Song Meiling lived to the age of 106 and died, leaving behind how much inheritance? This number is a bit of a surprise!
On October 24, 2003, Song Meiling died in New York, USA, at the age of 106. As a centenarian spanning centuries, Song Meiling can be said to have laughed to the end, all her opponents and friends have died, and only she has stubbornly lived to such a high life. When a person dies, most people will care about how much of her legacy she left behind. Song Meiling did not leave a biography in her life, and there are few video materials, and her legacy is only money. So how much money does Song Meiling have?
In 1917, Song Meiling returned to Shanghai from the United States, and began to strengthen her learning of Chinese, and also hired a private school teacher to teach her classical literature, which played a great role in her subsequent public speeches and social networking, so she soon became the goal of many men in the Shanghai celebrity circle. Later, Song Meiling met Zhang Xueliang, and the two people were also very chatty, but Zhang Xueliang at that time was already married, and Song Meiling could not let herself become someone else's wife, so her relationship with Zhang Xueliang was broken. Later, Soong Mei-ling met Chiang Kai-shek in Guangzhou, and Chiang Kai-shek was immediately attracted by Soong Mei-ling, who was young, beautiful, so talented and capable. At first, Soong Mei-ling's second sister Soong Ching-ling was opposed, but the eldest sister, Song Xialing, understood her sister's thoughts and knew the advantages of marrying Chiang Kai-shek, so Soong Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek.
On October 24, 2003, Song Meiling died in the United States at the age of 106. As a relative who has been accompanying Song Meiling, her niece Kong Lingyi announced Song Meiling's situation and legacy.
According to the statistics of Jiangnan Zhengbao in December 1934, Song Meiling had a property of 35 million silver dollars at that time, which was converted into today's wealth, and a silver dollar was equivalent to 60 yuan, which means that Song Meiling had a wealth of 2.1 billion yuan at that time. During the economic depression of the 1930s, Song Meiling was so rich that she could be described as rich as an enemy of the country. After Song Meiling's death, her niece Kong Lingyi announced her inheritance to the outside world, which was only 120,000 US dollars. This inheritance also includes the only property in Song Meiling's name, a Western-style building in Shanghai.
Although Song Meiling also has her own financial resources, for her, who has become accustomed to spending money, the role of those savings in the end is very limited, and her main source of expenses is still given by the Kong family. Kong Lingyi later said that at the time of Song Meiling's death, her inheritance was only $120,000, and for a long time before that, the Kong family provided financial assistance.
After Song Meiling's death, she did not leave any memoirs, diaries or important letters, she once said that everything is left for time, and history will be judged by itself. What do you think about Song Meiling?