Since ancient times, China has had a nostalgia for "returning to the roots", even for the leader of the people. 1959 yearOn the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of ChinaTake advantage of your leisure time at work,returned to his hometown: Shaoshan Chong, Xiangtan County, Hunan.
Accompanied by the guards, ** came alone to the grave of his parents who had been absent for many years. Facing the tombstone of his parents, ** suddenly knelt down and muttered with grief and self-blame:"Mother, I'm back alone. ”
**Back to Shaoshan).
So, why did you say such a thing in front of your parents' graves? What kind of special feelings do a generation of historical greats have for their hometown and parents? Today, this episode of the program tells you: **Back to your hometown.
In 1959, when he set foot on the homeland of Shaoshan Chong, Xiangtan, Hunan, he couldn't help but think of the bits and pieces of his past hometown.
66 years ago, a baby boy fell to the ground in a Hunan farmer's family, and his grandmother named *** gave the baby boy a breast name, called Shi Sanyanzi. 伢子 is another name for children in Hunanis the third in the family and has two elder brothers, so he is called "three sons"., but why is there an extra stone in front of the name of the milk?
It turned out,'s grandmother is a bit superstitious。**The two older brothers in front of him both died early. Grandma thought that this was because there was a monster in the local area, making waves, and if you wanted to suppress the demon, you had to use a stone to suppress the monster, so there was a "stone" word in front of the milk name. According to ***'s recollection, when he was young, his grandmother told him from time to time:"Your name comes from Shi Guanyin, who suppresses demons and destroys demons, and is your Shi Ganniang. ”
**At the age of 11, he was sent by his father to study at Guan Gongqiao Private School. But within a few days, Mr. Private School told ***'s father that he said"Runzhi is not struggling to study, and it is really difficult to discipline. ”- This is not because *** doesn't like to study and has a stubborn temperament, but *** has been very smart since he was a child, finished his homework early, and then followedIn class, I read extracurricular books such as "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West", which were regarded as "not following Confucianism and Taoism" at that time。This makes it very difficult for the teacher to take ***, a student who is both smart and has his own ideas.
**Former residence) But almost all teachers, relatives and friends are hard to deny that when he was young, he showed extraordinary talent, especially his cousin Wen Yunchang, who thinks that he will become a great tool in the future. One day, Wen Yunchang returned to his hometown and saw that *** was begging for incense ashes for his sick mother - the local people thought that incense ashes could cure diseases. When he saw *** holding a handful of incense ashes, Wen Yunchang directly knocked the incense ashes in ***'s hand to the ground without saying a word!
Just when *** was angry and wanted to ask his cousin why he did this, Wen Yunchang said earnestly: ".Runzhi, you are a talented person, you can't continue to stay in Shaoshan Chong. Incense ash cures diseases is a superstitious saying, eating too much will not only not cure the disease, but will also kill people! ”
Immediately afterwards, Wen Yunchang took out a handful of pills from his arms and said to ***"This is called Western medicine, which helps to alleviate your mother's condition. While you're young, go for a walk around the countryside! ”
** After taking the medicine home and giving it to my mother, my mother's physical condition really improved, which greatly touched ***. Inspired by the words of **,In the autumn of 1910, he decided to officially say goodbye to his hometown and venture out into the outside world. 's father disagreed, believing that it was the right way to stay in his hometown and inherit the family business.
In order to reassure the parents, ** left a poem on the occasion of parting:
The child is determined to go out of the country, and he vows not to return if he can't learn to become famous. Why bury bones, there are green mountains everywhere in life.
Since then, ** bid farewell to his hometown and embarked on the road of going out to study. In the spring of 1911, he was admitted to Xiangxiang Provincial Middle School, and then to Hunan Provincial First Normal School. During this period, ** learned from the newspaper that Sun Yat-sen founded the China League and Huang Xing launched an uprising in Huanghuagang, and from then on he was determined to embark on the road of revolution.
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In 1918, ** went to Beijing for further studyDuring his time as an auditor at Peking University, he became acquainted with Li Dazhao, one of the earliest founders of the Communist Party of China. Under the influence of Li Dazhao, ** became a Marxist. Seeing that Li Dazhao, who couldn't let go of the scroll and had great enthusiasm for the revolution, said with emotion:"Runzhi is a great talent! ”
Li Dazhao's encouragement became the spiritual motivation of the first class on the revolutionary road at that time. Just when the *** leadership is in full swing. In March 1919, a piece of bad news came suddenlyMy mother was seriously ill. The grief-stricken *** immediately returned to his hometown and stayed by his mother's side. In October 1919, **'s mother passed away.
As the saying goes, "Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular".Four months after the death of his mother, his grief-stricken father passed away. suffered a huge blow to his body and mind for a while, but in the heart of *** at that time, there was a more important thing: that is, the Chinese revolution.
Therefore, soon after burying his parents and holding a funeral for his parents, ** said goodbye to his hometown again. Before leaving, **called his younger brother Mao** and said to him:"I'm gone, and I don't know when I'll be back. You're going to clean your house and pay off the money you owe. ”
**'s younger brother Mao**).
But what I didn't expect was that after just a few years, my sister and younger brother died one after another, my lover was killed by the enemy in prison, and my beloved son died on the battlefield. When he returned to his hometown in 1959, he was left alone, how could this make him, who was already close to old age at that time, not be sad and weep for it?
