In commemoration of the 120th anniversary of Chairman Mao's birth, the East Lake Hotel exhibited more than 400 precious
In commemoration of the 120th anniversary of Chairman Mao's birth, the East Lake Hotel exhibited more than 400 precious photos of Chairman Mao in Wuhan A rare and precious photo of Chairman Mao wearing glasses was found by a tourist in Changsha. Yesterday, this reporter saw in the exhibition hall on the first floor of Comrade Mao Zedong's former residence in the East Lake Hotel that the photos, audio-visual and physical objects on display are divided into six major themes, reproducing Chairman Mao's years in Han from the aspects of Chairman Mao's relationship with Hubei, inspection work in Han, internal and foreign affairs, hobbies, and Meiling's footprints.
According to the commentator Zhou Baixue, the more than 100 pictures in the exhibition are disclosed for the first time, mainly from the Party History Research Office, the Central Literature Research Office and the staff around Chairman Mao. Two photographers, Lu Houmin and Qian Sijie, have followed Chairman Mao's side for many years and taken a large number of precious photos, and the photojournalists of Xinhua News Agency and People's Daily have also captured the moving moments of Chairman Mao swimming in the Yangtze River and wielding a table tennis racket many times.
One of the photos shows Chairman Mao wearing black-rimmed glasses and smiling, as if he was watching the performance with great interest. Among the many photos, this is the only time Chairman Mao wore glasses to show people. The story behind the photo is that on December 1, 1958, Chairman Mao watched the performance of the Cantonese opera actor Red Line Girl at the Donghu Hotel, and after the performance, he also wrote Lu Xun's famous sentence "Hengmei Leng pointed to a thousand husbands and bowed his head and was willing to be a son of a cow" to her.
Chairman Mao suffered from cataracts in his later years. This photo was taken after his first surgery, when his eyesight had not fully recovered, so he wore glasses to watch the show. Two pairs of glasses with unique shapes are also on display in the museum.
It turned out that Chairman Mao had the habit of reading before going to bed, especially like to lie on the bed and read, but wearing glasses was easy to compress the bridge of his nose, so the staff made special one-legged glasses for him to make it convenient for him to turn his head sideways.