On March 27, 2003, Mao Anqing passed away in Beijing at the age of 84.
Mao Anqing is the second child of *** and Yang Kaihui, and such a special identity has attracted a lot of attention.
However, Mao Anqing has been very low-key all his life, he is far away from politics, lives simply, and for a long time, he has hidden his true identity.
There are many regrets between Mao Anqing and his father, they are father and son, but in their lives, they have very little time together.
In 1923, Mao Anqing was born in Changsha, Hunan.
At that time, Hunan was not very peaceful, and various warlords were searching for *** and his family.
For the sake of the revolutionary cause, ** could not accompany his wife and children, but hurried to Guangzhou.
Therefore, in Mao Anqing's childhood memory, his father's figure is very vague.
As a father, of course he loves his son, but he has more important things to do, and he has to sacrifice his small family for the great cause of the revolution.
Fortunately, she was accompanied by her mother, in Mao Anqing's memory, her mother was a smart and resilient woman, and despite the turbulent situation outside, Yang Kaihui never succumbed to the reactionary forces.
Due to the enemy's search, they often had to hide, but Mao Anqing didn't feel that life was very hard at that time, at least, his mother and brother were by his side.
Occasionally, he would listen to the adults talk about his father's name, and knew that his father's revolutionary cause had achieved results again, and Mao Anqing was also happy in his heart.
It's just that even such turbulent days didn't last long, and Yang Kaihui was finally arrested by the warlord.
At that time, the warlord asked Yang Kaihui to publicly publish the newspaper and sever relations with ***.
However, Yang Kaihui would rather die and say to the enemy:"If you want to kill, you will kill, death will not frighten the Communists! You want me to disassociate myself from ***, unless the sea is dry and rotten! ”
Annoyed and angry, the enemy finally brutally killed Yang Kaihui, leaving behind three young children. At that time, the eldest Mao Anying was only eight years old.
Yang Kaihui. Having lost his mother and cutting off contact with his father, the enemy also tried to keep the three children as hostages and continue to threaten ***
At this time, Mao **, who was far away in Shanghai, learned the news and asked someone to take the three brothers to Shanghai to live.
When the three brothers first arrived in Shanghai, they were sent to a welfare home run by the Communists, where they spent three years of relative peace.
But three years later, something big happened, Gu Shunzhang rebelled. This hateful traitor betrayed the information of the underground party organization in Shanghai, which led to the misfortune of a large number of comrades, and the underground intelligence work in Shanghai suffered a heavy blow.
In order to avoid the arrest of the Kuomintang, Mao ** and his wife also had to stay away from Shanghai.
Before leaving, Mao reluctantly entrusted the three children to the local comrades in Shanghai.
However, the search and arrest operations continued one after another, and soon, the whereabouts of the comrade in Shanghai were also unknown.
At this point, the three brothers completely cut off contact with the organization.
Mao Anying (left), Mao Anqing (middle) and Cai Hesen's daughter Cai Ni (right) pose for a photo in Moscow.
They have no life**, and they are still young, and survival has become a great problem.
In desperation, they had no choice but to take to the streets and scavenge scraps to make ends meet.
During this time, their youngest brother Mao Anlong disappeared, and Mao Anqing has been trying to find his missing brother in the years that followed, but he has never found anything.
It was the most difficult period of Mao Anqing's life, sleeping in the open air, and having no food and clothing.
Many years later, Mao Anqing went to watch the movie Sanmao Wanderings with his friends, and after watching it, he said with a wry smile:"During that time in Shanghai, I saw everything and gained a lot of knowledge, except that I didn't be a son to others, it was really no different from "Sanmao Wanderings". ”
Moreover, this wandering life also brought permanent trauma to Mao Anqing's health.
Mao Anqing remembers that when he was 11 years old, he and his brother worked as newspaper boys on the street, shouting and selling newspapers on the street every day, no matter whether it was windy or rainy.
It was also while selling newspapers that he saw headlines carrying the news of the death of his uncle Mao Zetan.
A dim and dull life seems to never have a head.
