In 1981, when Song Qingling often had a fever, her body suddenly collapsed, and she was trapped in a hospital bed and dying, she said her wish with hope: I hope to see my sister again!
At this moment, Mr. Song's most wanted to meet relative Song Meiling was far away in New York, in order to fulfill her wish, the people around her sent an urgent telegram, earnestly requesting Song Meiling to come and see Mr. Song for the last time. Just when everyone thought that Song Meiling would be invited back to China, her refusal was very chilling, looking at the few 10 words of the palindrome, a wave of sadness surged into Song Qingling's heart.
Mr. Song never imagined that decades of flesh and blood affection, which had been thicker than water, had come to such a point. Until her death on May 29, 1981, Mr. Song did not receive any more letters from his sister, and eventually she passed away forever with this regret. The Song sisters have lived together for decades, and this feeling of breaking bones and tendons is not so easy to cut. So why did Song Meiling refuse the second sister's deathbed invitation? What more words did she write in her reply?
Gritty and courageous twin flowers
In 1898, Song Meiling was born in Shanghai, and when she was born, her sister Song Qingling was already a four-year-old girl. Song Qingling, who has a warm-hearted and kind temperament, has taken great care of his little sister since he was a child. When they grew up, the two went to the United States to study at Willian Women's College.
Under the influence of his father's patriotic education, the patriotic sentiments of both Song Meiling and Song Qingling were extremely high. During his studies in the United States, Song Qingling has been paying close attention to the domestic situation. After hearing the news of the success of the Xinhai Revolution, Song Qingling was also very happy. Since then, she has been extremely curious about what the great man who overthrew the qing dynasty looked like.
After returning to China after completing his studies, Soong Ching Ling met Dr. Sun Yat-sen under the introduction of his father and became his secretary. It didn't take long for her to be deeply attracted to the highly thoughtful revolutionary in front of her, and the two of them fell in love smoothly.
As soon as the news of their love came out, it caused great opposition from his father. On the one hand, the age difference between the two is too big; on the other hand, Sun Yat-sen's identity is really special, and the parents of the Song family are naturally reluctant to let their daughters go to this muddy water.
In the face of family obstruction, Soong Ching Ling married Dr. Sun Yat-sen abroad without hesitation. Although her parents were extremely opposed to this, the little sister Song Meiling firmly stood by her sister's side and expressed her support. Song Meiling, who has always regarded her sister as an idol, greatly appreciates her sister's daring to love and hate, and she also wants to marry a powerful hero like her sister.
In 1922, Song Meiling accidentally met Chiang Kai-shek at a party hosted by her brother Song Ziwen. Immediately, she was attracted by Chiang Kai-shek's extraordinary temperament and conversation. That night, Chiang Kai-shek had also been paying close attention to this beautiful girl. After the party, Chiang Kai-shek began a fanatical pursuit of her.
However, just after Song Meiling told the second sister what she was thinking, she was unexpectedly opposed by the second sister. Long before the party, Soong Ching Ling had heard a lot about Chiang Kai-shek. Old Chiang kai-shek is not only sleek, but also very ambitious, and what makes Soong Ching Ling most unacceptable is that Chiang Kai-shek himself is still very careful, just in the Guangzhou area, there is more than one woman who has a relationship with him.
In order to prevent her little sister from marrying such a person with ulterior motives, Soong Ching Ling repeatedly expressed his dislike for Chiang Kai-shek in front of his parents. Under the influence of Soong Ching-ling, Mother Soong also had an extremely bad attitude toward Chiang Kai-shek. Not only that, Soong Ching Ling has said more than once that "I would rather my sister die than let her marry Chiang Kai-shek."
Looking at what the second sister did, Song Meiling was also furious, and since then the relationship between the two has broken down. Just when Song Meiling tried to persuade her parents at home, the eldest sister Song Xiaoling also stood in the same camp as her younger sister for political and economic reasons.
