In August 1984, Shaoshan Guest House welcomed 4 mysterious guests. Three of them are wearing navy uniforms, and the other is a female tourist wearing yellow-green clothing.
The tour guides and staff who received them strictly abide by the reception discipline and never ask the true identity of the guests. When
came to Mao Zedong’s former residence, the female tourist watched very carefully. After the tour, she asked the tour guide in a low voice: "Where is the graveyard of Mao Zedong’s parents? I want to see it." The
tour guide took the guests there. At the graves of Mao Zedong's parents Mao Shunsheng and Wen Qimei, the female tourist bowed deeply, tears already in her eyes.
The tour guide and accompanying staff have guessed at this time that the female tourist may be a relative of Mao Zedong.
When the tour guide took the guests to a Shaiguping in Shangwuchang, the female tourist saw a sign on it that said "This is the place where Chairman Mao worked when he was a child". Seeing this sign, she could no longer suppress the sorrow in her heart, and burst into tears.
Picture | Li Ne, Wang Jingqing and his wife
She was on her knees on the land where Mao Zedong once worked. Only then did the tour guide know that he was Mao Zedong's youngest daughter Li Ne.
Shaoshan is the place Li Ne longed for most, and when she stepped on this land, she was timid and terrified. In order to hide her identity, she only wrote the name of her husband Wang Jingqing on the list she received on the Shaoshan Administration Bureau's Central Newspaper.
A Shaoshan leader took Li Ne's hand, his tone was blame, but also distressed: "You are here, why don't you tell us? Why are you?"
Li Ne repeatedly shook his head. It has been eight years since my father has passed away. Because of his mother, Li Ne didn't want to reveal his identity. She explained to the villagers in Shaoshan: "I'm afraid..."
picture | Li Ne
The leader shed tears: "You are Chairman Mao's daughter! You have returned to Shaoshan, isn't this your home?"
lost his father’s blessing and suffered mental torture because of what his mother had done. At this time, Li Ne, after experiencing so much helplessness and pain, finally found his father’s original intention in this red land and let go This identity brought her ups and downs.
Li Ne was born in Yan'an in 1940, when Mao Zedong was 47 years old and Jiang Qing was 25 years old. Mao Zedong liked to call Li Ne "the big baby", and Li Ne called Mao Zedong "little dad".
In 1942, Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing came to Zaoyuan. Li Ne could already run away. He often crawled to his father's desk and scribbled and begged his father to tell her stories.
Mao Zedong watched her grow up little by little, taught her to talk, teach her to walk, and smile when she is naughty. Among Mao Zedong's children, Li Ne was the only child who spent his childhood by his parents.
Brothers Mao Anying and Mao Anying were displaced from their mother Yang Kaihui when they were young. After Yang Kaihui died, they sold newspapers in Shanghai and spent a very miserable childhood. Sister Li Min was sent to a nursery school since she was a child, and was sent to the Soviet Union at the age of 4. Accompanying mother He Zizhen. Li Min never knew that his father was Mao Zedong, and did not return to his father until the age of 14.
Compared to his brothers and sisters, Li Ne is happy. Mao Zedong also hoped that his elder brothers and sisters would accept and care about this sister. He once asked him to write to Li Ne in a letter to Mao Anying. He also sent the paper-cutting to Mao Anqing's sister, sharing the joy: "Your sister greets you, she is now five and a half years old, her paper-cutting, send you two pieces."
picture | Mao Zedong and the short-haired little Li Ne
fighting in the march At that time, Li Ne was inconvenient to take with him, and Mao Zedong would arrange guards to send Li Ne to a safe place. When his father was not around, Li Ne painted for his father. Mao Zedong cherished all Li Ne's "creation", even if it was a random graffiti, he would look at it several times.
After Hu Zongnan led his troops to occupy Yan'an, Li Ne has been tossing around with his parents. She has reached the age to go to school, but no school can go to. The staff and officers around Mao Zedong could only make time to teach Li Ne to read and read. She eats a big stove with the staff every day. Like the soldiers, she holds her own small bowl, beats a spoonful of rice and a spoonful of vegetables, and squats down to eat somewhere.
