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On December 16, 1963, after Comrade Luo Ronghuan passed away, Mao Zedong was worried and fell into silence every day. At this moment, he wrote the poem "Dangering Comrade Luo Ronghuan" to express his inner condolences for Luo Ronghuan.
At night, Mao Zedong tossed and turned, and couldn't sleep all night, he chatted with Wu Xujun beside him and recalled his past trivial matters.
Chairman Mao and Wu Xujun
During the chat, Mao Zedong suddenly talked about the issue of life and death. He said to Wu Xujun:
"When I die, you don't want to be in front of me. I want to give you a perfect impression and not let you see my pain."
Birth, old age, sickness and death are normal. In the face of death, there are very few people who can truly face death calmly, and Mao Zedong is one of them.
But most of the time death is not just one's own business. It is especially painful for the people around you. Chairman Mao has already empathized with this and made such a plea.
Face life and death calmly
Since joining the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927, Mao Zedong has been living in the rain of bullets. In his own words, it is: "I have fought for twenty-five years, and because of chance and luck, I was not beaten to death by the enemy."
As one of the earliest revolutionaries, Mao Zedong has long put life and death aside since he embarked on this path.
The CCP venue was investigated, Shaoshan was in danger, Jinggangshan broke through, 25,000 miles of Long March, and the bombardment of Tiananmen cases. All kinds of dangers were targeted at him.
Chairman Mao had already made a revolutionary awareness of sacrificing himself, but none of these took his life away.
965, American journalist Edgar Snow talked to Mao Zedong about life and death.
Snow tells the dangers of being a battlefield reporter in Russia, and Mao Zedong tells him about his life and death before participating in the Autumn Harvest Uprising.
1927, before the Autumn Harvest Uprising began, Mao Zedong followed the instructions of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China to notify the uprising team in Liuyang and other places, and was caught by the local Kuomintang militia on the way to inform the news.
The Kuomintang during that period was already crazy. Anyone who had a relationship with the Communist Party, even the suspect, would be executed directly.
Before he set out, Mao Zedong was ready for sacrifice. As soon as he was caught, he took out the dozens of dollars he had prepared in advance and prepared to bribe the militia and let him go.
For these ordinary soldiers, killing is not good, but things have changed.
The captain of the Communist Party took money and did not do anything. For the success of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, Mao Zedong hid in a pond full of weeds.
Five or six times the enemy stood face to face with him across the grass. He even felt that he was going to be bad many times, but he was not discovered in the end. Since then, he has never been afraid of "faced with the enemy".
After the conversation, Snow reporter asked him if Sino-US relations can be improved. Chairman Mao said : "There is hope, but maybe I will never have the chance to see it in my life, because I am about to see God, and life is limited."
Here we can see that Chairman Mao has completely taken the lead in his life and death.
To be precise, since the founding of New China, Mao Zedong has seen through life and death and has publicly mentioned his own affairs many times.
On April 27, 1956, a meeting was held in Zhongnanhai, Beijing. Mao Zedong advocated cremation. Everyone was cremated after death, leaving no body or building a grave, saving resources.
During the meeting break, Mao Zedong was the first to sign the letter of the proposal, and Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and others later signed it one after another.
1961, when meeting with Marshal 2 Montgomery , Mao Zedong was still predicting his death age.
Since the founding of New China, all kinds of affairs have been pressed on Chairman Mao Zedong. He worked day and night, and he was getting older and older, and his body gradually couldn't bear it.
Therefore, for the sake of the Chairman's physical and mental health, the Central Committee specially equipped the head nurse Wu Xujun to take care of the Chairman's body.
The head nurse who accompanied her around
Wu Xujun graduated from the Nursing Department of Shanghai National Defense Medical College. She is kind and well-read.
In 1953, he was arranged next to Chairman Mao Zedong. Facing this hero who led China from darkness to dawn and let the people stand up, Wu Xujun was full of admiration.
As the head nurse of the chairman, in order to grasp the latest physical health, Wu Xujun has some contact with Mao Zedong every day.
has more opportunities to come into contact with, and the two of them gradually talk more and more.
Mao Zedong is busy with work on weekdays, and his friends around him don’t have time to chat with him. A sense of loneliness that comes from his heart surges in his heart.
Therefore, in his spare time at work, he likes to talk to this head nurse, and Mao Zedong likes to treat chatting as his own rest.
