She was a great mother who trained 4 members of the Central Committee and died without knowing that her son had died
At the beginning of the 20th century, a wave of work-study abroad was set off in China.
Among the large number of international students, there is an old woman who is more than half a hundred years old and wrapped in small feet, who crossed the ocean with a pair of children to study in France, and became a special member of the work-study team in France, and she is the great mother who has trained four central committee members (Cai Hesen, Xiang Jingyu, Cai Chang, and Li Fuchun) - Ge Jianhao.
Not many people know ge Jianhao's story today, but at that time, she was a legendary woman who made many shocking moves.
Ge Jianhao, formerly known as Ge Lanying, was born in 1864 in Xiangxiang County, a scholarly school, studied private school for several years, from a young age to oppose the decadent feudal system, the pursuit of women's liberation, in 1912 she took her youngest daughter Cai Chang to break through the resistance to Changsha, rented a few houses outside the South Gate, and entered the Zhounan Girls' School.
In this school full of progressive ideas at that time, Ge Jianhao was like a dead wood in the spring, eager to learn new knowledge and read progressive books.
At this time, her second son Cai Hesen and a group of other progressive young people began to study and disseminate Marxism.
In April 1918, the Xinmin Society, a progressive organization that later influenced the process of Pingming in China, was born in Changsha.
Soon, the society was ready to organize and send a group of aspiring young people to France for work-study, Cai Hesen and Cai Chang were also among them, and Mrs. Ge made every effort to raise travel expenses for her daughter to go abroad, and later resolutely decided to go to France with her children to work and study.
The children were opposed, believing that she had reached such an age, did not know foreign languages, twisted a pair of small feet, and had many inconveniences in going abroad.
However, she retorted with a straight face: "The revolution is to start with these little feet, and you can learn without knowing foreign languages!" ”
In December 1919, a team of more than 70 people from Hunan province who went to France for work-study set out, and among this team, Ge Jianhao and Xu Teli were the oldest, when Xu was more than "not confused" years old, and Ge was already 55 years old.
This is unique in Chinese history.
Her feat caused a national sensation, and the Shanghai "Declaration" wrote a special book about her deeds, calling her "a model in China's female circles".
After they arrived in France, they soon got to know Zhou Gong and Li Fuchun, who arrived in France earlier.
Mrs. Ge liked these young people very much, and they also respected Mrs. Ge very much, and they all affectionately called her "Aunt Ge", and they all became regular visitors to the Ge family in the future.
In order to overcome the difficulties of foreign languages, she and her daughter-in-law Xiang Jingyu specialized in French at a girls' public school in France.
Many of the school's students came from all over Asia, and at first, they all looked at this special classmate with surprise.
However, Mrs. Ge was cheerful and frank, open-minded and studious, and had strong receptivity, and soon won the respect of her classmates, coupled with her legendary experience, the school also looked at her and took the initiative to provide her with good learning conditions.
Because of her diligent study and hard work, she laid the foundation of French in more than a year, and after two years, her French level has reached a considerable level, and later she and her daughter Cai Chang worked half-time in the home textile factory and studied French textile technology.
At that time, the international students who came to France were basically half-working and half-studying, and their lives were very difficult, and sometimes they could not fill their stomachs. Mrs. Ge is good at embroidery, her embroidery is very popular in France, she often works overtime to get embroidery to the consignment store for money, used to supplement the lives of her classmates.
Once she embroidered the "white cat picture", she auctioned five thousand francs, and this considerable income was used to improve the lives of everyone.
Every week, the students come to Ge's house for the weekend, and everyone likes to eat Hunan dishes made by Aunt Ge.
Among these regular customers, Deng was the youngest, only seventeen or eighteen years old at the time, Mrs. Ge especially liked this young man in Sichuan, and always had to get some delicious food for him every time, and Li Fuchun, who was a "little fellow" in Changsha, and Cai Chang was the same year, and he was a classmate, and the common revolutionary ideal made them get closer and closer, and finally became lifelong partners.
In November 1922, the European branch of the Communist Party of China was established, and Mrs. Ge's family, including her son, daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, and son-in-law, were all communists, but she was not, and she repeatedly asked to join the party organization, and was persuaded by her children, saying that she could work for the party more easily outside the party.
Since then, she has taken the tasks assigned by the party organization as her highest wish, the branch held a meeting in her home, she looked at the wind outside the door, and she often worked overtime to make embroidery for money to raise funds for the branch' activities.
In 1925, Ge Jianhao returned to Changsha after a five-year absence, and in the following years the Chinese revolution was at a low ebb, and after the defeat of the Great Revolution, she successively traveled to Wuhan and Shanghai to cover her children, daughters-in-law and son-in-law to carry out the revolution.
In 1928, after her second son Cai Luxian and third daughter-in-law Xiang Jingyu had sacrificed for the revolution, Cai Hesen and Cai Chang agreed that the old mother was arranged to return to her hometown of Yongfeng, Hunan.
In 1931, Cai Hesen died heroically in Guangzhou, and the people in the family were afraid that she would be sad and had been hiding it from her.
The revolutionary mother had not yet bathed in the sunshine of the new China, and died in 1941 at the age of 77.
Before she died, she did not know that her son had sacrificed for the revolution, and she asked her eldest daughter Cai Qingxi: "Did Hesen and Xianxi (Cai Chang) have a letter back?" ”
He asked his eldest daughter to write to them and tell them that "mothers no longer see the success of their cause, but the revolution will be victorious." ”
These are the last words that this great mother left behind when she passed away.