Preface
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping's youngest daughter Deng Rong wrote in "My Father Deng Xiaoping":
"When we were young, we thought that the second uncle Deng Ken was the most unlike his father Deng Xiaoping, because he was tall and handsome. But now, seeing him sitting with his father, we feel that he is the most like his father, but one is tall and the other is short..."
Deng Xiaoping responded to the significant height gap between the two brothers:
Deng Xiaoping responded to the significant height gap between the two brothers:
"I am short, which may be related to the fact that I often don't have enough food in France when I was young."
went to France to study with patriotic enthusiasm, and lived a difficult life and did not forget my original intention
1919 After the vigorous May Fourth Patriotic Movement broke out in Beijing, , Deng Xiaoping, who was only 15 years old who studied at Guang'an Middle School, took to the streets with some passionate young people , holding the white flag of "protecting Shandong sovereignty", "killing traitors", "repaying me Qingdao ", and "swearing to avenge national shame", circulated flyers along the way, shouting slogans of boycotting Japanese goods.
Since the school has been in a strike situation, normal study and life cannot be carried out. In addition, as the summer vacation is approaching, Deng Xiaoping, like other classmates, left school early and returned home.
Due to the influence of the May Fourth Movement, Deng Xiaoping gradually realized that if China wants to be prosperous and strong, it must rely on science.
During Deng Xiaoping's time in France
At this time, Chongqing happened to be preparing to open a preparatory school for work-study in France. Deng Xiaoping's father insisted on letting his son apply for the school.
So, after being admitted to the school, Deng Xiaoping bid farewell to his relatives in 1920 and went to France with hope to seek the true meaning of saving the country.
Although Deng Xiaoping was underage at that time, he made up his mind that when he went to France, he must learn new technologies and great skills. In the future, he would do a great cause, change the poor and backward appearance of the motherland, and improve the situation of the suffering people...
However, when Deng Xiaoping came to France with full of longing, he found that what awaited him was a severe test...
Because, after the First World War, Europe was in a depression, France's unemployed increased dramatically, and people's lives were in difficulty. Such situations as
seriously affect the study and life of students who work and study in France.
related data shows that at the end of the year when Deng Xiaoping and his team came to France, only one-quarter of the more than 1,600 students who went to France to work and study were already working. As winter approaches, almost one-quarter of the total workload is lost.
Send farewell to students who work and study in France to take a group photo
This means that nearly 8 in 10 students have no jobs.
You can imagine how poor their lives are.
In order to survive, some students lived in slums in Paris, and a large number of students squeezed into the Overseas Chinese Association and built a cloth shed in the yard to squeeze together.
However, as more and more unemployed students continue to come, even such a simple and harsh cloth shed can't live in.
In terms of eating, students who work and study are even more pitiful. Due to limited funds, they can only eat some cheapest foods, such as boiled potatoes in white water.
Moreover, because they don’t have money to buy kerosene, they can’t even cook potatoes, so they can only eat half-baked ones, resulting in indigestion and often have stomach problems, and many students fall ill due to it.
In less than two years, 61 students died of illness, and more than 80 people were sent to public hospitals for medical treatment.
For life, Deng Xiaoping and others worked as labor-intensive random workers in steel plants, served as hospitality in restaurants, transported goods at train stations and docks, helped others to carry gifts, and moved bricks on construction sites, carrying cement, etc.
Deng Xiaoping
These hardworking jobs are full of tests for the underage Deng Xiaoping.But no matter how dirty or tired he is, he will do whatever he encounters.
Later, Deng Xiaoping recalled this experience and said:
"Whenever I can afford a piece of croissant and a glass of milk, I always feel very happy!"
Although work is hard and life is difficult, Deng Xiaoping never forgot his original intention to come to France.
So, Deng Xiaoping always chats with French workers in his spare time and has a deeper understanding of the Western capitalist society .
In addition, he often talks with other students and exchanges his views on various social issues.
In 1922, Deng Xiaoping officially joined the "Chinese Youth Communist Party" established by Zhou Enlai and others.
After embarking on the revolutionary path, Deng Xiaoping wrote a long letter to his family far away in China, telling them that he had engaged in revolutionary activities and could not go home.
Seeing this letter, Deng's mother, who had always cared about her son, was extremely anxious and eagerly hoped that her son could come home quickly.
zhou Enlai
Unfortunately, Deng Xiaoping was busy with revolutionary work and failed to see his mother for the last time.
younger brother was affected and participated in the revolution
While busy with revolutionary work, Deng Xiaoping was also concerned about his young younger brother Deng Ken.
At that time, Deng Ken was still in elementary school. In order to get his younger brother on the right path, Deng Xiaoping often sent home a magazine he founded under the leadership of Premier Zhou. A total of seven or eight issues were sent.
Since Deng Ken was still young, he only saw a naked child on the cover of the magazine and could not understand the content inside.
Later, after entering junior high school, Deng Ken gradually understood the magazine his brother sent him. He understood what imperialist aggression was, what was the working masses, and what was the working and farmer government...
