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In 1936, at northern Shaanxi security, Mao Zedong recalled his childhood with his international friend Snow. When he talked about his father Mao Shunsheng, this international friend was quite surprised. Mao Zedong said angrily at that time. , I learned to hate him." What happened to Mao Zedong in his childhood to have such a big complaint against his father, so many years later, he still has grievances and sorrows? This article will tell you in detail.
This is the place where Mao Zedong was born. The former residence of Shaoshan
family background
When studying great men, today people can’t avoid the roots of myths. They are struggling to find the family and want to arrange a famous ancestor for the other party. In people's past impressions, there must be innate factors behind the achievements of great men. However, reading the genealogy of the great modern man Mao Zedong may make the scholars feel embarrassed and embarrassed, because the genealogy of the great man is too plain, and there is basically no fierce material to grasp. According to
, Mao Taihua, the ancestor of Mao Zedong, was originally from Jiangxi Jizhou Longcheng. In the end of Yuan Dynasty, in order to avoid the war, his family moved from Jiangxi to Yunnan and settled in Lancangwei, Yunnan. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Mao Taihua took the road to join the army in order to make a living. Later, due to his outstanding military exploits, he entered Hunan as an officer in the 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. After
, they gave birth to two sons in Xiangdi, named Qingyi and Qingsi respectively. When they were a little older, the two sons married and established a family in Xiangtan, Hunan, and they were born in Shaoshan.
Although there were officials from the ancestors, the people of Mao Zedong’s generation went back five generations, and there was no official master again, and there is no way to talk about Jinshi Juren.
Therefore, Mao Zedong himself always claimed to be the son of a peasant, which is quite appropriate.
Shaoshan Mao’s genealogy and the records of the three previous generations of Mao Zedong’s ancestor
In other words, although Mao Zedong’s ancestor was not a rich family, but his family was considered solid, it was only in his grandfather’s generation that his family path began to decline. Mao Zedong’s grandfather, Mao Enpu, had a weak personality and was honest and honest, without a vigilant business acumen. He was forced to pawn the only field left by his ancestors to others, and his life was extremely shabby.
waited until the generation of Mao Zedong's father Mao Shunsheng, the character became resolute.
all say that the children of the poor took care of their families early. When Mao Shun was only 17 years old, he shouldered the burden of supporting his family. Although he worked very hard, he was eventually deceived because of poor friendships and was deceived. Not only did he not make money, he also fell behind. debt. In order to make a living, Mao Shunsheng finally had to leave his hometown, looking for a profitable living. Fortunately, God blessed him. Mao Shunsheng later joined the Hunan Army. He not only increased his knowledge, but also accumulated the first pot of gold in his life. With the capital for entrepreneurship, coupled with a flexible mind, his family situation began to improve.
This is also the reason why Mao Zedong was able to read books in poverty. Z5z
Mao's genealogy was so plain that the historians who studied Mao Zedong were unwilling. They searched hard and finally made a breakthrough in a county chronicle. The book records that during the Qianlong period, a Juren named Dai Jiong was invited by the Mao clan to rebuild his genealogy in the village. When Dai Jiong came here, he was attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of him. With emotion, Mr.
wrote : “The husband has a beautiful landscape and must be a prodigy. Although Shaoshan is not the place where Zhongzhou travels, it will be inaccessible to the guests and people. It will be a show of mountains and rivers and follow Mr. Gu and his people. For the glory of the country and the hope of the country, it will be passed on from person to person..."
never thought that many years later, Dai Juren's prophecy of the year would come true. 156 years later, on December 26, 1893, a generation of outstanding wizards was born in Shaoshan. The rumor of
will not discuss the true and false, at least it has put a layer of mystery on the birth of Mao Zedong.
Mao's father, Mao Shunsheng, is happy to add a boy to his family. There are people in the Mao family. It should be a happy event for the whole family to celebrate. However, it is strange that with the birth of Mao Zedong, Mao's father did not show much Joy is replaced by a sad face.
What is going on here?
It turned out that before Mao Zedong was born, his mother had given birth to two children, but unfortunately, she died before reaching adulthood.
In the mountain villages that pay attention to passing on from generation to generation and continuing the incense, one after another happensMao Zedong's parents were frightened by such disasters, for fear that the child would not grow up safely.
So Mao Muwen Suqin burned incense and worshiped Buddha all day, trying to bless God. This worry was not until Mao Zedong turned one year old, and his family saw that the child was alive and well, and his physique was very strong, which made his parents feel relieved.
