Foreword
Picture | Mao Anqing
At 4:20 on March 23, 2007, Mao Anqing passed away in Beijing. "A red star is worn on the head, and the revolutionary red flag is hung on both shoulders." Mao Anqing in the portrait calmly gazes at the world. The military uniform on his body clearly outlines the path of his life...
Mao Anqing left peacefully, but he was special The identity still aroused people's attention. People fell into long-lasting pain and sorrow. They suddenly realized after Mao Anqing's departure that they were so strange to this great man's son that they didn't know what he looked like? What did you do during your lifetime?
Mao Anqing went to work at Keshan under He Zizhen’s suggestion. Wang Heshou: Go back and say hello to me
In 2008, the Mao Anqing Memorial Hall was completed in Keshan County, Heilongjiang Province. There are six exhibition areas in the memorial hall, namely "Suffering "Childhood", "Going to Su Lilian", "Twilight Sun and Moon", "Glorious Life", "Revolutionary Family", "Old District Spirit"...
Figure | Mao Anqing Memorial Hall
Among Chairman Mao's children, Mao Anqing is the most let him The one who is worried, this child does not seem to be favored by fate too much, on the contrary, there are obviously more twists and turns in his life.
Fortunately, his brother Mao Anying spent the first half of his life with him. God did not show mercy to these two children because they were descendants of the revolution. At a very young age, the brothers experienced the absence of their father, their mother being killed by the enemy, and they were sent to Shanghai and the Soviet Union when they were young. And the experience of San Mao’s wandering life...
When in Shanghai, Mao Anqing suffered a brain injury and was always in poor health because he was severely beaten by the police. After coming to the Soviet Union in 1936, the brothers finally lived a relatively stable life, where they were taken care of by the CPSU Central Committee and started their studies.
In 1947, 24-year-old Mao Anqing returned from the Soviet Union with He Zizhen and Li Min.He landed in Harbin and temporarily lived in the homes of Li Fuchun and Cai Chang, then leaders of the Northeast Bureau of the Communist Party of China.
Not long after, He Zizhen heard that in Keshan County was conducting a land trial. She looked at Mao Anqing, who had just returned to China, and suggested that he should exercise. Mao Anqing had this intention, so she came to Keshan County under the pseudonym Yang Yongshou. Mainly do some publicity and launch work on land reform policies.
Figure | He Zizhen
Mao Anqing has just returned to China. Because of the lack of a language environment for reading and writing Chinese for a long time, he often speaks a few words in Russian without knowing it, and he is not used to eating. He used to eat bread and milk in the Soviet Union. After returning to China, he could only eat millet and cornmeal cakes. Han Yu, who was the head of the organization of the Keshan County Party Committee at the time, discovered that Mao Anqing could not use fast characters, so he taught him personally.
At that time, the people who worked with Mao Anqing didn't know his identity, but they were willing to help him enthusiastically. Mao Anqing came back from abroad and couldn't adapt to the Northeast food quickly. Wu Jishui, who was about his age, left his own biscuits for him.
After a period of adaptation, Mao Anqing has gradually become accustomed to eating big pot meals with everyone, and he has also become accustomed to living in the hot kang of a farmer’s home. He is enthusiastic about work and often goes to villages to do land reform with everyone.
Winter in the Northeast came very early. In October, heavy snow fell to the ground. Under the temperature of minus 30 degrees, Mao Anqing and everyone's hands and feet were frozen like a cat, but Mao Anqing was bitten by a cat. I am not afraid of the severe cold, and I am interested in asking everyone about the work of land reform on the road.
After a period of contact and everyone was familiar with each other a little bit, Wu Jishui asked Mao Anqing what kind of work he had done before. Mao Anqing told Wu Jishui that he used to study at Moscow University and had just returned to China after graduation. Immediately afterwards, Wu Jishui asked about Mao Anqing's parents. Mao Anqing looked solemn and replied in a low voice: " My mother has been killed by the enemy because of the revolution... "
Figure | Yang Kaihui and Mao Zedong
At this time, Wu Jishui didn’t know the mother in Mao Anqing’s mouth.It was the revolutionary martyr Yang Kaihui. Looking at this young man who lost his mother, Wu Jishui couldn’t help feeling distressed and would help him as much as he could in his future work and life. Mao Anqing also devoted himself to the land reform movement in Keshan. In, put forward many constructive opinions.
