On March 23, 2007, 84-year-old Mao Anqing died of illness. At the memorial service, guests were full of guests to remember this legendary old man. His son Mao Xinyu hugged his father's portrait tightly and couldn't bear to let go, and his wife Shao Hua couldn't cry.
It was not until his death that people suddenly realized that they had heard very little about the deeds of the son of the leader, how much he had contributed, and what kind of life he lived.
Few people know that he participated in a tragic war, lived a life of exile, translated many Russian works, and contributed to the spread of Marxism-Leninism.
Compared to his father, Mao Anqing is too muchLow profileFinish. He never flaunts his identity, just lives his life peacefully. Unlike his father and brother, he was like a "mortal".
What kind of life does the mortal "Mao Anqing" have?
Mao Anqing is the second child of *** and Yang Kaihui, his father is eloquent, and his mother is full of talent, such a harmonious family should have allowed little Mao Anqing to spend a happy childhood.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and driven by the trend of the times, a peaceful life is a luxury. **Appointed as a special commissioner of the Chinese Communist Party, he went to deployAutumn Harvest Uprising, led the army to Jinggang Mountain.
Those who stayed in Changsha and persisted in the underground struggleYang KaihuiSoon arrested by the Kuomintang warlords, she never refused to issue a statement of severing relations with ***, and was ** to death.
After that, the family fell apart and was never reunited.
Although the three brothers Mao Anying, Mao Anqing, and Mao Anlong were secretly released from prison on bail by the party organization and saved from death. But the death of their mother and the absence of their father have turned them into helpless "wild children".
Mao**, who was working in a *** agency in Shanghai, heard about the changes in his brother's family and wrote a letter to ask his relatives to send the children to live in Shanghai. So, in 1931, the three brothers boarded a ship bound for Shanghai.
At this time, the eldest Mao Anying was only nine years old, Mao Anqing was eight years old, and Mao Anlong was not even five years old.
After arriving in Shanghai, they were sent to a kindergarten secretly run by the party organization and lived a stable life. However, in the summer of that year, the party organization responsible for running the kindergarten was disbanded by the enemy. There was no one to take care of the children, and they lived on the streets ever since.
When recalling those days, Mao Anqing said sadly: "Our life is exactly the same as Sanmao's life in "Sanmao's Wanderings", except that we have never stolen money, nor have we been a godson ...... to a rich man”
Living a life without food and clothes every day, the young Mao Anlong couldn't support it and died of illness. Mao Anying and Mao Anqing struggled to survive by selling newspapers.
Once, when Mao Anqing learned the news of the death of his uncle Mao Zetan, he angrily wrote a few big words on the street: "Down with imperialism", but was discovered by foreign patrols and brutally beat him. When Mao Anying carried him back, his head had been severely traumatized, leaving a lifetime of sequelae.
Five years passed for the brothers in such tragic days. It wasn't until five years later that they were found by the underground party organization. At that time, they lived in a dilapidated temple, and they were in a state of disarray.
After the Shanghai party organization and *** connected the relationship, the ** factionFeng XuefengRushed to Shanghai to rebuild the Shanghai party organization and told them: ** Knowing that the child is safe, he means that there is no need to send the child to northern Shaanxi. The Soviet Union promised to take in the orphans of the martyrs of the Chinese revolution and the children of the leaders of the Party and the Red Army, and to send the brothers directly to the Soviet Union if they had the opportunity.
Zhang Xueliang asked his subordinates to take them to Paris, and the party organization sent them to the Soviet Union. Mao Anqing assumed the pseudonym "Yang Yongshou" and also took the Russian name "Guo Liang" and entered the First Children's Hospital of the Comintern in Ivanov City to study.
After such a bumpy childhood, Mao Anqing has always maintained a strong background.
After settling in the Soviet Union, the brothers were able to resume communication with their father. ** I am very concerned about the brothers' studies, and often send them letters to urge them to study hard, but not to breed complacency and get carried away.
In a surviving list of books written in 1941, there are 21 Chinese classics"The Biography of Jingzhong Yue Fei", "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin".……Each book carries a father's high hopes for his children.
