Wang Ju’s Case Files | How did Mao Anying die? Why is the CCP so taboo about egg fried rice? | Text version

Last Saturday was November 25th. Every year around this date, the term “egg fried rice” becomes a sensitive word on the Chinese internet. This is because it is the day Mao Anying was killed by the U.S. military in the Korean War.
There has always been a saying among the people: why was Mao Anying killed? It was because he secretly made egg fried rice in Peng’s office, and the smoke attracted the attention of the U.S. military aircraft, which eventually dropped napalm and blew him up.
The official has always strongly denied this. The “Liberation Army Daily” and Xinhua News Agency have both published articles specifically criticizing this as a rumor. How does the movie “The Battle at Lake Changjin” tell the story? Mao Anying went in to grab documents and military maps, and was eventually killed, sacrificing his life for the country.
Recently, there is also the Chinese Academy of Historical Studies. I have talked about this department in my past programs. Every year on November 25th, they have to come out and refute the rumors. This year, they also made a special video, saying that the saying of egg fried rice is the most malicious slander of the martyr Mao Anying:
“When the country is in crisis and the enemy is approaching, Mao Anying stepped forward and enlisted in the army.”
“However, the heroic act of martyr Mao Anying sacrificing himself for the country”
“In recent years, has been splashed with all kinds of dirty water”
“Among them, the most malicious rumor is that Mao Anying’s sacrifice was due to him making egg fried rice and starting a fire”
“Bringing in enemy aircraft.”
“Heroes cannot be defiled, and dignity cannot be desecrated.”
“Today, we will further clarify the historical facts and restore historical clarity.”

“Egg fried rice” as a taboo case at present

Around November 25th, the term “egg fried rice” cannot be casually mentioned, and the consequences will be very serious once mentioned.
Three years ago, there was a food writer named Wang Gang. Wang Gang teaches everyone how to cook online, and he does it very well. I learned a lot of dishes from him. He posted a video teaching everyone how to make egg fried rice:
“Hello everyone, I’m Wang Gang.”
“In this video, I will share a staple food with you”
“Yangzhou fried rice.”
It wasn’t posted on November 25th, but it still caused a lot of Little Pink’s attacks, saying that it was slandering the heroes, and Wang Gang was so scared that he quickly came out to explain. He said that he was just a cook, he didn’t understand, and his education level was not high, and he apologized to everyone.
Two years ago, China Unicom had a public account, and on November 23rd, they wrote a public article teaching everyone how to make egg fried rice, which also caused countless people to condemn him. In the end, what happened? This public account was banned.
Don’t think that China Unicom is also the CCP’s own son, the term “egg fried rice” cannot be casually mentioned. If you really don’t believe in evil and talk about egg fried rice online on November 25th, you will be directly detained.
So, have you seen it? “Egg fried rice” has become a topic that cannot be discussed in China around November 25th. But we can talk about it freely outside the country. Today, I’m going to talk about egg fried rice anyway.
Speaking of a Saturday, I even went out to eat a bowl of egg fried rice and posted a photo, and as a result, many people were scolding me. In fact, in my opinion, it is also valuable to figure out the true relationship between egg fried rice and Mao Anying’s death. Why does the CCP fear a bowl of egg fried rice?
“From entering the war to the heroic sacrifice, only 37 days.”
“Mao Anying, who was only 28 years old, did not, before his sacrifice”
“Obtain any honorary titles and medals.”
“But he and tens of thousands of”
“Volunteer soldiers who left their lives in Korea, just like”
“In this war of peace and justice, they sacrificed themselves for the country and will be remembered forever.”