For Wu Xujun, chatting is actually working, because by chatting with Mao Zedong, you can learn about life, work and health.
To outsiders, they think they are superiors and subordinates, but in the eyes of them, they feel that their relationship is closer to their friends.
1966, Wu Xujun wore a military uniform, but she did not have military , but just wore it as a work clothes.
Learning that Wu Xujun wanted to become a PLA soldier, Chairman Mao gave Wu Xujun two calligraphy handwritings he wrote to him on September 24 and September 29 respectively. The content of
Both times is the same. It is the seven-character poem "Photo for Women" written specifically for her:
"A heroic figure is five-foot gun, and the dawn is just shining on the military field. Chinese people have many ambitions, and they don't like red clothes and armed."
Wu Xujun was puzzled. After seeing it, the chairman explained specifically:
"Before liberation in 1949, you participated in the revolution and volunteered to join the army in 1951 and became a female soldier. The first character is to congratulate you on becoming a female soldier, and the second character is to wish you a female soldier for the second time."
As the saying goes, no coincidence will be made. In 1969, the People's Liberation Army 305 Hospital was established. For work reasons, Wu Xujun became the temporary leader of the hospital and successfully became a military citizen.
Chairman Mao will also chat with Wu Xujun, talk about her family affairs, and care about her life state.
Once, I accidentally talked about her going to school. Chairman Mao asked her what she usually studied in school. After hearing Wu Xujun talk about various courses, the Chairman was curious and asked her that she wanted to buy so many books.
Wu Xujun shook his head, he didn’t have money to buy, so he could only rely on the library to borrow, and copied some difficult parts by himself.
has been getting hot until the conversation is rising, and Wu Xujun also complains. He often has to copy notes during class, and often has to erase them before copying them. He can only go to the classmate to borrow notes to make up for it.
After the college entrance examination, Wu Xujun wanted to have a good holiday, but accidentally saw the shorthand class enrollment. Out of curiosity, she signed up and finally learned how to learn and remember quickly.
After Chairman Mao learned about this, he talked to her about the shorthand and asked her the source of the shorthand.
Seeing that the chairman wanted to hear, Wu Xujun also said it naturally:
"The shorthand has been there since ancient Greece and Rome. The British who knew Pittmann created the British shorthand. In 1888, there was a man named Gorig who wrote the American shorthand."
When he heard this, the chairman lost interest: "Then do we China have shorthand?"
China shorthand in the 22nd year of the Guangxu period, in 1896, "The word "Sign Up" created by Cai Xiyong was later used to listen to reports and copy notes. When Wu Xujun said that China also has shorthand, the chairman nodded with satisfaction.
He is always worried that China and the Chinese people lack too much. Even if they are in a high position, they must seize every opportunity to listen to the lives of the people around them and enter the people.
Wu Xujun recalled that every time the Chairman was at this time, he was as kind as a neighbor, as if he was the kind old man living near your home.
Chairman’s separation of life and death
In the eyes of outsiders, Chairman Mao is a big shot. But great men are also human beings, and they also have times when they are fragile inside, especially when they are facing the death of relatives and friends, Chairman Mao will also feel sad and helpless.
1915, Chairman Mao met Yichang Tao , who had the same ideals and ambitions, but God was willing to do it. During his studies, Yichang Tao died of illness.
This is the first time Chairman Mao felt the pain caused by life and death to the living. Later, he wrote a special article "Five Ancients·Wang Yichang Tao" to miss his old friends.
html When he was 126 years old, Chairman Mao’s parents died of illness. At the age of 37, his first wife Yang Kaihui died in Changsha. His 57-year-old son Mao Anying died in North Korea. His younger brother, sister, nephew and other relatives also died in the revolution.
On December 16, 1963, Comrade Luo Ronghuan passed away. Chairman Mao went to Beijing Hospital to attend Luo Ronghuan's body farewell.
After returning from the hospital, Chairman Mao fell into deep grief. He had never said a word for a long time. He couldn't sleep and found Wu Xujun to chat, but this time the topic became much heavier.
"I like my mother. She is a kind rural woman. Although she doesn't understand what mass relationship is, she treats people sincerely and has a good relationship with the people around her."
"When she passed away, many people spontaneously went to attend her funeral. I often feel sad that as a son, I have not fulfilled filial piety."
