As the wife of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Soong Ching Ling was revered as the "Mother of the Nation", which is enough to see the status and weight of Soong Ching Ling at that time, but it was such a person who later did not choose to stand with the Kuomintang, but chose the Communist Party that was dedicated to the people, so Soong Qingling basically opposed the entire family.
Her life is full of legends, before she died, she suddenly made a request, that is, she did not want to be buried with Dr. Sun Yat-sen, such a request made many people wonder, why did Soong Ching Ling make such a decision? It turned out to be related to her parents.
The combination of Soong Ching Ling and Sun Yat-sen
Song Qingling was born in 1893, is the eldest lady of a wealthy family in Shanghai, her father Song Jiashu was an industrialist in the Republic of China period, the family is quite solid, so Song Qingling has lived in an environment of fine clothes and jade food since she was a child, but she has not become a big miss who does not care about the world, but has become the "mother of the country" who later served the country and the people, which is inseparable from the education she received from childhood and the kindness in her heart.
In the midst of the fiery era, Song Qingling felt the great shame brought about by the weakness of the country at a very young age, wanted to seek a way to save the country, and went to the United States to study with his ideals.
After returning to China, Soong Ching Ling joined the revolutionary ranks, at the age of 21, by chance to become the secretary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the two gradually developed feelings in the process of getting along, Soong Ching Ling out of love and admiration for Sun Yat-sen, the good feelings increased, Mr. Sun Yat-sen was deeply attracted by the young and beautiful and wise and courageous girl in front of him, and soon the two fell in love.
When the two fell in love, Sun Yat-sen was already a 48-year-old middle-aged man, and Soong Ching-ling's parents had originally had a friendship with Sun Yat-sen, but after learning about this matter, they were unusual, completely unable to accept this reality, and resolutely did not support the love between the two. Song Qingling had made up his mind, no matter how his parents objected, he insisted on following Sun Yat-sen, and after the failure of the second revolution, he directly followed Sun Yat-sen to Japan, where he held a wedding and officially became Sun Yat-sen's wife.
After becoming Sun Yat-sen's wife, Soong Ching Ling completely handed over her life to the revolutionary cause, and she deeply understood the truth of Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles and became a long-term practitioner of its implementation. In the eyes of Soong Ching Ling, his own life, compared with the revolutionary cause and Sun Yat-sen, seemed very small.
In 1922, Chen Jiongming rebelled, shelled the presidential palace and Sun Yat-sen's apartment, when Soong Ching Ling was already three months pregnant, in a critical moment, she insisted on staying to attract the attention of the rebels in order to cover Sun Yat-sen's departure, Sun Yat-sen pulled her to evacuate together, but she resolutely said: "You are not only mine, but also forty million Chinese, China can not do without me, but must not be without you."
Sun Yat-sen repeatedly advised Soong Ching-ling, she still insisted on choosing to stay, in the midst of danger, Sun Yat-sen could only transfer first, under the cover of Soong Ching-ling, in the end Sun Yat-sen was able to transfer safely, but Soong Ching-ling unfortunately miscarried in the process of cover, and since then lost the ability to have children, Sun Yat-sen is guilty of this, and at the same time deeply touched by Soong Ching-ling's great love.
Time passed quickly, only three years later, Dr. Sun Yat-sen died, when Soong Ching Ling was only 32 years old, and the years with Sun Yat-sen were only more than ten years, since the death of Sun Yat-sen, Soong Ching Ling has not looked for anyone else, but chose to live alone for a full 56 years, which makes people feel moved.
Song Qingling was a public servant all his life
Sun Yat-sen died, Soong Ching Ling did not have a son and a half daughter, he lived alone, and soon Chiang Kai-shek became the leader of the Kuomintang, and Soong Ching Ling's sister Soong Mei Ling married Chiang Kai-shek, and the rest of the family members also had close ties with Chiang Kai-shek, but Soong Ching Ling had already seen through Chiang Kai-shek's ambitions and was very dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorial behavior, so he chose to stand against Chiang Kai-shek, this decision directly led to the antagonistic relationship between Soong Ching-ling and his family, you can imagine how lonely Soong Ching-ling was at that time. But she was able to endure this loneliness and always move in the right direction as she thought, which was the true sense of selflessness.