The birth of Mao Zedong not only made the lifeless family atmosphere cheerful, but also brought wealth to his father Mao Shunsheng.
When Mao Shunsheng just returned home from outside, he had to start a small business because of limited funds. Even though they are very hardworking and save thousands of provinces, the annual surplus is still insignificant, only barely able to maintain the family's livelihood.
After Mao Zedong was born, his father Mao Shunsheng’s fortune began to improve. Under Mao Shunsheng’s painstaking efforts, his family situation improved day by day. The money he earned can not only maintain his annual livelihood, but also have extra funds to redeem his ancestors’ pawn industry. The poor fate of several generations of Mao's family began to change in Mao Zedong's father Mao Shunsheng. This allowed Mao Zedong's family to thrive in Shaoshan and have enough capital to establish themselves here.
Mao's mother Wen Suqin
Two years after Mao Zedong was born, his mother gave birth to his younger brother Mao Zemin. Following the increasing number of sons, Mao Shunsheng's fighting spirit was aroused even more. In the agricultural era, there are more people and more power. Every extra child means more labor in the family, which can create more wealth. According to Mao Zedong's later recall:
"When I was young, my family had 45 acres of land." My father Mao Shunsheng was a middle farmer in the strict sense. Later, he bought another 7 acres of land with the money in his hands. Later, with the birth of the little brother, his father increased his investment in assets and the family became wealthy. The
family finally stopped worrying about their livelihood. After
became rich, Mao Shunsheng not only repaired houses and added land, but also hired long-term and short-term workers. Within ten years, the Mao family became a wealthy household in the village.
The contradiction between father and son
grew up in wealthy people, no longer worry about food and clothing, and can still study in the school every day. It seems to be easy to achieve today, but in the early 20th century China was very precious. Fortunately, Mao Zedong lived here and had food. In a good environment for eating and reading.
Logically speaking, he should be very happy.
However, in Mao Zedong's personal memories later, this was not the case.
In the chat between Mao Zedong and Snow , we can feel that the young Mao Zedong is full of resentment and depression towards his father.
All this has nothing to do with the violence of his father Mao Shunsheng.
Mentioned the memory of his father, Mao Zedong said without hesitation: “I was full of resentment towards my father very early.”
What did father Mao Shunsheng do to the young Mao Zedong, so that he had such a big impact on his father. Dissatisfied?
According to Mao himself, the biggest contradiction between and his father was mainly on reading.
Back then, his father Mao Shunsheng chose to let him go to a private school to study, hoping that he could read through the scriptures and history so that he could file a lawsuit for himself in the future. The reason why
's father, Mao Shunsheng, was so upset with the lawsuit was that he had suffered an illiterate loss in his early years, allowing an unscrupulous profiteer who took advantage of him to win the lawsuit because of his articulateness. This incident stimulated him a lot, and he hoped that in the future, his children would also be able to study private school to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
However, the young Mao Zedong was not interested in these boring scriptures at all. His interest was mostly to read more fascinating "free books".
To young Mao Zedong, compared with the boring classics, books such as " Water Margin ", "Sui and Tang Dynasty", "Three Kingdoms" and "Journey to the West" are more attractive to him.
Following in the class, Mao Zedong was caught by the teacher again and again, he was reading other books, and then the teacher called the parents, Mao's father not only "sounded" the young Mao Zedong's apostasy. In many cases,
directly punched and kicked him. As a result, the relationship between father and son became tense.
According to Mao Zedong's later recollection, that day, after being beaten up by his father, he chose to run away from home in anger. He was only ten that year.
Because he was afraid of his father's continued violence, he did not dare to returnHome, had to walk towards the county seat. Unfortunately, I was halfway lost and wandered outside for three days.
Fortunately, he was finally found by his family.
This time Mao Zedong ran away from home, but also frightened a family. Mao Shunsheng, who had recovered his son, never dared to be rough with his son anymore. His temper and personality were much milder than before. This silent resistance also tasted the sweetness of victory for young Mao Zedong, and his resistance finally ushered in a turning point.
The young Mao Zedong left his hometown
In addition to reading, the father and son had a big difference. In the attitude of disciplining the children, because his father was very harsh and stingy and stingy in life, Mao Zedong was quite dissatisfied. In the eyes of the young Mao Zedong, his father was an unreasonable "tyrant."
