Chairman Mao’s second wife was Yang Kaihui. As Chairman Mao participated in the revolution, he was an advocate and practitioner of the Chinese Women’s Liberation Movement and had a good relationship with Chairman Mao.

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2025-08-09

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As we all know, Chairman Mao had four marriages in his life. The original wife was Luo Yixiu, and the two were the matchmakers of their parents' orders. The feudal arranged marriage did not have deep feelings.

Chairman Mao’s second wife was Yang Kaihui. As Chairman Mao participated in the revolution, he was an advocate and practitioner of the Chinese Women’s Liberation Movement and had a good relationship with Chairman Mao. pity. Yang Kaihui was killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries in 1930.

Yang Kaihui

Chairman Mao's third wife is He Zizhen. She has served as Chairman Mao's secretary and participated in the 0,000-mile Long March with Chairman Mao. She has deep revolutionary friendship and feelings.

Chairman Mao’s fourth wife was Jiang Qing and the last wife. Although the two have many twists and turns in their relationship, they have been with each other for more than 30 years, which is the longest marriage for Chairman Mao.

Chairman Mao and Jiang Qing

So, how many children do the great Chairman Mao have in total?

According to public historical records, Chairman Mao has four sons and three daughters, a total of seven children. They are Mao Anying, Mao Anying, Mao Anying, Mao Anying, Mao Anying, Mao Anying, Mao Anying, Mao Jinhua, Li Min, and Li Na.

Among them, Mao Anying, Mao Anying, Mao Anying, Mao Anying were born by Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui; Mao Anying, Mao Jinhua, Li Min were born by Mao Zedong and He Zizhen; Li Na was born by Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing.

Chairman Mao and his first wife Luo Yixiu have no children, and they have never lived together. On the second day of the Lunar New Year in 1910, Luo unfortunately died of bacterial dysentery and was only 21 years old.

Next, the author briefly explains the lives of Chairman Mao’s seven children.

Mao Anying

Comrade Mao Anying is Chairman Mao’s eldest son and his favorite son.

Chairman Mao and Mao Anying

922, Mao Anying was born in Changsha City.

Due to the particularity of the revolutionary work of Chairman Mao and Yang Kaihui, Mao Anying traveled around with his parents since childhood, and has been to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and other revolutionary pioneer cities.

930, while participating in revolutionary work, Yang Kaihui was arrested by Hunan warlord He Jian, and 8-year-old Mao Anying was also arrested and imprisoned.

Then, our party planned to save people everywhere, and finally released Mao Anying out of prison first. Not long after, Mao Anying was taken to Shanghai by his grandmother and aunt and handed over to his uncle Mao Zemin.

936, Mao Anying and his younger brother Mao Anying were sent to the Soviet Union to study. During his study at the International Children's College, Mao Anying performed well and served as the captain of the Young Pioneers and the secretary of the Communist Youth League branch.

Zhou Enlai and his wife took a photo with Mao Anying

During the Soviet Union, Mao Anying took the initiative to go to the battlefield and go to the front line to fight the German army.

For this reason, he also took the initiative to find the deputy director of the General Political Department of the Soviet Army, and finally got his wish, participated in the battle of Belarus and Polish , and obtained the rank of lieutenant.

946, before Mao Anying was about to return from the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin met him specifically and gave him a pistol.

Learned that Mao Anying was going back to Yan'an, and although Chairman Mao was not feeling well, he went to the airport to greet him in person. According to the recollections of old comrades working in the central government, Chairman Mao’s mood and health improved a lot in those days.

946, Mao Anying joined the Communist Party of China. Since then, Mao Anying has learned how to farm, go to factories, do publicity, and carry out land reform. The elders around him are very satisfied with Mao Anying.

949, after the founding of New China, Mao Anying and Liu Siqi became husband and wife.

In the spring of 11950, Mao Anying followed Li Kenong to visit the Soviet Union and served as Li Kenong's translator.

1950, due to the urgency of the outbreak of the Korean War, our party decided to organize the Chinese People's Volunteer Army to support North Korea.

Mao Anying took the initiative to sign up for Volunteer Army , followed Peng Dehuai to enter the Korean battlefield, and served as a Russian translator and confidential secretary at the Volunteer Army Command.

On November 25, 1950, Comrade Mao Anying died in a US air strike.

In 2009, Mao Anying was named one of the ,100 Chinese figures since the founding of New China.

Mao Anqing

Comrade Mao Anqing is Chairman Mao’s second son, and his mother is Yang Kaihui. He was born in Changsha in November 1923.

Chairman Mao, Mao Anying and Shao Hua,

1930, his mother Yang Kaihui was killed by a reactionary warlord, and the three brothers Mao Anying were transferred to Shanghai by the CCP’s underground organization.

Not long after, the Shanghai underground party organization was betrayed by a traitor and suffered heavy losses. The three Mao Anying brothers suffered an accident. After wandering in Shanghai for five years, they were found by our party. Mao Anying and Mao Anying were sent to the Soviet Union to study.

During the Soviet Patriotic War , Mao Anying and Mao Anying took the initiative to ask to go to the battlefield. Mao Anying was fighting on the front line, while Mao Anying actively participated in digging trenches and transporting wounded people.

947, Mao Anying returned to China and was introduced by Li Fuchun and Cai Chang , and joined the Communist Party of China and participated in the pilot work of land reform in Heilongjiang.

