One night in October 1934, next to the dim oil lamp, He Zizhen's eyes were red. She used her old military uniform to redefine a children's cotton coat as a token of recognition with her son Maomao in the future.

One night in October 1934, next to the dim oil lamp, He Zizhen's eyes were red. She used her old military uniform to redefine a children's cotton coat as a token of recognition with her son maomao in the future.

Tomorrow, I will follow the Red Army team Long March , but her mao must continue to stay in Ruijin . When the mother and son parted, I don’t know if there is still a chance to meet again. Thinking of this, her tears fell down.

Maomao's big name is Mao'anhong . He is the second child of Chairman Mao and He Zizhen. He was only one or two years old when the Long March was transferred. According to regulations, he could only leave his parents and stay in Ruijin.

Chairman Mao and He Zizhen

No one expected that not long after the Red Army troops left, the Kuomintang reactionaries attacked Ruijin and hunted down the descendants of the Red Army. Maomao also lost his trace in the mass hunt.

After the founding of New China, He Zizhen missed her son and asked someone to look for Mao Anyong many times. Did she find it in the end?

Mao Zedong and He Zizhen met in Jinggangshan . When they first met, Mao Zedong wore a shabby gray cloth Zhongshan suit . He was thin but his eyes were calm and wise. He Zizhen wore a blue floral slanted shirt with a cheerful personality and enthusiastic personality. He was also the first female party member in Jinggangshan.

He Zizhen

The two shook hands. The careful He Zizhen found that Mao Zedong was injured and pus was leaked from his feet. He helped him treat the wound without saying a word. Mao Zedong also left a deep impression on this good girl. Later, while getting along with each other, the two established a deep revolutionary relationship and tied the knot with the help of the leader of the peasant self-defense army.

In November 1932, He Zizhen gave birth to a boy in Changting, Fujian. At that time, Mao Zedong was working in Ningdu . It was not until more than ten days later that he rushed over.

What moved He Zizhen was that Mao Zedong felt sorry for his wife's hard work in giving birth, so he specially prepared an crock pot chicken soup for her. Mao Zedong was so happy in his arms that he named his son Mao Anyong, nicknamed Maomao, and said to his son with a smile: "I only have one 'mao' in my name. You have two, you will definitely be better than me in the future."

During that time, Mao Zedong was often with his wife and children, and sometimes he could hold the child for a long time. Slowly, He Zizhen became suspicious. The revolutionary situation was complicated. He was the leader of the army and he should have countless things to deal with. How could he look like an idle person?

Mao Zedong didn't want his wife to worry, and he would fool him every time. Unexpectedly, He Zizhen was also stubborn and had to break the pot and ask the end. Finally, he said that he had been removed from his post.

At that time, Mao Zedong was criticized by the Central Bureau as "typical right-leaning opportunism" . His strategic thinking was not recognized, and the revolutionary cause fell into a low point. In addition, he was suffering from long-term fatigue and illness, so he could no longer continue to work. His whole person became particularly depressed. The arrival of the child was like a bright ray of sunshine illuminating his dim heart.

Mao Zedong accompanied Maomao from hungry to learning to sing and then toddlers, and the father and son spent a warm time unforgettable for their lives. Maomao is smart and smart. He especially likes to pester his father. Every time he eats, he has to wait until his father comes back before he is willing to move his chopsticks. Sometimes when he hears a noise outside the door, he will immediately run out to see if his father is back.

In a blink of an eye, Maomao has learned to walk. The father and son in the courtyard are warm, but the situation of the struggle outside the courtyard is getting worse.

In 1933, the Kuomintang assembled a million troops to encircle and suppress the Red Army. Mao Zedong was deprived of leadership during the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression". Wang Ming 's "left" erroneous idea caused serious losses to the team. Seeing that the revolutionary force was about to disappear, Mao Zedong regained command power on the Zunyi Conference , turned the tide and decided to decide the Long March, and transferred the main force of the Red Army to the northern Shaanxi region.

On this day, Mao Zedong returned home with great worries and held his son without saying a word. He Zizhen also heard about the Long March of the Red Army. When she saw her husband's appearance, she guessed it was almost impossible to get along with her. The road ahead was difficult and unsuitable for taking her children for a long journey. Many Red Army soldiers handed their children to their fellow villagers for care before setting off.

He Zizhen asked lightly: "Who to give Mao Mao?" Mao Zedong replied: "Take it to Zetan." two short sentences reveal the selfless spirit of this revolutionary partner "sacrifice your family and for everyone" .

Mao Zetan is Mao Zedong's younger brother and a Communist Party member. His wife is He Yi , and he is He Zizhen's sister. After the start of the Long March, the couple led a part of the team to stay in Soviet area to fight guerrillas.

