"Jiaojiao, why don't you come to see me? You have to come and see me often!"
This is Chairman Mao's eldest daughter Li Min's hand tightly held a few days before his death, and he kept talking if.
Jiaojiao is Li Min's nickname. When she heard her father's words, she was full of grievances, but she couldn't say anything. could only nod her head with tears in her eyes.
Mao Zedong and Li Min
Li Min is the daughter that Mao Zedong cares deeply about, and is what he calls "the foreign baby of our family". However, Mao Zedong's most beloved daughter, , was only allowed to visit him three times when his father became seriously ill in his later years.
This is the pain of father Mao Zedong and the helplessness of daughter Li Min.
As the daughter of Mao Zedong, Li Min has experienced too many unspeakable ups and downs in her life, and there are too many things that are difficult for ordinary people to accept. Walking into her life, we will find the grief and tenderness beyond the halo.
"She is such a poor little girl!"
In July 1936, Mao Zedong led the Central Party and government troops to evacuate from Wayaobao ,Moved to Baoan County.
At that time, Mao Zedong and He Zizhen lived in a very dilapidated cave. Here, He Zizhen gave birth to an unusually thin baby girl , she was later Li Min.
Mao Zedong and He Zizhen
On the second day, Deng Yingchao, Kang Keqing, Liu Ying and other comrades came to visit and congratulate.
The conditions were very difficult and there was no nutritional supplement. During her pregnancy, He Zizhen was always busy with revolutionary work, her body was extremely weak, and she had no extra milk to feed her children after giving birth.
Deng Yingchao hugged the poor baby with pity in her heart and said with love: "She is such a poor little girl!" So everyone called this little girl "Little Jiaojiao" .
Mao Zedong thinks this name is not bad, it reminds him of " Xijing Miscellaneous " "Wen Jun is beautiful, his eyebrows are like a distant mountain, and his face is like a hibiscus" A verse to praise the appearance of my daughter's family,Then named her daughter "Mao Jiao Jiao" , but everyone used to call her "Jiao Jiao".
Four months after the birth of their daughter, Mao Zedong and He Zizhen were forced to temporarily foster her in the home of a fellow villager in northern Shaanxi. Sent to "Los Angeles Kindergarten" in Yan'an.
A photo of Li Min and her family
Before the age of 4, Jiaojiao had no parents to take care of, but luckily she met the simple and kind villagers in northern Shaanxi and survived healthy under their protection.
In September 1937, He Zizhen suddenly ran away "in a fit of rage" and went to the Soviet Union alone .
When she was desperate to go to the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong was very reluctant to give up, but in the end he did not stop him, he just sent her telegrams repeatedly, begging her to return to Yan'an.
No one knows what happened between He Zizhen and Chairman Mao on the day they left, but since then,The chairman kept silent about He Zizhen.
The revolutionary partners who used to be so loving finally came to such an end. Both sides have unspeakable pain and sorrow in their hearts .
During the Soviet Union, He Zizhen met Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui's two sons Mao Anying and Mao Anqing for the first time. She took care of their lives like a biological mother and gradually entered the hearts of the two children.
Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao with Mao Anying and Mao Anqing
In May 1938, He Zizhen gave birth to Mao Zedong's sixth child in the Soviet Union.
At that time, due to the extreme lack of nutrition, The infant could not resist the severe cold weather in the Soviet Union, and unfortunately died of pneumonia after contracting pneumonia .
Watching a few months old child die in her arms, He Zizhen fell into extreme pain and almost collapsed.
Mao Zedong was shocked when he heard the news. After much thought, he decided to send 4-year-old Jiaojiao to his mother, hoping that his daughter could comfort her mother's deep pain and helplessness.
"I came to the Soviet Union to find my mother He Zizhen!"
Soon after, Jiaojiao came to the Soviet Union to find her mother under the care of Zhu De's daughter Zhu Min.
When He Zizhen left Yan'an,Jiaojiao is not yet one year old, and now she is already a 4-year-old girl .
The moment she saw her daughter, He Zizhen's icy heart was broken, full of warmth, love and tenderness.
He Zizhen and Li Min together in Suzhou
Jiaojiao said: "I'm here to find my mother, my mother is He Zizhen, is that you?"
He Zizhen Ask her: "What did you bring to mom?"
Jiaojiao thought about it and said seriously: "I brought Jiaojiao to mom!"
