At the beginning of 1949, with the victory of our army's three major battles, the millions of Kuomintang troops on which Chiang Kai-shek depended for survival collapsed in an instant. After successive defeats, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to "resign" due to unfavorable war conditions and went to the field for the third time.
After leaving the wilderness, after handing over the power of the National Government to "Acting President" Li Zongren, he returned to his hometown in Fenghua Xikou Town, Zhejiang Province, as usual, to conduct another "reflection." On the day that Chiang Kai-shek announced his resignation, he wrote in his diary: "The situation is chaotic and the interior is complicated, and only by calmly and carefully observing it and holding on to it will we wait for the opportunity to move, and we will not be able to win the final victory." "Old Jiang after shino is not idle, he is beginning to make many preparations for the comeback.
On the evening of 28 January, the Chinese New Year's Eve, Chiang Kai-shek hosted a dinner at his home to entertain his loyal officials and guards. Old Jiang said to everyone emotionally: "The family is poor and filial piety, and the country is difficult to produce good generals." The fate of the party and the state is related to the honor and disgrace of all of you, and the life of the people! When we go uphill, it is not unusual for others to run after us, and when we go downhill, you have gone through a lot of twists and turns from all over the world to come to you, which is the most rare thing! ”
After a few years, Chiang Kai-shek took everyone with him to visit the grave of Wang Caiyu's mother. After sweeping the curtain, he rushed to xuedou temple with his son Jiang Jingguo and others, asked the old monks in the temple to tell his fate, and listened to the master's teachings.
Xuedou Temple, full name Xuedou Zisheng Zen Temple, is located in the heart of Xuedou Mountain, founded in the Jin Dynasty, arose in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Two Song Dynasties, and was one of the "Five Famous Buddhist Mountains" during the Republic of China period, Xuedou Temple is also a Maitreya Buddha dojo, which contains the Maitreya Buddha of Xuedou Mountain. Chiang Kai-shek was extremely concerned about the construction of Xuedou Mountain and Xuedou Temple, and also wrote the inscription "The First Mountain of Siming" for the mountain gate.
Although Chiang Kai-shek was in a high position and was the leader of the Kuomintang, he was also from an ordinary family. His father died early, and he was raised by his mother. His mother was a great believer in Buddhism, and Chiang Kai-shek was influenced by Buddhist culture from an early age, which had a great influence on his life. Later, when Song Meiling met him, she said to him, "If you believe in Christ, I will marry you." "Chiang Kai-shek, in order to get Soong Mei Ling, believed in Christ.
At Xuedou Temple, Old Chiang met an old monk who was well versed in the Buddhist scriptures and was concerned about the current situation, and immediately told Chiang Kai-shek's fortunes. After the old monk knocked on the wooden fish, he said, "Carelessly lost Jingzhou, Guan Gong went to Maicheng." After Chiang Kai-shek heard these words, his face was a little ugly. The old monk continued, "Trapped in Nagasaka slope, lost and fell to Fengcheng." "It is not good to leave the teacher, lose his wife and lose his wife, and seek a way out early."
"Carelessly losing Jingzhou, Guan Gong taking Maicheng", "trapped in Changsakapo, lost and fallen in Fengcheng" are all classic stories of the end of heroes in the Three Kingdoms period. After listening to the old monk's words, Chiang Kai-shek's psychology completely collapsed, and his whole body trembled.
Seeing that old Jiang was trembling, Jiang Jingguo, who was standing next to him, said busily: "Father, this kind of thing, if you believe it, you have it, and if you don't believe it, you don't have it." Chiang Kai-shek said angrily, "Don't talk nonsense!" The bodhisattvas here are very spiritual. ”