Origin of the saying: Yang Di’s recollection and public reaction

The saying that Mao Anying died from egg fried rice originated from Yang Di.
Yang Di was the deputy director of the Operations Department of the Volunteer Army headquarters, and later became a cadre at the rank of a major general. Yang Di had a habit of writing memoirs. He wrote a total of 3 memoirs. The second one is “In the Days of the General Staff Headquarters During the Anti-Japanese War”, and the third one is called “In the Days of the Volunteer Army Headquarters”.
I have basically read Yang Di’s memoirs, and they are of very high historical value. In this “In the Days of the Volunteer Army Headquarters”, he talked about the details of Mao Anying’s death. In his first version, he didn’t mention egg fried rice, but only fried rice; in the 2003 version, he changed fried rice to egg fried rice.
As soon as this saying came out, it immediately caused a lot of public outcry. Everyone thought, fortunately, it was a bowl of egg fried rice that attracted the U.S. military, otherwise wouldn’t China have become North Korea? So as soon as this saying came out, it caused a lot of people’s anger.
The first to be angry was Mao Anying’s original wife, Liu Siqi. She said online, “This is impossible—there were no eggs in the Volunteer Army at that time, and there was no rice, only sorghum.” She said that the saying of sorghum was said by Xu Muyuan, who said that at that time, almost for breakfast, they could only eat sorghum.
Then there was also Cheng Pu who told her that there were no conditions to make egg fried rice at that time, how could it be possible? So Liu Siqi was very angry.
There was also a daughter of Gao Ruixin. Gao Ruixin was the staff officer who was killed with Mao Anying that day. But these two people are actually related to the interests, because his own relatives started with that bombing, so he certainly doesn’t want his relatives to die because of a bowl of egg fried rice.
So, what exactly did Mao Anying die from? Then let’s examine it carefully.

Background of entering Korea and “entrustment”

Before examining this matter, we need to briefly introduce the background. How did Mao Anying go to Korea?
There has always been a saying online that it was recommended by Li Kenong. But in fact, with the disclosure of some other people’s memoirs, it was Mao Zedong who discussed with Mao Anying himself and wanted to send Mao Anying to the Korean battlefield.
On October 7th, that is, October 7th, 1950, Mao Zedong hosted a banquet for Peng Dehuai in Zhongnanhai, a family banquet, and those present were Mao Anying, and reportedly also Zhou Enlai. Mao Zedong wanted to entrust Mao Anying to Peng Dehuai on the spot, and let him take him to Korea to experience—”Let him go with you.”
When Peng Dehuai heard this, he was stunned at first, and he was scared. You think, this burden is too heavy. And Mao Anying had never fought a war before. Although he participated in the Red Army for a few days in the Soviet Union, he had never been on the battlefield for a day. Then you think, if you take Mao Anying to the battlefield, it would be too dangerous.
So he strongly refused at first, but Old Mao was very determined, and he entrusted Mao Anying to him. Then Peng Dehuai had no choice. The next day, he took Mao Anying to Shenyang, and when he arrived in Shenyang, he let Mao Anying stay at Gao Gang’s home for more than ten days.
Later, on October 23rd, Mao Anying entered Korea and arrived at the headquarters of the Volunteer Army. Mao Anying’s official identity at the headquarters of the Volunteer Army was a translator, a Russian translator. But in fact, during the entire period of the Volunteer Army headquarters, the workload of Russian translation was almost non-existent, and the Russians themselves actually brought translators.
During his 32 days of work in the Volunteer Army, he only did translation twice: once when the Soviet ambassador to Korea met with Peng Dehuai at the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, this time Mao Anying translated; another time was when a Soviet committee went there to meet with Peng Dehuai, he did the translation, just these two times. There was no other translation besides that.
His other identity was the party branch secretary of Peng Dehuai’s headquarters office. In fact, there was nothing to do, and he didn’t need to be on duty there. Many people’s memoirs have proved that Mao Anying’s work there was actually very leisurely. He usually played chess with General Peng and made a few remarks during the combat meetings.
At that time, everyone knew that the 38th Army didn’t perform well during the first campaign, right? Peng Dehuai was furious there. As a result, during the meeting, Mao Anying stood up and gestured with a small stick in front of the map.
Others didn’t know he was Mao Anying at the time, because he used the alias “Translator Yang”. The people below were very strange, saying how dare this translator be so bold, he was talking when General Peng was speaking. He was actually just a translator, but no one dared to speak at the scene, and General Peng didn’t dare to speak either. So you can see that his position in the Volunteer Army headquarters was very special.

