Mao Zejian

However, Zejian lived with Mao Zedong's parents from the age of 5 as her father could not afford to feed her.After Zedong's parents died in 1920, Zejian unwillingly married a fruit seller in Changsha at the age of 15, as a child bride, where she was maltreated in the new family.In 1921 she divorced her husband and followed Mao Zedong to Changsha, where she attended women's polytechnic school.In 1928 she joined the Hunan uprising led by Zhu De and Chen Yi in Leiyang.Her young child born in prison was killed by Kuomintang authorities shortly after birth.
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