In China's modern and contemporary history, among women, if it comes to fame, wealth and beauty, then the three Sisters of the Song Clan are unparalleled. These three sisters play an important role in China's modern history and almost play a heavy role in determining the direction of history. These three sisters are Song Xialing, Song Qingling, and Song Meiling.
These three sisters are still famous and praised. Their identity and status, and their own influence until now, feel unattainable, they belong to the same family, and they all have similar life experiences. But in the different life choices later, they were given different life encounters. This is also divided into different evaluations in the evaluation of later generations.
After their deaths, they were buried in different places, far apart, sisters but ultimately different. Seeing the tomb of Song Qingling in Shanghai, seeing the tomb of Song Meiling in New York, although they are sisters, but the cemetery is a world of difference, so why is this?
First, the identity background of the Song family and the fate of the eldest sister Song Yiling
The father of the three sisters is Song Jiashu, and the mother is Ni Guizhen. Their family was an early Chinese family that was able to study abroad and saw advanced Western culture. Song Jiashu started his own business, had strong financial resources, and used most of the funds to support Sun Yat-sen in his revolution, which was the financial pillar of the success of the National Revolution.
Song Jiashu has a total of six children, namely Song Xialing, Song Qingling, Song Ziwen, Song Meiling, Song Ziliang, and Song Zi'an. Song Xialing is the eldest sister of the Song dynasty, born in 1889, in 1904, at the age of 15, she studied abroad and came to study at the Wesleyan Women's College in Asia, the first female student in China to study in the United States.
She was clever and bold, and she had questioned the president of the United States in public, Roosevelt, to protest that she had been kept out of the gates of a 14-year-old little girl from China, and that she had been locked up at customs for three to four weeks, which was not a humane American duty. Such a thing would never happen in China, and Roosevelt in the United States was dumbfounded when asked.
She questioned the president of the United States, and the next day she was exposed by the American news media, and was hyped up by the American media, and felt that the girl must have great potential in the future.
As the "eldest sister" of the Soong family, Song Yiling was smart and decisive, she first became Sun Yat-sen's secretary, and only then did she later introduce Soong Ching Ling to take over, she also brokered the marriage of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling, and the rise of the Chiang family dynasty was also inseparable from her.
2. Song Qingling and Song Meiling
Born in 1893, Soong Ching Ling went to the United States to study with his sister Song Meiling at the age of 15, and then succeeded his sister Song Yiling as the secretary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and later fell in love with Dr. Sun Yat-sen and married, and has played a key role in the subsequent uprising and revolutionary tide of China. Finally, as the honorary president of the People's Republic of China, he completed an undeniable and huge historical task in China.
Song Meiling, after the mediation of the eldest sister Song Xialing and Chiang Kai-shek married, Song Meiling relied on her influence in the United States to help her husband Chiang Kai-shek to connect with the United States and help the Kuomintang succeed in resisting Japan. After the defeat of the Kuomintang, he went to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, and after Chiang Kai-shek's death, went to the United States to live in seclusion
Third, the final meeting and final outcome of the three sisters of the Song family
On July 9, 1944, it was the last time the three sisters met, they met at the Chongqing airport, Song Xialing and Song Meiling went to Brazil, and Song Qingling continued to be in China, they would not think that this time together, it was the last time they met, the turmoil of the situation made the original family separate the two places, which is a historical misfortune.
Song Yiling died in the United States and was buried in the Fengkliff Senior Indoor Cemetery in the United States; Song Meiling also died in the United States and was buried in the Frif Cemetery in upstate New York. Their cemeteries are rarely visited and appear very deserted. Song Qingling died in Beijing in 1981 and was buried in the Shanghai Wanguo Cemetery, buried with his parents, returned to his hometown, and returned to his roots.
In the end, Song Qingling also specifically stated in his will that he would be buried in Shanghai with his parents, and Song Qingling's tomb money carved a large tombstone, indicating the basic situation and merits of Song Qingling's life, with a total of more than 3,000 words, and the front of the tomb was full of flowers, and the people who came and went to pay respects and remember were endless.
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Later generations summed up the three sisters of the Jiang family, saying that one of them loves money, one loves the country, and one loves power, in fact, it is too general, and each of the three sisters of the Song family is an outstanding woman of the times, but different people have different opportunities, and they have achieved different lives. The tide of the times has passed, and future generations of people can only mourn out of thin air, and even see their unique style of that year.