937, an American doctor in Yan'an, Ma Haide , made a request to Premier Zhou: Can I become a Chinese nationality?
After hearing this, Premier Zhou said helplessly: is still fighting against Japan, and I have no way to agree to your request. But after the founding of , I will definitely approve you to become a Chinese nationality.
1949, New China was founded. Ma Haide found Premier Zhou again and wanted to apply for Chinese nationality. Premier Zhou did not break his promise and immediately approved Ma Haide's request.
Ma Haide
After the founding ceremony of , Ma Haide also climbed the Tiananmen Gate Tower.
You should know that those who can climb the Tiananmen Gate Tower are all figures who have made significant contributions to the Party and the country. So, who is Ma Haide? Why can you enjoy such an honor? What is even more surprising is that Ma Haide actually played mahjong with Chairman Mao, and made Chairman Mao distressed: Can you stop playing "Thirteenth" anymore?
Play mahjong with Chairman Mao
That was when he was in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region. At that time, Chairman Mao suffered from shoulder periarthritis because of busy work. Ma Haide had tried his best to treat Chairman Mao, but after a period of time, Chairman Mao's condition did not improve.
Ma Haide, who has excellent medical skills, also realized that this cannot be cured by medicine alone, and more activities must be added to assist in the treatment. So what method should I use? Ma Haide finally thought of playing mahjong.
Chairman Mao and Ma Haide
He has learned to play mahjong early on, as he loves Chinese culture. So, Chairman Mao often plays mahjong with himself when he is fine.
During the mahjong game, an interesting story also happened. At that time, Ma Haide specialized in "Thirteen No Reliable". The characteristic of the gameplay of is that you need to hold on to other people's cards. After hitting
a few times, Chairman Mao quipped: This kind of gameplay is not knowledgeable or particular, why can't you hit other ones?
Ma Haide said: I only know this, I can’t beat the others.
Chairman Mao joked again: Don’t play like this in the future.
Ma Haide said again: Then I won’t play with you anymore.
In the end, Chairman Mao still gave in and then asked Ma Haide to fight Thirteen. After a few rounds, Chairman Mao’s arm was not so sore. I have to say that Ma Haide's move really worked. So, who is Ma Haide?
Chairman Mao
Crossing the ocean to China
Ma Haide's original name was George Heidh . He was born in an American working family in 1910. At the beginning, Ma Haide's father actually worked in a French steel mill.
But the boss here is bad and exploits the value of the workers all day long. So Ma Haide's father traveled across the ocean to the United States, but even if he changed his environment, Ma Haide's father's situation did not improve much and his life was still very poor.
So, after Ma Haide was born, he lived a very poor childhood. But in the poor environment, Ma Haide did not give up on himself. He kept working hard and his academic performance was very good.
Later, he was admitted to University of North Carolina with his own efforts. The major he chose was medicine and planned to become an excellent physician after graduation.
Ma Haide
1931, Ma Haide successfully graduated and also obtained a doctorate degree. After graduation, Ma Haide began to think about his place. With his education and diploma, it is easy to enter a large hospital and the reward is also very high.
But Ma Haide did not submit his resume in the United States, but came to Shanghai, China across the ocean.
It turns out that during the time of school, Ma Haide met an international student from China. Because of the same interests, the two eventually became close friends and often talked about everything. In this close friend's mouth, Ma Haide heard about China for the first time and became interested and curious about this great overexcessiveness.
So he plans to try it in China to see if there is any greater chance. Ma Haide was 23 years old when he came to China. He opened a clinic in Shanghai and saw those poor Chinese people. Ma Haide extended a helping hand many times to treat them for free.
Ma Haide
In this process, Ma Haide met some progressive young people and deeply understood the tragic fate of the working people in China. originally planned to stay here for a year before returning to the United States. After learning about the tragedy here, he planned to stay and do something for the Chinese people. After
, he came into contact with Marxism and learned that in addition to National Government , there is another group of people holding patriotic hot pillows, that is, revolutionaries led by the Communist Party of China.
