Is it a tradition to marry a widow?

1936 One winter day, Tong was busy nervously in the house.

Suddenly, there was a quick shout outside the door: "Sister Liu, Sister Liu." Unlike Rong Gui, who opened the door, people outside have already broken in.

It was Chairman Mao's guards who broke in. Out of breath, he said to Tong Rong Gui, "Hurry up, hurry up, sister, he is going to have a baby. Chairman Mao told you to hurry up! "

With Rong Gui, she quickly packed some clothes without thinking about anything. As early as this summer, together with Rong Gui, she prepared some clothes for children in He Zizhen. At this time, she finally played a role. Far away, she and Rong Gui heard He Zizhen's voice coming from the watchtower outside the hospital.

On entering the sentry box, Tong saw He Zizhen, only to see her sallow face and thin body lying on the cold floor, shivering with cold. Tong Guirong instinctively looked around and frowned.

Watching the child come in, he also prepared clothes and quilts for the child intimately. He Zizhen also breathed a sigh of relief: "I am relieved to have Sister Liu here."

The watchtower is made of stone, and the roof is made of mud and pasted with sorghum stalks. Although strong, it leaks air on all sides. However, in this cold winter season, such a watchtower can be said to be not warm at all. For a pregnant woman, giving birth in such an environment is quite half-life for Yu Xiansheng. Rong Gui didn't accompany in chairman MAO's side, just complain:

"How can you have a baby in this place?"

Chairman Mao said: "There is some tide in the stone kiln. He Zizhen came here himself. " Looking at He Zizhen, Chairman Mao was very uncomfortable. He turned and asked Tong Rong Gui, "What now?"

"It's too late, right here."

Tong Guirong hurriedly told people around him to go outside and prepare boiling water. Then help He Zizhen up and give her half a bowl of boiling water. When He Zizhen is a little warmer, she will stretch out her hand to massage her abdomen. Fortunately, Tong Guirong was here, and He Zizhen successfully gave birth to a baby girl. At this time, the doctor also arrived. Everyone tied too many cooks' umbilical cords and carried He Zizhen back to the cave.

Rong Gui held her newborn child, washed her body with hot water, carefully wrapped the child and carried it into the cave. Chairman Mao looked at the newborn child and was overjoyed.

I was very happy to welcome such a newborn baby. I immediately remembered that I had prepared some eggs some time ago and hurried back to get them, but I couldn't remember where I put them.

Tong Guirong sighed, and her husband's voice and smile appeared in front of her eyes.

That is, six months ago, that is,1April 4, 936, Rong Gui's husband Liu Zhidan led the Red 25th Army eastward and died heroically in the battle in Sanjiao Town, Zhongyang County at the age of 33.

Liu Zhidan's sacrifice brought great spiritual stimulation to children.

After fifteen years of marriage, Tong Guirong and her husband Liu Zhidan often get together less and leave more, and spend too little time together. ...

Liu Zhidan and Tong are actually arranged marriages.

Liu Zhidan's grandfather Liu Shijie and Tong Guirong's grandfather Tong Xirui were close friends in their early years, and their two children decided to marry early at a very young age.

19 18, Liu Zhidan went to Tong Xirui's house with his grandfather Liu Shijie to meet his future parents-in-law, and met Tong Guirong by the way. For the first time, they didn't have time to talk too much, so their parents agreed on a wedding date. Three years later, Liu Zhidan and Tong Guirong formally got married.

Liu Zhidan entered a private school when he was a child. When he got married this year, he had just been admitted to Yulin Middle School in Lianhe County, northern Shaanxi. At that time, people thought it was a kind of culture, but like Rong Gui, he didn't go to a private school and had no culture. He didn't even have a name when he got married. Because his family ranked third, he was named Sanxiuko.