One day, Mao Anqing was still shouting and selling newspapers on the street, and suddenly a tall patrol came over.
At that time, Shanghai was a mixed place, and the patrols were often not righteous people, and they did their best to bully men and women and bully the weak. These newsboys on the street saw the patrol and had no other way but to dodge.
And Mao Anqing's luck was very bad that day, he happened to be standing on the side of the street and didn't dodge.
The fierce patrol saw that he was not pleasing to the eye, so he rushed over and slapped him on the head a few times.
Mao Anqing was dizzy when he was beaten, and the patrol asked him while beating: Do you admit your mistake?
Mao Anqing was very angry about this, he thought that he was not wrong, why did the other party abuse him like this?
So he gritted his teeth and didn't make a sound.
The man beat Mao Anqing for a while, until he felt bored, and then he stopped and walked away.
Mao Anqing was beaten to the ground and fell to the ground, bleeding from his mouth and nose, and almost died on the street.
Until Mao Anying chased after him and found his younger brother lying on the ground dying.
Mao Anying took out the only money the brothers had saved by selling newspapers and took Mao Anqing to see the doctor.
Mao Anqing's life was saved, but unfortunately, his brain was permanently disabled, which caused him to suffer a certain amount of mental damage, and he has been suffering from headaches for the rest of his life.
It wasn't until 1936 that the purgatory-like days finally came to an end.
This year, the party organization finally found the brothers and brought them back to their father.
When *** saw his two children covered in bruises, he felt very sad, the children's mother was no longer there, and he almost couldn't save even this bone and blood. On the road of revolution, their family sacrificed too much.
However, the meeting was short-lived, and soon after, it was decided to send the brothers to the Soviet Union for further study.
This is also for their safety, the international situation is very unstable, and China may break out at any time to break out into a big war, and send the children of revolutionaries to the Soviet Union, at least they can get shelter.
For Mao Anqing, this is a very precious opportunity. In the past, he delayed his studies, and when he arrived in the Soviet Union, he studied without sleep or food, and overcame his physical obstacles with great effort.
However, the change soon happened again, the Soviet-German war broke out, and the German offensive was extremely fierce. As a result, the life of the welfare home where the Mao Anqing brothers were located suddenly became tense again, and the state was no longer able to provide them with resources.
As a result, the staff of the welfare home even had to go to the black market to exchange some bread to satisfy their hunger.
Fortunately, during his time in the Soviet Union, He Zizhen took great care of the brothers. In order to make the living conditions of the brothers better, He Zizhen ignored his physical injuries and did some manual work day and night to make money.
Mao Anqing has always been very grateful for He Zizhen's care back then, and later when she talked about He Zizhen, she always called her "Mother He".
It wasn't until 1947 that Mao Anqing, who had completed his studies, returned to China with He Zizhen and saw his father, whom he hadn't seen for many years.
At this time, Mao Anqing had grown into a young man, and through years of study, he had mastered a lot of revolutionary theoretical knowledge, which was very different from the past.
It was a great relief to see him.
People thought that as the son of the chairman, Mao Anqing would be able to enjoy some preferential treatment. But in fact, both Mao Anqing and *** are deliberately avoiding superior treatment.
Mao Anqing. Mao Anqing worked with the workers in the base area, lived in the same dormitory, and ate the same big pot of rice. He never took the initiative to mention that he was the son of ***, so that people initially thought that he was an ordinary young man from out of town.
Soon after returning to China, a new task came, and Keshan County in the northeast urgently needed a group of young people to participate in the construction.
The place was remote, the climate was harsh, and there were a lot of bandits, so it didn't seem like a good place to go.
However, Mao Anqing was the first to sign up.
It was precisely because of the difficulty of this task that Mao Anqing decided to complete it. There are many backward places like Keshan County in China, and only by transforming such places can China have hope.
Of course, Mao Anqing can choose a better place, his work ability is stronger than others, and his identity is more special than others. However, Mao Anqing did not take advantage of his "advantages".
With great determination, he came to Keshan County, which was snowy and icy.
