On October 24, 2003, the beautiful dusk, which affected a chinese era, spanning three centuries of chaotic beauty, the first lady of the Republic of China, Ms. Song Meiling, died of illness in her apartment in New York, USA, at the age of 106.
As the love of Chiang Kai-shek's life and the woman who accompanied Chiang Kai-shek for 49 years, Song Meiling was supposed to be buried with her husband after her death, but she left a special last word on the occasion of her death: after death, she would not be buried with Chiang Kai-shek.
What's going on? What did Song Meiling think at that time? What's the secret behind it?
There are probably four reasons behind it: The first reason is that in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary clique collapsed in the three-year War of Liberation and trusted the two people most after they had no choice but to flee to the Taiwan area; the first was chiang ching-kuo, the eldest son, who defeated Mao Renfeng, took over the intelligence system of the nationalist army with full authority, and successively launched financial wars in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, and other places, which brought great trouble to the new Chinese democratic regime, won chiang kai-shek's attention, and was the real right hand man of the old Chiang Kai-shek in his later years.
The second reason is that when the international reactionary regime was gradually declining, Soong Mei-ling still tirelessly traveled to the US political arena to lobby the Congress, and in the last days of Chiang Kai-shek's life, he called his sons and wives together to the hospital bed, folded their hands together, and deliberately urged Chiang Ching-kuo to be as filial as he was to filial piety to Soong Mei-ling.
Chiang Ching-kuo replied emphatically: "Obey your father's orders, this was the case in the past, it is so now, and it will be like this every day in the future!" ”
In 1975, after Chiang Kai-shek died in Taiwan at the age of 88 due to illness, Soong Mei-ling lost his patron, and Chiang Ching-kuo immediately broke the oath he had made before his father's sickbed, began to fight with Soong Mei-ling, and replaced all important posts in the Taiwan region with his own concubines.
Unable to return to heaven and unable to accept the changes in the situation in Taiwan after Chiang Kai-shek's death, coupled with the fact that Chiang Ching-ling hung a portrait of his birth mother Mao Fumei in his office and room, Soong Mei-ling felt more and more that the Taiwan region had no foothold for herself, so she officially left the Taiwan region in the second half of the year to return to the United States to recuperate and settle in the United States.
Later, Chiang Ching-kuo died of illness in 1988 at the age of 78, and after the death of Chiang's father and son, all of them left their last wishes, and all the coffins were temporarily suspended, and they were not buried in the ground for a long time.
Chiang Kai-shek had carefully selected three pieces of feng shui treasure land for himself in Nanjing, and had always dreamed of one day returning to his homeland and returning to his roots, while Chiang Ching-kuo hoped to be buried back in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province, accompanied by his birth mother Mao Fumei, and fulfilled his wish of filial piety after death.
Therefore, the Taiwan area has never been the ideal burial place in the minds of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, and it is very likely that the soul will be moved in the future, so Song Meiling, who believes in Christianity, is naturally unwilling to return to Taiwan to be buried with Chiang Kai-shek.
The third reason, Song Meiling has always wanted to return to the roots of the fallen leaves and be buried in the ancestral tomb of the Song family in Shanghai.
Since 1949, when she followed Chiang Kai-shek's defeat and fled to Taiwan, she has never visited the ancestral tomb of the Song clan to worship, and has always felt guilty and uneasy, because here not only are song jiashu and Ni Guizhen buried, but also the second sister Soong Qingling, and the relationship between Soong Meiling and the second sister Soong Qingling was the closest.
In 1915, Soong Ching-ling and the revolutionary pioneer Dr. Sun Yat-sen formed a close revolutionary companion in a foreign country, which was almost opposed by the entire Soong chaebol, only Soong Meiling unswervingly sided with her sister.
However, when Soong Mei-ling and Chiang Kai-shek held a wedding in Shanghai in 1927, Soong Ching-ling was invited to attend the wedding but he was cold-faced throughout the whole process and felt very unhappy from beginning to end.
That is, from then on, there was a crack between the originally intimate Song sisters, and later, with the political disagreements and different positions between the two sides, this rift became bigger and bigger, and finally it became an insurmountable gap, the two sides became the most familiar strangers, lived to become the most jealous of each other, and did not see each other again until death.
In 1980, Song Qingling was suffering from advanced cancer, and he had a premonition that his limit was approaching, so he specially entrusted someone to the United States to send a handwritten letter to Song Meiling, expressing his desire to meet and reconcile his sisters at the last moment of his life.
But after Song Meiling received the letter, she only said "I know" lightly, refused the last invitation of the second sister Song Qingling, not only refused to meet, but also did not make a phone call.
Of course, this does not mean that Song Meiling does not long for affection, she has not met with the second sister for more than 30 years, but she is worried that her meeting with the second sister Song Qingling will be made a big fuss by some impure viewers, and if she returns to China to meet With Soong Qingling, it will be equivalent to betraying her deceased husband Chiang Kai-shek.
In the two-way choice of family affection and faith, Song Meiling chose the latter very decisively, and finally gritted her teeth and gave up seeing the last side of Song Qingling, and Song Meiling also walked through the rest of her life with this regret, and her heart was very unhappy.
After The death of Soong Ching-ling, Soong Mei-ling read over and over again the photos of the three sisters of the Soong family living together, sometimes a look is a whole afternoon, since they can not be together before they die, then simply bury together after death, counted as making up for regrets, so Soong Mei-ling left a special last word before his death: do not go to the Taiwan area to be buried with Chiang Kai-shek.
The fourth reason, some relevant media speculated that Song Meiling attended the funeral of her stepson Chiang Ching-kuo, and after living in the United States for a long time in 1991, she bought a cemetery for herself in New York, USA, located in Fincliff Cemetery.
Here, although there are no parents and Soong Ching-ling buried, but there are three other close relatives of Soong Mei-ling, namely the eldest sister Song Ailing, the eldest brother-in-law Kong Xiangxi and the older brother Song Ziwen, so eventually Song Meiling's body was buried in the Fincliff Cemetery, without choosing to be with her parents and second sister, nor was she buried with her husband Chiang Kai-shek.
Because Song Meiling was very deliberately closed in her later years because of her physical reasons, and did not accept any media interviews, her true thoughts in the last days of her life were all unknown to everyone, and could only make simple guesses.
Although Song Meiling and Song Qingling were finally in a state of fire for various objective reasons, their life experiences were surprisingly consistent, they all served as the first lady, but they did not leave any descendants, both left a very large influence in the political arena, their status was very high, and finally before their deaths, they all left their last words and chose not to be buried with their husbands.
In 2003, song Meiling, a chaotic beauty spanning three centuries, died of illness at the age of 106, and with the death of Song Meiling, the once prominent Song chaebol family gradually disappeared into the long river of history.