore, the Forbidden City at that time was not as red walls and golden tiles as it is now. Even the moat is full of potholes, and all kinds of garbage fills the river, emitting an indescribable smell every day.
Chairman Mao has an indissoluble bond with Peking. When he was young, he passed by the Forbidden City
. At that time, Chairman Mao was still a promising young man. For his belief, he set out from his hometown to take a steamer to Hankou, and then took the train of Beijing-Han Railway . After four days and four nights, he finally came to Beijing in a hurry.
The transportation a hundred years ago was not as modern as it was. At that time, the transportation routes in China were very scarce. In addition to relying on manpower to walk when going out, people also drove the more primitive horse-drawn carriages. Like some railway transportation, it can only be owned in important node cities.
There is a cold knowledge here. At that time, Chairman Mao’s travel expenses to Beijing were all made up and borrowed from his friends. After he came to Peking for the first time, he had no place to live and could not even afford the accommodation fee, so he could only stay at Teacher Yang Changji's home temporarily.
Yang Changji is the father of martyr Yang Kaihui and Chairman Mao’s father-in-law. He is a respected and knowledgeable person. From the first sight of Chairman Mao, he likes this son-in-law very much. Yang Changji once predicted that with Chairman Mao’s conversation and ambitions, he will definitely be a big figure with an unlimited future in the future.
At that time, Yang Changji happened to live in Peking and taught in a university. However, Chairman Mao came to Beijing this time not just to visit his father-in-law, because behind his visit to Peking, there is a deeper purpose.
Later, Chairman Mao mentioned in his memoir that this trip to Beijing was actually because he wanted to take advantage of his youth to go to the vast world to increase his knowledge and strive to find ways to save the country and the people.
It is worth mentioning that through this visit to Beijing, Chairman Mao saw the Forbidden City for the first time, but he was just passing by and had no close contact. No one knows what Chairman Mao felt when he first saw the Forbidden City. I only know that a few decades later, Chairman Mao had an indissoluble bond with the city of Peking.
1949, on the eve of the victory of the National Liberation War, Chairman Mao came to Peiping again. This time, there have been great changes in both the entire situation and Chairman Mao’s mentality.
Then, Chairman Mao’s residence was arranged in Zhongnanhai . You should know that Zhongnanhai and the Forbidden City are only 500 meters apart, but even with such convenient conditions in front of you, Chairman Mao has not entered the Forbidden City for many years. Only in 1954, he had visited the Forbidden City wall three times.
1954, Chairman Mao passed by the Forbidden City three times but failed to enter. There was such a deep meaning behind it
The first time to visit the Forbidden City wall was on May 14, 19th. is reasonable. He is not only familiar with the past and the present, but also has his own insights into cultural relics. When he heard that there were a batch of cultural relics outside , Wumen , Chairman Mao became interested. He came to the Forbidden City with great enthusiasm. After looking around the walls of the palace, he leisurely picked up the small stool and sat down to share a few small oranges with the two of them. Then, under the guidance of his fellow travelers, Chairman Mao then strode to the Meridian Gate and carefully observed the batch of newly arrived cultural relics.
Every batch of cultural relics represents the mark of an era. Every time Chairman Mao goes to a cultural relics, he has to stop and observe for a long time. It can be seen that he likes these cultural relics very much. It was not until the lights first came on that Chairman Mao was reluctant to leave.
Although the Meridian Gate and the Forbidden City are separated by a door, even so, Chairman Mao did not step into the Forbidden City, and at most he looked outside the palace wall for a while.
The next day, Chairman Mao was energetic again and went to the Meridian Gate to continue to carefully observe the batch of freshly unearthed cultural relics. For Chairman Mao, these cultural relics are far more attractive to him than the mysterious Forbidden City. Chairman Mao couldn't help but sigh while observing these cultural relics.
During the verbal conversation, the people around him took the opportunity to invite Chairman Mao to the Forbidden City to see, but Chairman Mao suddenly became serious. He waved his hands repeatedly to reject the proposal, so the staff could only look at each other.
However, the next week later, Chairman Mao came to the Forbidden City again. This time, he still did not step inside like the previous two times, but walked back and forth outside the Forbidden City wall, as if he wanted to see every detail on the palace wall. From time to time, he would look inside a few times. It can be seen that Chairman Mao was actually very curious about the Forbidden City, but he still didn't go in in the end.
In fact, if it were an ordinary person, he would have such a great opportunity to enter the Forbidden City and would not have tickets, so he would have been eager to visit it. However, Chairman Mao is not an ordinary person. He did not enter the Forbidden City three times but naturally had his own reasons.
You must understand that Chairman Mao, who has read through history, knows that the Forbidden City is a place where feudal emperors live. This palace is the largest palace in the world, covering an area of 720,000 square meters, equivalent to the city of the capital. In the Forbidden City, there are 8,707 small rooms in Everbright , and there are countless cultural relics and treasures inside. It can be said to be an extremely luxurious and grand palace.
In feudal history, the Forbidden City was a symbol of the culmination of royal power, but things change. After experiencing the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the destruction of the dynasty, there were no kings and concubines in the Forbidden City, but became a large cultural relics and monuments and were permanently protected.
It is precisely because the Forbidden City has such a long history that in Chairman Mao’s view, the Forbidden City is a symbol of luxury and enjoyment of the feudal emperors, but Chairman Mao did not want to let this new country enter the previous reincarnation history of the rise and fall of the dynasty, because if you want to break out of the cyclical law of the rise and fall of the dynasty, you cannot pay too much attention to these products representing feudal culture.
The thought projected by the Forbidden City itself shows that it wants to lead the way, so as the representative of the people, Chairman Mao does not want to be related to the Forbidden City.
Chairman Mao himself is a person who is quite curious about the world and everything. He may be able to restrain his curiosity from a place only one step away from the Forbidden City and no longer set foot here. It has to be said that his self-control is quite strong.
Being able to reflect on oneself is something Chairman Mao pursued throughout his life and it is also the truth he taught future generations.
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