Letter to Wen Pingshan [1]
(April 21, 1954)
Comrade Pingshan:
I have received your letter and am very pleased.
There were not many copies of the photograph taken with your grandmother, so I did not send one to you.
Comrade Mao Xuehua 121 is studying in the Soviet Union; for the time being, there is no need for you to correspond with him. This is my reply. Wishing you progress!
Mao Zedong
April 21, 1954
[l]
Wen Pingshan is the grandson of Mao Zedong’s maternal uncle, Wen Yunchang.
[2]
Mao Xuehua is Mao Zedong’s paternal nephew.

Archival photo
On April 21, 1954, Mao Zedong ascended Shanhaiguan, known as “the First Pass Under Heaven.”