 When Mao Zedong returned to Shaoshan in 1925 to organize a local peasant movement , he went to visit Luo Yixiu 's relatives , including her father Luo Helou and his nephew Luo Shiquan ( <unk> ) . Luo Shiquan would join the Communist Party in the winter of that year and would remain a peasant activist until the 1949 revolution . Because Luo Yixiu had died without offspring , when the Mao lineage updated its genealogy book in 1941 , Mao <unk> ( <unk> ) , who was Mao Zedong 's third son with his second wife Yang Kaihui , was listed as Luo 's descendant . In 1950 , Mao sent his eldest son Mao <unk> to Shaoshan and instructed him to visit Luo Shiquan . Mao also kept in contact with two men who had married Luo Yixiu 's sisters , and met one of these men when he returned to Shaoshan in 1959 for the first time since the 1920s . 