He Zizhen and He Yi

He Zizhen didn't say anything else. She took out an old military uniform, sat next to the oil lamp and started to renovate the children's clothes. This clothes were not only the last item she left for her son, but also the token that the mother and son would recognize each other in the future.

The lovely mother's hand is in the middle of the child's clothes, the hair is on her body, the thread is flying on her hand, tears are falling down, Mao Zedong's eyes are red, he clenched his fists and swears secretly that he must overthrow the rule of the reactionaries and that the people of the whole country will no longer suffer the pain of parting.

When he handed the child to Mao Zetan, He Zizhen cried to tears. Mao Zedong held her shoulders and waved to his younger brother to signal them to take the child away. He was worried that the longer he delayed, the more He Zizhen could not bear his son.

Mao Zetan

The conditions on the Long March were arduous and dangerous. Maomao who stayed in the Soviet area was also very dangerous. The Kuomintang gathered troops to launch a large-scale hunt. As long as people were found that they were suspected of descendants of the Red Army or the descendants of the Red Army would be hunted immediately. Many descendants of the Red Army who were left behind like Maomao were killed.

Maomao is Mao Zedong's son. If he arrests him, he can threaten Mao Zedong, so he became the target of the key search. Mao Zetan hid in Tibet with his young nephew. After the fall of the Soviet area, he knew that he might sacrifice at any time, so he entrusted his child to the guards. The guards handed over the child to the local fellow villagers for care. Soon after, Mao Zetan and the guards died one after another while fighting against the enemy, and no one knew about Maomao's specific whereabouts.

He Zizhen

He Zizhen received the news of Mao Zetan's death and wanted to fly to the Soviet area to find Maomao immediately. However, she was not only a mother, but also a Red Army soldier. She also had more important revolutionary tasks to do, and she could only bury her grief in her heart.

During the Long March, in order to cover the wounded, He Zizhen was hit by a shell, and the shrapnel was embedded in the head and could not be removed for life. In 1937, He Zizhen went to the Soviet Union for treatment. Later, the conflict between Wang Ming and Mao Zedong continued to intensify. In order to retaliate against Mao Zedong, Wang Ming instructed his subordinates to force He Zizhen to a mental hospital and was not released until 1947.

After returning to China, He Zizhen's life suffered a heavy blow, and finding Maomao became the spiritual driving force that supported her. Over the years, He Yi has never given up looking for a child. She promised to take good care of Maomao with her sister and brother-in-law, but she lost the child, so she felt very guilty.

Compared with the He Zizhen sisters, Mao Zedong thought deeply. He felt that it was understandable to entrust the child to the people to take care of him in times of crisis, but if the conditions were good, he would take the child back, which was unfair to adoptive parents. Although Mao Zedong missed Maomao very much, the responsibility and morality he held in his heart did not allow him to do so. Looking at He Zizhen, who was so sad and depressed all day long, Mao Zedong couldn't bear to stop her from finding her son, so he could only let her go.

He Yi visited many cities in the south and finally found a child who looked like Maomao in Jiangxi. She excitedly told her sister "Finished Maomao" , but after identification, the child's appearance was much different from Maomao when she was young. The adoption location and time provided by the adoption parents also did not match Maomao's information on giving birth. All signs indicate that the child was not Maomao. This result poured a basin of cold water on He Yi's head.

He Yi

After a brief loss, He Yi embarked on the journey of searching for maomao again. In August 1949, He Yi was transferred to work in Jiangxi, where she obtained new clues. Maomao may have been taken to , northern Guangdong, and she rushed to northern Guangdong non-stop. She was also accompanied by Martyr Gu Bai's wife Zeng Biyi and his son Gu Yimin.The driver drove day and night and was exhausted. As a result, the vehicle overturned when passing a wooden bridge, and He Yi and Gu Yimin were killed on the spot.

bad news came, and He Zizhen rushed to the bed and cried loudly, but did not find her son, and lost her sister. The people closest in her life left her one after another, and these blows almost made her collapse. Mao Zedong also received the news that in order to find his son and make someone else's son lose his life, he endured the grief and said to the people around him: "Don't look for it."

He Zizhen and Mao Zedong had a total of 6 children, two of which died young, three children were missing, and only one daughter was by his side. Among the three missing children, Maomao was the one who was most likely to be alive.

He Zizhen and Li Min

He Zizhen could not hold back his longing for his son. After the founding of New China, she heard that the central government began to look for descendants of the Red Army who were sent to the rear, so she took the opportunity to write a letter to Jiangxi Governor Shao Shiping , begging him to help find Maomao.