Finally, under the strong mediation of the eldest sister, on December 1, 1927, Soong Mei Ling finally got her wish and officially married Chiang Kai-shek. Backed by the two mountains of the Song family and the Kong family, Chiang Kai-shek's career path also went smoothly, and the marriage between the Two Families of Chiang and Song has since become a big mountain between the two sisters.
Drift away and fade away
Soon, Song Meiling and Song Qingling were on the opposite side of politics. Sun Yat-sen and Mr. Soong Ching-ling have been fighting for the people all their lives, and they have always been loyal supporters of the revolution who hold high the banner of the Three People's Principles and the Three Major Policies. On the other hand, Chiang Kai-shek's side has always adhered to a dictatorial policy that runs counter to it. This indelible political gap has also made the contradiction between the sisters more acute.
After the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in March 1925, Soong Ching Ling vowed to defend the three major policies formulated by her husband during his lifetime, and repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction with Chiang Kai-shek in public. Watching Soong Ching Ling provoke himself again and again, Chiang Kai-shek also gritted his teeth with hatred for this eldest sister-in-law. However, due to Soong Ching-ling's prestige in the Kuomintang and his wife's emotions, Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to kill her.
In order to recruit Soong Ching-ling to his command, Chiang Kai-shek planned to move the body of Dr. Sun Yat-sen from Beijing to the Purple Mountain Mausoleum in Nanjing, and urged Soong Ziliang to personally bring back Soong Ching-ling, who was far away in Berlin. For the sake of her husband, Song Qingling had to return to China. Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted to take this opportunity to make friends with Soong Ching-ling, and before Soong Ching-ling returned to China, he also specially prepared a welcome ceremony for him.
But what he never expected was that from the beginning of getting off the plane to the end of the funeral, Song Qingling was always frosty and silent. Not only that, but before returning to China, she also issued a public statement that she was only here to relocate the body of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and had nothing to do with the Nanjing government.
In the course of a later reporter's interview, she also said bluntly: "What Chiang Kai-shek did has seriously violated the original intention of the revolution, and she herself is very dissatisfied. In order to oppose the right wing of the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Ching Ling openly reached a cooperation with Deng Yanda in Berlin and repeatedly expressed his support for the Communists on international occasions.
Under Chiang Kai-shek's repeated assurances, Soong Mei-ling believed that he did not do it. Back at home, Song Meiling was still not very assured of her sister's safety, and without hesitation, she simply packed up a few packs and rushed to Shanghai to take care of her sister.
It did not take long for Japan's war of aggression against China to sweep through China, and the joint resistance of the whole nation to Japan was imminent. Although Chiang Kai-shek has always shouted the slogan that foreign countries must first be safe, he does not want to cooperate with our party to resist Japan. But the Xi'an incident became explosive, and he had to embark on the road of joint foreign affairs.
It is worth saying that after Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng mutinied and put Chiang Kai-shek under house arrest, thanks to the mediation of the two sisters Soong Ching-ling and Soong Mei-ling, the anti-Japanese united front of the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was reached, and Chiang Kai-shek returned safely. During that time, the sisters began to embark on a short "cooperation honeymoon period".
In order to jointly resist the Japanese army, Soong Ching Ling and Soong Mei Ling cooperated many times to deliver anti-Japanese speeches and held some patriotic movements. With the relaxation of the relationship between the two sisters, the exchanges between the six brothers and sisters of the Song family have gradually become more frequent. At the suggestion of Song Meiling, the six brothers and sisters of the Song family, who have been separated for many years, gathered together and held a family banquet on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
In order to avoid unnecessary contradictions, before the start of the family banquet, the eldest sister Song Aering put forward a commandment: "At this gathering, everyone can only talk about family affairs, not state affairs." On the day of the party, the atmosphere was extremely harmonious, and the three sisters rarely sat together and talked about the short things in the family. But what everyone did not expect was that this family banquet turned out to be the last reunion of the six brothers and sisters.
