Kong Xiangxi, ZiYongzhi, and Ziyuan, were born on September 11, 1880 in Taigu County, Shanxi Province, to a merchant family that focused on the cultivation of Confucian culture. In addition, the Kong Xiangxi family is a direct descendant of Confucius, and Kong Xiangxi is the 75th generation grandson of Confucius, and is also a famous local banker and rich merchant during the Republic of China. Speaking of Confucius's descendants, there is also a special record.
Kong Xiangxi's ancestral home is Qufu, Shandong, and his ancestor Kong Hongwen was assigned to Taigu, Shanxi as an official during the Ming Dynasty, and has since settled in Shanxi. Once Kong Xiangxi passed through Jinan, Shandong Province, met a clan member with the same surname, Kong Xiangmian, and learned that he may be related to the blood of Kong Province, so he asked for help to check the family tree, and finally learned that he was the seventy-fourth generation descendant of Confucius, and often showed it to the public in this capacity.
Kong Xiangxi was appointed as an enlightenment teacher by his mother when he was four years old, but unfortunately his mother died when he was six years old. Since then, he has studied with his father, and the foundation of Traditional Chinese studies is very solid. When he was a child, Kong Xiangxi was weak and sickly, and when he was nine years old, he suffered from a serious illness that had not been cured for a long time, and no matter how Chinese medicine treated him, there was no effect. After several turns, by chance, he was cured of his illness by a Western medical missionary.
This serious illness changed Kong Xiangxi's cognition and played a great influence on his future learning path, and when he grew up, he directly studied at the Huamei Public School founded by the church. After graduating, he was admitted to Luhe College, which was opened by the American Congregational Church of Christianity, and was baptized as a Christian during his studies because he was grateful for the missionary who healed his body at a young age.
In terms of family influence, the Kong Xiangxi family is second only to Mr. Jiang's family, and both the wealth and power of the official are enviable. At the most intense moment of the Sino-Japanese War, when the situation was at that time, Kong Xiangxi used his talents and learning to serve as the president of the Executive Yuan of the National Government, the minister of finance and the president of the central bank, becoming the holder of the financial power and the four state-owned banks.
Kong Xiangxi is very economically minded, whether it is the early bank power or the later stage of speculation and sale, it has laid a good economic foundation for his rich family property. Later, with the continuous victory of the Liberation War, Mr. Chiang retreated to Taiwan in defeat, and Kong Xiangxi also followed Chiang Kai-shek with his family. After Kong Xiangxi's death, his descendants began to scatter around the world. It is understood that there is only one descendant left in the current Kong Xiangxi family.
In 1908, after the 18-year-old Kong Xiangxi enrolled in Luhe Academy, he met Han Yumei, who was also a fellow student of Shanxi. After a period of time together, the two had feelings for each other and eventually married. Han Yumei is an orphan daughter with no father and no mother, but she is confident and independent and generous. It is also this kind of personality characteristic that deeply attracts Kong Xiangxi. The two lived happily after marriage and respected each other as guests. Unfortunately, However, Han Yumei died of illness in the third year after marrying him, unfortunately the two did not have children.
The death of Kong Xiangxi's wife was a big blow to him, so he was lonely for a long time. His second wife was Song Yiling, the eldest sister of the three Song sisters. This is also a legendary woman in Chinese history. In May 1904, Song Went to study at Georgia Wesleyan Women's College in the United States, becoming the first woman in Chinese history to study abroad.
In addition, she achieved excellent academic results during her university years and was a shrewd and elegant intellectual woman. After the graduation ceremony, Song Yiling was recommended by her father to serve as Sun Yat-sen's secretary; later, because of some emotional entanglements with Sun Yat-sen, her father arranged for her to meet Kong Xiangxi, and under the strong mediation of her father, in September 1914, the two married in Yokohama, Japan, and spent their lives together.
After graduating from university, Kong Lingkan worked as a special secretary of the Ministry of Finance in a government department. Later, he went to study at Harvard University in the United States and married a second-married woman. Kong Lingkan's ambitions were great, and he transferred funds several times during his tenure, and later his family moved to the United States. Kong Lingkan also took good care of his aunt Song Meiling, and during his stay in the United States, he settled Song Meiling in his apartment. He died in New York in 1992 at the age of 73 without children.
Kong studied in England and later worked as a diplomat for the Nationalist government. After a few years, Kong Lingjie gave up his official position and began to go to the sea to do business, using oil as a monopoly. He married the famous Hollywood movie star Dibona and had a son under his knees, named Condeji. However, in 1980, the marriage with his wife had problems, and in 1980 he divorced and gave his wife tens of millions of family property. Kong Lingjie died of illness in the United States in 1997 at the age of 77.
The eldest daughter, Kong Lingyi, is the most favored daughter of Kong Xiangxi, and Kong Lingyi is also the child who most admires her father. Kong Lingyi, who has been pampered since childhood, all the food and clothing supplies are imported from abroad, and the best education is also enjoyed. She had two marriages, the first relationship was not very smooth, the second husband was Huang Xiongsheng, happy and happy after marriage, and has been living in the United States. Kong Lingyi is cordial and easy-going with people in her life, and never involves politics. In her later years, she was in charge of important affairs in the family and took good care of her aunt Song Meiling. Because of her soft personality, indisputable life, and comfortable life, her old age was very happy and peaceful, and she died in May 2008 in her apartment in the United States at the age of 93, with no heirs under her knees.
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The second daughter, Kong Lingwei, is engaged in the hotel management industry and works as a department manager in a hotel. She does not dress in a ladylike style like her sister, with short, lean hair and a more masculine outfit. She was shrewd and decisive, but her personality was a little strange, she had never married, she was single for many years, and she had no heirs. He died of cancer in Taipei in 1994 at the age of 75.
Born in the United States in 1964, Kong Isje's only son and the only grandson of Kong Xiangxi and Song Yiling. Therefore, all the Kong property in the four major families was handed over to him to inherit. Kong Deji joined the United States and actively studied and studied to keep the Kong family property in order. In his later years, Song Meiling treated him like his own grandson, and Kong Deji also respected Song Meiling and took care of her until her death in 20004. Kondecky has three children under his knees, but none of them have achieved much, and the recent situation is unknown.
Text/Shi HaiGuanfu