The arrival of Jiaojiao is like a beam of incomparably warm sunshine, breaking through the heavy haze and re-illuminating the world of her mother He Zizhen.
During He Zizhen's life, she gave birth to six children for Mao Zedong, of which only daughter Jiaojiao survived. It can be said that Jiaojiao carries the sad mother, the only spiritual sustenance for her children.
Previously,Jiaojiao never imagined what life would be like with a mother.
When she was young, she thought she was an orphan. In my childhood memory, every holiday or weekend, other children have their parents to pick them up, but she is the only one who lives in the nursery with her aunt and teachers.
After coming to the Soviet Union, she not only has a mother, but also two brothers who love her.
Li Min
Unfortunately, happy times are always so short.
In 1941, after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union, there was a serious shortage of supplies.
He Zizhen knits wool socks in the factory day and night every day, earning a very meager income and buying basic living materials. She thought that she could not save any more, and insisted on buying books for Mao Anying and paper, pens and notebooks for Mao Anqing.
During the war, She was afraid that the three brothers and sisters would not have enough to eat, so she tried to reclaim wasteland and planted carrots, potatoes, soybeans, etc.
In the cold winter of minus 30 degrees, He Zizhen had no charcoal and firewood to keep him warm, and he only ate a few taels of black bread and cornmeal porridge every day.
As a mother, she does almost everything she can to make life better for her three children.
Her daughter Jiaojiao has pneumonia.
He Zizhen fell into a panic when she heard the news from the International Children's Institute. Because of pneumonia, she lost her youngest son not long ago, and now her only daughter also suffers from this disease.
He Zizhen and Li Min group photo
During the war, medicine was very scarce, so the nurse director sent Jiaojiao directly to the room next to the mortuary to die .
After hearing this, He Zizhen cried and staggered all the way to the children's home on a snowy night. From the desperate room, she took her daughter, Jiaojiao out of her arms.
After she came back, she sold the only warm clothes around her and bought some sugar and milk. With this little nutrition and careful care, Jiaojiao finally survived.
He Zizhen had to send her recovered daughter to the nursery again because she had to work during the day, but she came to pick her up every night.
The dean of nursery refused to let He Zizhen pick up Jiaojiao, scolding her for devoting herself to her work, and even blaming her for no reason: Shall we feed you lazy bastards?"
Li Min (left) and his mother He Zizhen (middle)
He Zizhen was very angry after hearing this.Argued with the management of the children's home.
In order to protect the children, she was framed as insane by the nursery director, and was once locked up in a mental hospital.
During those painful years, Jiaojiao lived alone in an international children's home in the Soviet Union, living like an orphan.
"That was the greatest happiness in my life!"
In 1947, Jiaojiao was finally able to meet her mother again. At that time, the mother and daughter were tortured physically and mentally.
After the two reunited, neither of them wanted to stay in the Soviet Union anymore, so they decided to set off together and return to the embrace of the motherland they had been thinking about day and night.
Shortly after He Zizhen and Jiaojiao returned to China, brothers Mao Anying and Mao Anqing also returned from the Soviet Union. Chairman Mao knew that He Zizhen regarded the two brothers as his own, so he sent the two to He Zizhen and asked them to accompany He Zizhen.
He Zizhen is also very happy about this, She has always taken good care of her two children, and the relationship between mother and son is very close and harmonious.
He Zizhen (first from left) with her family
Since she went to the Soviet Union at the age of 4, Jiaojiao who returned to China can hardly speak Chinese. Learn Chinese again.
After returning to China,Although she could hear Mao Zedong's name and see Mao Zedong's photos and portraits every day, she did not know that her father was Mao Zedong, and she could not feel the existence of "Dad".
One day, Mao Anqing and Jiaojiao were sitting in the school auditorium chatting.
Mao Anqing pointed to a large photo on the wall of the auditorium and asked Jiaojiao, "Do you know who he is?"
Jiaojiao felt that the second brother's question was somewhat inexplicable, and answered in a loud voice: "I Of course, he is Chairman Mao, the great leader of the Chinese Communist Party."
Mao Anqing laughed: "Yes, he is also our father!"
Jiaojiao retorted loudly: "Impossible, you are talking nonsense, I don't have a dad!"
To her, dad is a very unfamiliar word, and neither mother nor people around her have ever mentioned it.
"I'm not talking nonsense, he is really our father, he sent us to the Soviet Union to study!"