In the most difficult time, Li Ne could not even eat wild vegetable leaves, so he could only eat black beans and drink cold water. Li Na didn’t feel bitter, so he ran to Mao Zedong and asked: "Dad, IEating black beans every day will blacken your teeth? "Z1z
Mao Zedong laughed: "Black beans are food with high nutritional value. Although they are difficult to digest, they will not blacken their teeth. The soldiers are more vigorous and won’t get edema.
Li Ne jumped up with joy after hearing his father's words, his innocent smile deeply infected Mao Zedong.
In Li Ne's memory, Mao Zedong often ate a kind of rice, millet mixed with rice, and a few pieces of sweet potatoes. Mao Zedong called this kind of rice "gold and silver ingot rice", and every time it was eaten it was very sweet.
Once Mao Zedong was having a meal while chatting with an old carpenter. The old carpenter was a little nervous at first, and then he talked more and more easily. He talked about his childhood. He said that he and several children in the same village were often beaten by their fathers, and sometimes they did not know the reason for the beating. There was a child whose eyes were broken by his father. The father regretted it afterwards, and he was so sick.
Li Ne listened to the old carpenter's words very carefully. At that time, she was only more than 5 years old, and she couldn't understand why a father should treat his children like this. She smiled and said: "It's better to be my father, my father has never beat me."
Picture | Photo of Mao Zedong and Li Ne
The old woodworker and the comrades around him all smiled because of Li Ne's naive sentence, and Mao Zedong He still looked serious and didn't smile at all.
He pointed at the "gold and silver ingot rice" in the bowl with his chopsticks, and said to Li Ne: "If your father doesn't have this, he will beat you too." The people at
who had been talking happily at the scene calmed down instantly. The incident of
was deeply remembered in Li Ne's heart.
In the hearts of children, it is wrong for parents to beat others. From this small incident, Mao Zedong realized the difficulty of a poor father and the hardship of the poor working people who were forced to desperate for food and clothing for their family. In the middle of 1947, the situation in Yan'an was already very tense. In the face of Chiang Kai-shek's siege of more than 100,000 troops, the central organs adopted a flexible policy to take the initiative to withdraw and lure the enemy into deep.
Li Ne followed his father, often hearing faint gunfire. Mao Zedong asked his daughter, "Are you afraid of a plane bombing?" Little Li Ne had a firm face on his face: "Daddy is not afraid, I am not afraid."
Mao Zedong looked at her with relief: "Look at the plane and listen. Listening to the sound of gunfire is also a kind of exercise for you!" When Li Ne was eight years old, he was weak due to malnutrition and was weak when he walked.
Picture | Mao Zedong, Mao Anying and Li Ne
He Long pityed Xiao Li Na, and repeatedly proposed to Mao Zedong that she and his father should have a small stove together. Mao Zedong said: "Now the whole country is very difficult. The soldiers in the front are fighting and bleeding, and it is difficult to get a full meal. In order to support the frontline, the working people are reluctant to eat the food they grow, and they all pay the public food. They eat wild vegetables. Bark. So many children under the leadership of the central government have survived. Is my daughter Mao Zedong going to be special? This is definitely not enough.
In November 1947, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai led the central leadership and the PLA headquarters to Yangjialing.
One day, Li Ne heard that everyone was fighting against the landlords and thought it was fun, so he asked Han Guixin, the wife of the chief guard Li Yinqiao , to take her to see the fun.
Unexpectedly, Li Ne cried and cried after coming back. Mao Zedong asked why. Han Guixin said that Li Ne was frightened by hanging people up at the struggle meeting. Mao Zedong was shocked when he heard this and immediately ordered to stop this behavior.
The local poor and hired peasants not only beat the landlord, but also beat the enlightened gentry. Some even named individual middle peasants as "new landlords" and criticized them. After careful investigation, there were also individual cadres who had invaded property that should have gone to the public, called "dividing wealth."
