Yang Kaihui first met Mao Zedong, or a shy little girl.
At that time, she did not call Mao Zedong affectionately as "Runzhi brother".
In 1901, Yang Changji's daughter Yang Kaihui was born.
Shortly after Yang Kaihui's birth, her father, Yang Changji, went to study abroad, leaving him in Japan, England, and Germany.
He went for nine years.
During this time, the young Yang Kaihui has been living with her mother.
Growing up in a family that lacked a father's love, Yang Kaihui, as an adult, was always an insecure girl.
She was a sweet and virtuous girl.
When she saw her friends catching dragonflies, she felt pain in her heart and felt that life should not be trampled on.
Although her father, Yang Changji, traveled overseas, he cared y about Yang Kaihui's education.
Yang Kaihui's career as a student was all thanks to her enlightened father.
At the age of seven, Yang Changji sent a letter from abroad, telling his wife to let Yang Kaihui early into the school.
At that time, there was no precedent for girls to study in her hometown of Bancang.
Her father's enlightenment changed Yang Kaihui's life, and made her a sensible and educated woman.
In 1908, Yang Kaihui attended the 40th Primary School in Changsha.
In 1909, Yang Kaihui studied at the Board Storage and Energy School.
In 1911, she and her mother attended Hengshui Girls' School at the same time.
In 1912, she attended Prefectural No. 1 Girls' High School.
In 1913, Yang Changji, who had been away for nine years, returned from his studies, just as his daughter Yang Kaihui graduated.
Even more coincidentally, a young man from a farming family in Xiangtan, Hunan Province, also entered the Hunan Provincial No. 1 Teachers' Training Center at this time.
After Yang Changji returned to China, he again happened to be employed at this teacher training school.
The heavens seem to be in the sky, tearing them into the same space and time.
At the school, Mao Zedong's piece "The Power of the Heart" gave Yang Changji a deep impression of the teenager.
The dream-chasing teenager finally meets his soulmate.
Yang Changji invited Mao to the Banchang apartment, and the moment he opened the door, Mao saw a little girl with short hair.
Yang Kaihui, in this year, was just a 13-year-old girl.
Yang Changji also came out of his room at the same time, and seeing Mao standing outside, he warmly invited him into his home.
Yang Kaihui looked at the teenager in front of her, and her eyes kept staring at him, occasionally pursing her lips and smiling.
At that time, she only felt that the so-called ideal of helping the world and the people, as they said, was still very grand, and that it might really be just a distant dream.
Since then, Mao Zedong has often come to his teacher's home to discuss high-end topics such as the nation and the future.
Mao and Yang Kaihui also grew to know each other well.
He would often give Yang Kaihui his own articles and diaries, and the little girl was instantly immersed in the world of the boy's words, unable to extricate herself.
Yang Kaihui wrote poems like her father and sent them to Mao Zedong in the hope that Runzhi's brother would help her revise them.
Mao reads the poem and praises it.
However, Mao may not be able to visit Yang Changji's home again next year, despite the beautiful autumn colors.
1918, June.
On this hot summer day, Yang Changji is invited to become a professor at Peking University, and the family moves to Beijing.
And at this time Mao Zedong had just graduated from the First Normal School of Hunan Province.
The road ahead is bumpy, even though it requires letting go.
But how, how?
Mao Zedong, who was lost on the path of life, soon received a letter from his mentor Yang Changji from Beijing.
At that time, Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University, was ready to organize a group of young students to study in France.
Yang Changji's footprints are all over the world, and he knew what kind of knowledge and what kind of shock would be brought to young people in that world.
So he strongly encouraged Mao Zedong to go abroad to see, or at least understand, the outside world.
Mao Zedong a group of Hunan students have gone north, ready to study abroad.
Mao Zedong just came to Beijing to stay at his teacher's home, a long time, he always felt inconvenient, he rented a house not far from his teacher in Samenjing.
The life of the Northern Drifter is actually very hard, in Beijing, Mao Zedong was arranged by his teacher to enter the library of Peking University, and became a librarian assistant.
In the house he rented in Sanyanjing, there were seven people in one ****, and it was difficult for the seven people on the dirt floor to turn over.
The northern bungalow with a dirt bed hides a group of teenagers chasing their dreams.
At that time, this group of young people did not feel hard, they feel worth it!
In the days of waiting to go to France to study, Mao Zedong and Yang Changji come and go more often.
And this time in the north, Mao Zedong's emotional support.
--- Yang Kaihui.
Because of frequent visits to the teacher's home, Mao often and Yang Kaihui gradually become acquainted.
When he was bored, Mao took Yang Kaihui outside.
The Forbidden City and the Beihai are full of them.
At that time, the feelings are sincere and pure, they will not say straight to the words like class, they are not hand in hand to walk together.
At this point, there is still more than a year to go before the two of them can really join hands.
This time, Mao stayed in Beijing for only six months.
He eventually chose to give up the opportunity to study in Europe and returned to Changsha.