Dayu Cave Headquarters, Discipline and Critical Moments

So, what happened on November 25th?
The headquarters of the Volunteer Army was in a place called Dayu Cave in northern Korea at that time, which was actually a place that had been moved several times. The earlier place was in Dayu Cave. Dayu Cave was a gold mine, a cave dug by the county town, which was convenient for concealment.
There were two houses in this gully: one was Peng Dehuai’s own office and rest room; the other one, this house had three rooms.
In these three rooms, Ding Ganru was the director of the Operations Department, Yang Di was the deputy director of the Operations Department, and the two of them lived in one room; a dozen staff officers lived in the middle room; and then there was Mao Anying and a person named Zhao Nanqi living in one room.
Mao Anying was a Russian translator, and Zhao Nanqi was a Korean translator, and they were arranged to live together. Zhao Nanqi later became extraordinary, and he also became a general, and became the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and he was a Korean. So his purpose is also very important, we will talk about it later.
So you see, Mao Anying’s rank was very low at the time, but he had a separate room to live in, which was also a very high treatment.

On November 15th, that is, in Dayu Cave, due to the first campaign, the Volunteer Army captured a lot of U.S. military vehicles, about 60. The Volunteer Army was very short of vehicles at the time, so this was very precious. Some tree branches were buried on the vehicles.
As a result, when the U.S. military aircraft came to investigate that day, because the aircraft flew relatively low, the propellers blew up the tree branches, and the vehicles were discovered, and the vehicles were all blown up.
The Volunteer Army was also very distressed at the time, because those dozens of vehicles were very precious. At that time, it was suspected that the Dayu Cave might have attracted the attention of the U.S. military.
So that day, Hong Xuezhi convened a meeting of the Volunteer Army headquarters and announced several disciplines: “The water must be boiled before dawn every day, and breakfast must be finished; enter the cave at 7 o’clock, and everyone must enter the office in the cave; only a few people on duty are left outside; it is not allowed to make a fire and cook during the day.” This is the requirement of the Volunteer Army headquarters.

On November 24th, there were reconnaissance planes hovering over the sky that day. As a result, during this process, Yang Di discovered it and reported it to Hong Xuezhi and the others. Hong Xuezhi and the others held another meeting that evening and again emphasized three disciplines: boil the water and finish eating before dawn, no smoke during the day; then, everyone must retreat to the cave office before 7 o’clock.
But Peng Dehuai was not very cooperative at the time. As a result, at dawn that day, Hong Xuezhi pulled Peng Dehuai into the cave. There are also two versions of how he was pulled in:
——Yang Di’s memoir says, “Hong Xuezhi wanted to pull him to play chess”, and the two of them played several games of chess here;
——Yang Feng’an, who was Peng Dehuai’s own military secretary, recalled that he was pulled in, and the two of them held a military meeting for more than two hours, because that day was the first day of the second campaign, so the two of them discussed for a long time.
But anyway, on November 25th, the military order clearly stipulated that everyone must enter the cave to work, and no more smoke was allowed here.

But as a result, at around 11 o’clock in the morning of that day, Mao Anying was killed in Peng Dehuai’s office:
“I said, it’s not good, a hundred or eighty napalm bombs came down from the sky; after they fell, the house was a sea of fire.”

Two types of testimonies: whether to enter the cave, why were they present

Then we need to analyze a few questions.
**The first question:** Everyone retreated to this cave, why was Mao Anying in Peng Dehuai’s office? Did he enter the office?
——Hong Xuezhi’s memoir says that everyone entered the cave at 7 o’clock that day, and Mao Anying also went into the cave with them, but for some reason, he went back to Peng Dehuai’s office at around 9 o’clock. He didn’t say why.
This statement is also corroborated by Yang Feng’an’s memoir. Yang Feng’an said that Peng Dehuai was studying the military situation with Hong Xuezhi in the cave, and at around 9 o’clock, Peng Dehuai said to him, “Go to the office and ask the operations staff about the situation on the front line”, because he had left two staff officers in his office to receive the telegrams from the front line.
Yang Feng’an then went to the office and saw Cheng Pu and Xu Muyuan. Then he said, “It was at this time that Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin returned to the office.”
So, can you see it? It is said that “Mao Anying went into the cave with the large army in the morning”, and two people returned to the office at around 9 o’clock.

