Mao Zedong and He Zizhen in 1936, photographed in Baoan, northern Shaanxi.
From Bo Du’s “singing the red and fighting the black” to today’s “not forgetting the original heart”, the red gene has proudly stood in the center of China’s political stage step by step, and the connection between this red gene and DNA in the biological sense is unspoken. However, the genetic mystery of Mao Zedong, the reddest and reddest red sun who led this revolution, is still full of suspense and questions.
If we exclude the rumors about Mao Zedong’s “illegitimate children”, Mao Zedong had ten children in his Life, but most of them died young or their whereabouts are unknown. But in Mao’s Time, it seemed to be part of the state secrets, and was wrapped up tightly, most Chinese people at that time had never even heard of the name He Zizhen, and the most valuable part of the genetic mystery left by Mao was directly related to He Zizhen.
After the Cultural Revolution, probably in order to dilute Jiang Qing’s status as the “Queen of the Palace,” first Yang Kaihui and then He Zizhen began to occupy the official and semi-official media pages, and information about Mao’s children who had died and disappeared surfaced.
Since the official information on the whereabouts of Mao Zedong’s missing children is not given authoritatively, the information from the private and semi-official media is a mixture of facts and rumors, and before the investigation information after the establishment of the government in 1949 is made public, it is necessary to synthesize various knowledge and various claims to analyze them carefully in order to deduce some more credible facts.
Whether before or after the establishment of the regime in 1949, the situation of Mao Zedong’s missing children was highly classified by the CCP, so much so that Li Yun, an underground member of the CCP who was responsible for finding Mao’s brothers in the autumn of 1935, only knew that he was looking for the two missing children of martyrs, but did not know that they were the sons of Mao Zedong who had regained important leadership positions in the CCP at the Zunyi Conference in early 1935, and after the establishment of the CCP, Li Yun also kept this secret. After the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, Li Yun kept this secret, and in 1988, Li Yun told reporters, “If not for the fact that a head of the Central Committee told me that the period of secrecy of the ‘Central Special Branch’ had passed and I could tell about it, I would have brought this experience to Marx.” This shows how strict the Communist Party’s system of secrecy, which “distinguishes between inside and outside,” was, but such secrecy did not affect the most accurate information available when searching for Mao’s missing children, such as Liu Songlin’s recollection that Mao Shanying remembered that Mao’s third son, Mao Anlong, had disappeared during his wanderings, and now there are clearer and more credible recollections of those involved Mao An-Long died in Datong Kindergarten, therefore, we do not see the initiative to find Mao An-Long after the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, which may prove that the high level of the Chinese Communist Party has an extremely open channel on the issue of finding Mao Zedong’s children, after all, although the underground party in Shanghai back then was severely damaged, but the parties who had participated in caring for and finding Mao An-Ying’s brothers such as Li Yun, Feng Xuefeng, Dong Jianwu, Xu Qiang, etc. were all present, and they definitely did not dare to take any action against Mao Zedong after 1949 to have anything to hide. On this point, a few years ago, a netizen Run Tao Yan wrote that Mao Xianying and Mao Xianying were not Mao Zedong’s own sons, but “fakes” found by the Shanghai underground to fool Mao Zedong, which is not very credible, because extrapolated from time, the Mao Xianying brothers disappeared for only two years, not six years as Run Tao Yan said, two years More than time is not yet enough to cause insurmountable difficulties in identifying the appearance of twelve or thirteen-year-old children, and Mao Xianying, Mao Xianying brothers were found, had lived with Dong Jiango son again and was sent to Europe, more than two years is not enough time to completely erase all the memories of the ten-year-old playmate. Years later Mao Anqing had letters to Dong Jianwu’s son.
The reason why the most probing part of the genetic mystery left behind by Mao is related to He Zizhen is that after his Marriage to He Zizhen, Mao ushered in the most difficult and dangerous decade of his life, so difficult that he simply did not have the conditions to raise children, so that of the six children born to He Zizhen and Mao, only Li Min ended up surviving with her Parents.