The Central Committee’s notice of looking for descendants of the Red Army and He Zizhen’s letter of help was sent to Shao Shiping at the same time. He did not dare to be careless and immediately organized the backbone cadres to set up a special task group and assigned Wang Jiazhen to complete this important task.

The crowd is vast, and it is not easy to find a child who has been missing for nearly twenty years. Wang Jiazhen sorted out all the clues related to Maomao and decided to start from Ruijin, Jiangxi.

Shao Shiping

He first found the county magistrate of Ruijin, and found the record of Mao Zedong giving up the child from a book "Ruijin County Chronicles". He confirmed that Maomao was fostered here. Following this vine, he continued to investigate and finally made a new discovery in a family named Zhu. The male owner of this family is Zhu Shengtai . He once adopted a son of the Red Army and named him Zhu Daolai .

It is said that when the child was sent here, he was wearing a cotton coat made of old military uniforms, and all kinds of information were consistent with Maomao. Wang Jiazhen asked for a photo of Zhu Daolai and found that he had similar eyebrows and eyes to Chairman Mao. He was overjoyed and quickly asked Zhu Shengtai to take the child out to see it. Unexpectedly, Zhu Shengtai sighed and said, "You are late." It turned out that Zhu Daolai was claimed by Zhu Yueqian from Nanjing a few months ago. Now he is in Nanjing.

Zhu Yueqian is the widow of revolutionary martyr Huo Buqing . After the failure of the revolution , Huo and Zhu were ordered to evacuate from Shanghai. Their young son was fostered in the home of a fellow villager. Later, he was displaced in the war and his son disappeared. It was not long ago that Zhu Yueqian learned that his son had been wandering to Zhu Shengtai's house.

Wang Jiazhen refused to give up and chased him all the way to Nanjing. Finally, he met Zhu Daolai. What he didn't expect was that Zhu Daolai was not doing well in Nanjing. His mother Zhu Yueqian treated him very coldly and did not have the kind of intimacy of reunion with his parents and son after a long separation. Wang Jiazhen pondered for a moment and decided to bring the person to He Zizhen for her to identify him well.

Huo Buqing

Before seeing herself, He Zizhen had received all the information about Zhu Daolai. She looked at the handsome boy in the photo and immediately determined that this was her mao. When the two met, the repressed relationship that had been suppressed for many years was instantly released. She hugged Zhu Daolai in her arms and cried bitterly, and everyone present also had red eyes.

Wang Jiazhen took out the children's cotton coat she brought from the Zhu family. He Zizhen looked at the familiar pins and was even more sure that the child in front of her was her son she had missed for many years. Later, the mother and son checked blood type , and the blood type was also consistent.

Zhu Daolai's photo was sent to Zhongnanhai . Premier Zhou also said that the child looked so much like Chairman Mao when he was young. After seeing the photos, Chairman Mao slowly breathed out, as if the stone that had been pressing on his heart for many years had finally fallen. He said: "Looks like Zetan." Almost everyone believed that Zhu Daolai was Maomao, that is, Mao Anyong.

Twenty years of searching for a son, once reunited, the story should have ended successfully here. No one expected that a person suddenly broke out at this time, claiming that she was Zhu Daolai's biological mother, and this woman was Zhu Yueqian. After Zhu Daolai was taken away, she chased her from Nanjing to Beijing, threatening to steal her child. She also ran to the relevant departments to make a big fuss, claiming that if she didn't want her son back, she would commit suicide, so that everyone knew that her son had been stolen.

The staff asked Zhu Yueqian if there was any evidence to prove Zhu Daolai's identity. Zhu Yueqian was speechless when asked. She turned around and asked the child what a cotton coat was, and the clothes would be dropped.

This is Zhu Yueqian's search for death, and He Zizhen's attitude is firm. He Zizhen held Maomao's hand tightly, and no one was allowed to take him away from him. Two mothers and one son are having a big fuss. In the era without DNA detection technology, how should this confused case be settled?

Finally, Chairman Mao said: "No matter whose child is, he is a revolutionary descendant, so let it be raised by the organization."

In this way, Zhu Daolai neither returned to Zhu Yueqi nor stayed with He Zizhen, but was sent to Shuai Mengqi, deputy director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of . Shuai Mengqi adopted many revolutionary orphans, and she was affectionately called "Shishuai Mother" . In the case of Shuai Mengqi, Zhu Daolai received good education and care. In 1957, he was admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent results.

Shuai Mengqi

Is Zhu Daolai Mao Anyong? There is no definite conclusion yet, but no matter whose child he is, as Chairman Mao said, he is a revolutionary descendant. His ancestors sacrificed their lives and shed their blood for the New China, and separated from their relatives. Their selfless spirit of dedication is worth learning from by everyone, and their descendants should also be well taken care of.