He couldn't see that I was idle. He either asked me to keep accounts, or he asked me to go to the fields to do farm work. He has a very violent temperament and often uses violence against his children. Although he is very rich, he is very stingy. He usually doesn't even give us a penny, and he gives us the worst food. The middle of each month is the most generous day for his employees, and the employees can eat eggs on this day. However, for their children, there is neither eggs nor meat. "Mao Zedong recalled that way later. Z5z
's father was so cruel and left a shadow on Mao Zedong when he was a child. So many years later, when talking about his father, Mao Zedong showed an aggrieved look. Z5z
In addition, the Mao family and his son were two people. There is also a world-wide difference in the attitude towards the poor.
In the eyes of Father Mao, the reason why a person is poor is mostly laziness and poor fate. Such people are naturally not worthy of sympathy and mercy. And at this point. Mao Zedong and his mother had the same views. They agreed that those disadvantaged groups in life deserve sympathy and kind treatment. Especially in famine years, the mother's behavior of giving food to the poor, which made young Mao Zedong remember deeply.
The mother's charity can only be carried out when the father is not present. Once the father is present, he does not allow the mother to do so. More than once in the family, because the mother gave food to the poor, he was reprimanded by the father.
Young Mao Zedong often stood on his mother’s side and quarreled with his father.
“Once, a farmer agreed to sell his pigs to Mao Shunsheng, and the family also received a deposit from Mao Zedong’s house and put it on hold. "But who knows, only a few days later, the price of pork increased, so that the farmers would have to buy a few dollars less. Afterwards, his father Mao Shunsheng asked Mao Zedong to collect the pigs. At this time, the farmers complained to him and said, "I The pork is sold cheaply. This few dollars may not be a big deal for you wealthy people, but it is indeed our few months of oil and salt money. "Z5z
After learning what happened, Mao Zedong pushed the deal on the spot without saying anything. After returning home, he saw that the business had not been done and his father, who knew the truth, scolded Mao Zedong, saying that he was a prodigal and did everything A loss-making business.
Faced with his aggressive father, Mao Zedong directly turned back and said he was a ruthless miser.
young Mao Zedong
In addition, Mao Zedong and his father also had great goals in life. The difference.
most annoying young Mao Zedong is that his father always sets the life track for others according to his own wishes.
Many times, after a few glasses of wine, his father Mao Shunsheng told his sons about his heart and his grand blueprint. He was forcibly grafted onto his son Mao Zedong.
He often slapped his son on the shoulder and said: "In the past two years of Runzhi, first pick up the burden of the field, so that father can concentrate on managing his business. "Or it's "In another two years, Runzhi will learn to do business, let Runlian take over for your brother and go to the field to take care of the affairs." "I think your grandfather left me a mess back then, and later it was thanks to my father's hard work that we have the foundation of our family. In the future, as long as our grandfathers work together, diligently and thriftily manage the family, I dare not say ten or twenty years. Our Mao family must be a hundred acres of fertile land and become a well-known big family. At that time, I will spend my old age with my grandchildren, and I will die without regret. After hearing his father’s beautiful vision,
young Mao Zedong, Showed a disdain, the young Mao Zedong was even more disgusted with the local rich man who was greedy for money.He has long been attracted by romance novels, and he is full of fantasies about Liangshan heroes and political figures.
Although Mao Zedong and his father Mao Shunsheng are at odds with each other because of their different viewpoints and positions, the actual analysis shows that the deep-seated cause of the disagreement between father and son is caused by their different personalities.
Father Mao is tougher in character, even a bit domineering, he likes to do things his own way, always imposing his own views on others. He always looks like a patriarch, thinking that he is the pillar of the family, speaking and doing things are Laozi's first, and children, wives and children must resolutely carry out the things ordered and arranged.
The young Mao Zedong has a stubborn personality and will never allow others to arrange himself. He is born with a rebellious psychology in his bones. The more others block and oppose him, the more he insists on accomplishing it. In the eyes of young Mao Zedong, he insisted on the truth of things, even if others used violent means to intimidate, he would still insist on his own truth and would never waver.
father and son, this kind of wheat mang on the tip of the character, is doomed to have a huge conflict between father and son.
According to Mao Zedong's recollection:
On this day of the winter solstice in 1906, his father Mao Shunsheng hosted a banquet for his relatives and friends, and 13-year-old Mao Zedong was responsible for entertaining the guests. And his unwillingness to do these things caused his father Mao Shunsheng to call him lazy and useless and unfilial to the Son of Man. Mao Zedong, whose self-esteem was trampled on, directly fought with his father, and directly retorted in front of the guests: "Father is kind and filial, only the father is kind to make a filial son." Mao Shunsheng was so angry at his son's words that he immediately tried to beat him.