After 1949, the living conditions of the Communist leaders changed dramatically, and the search for the missing children was immediately on the agenda, and through the information available now, come we can feel how urgent and tenacious this search was. For example, Mao Zedong and He Zizhen gave birth to their first child, Mao Jinhua, who was born in 1929 in Longyang, Fujian Province, and was given to a shoemaker surnamed Weng during the evacuation of Longyan. In 1932, when the Red Army again beat Longyan, He Zizhen searched for her daughter’s whereabouts and was told by the adopter that the child had died. Even so, after the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong conducted another search for Mao Jinhua through Deng Zichuan, and years later He Zizhen’s brother, He Minxue, the vice governor of Fujian Province, even recognized a woman named Yang Yuehua, who He also identified as his own daughter, Mao Jinhua. After all, Mao Zedong was the supreme leader of the Party and the country, and he had in his hands one of the most powerful regimes ever to control society. As to why Yang Yuehua’s identity was not finally identified, more on that later.
In fact, the first child the CCP went all out to find after the establishment of the regime was not Mao Jinhua, but Mao Anhong, the eldest son of Mao Zedong and He Zizhen, nicknamed Mao Mao. In the first half of 1949, before the CCP officially declared the central government, He Zizhen’s sister He Yi (who was also the wife of Mao Zedong’s brother Mao Zeqin) went to see Mao Zedong at the Shuangqing Villa and proposed to look for Mao Mao, which Mao Zedong reportedly did not agree to initially, and now The reason given by the official media is a very convincing reasoning, “Now that we have been liberated, we have entered the city, and our living conditions are better, you want to take the children back from the hands of others, so that you can live up to the kindness of their adoptive father and mother?” There is also a doubtful authenticity of the statement is He Yi to Mao Zedong said Mao Mao has been found, Mao Zedong was very happy to hear, but after asking some characteristics of the child, that with his memory of the time, place, age and appearance do not match, and therefore also do not agree to find. If I had to choose between the two statements, I think the second one is a bit more in line with normal human psychology. In any case, both statements seem to indicate that Mao Zedong is not very keen to find this “Mao Mao”, but Mao Zedong did not really stop it, he may just have some suspicions, otherwise, He Yi could not leave his work to find the whereabouts of Mao Mao and die in a car accident, nor could he later labor the governor of Jiangxi Province, Shao Shiping, to use the The provincial government’s power to find.
It is said that He Yi had already found clues to Mao Mao’s whereabouts before the crash, but this may not be credible. Before the Long March, Mao Zedong and He Zizhen entrusted Mao Mao to her brother Mao Zetan, who left the child at the Home of a guard, and with Mao Zetan’s death, no one knew the exact whereabouts of Mao Mao anymore. If she had really found information about Mao Mao, even if He Yi had died in a car accident, it was unlikely that there would be no clues to Mao Mao’s whereabouts. By this time, Mao Xianying had been dead in North Korea for more than two years, and Mao Xianying had suffered a schizophrenic episode in 1951, so if Mao had been found, this would have been Mao’s only mentally sound son. Mao Mao born in 1932 – Mao Anhong if found, will leave too much room for historical imagination, after all, he is Mao Zedong’s biological son, the age is 9 years older than Mao Yuanxin, when Mao Zedong died in 1976, Mao Yuanxin is only 35 years old, while Mao Anhong is 44 years old, in terms of age, there is no as a successor In other words, if Mao could be found back then, he might not be able to be trained as the successor of the red gene that still rules China today, so that Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping wouldn’t have much chance. Although this is only a conjecture of mine, it is not necessarily a historical hypothesis that could have become a reality.
For the “abolished queen” He Zizhen, in addition to her Family ties, perhaps she would not have thought of this possibility. As for Shao Shiping, he not only received He Zizhen’s letter of help, but also received an urgent telegram from An Ziwen from Beijing, requesting to find the children left behind by the Red Army in the Jiangxi Soviet, with special mention of finding Mao Zedong’s son Mao Mao. Shao immediately arranged for the Civil Affairs Department to try to locate him. Officials from the central to the local level would not name Mao Linying and Mao Xianqing, but they would not think of the worry that Mao Zedong had “no descendants”, and they tried their best to find Mao Mao.