When these young cadres first arrived, they touched the ashes of their noses.
Because Keshan County has just been liberated, the local people are very distrustful of our army's cadres, and some of our army's reform policies are also very difficult to implement locally. Mao Anqing and others went to talk about policies to people, but they often closed their doors.
However, Mao Anqing did not give up.
In order to make it acceptable to the local people, he worked hard and learned the local dialect in a short time, and then adapted our party's revolutionary policy into a smooth dialect and led the literary and artistic brigade to perform from village to village.
For those who were particularly stubborn, Mao Anqing was also very patient, showed 10,000 sincerity, and persuaded him from the bottom of his heart, which finally loosened the hearts of local farmers.
After integrating into the local environment, Mao began to use the advanced agricultural techniques he learned in the Soviet Union to help the local people transform their farmland and food varieties.
A few months later, with her outstanding work ability, Mao Anqing became the leader of the local rural mutual aid group.
The local grain output has doubled under the leadership of Mao Anqing.
Eight months later, Mao Anqing, who had completed the land reform work in Keshan County, returned to his father.
He lived up to what his father and mother taught him, and he looked at this son with pride in his heart.
After returning, Mao Anqing began to work as a Russian translator in the Propaganda Department, and the foreign language he had learned painstakingly in the past came in handy.
During his work, Mao Anqing participated in the translation of "The Complete Works of Lenin", "The Complete Works of Stalin", and more than a dozen other Russian-related historical documents, making great contributions to the translation of the motherland.
Mao Anqing. This is also the period of time that Mao Anqing and his father get along the most, Mao Anqing finally ended his wandering life and returned to Beijing, where he can often talk to his father.
But an even bigger blow struck. In 1950, when the Korean War broke out, in order to protect the country and defend the country, China decided to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and Mao Anqing's elder brother Mao Anying was also one of the fighters who participated in the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
However, not long after going to the battlefield, Mao Anying died.
This news, at first, everyone didn't dare to tell ***, and they didn't dare to tell Mao Anqing. They have lost so many relatives, and now, telling them the news of Mao Anying's sacrifice would be a big blow to them!
Until the end, I couldn't hide it, so I had to tell *** the news in person
It took a long time before ** endured his grief and told Mao Anqing the news.
The moment he heard the news, Mao Anqing felt that the sky had fallen, he held his father's hand tightly, his mind was blank, and he could only keep repeating:"I want my brother, I want my brother to ......”
Mao Anqing's health was not good, and this incident almost broke him. Upon learning of his brother's death, he fell ill for several months, and after recovering, he was often in a trance, and he could no longer continue the work in his hands.
In desperation, he had to go to the Soviet Union for **, and a few years later he returned to Dalian to continue to recuperate.
The only consolation is that during the period of recuperation, he and his future wife Shao Hua gradually sparked a spark of love and formed their own family, which also made *** feel deeply comforted in his heart.
Shao Hua and Mao Anqing were very low-key when they held their wedding, only set up a small table of wine banquets, and invited a few close friends.
** Didn't come, just asked someone to bring a watch to his son as a wedding gift.
At this time, ** is also getting older, and he needs the company of his family even more.
But what is puzzling is that the more he gets in his old age, the less he and his son Mao Anqing meet.
This is not because the relationship between father and son is not good, in fact, ** has always been very concerned about Mao Anqing.
But he couldn't bear to see his son, first, ** didn't want Mao Anqing to get too involved in politics, and hoped that he could live a calmer and low-key life.
Second, when I saw Mao Anqing, I couldn't help but think of the sacrificed Yang Kaihui and Mao Anying, which only increased my sadness.
So, it's better to endure not seeing.
Mao Anqing understood his father's feelings, and the father and son spent their last years tacitly.
In 1976, when he felt that his time was running out, he specially instructed:"After I leave, don't let Anqing come to my funeral, for fear that he will cry and hurt. ”
Between the words, it is a father's most sincere love for his son.
In the father-son relationship between *** and Mao Anqing, separation seems to be the norm, but no matter how they get together and part, they will always worry about each other.