 Luo Yixiu ( simplified Chinese : <unk> ; traditional Chinese : <unk> ; October 20 , 1889 – February 11 , 1910 ) , a Han Chinese woman , was the first wife of the later Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader Mao Zedong , to whom she was married from 1908 until her death . Coming from the area around Shaoshan , Hunan , in south central China – the same region as Mao – her family were impoverished local landowners . 