When Wang Jiazhen, the specific contractor of the Jiangxi Civil Affairs Department, found a suspected missing child Zhu Daolai, he found that the child had been received in Nanjing a few months ago, and picked up Zhu Daolai was Zhu Yueqian, the widow of the former Red Army cadre Huo Buqing, who had died in 1933, and Zhu Yueqian identified Zhu Daolai as Huo Xiaoqing, the surviving son of Huo Buqing. Originally, the trail was broken here, but after Wang Jiazhen saw Zhu Daolai’s photo, he decided that Zhu Daolai looked like the young Mao Zedong (this kind of face reading is completely unreliable), so he reported to Governor Shao Shiping and went to Nanjing to find Zhu Daolai’s “mother” Zhu Yueqian, who had picked him up, and “spent some After “a lot of trouble”, he took Zhu Daolai and his foster mother to Shanghai and met He Zizhen and He Minxue. He Zizhen and He Minxue soon identified Zhu Daolai as Mao Mao for two reasons, one being that he looked a bit like Mao Zedong when he was young, and the other being that He Zizhen recognized the cotton robe she had sewn with her own hands. In my opinion, these two “proofs” are not sufficient. Nearly two decades later, the search for children through looks is extremely unreliable, in recent years, CCTV “waiting for me” column, private public welfare organizations “baby home” and other organizations have disclosed a large number of cases of child trafficking to find a home, enough to prove this point; as for He Zizhen “hand-sewn cotton robe “The fact that the company has a lot of money to spend on the project is also not a problem, considering the physical and mental condition of He Zizhen at the time. What’s more, Zhu Yueqian experienced hardships after Huo Buqing’s death, at this time she was just an ordinary Air Force cadre (also said to have been married to a Kuomintang officer), and did not have the resources and conditions of investigation that He Zizhen had at all, and it would have been difficult to find Zhu Daolai’s home if she had not accurately remembered the address and name of her adopted son’s family; moreover, Zhu Yueqian’s statement seems to be more specific, and it is said that she did not entrust her son to the Zhu family during the Long March It was only before the long march that she entrusted her son to the Zhu family, but after giving birth in very poor health and without milk, the child was given away just after birth, and has since visited the child.
In any case, from the fact that Zhu Yueqian was able to find Zhu Daolai alone, while He Zizhen needed to use the power of the provincial government to find her suspected son, He Zizhen’s determination is not reliable. The reason why Zhu Daolai was identified as Mao Mao is that, in addition to the psychological factors of He Zizhen’s difficult life and her eagerness to find a son, there is another point that is perhaps also worth considering, that is, as a mother, once she identified Zhu Daolai as Mao Mao, then Zhu Daolai also became the son of the great leader Mao Zedong, and the future status of the “Abolished Empress” and her family is very imaginative. The future status of the “Abolished Empress” and her family is a mystery.
As for Zhu Daolai’s blood type and He Zizhen match also does not explain the problem, relying on blood type can exclude paternity, but can not confirm paternity, and Zhu Daolai’s blood type and Zhu Yueqian should not conflict, otherwise, later alarmed the Central Committee’s fight for the son of the storm will be easy to judge.
But He Zizhen decided that Zhu Daolai was Mao Mao, Zhu Daolai was sent to Beijing, Li Min saw Zhu Daolai, also in accordance with his mother’s letter request, openly called Zhu Daolai “brother”, the matter now, Mao Zedong seems to have to consider whether to accept this son, when Zhu Yueqian but to Beijing, to death to fight with He Zizhen son The son was a son of a woman. Before the advent of DNA technology, this was destined to be a gourd case that could not be accurately identified. Zhu Yueqian’s old superior Deng Xiaoping stepped in to confirm Huo Buqing and the circumstances of Huo Xiaoqing’s birth. It is said that Deng Yingchao organized a three-day seminar with Shuai Mengqi, Kang Keqing, Shuai Mengqi and other big sisters in the party and concluded that Zhu Daolai was the surviving son of Huo Buqing. It is impossible to judge the truth or falsity of this rumor, and if true, Mao Zedong could not have been unaware of this conclusion, but Mao Zedong instructed, “No matter whose child it is, it is the offspring of the revolution; leave him to the people and to the organization!”