But there are also different opinions:
——Cheng Pu said, “Mao Anying didn’t enter the cave at all”, he was busy in the office, looking for documents, and it was very hard; later he was very tired and fell asleep on the table, and he slept until 9 o’clock in the morning, and after waking up at 9 o’clock, he went to find something to eat.
Similar to Cheng Pu’s recollection is Ding Ganru. Everyone knows that Ding Ganru was the director of the Operations Department, and he was also an important person involved. His recollection is: at 3 o’clock that morning, Mao Anying got up; after getting up, he first got a tea mug of rice to eat; after eating, Mao Anying fell asleep on the table, and he slept until 9 o’clock in the morning; after waking up at 9 o’clock in the morning, he went to find food to eat.
So you see, there are two different opinions: one is that Mao Anying went into the air-raid shelter with the large army at 7 o’clock in the morning, and came back at 9 o’clock; the other opinion is that Mao Anying actually didn’t leave, and he was always in Peng’s office.

Peng Dehuai’s secret telegram and plot inference

Then let’s take a look. On November 25th, the day Mao Anying was killed, Peng Dehuai sent a secret telegram to Beijing that afternoon. This secret telegram is actually very important, because Peng Dehuai needs to explain to Beijing. It is said that he pondered over this telegram for more than an hour.
This telegram has been made public afterwards, and it is written like this:
“On November 25th, at 7 o’clock that dawn, we had all retreated to the cave, but Mao Anying and three others did not leave, and were in the office of the Volunteer Army. At 11 o’clock, the U.S. military aircraft came, and these four people left, and as a result, they went back later. As a result, after the U.S. military aircraft came back again, they dropped napalm bombs, and Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin were killed, and Cheng Pu and Xu Muyuan survived.”
That’s about it.

I think this telegram is very important. Because Peng Dehuai, in writing this telegram, I personally think, will definitely not intentionally write false words, and will definitely write the truth.
So I tend to believe that Mao Anying himself did not leave Peng Dehuai’s office that day. It was because he got up in the middle of the night and ate a bowl of rice, and then he fell asleep on the table. Ordinary people don’t dare to provoke him, who dares to tell him to get up? Because he, Mao Anying, is here, although his identity is confidential, but the core few people all know his identity. No one dares to order him to get up in the morning and must enter the cave with the large army.
So he slept until 9 o’clock in the morning. When people got up at 6 o’clock to eat, they ate sorghum, and he didn’t eat it; he was hungry in the morning, so he started to find food to eat.
So the first point, I think Mao Anying did not leave General Peng’s office. Second, why was Mao Anying in this office? According to Cheng Pu’s recollection, he said that “they were on duty at the time”, and they had to stick to this post, no matter how dangerous it was; and then Mao Anying was because he was working on receiving and sending telegrams, so he was busy until 9 o’clock in the morning and fell asleep on the table, and after waking up, he went to find food to eat.
If this is the case, then Martyr Mao Anying’s sacrifice must be very heroic, right?
But I think there is a problem with Cheng Pu’s recollection:
First of all, Cheng Pu’s memoir is wrong about when Peng Dehuai went from the office to the cave. He said that “Peng Dehuai was sleeping in the office”, and when the U.S. military aircraft came at 11 o’clock, Hong Xuezhi and the others came in and carried Peng Dehuai to the cave—this is obviously wrong. Because many people recalled, in fact, Peng Dehuai and our telegram just said that Peng Dehuai went into the cave at 7 o’clock, so Cheng Pu’s recollection is wrong.
Secondly, a very important point for Cheng Pu is that he has a statement material written to the special case group in 1972. Because during the “Cultural Revolution”, the Central Special Case Group reopened the case of why Mao Anying was killed on the Korean battlefield, and at that time, it was suspected that Peng Dehuai intentionally harmed him, so Cheng Pu also wrote materials to the special case group. But you think, in 1972, during the Cultural Revolution, Cheng Pu himself was also implicated, did he dare to write the truth casually? Not really, so you have to discount a lot of his words.
Thirdly, Cheng Pu said that he and Xu Muyuan were on duty, which is not a problem, because there were indeed staff officers who stayed in Peng Dehuai’s office to receive and send telegrams at that time. But the key is, does Mao Anying belong to this sequence? We just said that Mao Anying had no specific work in this entire office, he was just a Russian translator, and he didn’t need to be on duty as a staff officer.
The work of receiving and sending telegrams was clearly the responsibility of Gao Ruixin. Gao Ruixin actually came to the Korean battlefield on November 18th, and took over from Zhang Yangwu. Zhang Yangwu was originally Peng Dehuai’s secretary, and after working here for a few days, he actually didn’t adapt to the work here, so he proposed to Peng Dehuai to leave, so he left on November 17th; Gao Ruixin came here on November 18th.
Because Peng Dehuai didn’t need to change the telegrams written by Gao Ruixin, so Peng Dehuai dictated and Gao Ruixin wrote. That was not Mao Anying’s turn to do. There is never any memoir that mentions that Mao Anying needed to register the so-called telegrams, so this point is actually not valid.
So you can see it? Cheng Pu expanded the fact that he and Xu Muyuan were on duty to Mao Anying, and in the end, it felt like Mao Anying was also on duty there. In fact, Mao Anying was not on duty there, he was just sleeping too late, got up to get food to eat, and was eventually killed.

