The marriage of Jiang and Song was, to some extent, a political wedding, and the two families had their own needs. However, judging from the situation after Jiang Song's marriage, although there were also quarrels, red faces, and scandals, the foundation of his marriage was always solid. Some people may ask whether Chiang Kai-shek is Soong Mei-ling's favorite? Did she really have feelings for Chiang Kai-shek? It can be said that there are feelings, but the most loved ones are not necessarily.
Song Meiling is an almost completely Westernized woman who received a Western education from an early age and lived in the United States for a long time. Except for her Chinese face, there is no one like a Western high-society woman. She was 29 years old when she married Chiang Kai-shek, which was also an older youth at that time, obviously at such an age, she and Chiang Kai-shek would never be the first love, before that, Soong Mei-ling had several lovers.
Speaking of Song Meiling's first love, there are many sayings, which is not surprising, she looks outstanding, has a moderate figure, has a cheerful personality, and likes to communicate, which will naturally attract many suitors. Regarding her first love, the most popular and influential version is his relationship with Liu Jiwen.
Liu Jiwen, born in 1890 in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, came from a poor family in childhood, but he was eager to learn and forge a solid foundation in culture. After the Xinhai Revolution, he studied in Japan, during which time he met Song Ziwen and the two became friends. In 1914, Liu Jiwen traveled from Japan to the United States. At this time, Song Meiling was studying at the Wesley Women's College in the United States, and the second sister Song Qingling, who had originally supervised her, had returned to China after completing her studies, and the heavy responsibility of taking care of her fell on Song Ziwen's shoulders.
Liu Jiwen often interacts with Song Ziwen, so there are many opportunities to contact Song Meiling. Coupled with Liu Jiwen's talent, temperament and profound knowledge, which makes Song Meiling very admired, after a period of time together, 17-year-old Song Meiling and 24-year-old Liu Jiwen became heart-to-heart, and with the acquiescence of Song Ziwen, they made love to New York, and since then there has been this legend.
But in the following 10 years, the environment in which the two lived changed greatly, their identities have changed, they only exchange letters with each other, there is no intimate behavior, and the two first love lovers have gone farther and farther. By 1927, Soong Mei-ling had married Chiang Kai-shek in Shanghai, while Liu Jiwen had married Xu Shuzhen in Nanjing in 1928. Interestingly, Chiang Kai-shek also witnessed Liu Jiwen's marriage, which was a good story at the time.
To be sure, Chiang Kai-shek took good care of this former enemy, and Liu succeeded him as the first mayor of Nanjing, the mayor of Guangzhou, and the member of the Capital Construction Plan, and later followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan with his family. Regarding Song Meiling's love affair, neither the Song family nor the Jiang family has ever shied away, which also shows that Song Meiling and Liu Jiwen are in love with an indisputable fact.
Song Meiling also has another relationship, which is aimed at Tan Yanmin, a veteran of the Kuomintang. Tan Yanmin was very trusted and valued by Sun Yat-sen, and in order to win over this warlord who held real power in Hunan, he wanted Song Meiling, who was waiting for him, to continue the string. At that time, Tan Yanmin was widowed not long ago, and after Sun Yat-sen obtained the consent of the Song family, he sent someone to speak to the media, but he was unexpectedly rejected by Tan Yanmin.
Tan Yanmin was born into the army, and entered Hanlin, and was known as the "first person in the Yanshu of the Republic of China", and had a gentleman's style, and Song Meiling also admired him for a long time. However, Tan Yanmin did not approve of this family affair, because the age gap between the two was large, and he believed that Miss Song's good youth should not be delayed. So he thought of a way to get the best of both worlds, he worshipped Mrs. Song as a dry wife, and recognized Song Meiling as a dry sister.
Later, Chiang Kai-shek proposed marriage to Song Meiling, and Song put forward a condition, saying that if Tan Yanmin did not marry as a matchmaker, Chiang Kai-shek entrusted Tan Yanmin to be a matchmaker, and Yu became this marriage. After Jiang Song got married, she did not forget her old feelings, and in order to remember her attempted marriage with Tan Yanmin, she recognized Tan Xiang's daughter Tan Xiang as a dry daughter and regarded her as her own. When choosing a son-in-law for his daughter,000, he set a harsh condition: the civilian official wanted a doctor, the military attaché wanted a major general, and later Tan Xiang married Chen Cheng.
Song Meiling's love for herself, she herself never easily revealed, others are more difficult to see the end. After her death in the United States, she published a number of letters that mentioned a classmate named Emma Deron Mills, who was Song Meiling's girlfriend. After Song returned to China, he wrote letters to this girlfriend continuously, and many of Song's secrets were also told to her.
In the letters, Song Meiling often mentions a man named H. K's people, the specific name is not written, this is probably a pronoun or abbreviation between them. It is said that this H. Mr. K's parents are rich, he fell in love at first sight after meeting Song Meiling, and soon launched a love offensive, from the information revealed by Song Meiling's letters, the two seem to have a marriage agreement in the United States, but Song Meiling forgot about him after returning to China.
Don't you expect this H· Mr. K was not reconciled, he rushed from the United States to Shanghai, and there was a misunderstanding from the outside world that they were already engaged, which annoyed Song Meiling, and H. Some of Mr. K's practices also caused dissatisfaction among the Song family, who felt that he was not mature enough and quite clever. In this way, Song Meiling's love story ended here.
Song Meiling's relationship with Liu Jiwen and Tan Yanmin is the most widely circulated and quite credible. Both men entered Song Meiling's heart earlier than Chiang Kai-shek, and both were the people she once wanted to marry, and Chiang Kai-shek could only rank third in order.