Tian JiayingAs Chairman Mao’s secretary, he not only needs to deal with daily affairs, but also often helps the chairman to handle letters with his relatives and daily affairs at home. Therefore, Tian Jiaying is naturally very familiar with Chairman Mao’s relatives.
In 1953, a nine-year-old boy found him and said he was looking for Chairman Mao, who was his grandfather. This surprised Tian Jiaying, but after thinking about it carefully, Tian Jiaying still recognized the child in front of her.
So who is this child? What is Chairman Mao’s relationship with this nine-year-old boy?
Chairman Mao received the letter
Chairman Mao was busy with a lot of things and often had many things to deal with. As the secretary around Chairman Mao, Tian Jiaying naturally wanted to help Chairman Mao handle some important work.
Chairman Mao attached great importance to letters from the people. He believed that this was an important channel for the Party and the government to closely connect with the people. Therefore, Chairman Mao appointed Tian Jiaying to select a certain number of letters from the masses every day to show him. Later, as the letters continued to increase, he sent additional personnel to divide the labor and cooperate.
Chairman Mao and Tian Jiaying
Tian Jiaying is responsible for letters from Chairman Mao’s relatives and friends. When they receive the letter, they need to distinguish them. Although most of them are not impersonation, there are always some impersonation.
So they need to be familiar with the Chairman's family and personal history. For this reason, they also read two books on Chairman Mao's activities during his adolescence.
After their identification, they picked out some letters that had errors or pretended to be relatives and friends of the chairman, and the rest must be registered and archived first.
When giving it to Chairman Mao, a note should be posted on the original envelope to state the name of the person who came to the letter, and the contents should be briefly summarized. This will also save Chairman Mao time and know the main content at a glance, so as to distinguish priorities and arrange time to review and deal with it.
After reading the letter, some of the reply letters were banned, and some did not. Later, they agreed with Chairman Mao to copy and preserve them in order to facilitate the copying and preservation, so they did not ban them again. In this way, the precious photos of Chairman Mao’s handwriting of the reply letters could be preserved.
After the liberation, the first letter from a relative that Chairman Mao received was Yang Kaizhi and Zhou Shizhao. Yang Kaizhi is Yang Kaihui's brother. He reported his family's situation in the letter, and Chairman Mao also wrote back to express his condolences to Yang Kaihui's mother's situation. After
, Mao Anying was sent to Hunan to visit the old lady, and even sent him a gift on Mrs. Yang's 90th birthday.
, and Zhou Shizhao was a classmate of Chairman Mao in Hunan No. 1 Normal School. At that time, he also served as the principal of his alma mater. Because he had been engaged in education for a long time, Chairman Mao also respected him very much, and the two often kept in contact with each other by letter.
In the letter from Chairman Mao’s relatives, in addition to expressing the old friendship between family and relatives, they also require the introduction of work and reactions. In response, Chairman Mao also made planned arrangements for those who were visiting Beijing.
Chairman Mao and Mao Yuju
The first person who was approved to come to Beijing was Chairman Mao’s cousin Mao Yuju. In the autumn of 1950, he came to Beijing. The two met and talked about friendship. Chairman Mao also learned about the situation of his hometown and relatives and friends.
Later, with the consent of Chairman Mao, many people came to Beijing and were enthusiastically received by Chairman Mao. Their travel expenses and food and accommodation expenses were also borne by Chairman Mao himself and deducted from his income. Of course, Chairman Mao was very concerned about their living conditions, but he never used his status to help them gain privileges.
But blood is thicker than water, so Chairman Mao certainly would not see his relatives not having enough food or clothing. Therefore, the help to relatives and friends is at least 100 yuan at a time, and the more than 1,000 yuan is also spent on his royalties. The matter is also handled by Tian Jiaying, and it is directly collected from the special accounting office where the royalties are kept, and finally sent directly to the post office to remit money.