After marriage, Liu Zhidan named his wife Tong, and the word "Gui" came from Liu Zhidan, whose original name was Liu. Moreover, Liu Zhidan began to teach children to read. Although it was an arranged marriage, Liu Zhidan and Tong had a very harmonious relationship after marriage.

Liu Zhidan teenager is determined to be the president of middle school student union, organize and lead the student movement, and fight against warlord Jing Yuexiu. 1924, Liu Zhidan joined the China * * * Production Youth League, 1925, and joined the China * * * Production Party. That is, in the autumn of this year, Liu Zhidan was appointed by the Party organization and went south to join the Whampoa Military Academy.

When he left, Tong Rong Gui fumbled for a pair of shoes for Liu Zhidan. Although Tong is at home all the year round, he mainly lives by working in the fields. He is not very good at needlework. Liu Zhidan read his wife's mind and cut her shoes by herself.

Liu Zhidan seldom came back after he left home. More importantly, revolutionary work sometimes sacrifices his life. Liu Zhidan also worried about the situation at home several times. Once when he came home, Liu Zhidan said to his wife worriedly, "Revolutionary work is risky and will bring trouble to his family. What if one day the enemy takes you away? " Tong Rong Gui doesn't have much education, but she also knows that her husband is working hard for the whole world. To this end, she replied without hesitation: "If they catch me, kill me if they want. I don't know anything anyway. "

Liu Zhidan lovingly held his wife in his arms and said apologetically, "You suffered with me ..."

This sentence is not a simple conversation with Rong Gui.

Just after Rong Gui came back from visiting her husband with her daughter, Tan Shilin, the leader of Qingyang warlord, took people to copy Liu Zhidan's home. Fortunately, Rong Gui made preparations in time and got news from the villagers in advance, so it survived. The enemy didn't catch them, so they set fire to Liu Zhidan's home and destroyed Liu's ancestral grave.

Although her daughter Liu Lizhen was still young, she was deeply impressed by this period of hiding in the mountains:

"My mother and I hid in the landscape cave of Daqu ditch and stayed in the dark for eight days and eight nights. When I am hungry, my mother feeds me some fried batter. I haven't seen a grain for eight days and eight nights, so I can only drink some water. My mother was a young woman in her twenties, and I was still nursing. I was surprised and afraid in the mountains, and I didn't know when to hide ... "

Once, Tong was chased in a hurry and ran to the edge of a cliff. He is about to be caught by the enemy. He gritted his teeth and shouted, "I'm Liu Zhidan's aunt. I can't let the enemy catch me even if I die!" With Rong Gui, he jumped directly, but fortunately, he was blocked by the bushes halfway up the mountain, and he escaped by luck.

After the enemy retreated, Tong Guirong's brother-in-law came up the mountain and advised them to hide at home. It was not until April 1934 that the news came from the Party organization that Liu Zhidan's father Liu Peiji and Tong Guirong's mother and daughter had received the Nanliang base area.

This year, Tong also formally participated in the revolution.

The family reunion made Liu Zhidan very happy. He hugged his wife and said to her, "I have long wanted to take you to the revolution." Now that we are together, we don't have to miss each other anymore! "

Although Rong Gui was assigned to the army, she only did simple laundry, sewing and other work, but she was very enthusiastic and regarded all the soldiers as relatives. Over time, everyone stopped calling her by her name and called her "Sister Liu".

However, during the war years, the bad environment can be imagined. She and Rong Gui have two minor children. Sometimes Liu Zhidan is not at home, and everything at home is her concern.

1935 In the early spring, Tong gave birth to a boy. Liu Zhidan hurriedly took the name and went to the front. As a result, the two children started to burn soon after they left. Tong invited a captured Kuomintang military doctor to see a doctor and prescribe medicine for them. Unexpectedly, the Kuomintang military doctor gave the child medicine and people fled. The son who was less than one year old died unfortunately.

The death of her son was a great blow to Tong, but her husband could not accompany him at this time.

1935 10 Liu Zhidan was framed and imprisoned by opportunists. He and Rong Gui suffered a lot together.