The brothers are also very competitive. Instead of being depressed about their tragic past, they cherish the hard-won learning opportunities and seize all the time to study hard.
In this ten-year school, Mao Anqing skipped grades one after another with excellent results, and after graduation, he was admitted to the Moscow Oriental Language School for further study.
During the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union, the brothers took the initiative to sign up and actively participate, Mao Anying went to the front line, and Mao Anqing actively supported the front. Much later, in 2005, Mao Anqing also received a commemorative medal for the "60th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" awarded by Russia ** to commemorate his contributions.
However, even after living in the Soviet Union for so long, Mao Anqing's heart has always remembered the motherland. He stayed until September 1947, when Mao Anqing was finally able to return to China and join the Communist Party of China in Harbin.
After returning to China, he devoted himself to grassroots construction with great ambitions. According to his wishes, Mao Anqing came to Keshan County, Heilongjiang Province to participate in the local land reform pilot.
At that time, there was a serious epidemic of infectious diseases in Keshan County, and bandits often lay in ambush on the mountain. Mao Anqing, under the pseudonym of "Yang Yongshou", used the identity of an ordinary martyr's child to eat, live and work together with the people at the grassroots level.
Because he is proficient in abacus and can play many musical instruments, Mao Anqing often solves the difficulties of life for the villagers and actively builds the cultural life in the countryside, which is very popular with the villagers.
Although he knew that he was doing hard work in a harsh environment, ** did not apply for any "privileges" for him. Not only that, but he even strictly forbade the publicity of Mao Anqing's deeds.
Such a stern and heavy love made Mao Anqing deeply remember his father's teachings. Since then, he has always maintained a humble character.
In July 1949, Mao Anqing returned to Beijing and took up the post of Russian translator in the Marxist-Leninist Works Compilation Office of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China. Even though his father is famous, Mao Anqing has not slackened his work at all. He already had a strong foundation in Russian, and he worked diligently and conscientiously, translating many classics.
A closer look at his work shows that he is not only involved in the professional and difficult vocabularyLenin's Complete Worksand Stalin's classics, as well as a dozen other political theory books and important historical documents—all of which require strong writing skills.
In addition, many Russian literary works have been translated by his hand, and he has published dozens of articles in such periodicals as People's **.
Although he has put a lot of effort into his work, Mao Anqing never takes credit, let alone talks about these things to others. It wasn't until many years later, when later generations found these translations and translations in the library, that they suddenly learned of what a significant contribution he had made.
After Mao Anying died on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, Mao Anqing fell seriously ill and recuperated in Dalian. In 1960, a young girl who took a leave of absence due to illness also came to this sanatorium, and this is itShao Hua
This year, Mao Anqing was 37 years old and Shao Hua was 22 years old, which was the time for a talented woman. For the sake of these two young people, ** specially wrote a letter to Mao Anqing to greet him:"I've heard that you have written a lot of letters with Shao Hua, is that true?Do you mean to be friends?You can talk to her more, Shao Hua is a good boy. ”
It turned out that as early as more than 30 years ago, their fate was doomed.
In 1927, when the Fifth Party Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Wuhan, Zhang Wenqiu had just finished their wedding with Liu Qianchu.
The representatives present said hello one after another, and said with a smile"They all wish you an early birth to a noble son, but I hope that you will give birth to a daughter. I have two sons, one is named Anying and the other is Anqing, so that our two families can also have a pair of in-laws. ”
It was originally a casual joke, but it was inadvertently pulled by the red line of fate.
Shao Hua is Zhang Wenqiu's second daughter, and like Mao Anqing, her childhood was also very difficult. Because her parents joined the revolution, she was imprisoned by warlords with her parents at the age of five, and she was imprisoned for four years.
Life in prison was difficult, hunger and thirst tormented her all the time, and the frequent beatings also made the little girl suffer. Fortunately, under the care of his mother and fellow victims, Shao Hua still stumbled and survived.
After Mao Anying and Mao Anqing returned to China, Zhang Wenqiu took pity that they had no mother to take care of them, and their father was too busy with work, so he often cared for them like his own mother.
