A person's life may be ordinary or magnificent. Mao Anqing, as the son of the great man Mao Zedong, his life experience can be called vicissitudes. Suffered from the early death of his mother, the displacement of his childhood, and the foreign land where he was studying...... He was often tormented by the unsatisfactory circumstances of his life, but in the end he chose the path of dedication to the people. Until the end of his life, his only wish was to see his beloved cousin Mao Anping again. Although this wish is difficult to achieve, the friendship between the brothers is forever engraved in people's hearts. What kind of encounters created the deep bond between the two brothers?
The first journey of life is destined to be unsmooth, which is what Mao Anqing experienced with his brother Mao Anying and younger brother Mao Anlong. Their mother, Yang Kaihui, died heroically when Mao Anqing was 4 years old, and the three brothers have been orphaned since then. Although Mao Zemin's uncle took care of them, they still suffered a lot from being displaced, starving and cold. The youngest brother Mao Anlong died of illness during this period, and the remaining two brothers were even more ill-fated.
However, fortunately, with the protection and care of the party organization, Mao Anying and Mao Anqing were arranged to study in the International Children's Institute in the Soviet Union in 1936. There, Mao Anqing showed extraordinary talent, studied hard, had excellent grades, and was simply a "little prodigy". Chairman Mao was naturally extremely pleased to see his son's outstanding performance, and he not only repeatedly wrote letters to encourage his son to study hard, but also sent a lot of classic Chinese literary masterpieces, hoping that his son would have the opportunity to understand the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture.
In 1947, Mao Anqing successfully completed his studies in the Soviet Union and returned to the embrace of New China. His excellent Russian language skills led him to be quickly assigned to work as a translator in the Central Propaganda Department. There, he participated in the translation of many important works and contributed to the cultural construction of New China.
While working hard at work, Mao Anqing also experienced another happiness in life, marrying a wife and starting a family. His wife Shao Hua, although she is more than 10 years younger than herself, the two hit it off at first sight and hated each other late. still remembers that when they met for the first time, Xiao Shaohua's impression of Anqing's cousin was "careless". However, when they met again in Dalian, the couple were soon attracted by each other's advantages and became husband and wife.
It is especially worth mentioning that Mao Anying and Shao Hua's two families are still world friends, and even Chairman Mao once joked at the wedding of Zhang Wenqiu and Liu Qian, wishing the two to have a pair of "daughters", so as to become their own in-laws. From this point of view, Anqing and Shao Hua have been a destined pair since childhood! Soon after the marriage, the chairman instructed the newlyweds to return to their hometown so that "the new daughter-in-law could recognize the family". So Mao Anqing and Shao Hua visited Xiang Zhenxi's grandmother in Changsha, and swept the grave of their mother Yang Kaihui with an extremely heavy heart.
Immediately afterwards, they came to Shaoshan and stayed in the ancestral residence of Shaoshan. There, Mao Anqing and his cousin Mao Anping's bad relationship continued again. Kishihira still clearly remembers that when he first met Kishi's cousin, the latter actually fell into the pond on horseback! Although he was only an 8-year-old child at the time, Mao Anping already had a good impression of this cousin who came from afar. Since then, whenever Mao Anqing returns to Shaoshan, he will accompany him, carefully explain the scenes and reasons along the way to his cousin, and be an excellent "tour guide".
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is 1997, 24 years later. This time, when Kishihira saw his cousin, he found that Anqing's body was deteriorating, and he even had a hard time talking and walking. Looking at his aging cousin, Kishihei's mood was undoubtedly extremely heavy. At that time, no one thought that this would become the last time the two met.
Ten years later, one morning in March 2007, Anqing passed away like this. After learning the bad news, Anping cried bitterly and immediately decided to rush to Beijing to bid farewell to his brother. It's a pity that Anqing's last wish "I want to see my younger brother Anping" failed to come true.
From childhood to old age, from south to north, although the life trajectories of the two are very different, the brotherhood of blood thicker than water has always run throughout, and Anqing and Anping interpret what is "brotherhood" with actions. Later, under the arrangement of his wife Shao Hua, Anqing's ashes finally stayed with his mother Yang Kaihui for a long time, which can be regarded as one of his last wishes.
The road of life is never smooth, whether you are the son of a great man or an ordinary person, everyone will inevitably encounter setbacks and tribulations. But as long as you uphold the belief that "bitterness comes willingly", everything will eventually get through. Although Mao Anqing experienced hardships in his life, he still chose to serve the people and dedicate himself, showing the heroic righteousness of revolutionaries with practical actions. And the brotherhood of "life and death together" between him and Mao Anping has undoubtedly set a valuable example for future generations, inspiring us to treat our relatives and friends with filial piety and loving empathy. May their spirits rest in heaven and stay together forever!