Looking at the second brother Mao Anqing, he spoke so seriously, Jiaojiao was silent . When she looked up again and looked at the picture of Chairman Mao on the wall, she felt that he was so far away, so far away...
Li Min took a photo with her family
Later, she asked many familiar people,Only then basically believed that she was really Mao Zedong's daughter.
At the suggestion of Aunt He Yi, she decided to write a letter to ask Chairman Mao , because she felt that only Chairman Mao would never lie.
Jiaojiao can't write Chinese characters, the letter is written in Russian , the handwriting is also crooked, the content is as follows:
"Chairman Mao:
Everyone says you are my biological father, I She is your biological daughter. However, I have not seen you in the Soviet Union, and I do not know about it. Are you my biological father, and am I your biological daughter? Please write to me as soon as possible, so that I can be better Back to you."
After Mao Zedong received the letter, he couldn't help laughing when he read his daughter's childish words, and then wrote a reply letter with a pen:
"I saw your letter very much. I am happy. You are my biological daughter and I am your biological father. You have been in the Soviet Union for more than ten years and have not seen each other. You must have grown up and grown taller, right? Dad misses you and likes you very much, hope soon Come back to Dad. Dad has asked Comrade He Yi to go to the northeast to pick you up. Dad welcomes you back." The staff must send it out with an expedited telegram.
Jiaojiao was very happy after receiving the letter,He Zizhen also agreed with her daughter to go to Beijing, and silently packed her clothes.
In the summer of 1949, Jiaojiao met her father Mao Zedong for the first time.
Mao Zedong and Li Min
On the day they met, she couldn't wait to run over, hug Mao Zedong tightly, and called out "Dad" in broken Chinese.
After being reunited with his daughter, Mao Zedong was very happy, he specially invited several leaders of the central government to come over, and even sold them off: "I brought you a foreign baby!"
When everyone guessed When He Yi brought Jiaojiao in, Mao Zedong said with a smile: "Here! This is our foreign baby, my foreign daughter!"
Jiaojiao used lame In Chinese, she greeted every elder present here. The elders all liked her very much. They were all people who hugged her when they were young.
After the summer vacation, before going to school, Mao Zedong decided to change the name of Jiaojiao (formerly Mao Jiaojiao) to "Li Min".
“Sensitive” The words entrust the most sincere teachings of great men to their children, “A gentleman is hard-headed in words, and quick in actions” ,Chairman Mao hoped that his children would not be rhetoric, down-to-earth, and courageous in practice.
Mao Zedong watching the album with his daughter
So why is the last name "Li"?
At that time, Mao Zedong once took the pseudonym "Li Desheng" to evacuate from northern Shaanxi . The homonym of "Li Desheng" is "Leaving victory" , and Mao Zedong did win in the end.
The name is of great significance to Mao Zedong, it symbolizes the unforgettable memory of fighting wits and courage with the Chiang Kai-shek , Hu Zongnan The heroic spirit of breaking the boat and retreating to advance .
Mao Zedong told Li Min that this is one of his father's favorite names, so decided to pass on the surname "Li" to his two daughters .
In addition, Mao Zedong also has another profound meaning, that is, hope that they will be independent and not enjoy special care as Mao Zedong's children This is also the principle that Mao Zedong has always adhered to.
Li Min wrote in his memoirs:
"Dad doesn't allow us to do anything special, let alone use his name to seek personal gain. Dad keeps telling us: 'You can't rely on me Mao Zedong, or You have to work hard and fight on your own, don't put me on your lips.' As a child of Mao Zedong, you have to be a human being with your tail tucked in between your tails and an ordinary person."
When Li Min was in school , every day after dinner, her father would hold her hand for a walk in Xiangshan Park, tell her stories, and urge her to practice calligraphy...
Chairman Mao and his daughter Li Min rowing in Zhongnanhai
In his spare time, Mao Zedong did almost everything an ordinary father could do. He cares about his daughter's life and diet, as well as her ideals and mood. He also repeatedly told Li Min to be hard and simple, and to live like ordinary people.
The days with his father were the happiest times in Li Min's life.
In 1959, when Li Min was studying at Beijing Normal University, he met the top students of Beijing Aviation Academy Kong Linghua ,The two fell in love with each other, and Mao Zedong expressed his support.
Chairman Mao and his daughter and son-in-law
August 28, 1959, was the wedding day of Mao Zedong's eldest daughter Li Min. There were more than 30 guests and only 3 tables.