Ma Haide, who was deeply infected by our party's policies, finally became involved in the wave of revolution. His clinic has also become a secret contact point for our party. Because of Ma Haide's special identity as an American, this clinic also provides great convenience for our party's underground staff.
, and Ma Haide was not idle either. He has introduced Chinese Workers' Daily in the United States' " Workers' Daily " several times. When he saw the Kuomintang so corrupt, he also published articles that exposed the darkness of the Kuomintang.
Ma Haide
Travel to Yan'an base
After joining the revolution in Shanghai for a period of time, Ma Haide also became famous. But Ma Haide was not satisfied with this. He really wanted to go to our party base to see what those selfless and dedicated patriots looked like and how they lived.
Soon, Ma Haide got this opportunity. At the end of spring in 1936, our party sent an invitation to all sectors of society. A foreign journalist and a doctor came to Soviet District to conduct on-site inspection of the situation and anti-Japanese propositions in our party's Soviet area.
At that time, Ms. Soong Ching Ling found Ma Haide and asked if he was willing to go. After hearing this, Ma Haide agreed without hesitation. Afterwards, he came to Xi'an with American journalist Edgar Snow .
The one who came to pick up Ma Haide was an officer with a thick beard. What surprised Ma Haide was that the officer was proficient in English and he didn't have any trouble talking to him.
Song Ching Ling
Later, Ma Haide learned that this black bearded officer was the famous Premier Zhou. Afterwards, he started medical treatment in Yan'an, northern Shaanxi. In his spare time, Ma Haide also examined the medical units in our party's base areas everywhere and wrote down a lot of materials. After
, Ma Haide also provided very valuable suggestions for the medical industry in Yan'an. This made Ma Haide praised by Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou and others.
In order to better carry out work and deepen contact with the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, Ma Haide finally learned Chinese and dialects of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region. It was also during this time that he changed his name to Ma Haide.
After working here for a while, Ma Haide was deeply infected by the local customs and culture.
He once said: I hope to be in this great revolutionary cause as a master, not as a guest.
Not long ago, he did fulfill this wish and successfully joined the Communist Party of China and became a communist.
Ma Haide
Chairman Mao specifically recognized Ma Haide's work ability, so he asked him to serve as a health consultant.
, and Ma Haide did not disappoint everyone's expectations, and did a very good job. He has repeatedly sought international support, bringing many urgently needed medical resources and medicines to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region.
In addition, he also ensured the health of the leaders of our party well.
Like Premier Zhou’s wife Deng Yingchao, she cured tuberculosis under the careful care of Ma Haide. Comrade Deng Yingchao's tuberculosis was suffered from on the Long March route. The conditions were very difficult at that time, so they had not received timely treatment.
When I came to Yan'an to cure it, there was a lack of medicine in the local area, so there was no good solution for Deng Yingchao's illness. It was not until after Ma Haide came that Deng Yingchao fully recovered.
Premier Zhou and Deng Yingchao
And Ma Haide's treatment methods are also particularly interesting. He asked Deng Yingchao to find a bed board, then put it in the yard, and then lie on it to bask in the sun.
At first, Deng Yingchao didn't believe that this method could cure the disease, but after trying it a few times, he didn't expect that the disease would be cured.
In addition to Deng Yingchao, Deng Yingchao's husband Premier Zhou has also received careful care from Ma Haide.
Therefore, he and Premier Zhou and his wife formed a very deep friendship and often talked about their worries together.
Once, Ma Haide found Premier Zhou and said: I love this country very much. Can I become a Chinese nationality?
Faced with Ma Haide's request, Premier Zhou smiled and said: We have not established a country yet. After the founding of New China, I will definitely be the first to approve you to become a Chinese nationality.
Premier Zhou
Hearing this sentence Ma Haide was particularly excited and his work became more passionate.