“Egg fried rice/baked apple peel/coffee” plot

The third point is whether Mao Anying was making egg fried rice that day.
Regarding the saying of egg fried rice, Yang Di’s recollection is: didn’t everyone retreat to the air-raid shelter that day? He went to the scene to check and found Mao Anying and Cheng Pu, and another person he didn’t know, were making egg fried rice there. He said, “How can you make egg fried rice, you’re not allowed to smoke.”
Then Cheng Pu said, “I don’t dare to make egg fried rice, that translator is making it.”
This is Yang Di’s statement. This statement has actually been confirmed by several people:
——For example, Yang Feng’an, who was Peng Dehuai’s military secretary. Because Peng Dehuai and Hong Xuezhi were studying the military situation at the scene that day, at around 9 o’clock, Yang Feng’an was asked to go to the office to inquire about the situation of the staff officers? After Yang Feng’an arrived at the scene, Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin went back there to make fried rice—this is his statement, so Yang Feng’an’s statement actually corroborates Yang Di’s statement.
——There is also Ding Ganru’s statement. Ding Ganru recalled at the time: he got up at three o’clock, and first ate a bite of rice; he slept until nine o’clock in the morning; after waking up at nine o’clock, he started to fry rice again.
——Including Zhao Nanqi, he actually said that he went to find something to eat and make fried rice.
So the saying of “fried rice” has actually been confirmed by many people.

Liu Siqi said at the time that there were no eggs, how could there be eggs? In fact, there were eggs, and this was also mentioned in other people’s memoirs. Eggs were indeed a rare item at the time, and it was the second-in-command of the Korean People’s Army at the time, Park Il-woo.
Park Il-woo had also worked in the Chinese army, and his name was Wang Wei when he was in the Chinese army, and he was very familiar with the Chinese military, and he also spoke fluent Chinese. Later, after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, we sent many Korean officers and soldiers in the Chinese army to North Korea, and Wang Wei returned to North Korea and became the second-in-command of the Korean People’s Army. He brought a basket of eggs when he went to the Volunteer Army headquarters to see Peng Dehuai.
So there were eggs, not no eggs. So the plot of “egg fried rice” is actually credible, not incredible.