Mao Zedong saw the situation and ran to the small pond in front of his house. He threatened that his father dared to move forward and jumped directly into the river. The father knew about Mao Zedong's character, and forced him to do whatever he wanted the child to do.
In the end, Mao Shunsheng could only compromise. This war between the father and son is temporarily suspended.
From then on, Mao Zedong realized a truth: if shows weakness under pressure, he will suffer more beatings and scolding. Only by resolutely resisting can he protect himself.
In the spring of 1919, Mao Zedong, Mao Zemin (second from left) and Mao Zetan (first from left) who were studying in the Primary School of Hunan Provincial No. 1 Normal School took a photo with their mother in Changsha. Compared with his dissatisfaction with his father, young Mao Zedong had a passion for his mother. Whenever he recalled his mother, he always said: "My mother is generous and kind and always willing to help others. She is a kind-hearted and noble woman." In his letter to classmates, Mao Zedong also expressed his respect for his mother. , He said: "There are three kinds of people in the world: those who harm others and benefit themselves; those who benefit themselves without harming others; those who can benefit themselves while benefiting others. And my mother is the latter kind of person."
For the eldest son Mao Zedong, the mother is right He also has a special preference. Whenever the father and son had a dispute, the mother always stood firmly on the side of the son, and tried to protect the dignity of the son. Although the relationship between father and son is always tense, Mother Mao always hopes that father and son can shake hands and make peace. She always communicates good words to each other privately, and does her best to bridge the gap between father and son.
In this regard, Mao Zedong often used figurative metaphors to describe family relations. In Mao Zedong’s view: "His family is divided into two parties: one party is his father and the ruling party; he, his mother and younger brother form the opposition party. Of course, sometimes hired workers are also included. Mao recalled, but members of the opposition party did not always adhere to the united front, and mothers often acted as a “mixing agent” in the middle. When the children showed emotional rebellion, or openly opened up When the strategy of overthrowing the ruling party is met, she will be opposed by her mother. She is always making her own efforts for the harmony of the family. It is precisely under the mother’s vigorous reconciliation that the relationship between father and son has gradually eased. At that time, under the persuasion of his mother, young Mao Zedong also chose to be patient with his father's arrogance. Z5z
Later Mao Zedong recalled: Father's cold attitude cannot be said to be completely useless. It made me more diligent and more careful. Do a good job in the work arranged by his father so as not to be punished.
Although the young Mao Zedong refused to give up on the issue of principle, he struggled with reason. In order to defend the truth, he even threatened to run away from home and commit suicide. But on the whole, he still doesn’t want to completely fall out with his father. What he strives for is the rights and respect he deserves. The most vivid example of
was later when Mao Zedong recalled to his old friend Snow : "From his resistance to his father, he knew that if he openly opposed his father and fight for his own rights, his father would probably soften. If he was meek and obedient In many cases, it is not the father’s forgiveness and forgiveness, but the more cruel beating and scolding of the father.”
Although, in the attitude of his parents, the young Mao Zedong has a completely different reaction, a typical anti-father and mother, but Throughout the life of a great man, we will find that in terms of character, Mao Zedong's character is more influenced by his father.
In October 1919, Mao Zedong took a group photo with his father Mao Shunsheng (second from left), his cousin Mao Fusheng (third from left), and his younger brother Mao Zetan (first from left) in Changsha. There is always an unwavering belief in things, rational and pragmatic, down-to-earth... This is the characteristic of Mao Zedong. Even the father's stubbornness, arbitrariness, and stubbornness are deeply imprinted on his son.
Of course, unlike his father’s indifference, dullness, or even inexperience, Mao Zedong is emotionally rich, richer in poetic imagination, and compassionate. Mao Zedong himself is a sentimental person, often seeing things and thinking about people, sentimental. These characteristics of
reflect his mother's figure.
A scholar who specializes in Mao Zedong once pointed out: "Reading Mao Zedong's poems, you will feel that he has a super imagination, a leap of thinking, and a romantic poet. But if you study the game between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek, you find that he is good at calculating. , Very cautious, extremely calm, without telling a trace of luck, he is a super-rational politician. Z5z
is surprisingly, this extremely contrasting two-faced character, but in Mao Zedong's body, achieved perfect compatibility. "Z5z