After the founding of New China , Chairman Mao received a special letter, hoping to help him find a job. After receiving the letter, Chairman Mao wrote a reply to the person:
Xian Nephew Qinglan:
The letter was received, which was very comforting. I hope you can find a job in Hunan and don’t come to Beijing. If you have a letter to me in the countryside situation. This question is almost good at
!
Mao Zedong
May 7, 1950
After this letter of family was issued, Chairman Mao specially used registration. Although Chairman Mao advised her not to come to Beijing to find a job, she still remembers this special person in her heart. Therefore, in May 1951, I asked her to call her and asked her to go to Beijing to meet Chairman Mao.
So, who is this person? What is the relationship with Chairman Mao?
Chairman Mao’s only niece
Mao Zejian was Mao Zedong’s adopted sister. She had a rough life experience and grew up in different families. Until 1921, after Mao Zedong returned to Shaoshan , he learned that Mao Zejian had become someone else’s child bride. anxiously, he immediately came to help his sister terminate the engagement and took her home, named Mao Zejian.
Mao Zejian
With the help of his brother, Mao Zejian's life was stable. Later, he was admitted to Changsha Chongshi Women's Vocational School.
Mao Zejian knows that all this is hard-won now, so he cherishes this precious learning opportunity very much. During the day, Mao Zejian studied at school, and at night school, he would go to the night school to listen to his brother's lectures. Occasionally, he would help Yang Kaihui sell various progressive books and magazines in the book club.
Under the influence of his brother and sister-in-law, Mao Zejian's ideological awareness improved rapidly and he also joined Communist Party of China in 1923.
1925, after the outbreak of the May 30th Movement, Mao Zejian actively carried out various revolutionary activities and carried out revolutionary propaganda in depth in the working class. Later, during the revolutionary movement, they met the Communist Party member Chen Fen. The two met each other. The most important thing is that they had the same revolutionary path. So in 1925, they chose to get married in Hengyang .
After marriage, Chen Fen was sent to Bin County to carry out the peasant movement, while Mao Zejian continued to study and work in the third female division, and served as the important position of the female minister of the Hunan Student Union.
Chen Fen and Liang Zenan were classmates when they were studying in the Third Division of Changsha. They joined the Communist Party of China in 1923. During this period, he actively organized students to go to various places in urban and rural areas to promote anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolutionary propositions. After
, the party organization also appointed him as a special commissioner of the special committee to carry out the peasant movement. In 1928, Liang Zenan was preparing to pull the revolutionary armed forces to Jinggangshan , but was arrested by the enemy on the way and eventually brutally killed in prison.
His wife Chen Shuyuan kept hiding after learning that her husband was killed, but it was not convenient for him to take care of a woman with a child. At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of the child, also put the 6-year-old Xiao Guosheng in his grandmother's house as Mao Zejian and Chen Fen adopted daughters, and changed his surname to Chen.
In this way, Chen Guosheng is also a descendant of the martyrs.
At her grandmother's house, Chen Guosheng was well taken care of. In order to support her in school, she sold her family's property and allowed her to finish high school.
Chairman Mao and Mao Anying
After the founding of New China, Mao Anying returned to his hometown to visit his relatives, he learned about Mao Zejian's sacrifice and learned that an adopted daughter was still in the world. Later, Mao Anying also inquired about Chen Guosheng's whereabouts from Wen Yunchang , and reported the news to Chairman Mao. Not long after, Wen Yunchang found Chen Guosheng and asked her to write a letter to Chairman Mao about her situation.
So this is what we mentioned earlier. Chairman Mao received a letter from this only niece and responded in time.
In Chairman Mao’s letter, he affectionately called Chen Guosheng the "virtuous nephew", which made Chen Guosheng very excited and made her feel great glory.
In 1951, Chairman Mao invited Chen Guosheng to Beijing for a long time. Chen Guosheng couldn't suppress his excitement, so he came to Beijing with Mao Zedong's two cousins Wen Yunchang and Wen Jianquan and stayed at Qianmen Hotel.
