Luo Yixiu & Zedong Mao

1908 - 1910
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Luo Yixiu and Zedong Mao were married for 2 years before Luo Yixiu died aged 20.

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Chinese Head of State Zedong Mao was born Mao Zedong on 26th December, 1893 in Shaoshan, Hunan, China and passed away on 9th Sep 1976 Beijing, China aged 82. He is most remembered for Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC). His zodiac sign is Capricorn.

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Relationship Statistics

StatusDurationLength
Dating1908 - 1908
Married1908 - Feb 1910 2 years, 1 month
Total 1908 - Feb 1910 2 years, 1 month


Most of what is known about their marriage comes from an account Mao gave to American reporter Edgar Snow in 1936, which Snow included in his book Red Star Over China. According to Mao, he and Luo Yixiu were the subject of an arranged marriage organised by their respective fathers, Mao Yichang and Luo Helou. Luo was eighteen and Mao just fourteen years old at the time of their betrothal. Although Mao took part in the wedding ceremony, he later stated that he was unhappy with the marriage, never consummating it and refusing to live with his wife. Socially disgraced, she lived with Mao's parents for two years until she died of dysentery, while he moved out of the village to continue his studies elsewhere, eventually becoming a founding member of the Communist Party of China. Various biographers have suggested that Mao's experience of this marriage affected his later views, leading him to become a critic of arranged marriage and a vocal feminist. He would marry three more times throughout his life, to Yang Kaihui, He Zizhen and Jiang Qing, the last of whom was better known as Madame Mao.

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February, 1910 - Breakup

1908 - Marriage

1908 - Hookup

Couple Comparison

Name
Luo Yixiu
Zedong Mao
Age (at start of relationship)
18
14
Zodiac
Libra
Capricorn
Nationality
Chinese
Chinese

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