Deng Ken later recalled that his participation in the revolution was the earliest influence of the "Red Light" sent to him by his brother. When he was in high school, Deng Ken participated in the student trend. Later, because he was hunted by the enemy, Deng Ken had to run home to hide and teach in Beishan Primary School for half a year. Although
is in danger, Deng Ken, like his brother Deng Xiaoping, is not afraid of hardships and unwilling to retreat for the sake of the revolutionary cause and the faith in his heart.
So, Deng Ken, who came to Chengdu to study in 1930, participated in the revolution and was arrested by the enemy again. At this time, Deng Xiaoping had already returned to China, and Deng Ken didn't know.
Deng Ken's later years
In helplessness, Deng Ken returned to his hometown again and continued to teach in Beishan Primary School.
More than half a year later, Deng Ken was preparing to go to Shanghai to study. Before leaving, his father said to him:
"I heard that your elder brother has returned to China, maybe in Shanghai. If you go, look for him."
However, it is not easy to find someone in the huge Shanghai, not to mention that Deng Xiaoping is still a Communist Party member, with a special identity, and others don't know his whereabouts easily.
Later, Deng Ken saw someone publishing "Missing Person Notice" in the newspaper, so he wanted to give it a try.
So, Deng Ken spent two oceans to publish a "Missing Person Notice" in the newspaper. Not long after
, Deng Xiaoping noticed this message.
Although it says the clan name of my younger brother in his hometown, Deng Xiaoping thinks it should be published by his younger brother, not the bait deliberately released by the spy. But Deng Xiaoping still dared not act rashly.
Because at that time, the Shanghai environment of was very dangerous, in order to protect the party organization from being destroyed, the Party Central Committee strictly ordered underground party members not to take photos, not to go to theaters and cinemas and other places with a large number of people. Even for your partner, you must strictly keep the party’s secrets.
What's more, as an important figure in the party, Deng Xiaoping had been in danger at least twice before.
Deng Xiaoping's father
Once, Deng Xiaoping and Luo Yinong got in. As soon as they left the back door, the enemy broke through the front door and entered. After leaving the house, Deng Xiaoping happened to see a comrade dressed in wiping leather shoes and quietly made a gesture to him to leave quickly. Deng Xiaoping immediately evacuated the scene.
, and Luo Yinong, who was associated with him, was not so lucky. Because he had no time to evacuate, Luo Yinong was tragically captured and killed by the enemy. This action is extremely thrilling.
Therefore, Deng Ken did not receive any news from his brother Deng Xiaoping soon.
Later, after several secret reconnaissances by the Central Special Branch, it was confirmed that the person who published the missing person was Deng Ken. Deng Xiaoping quietly came to Deng Ken’s residence wearing a long robe and a top hat to meet his younger brother.
However, just about two months after the two brothers met, Deng Xiaoping told his younger brother that he was leaving Shanghai.
Deng Ken quickly said to his brother: "I have participated in some revolutionary activities and want to revolutionize with my elder brother."
Deng Xiaoping said to his brother:
"This way, you are not familiar with me just now. I will first introduce you to work at the Red Mutual Aid Society. It is an international organization. Under the leadership of the Party, it specializes in relief of comrades in prison, write letters to them, comfort them, give them food, raise funds..."
Luo Yinong
Just like that, Deng Ken came to work at the Red Mutual Aid Society. Not long after, Deng Xiaoping went to work in the Central Soviet Area, and the two brothers lost contact again.
14 years later, Deng Xiaoping returned to Yan'an to attend the First Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee and met his younger brother.
, but before the meeting was finished, the news came that Japan surrendered to .
As the secretary of the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China and the political commissar of the Military Region, Deng Xiaoping had to rush back to the front line.
Later, Deng Ken participated in the Little Long March and served as the Regional Commissioner of Luzhou and the Deputy Mayor of Chongqing.
Although Deng Xiaoping is an important leader of the central government, he never interferes in the work treatment of his brothers and sisters.
Deng Ken once said: "Although my brother cares about me very much, there are few specific things. As for the treatment issue, I have never cared about it."
Deng Ken felt that it was very normal for this. Because he felt that his brother should not care about these things, he had never told his brother such things.
However, the two brothers not only got together in the war years, but also the same was true after the founding of New China.
Because of this matter, Deng Ken also had some opinions about his elder brother Deng Xiaoping.
1992, 79-year-old Deng Ken came to visit his 88-year-old brother Deng Xiaoping. That day, the whole family sat together and chatted all morning.
Deng Ken
During the period, Deng Ken said to Deng Xiaoping: "Brother, we brothers have never sat together and chatted like today!"
Deng Xiaoping said to his younger brother apologized: "Now I am retired. In the past, I left everything to foreigners and people in our country. Now we can have a good chat!"
However, although the two brothers have been busy with their own affairs over the years, they have always cared about each other.
