In his lifetime, Chiang Kai-shek has married four wives successively: there are old-thinking women under arranged marriages; there are also wind and dust women who have been married in the wind, flowers, snow and moons; and there are new-era women who have stayed in the west and received a new-style education.
First Married Woman- Maofuku Ume
Mao Fumei was a very typical feudal old society woman, in 1901, 19-year-old Mao Fumei married Chiang Kai-shek, who was only 14 years old, after the words of the matchmaker and the orders of his parents. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was still young, still a stubborn child.
When he was a child, Chiang Kai-shek was not mature enough in his treatment of men and women, and he was even more ignorant of marriage. Although Chiang Kai-shek had the name of husband and wife for Mao Fumei, he did not have the slightest love between men and women in it.
In the eighth year of Chiang Kai-shek's marriage to Mao Fumei, under the persecution of Chiang Kai-shek's mother, Chiang Kai-shek finally reconciled with Mao Fumei. A year later, Mao Fumei gave birth to Chiang Kai-shek's first child, Chiang Ching-kuo, chiang's only biological son.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek, for his political future, prepared to marry Soong Mei-ling, one of the three sisters of the big chaebol Soong family. In the era of the Republic of China, when monogamy was just emerging, Chiang Kai-shek, as a public figure, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expeditionary Army, had to divorce his original wife if he wanted to marry her in a bright and upright way.
This year, the forty-five-year-old Mao Fumei, after twenty-six years of widowhood, did not cry or make trouble, and agreed to legally terminate the marriage with Chiang Kai-shek.
After the divorce, Chiang Kai-shek would occasionally find time to return to his hometown in Fenghua. Mao Fumei still lives in Chiang Kai-shek's old mansion and will cook a few dishes for Chiang Kai-shek as before.
Sometimes, Song Meiling will also follow along, and Mao Fumei is always warmly welcomed, as if welcoming the "sons and daughters-in-law" who return home to visit their relatives after marriage. Song Meiling often brings some expensive jewelry such as peeling and ginseng to honor this Mao's "big sister".
In the winter of 1939, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to inflict a heavy psychological blow on Chiang Kai-shek, the Japanese sent aircraft to bomb Chiang Kai-shek's hometown, Fenghua Xikou. During a bombing campaign by Japanese aircraft, Mao Fumei was killed at the age of 57.
The second term, concubine - Yao Yecheng
Yao Yecheng was originally born into a rich family and had solid economic conditions. Unfortunately, although Yao Yecheng's family was well-off, his parents both died early. Yao Yecheng, who has been helpless in life since then, can only marry others early with the help of relatives.
Yao's husband is a stupid boy, addicted to smoking big cigarettes, and always treats Yao Yecheng with either beating or scolding. When her husband smoked opium and destroyed all his family property, he sold Yao Yecheng to Qinglou in exchange for a reward.
In 1911, Chiang Kai-shek, who liked to travel to the places of wind and snow, met Yao Yecheng in Shanghai. Two men and women of the same age, between pushing cups and changing cups, actually entered the depths of each other's souls.
Yao Yecheng had a deep affection for Chiang Kai-shek and handed over all the money he had accumulated over the years to Chiang Kai-shek for financial support. Chiang Kai-shek was very touched by this, so after his later discovery, he redeemed Yao Yecheng and took him into a concubine.
Chiang Kai-shek had an adopted son named Chiang Wei-kuo, whose biological father was Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law Dai Jitao and a Japanese woman. Because Dai Jitao was a very fierce woman, Dai Jitao did not dare to take his illegitimate son home, and could only turn to his good brother Chiang Kai-shek for adoption.
Chiang Kai-shek traveled for many years and handed over his adopted son Jiang Weiguo to his concubine Yao Yecheng to raise. Since he was a child, Jiang Weiguo has lived in Suzhou with his adoptive mother Yao Yecheng. Yao Yecheng and Chiang Kai-shek did not have their own children, so Yao Yecheng treated Jiang Weiguo very carefully and regarded them as if they were his own.