But why did Cheng Pu say that he took apples and baked apple peels? In fact, this is also simple. He said that after finishing the documents, he went to eat apples, and after eating the apples, he baked the apple peels—that is, after eating egg fried rice, he went to eat apples, which is very simple.
But whether it’s egg fried rice or apple peels, everyone remembers that this has actually violated military discipline. Because Hong Xuezhi had already said in the military meeting: no fire is allowed during the day, and no smoke is allowed. Whether you bake apple peels or make egg fried rice, aren’t you smoking? Aren’t you exposing military targets? This is the second aspect.

The third aspect is Xu Muyuan. Xu Muyuan is one of the survivors with Cheng Pu, and his later recollection provides another detail:
He said that at that time, they were all eating, chatting, and chatting in that room; as a result, the U.S. military aircraft came, so they ran out, and these four people all ran out.
After running out, Mao Anying suddenly said that his coffee was still there.

This coffee is especially important to Mao Anying, because Mao Anying lived in the Soviet Union for many years and developed the habit of eating Western food, and he especially liked to drink coffee. On November 14th, Gao Gang went to Korea to comfort the Volunteer Army and specially bought a tin of coffee for Mao Anying in the Shenyang market. Mao Anying liked it very much, and of course, this coffee was also very rare at the time.
So Mao Anying should have eaten egg fried rice first that day, and then ate apples, and after eating the apples, he baked the apple peels; after baking the apple peels, he started to brew coffee. It was when he was brewing coffee that the U.S. military aircraft came at 11 o’clock, so these four people all ran out of this room.
After running out, Mao Anying said, “It’s not good, my coffee is still there”, so he went back, and he went back alone. At this time, Gao Ruixin was on duty here, and Cheng Pu and Xu Muyuan were both outside and did not go back. It was at this time that the U.S. military aircraft arrived at the scene and dropped napalm bombs, so Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin, these two people, were killed in Peng Dehuai’s operations room.
The general course of the whole incident is roughly like this.

Views and comments (1): Whether it violates military discipline

Next, I will talk about my own views.
First of all, did Mao Anying violate military discipline? We can see from the facts pieced together from these people’s memoirs that Mao Anying definitely violated military discipline—he violated military discipline in two ways:
First, Hong Xuezhi clearly said, “You must retreat to the air-raid shelter before 7 o’clock”, but he didn’t retreat, because he was sleeping on the table in General Peng’s office. He doesn’t need to execute the orders that others need to execute, is he special?
Second, it was clear that there could be no open fire on November 25th, but he got up and cooked his own food; whether it was rice, coffee, baked apple peels, hot steamed buns and rice, in short, he was lighting a fire. This is also a clear violation of military discipline; no one dared to stop him, and no one could stop him. The crown prince was at the front line, who would dare to restrain him?
So Mao Anying’s death has a great relationship with his own violation of military discipline. If he, like Peng Dehuai, had run to the air-raid shelter and watched Peng Dehuai play chess with Hong Xuezhi, he would not have died. So his death was largely self-inflicted.
This is the first point.

Views and comments (2): The motivation for sending the son to Korea

Second, why did Old Mao send Mao Anying to Korea? Everyone’s interpretation among the people is that he wanted to gain experience and cultivate his son as his successor. Many people also strongly oppose it, “saying it’s impossible, Old Mao is selfless”.
But in my opinion, Old Mao sent Mao Anying to Korea to gain experience, and he wanted to cultivate him as his successor.
You can take a look at the later political developments: Old Mao’s own nephew, Mao Yuanxin, became his liaison, and became the director of the Liaoning Provincial Revolutionary Committee; his daughter Li Na, a few days after graduating from Peking University, a rebel became the editor-in-chief of the “Liberation Army Daily”; his own wife, Jiang Qing, finally became a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau.
This basic power structure is also a family world. He just doesn’t have a promising son. If he had a promising son, you think, his position would definitely surpass Mao Yuanxin and Jiang Qing. Isn’t he cultivating his son as a future successor?
So for him, it is very important to cultivate his own son as his successor, and he needs to have a war resume. Mao Anying was in the Soviet Union, and he had been a soldier for a few days, but he had never been on the front line, and he had never fought a war, and that was the Soviet army.
But in the Chinese army, if he doesn’t have a resume, can he hold down the mountains of the army? So the best way is to send him to the Korean battlefield, and then be next to Peng Dehuai, and not participate in any direct combat missions, and at the same time increase his entire military resume, which is the best method.
As a result, he didn’t expect that his own son was arrogant and self-indulgent, and disregarded military discipline, and as a result, he brought himself a disaster. This is actually the true historical background of Mao Anying’s death.

