Song Meiling's father was a priest who later became rich in publishing. Born into a wealthy local family in Shanghai. Song Meiling is the fourth of the six brothers and sisters to be born, and the 11-year-old Song Meiling has already gone to the United States to study. During his time at the school, he worked hard to learn Chinese and foreign languages.
Soong Mei-ling eventually married Chiang Kai-shek is well known, and after they first met in Shanghai, Chiang began a passionate pursuit of the young, beautiful and intelligent Soong Mei-ling. After he ended all his relationship with his wife and concubine, the two came together. The two are also quite affectionate together.
But Song Meiling, a centenarian who died at the age of 106, once told the children of the Kong family that he was sorry for a man, but this person was not Chiang Kai-shek, but Zhang Xueliang. Speaking of Zhang Xueliang, Song Meiling knew Zhang Xueliang long before they met the general, and the two also had a good feeling for each other. In Zhang Xueliang's eyes, Song Meiling is an excellent woman who is "extremely intelligent" and "cannot find a second in modern China", and in Song Meiling's eyes, he admires Zhang Xueliang's courage and frankness.
After the "Xi'an Incident", Zhang Xueliang was sent to prison and began a 54-year prison life, during which Time Soong Meiling also visited him for a long time and spoke kindly for him in front of Chiang Kai-shek more than once. Hearing the news of Zhang Xueliang's illness and death, Song Meiling was sad for a long time, and before she died, she said that she could not stand Zhang Xueliang, because she felt that he had lost half his freedom for half a life.