Recalling the scene of that day, Li Min said:
"Dad was very happy that day. He held a glass of wine and wished Linghua and me. He said, you should learn from each other and make progress together. It's also funny. The ground said to Ling Hua, "Don't worry, don't worry, the two of them are like each other."
Li Min and his wife took a group photo with relatives and friends attending the wedding
Min himself said:
"This wedding, is simpler and simpler than the wedding of ordinary people's children , but it will always remain in my memory, because of this wedding It was hosted by my father Mao Zedong himself . This is the greatest happiness in my life."
"Why do you have to go, I want to see you and Ling Hua."
October 1962,Li Min gave birth to a son, Mao Zedong was very happy, personally named his little grandson "Kong Jining" , when he was free, he hugged his little grandson, kissed and laughed, and "the next generation" appeared on him To the fullest.
Although Li Min gets along very well with his father Mao Zedong, he has a deep grievance with Jiang Qing. In her whole life, Li Min never called her stepmother Jiang Qing "mother", which made Jiang Qing very dissatisfied with her.
Therefore, after seeing the pictures of Mao Zedong's grandparents and grandchildren enjoying themselves together, Jiang Qing often deliberately find fault with Li Min and his wife , sneered and said, "They can't do anything. " and the like.
Li Min and Kong Linghua's wedding photos
Jiang Qing's arrogance and contempt made Li Min and his wife, especially her husband Kong Linghua, under enormous psychological pressure.
In July 1963, because could not bear to live with Jiang Qing, Li Minqiang endured his reluctance to his father, and finally decided to move out of Zhongnanhai, leave her father, and leave the home where she had lived for 14 years.
After receiving his daughter's request to move out, Mao Zedong sighed deeply,Silently said to his daughter: "Why do you have to leave, I want to see you and Linghua often."
Mao Zedong knew the reason for his daughter to move out, but it was difficult for an honest official to cut off housework. Unable to resolve this contradiction, that sentence "the palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are full of meat" fully showed the helplessness in Chairman Mao's heart at that time.
With the departure of his daughter, son-in-law and young grandson, Mao Zedong's daily life has been much less joyful.
It can be said that in his later years, Mao Zedong still couldn't let go of Li Min's departure, and was still very saddened.
Li Min and his daughter Kong Dongmei participated in the commemoration of Chairman Mao
In the last few days of Chairman Mao's illness, he was lying on the hospital bed, although his consciousness was vague, he was still reciting over and over: "Why doesn't Jiaojiao come to see me?"
How does Chairman Mao know, His daughter Li Min, whom he misses, visits him again and again, all because of Jiang Qing's interference, and are often turned away.
During the last six years of Chairman Mao's life, Li Min was only allowed to visit three times when his father Mao Zedong was seriously ill.
This is father's pain,It is the helplessness of her daughter.
"Jiaojiao, why don't you come to see me?"
In 1963, after Li Min moved out of Zhongnanhai, his documents for entering and leaving Zhongnanhai were taken back.
After that, if Li Min wants to see his father, he must contact him at the door first, and he can only enter after being notified. Many times, Li Min waited at the door for a long time, but in the end he just said "Go back".
In his later years, Mao Zedong was seriously ill and most of the people around him were controlled by Jiang Qing, and many people could not easily see Chairman Mao. Since Mao Zedong fell ill, Li Min has only seen his father three times.
Li Min attended the memorial service accompanied by his daughter
The first time was in January 1972 , Chen Yi After Marshal died, Mao Zedong attended the memorial service.
At the memorial service, When Mao Zedong saw his daughter, he hurried over, took Li Min's hand tightly and said, "Jiaojiao, why don't you come to see me often? Come see me!"
Hear Dad say,Li Min's heart was full of grievances, but he couldn't say anything, only kept nodding with tears in his eyes.
The second time, the central office of suddenly called, saying that Chairman Mao was seriously ill, and asked her to go and have a look.
Li Min immediately went to Zhongnanhai after hearing this. She stood in front of her father's hospital bed and looked at her sleeping father, and she was so distressed that she burst into tears.
In her memoirs, she wrote:
"When I went, Dad had just finished , and he was very tired and very weak. Dad stopped talking, and he closed it weakly. I closed my eyes. Dad's hands gradually loosened. I know that at this time, Dad is very tired, and Dad needs to rest. That is to say, it is time for me to go. I watched Dad lay quietly on the bed, and then Without saying a word to Dad, he quietly and quietly withdrew."