With the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the suspicious Kuomintang and our Party once again moved against each other. In the face of our Party's vigorous pursuit of peace talks, Chiang Kai-shek openly tore up the Kuomintang-Communist Armistice Treaty, vigorously defied public opinion, and provoked a civil war. The two sisters also made very different choices when faced with this matter.
As Chiang Kai-shek's wife, Song Meiling firmly sided with her husband. During this period, she went to the United States many times to ask for help, expecting to rely on the strength of the United States to help the Kuomintang achieve its dictatorial goals. However, Song Qingling felt that China had just concluded the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the country that had been shrouded in war for decades was no longer suitable for continued combat. To this end, she has repeatedly expressed her attitude of resolute opposition to the civil war in domestic and foreign newspapers.
Seeing the intolerable situation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Song Meiling was also very worried, on the one hand, she did not want to betray her husband, on the other hand, she was reluctant to give up her second sister whose blood was thicker than water.
After hesitating, she came to Song Qingling's side again and persuaded her to submit to the Kuomintang. Not only that, she also confessed to her sister: "If you are so obsessed, Lao Jiang will really kill you!" But Song Qingling did not take this seriously, and firmly expressed his attitude of not agreeing with the reactionaries.
Nothing can be done to regret it
In 1949, the War of Liberation came to an end, and the defeat of the Kuomintang was already nailed down. In order to save his life, Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan with Soong Mei-ling. Before leaving, Song Meiling once again ventured to send a letter to her sister, saying that she looked forward to taking her with her to Taiwan. However, in the face of Song Meiling's letter, Song Qingling only replied with a few words: "The country's great righteousness is the heaviest." ”
On April 5, 1975, Chiang Kai-shek died of illness in Taiwan at the age of 87. After dealing with the death of the old Chiang Kai-shek, Song Meiling stepped on a plane to the United States and settled in the United States ever since. Because he had not seen her for a long time, Song Qingling, who was busy with the affairs of new China, had always been extremely concerned about his sister, and had taken the initiative to send letters to his sister many times to express his thoughts about her.
But in this regard, Song Meiling's attitude has always been extremely indifferent, and each reply has only a few words. For the matter of returning to China, she always kept silent. As Song Qingling grew older, her thoughts for her little sister became stronger and stronger, and she remembered the figure of herself fighting side by side with her little sister many years ago, and she was also very much looking forward to seeing her again.
After being hospitalized for a heart attack, Song Qingling once again asked someone to send a letter to her, saying that he wanted to meet her one last time, but Song Meiling only replied with 10 words after seeing the letter: "Send my sister to New York for treatment, home." ”
The indifference and estrangement behind this letter is beyond words. After learning her answer, Song Qingling was devastated, knowing that the sisters' decades of contradictions could no longer be resolved. According to people close to Song Qingling, at the time of her death, she often held the photo of the three sisters in a daze.
On May 29, 1981, Song Qingling passed away. And until the last moment, her little sister never came back. In fact, not only Song Qingling, Song Meiling is also very missive of her sister, but the rejection of her sister by her sister in the past has caused a gap between them. What's more, after arriving in the United States, her every word and deed is also under the close supervision of the Americans, and if she is not careful, she will be caught by others and will be doomed. Thinking of this, she had to endure the pain of rejecting her sister's kindness.
In her later years, Song Meiling, who lived in New York, often talked about her sister to the people around her, and she also collected a photo of the three sisters and often took it out to see.
In 2003, Song Meiling's life also came to an end, and before she died, she expressed to others her desire to return to China and be buried with her family, but for various reasons, her wish was not realized.
Affected by the modern war, in fact, not only the Song family sisters, but also many families have fallen apart. Therefore, living in the era of peace, we should cherish the protection brought by the country and work together to strengthen the new China so that future generations can have a better future!