During Yao Yecheng and Jiang Weiguo's life in Suzhou, Chiang Kai-shek would often visit the mother and son and stay with Yao Yecheng for a few days to relieve the pain of lovesickness between the two.
In 1949, when the Kuomintang clique was defeated in Taiwan, yao Yecheng, 62, came to Baodao with Jiang Weiguo and later moved to Taichung to live. In 1966, Yao Yecheng died of illness at the age of 79.
The third wife, Chen Jieru
Compared with the origins of Chiang Kai-shek's first two wives and concubines, Chen Jieru's family is more advantageous, and her father is a shopping mall tycoon who runs a paper industry. In 1921, 15-year-old Chen Jieru married 34-year-old Chiang Kai-shek, and the two held a grand and formal wedding in Shanghai.
Compared with Yao Yecheng, Chiang Kai-shek's feelings for Chen Jieru were a little deeper, and he personally made many promises to Chen Jieru.
"I will use my blood to write you an oath of eternal love." - Chiang Kai-shek.
"You are my dear wife, the only lover in the world. Believe me, I will never fall in love with a woman other than you. --Chiang Kai-shek.
The oath is always just talk, and the same is true for Chiang Kai-shek. Although there was once a sea oath and a mountain alliance, after six years of marriage with Chen Jieru, Chiang Kai-shek still handed over a letter of resignation.
In order to marry Song Meiling, one of the three sisters of the Soong family, Chiang Kai-shek made the decision to divorce Mao Fumei and Chen Jieru. Except for her public status as commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition at the time, the Christian Song Meiling would not agree at all to Chiang Kai-shek having three wives at the same time. For this reason, Chiang Kai-shek could only divorce.
Under Chiang Kai-shek's coaxing and coercion, Chen Jieru agreed to Chiang Kai-shek's request and went to the United States after his divorce. Before leaving, Chiang Kai-shek told Chen Jieru that marrying Soong Meiling was a completely important thing that he had to do for the cause of the party-state, and he also made a promise to Chen Jieru:
"Five years, at most five years, I will definitely divorce Song Meiling and marry you back home." If my oath cannot be fulfilled, I would like to be bombarded by five thunderbolts, exiled overseas, and never return to my homeland. ”
In this way, Chen Jieru left under Chiang Kai-shek's vows, and went overseas alone to the distant United States. Unexpectedly, this distinction turned out to be a unique part between her and Chiang Kai-shek.
Five years later, Chiang Kai-shek did not divorce Soong Mei-ling as scheduled as promised, but became a well-known "model couple" with Soong Mei-ling.
In 1949, after the defeat of the Kuomintang in Taiwan, Chen Jieru did not follow Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan. Even if Chiang Kai-shek wanted to take Chen Jieru with him, Soong Mei Ling would never allow it. Song Meiling regarded Mao Fumei as the eldest sister of the Jiang family, but always regarded Chen Jieru as a love enemy.
Therefore, after Song Meiling married Chiang Kai-shek, she cut off all correspondence between Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Jieru, let alone take him with her to Taiwan. In 1971, Chen Jieru died of illness in her apartment in Hong Kong at the age of 65.
Fourth wife, Song Meiling
Among Chiang Kai-shek's four wives, Soong Mei-ling is undoubtedly the most well-known one, she accompanied Chiang Kai-shek throughout the second half of his life, and walked with Chiang Kai-shek through ups and downs for 48 years.
Soong Mei-ling's father, Soong Ka-shu, was an industrialist with great financial resources who gave sun yat-sen's extremely rich financial support in his revolutionary cause.
Song Jiashu had three sons and three daughters, and Song Meiling was Song Jiashu's third daughter. Born in Shanghai, the Song family went to the United States with her family as a child, where she received a Western-style education and a bachelor's degree in literature before returning to China with her family.