Big knot
In addition to treating the leaders of our party, Ma Haide also often serves the people of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. In this process, Ma Haide also found the love of his life weeks Sophie .
Zhou Sophie was known as the "No. 1 Beauty in Yanbian " at that time. Once, because she was not feeling well, she found Ma Haide to see why. It was also the experience of this encounter that made Ma Haide fall in love with this girl. During the consultation, Ma Haide tried his best to suppress his excitement. After the consultation, I hurriedly asked someone about Zhou Sufei's news.
Later, after learning about it, Ma Haide learned about Zhou Sufei's life experience. When she was in her hometown, her parents arranged a wedding for her. Regardless of whether Zhou Sufei was willing or not, she was in a hurry to marry her.
Ma Haide and Zhou Sofei
Zhou Sofei is a progressive young man. He doesn't want to be imprisoned by traditional dregs anymore, so he resolutely fled to Shanghai. Here, she came into contact with the Revolution, came to Yan'an at the age of 19, and lived there for a long time.
Later, it was the case that we met Ma Haide. Ma Haide knew that Zhou Sufei yearned for freedom and did not like to be restrained, so she did not express her love as soon as possible.
Later, Ma Haide found an opportunity. It was at the New Year's Eve dance in 1940, and Ma Haide sent a dance invitation to Zhou Sophie . The elegant Ma Haide made Zhou Sufei feel good about him during the dance. Gradually, the two of them fell in love secretly and finally got together. After
, the two gave birth to a son, and Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou and others came to congratulate him. After getting married, Ma Haide did not relax, but instead took his work more seriously.
Ma Haide and Zhou Sufei
1942, he received foreign doctors such as Bethune and Basuhuahuale as "owner" and helped them work in the anti-Japanese base areas.
, and Ma Haide himself was not idle. From 1944 to 1947 alone, he received more than 40,000 patients.
Reject special treatment
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Ma Haide exposed the civil war conspiracy of the Kuomintang reactionaries in newspapers. Soon after, he began to devote himself to his job. With the help of medical workers like Ma Haide, we finally won the victory of the Liberation War.
After the founding of New China, Ma Haide was appointed as an advisor to the Ministry of Health of the Government. Afterwards, he got his wish and became Chinese nationality. During his time as an advisor to the Ministry of Health, Ma Haide worked hard and did a very good job.
Ma Haide
At that time, the Ministry of Health planned to raise wages to foreign experts, and Ma Haide's name was also on the list. When Ma Haide found out, he said he didn't need it. He said he was Chinese, not a foreign expert.
1953, my country established the Dermatology Research Institute, which plans to completely eliminate STDs. He and a group of experts visited Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, making outstanding contributions to eliminating the disease.
During those turbulent years, Ma Haide was persecuted, but he never wavered his determination to make contributions to people and the country. During
, someone advised Ma Haide to leave here and return to the United States, but Ma Haide refused. In fact, Ma Haide had countless opportunities to leave, such as in 1962, he took his family back to the United States to visit relatives. Before leaving, Chen Yi and were personally practiced by him.
Ma Haide Zhou Sophie
Ma Haide quipped: Mr. Chen, are you afraid that I will never come back?
Chen Yi smiled and said: Of course not, I still want to welcome you.
Later, after staying in the United States for a while, Ma Haide quickly returned to China.
The reason why he stayed here firmly is because he loved it and had regarded it as his home.
In 1988, Ma Haide passed away on his favorite land. Before leaving, he was still thinking about medical career, saying that he would give himself two more years, and he might be able to defeat leprosy.
Ma Haide and his family
After learning that his wife had not fulfilled her last wish, Zhou Sufei took out 40,000 US dollars for retirement to establish Ma Haide Foundation , which provided very important help in overcoming trouble.
Overall, Ma Haide is a very great revolutionary warrior. He has made a half-century selfless dedication to China. Such spirit and dedication are worth remembering.
