The former planted trees, and the posterity shaded; the predecessors planted fruits, and the posterity enjoyed happiness. Living in today's rich and powerful life, we naturally cannot forget the revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the sake of the Chinese revolution. Sun Yat-sen was one of them, a great national hero of the Republic of China period, and after seeing the hopelessness of the Qing government in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, he tried everything he could to make poor and backward China strong.
Even though he was in Japan, he still thought about China, founded the Xingzhong Association to organize a group of patriots, and eventually returned to China to launch the Xinhai Revolution, overthrowing the decadent rule of the Qing government. He founded the Republic of China, founded the Chinese Kuomintang, also proposed and advocated the Three People's Principles, and during his tenure as provisional president of the Republic of China, he also presided over the adoption of the Constitution of the Five Powers.
In 1911, after Sun Yat-sen heard of the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising in the United States, he immediately returned to China from the United States, and after that, Dr. Sun Yat-sen actively devoted himself to revolutionary work. After Mr. Sun Yat-sen was forced to step down as the provisional president and saw what Yuan Shikai wanted to restore, he actively traveled around and organized a large number of people of insight to establish the Kuomintang, providing a large number of talents for the country.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen has always been highly respected by the people. It is precisely because he made great contributions to China before his death that he had no time to take care of his own private affairs and has always devoted himself to the construction of the motherland. Therefore, after his departure, the specific situation about Dr. Sun Yat-sen's family has also received attention.
Since Dr. Sun Yat-sen had always been keen on the revolutionary cause during his lifetime, and he had been looking for ways to make our country stronger, Dr. Sun Yat-sen did not accumulate huge wealth during his lifetime, nor did he leave a considerable legacy for his family. After the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, what arrangements should be made for his wife and children has always been a topic of concern. So, after Dr. Sun Yat-sen left, how did his wife and children live?
Dr. Sun Yat-sen's complex family.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen married a total of three women during his lifetime, which means that he had three wives, namely Lu Muzhen, whom his parents identified, Kaoru Ōtsuki, and Soong Ching-ling, whom he married when he fled Japan. Sun Yat-sen's first wife was Lu Muzhen, who bore Sun Yat-sen a son and two daughters.
Although Lu Muzhen and Sun Yat-sen had three children, the feelings between the two people were not so deep. Therefore, when Sun Yat-sen met soong Ching-ling, who was like-minded with him, he asked his first wife for divorce. Although Soong Ching Ling became Sun Yat-sen's second wife, no children were born between the two of them. Sun Yat-sen later arrived in Japan for some reason and met a Japanese woman, Ōtsuki, who was his third wife, who bore Sun Yat-sen a daughter.
The inheritance of Sun Yat-sen.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen had three wives and four children in his lifetime, and if he had thought according to the ideas of ordinary people, when he wrote his will, he would definitely have to take into account his four children and three wives. However, after Sun Yat-sen's death, he chose to leave all his inheritance to Soong Ching-ling, and did not share it with his four children.
In fact, Dr. Sun Yat-sen did not have any property at that time, and his legacy after his death was only some clothes and books and a house in Shanghai. And Soong Ching Ling has been accompanying and taking care of him, and Soong Ching Ling has no children, the future pension is still a problem, and Sun Yat-sen's third wife, Kaoru Ōzuki, naturally cannot receive Sun Yat-sen's inheritance in Japan, so Sun Yat-sen's legacy is all left to Soong Ching-ling. For this choice of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, his children chose to understand their father's decision.
Many descendants, do not forget the legacy
The son of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and his first wife, whose only son was named Sun Ke, held a number of government positions when New China was not founded and when Chiang Kai-shek held power in China. After the founding of New China, the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, and although Sun Ke was not a Kuomintang in the strict sense, he was inseparable from the Kuomintang, so he chose to resign voluntarily and emigrate to a foreign country.
Sun Ke did not return to China after that, and he and some of his children have been living abroad. Even now they have not returned to China, although they live in foreign countries, they have always been very concerned about the current situation of development at home, they have always maintained a patriotic enthusiasm, and when they need help at home, they do not hesitate to spare money.
Sun Yat-sen and Lu Muzhen had two daughters, the eldest daughter named Sun Jiao and the younger daughter named Sun Wan. Sun Yat-sen's eldest daughter was sent abroad to live when she was very young for risk avoidance. Later, she also studied abroad and did not return to China. Probably because she was separated from her father from childhood, Sun Yat-sen loved his eldest daughter very much, but unfortunately, the day did not go according to people's wishes, and she later died of illness at a young age.
Sun Yat-sen's second daughter, Sun Wan, has a much longer life span than her own sister, but her love life has been very tortuous, the first man she likes is a person with a family, Sun Wan is a woman who has received new ideas and new education, she is not willing to be a third party who destroys other people's families, so she immediately made a decision. After that, she met her lover, the two lived in love, and their children have been contributing to China's construction.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen had no children with Soong Ching Ling, but he had a daughter in Japan. Sun Yat-sen had left Japan and returned to China before Miyagawa Tomiko was born, and he never returned to Japan after his return.
After Miyagawa Tomiko was born, Kaoru Ōtsuki was unable to support her alone, so he gave her to someone else to raise her. It wasn't until Miyagawa Tomiko grew into adulthood that Kaoru Otsuki told her that she was a descendant of Sun Yat-sen. Since then, Miyagawa Fumiko has been living in Japan and has not recognized her ancestors.
Most of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's descendants have inherited his legacy, even if they are abroad, they still have always been concerned about China, they have always retained a patriotic heart, they have not denied that they are Chinese identity, when the country needs help, they have been running for the country, collecting money and goods for the country, and they have been contributing to the construction of new China.
The descendants of Dr. Sun Yat-sen did not live up to his expectations, they built an increasingly beautiful new China together, even if they grew up abroad and settled abroad, but they did not forget their motherland, Dr. Sun Yat-sen should be relieved to know it.