Song Meiling did not marry him, but he ceded the positions of Song and Huangpu Principal to Jiang, focusing on calligraphy and Hunan cuisine
He was a Xiucai at the age of 13, a Zhongju at the age of 22, and a late Qing Huiyuan at the age of 24. In 1924, the Whampoa Military Academy was established, and Sun Yat-sen wanted to make him the principal, but he ceded the position of principal to Chiang Kai-shek. In 1926 he became President of the National Government and President of the Executive Yuan. Later, Sun Yat-sen introduced his sister-in-law, Soong Mei-ling, to him, who was not married, but introduced Song to Chiang Kai-shek and served as a witness.
He is a "modern Yanshu master", calligraphy is a must; he is the top gourmet in the Republic of China, inventing the group an xiang cuisine, pushing the original Hunan cuisine to the whole country, becoming one of the eight major cuisines in China. This is another strange person of the Republic of China, and the literary style, calligraphy, politics, and cuisine are all of the best quality, comparable to Su Dongpo.
Tan Yanmin was born in 1880 in Chaling, Hunan Province, 7 years older than Chiang Kai-shek. His father, Tan Zhonglin, was the governor of Liangguang, and Tan Yanmin's family conditions were superior, he had no worries about food and clothing, was extremely talented, intelligent and studious, and knew everything at a touch. Xiu cai, lifting people, and entering the green light all the way effortlessly, which is in stark contrast to Fan Jinzhongju. Excellent in academics, calligraphy is a must, Guangxu's teacher Weng Tonggong can't help but praise: Sanling Lang Wei instrument also, pen power can be carried.
After the success of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911, he was recommended as the governor of Hunan, and Tan Yanmin was only 31 years old. Today's readers, even if they are geniuses, have just graduated from the doctorate, and at most they are in the post of deputy department, and Tan Yanmin is a local member of the Republic of China from the beginning. Later, Tan Yanmin entered the Kuomintang Power Center, serving as a member of various central committees and chairman of the party department of the Kuomintang Central Committee; in 1928, he reached the peak of his life and served as the chairman of the National Government and the president of the Executive Yuan in Nanjing.
Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary road was quite bumpy, but it never stopped, and Tan Yanmin helped Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause a lot. Therefore, Sun Yat-sen's gratitude to Tan Yanmin was quite deep. After Sun Yat-sen married Soong Ching-ling, Soong Mei-ling also returned from studying in the United States, and Sun Yat-sen intended to introduce Soong Mei-ling to Tan Yanmin.
This was a beautiful thing, and both sides fell in love at first sight. Tan Yanmin's mother was a concubine, and after his death, according to the feudal etiquette system, he could not go out of the main gate, which made Tan Yanmin very indignant, so he lay on his mother's coffin and cried bitterly: I Tan Yanmin is dead, I can come out of the gate! Only then did Mother Tan's coffin come out of the main entrance.
From then on, Tan Yanmin swore that he would not marry a concubine like his father. Tan Yanmin originally had a son and three daughters, and had died long ago, even so, Tan Yanmin did not continue the string, he believed that this was infidelity to marriage, disrespect for women. Therefore, Tan Yanmin refused to remarry, even if Song Meiling was twenty years younger than him, the family was equally prominent.
Tan Yanmin's behavior of not marrying twice touched Song Meiling even more, and Song Meiling once said that she would not marry Tan Yanmin, but Tan Yanmin was indeed not a show, he recognized Song Meiling's mother as a dry mother and refused to marry Song Meiling. Later, Tan Yanmin introduced his sister Song Meiling to Chiang Kai-shek, and eventually achieved the marriage between Chiang and Song.
Tan Yanmin not only achieved Chiang Kai-shek's marriage, but also achieved Chiang Kai-shek's career. When Sun Yat-sen first founded the Whampoa Military Academy, he was ready to give Tan Yanmin the position of first principal. Tan Yanmin knew that although they were both schools, academics and military were not on the same channel at all, so he gave this beautiful difference to Chiang Kai-shek, who was starting up. Becoming the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy was an important turning point in Chiang Kai-shek's entry into the stage of modern history.
Politically, Tan Yanmin became the chairman of the National Government in Nanjing when he was at his strongest, but soon after Chiang Kai-shek's comeback, Tan very knowingly retreated to the second place, became the president of the Executive Yuan, and ceded the position of boss to Chiang Kai-shek. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek is very satisfied with Tan Yanmin, who has excellent IQ and emotional intelligence. In the upper echelons of the Kuomintang, almost all those who could threaten Chiang Kai-shek's position were suppressed by Chiang, and Tan Yanmin has always been safe.
In fact, tan Yanmin knew from the very beginning that in the Kuomintang's power struggle, very few people could match Chiang Kai-shek, and very few people could end well, so Tan Yanmin embraced his "three noes": first, not responsible; second, not to advise; third, not to offend people.
Therefore, Tan Yanmin did not worry too much about politics, but focused on beauty and calligraphy. Hunan cuisine is originally a local dish in Hunan, the taste has distinct local characteristics, and other provinces, especially in the south, do not accept the thickness and spicyness of Hunan cuisine. Since Tan Yanmin did not want to get involved in politics too deeply, he and his cook immersed themselves in hunan cuisine.
Tan Yanmin and his team of cooks created "Zuan Xiang Cuisine" with the concept of "excellent selection of raw materials, fine knife handling, exquisite cooking skills, and precise taste". The Xiang cuisine of The Group of Nunnery was immediately famous in the Republic of China, and the whole of Hunan cuisine went to the whole country because of Tan Yanmin, becoming one of the eight major cuisines in China.
In fact, everyone has their own talents, but various environmental factors limit most of the self-ability to tap, and there are many of these restrictions, mainly economic factors. Poverty may make a person run for survival for a lifetime, the hands that were born to play the piano can only carry bricks in the end, and the feet that are born to dance can only bounce during the rest of the field labor.
Therefore, almost all the people who can achieve something in the art world in modern China are people with superior family conditions. It is not because superior families can cultivate artistic sentiments, but because wealth can make talents not be lost by hunger, and riches give talents the opportunity to grow and emerge. It is fair that talents can develop normally; and this is the fairness that would have been perfectly normal, and in an unfair society, it has become the greatest injustice relative to those talents that can never be displayed because of poverty.
The smooth sailing of life is unobstructed in Tan Yanmin's body. Excellent family conditions made him prosperous, but he had no intention of staying in politics. In addition to such great achievements in food, Tan Yanmin is a must in calligraphy.
Some people commented that Tan Yanmin's calligraphy was "like falling stones, paintings like Xia Yun, hooks like Qu Jin, and Ge ru hair crossbows", which was the first person in the Republic of China's Yan body calligraphy.
On the stone stele of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, two huge golden characters inscribed "Chinese Kuomintang buried Premier Mr. Sun here" were written by Tan Yanmin. The "Army Officer School" of the Whampoa Military Academy is an inscription written by Tan Yanmin. In literature, Tan Yanmin also had achievements, and wrote "Collected Poems of The Group of Nunnery" and "Non-Weng Poetry Manuscripts".
In 1930, Tan Yanmin died of cerebral hemorrhage, and the Nationalist government ordered a state funeral to be buried near the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum.