Chiang Kai-shek had a beloved grandson, and he even spoke highly of the child as "cute" in his diary, and this person was Jiang Xiaoyong.
He was both Chiang Kai-shek's younger grandson and Chiang Ching-kuo's child, and in 1996, the media rushed to the scene when they learned of his press conference.
At this time, Jiang Xiaoyong was suffering from cancer and had entered the time of death.
Faced with the history of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, who has witnessed the history of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, and Chiang Hyo-yong, who is still alive today, many media reporters are curious and expect him to say something earth-shattering.
Under the expectation of media reporters, Jiang Xiaoyong said that he hoped to move the "two Chiang" to his hometown.
After speaking, Jiang Xiaoyong spoke three more sentences, which were backward and silent at the scene for a long time, which made all the media friends moved.
So, what three sentences did Jiang Xiaoyong say, and why did he put forward the wish of the "two Chiangs" to move to their hometown? Did this wish finally come true?
"Two Chiang Kai-shek" last wishes "leaves fall back to the roots"
At the beginning of the 20th century, Western ideas flowed into China, colliding with old Chinese ideas, which brought great shock to China, and Chiang Kai-shek was born in this era of alternating old and new.
For him, he has received both traditional and new education, so the traditional Chinese ethical ideas are deeply rooted in his mind.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the party and government organs of the Nationalist government moved to Chongqing, which was far from Chiang Kai-shek's hometown of Xikou, and every year Chiang Kai-shek would call his sister-in-law to express his regret that he could not return home to worship his ancestors and thank his sister-in-law for his agency.
In addition, Chiang Kai-shek also revised the genealogy and personally proofread the manuscripts and transcriptions, which can be found in the historical materials.
For example, on June 2, 1948, Chiang Kai-shek's diary cloud: before going to bed, he read the first department of examination sources, and Secretary Sha was able to specialize in examination facts; on the 11th, he also said: In the afternoon, he still finished the examination order of the first department, and he should also make a copy of it...
This work was not completed until November, when Chiang Kai-shek's hometown, Xikou, held a grand ceremony for entering the score, when Chiang Kai-shek, because he was too busy with military affairs to participate, chose his son Chiang Ching-kuo to preside over it.
Nevertheless, Chiang Kai-shek was still a little uneasy, so he personally called Chiang Ching-kuo to inquire about the situation, and when he learned that there were more than forty tables of people who had come to congratulate him, Chiang Kai-shek was relieved and immediately relieved when he sat in the lobby.
For his hometown, his own family, Chiang Kai-shek has always been concerned about his heart, and in the decades that he came to live in Taiwan, he has never forgotten it, perhaps, this is the unique "homesickness" plot of Chinese.
Among them, Chiang Kai-shek is particularly concerned about the tombs of his ancestors, who in the past few decades have sent people to his hometown Xikou many times to observe the situation of the tombs, and this can also be measured from historical materials.
According to a passage described in the "Reflections on the Last Week" after October 12, 1957, "Comrade Wu Tianming brought news from his hometown that the tombs of his ancestors were safe and sound. It can be seen that Chiang Kai-shek has always been deeply nostalgic for his hometown.
Perhaps the older he became, the more homesick he became, and Chiang Kai-shek in his later years even named the place name of his hometown Xikou to the buildings and landscapes in which he lived.
In 1971, when Chiang Kai-shek was 84 years old, he recorded in his diary on January 28 that after breakfast, he climbed the Dragon Head Mountain on the right and looked at the pavilion on the mountain, which made people think of the Ci'an Temple in his hometown, so he named this pavilion Ciyun Pavilion to commemorate the ancestors of Mercy.
Isolated from his hometown and missing his hometown, Chiang Kai-shek could only send affection and masturbate in this way, and it was precisely because of homesickness that Chiang Kai-shek would leave a last wish before his death, asking for "falling leaves to return to the roots" and temporarily placing the coffin in Cihu Lake, and could not seal the soil until one day he returned to his hometown.
As the son of Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo was also deeply influenced by his father and loved his hometown of Fenghua Xikou deeply, not to mention that his mother was buried here.
It is worth mentioning that at that time, for the sake of cross-strait reunification, Deng Xiaoping specially repaired the cemetery for Chiang Ching-kuo's hometown and secretly sent photos of the cemetery to Taiwan.
At that time, Chiang Ching-kuo was deeply moved when he received the photographs, and Chiang Ching-kuo gradually shook his attitude shortly after that, slowly opening up the visit of relatives on both sides of the strait, and raising the relations between the two sides of the strait to a new height.
After Chiang Ching-kuo's death, like his father, he also left a last wish of "returning to the roots of the leaves", so that the coffin has not been buried to this day.
Chiang Kai-shek's favorite grandson
Since Chiang Ching-kuo's death and Lee Teng-hui came to power, the rule of the "Chiang family dynasty" has ceased to exist, against the background of the glory of the "Chiang family" has gone.
Chiang Ching-kuo, his brother Chiang Wai-kuo, and his son Chiang Hsiao-yong made a request to the Taiwan authorities for "moving their souls," hoping to bury chiang kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo's coffins in their hometown.
After receiving the request of the two men, the Taiwan authorities did not immediately reply, holding that this is not just a simple "transfer of spirits" back to their hometown, but also involves many political factors, and it is not possible to agree to it so simply, so the Taiwan authorities have not responded to this matter on the surface.
Jiang Xiaoyong, who suffered from advanced throat cancer, personally came to his hometown of Xikou, Zhejiang in 1995, and he thought that when his grandfather talked to him about his hometown when he was young, he always had a gentle eye and tone, and he wanted to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather and father before he died.
Jiang Xiaoyong is not only the son of Chiang Ching-kuo, but also the favorite grandson of Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek also praised "filial piety and loveliness" in his diary without hesitation!
In the era when Jiang Xiaoyong was born, the Kuomintang was already in a losing position, and for the sake of safety, Jiang Xiaoyong came to Taiwan with his family not long after he was born, and it was for this special reason that Chiang Kai-shek gave more preference to this little grandson, and he always felt that he owed a debt to his grandson and failed to let him live a better life.
When he was a child, Jiang Xiaoyong was often held in his grandfather's arms and teased. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was in charge of Taiwan's military and political power, and whether he was facing his subordinates or handling official affairs, his expression was often unsmiling, and when others made mistakes, they would often mercilessly scold them, which made people discouraged.
However, when facing Jiang Xiaoyong, Chiang Kai-shek often smiled kindly, never scolded him, and gave him almost all his favor, and the two were like the grandchildren of ordinary families, harmonious and amiable.
In addition, according to some guards working in the "Chiang family's" residence, Jiang Xiaoyong was not only deeply favored by Chiang Kai-shek, but also deeply favored by his father, Chiang Ching-kuo.
In their impression, Jiang Xiaoyong is the son who is the most pleasing to Chiang Ching-kuo and the son who listens to him the most, compared to his brother's pride, Jiang Xiaoyong is rare and valuable, with a modest attitude, and this is the reason why he is doubly favored.
Under the expectations of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Hsiao-yong embarked on a road to join the army and chose the preparatory class of the Army Officer Academy, and the day before he left for the military academy, Chiang Kai-shek specially called Chiang Hyo-yong over and handed him NT$200 and asked him to accept it.
Chiang Kai-shek told him that this was his grandfather's wish, and he hoped that he would use it to study and make great achievements in the future.
Like all ordinary families, when faced with children who want to go to school, Chiang Kai-shek will also give his children money to spend like an ordinary parent, and he has deep hopes for his children's future.
Jiang Xiaoyong's performance in the military school is also excellent, he obeyed the orders and arrangements of the teacher in the campus, ranked among the best in various examinations, scored high scores many times, and soon became a prominent figure in the school.
However, there was an unexpected storm in the sky, Jiang Xiaoyong accidentally broke his ankle during a military training, and this recuperation was for several months, so it caused him to be unable to keep up with the course, and Jiang Xiaoyong also left the military school and ended his military career.
During his studies at the military academy, Jiang Xiaoyong met his lover, Fang Zhiyi, and when he left the military academy to transfer to the Department of Political Science of National Taiwan University, the two held a wedding in 1973 with the consent of their parents.
But what Jiang Xiaoyong did not expect was that his grandfather Chiang Kai-shek, due to a car accident and poor health, left him a few years later and died in 1975, while his father Chiang Ching-kuo also died of illness in the 13th year after his grandfather's death.
All these changes came so suddenly.