1949, Mao Anying returned to Beijing and served as a Russian translator in the Marxist-Leninist Works Compilation Office of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee. He translated and published more than a dozen Marxist-Leninist classic works and political theory books.

Mao Anying's wife is Shao Hua. The two got married in 1960 and have a son, Mao Xinyu.

On March 23, 2007, Comrade Mao Anying died of heart disease at the age of 84.

Mao Anlong

Mao Anlong is the third son of Chairman Mao and Yang Kaihui. He was born in Wuhan on April 4, 1927.

In May and June, Mao Anyong died of diarrhea tight mouth dysentery in Shanghai by a nurseryman who was sent to Guangci Hospital for treatment ineffectively. He was only 4 years old at the time.

Mao Anhong

Mao Anhong is the son of Chairman Mao and He Zizhen. He was born in Changting, Fujian in November 1932, with his nickname Maomao.

Before the start of the Long March , Chairman Mao and his wife handed Mao Anyong to their younger brothers Mao Zetan and He Yi to raise.

Mao Zetan unfortunately died in guerrilla warfare, and Mao Anyong's whereabouts are unknown.

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正正正 is the eldest daughter of Chairman Mao and He Zizhen. She was born in Changting, Fujian in the autumn of 1929.

At this time, Chairman Mao already had three sons, Mao Anying, Mao Anying and Mao Anyong, but he had no daughter yet.

This time I was very happy to win a daughter, and Chairman Mao liked it very much. He smiled and said to He Zizhen, "She can choose life. She found a good place to be born, so call her Mao Jinhua!"

Due to the particularity of revolutionary work, Chairman Mao and his wife handed Mao Jinhua to a family who raised the baby, and gave 15 silver dollars as support.

Then, Chairman Mao and He Zizhen and his wife withdrew from Longyan.

1932, when He Zizhen followed Red Army back to Longyan again. When he came to find his daughter Mao Jinhua, the family raised by the family said that Mao Jinhua had passed away.

He Zizhen was depressed for a long time after hearing this. Mao Zemin's wife Qian Xijun comforted her and said, "Sister-in-law, don't be too sad. For the sake of the revolution, we can only do this. What can we do?"

Li Min

Comrade Li Min is the second daughter of Chairman Mao and He Zizhen. He was born in Zhidan County, Shaanxi Province in 1936.

Because Chairman Mao once used Li Desheng's pseudonym, in order to make his daughter low-key and for her safety, Chairman Mao named her daughter Li Min.

A few months after Li Min was born, He Zizhen went to the Soviet Union for medical treatment and left her daughter in Yan'an.

940, Li Min was sent to the Soviet Union and lived with He Zizhen.

947, He Zizhen took Li Min back to China and lived in Harbin.

1949, Chairman Mao sent someone to take Li Min back to him.

958, Li Minnian was admitted to the Department of Chemistry of Beijing Normal University and then joined the Communist Party of China.

964, Li Min joined the National Defense Science and Technology Commission and lived in a civilian residence in Bingmasi Hutong, Beijing, living a real civilian life.

In terms of personal life, in 1959, Qiu fell in love with Kong Linghua, the son of the deputy commander of artillery, and Mao Zedong presided over the wedding of the two.

picture shows Chairman Mao, Li Min and Kong Linghua,

Kong Linghua graduated from Beijing Aeronautics Institute and taught at school for a long time. Li Min and Kong Linghua have a son Kong Jining and daughter Kong Dongmei.

On April 15, 2015, Russian Ambassador to China Denisov presented Li Min with the commemorative medal of the "70th anniversary of the victory of the Great Patriotic War" on behalf of Russian President Putin .

Li Na

Li Na is the daughter of Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing, and is also the only daughter of Jiang Qing.

940 On August 3, 1940, a few babies cried out in Yan'an in midsummer. He was a girl, his father was the great Chairman Mao, and his mother was Jiang Qing.

The child was born, and naming was a technical job. It is very important to choose a nice and literary name.

Mao Zedong took out the word "Nei" from the sentence "A gentleman wants to be slow in his words but is quick in his actions" and gave it to his daughter.

Because Chairman Mao once used Li Desheng's pseudonym, Chairman Mao named his youngest daughter Li Na.

A gentleman wants to be slow in speaking but is quick in doing things means: "A gentleman should speak carefully and slowly, but should do things quickly and quickly!"

a gentleman means to be slow.

After Li Min went to the Soviet Union, Chairman Mao had only one child, Li Na, so Chairman Mao always took time to take a walk with her, taught her to read and write, and told Li Na historical stories.

959, Li Na was admitted to the History Department of Peking University.

Before she went to college, Mao Zedong compiled a "textbook". Li Na recalled: "Father asked us to read " Water Margin " first, because "Water Margin" is easy to read and the story is also quite fascinating. Then he read " Dream of Red Mansions ", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and poems."

Chairman Mao also printed the poems he had selected into a book, bound several books, one for each child.

is written at the end. It has to be said that Chairman Mao has a family of loyalty and martyrs. For the sake of the revolutionary cause, he sacrificed his family and made a great country. His great family style is admirable!

Reference:

Literature Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China: Mao Zedong's Chronology (revised version), Central Documents Publishing House, 2013

Wang Jianxin: Understand Mao Zedong's great family style from poetry. Chengdu organs party building

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