On May 29, 1981, a beautiful revolutionary fell, and at that time, an old man with white hair silently prayed in front of Jesus and sent his blessings after receiving the news.
When it comes to the three sisters of the Song family, everyone knows and knows that everyone knows that they are very legendary three sisters.
Due to the different personalities, everyone's fate is not the same, and the so-called personality determines the fate.
The most peculiar of the three sisters is that the second sister, Soong Ching Ling, and the father of the country, Sun Yat-sen, are married, and the third sister, Song Meiling, marries Chiang Kai-shek, the ruler of the Kuomintang, and is known as the "First Lady of the Republic of China" by the world.
Due to the different political positions of the two, the contact after marriage became less, and Song Meiling did not return to her roots and return to her homeland even after her death, but was buried in New York, USA.
Family and country feelings, political choices, sisterly feelings, character and fate, all factors are intertwined, composing a different life of the two sisters.
The other side is separated, and the avenue is the heaviest
Song Qingling and Song Meiling did not even see each other for the last time in the end, because they chose a different path for each other. When Song Qingling was seriously ill, all her relatives were around her, but in fact, in Song Qingling's heart, the most worried about Song Meiling was Song Meiling, who was far away on the other side of the ocean.
So the family sent a telegram to New York, hoping that Song Meiling would return to China and that the sisters would finally look at each other.
But the letter arrived late a few days later, and received a reply telegram: "Send my sister to New York for medical treatment" and write "home" at the end of the payment.
This surprised the family, because Song Meiling did not even sign her name.
Is Song Meiling's friendship for the second sister so weak? At 20:18 on May 29, 1981, Song Qingling unfortunately passed away, and invited Song Meiling, who was far overseas, to attend the funeral, but the political situation at that time was quite tricky, so Song Meiling was forced to reply:
"Although the flesh and bones are close, the road is important, and I need to be worthy of God, the country, the nation, and democracy..."
It seems that the clouds are light and the wind is light, putting politics above family affection, but in fact, after Song Meiling learned the news of Song Qingling's death, she shed tears several times and kept praying to God.
It shows that although they have the opportunity to meet with their sisters, in the face of political difficulties, they must focus on the overall situation.
Although both of their last wishes were to be buried with their families, in the end, Song Qingling was buried in the Shanghai Wanguo Cemetery, next to the tomb of his parents. Song Meiling was buried in the Frive Cemetery in New York, USA.
The friendship is deep, but the road is different
To say how the relationship between the two sisters is, in fact, the relationship between the two people is very close, since they grew up together, they were intimate in childhood, and they went to the United States to study together, which was influenced by Western democracy.
Therefore, when the country was in danger, a different path was chosen.
As a sister, the relationship between Song Qingling and Song Meiling is very good, and the sister's treatment of the younger sister is undoubtedly excellent.
When she was young, during her study abroad, she came into contact with foreigners, handled relevant procedures and documents, and lived for her everywhere. Because Mei Ling is the youngest in the family, everyone thinks about her sister first when she sees delicious and fun things in her daily life. It can be said that the relationship between sisters is very good.
In the years of growing up together, in fact, there was no quarrel between the sisters. The friendship accumulated over the years makes them very attached to each other, and their feelings are unstoppable.
This can be seen in the bits and pieces of their six years of living in the United States, but because of their different personalities, the two of them eventually went down different paths.
They are also from a large family, and they have no worries about food and clothing from an early age, but for the toiling masses, the understanding of the two people in the country is completely different.
This difference is reflected in various aspects, such as the fact that both have fought for aid internationally, but Song Meiling shuttled through the Songtai Dance in the United States, but nearly half of the aid fell into the pockets of Song and Kong. Making support for Chiang Kai-shek a business,
Song Qingling really saw the suffering of the people and the hardships of the frontline soldiers, and she appealed to the international for the first time the lack of medicines, weapons, ammunition, etc. in the base areas, we have not received any medical assistance and weapons for 3 years, demanding equal treatment! "
All of this is that the two have chosen different paths, and behind the choice reveals the difference in personalities of the two.
Personalities are different, fates are different
Song Meiling is outgoing, more clever, pampered at home and therefore more proud, Song Qingling is quiet, gentle, able to stand in each other's point of view to understand others, with strong empathy ability.
This can be seen during the study abroad period, after receiving the news of the victory of the Xinhai Revolution.
Song Qingling was particularly excited, because her heart had already ignited a patriotic feeling, especially in the early days of studying abroad, they had seen all kinds of contempt and contempt for foreigners for Chinese, and they were eager to have a new and powerful motherland, so that every Chinese could be respected.
As a result, she enthusiastically praised the event as the greatest event of the twentieth century.
Song Meiling, because she is relatively young, so she still does not understand such news, there is no wave in her heart, therefore, soon after learning the news, she went out with her friends, lived a relatively rich life since childhood, and did not feel happy for the people, for those poor people she felt that the impact of this matter is not so important.
After the two sisters returned to China, the differentiation of this view became more and more prominent, and the gap between the two people became wider and wider. This differentiation is exacerbated by the fact that they marry each other to different people, and the two sisters may even weaken their feelings because of their different political positions.
The fate is wonderful, and before they met, Soong Ching Ling was already full of admiration for Sun Yat-sen. After she returned to China, Soong Ching Ling's father took her to visit Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
During the meeting and conversation, they were deeply attracted by Sun Yat-sen's extensive knowledge and enthusiastic patriotic feelings. Later, Soong Ching Ling took over his sister's position and became Sun Yat-sen's secretary.
Since then, Soong Ching Ling has truly participated in the front line of the revolution, working with Dr. Sun Yat-sen to understand the situation of the Chinese revolution and help Mr. Sun find a way to save the country.