Li Ne was caught this time. The scare revealed the shortcomings in his work. Mao Zedong drafted documents to correct various extreme "Left" behaviors. Zhou Enlai even denounced this corrupt behavior on multiple occasions: "If you see good clothes now, you will occupy them in the future. Is there anything else in Beijing? Let them all spit out! "If
didn't take time out of busy work to care for his little daughter, it would be difficult for Mao Zedong to know these deeply hidden issues.
In 1954, 14-year-old Li Ne made up for his father's birthday and prepared a gift carefully. She I made a circular bookmark with thread and paper,Two longevity peaches are painted on the front of the bookmark, and the word "Shou" is written in the middle.
Picture | Bookmarks Li Ne gave to Dad
When Li Ne arrived in front of his father’s office, she knew that Dad was sleeping, so she gave the gift to the guard and wrote a letter to Mao Zedong.
Dear father:
are you sleeping? Must have a good sleep, right?
You must be wondering why I am writing to you suddenly.
things are like this:
when you celebrate your birthday, I want to give you a gift, your birthday is over if a handkerchief is not embroidered. And the embroidery was very bad, so I didn't send it. Because I know you won’t be angry, you are my good father, right?
This time my mother’s birthday is approaching, so please take advantage of this to make up. You may not like the things I gave, but I made them by myself.
Although things are small, they express my heart: I wish my dearest little dad will always be young, kind and optimistic. You teach me how to live, how to behave, and I love you!
Little dad, I wish you will live with us forever.
kiss you
passionately love your daughter Li Ne
After the founding of New China, Li Ne officially went to school in Beijing. Mao Zedong instructed Li Ne not to fill in "Mao Zedong" in the column of family members, but to fill in the names of the staff around him, and the column of birthplace was written by Li Ne in Yan'an. Until Li Ne entered high school, he was more formal, and Li Ne filled in according to the real situation.
When Li Ne was first in elementary school, because the school was far from Zhongnanhai, the staff drove her at the beginning. After Mao Zedong knew this, he criticized this as a typical "specialization" and would not allow them to do so.
Since then, Li Ne has been living on campus, only going home once on weekends. After several requests from the staff, Mao Zedong allowed him to send a cart on the weekend to pick up all the children from Zhongnanhai.
Li Ne has been the closest to his father since he was a child, and will communicate with his father if he is happy or worried.
In 1953, Li Na entered the girls' middle school attached to Beijing Normal University. Here, the children of cadres are more concentrated. After Li Ne entered the History Department of Peking University in 1959, she had a deeper understanding of herself. Image of
｜In 1949, Mao Zedong and Li Ne were in Xiangshan
since they were young, Mao Zedong has been admonishing Li Ne not to be special, not to be arrogant, and not to be self-righteous.
Li Ne reflected on his life before going to university and found that he had too many shortcomings. In the university, she got to know more people, and she was psychologically touched. She determined to change herself and make herself an ordinary person, like everyone else, and become one with everyone.
She wrote in a letter to her father: "Now the cadres and children can’t eat, their tails can’t be eaten, pain will come, and a change of attitude will come. This is a good thing."
Mao Zedong saw the growth of his daughter’s thoughts, From facing his shortcomings to self-criticism, he felt very relieved.
During the difficult period of 1960, Li Ne insisted on staying at school and taking the bus home every weekend. Most students did not know that she was Mao Zedong's daughter.
Li Ne only reported 17 catties when he reported rations at school. Mao Zedong was very happy to know. But in real practice, Li Ne realized the difficulties.
Picture | Mao Zedong and Li Ne
when she was a girl, she was hungry almost every day in school. She once wanted to take a pack of milk powder to school. Mao Zedong criticized her after learning about it, and she never brought food to school since then.
One Saturday, Li Ne went home. The guards reminded Mao Zedong that Li Ne had not come back for two or three weeks. Let's have a meal together this time. Mao Zedong readily agreed. On the day of
, the cooks doubled the amount of rice, made four dishes and one soup, and made Mao Zedong’s favorite peppers and moldy tofu. When the food was on the table, Li Nezheng complained to Mao Zedong, saying that he had been groaning in school. Mao Zedong comforted her: "The difficulties are temporary, and we must overcome them with the people.
