After Zhang Yaruo's death, why did Jiang Chingguo vow not to look at his sons Jiang Xiaoyan and Jiang Xiaoci again in this life?
Chiang Ching-kuo lived in Chiang's shadow all his life, and according to statistics, his father's name appears less often in Chiang Ching-kuo's biography than his own. It can be said that chiang kai-shek made Chiang Ching-kuo successful and at the same time bound him. Chiang Ching-kuo's life seems to have been arranged; he studied in the Soviet Union earlier, went to Gannan to accumulate political experience after returning to China, and then took Chiang Kai-shek's class after arriving in Taiwan. At least until he took over, Chiang Ching-kuo had very few things to decide on his own, including one thing that made him miserable for the rest of his life— the death of his lover Zhang Yaruo.
Zhang Yaruo (1913 ~ 1942), formerly known as Zhang Mao Li, Zhang Mao Li was born smart and clever, was regarded by his father as a pearl in the palm of his hand, after graduating from primary school, he was admitted to the famous church middle school of Nanchang Baoling Girls' High School, and was called a talented girl in middle school. After graduating from high school, Zhang Maoli originally planned to continue her studies, but in 1928, she still could not break through the shackles of old marriage customs, and had to marry her cousin Tang Yinggang, who was 18 years old at the time, and had two sons, Yuanbo and Yuanhui.
In the 1930s, the wave of the Chinese nation's anti-Japanese salvation surged to Nanchang, and naturally also spread to the home of Tang Yinggang, a prison employee in Jiangxi Province. She changed her name to Yaruo and was hired by the Jiangxi Provincial High Court, and has since become a professional woman in the New Life Movement. Just when Zhang Yaruo was working well in the provincial high court and was deeply appreciated by his superiors, his husband Tang Yinggang died prematurely due to acute pneumonia caused by accidentally falling into the water while taking a boat, and Zhang became a young and beautiful widow in 1936.
In the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the Japanese army marched west along the Yangtze River, and Nanchang prepared for war. Zhang Yaruo was admitted to the Jiangxi Provincial Preparatory Sixth Division Propaganda Team. One day, guo Libo, the commander of the division, accompanied Jiang Jingguo, deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Security Department, to inspect the two of them, and the two became acquainted. After Nanchang fell into the hands of the Japanese Kou, Zhang Yaruo came to Ganzhou with the exiled crowd and was soon recruited as the administrator of the library of the Ganzhou Special Bureau. Because of his excellent work, he was soon transferred by Jiang Chingguo, commissioner of Ganzhou, to the Anti-Enemy Mobilization Committee of the Special Bureau as secretary, and then entered the Ganzhou Chizhuling Youth Cadre Training Class to study.
During her studies, Zhang Shi fully demonstrated her multi-faceted talents and was recommended as Chiang Ching-kuo's assistant in the Qinggan class. After the two met again, Chiang Ching-kuo had poured out his love to Zhang Yaruo, but Zhang, in view of the fact that Chiang Ching-kuo already had a wife and children, and was Chiang Kai-shek's son, and he was a widow, did not dare to climb high; in addition, considering that if he fell in love with Chiang Kai-shek outside of marriage, it would inevitably cause bad social impact, so he categorically rejected Chiang's love.
After graduating from the Qinggan class, Zhang Yaruo was arranged by Jiang to serve as secretary in the secretary's office of the special office, actually doing the work of assistant secretary, and soon concurrently serving as the person in charge of the "People's Inquiry Office" of the special office. In the name of the secretary of the special office and a reporter for "Youth Daily", she often went out with Jiang to catch gambling, ban opium, or tour counties, and wrote relevant reports and articles, which were published in "Youth Daily" under the pseudonym of "Zhang Pin" or "Mao Li", and sometimes accompanied by zhang-painted ink paintings.
By the summer of 1941, Zhang Yaruo was pregnant, and the two were ecstatic. When Chiang Ching-kuo went to Chongqing to report this happy news to his father and asked his father to agree to their marriage, Chiang Kai-shek, because of the difficulty of the war and the repeated false accusations against him by the Ganzhou criminal and evil forces that were attacked by Chiang Ching-kuo's "three prohibitions," persuaded Chiang Ching-kuo that it was not appropriate to do such a marriage at present, and that before Zhang's belly grew bigger, he secretly transferred to a place to await childbirth.
Jiang and Zhang were very distressed that they had not received the approval of Chiang Kai-shek and society for this marriage, and if Zhang Ya wanted to go to the hospital to have a fetus, Chiang Ching-kuo did not agree. So they invited several close friends at the "Zhang Wanshun" restaurant in Ganzhou to go to Guilin, Guangxi for zhang's family to go to Guilin, Guangxi province, which is also an internal disclosure of the marriage, and was accompanied by Zhang Yaruo's middle school classmate Gui Changde from Ganzhou to Guilin to take care of Zhang's side affairs during pregnancy. After Zhang Yaruo arrived in Guilin, Chiang Ching-kuo entrusted his friend Qiu Changwei, then director of the Guangxi Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, to take care of Zhang's affairs related to the childbirth.
On the fifteenth day of the first month of 1942, Zhang Yaruo gave birth to a pair of premature twin sons in the Guilin Hospital of Guangxi Province, with the milk name of Big Mao and Xiao Mao, and later Chiang Kai-shek named xiaoyan and filial piety according to the ranking of the grandchildren of the Chiang family, and at the same time, in order not to leave a voice for political enemies and to protect Chiang Ching-kuo, the child temporarily took the mother's surname Zhang. However, on August 16, 1942, Zhang Yaruo died suddenly in The Guangxi Provincial Hospital in Guilin. The cause of death remains a mystery to this day. When Chiang Ching-kuo heard the news of Zhang Yaruo's death, he cried all the way home from his office.
After Zhang Yaruo's death, how to place the twins became the biggest problem for Chiang Ching-kuo, because at this time, his wife Jiang Fangliang was also in Ganzhou. In the end, he chose to give the twins to Zhang Yaruo's mother, Zhou Jinhua, to raise them, and arranged for them to be raised in the remote and backward Wan'an County. When the war in the southeast was tense, Chiang Ching-kuo moved Zhou Jinhua's family to Guizhou. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it moved back to Nanchang. In 1949, under chiang ching-kuo's arrangement, the brothers Zhang Xiaoyan and Zhang Xiaoci moved to Taiwan under the leadership of their grandmother and settled in Hsinchu. He gave a certain subsidy from time to time, but never openly acknowledged the two sons, and even vowed not to meet with the flesh and blood in this life, which showed his desperation.
After Chiang Ching-kuo's death, Zhang Xiaoyan and Zhang Xiaoci did not dare to rush to see their father for the last time, and finally with the help of Jiang Xiaoyong, they went to Rong General Hospital to see their father.
In the first 63 years of his life, Zhang Xiaoyan and Zhang Xiaoci, twin brothers, were both "children outside the Jiang family's door". In 2000, Jiang Xiaoyan, who resigned from public office, embarked on the road of recognizing his ancestors, reciting the sacrifice he had spent three or four days writing in front of the ranks of his ancestors, and when the celebrant announced the completion of the ceremony, he bowed again and said in a trembling voice: From now on, I can say that I am a descendant of the Jiang family. After the trip to Xikou, Zhang Xiaoyan went to Guilin again, and in front of the tomb of his mother Zhang Yaruo, he told his mother that he had gone to the Jiang Family Ancestral Hall, and when he said this, he cried bitterly: Mom, I have worked so hard this way. After a series of complicated procedures, on July 29, 2003, Zhang Xiaoyan officially changed his name to Jiang Xiaoyan.