In the early days of the Republic of China, new cultures and new ideas were quietly sprouting, the political environment at home and abroad was turbulent and unstable, and young talents, eyebrow-sweeping talents, and politicians and literati also emerged in this era. The love stories of many of them have been passed down to this day, and they can still become the talk of people's mouths.
Among the characters of these eras, the love story of Sun Yat-sen, the father of the country, and Ms. Soong Ching-ling, one of the three sisters of the Soong family, is the most widely known of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's three relationships.
Throw yourself into the cause of the revolution, helpless love and family
Sun Yat-sen is widely known as the leader of the republican revolution, and Dr. Sun Yat-sen's emotional energy has been as tortuous as the revolutionary cause to which he has devoted himself.
Before Soong Ching Ling, Dr. Sun Yat-sen also had two wives.
The first is Lu Muzhen, who was also from Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province, along with Sun Yat-sen, a very traditional Chinese woman with a gentle and introverted nature.
When Sun Yat-sen was busy running around for the republican cause in his early years, and was often suppressed by anti-republican forces and put into danger and had no time to take care of her family, she dutifully cared for Sun Yat-sen's mother until she was sent to her old age. Sun Yat-sen was grateful to Lu Muzhen, who helped him share the burden as a family member, but there was no love between the two.
Therefore, Sun Yat-sen's first relationship ended with the peaceful divorce of the two.
Sun Yat-sen's second wife was the daughter of his close friend Ōtsuki Sudo during his time in Japan, Kaoru Ōtsuki. The two met in the home of Wen Bingchen, an overseas Chinese, and later married in 1902.
After the marriage, Sun Yat-sen spent very little time settling down with Daigetsukao, and the correspondence he had maintained before gradually ended. In 1906, Sun Yat-sen returned to China to carry out the revolutionary cause, and never returned to the side of Otsuki Kaoru.
Dusty love
At the China History Museum, there is such a collection. It is a marriage vow signed in 1915. This oath bears witness to the love story between sun yat-sen, the father of the country, and Soong Ching-ling, the mother of the country, who is 27 years apart.
In August 1913, after the failure of the Second Revolution, Sun Yat-sen was wanted by Yuan Shikai and fled to Japan, while Soong Ching-ling, who had completed his studies at the time, was returning from the United States as a loyal admirer of Sun Yat-sen.
At that time, Sun Yat-sen and his party were closely monitored by detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department of Japan, and the surveillance diaries of the time were also preserved as important historical materials. Thanks to these detailed surveillance records, the acquaintance of Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling can also be found in the words.
In a building called Matsumoto Building in Japan, many objects and some documents used by Sun Yat-sen are preserved. There is a japanese piano of the first generation in Matsumoto Building, on which Song Qingling often plays the Hero Sonata. In her mind, Sun Yat-sen was the greatest hero.
During this period, Sun Yat-sen seemed to see "flesh-and-blood modernization" in Soong Ching-ling, which brought the two people with hugely different growth backgrounds but very compatible revolutionary ideals closer and closer.
Comrade-in-arms of the revolution, companion of love
Compared with the 20,000 plane trees planted into a jewel necklace around the Meiling Palace, the emotional road between Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling is more bumpy. As a revolutionary pioneer, Sun Yat-sen was attacked by conservative forces from all sides and coveted with ill intentions. In addition to devoting himself to the cause of the republican revolution, Sun Yat-sen must always beware of these hidden killing opportunities.
On October 22, 1924, Feng Yuxiang launched a successful coup d'état, after which he invited Sun Yat-sen, who had been in the south, to return to Beiping to jointly preside over state affairs.
Subsequently, Sun Yat-sen agreed to go north after issuing the Declaration on Going North, and on the way he took a detour to Japan, and the husband and wife both gave speeches in Japan. It was Soong Ching Ling's speech on women's liberation in Japan this time that brought her from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and also marked her comprehensive understanding of Sun Yat-sen's thought.
But it was also on the way back to Beiping that Sun Yat-sen's liver disease, which had accumulated into illness, recurred near the end of the voyage.
Due to sun yat-sen's important position in the domestic revolutionary movement, Sun Yat-sen's illness this time has also triggered many speculations, and some people even rumor that Sun Yat-sen has died of illness. In order to quell the rumors, Soong Ching Ling took a photo with Sun Yat-sen in fur and sent it to major newspapers.
