In 1922, it was the beginning of the fate of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling. When they first met, the old Chiang fell in love with this beautiful and intelligent woman and passionately pursued Song Meiling, and Because Song was influenced by Western culture since childhood, she longed for free love and marriage, and she fell in love with Chiang Kai-shek.
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Chiang Kai-shek proposed marriage to Soong Mei Ling
Although Chiang Kai-shek already had a family at that time, he was still determined to overcome all difficulties and seriously proposed to Song Meiling, whose family background, living habits and religious beliefs were completely different from his own.
In order to get Soong Meiling's parents to agree to this marriage, Chiang Kai-shek did not hesitate to divorce his ex-wife, and traveled thousands of miles to Japan by boat to meet Soong Meiling's mother, and also took out his divorce certificate from his ex-wife to express his importance and sincerity in marrying Soong Meiling.
This made Song Meiling, who pursued the freedom of marriage, very moved, and the Song family finally agreed to the marriage, and Jiang and Song finally entered the marriage hall as they wished.
Marriage in a political context
For their marriage, many people will feel that this is a political marriage, why is this? If we want to answer this question, we have to start from Song Meiling's life background.
Song Meiling was born in Shanghai, her father grew up working hard in the United States, and after returning to China, he opened a publishing industry to create this family business, and as the most beloved little sister in the family, Song Meiling was loved by her father from an early age and was carefully cultivated to grow up. She was sent to the United States to study until she was 19 years old.
After returning to China, Song Meiling has mastered six foreign languages in addition to English. The combination of Soong Mei-ling, who was influenced by American culture and Chiang Kai-shek, who came from a Chinese military background, is a combination between Chiang Kai-shek's power and Soong Mei-ling's wealth in the near future, while a combination between the Kuomintang and the pro-American faction in the distance seems to be less pure.
However, in the relevant historical records, we can find that as long as it is related to Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling, the content between the lines in the book will make people feel that they are always in love with each other.
The run-in of living habits
Although Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling both have strong family backgrounds, on the surface, the two are really a door-to-door male and female appearance, in fact, they have two completely different life experiences, which has also caused a variety of run-ins to their later married life.
Because Song Meiling grew up in the United States, under the influence of cultural habits, life schedules are not very regular, in order to maintain her appearance, daily Western-style dining habits are even more out of place. And Chiang Kai-shek is a soldier, whether his diet or sleep is very regular, which makes the two unable to accommodate each other's living habits, so at the beginning the two people's daily living conditions basically did not intersect much.
Chiang Kai-shek went to bed early and got up early every day, Soong Mei-ling went to bed late and got up late every day, Chiang ate Chinese food, Song ate Western food, and even breakfast was eaten separately. Coupled with Chiang Kai-shek's busy official duties, there are regulations on the time of eating every day, so they can only eat together after dinner, because the difference in life and schedule is very large, and the contradictions accumulated by the two are getting deeper and deeper.
Husband and wife will always tolerate each other in the continuous run-in, therefore, in many cases when the two people run into each other, it is basically the old Jiang who bows his head first, which also makes the feelings of the two people after the decades of marriage not only do not look at each other but also become deeper and deeper.
Song Meiling's eating habits
Although Song Meiling's diet is more picky, her eating habits are still very healthy in comparison. The reason why she was able to live to the age of 106 was not only the superior living conditions, but more importantly, it benefited from her usual eating habits.
Song Meiling has a clear goal for each meal's requirements. When she was young, she ate in order to maintain her figure and appearance, and in her old age, in order to maintain a healthy body to eat, she also had very strict requirements for each meal of herself, and how many calories she needed to eat every day was strictly controlled.
For example, when she was young, her daily staple food was vegetables and fruits, and occasionally she ate some beef, but after being diagnosed with cancer at the age of 40, she paid more attention to the health of her diet.
According to Song Meiling's health care doctor once revealed her daily diet content, breakfast eat oatmeal porridge, because this is very suitable for middle-aged and elderly patients, eating is also more convenient, as long as it is brewed with boiling water or milk, long-term eating oats can improve people's immunity, but also has a very important role in fighting cancer.
She often eats spinach and celery for lunch. These two vegetables are very rich in chlorophyll and vitamins, which can help the body excrete toxins and increase metabolic levels. Song Meiling likes to eat these two dishes cold, because this will not lose the nutrients in the dish.
Dinner is to eat some high-protein and low-fat foods, because since Song Meiling suffered from cancer, she pays special attention to the conditioning of chronic diseases, so dinner only has bread milk and vegetable salad.
It can be seen that Song Meiling's pickiness in diet is not only a requirement for the quality of life, but also a responsibility for her own body, and it is this healthy eating habits day after day, year after year, that allows her to live for a long time in the rest of her life.
This way of eating Song Meiling is not only used when she is alone, but also in other occasions when there is a meal to socialize, she also insists on maintaining her own habits, but also because her status is relatively high, no one dares to say anything, which does not affect others.