Jiang Qing only let her stay for a while, and then said to her: "The chairman has been rescued, much better, you go. Let's go!"
Li Min still refused to leave and insisted on staying with his father.
Jiang Qing's attitude is very strong: "You stay here, what's wrong with the chairman, can you take the responsibility?" so heavy,Even if Li Min felt reluctant in every possible way, he could only leave sadly. From then on, Li Min really never heard any news from his father Mao Zedong.
The third time Li Min saw his father was a few days before Mao Zedong's death.
On that day, she inadvertently saw Mao Zedong's critically ill condition in a document from the central government, and desperately ran to Zhongnanhai, crying and begging to see her father.
At this time, Chairman Mao's physical condition was extremely poor, and his consciousness was basically in a daze.
Hearing Li Min's voice, the chairman tried his best to open his eyes and looked at his daughter, his mouth opened and he made a small sound.
Li Min didn't know what his father was talking about. The staff present said to Li Min:
"The chairman may be asking you, how old are you this year?"
Li Min Said: "I am thirty-nine."
Mao Zedong said with difficulty: "No, you are thirty-eight." moon. Li Min's nose was sore for a while, and tears fell down her cheeks. Mao Zedong stretched out his hand tremblingly, took his daughter's hand, and closed his eyes to rest.
Chairman Mao and his daughter Li Min watching the album
Li Min thought that his father was asleep,He wanted to slowly pull out his hand, but Chairman Mao held onto it tightly.
He opened his eyes again, his eyes were full of tears, looked straight at his daughter, and said something vague.
This time Li Min heard clearly, her father was asking her: "Jiaojiao, why don't you come to see me?"
This is the second time Mao Zedong has asked Li Min such a thing .
After listening to Li Min, she could no longer control her emotions and burst into tears in front of the hospital bed. At this moment, she felt regret, hatred and grievance in her heart.
At this point, Chairman Mao could no longer speak. He slowly raised his hand and drew a "circle" in front of his daughter with his left thumb and index finger.
Li Min was puzzled, and the staff next to him also shook his head and said he didn't understand either.
What does this mean? Is it a mysterious symbol? Or is it a code word?
Mao Zedong looked straight at his daughter, saw that Li Min did not answer, and closed his eyes weakly...
Chairman Mao and his daughter in Zhongnanhai
A few days later, Li Min again She received a call from the Central Office and asked her to go see Mao Zedong quickly. When Li Min came to Zhongnanhai,What I see is my father who has passed away, his oxygen mask has been taken off ……
Epilogue
The gesture that Chairman Mao made to his daughter before his death , has also become an unsolved mystery after his death.
Before his death, Mao Zedong once said to Snow : I am like a lonely monk with an umbrella in his hand, wandering everywhere .
After Mao Zedong's death, her daughter Li Min suddenly realized that the "circle" movement her father did before his death was referring to her mother, He Zizhen. He Zizhen was born on the mid-autumn day on August 15th, and his nickname is " Longan ".
He Zizhen once told Li Min that her father was very lonely inside. Li Min didn't understand it before, but after she understood the meaning of her father's gesture, she completely understood it.
Li Min tells the story of his father Chairman Mao to the younger generation
Father Chairman Mao served the country and the people all his life, and made a living for the world. Many times he could only hide his deep affection for his family and his relatives. in the bottom of my heart.
After Mao Anying passed away, Chairman Mao secretly treasured his son's relics at the bottom of the box for 26 years , also cherishes his feelings for his son in the deepest part of the Chairman's heart. "Jiaojiao, why don't you come to see me" is the expression of the Chairman's deepest thoughts and true love for his daughter Li Min. As he was dying, the "circle" gesture that was reluctant to put down for a long time contained the deep concern and gratitude of the chairman for He Zizhen all his life.
In 1994, "the revolutionary old man of the century" Lei Jieqiong wrote an inscription after paying tribute to Chairman Mao's hometown Shaoshan:
"Public people are forever, private people are temporary!"
No matter how the world changes, no matter how long time passes, in front of Chairman Mao's tombstone, in front of Chairman Mao's writings, after learning about Chairman Mao's deeds, There will always be thousands of noble people, some People with conscience, people who know how to be grateful, with tears in their eyes, miss him, cheer him, and sing praises to him!
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