On December 31, Sun Yat-sen, who was becoming more seriously ill, took a special bus from Tianjin to Beiping for the sake of the unfinished revolutionary cause.
At that time, Feng Yuxiang, who invited Sun Yat-sen to return to Beijing, had already left Beiping, Zhang Zuolin was extremely opposed to Sun Yat-sen's idea of uniting with Russia, and Duan Qirui was against Sun Yat-sen's yang and yin. At this time, Sun Yat-sen was facing the double problems of illness and revolutionary cause.
After returning to Beiping for 27 days, Sun Yat-sen's condition took a sharp turn for the worse, and Sun Yat-sen, who had previously refused to be hospitalized for treatment, only reluctantly agreed to enter the Union Hospital for treatment under the strong persuasion of the doctors' family and comrades.
It was also this treatment that Sun Yat-sen's liver disease was diagnosed with liver cancer, and even "new foreign science was saved."
Ambition is not rewarded, love his wife
"The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still have to work hard." These eight words were distilled from Dr. Sun Yat-sen's political will. In the last days of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's lingering illness, in addition to his unfinished revolutionary cause, he could not rest assured of his beloved wife, Soong Ching-ling.
As the third wife of Sun Yat-sen, Soong Ching Ling and the two have been running for the revolutionary cause since they met, and they have no children under their knees. Sun Yat-sen, fearing that Soong Ching Ling would be criticized after her death, earnestly referred to Soong Ching Ling as "my wife" in his will to his family and taught his children to serve Soong Ching Ling more filial piety.
At this time, Song Qingling was exactly 32 years old, but her mind had long been tempered and matured in revolutionary work, and she forcibly endured the reluctance and sorrow for her husband in her heart, and she was still Mrs. Sun and Miss Song who knew the book in front of people. Receiving visits from all sides in the daytime, she was generous and generous, and proved her ability with every word and deed.
At this time, Liao Zhongkai was in Guangzhou, very concerned about Sun Yat-sen's illness, helpless guangzhou situation was unstable, Liao Zhongkai was lacking in skills, and his wife He Xiangning visited on his behalf. He Xiangning and Soong Qingling knew that Sun Yat-sen's body was already very weak at this time, and the two held their heads and cried on the day of their meeting.
A few days later, when Sun Yat-sen heard Soong Ching Ling's suppressed cry while listening to the will, he couldn't bear it and decided to hold on for a few more days.
In his last days, Sun Yat-sen changed his previous joking title of He Xiangning and repeatedly solemnly called him "Lady Liao Zhongkai", and He Xiangning was very uncomfortable. She knew that Sun Yat-sen's most reassuring thing was Soong Ching-ling, so she tearfully promised in front of Sun Yat-sen's sickbed that she would take good care of Soong Ching-ling.
In the last time, Song Qingling endured grief and came to her husband's bedside, and Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who was already delirious and very weak, was supported by his wife and signed his name "Sun Wen" one by one.
When Sun Yat-sen was dying, after explaining his revolutionary last wishes to his colleagues, he entrusted all his family property to Soong Ching-ling, hoping to leave a little commemoration for his wife, and even asked for people 3 times, just so that his beloved wife Soong Ching-ling could live senselessly after he left.
On the morning of March 12, 1925, Sun Yat-sen passed away at No. 11 Tieshi Hutong in Beijing. His last words were "peace, struggle, and save China", which were also the goals that Dr. Sun Yat-sen had been pursuing all his life.
Across life and death
In October 2016, a huge portrait of Sun Yat-sen was erected on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, exactly like the portrait of Sun Yat-sen printed on banknotes at the time 93 years ago.
The government at the time decided to print banknotes using portraits of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Sun Yat-sen asked Soong Ching-ling to choose for him, and Soong Ching-ling selected a photograph of Sun Yat-sen dressed in a Zhongshan suit among many portraits. It was Sun Yat-sen's favorite costume.
In 1981, Soong Ching Ling died of illness in his beijing apartment, and the 88-year-old Soong Ching Ling and Sun Yat-sen, who died at the age of 59, finally crossed the era and died together.