In China's modern and contemporary history, Zhang Xueliang is a historical figure who cannot be bypassed, and his life has participated in major historical events, such as the Beiyang Scuffle and the Northeast Yizhi, which have even affected China's future direction to a certain extent. For example, the peaceful settlement of the "Xi'an Incident" in that year played an important role in the united efforts of the whole nation to resist the aggression of the Japanese army. At this point, Zhang Xueliang has made a great contribution.
But there is a little-known historical detail that when Zhang Xueliang was dying, his legacy was not donated to China, nor to his children, but to the United States.
When it comes to Zhang Xueliang's precious legacy, it is not the gold and silver jewelry in everyone's eyes, after all, for such a famous historical figure, gold and silver jewelry is also too cheesy. But the reason why his legacy can be called "precious" is because most of these legacies are documents and correspondence. As an important historical figure in China's modern history, these materials and letters in Zhang Xueliang's hands contain great historical value, which is why they have attracted people's attention.
The reason why Zhang Xueliang did not leave these precious inheritances to his children is because Zhang Xueliang has experienced too many ups and downs in his life, and Zhang Xueliang, who is accustomed to the wind and waves, does not want his children to bear a heavy ideological burden because of these inheritances, which is also the embodiment of his great wisdom.
On the other hand, Zhang Xueliang was reluctant to hand over these materials to China because he had been away from the mainland for too long and did not know much about the rapid changes in his motherland, so he weighed them all and donated all of these inheritances to Columbia University in the United States.
Columbia University is a famous university in the United States, also enjoys a high reputation in the world, in which the study of sinology is even more famous in the world, perhaps in the depths of Zhang Xueliang's heart, these materials to the Columbia University Research Institute, in order to better play and reflect its due historical value!