Mao Yichang

Mao Yichang was a Chinese farmer and grain merchant who achieved notability as the father of revolutionary political theorist Mao Zedong. The nineteenth generation of the Mao clan, he was born and lived his life in the rural village of Shaoshanchong in Shaoshan, Hunan Province.

Mao Yichang was born on October 15, 1870, the only child of Mao Enpu and his wife Liu. Mao Enpu was a farmer who had lived in poverty throughout his life, leaving his son debtridden. He was betrothed to Wen when she was thirteen and he was ten the wedding took place five years later when he was fifteen. Due to his fathers debts, Yichang then had to serve for two years in Zeng Guofans local Xiang Army, during which time he saved up sufficient funds to purchase much of the land that his father had lost. Hardworking and frugal, he earned a lot of money. According to one of Mao Zedongs daughters, Yichang would reiterate his views that

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