It should be noted that most of the information in this article comes from the media such as “Party History Monthly”, “Family”, “Fujian Party History Monthly”, etc. The sayings of these media often contradict each other, and most of them do not indicate the original source of the information, thus, it can only be used as a kind of wild history and playbook as a reference, only under the mutual comparison of these materials to corroborate, or through some basic facts to infer some reasonable conclusions, such as This instruction of Mao Zedong should be credible because shortly after Zhu Daolai went to Beijing, he was arranged to enter the cadres’ children’s high school and Zhu Daolai’s life was taken care of by Shuai Mengqi, the vice minister of the Central Organization Department, and later he entered Tsinghua University. Without Mao’s approval, Zhu Daolai would not have received such special care, nor would he have been taken away from the mother of two contending sons. However, this arrangement would also indicate that Mao did not identify Zhu Daolai as Mao Mao. It is said that the relationship between Zhu Daolai and Zhu Yueqian was extremely tense after that. As a child with no memory of his parents, Zhu Daolai could not tell who his parents were, but without Zhu Yueqian’s insistence, he would probably have been identified as Mao’s son (or at least he would have thought so), and what a great temptation that was in those days! It is said that during the Cultural Revolution, Zhu Daolai took the lead in posting large-character posters against Zhu Yueqian, and the relationship between “mother and son” was completely broken.
In early 1966, Zhu Daolai was transferred back to Nanjing to work, and this arrangement seemed to indicate that the organization department had given the conclusion that Zhu Daolai was Zhu Yueqian’s son in a special way, which at least did not contradict Mao’s opinion, and after a few years, Zhu Daolai suddenly passed away. “He was killed by the rebels during the Cultural Revolution. There is no credible information to prove whether Zhu Daolai was finally killed, but Zhu Daolai was transferred back to Nanjing to work, indeed, can give people the suspicion that “not Mao Zedong’s son”, in the political atmosphere at that time, even if not killed, the possibility of being criticized may indeed be possible, therefore, was killed, perhaps not an empty rumor.
In any case, Mao Zedong did not recognize this son, under the traditional social concept of preference for sons, the Mao family was groomed to be only Mao Yuanxin.
In the judgment of personnel issues, Mao Zedong has an amazing ability, he is not a gullible and easily deceived people, we do not know what kind of psychological impact Zhu Daolai incident to Mao Zedong, but since then Mao Zedong on the issue of tracing the missing children apparently greatly reduced interest, especially in later years, even Li Min is difficult to see Mao Zedong, grandson Mao Xinyu was born, he also did not bother to see, not to mention the difficulty of judging the authenticity of the missing children who were difficult to determine the truth. But in 1953, faced with the sudden emergence of Zhu Daolai, if there is today’s DNA analysis technology to confirm that Zhu Daolai is Mao Mao, Mao Zedong is unlikely not to accept this son.
But even as noble as The Emperor, after decades of separation, Mao could not tell if the person standing in front of him was his own child.
Although most of Mao Zedong’s personal information throughout the Mao Zedong era is not a topic that can be openly talked about, but there are always people in the private sector to Mao Zedong’s missing children’s situation, the official search did not stop, the initiative to come to the door to identify relatives are also in large numbers, and even some people’s later claimed to be a matter of family search, but also received by Zhou Enlai and others, even if things do exist, I’m afraid it is only the enthusiasm of officials to invite favor The son of Huang Yongsheng, Huang Chunguang disclosed that, in order to Mao Zedong “left behind”, Zhou Enlai, Huang Yongsheng and others gave orders to the 301 Hospital to try to get Shaohua pregnant, the second successful artificial insemination in 1970, after the birth of Mao Xinyu, the giddy reporters met with Mao Zedong’s cold face.