After the land reform, Mao Anqing continued to stay in Keshan and live with the people here. After a period of observation, Mao Anqing found that the more than 30,000 farmers in Keshan County are basically doing their own things. The degree of farmland, livestock and farming tools owned by each farmer and farmer is uneven, and a considerable number of farmers lack farm animals. And the situation of tillage tools.
Facing such a reality, Mao Anqing had an idea and thought of the experience of collective farms in the former Soviet Union. Soon, he organized the farmers through cooperation and mutual assistance. Under Mao Anqing's active publicity, the rural mutual assistance work progressed very effectively, effectively solving the problems that existed here.
For this reason, Mao Anqing often teamed up with the staff. Everyone worked hard, preached in the field during the day and lived in the homes of the common people at night. The work lasted more than ten hours. Not only that, Mao Anqing also used his brain to write a special "Land Reform Ballad". "" and "Mutual Aid Group Folk Songs", in this way boost everyone's morale.
Figure | Mao Anqing
In these catchy ballads, there is such a content: "Cooperative shovelers are not sleepy, and lazy people work vigorously. One person shovels the ground, one line, and more people shovel. A large area of land." Mao Anqing encouraged everyone to cooperate and help each other in an easy-to-understand way to jointly promote production. In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the farmers, the
working group performed a show for everyone during the meeting and formed a cultural and artistic propaganda team. Mao Anqing can sing and dance, and can play many musical instruments, especially the flute, so he naturally became a member of the propaganda team.
During a rehearsal, Mao Anqing put the flute he brought back from the Soviet Union on the tip of his nose in order to adjust the atmosphere, and walked back and forth on the ground with his head up. However, he kept the flute still and won everyone’s applause. applause.
During his time in Keshan, Mao Anqing has always stuck to his job position. While working hard, he is familiar with the domestic environment and accumulates experience for his future work and life with full enthusiasm.
One day in May 1948, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Wang Heshou visited Keshan County. He saw the scene of the emergence of Keshan Yi. Wang Heshou said to Mao Anqing: "Comrade Yang Yongshou, your mission has been successfully completed and you can go back!"
Mao Anqing was also very happy. He happily replied: "In the future, our farmers will not be exploited anymore!"
The next day, Wang Heshou and other comrades went to the train station to see Mao Anqing off. When he was about to drive, Wang Heshou took Mao Anqing's hand tightly and said, "Go back and say hello for me!" ", go back and say hello for me"? This sentence made the team members who came to see Mao Anqing off feel very puzzled. Go back and say hello? Where to go back? Who do you say hello to?
Figure | Wang Heshou
It was not until Mao Anqing's train started and he looked at the train that was moving away. Han Yu told everyone: " Comrade Yang Yongshou is no one else, he is Chairman Mao's second son Mao Anqing, he His mother is a revolutionary martyr Yang Kaihui ……"
"Butterfly Love Flower Answering Li Shuyi": "I lost my pride and Yang Jun lost the willow"
After returning to China, Mao Anying was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel by by the PLA Academy of Military Sciences, and later He served as a Russian translator in the Marxist-Leninist Literature Compilation Office of the Central Propaganda Department. His Russian translation skills have been recognized by authorities. The Chinese version of "The Complete Works of Lenin" also includes works translated by Mao Anqing.
Mao Anqing worked actively and earnestly, but it didn't take long before fate made a joke with him.
In 1951, the terrible news of Mao Anying's sacrifice in North Korea came. Mao Anying's spirit took a huge blow. It was really difficult for him to accept this cruel reality. His brain was like five thunderstorms, and his illness became more and more serious.
Mao Zedong has lost a son and heard the news that Mao Anqing’s condition is getting worse. He forcibly endures the grief in his heart, and said sadly to his daughter Li Min: " I love Anqing, and I also sympathize with him. He suffered when he was a child. A lot of suffering,These tortures stimulated him too much. He suffered because he was my son of Mao Zedong... ”
Because of the suffering Mao Anqing suffered, Mao Zedong was full of love for this child. In 1957, he recuperated from Mao Anqing's illness. During the period, Mao Zedong specially came to Qingdao to see his son, and asked about his health and living conditions with concern. After knowing that his son's condition had improved greatly, he was very excited.