A few days later, Tian Jiaying brought them to Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai. Chen Guosheng finally met her uncle Mao Zedong whom she had been thinking about day and night.
As soon as we met, Chairman Mao joked with Chen Guosheng: "My nephew came to see his uncle for the first time. What did he bring?" Chen Guosheng didn't expect Chairman Mao to ask such a question, so he stood there stupidly and didn't know how to come back. She calmed down and said apologetically: "Three uncle, we didn't bring anything, what do you need?"
Chairman Mao saw that she didn't understand her habits, so he said straight to the point: "What else can I ask you to bring? I asked you what letters you brought and did you report such things."
Chen Guosheng then remembered that the materials prepared for Chairman Mao in advance were placed in the guesthouse, and Chairman Mao immediately asked someone to pick them up.
At lunch time, Chairman Mao invited them to have dinner in Fengze Garden. At the table, Chairman Mao talked freely, talking about the longing and happiness in his hometown, and the story of his mother naming him "Shi Sanyizi". Chen Guosheng also remembered the construction of the tomb for Mao Ze and asked him if he could tell the government to repair the tomb.
Perhaps he did not know Chairman Mao’s principles and was caring and considerate to his relatives and friends, but he never let his relatives go to the back door because of him.
He told Chen Guosheng earnestly that New China has just been established and everything is in trouble. In the years of revolution, not only Mao Zejian but also millions of people have died, but we are short of funds now and have no money to build a tomb.
So you can only wait until the national situation improves before you can build a tomb and erect a monument for them. My parents’ tomb is still a grass tomb. Many people in the local area suggest building a tomb, but I don’t want to.
Chen Guosheng heard that Chairman Mao’s parents did not repair the tomb, so what qualifications did she have to ask the government to repair the tomb for her aunt? She had to stop talking about this.
They did not get up and leave until the early morning, and Chairman Mao sent them out of the door.
9-year-old boy met Mao Zedong
In August 1953, Changsha was in a hot summer. The nine-year-old boy Song Yang was coming home from school and remembered how he would go to Beijing to meet Chairman Mao. He was excited for a long time because of this. This time he finally saw his grandfather like his mother.
That day, my mother asked him to go to the savings station to get ten yuan back, and Song Yang agreed. But he had already made up his mind to go to Beijing to meet Chairman Mao. He looked at his clothes and felt that it was a bit inappropriate, so he asked his mother to find a jacket and said that it would be more polite to wear it in other people's houses.
Chen Guosheng also threw his daughter's clothes to him, and Song Yang was wearing this clothes and quickly ran towards the savings station.
But what Chen Guosheng unexpectedly expected was that his nine-year-old son actually left Changsha on the grounds of withdrawing money and wanted to go north to find Chairman Mao. However, she did not realize the seriousness of the matter at that time.
Time passed by bit by bit, and Chen Guosheng couldn't help but worry, why didn't his son come back? Did you encounter any accidents on the way? So she immediately ran out to find her son's whereabouts and went to the savings office to find out that her son had withdrawn money. This means that the child didn't know where he went after taking the money?
The son did not return overnight, and Chen Guozheng, as his mother, did not sleep all night. His neighbors also asked him to help find Song Yangzheng, but there was no whereabouts. Chen Guosheng thought that the weather in Changsha is so hot now that the child drowned while swimming, so she immediately found a salvage person to help find it, but found nothing.
On the other side, Song Yangzheng also took advantage of the chaos of the crowd and squeezed into the ship to Wuhan. The journey from Changsha to Beijing was long, but Song Yangzheng took the ten yuan on his body. With his super perseverance, he finally came to Beijing .
At this time, there was not much money left on him. He knew that he had not told his mother about this. It was wrong to come to Beijing secretly, but in order to meet Chairman Mao, he did not regret doing so.