In 1922, Soong Mei-ling's eldest brother, Soong Zi-wen, hosted a dinner party in Shanghai, at which Chiang Kai-shek was a guest. It was at this dinner party that Chiang Kai-shek met for the first time with Soong Meiling, the third of the three sisters of the Soong family.
Chiang Kai-shek was immediately attracted by Soong Mei-ling's beauty and his outstanding temperament, and more importantly, with the strong financial resources of the Soong family and its influence at home and abroad, if he could marry Miss Soong Meiling, he would certainly be able to play a very great help to Chiang Kai-shek's future career development. To this end, Chiang Kai-shek began to pursue Soong Mei-ling at all costs.
At first, the Soong family was firmly opposed to Chiang Kai-shek's pursuit, until 1927, when Chiang Kai-shek, who had become the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expeditionary Army, led the National Revolutionary Army into Shanghai. Song Meiling, under the bitter heart of her eldest sister Song Yiling, agreed to the request to marry Chiang Kai-shek.
In order to marry Soong Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek left his original wife Mao Fumei and Chen Jieyi, who had been married for six years, to marry Song Meiling in the form of monogamy. On February 1, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling held a Western-style wedding in Shanghai.
It is worth mentioning that among the three sisters of the Soong family, the eldest sister Song Yiling married Kong Xiangxi, a great chaebol of the Republic of China, the second sister Soong Ching-ling married the revolutionary pioneer Sun Yat-sen, and the third sister, Song Meiling, married Chiang Kai-shek.
After marrying Soong Mei-ling, Chiang Kai-shek not only received very strong resources economically, but also played a role in "rapid progress" politically because of this marriage.
After Chiang Kai-shek married Soong Mei-ling, after the Northern Expedition War, the Great War of the Central Plains, and Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Yizhi, Chiang Kai-shek completed the formal unification of China and became the most powerful man in the land of China.
The Kong and Song families, which were already financially abundant, were attached to Chiang Kai-shek's "care" and became the two major super capitalists who had an economic impact on the whole country. Chiang Kai-shek relied on the Kong and Song families financially, and the Kong and Song families were able to protect themselves under chiang kai-shek's protection. Such a win-win relationship of "complementing each other" is precisely due to the marriage between Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling.
Soong Mei-ling was not only able to bring economic support to Chiang Kai-shek and the Kong and Soong families, but also became the number one person in The Heavenly Character in Chiang Kai-shek's government in terms of diplomacy. Because Song Meiling lived and studied in the United States since childhood, and was deeply influenced by Western thought and culture, she traveled to the United States several times as a "diplomat".
In 1943, As the wife of President Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling gave a sonorous and powerful speech to the US Congress. Song Meiling was the first Chinese woman to give a speech to the US Congress, and even during that time, a "Whirlwind of Song Meiling" was set off in the United States.
Soong Mei-ling's speech was very successful, not only had great influence, but also won Chiang Kai-shek extremely rich dollar support and achieved unprecedented diplomatic achievements.
In the third year of her marriage to Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling gave birth to a child for Chiang Kai-shek, but unfortunately, this child died not long after birth. Since then, Song Meiling has never been pregnant again.
Chiang Kai-shek died in Taiwan in 1975, and Chiang Ching-kuo became the second-generation head of the Chiang family dynasty in Taiwan. Because of the many political differences with Chiang Ching-kuo, Soong Mei-ling chose to leave Taiwan and live in the United States.
In 2003, Song Meiling died at her home in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 106.
It is a difficult question to answer about who among Chiang Kai-shek's four wives was the woman who touched his heartstrings the most. Each of these four women held a heavy position in Chiang Kai-shek's life. As for which is lighter and which is heavier, who makes him dream the most, I am afraid that only Chiang Kai-shek himself knows best in his heart.
Tulip Noble Rose Red,
Lily fragrance drunken hazy;
Thousands of reds and purples compete with each other,
Only the peony is more relaxed.