He has no relatives around him, so he told the head nurse around him all the things he said to the head nurse around him.
Wu Xujun comforted him and said:
"It's not your fault. When I was young, I devoted myself to the revolution, sought the truth, and made important contributions to the liberation of China. This is a way to respect my mother."
Chairman Mao smoked a cigarette and said in contemplation:
"When my mother died, I told her that I couldn't bear to see the painful appearance when she passed away. I wanted her to leave, and my mother agreed to my thoughts."
"So until now, my mother's image in my heart is healthy and beautiful, just like when she was alive, so if I die, don't be in front of me, I don't want you to see my pain."
Wu Xujun heard the chairman talk about such a heavy topic and immediately started a joke to ease the atmosphere:
"I am the head nurse, I want to treat you and prevent you from getting seriously ill. If that day comes, I will be said to be dereliction of duty if I am not by your side. We still Don't talk about these life and death topics."
Chairman Mao shook his head:
"I am a stubborn weirdo. The more others avoid the topics I want to say, since I participated in the revolution, I was going to die, but I didn't die."
"You are a medical practitioner. You understand people's birth, old age, sickness and death better than me, and you also know better that this event is materialistic. No one can live forever. According to the laws of medicine, I, like Comrade Luo Rongheng, will die."
When this topic was at a loss, Wu Xujun was immediately overwhelmed and frightened her directly. He wanted to talk about it again. Suddenly, he found that Chairman Mao smiled at her and said:
"I, Mao Zedong, usually eat a lot of fish, so after I die, cremate me, and then scatter the ashes into Yangtze River to feed the fish. Eat them before I die, and let them eat me after I die. After I eat, I will serve the people. well."
Before going to bed, Chairman Mao also found a book called "Formal Logic" for Wu Xujun to read, and said that he would continue to talk the next day.
When faced the Chairman's request, Wu Xujun did not dare to neglect. She knew the Chairman's temper well, so she studied hard all night and continued to talk about the topic of Philosophy of Death the next day.
The more you talk about the topic, the heavier Wu Xujun's heart was. She couldn't laugh when facing the Chairman who was calm and joking about death. She didn't want to see that day, China needed Mao Zedong so much.
Time has passed year by year, and I have been working hard for a long time. Chairman Mao, who is nearly 80 years old, is getting worse and worse.
In the winter of 1971, a common cold first turned into bronchitis , and then turned into pneumonia . In order to relieve the pain caused by pneumonia, Chairman Mao quit smoking at the suggestion of the doctor.
A year later, after attending the memorial service of Marshal Chen Yi, Chairman Mao suddenly had a heart attack and fainted on the spot. He only barely woke up under the rescue of medical staff.
Chen Yi
Not long after, Chairman Mao, who was supposed to be lying in the hospital, still chose to support himself in order to ease Sino-US relations, to meet the US President Nixon .
After Nixon's visit to China, more and more foreign heads of state came to China. At this time, Chairman Mao suffered from cataract . In order to reduce the stimulation caused by camera lights, the reporter could only take photos for about three minutes.
Although he suffered from eye disease, Chairman Mao’s reading habits for many years remained unchanged. He couldn’t see clearly, so he asked Wu Xujun to read it to him. It was not until 1975 that Wu Xujun left him after Chairman Mao had to be in the hospital for a long time.
In 1976, Chairman Mao heart attacked . After the rescue of medical experts, he insisted on reviewing the documents with the help of medical staff. Even the day before his death, Chairman Mao still reviewed the documents for two hours.
976 at 0:10 on September 9, 1976, Chairman Mao closed his eyes and passed away. With the efforts of various departments, Chairman Mao’s cremation requirements during his lifetime were not implemented.
When Chairman passed away, Wu Xujun had been away from him for more than a year. Later, every birthday and death day, Wu Xujun would wear bright clothes to miss him.
Chairman Mao’s attitude towards life and death is just like the lyrics he wrote to Guo Moruo : "Ten thousand years are too long, I can seize the day." He writes few sadness in his words. Poetry and songs, as an extension of his thoughts, reveal an open-minded and lofty mind everywhere.
He and the central leaders led the people out of oppression and war, and built a country and safe country. This mission runs throughout life and is not determined by the length of life.
He knew very well that even if he died, the revolutionary spark would continue. There will always be a group of people who will take his torch and continue moving forward.