At the dinner table, Li Ne gobbled up her tears, and the hot rice squeezed her tears out. She didn't chew too much, she just swallowed them. Go on. The guards feel very sad on the sidelines, who can believe itAfter New China, would Mao Zedong's youngest daughter become so hungry?
Jiang Qing didn't say a word when she saw her daughter doing this, but just put aside his eyes like sulking, with tears in his eyes. Mao Zedong thoughtfully put down his chopsticks, his eyes were a little moist, he looked at his daughter, and said lovingly: "Eat, eat more." , Went back to his room. Mao Zedong said to Li Ne: "When I was young, I was doing social surveys in rural Hunan. Once I was hungry for a day and only got a piece of sweet potato..." Say what. The guard handed Li Ne half a cornmeal bun. Li Na took half a bun and wiped the oily water from the plate and stuffed it into his mouth. After eating, it was still not enough, so I took the boiling water and poured it into the dish, and drank it as soup.
Mao Zedong was so determined to look at his daughter, and finally stood up, walked around in the yard, and finally stopped in front of the old cypress tree, without speaking for a long time.
In the evening, Jiang Qing went to find Mao Zedong. They didn't know what they were talking about. Finally Jiang Qing walked out with red eyes. The guard estimated that it was for Li Ne’s business. He carried a thermos to pour Mao Zedong tea and said to Mao Zedong: "Chairman, Li Ne is too bitter..." Mao Zedong frowned and said: "Compared with the people, she is better . I feel uncomfortable, and her mother feels uncomfortable. I am a national cadre, and the state grants me certain treatment according to regulations. She is a student and cannot enjoy what she should not enjoy according to the regulations. Under the current situation, she just Especially treat it strictly. "Z1z
Li Ne, who was originally in poor physique, couldn't bear such hunger. She suffered a serious illness, swelled all over, and became extremely depressed. In 1961, Li Ne dropped out of school for a year because of his weakness, and did not graduate from university until 1965.
Mao Zedong wrote a lot of letters to her during this period. He knew Li Ne too well, this proud and sensitive child, at this time, Mao Zedong seemed to be able to feel the pressure in his heart.
Picture | Mao Zedong and Li Ne in his student days
In 1962, Mao Zedong "complained" Li Ne in a letter to Li Ne.
Li Ne: I am happy to receive the
greeting card. Why don't you write a letter to me? Why are you so stingy? You don’t love Dad anymore, do you? I hope not, you love me, just because I don’t help you too little, lack long talks, and don’t talk to each other, so so. Give me a letter. Z1z
wish you progress!
father on January 9, 1962
Mao Zedong attributed his daughter's unwillingness to writing to himself, and blamed himself for caring too little for her and seldom making love to his daughter. The heavy work of
made Mao Zedong doomed not to get along with his children day and night like an ordinary father. And like many enlightened and responsible fathers, he carefully tried to communicate with his adolescent daughter. When her daughter is sensitive and injured, she patiently enlightens and persuades her.
As the daughter of Mao Zedong, Li Ne is under pressure. She must do better than others. She is afraid that she will not be able to satisfy her father and the standard of "Red Princess" in people's hearts. She is talented and intelligent, has ideals and ambitions, and under Mao Zedong's education, she has almost strict requirements on herself.
And when she saw the letter from her father, she began to feel that compared to her studies, her father was more concerned about the relationship between their father and daughter and Li Ne's mental health than whether they could be successful in the future.
Picture | Li Min and Li Ne photo
Dad’s words are full of love. This warm current inspires Li Ne and makes her more courageous, more cheerful, and more sober.
In 1968, Li Ne heard that the battle in Vietnam was very fierce and many comrades participated in support work. Li Ne asked Mao Zedong to go to the battlefield to exercise.
She said to her dad: "My life is so plain, when can I be shrouded in horse leather!"