But He Zizhen behaved quite differently. Whether out of her motherly instincts or her cherished past history as Mao Zedong’s wife, He Zizhen’s drive to find her missing children would not go away, her footsteps would not stop, and despite having received “news” of Mao Jinhua’s death in 1932, He Zizhen was undeterred. In a 2013 article, she said, “At the beginning of the founding of the country, she asked many people to find her.” But Weng Qinghe, a shoemaker, again said that Mao Jinhua was dead, and Deng Zichuan believed him, as did Mao Zedong. Until 1964, “Mao Jinhua” emerged again, a Jiangxi woman named “Yang Yuehua” took the initiative to write to the relevant departments to help investigate the origin, the investigation, the initial adoption of Yang Yuehua’s Longyan shoemaker Weng Qinghe claimed that Yang Yuehua is Mao Jinhua, a day later, Weng Qinghe changed his story. In 1973, an old Red Army soldier who had returned to his hometown heard about this matter and sent the material to He Minxue after conducting some investigation, and He Minxue sent someone to investigate and initially confirmed that certain physical characteristics of Yang Yuehua matched those of Mao Jinhua. He Zizhen was eager to see Yang Yuehua, but the central government decided not to let her see her. After Mao’s death, He Zizhen arranged for Li Min to meet Yang Yuehua under the pretext of inspecting her work, but did not directly identify herself to Yang Yuehua, apparently just to check out her looks. It is said that He Zizhen wanted to see her daughter before she died, but someone reminded her that “you only have half the right.” But Mao Zedong had already died, so until her death in 1984, He Zizhen did not see Yang Yuehua.
The authoritative Chinese search engine, Baidu, identifies Yang Yuehua as Mao Zedong’s daughter directly under the entry for Yang Yuehua, which is very uncritical, and Yang Yuehua’s identity as Mao Jinhua is only a possibility. After all, in 1953 Zhu Daolai’s adoptive mother had also changed her mind and said that he was not Zhu Yueqian but He Zizhen’s son, and those local people who knew nothing about it had written a joint letter to “prove” that Zhu Daolai was Mao Mao. Mao Zedong and He Zizhen’s family search is not about an ordinary family, but about the bloodline of the top leaders, in which there are too many interests and stakes to be calculated.
In addition to Mao Jinhua, Mao Zedong and He Zizhen actually had a daughter who was given up for adoption and then disappeared. after giving birth to a child in a village of the Bai Miao people in Guizhou in early 1935, He Zizhen gave her away after only one look at the child because she was in a hurry to get there. According to Mao Zedong’s granddaughter Kong Dongmei, in the 1980s local party historians in Gulin County, Sichuan Province, investigated a family that adopted a Red Army child according to a legend and learned that the adopted Red Army child was named Wang Xiuzhen, who died of illness three months after adoption. If this legend is true, it is likely that Wang Xiuzhen was indeed the biological daughter of Mao Zedong and He Zizhen, because the number of female Red Army soldiers on the Long March was very small, and even fewer gave birth to adopted children (but there was one other female Red Army soldier who gave birth at the same time as He Zizhen, and the one she gave birth to was also a girl). The recollections of those who lived through it at the time seem unreliable, with some basic details contradicting each other, which shows how harsh the environment was for the Red Army at the time, in which children were just a burden and affection could not be taken into account at all. My guess is that He Zizhen may not have tried to find this daughter after the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, but being in labor and Mao Zedong not being around, He Zizhen left almost no clues to find her, and the memories of those in the know are both few and confusing, so it is difficult to use them as a basis for finding her, even if the child known as Wang Xiuzhen was born to He Zizhen, the confusing memories of the person involved Even if the child known as Wang Xiuzhen was born to He Zizhen, the person’s confused memory of Guizhou, also does not match Sichuan, which will bring great interference to the search. Therefore, this can only be an open case forever.