Fortunately, Liu Zhidan was released after the Central Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi at the end of the Long March.

After his release, Liu Zhidan became the vice chairman of the Northwest Revolutionary Military Commission, the commander of the North Road Army and the commander of the Red 28 Army.

One day, Chairman Mao called the Liu Zhidan family to a meeting. When he met with Chairman Mao, he also met with He Zizhen together with Rong Gui.

With Rong Gui, who is four years older than He Zizhen, the same experience and experience also make them get along well. They listened to He Zizhen's story about the Long March with Rong Gui, while He Zizhen listened to Rong Gui's story about northern Shaanxi.

However, as soon as he entered the door, Tong noticed that Chairman Mao was wearing a pair of single shoes. It is already very cold in northern Shaanxi 1 1 month, and the local people have put on cotton shoes. Why did Chairman Mao only wear a pair of shoes? On one occasion, Rong Gui couldn't help asking He Zizhen: "It's so cold in winter in northern Shaanxi, why is Chairman Mao still wearing single shoes?"

He Zizhen was deeply impressed by this incident. At that time, the Red Army had just finished the Long March, and it was common for soldiers in the army to be short of clothes and food. Many Red Army soldiers don't even have enough cotton shoes, let alone wear them. Chairman Mao didn't have cotton shoes himself, but He Zizhen didn't have the guts to say anything difficult in front of the children, so he told the children, "His feet were frozen ill during the Long March, and they would swell when it was cold, but because he used to have a pair of cotton shoes,

Although He Zizhen didn't recognize the meaning of her and Rong Gui's words, what she was thinking was, how could she wear single shoes in the cold winter in northern Shaanxi? With Rong Gui to find a piece of paper, compared with the footprints left by Chairman Mao, cut out a shoe sample, took to the streets to buy materials, and spent three days making a pair of big and soft shoes for Chairman Mao.

Chairman Mao was very excited when he looked at the shoes sent by the children. He kept saying thank you. Later, Chairman Mao paid no attention and got too close to the brazier. As a result, the shoe burned a hole. After hearing this, Tong made a pair of new shoes for Chairman Mao and returned them to the central leadership at that time.

It was not until more than 20 years later, when People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded, when Chairman Mao met with him as a child, that he remembered the shoes she made for himself:

"The pair of cotton shoes that Liu Sao made for me in Wayaobao are soft and strong, and they are warm and comfortable to wear."

After learning that He Zizhen was pregnant, Tong Rong Gui prepared clothes, shoes and quilts for her children six months in advance and eggs for He Zizhen a few days in advance.

Later, Tong often acted as a mediator between Chairman Mao and He Zizhen.

/kloc-one day in 0/937, He Zizhen and Chairman Mao quarreled a few words, and Bo Gu persuaded them to do nothing, so he simply went outside to find help. A good helper from Bogu is Rong Gui.

Hearing this, Rong Gui quickly put down his work and ran to the cave where He Zizhen lived. Far away, she heard the crying of the children in the house. When I entered this book, Jiao Jiao, who was only a few months old, was sitting on the ground crying. Tong Rong Gui quickly picked up the child and complained: "How can you have the heart to put the baby on the ground when you quarrel?" Speaking of which, Chairman Mao felt a little embarrassed. He hurried to hold the baby. After a long time, he and Gui took it over: "Your man's heart is iron, and you don't know the difficulty of taking care of the baby."

After talking with Rong Gui about Chairman Mao, he went on to say He Zizhen, "Can't you say something? Do you think the chairman is so jealous because he stays up late? Can the chairman still work when the doll cries? "

After Rong Gui's persuasion, the two men stopped quarreling.

Although Chairman Mao led the CPC Central Committee to move to Yan 'an, the two families lived far away and had less contact, but they still had a deep impression on each other. Even young Jiao Jiao was deeply impressed by "Mama Liu".