When Deng Xiaoping was in Beijing, Deng Ken was in Dongting Lake, Hankou, thousands of miles apart. But every time Deng Xiaoping came to Wuhan, Deng Ken would take his family to visit his brother and sister-in-law.
In 1973, Deng Xiaoping went to Guangxi to send foreign guests. When he returned to Beijing and passed by Wuhan, Deng Xiaoping went to Hankou to visit his younger brother's family.
The gift he brought to his younger brother's family was a few taros. Although is so ordinary that it cannot be more ordinary, it represents his concern and care for his family.
Because, that kind of taro is the light red taro he ate when he led the Baise Uprising in Guangxi in 1929. he thought it was delicious and liked it very much, so he also wanted to let his younger brother's family try it.
Learning that my brother likes it very much, Deng Ken said, "Brother, you take it back to Beijing to eat!"
Deng Xiaoping said, "I bring it to the children to taste it. The taro from Guangxi is quite delicious."
Deng Xiaoping
The common points of the two brothers
Although the two brothers are very different in appearance, they have more similarities.
First of all, Deng Ken once said: "My mother is a very backbone person. My brother and I have inherited the backbone of our mother."
Deng Ken recalled that their family originally had 40 acres of land, and they were considered small landlords. However, since my father left home to avoid disaster, the family's savings gradually bottomed out and life was in trouble. My mother's family is a well-known family in the local area and has a wealthy family.
So, when , the mother brought her son Deng Ken back to her parents' home, she suggested that she would bring some meat back for the children to eat, but was rejected by her parents.
Since then, no matter how difficult the family encounters, my mother insists on raising pigs.
And my brother has been very strong since childhood. Once, my father was not at home during the Chinese New Year, so my mother asked a landlord named Liu who had contact with their family to help write Spring Festival couplets.
However, although that landlord is educated, he is not very good-minded. He wrote some sarcastic words about the Deng family . Because my mother and sister were illiterate, they did not find the bad intentions of the landlord surnamed Liu.
Deng Xiaoping, who was only about 10 years old, was very angry when he saw it. He immediately tore the Spring Festival couplets apart, and then bought red paper to write Spring Festival couplets for his home.
Deng Xiaoping climbs
In addition, Their brothers have similarities in life, educating their children, etc.
All have regular life
Deng Xiaoping's life has always been operating in Yan'an according to the customized routine. Generally, Deng Xiaoping would get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, then take a walk in the yard for about half an hour, and walk for 18 laps before he would stop the war.
Every round, Deng Xiaoping's steps are certain, just like completing a serious task. When it was inconvenient to rain and snow, Deng Xiaoping walked in the corridor and never took a laziness.
In addition, Deng Xiaoping will also do several self-written aerobics to expand the chest, stretch the legs, and relax the muscles and bones.
At twelve o'clock noon, Deng Xiaoping had lunch with his family and had dinner at 6:30 pm.
Deng Xiaoping likes smoking very much, and even in the war years, he has never left smoking. However, in his later years, due to physical reasons, the doctor and his family advised him to smoke less and ask him to quit.
After Deng Xiaoping agreed, he never smoked again. For a person with a long-term smoking age, quitting smoking is undoubtedly something that requires strong perseverance to do when opinions are very much needed, which shows Deng Xiaoping's perseverance.
Deng Xiaoping smokes
, and Deng Ken, whether in the war or in peace, has always been by the rules.
After retirement, Deng Ken got up at 6:30 every morning and ran around the yard while listening to the news. After the exercise, Deng Ken will come to the balcony to take care of the flowers and plants. After nine o'clock, Deng Ken will sit down to write, read books, and read newspapers.
In terms of eating, Deng Ken will not eat too much even if he likes what he likes. He will still eat what he should eat for those things he doesn't like.
likes to play with grandchildren and live a big family
Deng Xiaoping likes children very much. Whenever he has time, he will play with the children. He also likes to let the sun shine the children.
Deng Xiaoping likes to listen to Peking Opera . As long as Huairentang acts, Deng Xiaoping always takes the children to listen.
When the family was having dinner together, although Deng Xiaoping rarely spoke, he kept silently caring for everyone. When he found that who was not there, Deng Xiaoping would take the initiative to ask what was going on.Deng Ken is the same. He likes the life of a big family. The family reunion is his happiest time.
However, because his children are scattered in various places, it is difficult for the family to get together. However, Deng Ken always carried his grandson and family photos with him. When he missed them, he took out the photos and took them out to take a look.
Deng Xiaoping is with the child
Looking at the naughty look of the children in the photo, Deng Ken always laughed happily.
Later, Deng Ken's youngest son and his family returned from the United States and stopped traveling far away. Deng Ken took the initiative to give his bedroom to his daughter-in-law and others to live in.
In addition to this, Deng Xiaoping and Deng Ken both have strict requirements on their children.
Because of integrity, kindness, sudden enlightenment, and smiles, Deng Xiaoping and his younger brother Deng Ken both lived a long life. In 1997, Deng Xiaoping died at the age of 93. Deng Ken passed away in 2017 at the age of 106!
