Mao Zedong’s eldest daughter-in-law and Mao Anying’s wife Liu Siqi passed away at the age of 92. The picture shows the statue of Liu Siqi commemorating Mao Anying during his lifetime. (Hunan Daily·New Hunan Client)
According to news from the “Hunan Daily” New Hunan User Terminal on the 8th, Mao Zedong’s first-in-law and Mao Anying’s wife Liu Siqi died in Beijing at 1:47 am on the 7th at the age of 92.
Liu Siqi, also known as Liu Songlin, was born in Hubei on March 2, 1930, the wife of Mao Anying, and the daughter of Liu Qianchu and Zhang Wenqiu, the martyrs of the Chinese Communist Party.
Liu Qianchu was admitted to Beijing Yenching University in 1922, established a secret connection with the student organization led by Li Dazhao, and accepted the leadership of the underground party organization of the Communist Party of China. Joined the Communist Party of China in January 1927. In the summer of the following year, he served as secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China. In February 1929, he was transferred to Shandong to work by the Party Central Committee. He was murdered in Jinan Weiba Road Execution Ground in April 1931, when he was 34 years old.
Zhang Wenqiu was Mao Zedong’s revolutionary comrade. In 1927, at the Fifth CCP Congress in Wuhan, Mao Zedong met Zhang Wenqiu and said: If you give birth to a daughter, we will “get married.”
In 1946, Mao Anying returned to Yan’an in secret, and went to the countryside to work in accordance with his father’s instructions. After the establishment of the Communist Party of China, Mao Anying served as deputy secretary of the party branch in Beijing General Machinery Factory. He married Liu Siqi on October 15, 1949. After the outbreak of the Korean War, Mao Anying joined the volunteer army and died on the Korean Peninsula on November 25, 1950.
In February 1962, Liu Siqi married Yang Maozhi, a faculty member of the Air Force Academy, and had two sons and two daughters. The eldest son was Yang Xiaoying, who was named for the memory of Mao Anying. Later, Liu Siqi was assigned to work at the Academy of Military Sciences until his retirement.
At that time, Mao Zedong tried his best to change his old habits and brief the happy events. He gave the new couple the coat he wore during the Chongqing negotiations in 1945 as a gift, and said humorously: “You are married, I am very happy. But I have nothing to give you. This coat is given to the two of you to show what I like. In the future, Kishihide wears it during the day and covers it at night. It is considered that I have given Siqi a gift.”