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Tong received a photo that read: "A souvenir from Liu's mother. Mao Jiaojiao. "

It was not until 1979 that Tong went to Shanghai to see He Zizhen and his mother again. He Zizhen also thanked Tong: Thank you for helping me deliver the baby.

Regrettably, the sacrifice of her husband, Liu Zhidan, left an indescribable pain in her childlike innocence.

I remember very clearly when I was with Rong Gui.1In April, 936, Liu Zhidan led the Red Army in its eastward expedition. When she left, she told her, "You should take good care of your children and let her study hard in the future and grow up to be a useful person. Go tomorrow morning, you bring Li Zhen to see me off! " Tong Guirong originally wanted to see her husband off, but the next day, because of an old comrade's unexpected visit, Tong Guirong delayed seeing her husband off. When she arrived, her husband had left.

Liu Zhidan also left a special letter to his wife:

This meeting also became the last farewell of husband and wife.

After Liu Zhidan died, together with Rong Gui, she stubbornly shouldered the responsibility despite her inner sorrow. When the organization asked her what she needed, she only said two words to Rong Gui:

The surrounding sisters are grateful for their contribution: "Thank you, Sister Liu."

Tong Rong Gui's answer is: "I like children, they are all descendants of the revolution!" " "

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Tong devoted himself to preschool education, served as honorary dean of many kindergartens and nurseries, and devoted all his love to children selflessly. When these children grow up, they will remember their mother Liu in their hearts. No matter where they are, as soon as they meet, they can't help calling them "Mama Liu".

Liu Zhidan and Tong have only one daughter, who has grown up. Under the education of her mother, Liu Lizhen also inherited her strong character. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Liu Lizhen was admitted to China Medical University. After graduating from college, he was selected as a graduate student with excellent results.

In the 1960s, Shaanxi suffered a once-in-a-century drought, and the province sent a medical team to Mizhi County in the disaster area. At that time, Liu Lizhen had tuberculosis, but she insisted on joining the medical team. To this end, she said, "I want to go there, where I have countless roots." I am Liu Zhidan's daughter, and my father made me do it! "

After arriving in northern Shaanxi, Liu Lizhen devoted himself to selfless work. Although Liu Zhidan died for decades, people in his hometown heard that Liu Zhidan's daughter had come back, and they came to visit her one after another and took out eggs from home to supplement her nutrition. Liu Lizhen was moved to tears. This is a hometown fellow, and she is deeply grateful to this wanderer who has not returned home for a long time.

It is also interesting to say that Liu Lizhen's real name is Liu Lizhen, and he was the deputy director of the by-election of the Fifth Working Conference of Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress in 1980. Liuli was indeed one of the candidates, but when the list was printed, it was printed as Liu Lizhen due to staff mistakes, but Liu Lizhen was elected as the deputy director of the Standing Committee of Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress, so he simply changed his name to Liu Lizhen.

Liu Lizhen was elected as the deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Sixth and Seventh People's Congress of Shaanxi Province.

Influenced by his mother, Liu Lizhen developed a character indifferent to fame and fortune:

"I just want to do something practical for the people. As long as there is an opportunity to alleviate the pain of patients, it is the greatest recognition for yourself. "

1On May 4th, 999, Tong Zaian passed away at the age of 94.

Liu Lizhen was re-elected as the deputy director of the Standing Committee of Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress 10 for many years and has been working in Shaanxi. During his working career of 10 years, Liu Lizhen devoted himself to the construction of his hometown until he retired in 1993. In his later years, although Liu Lizhen has left his post, he still strictly demands himself and his children: "Be a correct person who can stand on his own feet and capitalize."

Liu Lizhen's home furnishings are very simple. The floor is a terrazzo commonly used in 1990s, and the portrait of my father Liu Zhidan hangs on the wall all the year round. 20 14 after Liu Lizhen died, this photo became the only relic left by the old man to his daughter. ...