Later, Zhang Wenqiu's eldest daughter Liu Siqi really married Mao Anying, and Shao Hua and Mao Anqing also became more and more affectionate.
From 1957 onwards, they began to communicate. After Mao Anying's sacrifice, Liu Siqi often took his sister to visit Mao Anqing, who was recuperating due to illness, which made the relationship between the two young people warm up rapidly. When the news reached the ears of ***, he wrote a letter to Mao Anqing to care about this matter.
So it came naturally, and in 1960, Mao Anqing and Shao Hua officially held a wedding in Dalian.
I am very satisfied with this marriage, Shao Hua is the child he watched grow up, and the two families are close to each other, which is a good story. He congratulated the newlyweds with a watch and a Panda radio, both of which are still in their home today.
Mao Anqing took his newlywed wife back to Beijing to visit his father, and then returned to his hometown Shaoshan to sweep his mother's grave. They walked hand in hand through the second half of their lives, through ups and downs for forty-seven years, and never separated.
In 1970, their son was born, and ** personally named him "Mao Xinyu". Mao Xinyu lived up to expectations, achieved academic success, was admitted to the History Department of Chinese People's University, and later entered the Theory Department of the ** Party School.
After the upheaval of the first half of his life, he finally got a caring wife and children for Mao Anqing, and was able to have a stable and happy family.
After entering the era of peace, the war has passed, and Mao Anqing can finally enjoy a calm and peaceful life.
However, although the eventful years are no more, Mao Anqing's heart to contribute to the motherland and the people has never disappeared.
On September 9, 1976, a great man of a generation passed away. Mao Anqing suppressed the grief in his heart, and took the six-year-old Mao Xinyu to stand in front of the portrait of ***, and said to Mao Xinyu solemnly: "Xinyu, let's swear to grandpa, we will definitely inherit his last wish." ”
Mao Anqing has never forgotten this oath.
In his later years, Mao Anqing still cared about national affairs, always paid attention to the construction of poor areas and disaster areas, and worked to propagate revolutionary traditions and ideas.
He took his wife and children to embark on the Red Army's Long March again, visited the old revolutionary areas, and made many efforts for out-of-school children. He has always paid attention to the development of young people and supported the establishment of many patriotic education bases for young people.
The revolutionary optimism and positive attitude to life embodied in him are still vaguely the same as when he was young.
He returned to his father's hometown of Shaoshan many times, where he published essays with his wife, Shao Hua"We Love the Red Cuckoo of Shaoshan".This popular prose was later incorporated into middle school Chinese textbooks.
Mao Anqing's memories of *** have never stopped. In order to write a book series"China has a ***, Mao Anqing, who is 70 years old, took his wife and children to more than 10 provinces and cities across the country.
Hold investigation meetings, interview parties, review and select topics, and ...... manuscriptsMao Anqing worked hard for two or three years, and finally published this 27-volume large series on the eve of the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Under layers of responsibilities and various identities, Mao Anqing is also an ordinary old man. He is optimistic and open-minded, versatile and has a wide range of interests. When the interest came, he liked to play the piano and sing songs. He also plays chess, football or skiing with the juniors.
He likes to watch ** quietly, and sometimes he can't help but laugh out loud when he sees it.
In the eyes of those who don't know him, he is a kind, gentle, and humble old man. According to Mao Xinyu's recollection, some people who have been in contact with him will sigh: "I can't imagine that this is the son of ***!" ”
Speaking of Mao Anqing, probably many people only know that he is the second son, but they don't know anything about his life. Compared with his great father and brother who died heroically in the war, Mao Anqing is more like a nameless "mortal".
However, the life of the "mortal" Mao Anqing is not extraordinary at all.
He was born in turbulent times, fought against the tide of the times, and lived a vigorous life. He has experienced the grief of losing his mother at a young age and experienced the wandering life of displacement, but there has always been a flame burning in his heart, driving him to fight for the country and the people all his life.
He keeps a low profile, but he never shirks responsibility. He has a rough life, but he is never pessimistic, but has always faced life with a positive attitude.
We may never have such a tortuous life experience as his, but we can learn from him how to be a "mortal" who actively joins the WTO for the country and the people.