Before visiting his deceased parents, ** arrived at the guest house in Shaoshan and planned to stay there for one night. On that day, ** called some local fathers and villagers to ask them how their harvest was and how their lives were going this year.
During the conversation with my parents and fellow villagers, I saw that some young guys in my memories in the past have now started a family, and some of them are already gray, and I can't help but feel a lot of emotion in my heart. When talking about why some relatives and friends from the village were not able to attend, those present told the chairman that some of them had passed away for many years, which made the chairman even more sad. **In order to enliven everyone's atmosphere, he suddenly said:"We still have one elder here today who didn't come. ”
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When everyone hurriedly asked who this "elder who didn't come" was, ** pretended to be surprised and said:"Don't you all remember Shi Guanyin, it's the Shi Ganniang that my grandmother asked me to recognize! ”
When everyone heard the humorous joke, they couldn't help laughing.
**Visit Shaoshan).
However, after bidding farewell to his father and fellow villagers, ***, who lives alone in the guest house, has mixed feelings in his heart, and he can't sleep after tossing and turning. The guards guarding the door knew that **as soon as there was something on the mind, the ** illness that caused insomnia had been committed again.
At dawn the next day, before dawnHe stepped out of his bedroom, put on his coat, and prepared to go to the mountains to see the graves of his parents. The guards naturally did not dare to slack off, and immediately followed behind *** to protect the safety of ***.
**Former residence) because the *** departure time is very early, and I don't want to alarm the local staff. Therefore, except for a few guards, there is only *** person who goes up the mountain to pay homage to his parents' graves. On the way to the Tomb Mountain, I happened to pass by ***'s childhood home. When passing by his old house, ** couldn't help but look down, and when he saw a pond near the hut, the chairman said to the guards around him very happily"Look, the pond where I was a kid is still there, and I learned to swim in that pond. ”
Since you are passing by the former residence, it is always inevitable to go in and have a look. When he opened the door of the Mao family's house, his mother and his beloved wife suddenly came into his eyes. When I remembered that when my mother died, I couldn't be by my side all the time. When his beloved wife died, he was far away on the front line of the revolution, and the always strong *** actually shed tears in front of everyone. **Pointing to his mother and beloved wife**, he said to the guards beside him:"What I regret now is that I didn't get a family photo with the title. ”
**Beloved wife and son**).
After a brief visit to his childhood home, the group continued to walk up the hill and finally arrived at the grave at dawn. When I saw the name engraved on the tombstone of my parents, ** said to everyone with a deep sorrow:"That's right, this is my parents' tombstones. ”
Then, ** took the wreath woven from wild flowers on the way of the guard soldier and placed him in front of the tombstone of his parents, ** said sadly to the tombstone, full of regret and self-reproach:"Mother, I'm here to see you alone. ”
**In front of the tombstone).
** Have a special affection for his mother. Although her mother has never read or gone to school, her mother is far more enlightened than her father. When *** decided that he wanted to say goodbye to his hometown,When I was studying abroad, it was my mother who unswervingly supported ***'s decision.
**'s mother also paid great attention to the education of *** before her death, and told *** the truth of being a man, she said to ***:"To be a man, we must remember grace and not hatred, the grace of a drop of water, and the spring reciprocates, which is the capital of human practice. If you don't have this capital, no matter how hard you cultivate, you won't be able to achieve positive results. ”——It was this remark that made *** still try his best to defy public opinion after learning that his tomb was almost destroyed by Chiang Kai-shek, and let the People's Liberation Army protect the ancestral tomb of Chiang Kai-shek's family.
** This truth of the mother is vividly and appropriately compared to"The predecessors worked hard, and the descendants were happy".This is an important reason why he has worked tirelessly to serve the people throughout his life and finally become a great man of a generation of history.
After visiting his hometown in 1959, in 1966, he arrived in Shaoshan again and lived here for 11 days.
After arriving in Shaoshan this time, ** visited his parents in front of the tombstone again. **It was found that the tombstone had shown signs of damage due to weather. The staff took the opportunity to ask *** if he wanted to repair and expand his family's mausoleum, but *** politely declined:"It's too wasteful, just bother the villagers to cultivate soil for my father and mother every year. ”
**Inspection of Shaoshan Chong).
Accompanied by the staff, ** arrived at the Mao family ancestral hall in Shaoshan Chong. In front of the ancestral hall, the chairman was silent for a long time and said to the staff around him"When I'm old and retired, you can put me here so that I can always be with my parents. ”
But what he didn't expect was that the trip to Shaoshan in 1966 was the last time he visited his parents and hometown.
In his later years, in September 1976, he became seriously ill. Perhaps sensing that his life was dying, *** on the hospital bed repeatedly expressed his wish to return to his hometown to the medical staff to have a look. The paramedics comforted:"When the weather in the south is a little cooler on September 15 and there is no heat stroke, the chairman can go back to his hometown. ”
** I was very happy when I heard that the medical staff had allowed me to "let go" and said, "Okay, then I'll wait for the 15th to have a look." ”
However,On this day, September 9, 1976, a great man of history*** closed his eyes forever.
Returning to his hometown and seeing his parents again became an unfulfilled wish before his death. However, the people who live in the hearts of the people have already returned to their hometown with the souls of millions of people who have traveled from south to north in the land of China. If the Chairman had known in the Heavenly Spirit, perhaps he would have been pleased with the splendid prosperity of today.