Because Song Qingling's writing is very good, she often helps Mr. Sun draft various documents to help him preach the idea of national salvation to people of insight ideologically.
Song Meiling was very unfamiliar with Chinese, so the family invited a private school to teach her. It can be seen that she herself does not understand the culture of the motherland.
But Song Meiling is very intelligent, and after a long period of study, she picked up her native language again.
After experiencing the death of his father, Song Qingling built a new roof for his little sister to protect her left and right. For example, Song Meiling worked as an English teacher at the school under the introduction of her sister. In Song Meiling's view, this is a position that is particularly suitable for her sister.
The advantage of this post, in Song Meiling's view, the surrounding character environment is relatively simple, and they are all people with bookish temperament. Being an English teacher is just in order to play to Song Meiling's advantages. I often encounter some executives who are expensive and can expand Song Meiling's network.
But this is far from satisfying Song Meiling's desires, she hopes to get power and fame, and to have a more favorable living environment. She is constantly looking for opportunities to enter more empowered positions and departments. Therefore, at the introduction of an official's wife, he became an official of the Shanghai Film Censorship Council.
Although this censorship meeting did not have much power, Song Meiling saw this opportunity for promotion later. With her fluent English and good looks, she became the object of attention of the Senate.
After a period of investigation, Song Meiling got the olive branch she threw. Song Meiling was very happy and gladly went to the Senate work.
But without life experience, she had no chance to understand the world, and she did not have the ability to deal with specific things. The elders of the Senate were well aware of this and had therefore been treating her as a translator and not assigning her substantive work.
After a short period of work, Song Meiling did not get the power and money she had hoped. As a result, he was depressed, so he was dismissed from the nominal job. It was at this time that a man who was vital to her entered her world.
At a banquet, Chiang Kai-shek saw Song Meiling, who was the fusion of classical beauty and new wave ideas, exuding brilliance and radiance in the crowd. Coupled with its own youthful and gorgeous appearance, suitable clothing, graceful figure, famous origin. Chiang Kai-shek fell in love with her at first sight.
As a result, the lives of the two sisters have completely opened a new prelude. Because of her patriotism and love for the people, Soong Ching Ling became the honorary chairman of China; Song Meiling became the first lady, powerful and powerful, calling the wind and rain.
The heavens are different, and the thoughts are long and long
Although the sisters Soong Ching Ling and Soong Mei Ling were different in their ways, they did not conspire with each other, and then they went their separate ways, but although their feelings were not expressed, they were reflected in various aspects, such as they both thought about the country, and after the Chiang Kai-shek incident, in the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement, the two joined forces for the first time. They went to the front line to care for the soldiers, help the wounded soldiers change their medicines, and inspect the situation of the local people.
Although in the specific performance, Song Qingling is more grounded and really does some things with his own hands, and the two sisters are brothers and sisters.
This heart-to-heart connection was also reflected in their last meeting, in the autumn of 1942, at a family gathering, both people had countless words to talk to each other, but because of their different positions, they had to end in silence.
But does silence mean not caring? After Chiang Kai-shek retired to Taiwan, he was extremely annoyed in his heart, believing that it was because Soong Ching-ling had caused damage to the authority of the Nationalist government that he would lose, and once wanted to join forces with Mao Renfeng to assassinate Soong Ching-ling.
In order to protect her sister, Song Meiling did not hesitate to confront Chiang Kai-shek.
"She is my sister, if you hurt her, the Song family will not support you, she is still Mr. Sun's widow, what will the national name party's subordinates think of you?"
After her persuasion, Chiang Kai-shek gave up the plan after weighing the pros and cons. It can be seen that the feelings of the sisters are still very deep.
On the eve of the founding of New China, the sisters still maintained correspondence and still wrote that they often missed each other, but in terms of form, they knew that Song Qingling was not as good as the United States in terms of life in China, and hoped that each other could be safe and smooth. This mutual concern has been going on.
In his later years, the two were separated by one side, and Song Qingling often took out a picture of his sister and looked at it for several hours. Once, after the staff took a recent photo of her sister to Song Qingling, she was reluctant to let go, looked at it again and again, and silently said: "I haven't seen her for many years..."
Before he could finish speaking, he actually choked up, this is an iron-blooded warrior.
After Song Qingling's death, Song Meiling was on the other side of the ocean, and often took out her sister's album, looking at it for an hour or two, watching quietly without moving, often without a word, very silent.
Tomb of Song Qingling
epilogue:
As the saying goes, when leaves fall back to their roots, Both Song Meiling and Song Qingling hope to be buried in the Song Family Cemetery. But in the end, Song Meiling failed to achieve her wish.
Song Qingling's cemetery is beautiful and quiet, and the tombstone does not write down her great achievements, but only writes her own life, and there are sculptures of her in the square to commemorate her for posterity. It symbolizes the image of her standing with the people at all times and struggling all her life.
She did not forget the hatred of the country and the family because of the richness of her birth, and in the revolution she became a revolutionary fighter, a great person.
Tomb of Song Meiling
Song Meiling's cemetery was designed and built according to Western standards, not on the land but built a building to commemorate her. Unlike her sister, when Soong Mei ling married Chiang Kai-shek, it meant that she was wrapped in capital and power, and the rights and capital she longed for satisfied all her vanity.
However, she did not jump out of her own class, and she sacrificed a lot for the Song family and herself, showing much helplessness, and in the end, her last wish could not be realized.
This is the difference in political positions, resulting in a different final situation, but is not this also the choice of two people?
If Song Meiling and Song Qingling could live in the modern and peaceful era, the two people may not have experienced such a long separation because of their political differences, and perhaps they can take care of each other for a lifetime, care for a lifetime, and support a lifetime like the sisters of ordinary families around us, and become truly enviable sisters.