On the identity of Yang Yuehua, Kong Dongmei said in the book “Turning the pages of my family’s old photobook – Grandfather Mao in my heart” that “He Minxue, an uncle and grandfather who was a lifelong hero, recognized this niece who was in his sights, while both his grandfather, who died in 1976, and his grandmother, who died in 1984, were never able to meet with this person The matter could not be confirmed.” The words “a lifelong hero” in the text are worth pondering. The book was published in 2003, when China was fully equipped with the technology for DNA paternity testing, but neither Kong Dongmei nor her other relatives seem to have shown any interest in seeking answers with the technology, and not only that, but to this day, the parties involved do not seem to have shown any interest in finding out whether Yang Yuehua is related to Mao Zedong with DNA identification technology. Synthesizing all kinds of true and false related information, which includes the explanations of Deng Zichuan’s wife, Weng Qinghe’s son-in-law, etc., as well as the legend that Admiral Xiao Ke suggested that Yang Yuehua return to the Mao surname, it is not completely against logic to say that Yang Yuehua is Mao Jinhua, but the DNA identification that families who generally lose their children are eager to do, seems to have no interest here in the Mao family.
In addition to Yang Yuehua, a retired cadre living in Ganzhou, Zou Fangmu, has not been linked to the Mao genetic mystery by the official media, but has been rumored on the Internet for some time. Like Yang Yuehua, Zou Fangmu’s birth legend, if true, has a real chance of being the Mao Mao – Mao Anhong – that He Zizhen has been searching for, the true second generation Red who, if he survives and is found by his parents, could become the ruler of China today. Li Min is said to have met Mr. Zou Fang Mu in 1977 and to have called him his brother – and from the only photo of Mr. Zou that can be found online, he does bear a strong resemblance to Mao Zedong.
There are countless cases of children being abducted and sold in China, and before DNA technology was applied, the search for relatives after years of separation was indeed extremely blind, for example, some people were found by their “biological parents” years later, only to find out that it was just a consensual mistake, while a mother in Guizhou, separated from her son after 25 years with DNA testing A mother in Guizhou found her biological son after 25 years of separation with her son with DNA testing, and as early as four years ago she added qq friends with the child looking for his biological parents and suspected that he was her son, but her memory of her son’s birthmark was wrong, making her reunion with her son, who was far away and close to her, four years late. This shows that in the matter of family tracing, once a long time has passed, all memories are not reliable and only DNA testing is reliable.
The folk talk about Mao’s missing children is based on rumors and “reports” that are indistinguishable from the truth, and one does not even know how much of this material is based on the author’s imagination or fabrication. But even so, the attitude of the Mao family toward Yang Yuehua neither affirms nor denies that these official materials are authoritative only for the investigation process after the establishment of the CCP, and there are no authoritative conclusions or answers about the real origins of these suspected Mao children. Therefore, there is nothing more authoritative than DNA identification in determining the relationship of the suspects to Mao Zedong.
For Yang Yuehua, who tried to unravel the mystery of her origins in 1964, even if she says she is old enough to change her surname, does she no longer want to know whether her real father is Mao Zedong or not? And what does Zou Fang Mu think? Now, technically speaking, all it would take to solve the mystery of their origins would be a single blood draw and a few days, but the obvious difference in identity might make it difficult for them to come forward with this request. Among Mao’s publicly acknowledged descendants, Li Min once showed great interest in finding her relatives, but after 1977, the interest seemed to fade, and after He Zizhen’s death in 1984, there was no more information about her search for relatives or meeting with suspected relatives. If Li Min did not take the initiative to express an invitation for DNA testing, Yang Yuehua and Zou Fangmu were afraid they would have to remain silent.
But will Li Min be able to decide this on her own? If she makes such a request, will she be blocked by Yang Kaihui’s descendants and Jiang Qing’s descendants? More importantly, will she be subjected to the same kind of pressure from the central government that He Zizhen has experienced?
I think that perhaps this is the real resistance to unraveling the mystery of Mao’s genes today.
During the Deng Xiaoping era, Mao’s merits and demerits were “split three ways” and he was once removed from the “altar of God”, but after June 4, Mao’s “mistakes” were gradually forgotten by official selectivity, and every Every time the political left turn, let Mao Zedong again towards the altar of God step back, especially in 2015 Bi Fujian a “can make us suffer” and was suspended, Mao Zedong back to the altar of God, Deng Xiangchao, Zuo Chunhe and other people just said a word of disrespect to Mao, then lost his official dismissal. Obviously, Mao’s reputation does not only concern him personally and his relatives, but belongs to the CCP, and Mao’s name itself is the property of the CCP.