Views and comments (3): Why the taboo of “egg fried rice”

Finally, I want to answer why the CCP cares so much about the detail that the public society believes that Mao Anying died from egg fried rice?
The superficial reason: it is particularly embarrassing to let Mao Zedong’s son go to the Korean battlefield, not fight, and do nothing every day in that place, violate military discipline, and be killed by the U.S. military in the end for a bite to eat.
But in my opinion, the deeper reason is that they don’t want to show Mao Zedong’s attempt to establish a family world. Because later, his attempt to establish a family world was not realized, and Mao Anying was killed, so it is also difficult for you to verify that he wanted to cultivate Mao Anying as his own successor in the future.
But since he is dead, this logic cannot be seen by others. But I have already said that, in fact, his logic, although Mao Anying is dead, but isn’t it also reflected so vividly in his other relatives?
So our view is that even if Mao Anying didn’t die, he would definitely be cultivated as a successor.

From this point of view, I personally think that Mao Anying’s death, although it is a tragedy for him personally, he was killed by the U.S. military after eating a bite of egg fried rice, although this matter is not particularly glorious, but it is not so bad. So we say this is a tragedy.
But for the Chinese nation, that is indeed a blessing. You think, if Mao Anying hadn’t been killed, what would have happened to China?
In my opinion, Mao Zedong would eventually cultivate Mao Anying as Kim Jong-un, or Kim Jong-un’s father. In other words, he would definitely let Mao Anying smoothly take over his own class. You can see such a shadow in Mao Yuanxin, Jiang Qing, and Mao Xinyu.
Because later, after Mao Anying was killed, he really couldn’t find anyone, and there was no way. And you can see how much Old Mao, as a despotic dictator in his later years, hesitated and hesitated about the issue of his successor: he first looked for Liu Shaoqi, and killed Liu Shaoqi; he looked for Lin Biao, and Lin Biao finally crashed and died in a plane crash.
For a despotic dictator, it is a very painful thing to hand over power to someone who is not his own relative.
So you think, if Mao Anying was alive, he would definitely hand over this power to his own son.
From this point of view, Mao Anying’s death is indeed a blessing for the Chinese nation.

So I personally think that on November 25th, it is not allowed to eat egg fried rice in the country, but we actually eating egg fried rice outside the country is quite valuable.
If Mao Anying had been in power smoothly, then Deng Xiaoping would have had no chance, Hua Guofeng would have had no chance, and the entire Chinese nation would have fallen into a state of eternal damnation.
So we eat egg fried rice not to ridicule Mao Anying, but to rejoice that the entire Chinese nation later embarked on the road of reform and opening up.
Of course, drinking Starbucks coffee is also okay—”Rui”, you think, “Xing”. These are actually the best explanations for this matter.

Okay, I’ll stop here today, thank you all.

所以我个人觉得，11月25日这一天，境内是不能吃蛋炒饭了，但是我们在境外实际上吃蛋炒饭这件事情还蛮有价值的。
如果要是毛岸英顺利地当权，那邓小平没戏，华国锋也没戏，那整个中华民族会陷入到万劫不复的境地。
所以我们吃蛋炒饭不是为了嘲讽毛岸英，是为整个中华民族后来走上了改革开放的道路而庆幸。
当然了喝瑞幸咖啡也可以——“瑞”，你想想，“幸”。这都是其实对这件事情最好的解释了。

好，我今天就讲到这里，谢谢大家。