Figure | Chairman Mao
Seeing his father who came to visit him specially, Mao Anqing opened his heart to his father. He had tears in his eyes and his voice choked and said: " Dad, don't you blame me. I haven't seen my mother for decades. I dreamed last night. When she arrived, she smiled and said to me:'Mom can't copy articles for your father, you have to practice good writing and copy for him! ' ”
For Mao Zedong, Yang Kaihui has always been a concern in his heart. Now when he listens to his son, Mao Zedong’s expression suddenly became a little sad, the room fell silent for a while, and the memories buried deep in his heart were once again hooked. Starting...
After a long silence, Mao Zedong took out the poem "Butterfly Love Flower Answer Li Shuyi" that he had written, handed him over to Mao Anqing's hand, and whispered to his son: "Anqing, look Look, this is a phrase I wrote not long ago. "
Mao Anqing took the letter paper and read the contents of the letter: "I lost my arrogance, Jun Yang lost the willow, and the willow went up to Chongxiao Nine." In an instant, tears poured out like a flood of a bank. , Mao Anqing fell into his father’s arms and cried loudly...
Picture｜The handwriting of "Butterfly Love Flower Answer Li Shuyi"
Mao Zedong did not say a word, he quietly held the child in his arms
This song "Butterfly Love and Flower" was written by Mao Zedong to Li Shuyi. ,Li Shuyi was a very good friend of Yang Kaihui during his lifetime. At this time, he was working as a teacher in Changsha No.10 Middle School. Her lover Liu Zhixun was a former comrade of arms of Mao Zedong.
In February of this year, Li Shuyi saw the 18 poems published by Mao Zedong in the " poems ", and then immediately wrote a letter to Mao Zedong, in which he attached the "memorial to her husband" that he wrote in his early years. Bodhisattva Man·Surprise Dream, and asked Mao Zedong for the song "Poppy on the Pillow" written for Yang Kaihui in his early years, and asked him to give this poem to himself.
Figure | "Poppy on the Pillow"
After receiving Li Shuyi's letter, Mao Zedong said in his reply: "I have finished reading the masterpiece, I feel sorry for it. Kaihui said that the song is not good, so don't write it. There is "Youxian" as a gift." And this "Youxian" is the later "Butterfly Flower·Answer Li Shuyi" .
After receiving Mao Zedong’s reply, Li Shuyi was very happy. She showed the big envelope and the letter inside to the school classmates. For this reason, everyone wrote another letter to Mao Zedong, asking if we could add this word Published in the journal of Hunan Normal University?
Mao Zedong replied that he agreed that the words can be published publicly, but it is best to change the name and call it "Die Lian Hua·Answer Li Shuyi".
After listening to his father’s account of this poem, Mao Anying missed his mother more deeply, and he even more admired the heroes who gave their lives in the revolutionary era. Then, Mao Zedong asked his son to take good care of his body. .
Later, Mao Anqing left Qingdao to go to Dalian for recuperation. During this period, Mao Zedong was always thinking about his son's condition and wrote to him many times to ask him to be patient and not change the treatment plan. Later, after treatment, Mao Anqing's health really improved a lot.
In 1960, Mao Anqing and Shao Hua got married in Dalian. Mao Zedong, a man of great variety, was unable to attend the children's wedding in person, but he still prepared two gifts for them: a watch and a panda radio.
Picture | Mao Anqing, Mao Zedong, Shao Hua
The spring of 1962,Mao Anqing and Shao Hua returned to live in Beijing. Mao Zedong was very happy to see the two children, and with a smile on his face, he told them that the new wife should recognize the family and let them go back to their hometown to see their grandmother and relatives and friends there.
Mao Anqing and Shao Hua often went to Zhongnanhai to visit their father. When they were with their two children, Mao Zedong would always tell them the story of their mother Yang Kaihui. Once, Shao Hua made a request to his father: "Daddy , can you give me and Anqing a copy of "Die Lian Hua·Answer Li Shuyi" you wrote.