It's just that Song Meiling is influenced by Western education and culture, and she herself is more enthusiastic about hospitality, so every time she eats with everyone, she likes to keep giving others dishes, afraid that others will not be able to eat enough, which makes others can't refuse while being flattered.
Although the starting point of her behavior is good, it makes others feel very difficult to accept, because every time the people who come to Jiang Mansion to eat finally want to go home, they are all eaten round and rolling, and they almost can't walk, which makes people very helpless, hindered by Song Meiling's kindness, and embarrassed to refuse, can only let Song Meiling add the food in the bowl to the maximum every time.
And how did Song Meiling's special habit at the dinner table form?
Originally, in Song Meiling's heart, she was a woman with a small amount of food, and it was nothing to eat less, but the others were some big men who trained and fought outside every day, and under the hard physical exertion, it was natural to need to supplement enough nutrition, so every time Song Meiling would come to the home as a guest, there were a lot of dishes in the bowl, so that he could eat it, even his son Jiang Weiguo was no exception.
Jiang Weiguo once couldn't help complaining that I had eaten very full, she still kept putting vegetables into the bowl for me, I couldn't finish eating, and I didn't know how to refuse, and I was embarrassed to say, just like this, the bowl was clipped into a mountain, and I really couldn't eat it. But I can't waste food casually, so every time I look at the bowl full of food, I can only harden my scalp than eat it myself.
Song Meiling's behavior really made Jiang Weiguo, who went to eat at home, particularly painful and helpless. Every time he eats at home, he will let him break his belly to finish, and Chiang Kai-shek, as a husband, can't do anything with Song Meiling, but feels very helpless like others, of course, the stomach is not good, and the old Chiang kai-shek with stomach diseases is lucky to avoid this excessive care of Song Meiling.
And Song Meiling likes to give others a lot of vegetables in the bowl, but she has never taken into account the feelings of others, perhaps because her usual eating habits are like that, or it may be a more self-ed character influenced by the influence of the Western environment since childhood, of course, there are also some reasons for family education.
Although this is not a bad habit of not being on the table, for many guests who go to the Jiang family to eat, it is indeed a little embarrassing and painful when they can't finish eating, and it is not easy to refuse Song Meiling's warm hospitality.
Another small habit of Song Meiling
In addition to the special hobby of picking vegetables, Song Meiling also had some habits that ordinary people at that time completely did not expect, that is, the milk bath that we are now popular. It is understood that the Kuomintang at that time had many ladies and ladies, who liked to wash with milk when bathing for beauty, pouring milk into the bathtub, and then going into the bath, this habit of life is also very luxurious for us living in the 21st century.
This was even more criticized by people at that time, so someone once proposed that Song Meiling was so luxurious, could she let other people who did not have a bathroom bath also enjoy it, Song Meiling could only be embarrassed to answer that there was not so much money, which showed that Song Meiling was not only exquisite, but also a refined egoist. But we can't just generalize about everything about her because of her pursuit of luxury.
Because she is not only an aristocratic lady who can only enjoy wealth and nobility, but also once gave full play to her talents and made necessary contributions for the country during the anti-Japanese period.
Song Meiling's outstanding contribution
Of course, as Chiang Kai-shek's wife, Soong Mei-ling is not only an ordinary woman who only knows pleasure, she is also Chiang Kai-shek's most powerful diplomatic assistant. Because of Song Meiling's learning and growing up experience, her ties with the United States have always been very close, so Song Meiling can often get a lot of important materials in the United States.
Moreover, Soong Mei Ling has also gone to the United States many times to give speeches, so Chiang Kai-shek has also said that his wife's ability can be compared to 20 army divisions. Privately, Soong Mei-ling was also very concerned about Chiang Kai-shek. During the Songhu War, Soong Mei-ling risked being bombed by enemy planes many times and personally went to the front to see Chiang Kai-shek.
And Song Meiling has made significant contributions to our country. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he gathered all the female relatives of the Kuomintang at that time to spread patriotic knowledge to the women, discuss their accusations against the War of Resistance, take the initiative to lead women throughout the country to resist Japan, and also launched large-scale rescue activities to gather Chinese compatriots at home and abroad to rescue refugees and orphans lost in the war.
Once, on the way to comfort the soldiers, Song Meiling was bombed by aircraft and seriously injured, but she still insisted on giving a speech to the non-commissioned officers who were fighting against the Japanese on the front line to boost morale. More importantly, she also went to the United States to win hundreds of millions of life-saving strategic materials and money for our country.
The tremendous contributions made by Soong Mei-ling to our country during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression are all vividly remembered, and this point can never be erased by history. Of course, if you want to select the women who have the greatest influence on our country in that era, then Song Meiling will definitely be one of the candidates, because she not only has a strong political background, her own knowledge, the temperament and talent that exudes from her body, and the contributions made to the anti-Japanese period in our country, she can rank in the top three.