In 1995, Standing in front of the ancestral tomb of Fenghua Xikou in Zhejiang Province, Jiang Xiaoyong can still recall the past years, he endured the pain of cancer, reverently worshipped his ancestors, visited the tomb, and fulfilled his wish to return to his hometown for his grandfather and father.
He never forgot in his heart that his grandfather and father wanted to "return to the roots of the leaves", and after returning to Taiwan, he actively participated in the "soul transfer" incident.
Jiang Weiguo
"Moving spirits" storm
Among them, in the "spirit transfer" incident, two people played a crucial role, one of which was Jiang Xiaoyong and the other was Jiang Weiguo.
On July 8, 1996, Jiang Weiguo proposed at the group meeting that the Kuomintang Central Committee should set up a "Preparatory Committee for the Relocation of the Spirit Continent." He made a righteous speech at the meeting, hoping that his father and brother would settle down and reassure the people...
His speech made the participants in the audience silent, and people looked at Jiang Weiguo in shock, and they could not believe that he had openly put forward this remark.
And the rotating chairman Xu Lide, shocked, almost stood up from his chair, he only felt that he was extremely unlucky, during the period of duty, he encountered such a difficult decision-making event.
(Left) Lee Teng-hui
When Jiang Weiguo finished reading the manuscript in his hand and looked at Xu Lide with a threatening gaze, Xu Lide wiped the sweat from his forehead, and his face was full of smiles and resigned: "This matter is of great importance, it is not something I can easily decide, and it needs to be reported to the Kuomintang Central Committee and handed over to the secretary-general for handling." ”
In this way, this matter was kicked by Xu Lide like a ball to the secretary general.
After receiving this news, the secretary-general was also quite troubled, and he immediately reported the matter to "President" Lee Teng-hui.
After Lee Teng-hui learned about it, even though he handed the matter over to the "Central Standing Committee" for discussion, in addition, he also made the final choice by understanding the attitude of the "Chiang family" and Soong Mei-ling through some people who had close contacts with the "Chiang family."
After the Chinese media learned of this incident, they took the lead in publishing the news in the China Times, which caught the Kuomintang top brass off guard and shifted the world's attention to this matter.
Under the pressure of public opinion from all walks of life, the Kuomintang authorities did not hide any more, and they took the initiative to reveal to the outside world that three former secretaries-general of the Kuomintang "Central Committee" had formed a planning committee and conducted a detailed study of Jiang Weiguo's proposal.
Jiang Xiaoyong
"Returning the fallen leaves to the roots" and "entering the soil for safety" is a custom that Chinese has been handed down from ancient times, and moreover, the coffins of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo have not yet entered the soil, and the "Chiang family" people naturally cannot sit idly by all the time, and naturally want to fulfill the last wish of the "two Chiangs" and let the souls of the two return to their hometown and rest in peace.
However, what is helpless is that the Kuomintang Central Committee has frequently obstructed the "transfer of the spirit" of the "two Chiang Kai-sheks," so that there has been no progress in this matter.
This also made Jiang Xiaoyong, who was ill, attend the Fourth Plenary Session of the 14th Central Committee of the Kuomintang with illness and speak through an informal press conference, expressing his dissatisfaction and resentment.
He stressed that "the two Chiang Kai-sheks moved their souls" to Feng'an was too politicized.
After saying this, he looked at the distance with emotion and said helplessly, each place has its own customs, we must respect these customs, my hometown custom is "into the soil for safety", so I am always looking forward to my grandfather and father "moving the spirit of the continent" and "into the earth for safety".
After that, Jiang Xiaoyong returned to the hospital to recuperate, and when he felt that his time was short, he finally decided to hold another press conference, invited the reporter to his hospital bed, and solemnly said three sentences to the media:
First of all, Taiwan has been China since ancient times, and China will never change this position. Secondly, the last wishes of grandfather Chiang Kai-shek and father Chiang Ching-kuo will always be fulfilled, and they will always return to their hometowns. Finally, we have no way to repay the favors left by our grandfather and father to the descendants of the "Jiang family", so people must rely on their own efforts to achieve things in their lifetime, and the "Jiang family" will not go against the wishes and will of their ancestors no matter what the circumstances.
After the words were said, the family members and reporters at the scene were all moved.
On December 22, 1996, Jiang Xiaoyong died.
On September 23, 1997, Jiang Weiguo died.
With the successive deaths of the two, the problem of "moving the spirit" has once again stalled and ended in an insoluble.