Mao Zedong readily agreed to his daughter-in-law's He asked, sitting at the table and wrote this poem with a pen. Shao Hua happily took the calligraphy written by him from his father, only to find that his father was writing "I am arrogant and Yang Jun lost the willow". "Jiao Yang" was written as "Yang Hua", he asked curiously: "Dad , shouldn't it be "Jiao Yang" here? How can it be written as "Yang Hua"? "
In response, Mao Zedong slowly said: "Why not, I think it's also very appropriate to call'Yang Hua'."
Yang Hua, namely catkins, the ancient literati poker likes to pin his aspirations on the gentle and affectionate Yang Hua, perhaps Mao Zedong is the same, for him , Yang Kaihui is always the softest existence in his heart.
Picture | Yang Kaihui and Mao Zedong
The nostalgia of younger generations: Father is like a big book
The tenth year after Mao Anqing and Shao Hua got married, in 1970, their only child Mao Xinyu was born Now, the birth of Mao Xinyu has added a touch of light to the family. Mao Zedong likes his little grandson very much. He took Mao Xinyu and his nickname Mao Mao.
Mao Anqing has a quiet personality, loves to learn, has a wide range of interests, likes music and playing chess. His home is in a small courtyard with a single family in the western suburbs of Beijing, far away from the busy city. It is a good place for self-cultivation. For many years, under the care and care of the organization, Mao Anqing has been living in this elegant and quiet little world.
Mao Anqing and Shao Hua attach great importance to Mao Xinyu's ideological education and often conduct revolutionary traditional education on him.
In 1976, the great leader Chairman Mao passed away in Beijing for a long time. The whole country was in grief, and Mao Anqing's family also fell into great grief.
In the spring of the second year, Mao Anqing's family of three planted a green pine in front of the "Chairman Mao Memorial Hall" in deep condolences to Mao Zedong. In the future, on the anniversary of Mao Zedong's birthday, they would take their son to pay homage to Mao Zedong's legacy. , Rain or shine, never stop.
In his later years, Mao Anqing always cared about national affairs. He very much supported the reform and opening up of the motherland, and enthusiastically supported the construction of old and young border poor areas . He took his wife and son on many occasions to repeat the Long March that his father had gone through.
Picture | Long March oil painting
In 1990, on the 60th anniversary of the sacrifice of Martyr Yang Kaihui, Mao Anqing and Shao Hua made a special trip back to Bancang, Changsha, Hunan on the eve of the Qingming Festival to sweep the grave for their mother.
On March 13, it was raining outside, and Shao Hua suggested that another day go to visit Kaihui's mother's grave. Mao Anqing was silent, he paced to the window, then looked back at the cuckoo in full bloom in the hall, and slowly said: ", let's go today, go home this year, and look forward to this day dreamily. ...... ”
Shao Hua's nose is sour at Mao Anqing's words. Yes, how many times can a person have such a wish in his life?
The car was racing in the rain, Shao Hua's eyes stopped inadvertently on Mao Anqing, crystal tears fell from the corners of his eyes, and the temples were pale for some time, and Shao Hua choked with sobs.
Under the continuous spring rain, Mao Anqing and Shao Hua came to Kaihui’s mother’s tomb, "I am so proud that Jun Yang lost the willows, and the willows went straight up to the heaven nine..." Looking at the inscription on the granite, the spring rain carried tears from them. Their faces are flowing down, yes, their mother is the Yang Hua who makes them proud, but also the gentle and affectionate Yang Hua...
Figure | Yang Kaihui
Chairman Mao always warned his children during his lifetime,They want them to be humans with their tails sandwiched, and don't talk about themselves and bluff, and his children did this, especially Mao Anqing.
Mao Anqing's last appearance in his lifetime was in 1998. At an event commemorating the 22nd anniversary of Chairman Mao's death, he attended the event in a wheelchair. From Mao Anqing's calm eyes, people guessed his life...
On March 23, 2007, Mao Anqing died at Beijing 301 Hospital at the age of 84.
After the death of Mao Anqing, all walks of life have always cherished good feelings for him. Party and state leaders, leaders of the party, government and military at all levels, the older generation of revolutionaries and their descendants expressed in various ways With their condolences...
Picture | Mao Anqing, Mao Xinyu, Shao Hua
On the morning of April 2, Mao Anqing's memorial service was held in the Great Hall of the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing. Thousands of people came to see him off . People miss this ordinary and great old man. Just like what his son Mao Xinyu said: Father is like a big book, enough to taste for a lifetime...
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