Whether it was in the past or in the present, foreign countries or China, generally some families with family wealth, and in order to avoid disputes caused by the uneven sharing of their descendants after their death, as the elder of the family will make a will when possible.
There have been many thought-provoking wills throughout the ages, and the style of this material is generally related to the personality of the person concerned. For example, Cao Cao's will was unexpected by everyone, and it was not at all expected that it would be the will of the King of Wei. In his arrangement, most of it was about what happened to these beautiful women who were looking for him after his death.
And for serious things, he said very little. This is in line with his adulterous personality - he loves beautiful people all his life, and when he is dying, he does not arrange for the confidant who once accompanied him. There is very little to say about politics, but every sentence is very crucial for future generations, and the core content of his life is in just a few sentences.
Chiang Kai-shek also made a will. However, he has more than one will. Every time he felt a crisis around him, he would write down a will. Therefore, as far as is known so far, Chiang Kai-shek has left more than a dozen wills. Many people hope to understand the thoughts of this character and his last moments of inner thoughts from these materials. So what did he write about in these wills?
There was a will he made in 1920. He was involved in the revolution at the time, and the political situation was not optimistic, in which case he often felt that there was danger around him at all times, so he wrote this will. At this time, his status was not yet at a later height, and in his will, it is said that more should be mentioned in the regret and expectation that the revolutionary cause has not yet been completed. However, this is not the case, and the whole article is more about the distribution of his own inheritance. This kind of performance confined to the family, even he himself felt very distressed, inevitably the pattern is slightly smaller.
In 1922, Dr. Sun Yat-sen was killed in Guangzhou. At the moment of crisis, Chiang Kai-shek went to guard. He felt that he did not know whether he was alive or dead this time, so he wrote down a will again. Among them, he entrusted his family to Zhang Jingjiang's care. It seems that he will be able to proceed with peace of mind in the revolutionary cause. Thereafter, whenever he encountered a crisis, he would write a will. For him, the will seems to be not just a matter of arranging the aftermath, but more of a reassurance for himself, so that he can calmly cope with the crisis in front of him.
During the Xi'an Incident, he once again felt threatened. This time, he wrote three wills separately, explaining all aspects of his unease.
In most of his wills, he was nothing more than an account of the revolutionary cause and the arrangements of family members, and in his later years, he let his son Chiang Ching-kuo take over his career. One of the more special ones is the one written in 1934 about Song Meiling.
That year, he and his wife Song Meiling returned to their hometown and met many deceased people, which meant that they would return home. After that, he naturally also had a lot of ideas, especially after the ancestor worship, so he wrote this will with a pen. Among them, it is first said that after his death, he will be buried with Song Meiling.
However, this article disappointed him, because before Song Meiling died, she said that she did not want to be buried with her husband, but wanted to be buried with Song Qingling. Speaking of this will, secondly, Chiang Kai-shek also talked about the issue of inheritance, he said that after his death, all the inheritance attributable to him personally was given to Soong Meiling, and his two sons could only recognize this one mother, and would never allow others to be mothers. In fact, none of the two sons were born to Song Meiling, nor was one raised by her. Chiang Kai-shek did this because he was worried that after his death, the Chiang family would treat his beloved wife poorly, so that she would not be too desolate.
In fact, after his death, there was not much inheritance left, not enough for Song Meiling to support the rest of her life according to her living habits. After arriving in the United States, her life was still funded by the Confucius family. Even so, we cannot ignore Chiang Kai-shek's love for his wife. This, again emphasized in his 1936 will, was that he could not accept the miserable condition of his beloved wife after his death. Unfortunately, Song Meiling did not choose to be with her husband in the first place of burial, and I don't know what Chiang Kai-shek would think if he heard this news.