How many days and nights did Chen Guo give birth to the child and was worried all day long. She thought the child was taken away by a bad person? Or did he run to a strange place and don’t know how he got home? It was only then that she remembered that her son seemed to have told her many times before that he wanted to go to Beijing to meet Chairman Mao.
But my son cannot be so brave. How can a nine-year-old child go to Beijing? However, when she recalled some details before the child left, she finally realized that her son was probably going to Beijing to look for Chairman Mao.
So, she hurriedly called Zhongnanhai to pay attention to whether the child had gone to Beijing. The leaders of Zhongnanhai also helped find Song Yangzheng's whereabouts.
A nine-year-old boy could not disappear inexplicably. Little did they know that a few days later, the child stood in front of them alive, and everyone looked at him incredibly, and was so surprised that they could not speak.
Although Song Yangzheng is young, he also has plans and minds. He has always maintained a clear mind after experiencing difficulties and dangers. He knew that Chairman Mao was the head of state and it was impossible for him to see him directly, so he could only find the people around him to see him.
Because the last time my mother went to Beijing to meet Chairman Mao, her mother told him a lot about the incident at that time, and also said that there was a staff member named Tian Jiaying next to Chairman Mao, and this name was firmly remembered by him.
Tian Jiaying
After coming to Beijing, he decided to find Tian Jiaying first, so he looked for people everywhere and actually found Tian Jiaying. I have to say that Song Zhengyang is still a little lucky.
Tian Jiaying saw the dirty little boy in front of him and recognized at first glance that the child was Chen Guosheng's escaped son. He immediately took Song Yangzheng back, took a bath and had a meal.
After everything was packed, Song Yang said: "Mao Zedong is my grandfather, and my mother is Chairman Mao's niece!" Tian Jiaying did not look angry at all, but just gently asked him why he came to Beijing alone.
Song Yangzheng then told him that it was his mother who asked him to come. The letter she wrote to Chairman Mao was lost when she passed by Wuhan. This time, it was because the villagers did not believe that we were Chairman Mao’s relatives and said that we were liars, so I hope Chairman Mao can uphold justice for us.
Chairman Mao Hetian Jiaying
Tian Jiaying knew that Song Yang was sneaking out to clear his mother's name. Afterwards, Tian Jiaying also told Chairman Mao about Song Yang's alone going north.
Chairman Mao was also very curious about how this little guy came to Beijing from Changsha. Tian Jiaying explained the causes and consequences of the matter one by one. After hearing this, Chairman Mao smiled generously and praised: "My son is a good plan!"
Chairman Mao thought that Chen Guosheng must be very anxious, so he sent someone to bring Song Yangzheng back to Changsha. This experience can also be seen in Tian Jiaying's letter to Chen Guosheng. Tian Jiaying expressed his child’s words and thoughts in Beijing one by one in his letter, and hoped that Chairman Mao would keep him studying in Beijing.
But Chairman Mao considered that he was too young and should not leave his family, and there were more students in Beijing and it was difficult to enter the school, so he decided to send him back to Changsha.
At the same time, he also brought one hundred yuan to them by Chairman Mao. This one hundred yuan is converted into old coins, which is one hundred yuan, as the money to buy clothes and stationery for children. At the same time, Chairman Mao also reminded the child to take more care of him after he went back and not to let him run around again.
In this way, Song Yang was heading north to Beijing, alarming countless people. Finally, Chairman Mao sent someone to send him back to Changsha.
Decades have passed, and Chen Guosheng always feels a lot of emotion whenever he thinks of this. He thinks that he and Chairman Mao are not actually related to blood, but he cares about her family like his relatives, caring for her children, which makes her feel warm.
Chen Guosheng
Afterwards, when recalling this incident, she also talked about Chairman Mao in her memory: "His love is broad. If his love for his younger generation is a kind love, it is a strict love for his peers and relatives and friends. This love is based on the interests of the country and the people."