But Mao Zedong rejected her request and criticized her for this idea, hoping she can do ordinary work, see The most important thing right now.
In his old age, Mao Zedong spent a long time on a sick bed. He told people around him more than once that he was going back to Shaoshan, and he was eager to go back to Shaoshan to take another look. He even told Li Ne that if someone doesn’t agree with him to go back, it’s a legacy.The body will also be sent back.
Considering Mao Zedong’s emotional and physical conditions, while the central government is actively preparing to escort Mao Zedong to Shaoshan, it is also persuading Mao Zedong to recover from his illness.
In July 1976, the "Viscount", which planned to send Mao Zedong back to Shaoshan, flew repeatedly between Beijing and Changsha, and repeatedly tested the data to ensure that Mao Zedong's return to his hometown could be foolproof.
On September 8, 1976, the person in charge of Shaoshan Dishui Cave received a call from Zhang Pinghua, the first secretary of the Communist Party of Hunan Province, and the central government arranged for Mao Zedong to return to Shaoshan on September 15 to prepare to take care of his body in Dishui Cave. Zhang Pinghua will come to inspect the preparations tomorrow. But late that night, they received another phone call, saying that Secretary Zhang Pinghua would not come the next day.
The person in charge and staff of Dishuidong at the time could not understand why the plan was temporarily changed, and until the next afternoon, they heard the news of Chairman Mao Zedong's death on the radio.
Mao Zedong's wish to "go home" has not been realized, but it is deeply remembered in Li Ne's heart.
Picture｜When Li Ne attended the Mao Zedong commemorative event in Hunan, he wrote the inscription "Endeavor" for his hometown of Xiangtan University.
Mao Zedong was worried about the Shaoshan family before his death. She told Li Ne and Li Min to remember to go back and see his uncle. Her uncle is still guarding a few acres of thin fields, can't eat enough, and leads a hard life. After returning to Shaoshan in 1989, Li Ne made a special trip to meet with Mao Zelian's family and left them with 100 yuan. Speaking of the past with uncles and aunts, talking about father, Li Na choked up several times and couldn't help himself. After
's father left, Li Ne has been keeping a low profile, never absent from work, and buys vegetables and cooks by himself. Even so, sarcasm and sharp voices sounded around her from time to time, which made her unable to adapt and fell into a panic in her heart.
While in Shaoshan, the folks here saw her, and they all sighed: "It's Mao Zedong's daughter! She looks so much! How filial!" Hearing these warm words,
thought of the huge gap in life in Beijing. And loneliness, she couldn't help but shed tears. Before
left, Li Ne took out a white handkerchief, wrapped a handful of soil from his hometown, and brought it back to Beijing.
Later, Li Ne knew that the bookmark Mao Zedong gave her had been kept for 22 years.
Young Li Ne had a lot of troubles. She hoped that the best in everyone's eyes, but she didn't know that she was the best in her father's heart. As the tumult calms down, life will end in the ordinary. People's wealth, reputation, status... everything that seemed to be important before turned out to be so fragile and so easy to lose. Only the true feelings in the world will remain forever.
Li Ne's last life did not become her ideal hero in the Shroud of Horses, nor did she become a bad person in certain populations. It was in line with my father's heart, and he became an ordinary person who worked diligently and received his salary in peace of mind.
After the winter, Li Ne and his neighbors braved the cold wind to line up to buy Chinese cabbage, and then transported them home with a template tricycle.
Picture | Mao Zedong and Li Ne
arrived at Mao Zedong’s birthday and death, she would line up with the people in front of the Mao Zedong Memorial Hall, waiting to see her father. Then quietly left with the crowd and took the bus home.
Someone asked Li Ne, how does it feel to be Chairman Mao's daughter? Li Ne said: "There is love, respect, and even more happiness." When Mao Zedong passed away, he left a total of 1.24 million yuan for the contribution, which he gave to the state without leaving a penny for Li Ne, Li Min and Mao Anqing. In the hearts of the children, the most precious and immeasurable spiritual wealth left by their father.