In those lonely and lonely years, Song Qingling put all her energy into the cause of child welfare, in Song Qingling's heart, she was not able to become a mother, then the orphans all over the world were cared for as if they were her own children, which was the most important thing she could do.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, due to the impact of the cruel war, many orphans were added throughout the country, so Song Qingling first established the "China Wartime Child Care Association" in Wuhan, calling on the whole country to rescue those children who were in the midst of war disasters.
After the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, Soong Ching Ling continued to set up a child welfare station in Shanghai, using her savings for the children's daily life and study.
After the founding of New China, under the initiative of Song Qingling, the first children's palace, the first maternal and child health hospital, the first children's publication, the first children's theater, etc. under the attention of Song Qingling, the child welfare undertakings in New China have developed rapidly, and those children who have been helped by her have affectionately called her "Mother Song", and she has become the most competent mother in the hearts of countless children.
For the children's cause he has been doing, Song Qingling said: "Everything we are working on now is not a job, but the future of the whole of China", indeed, the future of a motherland can never be separated from those vigorous children, just as the so-called "young people are strong, the country is strong", Song Qingling's understanding of this sentence is very profound.
Dying wish
It can be said that Song Qingling's life has been dedicated to the revolutionary cause and the future of the motherland, she has never considered her own private affairs, to say that the only time she thinks for herself, it should be regarded as her wish before her death, but in our current view, this is also completely reasonable.
In December 1978, the 85-year-old Song Qingling returned to her home in Shanghai for the last time and lived at home for two months, and on the occasion of parting, she specially asked the accompanying photographer to take some photos of her old house so that she could take a look at it in the days to relieve homesickness.
At the beginning of 1981, Song Qingling's body has become weaker and weaker, lying on the hospital bed, Song Qingling, looking at the white snow outside the window, remembering her hometown, she took out the photos she took before and looked at it over and over again, she knew that she had run out of time, so she began to say her wishes and after-events.
She told the staff around her that she hoped that they would ask the central government to return to their hometown and be buried next to their parents after their deaths. For this wish put forward by Soong Ching-ling, many people expressed more doubts, and different voices also appeared in the party, some people felt that Chinese pay attention to the roots of falling leaves, Soong Ching-ling's wish is completely understandable, but others feel that Soong Ching-ling should be buried with Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
In the face of these different voices, the organization could not make up its mind, so it specifically sought out Soong Ching-ling's secretary Du Shuzhou and asked him to ask for soong Ching-ling's opinion on whether she and Dr. Sun Yat-sen could be buried together in Nanjing, after all, the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing was grand in scale and undoubtedly the best destination for Soong Ching-ling.
When Du Shuzhou and Song Qingling explained the meaning of the central authorities, Song Qingling categorically rejected the proposal and told Du Shuhuan to reach his wish: "After I die, please do not bury me with Mr. Zhongshan, I want to be buried in the Wanguo Cemetery in Shanghai, where there is my father and mother."
Hearing Song Qingling say this, Du Shuzhou finally understood what Song Qingling meant, and the reason why she wanted to do this was undoubtedly two reasons, the first point was that she left her parents in her twenties, did not listen to their opinions, chose to be with Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and since then the contact with her parents has become less and less, Soong Qingling feels indebted to them, and when she is alive, she has no chance to make up for it, and she can only be buried with them after her death, and slowly make up for it.
On the other hand, the reason is that Song Qingling often mentions his family with Du Shuzhou, such as Song Meiling, who all live abroad, and Song Qingling wants to use his actual actions to tell them the importance of returning to the roots of the fallen leaves, hoping that this move can make Song Meiling and others reflect and eventually return to the embrace of the motherland.
epilogue
Soong Ching Ling's whole life has been for the country and the people, the Grand Duke is selfless, even if she said before her death that she did not want to be buried with Dr. Sun Yat-sen, in fact, it is also a kind of thinking about the overall situation, she hopes that her actions can make her relatives return to the embrace of the motherland, so that it can also be regarded as the root of the fallen leaves!
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