They were both patriotic students who set out from that year to work and study in Europe.
It was also the year when Mao's political thinking matured the fastest, as he began to give public speeches and to found the Xiangjiang Review, of which he became the chief writer.
The boy who used the pen as a sword came to prominence in Hunan.
Zhang Jingyao, the governor of Hunan at the time, hated Mao.
With knives hidden everywhere in Changsha, Mao went north into Beijing with a petition from Changsha's schoolchildren in order to avoid this crisis and to kick Zhang Jingyao down the road for good.
This was Mao's greatest wish at the time.
It's just that politics is never that simple.
Mao Zedong was greatly disappointed that Zhang Jingyao was still the Governor of Hunan, and they were still unarmed schoolchildren.
Mao Zedong, who was so disappointed, also began a period of skepticism.
The lighthouse of life, the light of hope, which he had searched so hard for, was so far away.
--- Almost out of reach.
Chasing a dream is never easy.
Sometimes it's really cruel~
Although the dream-chasing teenager's ideal fell to a low point, love came silently at this time.
In 1919, Mao Zedong went north again to arrive in Beijing.
This time in Beijing, his mentor Yang Changji has been seriously ill.
Soon after, Yang Changji died in Beijing.
Yang Kaihui's family returned to Hunan with Yang Changji's coffin.
Mao Zedong faced Yang Kaihui's departure, the heart is extremely painful.
On the one hand, he could not bear to see Yang Kaihui leave, on the other hand, he did not know how to comfort Yang Kaihui who had just lost her father.
What's more, he went to the north with a revolutionary mission, and he couldn't do it for personal reasons.
As time passes, it is difficult to solve the pain of love.
He wrote a letter to Yang Kaihui:
This is the first love letter he wrote to Yang Kaihui, which is mixed with a teenager's heart, the most sincere feelings.
Yang Kaihui received this letter, greatly excited.
For Yang Kaihui, she had been waiting for Mao Zedong to speak up.
She and Mao Zedong have known each other for a long time, and both of them are extremely shy in the emotional world.
Yang Kaihui knew what it meant for Mao to write to him.
She happily sent the letter to her friend Li Shuyi.
1920, July.
Mao returns to Changsha after his mission in Beijing, and the first thing he does when he returns to Changsha is to visit Yang Kaihui.
The winter of this year.
Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui were officially married in Changsha, Hunan Province.
At the wedding, they called only a few familiar friends.
Long-robed teenager, cheongsam girl.
Proclaimed married in the presence of friends.
This marriage, simple and not a little romantic, but became an inseparable part of the young Mao Zedong heart memories.
Because it is sincere enough, enough people moved.
Not long after the marriage, Mao Zedong devoted himself to the cause of the revolution, Yang Kaihui at this time has become his loyal revolutionary comrade-in-arms.
Mao Zedong really accompanied Yang Kaihui's days are too few, less a little heartbreaking.
The first two years of their relationship, Mao Zedong really accompanied Yang Kaihui, only the first two years of marriage.
For the next eight years, he was too busy with the revolution to spend time with his family.
Love was too much of a luxury for Mao at this time.
Ideal, love, these are all his life.
But in these invisible things, the ideal is still the highest pursuit of his life.
In 1922, his eldest son Mao Anying was born.
In 1923, his second son Mao Anqing was born.
At the time of the birth of these two children, Mao Zedong had been too busy devoting himself to the revolution, constantly traveling to Changsha, Guangzhou, and Wuhan, to find time to take care of his wife and children after childbirth.
Mao stayed briefly for a few days after the birth of his children and left Changsha again to prepare for his trip to Shanghai to attend the conference.
After the birth of her two children, Yang Kaihui took on the full burden of life, caring for her two young children at home and worrying about Mao's safety.
When Mao Zedong was leaving Changsha on his way out, he left a message for Yang Kaihui:
April 4, 1927 .
Mao's third son, Mao Shilong, is born.
After learning the news, Mao finally returned to Changsha on the fourth day after Yang Kaihui gave birth.
He looked at his little son who had croaked, and then at Yang Kaihui lying on the hospital bed.
Mao's heart was filled with guilt.
Three births, three separations.
Mao Zedong never had the extra time to be with his wife and children, even for a short, short time.
Both of them emotionally belong to the poorly spoken lovers, I think the days they get together, but also probably not too much sweet talk.
A passionate kiss and a hug.
This is enough for Yang Kaihui.
The day after this meeting, Mao Zedong left Changsha and returned to the revolutionary battlefield.
In 1927, the Nanchang Uprising broke out.
The spark of revolution in Hunan had been ignited, and the red flame burned freely in the land of Changsha.
The Autumn Harvest Uprising was also about to take place, and Mao Zedong's situation became even more dangerous. In order to ensure the safety of her wife and children, she asked Yang Kaihui to return to her hometown of Bancang in Hunan with her children.