Since this is the wish of Mao Zedong and He Zizhen, and since it is technically so simple to identify the lost children, which could not be done in Mao’s time in any case, in the face of Yang Yuehua and Zou Fangmu, who are highly suspected (or, in the case of Zhu Daolai, have descendants), even if Li Min is not in a position to do so or is unwilling to do so, why not let the “organization The “organization” to complete the matter? Even if Li Min and other relatives do not want to cooperate, Mao Zedong’s remains along with the removed internal organs are still preserved, DNA identification without difficulty, a test will be accurate.
Moreover, it is unlikely that the parties concerned would refuse on privacy grounds, and the CCP is not an organization known for its respect for privacy. Moreover, since the topic of Mao Zedong continues to attract a lot of attention in China, the results of the DNA test can also give a conclusion to the curious since the history of the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army is at stake.
Regardless of what history says about Mao, the young children who were given up for adoption by Mao and He Zizhen all had unfortunate lives, and what happened to them shows a kind of historical cruelty. And for Mao Zedong and He Zizhen, no matter how determined they had been to leave their children behind for the revolution, this abandonment is a special case of helplessness, even if they never meet each other, they miss their children’s feelings must be heartbreaking, so much so that a pen can kill countless Mao Zedong after 1949 and Zeng Zhi when talking about Mao Mao “choked up and lost his voice, his eyes were also red. .” Mao Zedong said to Zeng Zhi: “The last time I saw this child, he would wave to me in the line. Who knew that I would never see him again.” As a mother, He Zizhen’s pain must have been even greater.
If this is the case, why can’t the Chinese Communist Party, which “never forgets its original intention” and carries the banner of Mao Zedong, make a small effort? Perhaps a few simple DNA tests could help the chairman find his biological children and make up for the regrets caused by the lack of technology in their time, so that the chairman’s descendants could identify each other, and this would be a comfort to the Maoist left who miss Mao Zedong.
However, the CCP apparently has no such interest.
The earth has changed, and the Chinese Communist Party in power today is not Mao Zedong, much less Mao Anhong. When we talk about the red gene, we should distinguish between two different concepts: one based on blood and the other based on the abstract spirit of a complex motivation that meets political needs. In the matter of finding relatives for Mao Zedong, the two are actually in conflict. Those who put Mao back on the altar today need Mao as a symbol, not Mao as a person, otherwise it is impossible to understand that Mao Xinyu lost the election as a delegate to the 19th National Congress when Mao was restored to political correctness step by step.
More importantly, the emphasis on the red gene is actually resorting to a feudal lineage concept of fighting and sitting on a mountain, a lineage concept in which only DNA-made lineage has true orthodoxy, so who would have more such orthodoxy than Mao’s dragon sons and grandsons? Just look at North Korea. Even Chiang Kai-shek on the other side of the strait gradually handed over power to Chiang Ching-kuo before he passed away.
If so, why be nosy! The former “prince” and “princess” who have long been lost to the people to get back, not only may take a share of the pie, more likely to give the people more trouble to add to the conversation.
Put in Mao Zedong era, as long as possible, he and his relatives, comrades, subordinates can use the most resources to do this, the only thing missing is the technical conditions, now, technological advances, even remote rural farmers can use DNA identification means, but only can not be used in Mao Zedong’s descendants, which should be considered Mao Zedong, He Zizhen and their descendants of sadness.
However, people who try to explore this genetic mystery need not be disappointed, DNA’s tenacious genetic function will let time fail to finally unravel this mystery. As long as Mao’s lost children live to adulthood and have children, the possibility of unraveling this mystery exists in the future, even if all the suspected children are now proven to be mere misunderstandings and speculation, as the case of the capture of the silver demon Gao Chengyong shows, the establishment of a massive DNA database in China will make the search very easy, as long as politics and law allow. However, except for history buffs with an interest in this part of history, fewer and fewer people will want to explore this mystery.
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