In order to ensure the safety of his wife and children on their way back to their hometown, Mao Zedong personally escorted his wife and children over the mountain passes and brought them to Banchang without any problems.
Mao Zedong did not stay too long and turned back to Anyuan in Jiangxi Province.
The two of them could not have imagined that this farewell would be forever.
From then on, they lost contact with each other for three years.
Even so, Yang Kaihui's love for Mao began to grow stronger.
She once wrote in a letter:
Her longing for Mao Zedong was so great that it was almost madness.
These handwritten letters about Yang Kaihui are actually very sad.
Mao Zedong never saw it in his life.
Because the letters were found in the cracks of the wall of Yang Kaihui's former residence in March 1982 and August 1990, when the house was repaired twice.
The discovery of these precious handwriting was beyond Mao's knowledge.
Some of these are actually very heartbreaking words to read, literally word for word.
For Yang Kaihui, lovers constantly leave, return, leave , becoming the main theme of Yang Kaihui's seven years of marriage.
Such a life is more painful to think about.
Loneliness grew endlessly in her heart, and the little girl who once wished to hold her husband's hand tightly now has the luxury of just getting a letter from Mao Zedong.
She worries about Mao's well-being, and she wishes that Mao could actually be there for her.
After all, she is a weak woman, and she also needs the same sense of security in life.
However, the situation in Hunan was highly volatile at the time, and the world outside the boarding house seemed to be full of sharp edges, and it became very difficult for her to get in touch with Mao.
1928, January.
Mao Zedong commissions Wu Fushou to sneak into Changsha to find out what happened to his wife, Yang Kaihui.
However, Changsha is full of security forces, and it is difficult to enter Changsha to find out what happened to Yang Kaihui.
Wu Fushou asked around, and finally got a message:
Yang Kaihui has been killed!
When Mao Zedong heard the news it was late at night, he slowly sat down on a chair, took out a piece of letter paper from a drawer, and silently wrote out a word from Li Yu, the later lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty:
In fact, the news about Yang Kaihui that was rumored at that time was purely false.
Wu Fushou heard the news, but it is also the Hunan region deliberately spread out false news.
However, this pair of good people, and ultimately really separated from each other.
After the outbreak of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, Ho Jian, the warlord of Hunan, hated what Mao Zedong was doing in Hunan, and he put out a 1,000-dollar bounty on Yang Kaihui's head.
1930, October.
Yang Kaihui is unfortunately arrested by the Changsha Guard Command.
He Jian promised at the time that as long as Yang Kaihui announced to the public that she had broken off her marriage with Mao, he would send her back home safely.
Yang Kaihui flatly refused.
A month later, Yang Kaihui was killed.
This year, Yang Kaihui was only 29 years old.
At this point, they had been married for 10 years.
1957, January.
Yang Kaihui's friend Li Shuyi accidentally saw Mao Zedong published eighteen poems in the Poetry Journal.
Li Shuyi suddenly thought of her former friend Yang Kaihui, and she immediately wrote a letter to Mao Zedong, hoping that Mao Zedong would send her a copy of the Yu Meiren - Pillow on the Pillow, which he had previously written to Yang Kaihui.
In her letter to Mao, Li Shuyi also sent a copy of Buddha Barbarian, a song she had written when her husband Liu Zhixun died.
When Mao received Li Shuyi's letter, the past came back to haunt him, and he lamented the brutal love of the war era, and understood Li Shuyi's pain of losing her husband.
However, he did not copy the song "Yu Meiren - On the Pillow", which he once wrote to Yang Kaihui, to Li Shuyi.
He eventually chose to write a "Butterfly Lovers - Reply to Li Shuyi".
In this tribute to his late wife, Mao compared Yang Kaihui and Liu Zhixun to loyal souls ascending to the ninth heaven.
Wu Gang holds the wine, and Chang E dances with her.
Hearing their story, Wu Gang and Chang'e burst into tears again.
This is not just a eulogy, but an overwhelming feeling of respect for the loyal souls of a generation of martyrs.
Mao Zedong wrote the words, the moonlight outside the window seems to pull him back to the time when he was once.
The beautiful people who were so close to each other have long been separated from each other.
At that moment, a huge tsunami surged in his heart, but he stood quietly and did not let anyone notice.
The love affair between Mao and Yang Kaihui was clean and sincere.
In their lives, there is not a single photo of them together.
The photos we see today are mostly collages.
They were the couple of the era that really lived in the story.
We hardly ever see love like that anymore than we do now.
That's what marriage should have been for every generation of young people we've ever known.
In today's society, which is poisoned by money and desire, when the marriages we encounter are over-valued and over-deteriorated.
When a marriage is wrapped up in a huge dowry, it has become the core of what it should be.
Such a relationship, the end result of most look at each other two tired, bed head no longer good people ~
People this life, the experience of life is always a positive closed loop.
Married life will eventually lead to a closed loop.
Start with money, end with money.
Beginning with love, end with love~