Chiang Kai-shek died in Taipei on April 5, 1975, at the age of 87. He is one of the most controversial figures in modern China, and his merits and deeds are still the talk of the people on both sides of the strait after tea and dinner. Since the DPP came to power, Chiang Kai-shek has been portrayed as the culprit in the persecution of the Taiwanese people, and all the achievements of the two Chiang Kai-shek periods have been branded as "authoritarian" and criticized. Even Chiang Kai-shek's mausoleum was repeatedly harassed by people, and Chiang Kai-shek's descendants gradually faded out of politics after Chiang Ching-kuo's death. Today, only Jiang Wan'an, as a shu, is still active in the political arena. The descendants of the Chiang family have the aura of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, and this origin is also their original sin. The double pressure made them change from the "first family" to the "declining nobility", and the descendants of the Jiang family had no ability and no need to stir up trouble in the political arena. What the specific situation is, I will tell you slowly.
Chiang Ching-kuo's whole family
The style of the clumsy children ruined Jiang's parents and grandchildren
Chiang Kai-shek's knees were thin, and there were only two brothers, Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Wei-kuo. And Chiang Weiguo has also been rumored to be not Chiang Kai-shek's own son, but an adopted son. So the responsibility for continuing the Chiang family fell on Chiang Ching-kuo's shoulders, and in 1935 Chiang Ching-kuo married Faina Ipachyevna Vakhleva, who came from a Soviet worker family. After entering the door, the Soviet daughter-in-law of the Chiang family followed Chinese customs, changed her name to Jiang Fangliang, and conceived three sons and a daughter for Chiang Ching-kuo. In addition to these people, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife also recognized Tan Xiang, the daughter of Kuomintang elder Tan Yanmin, as their daughter, and later married Chen Cheng. Chiang Kai-shek also adopted a daughter, Chen Yaoguang, in his early years, and has lived with Chiang Kai-shek's ex-wife, Chen Jieru. Therefore, when Chiang Kai-shek defeated and retreated to Taiwan, the people who remained with him were basically Chiang Ching-kuo's sons and daughters.
Chiang Kai-shek's grandchildren for three generations
The children of the Chiang family have certain generations and orders, chiang ching-kuo's children are named according to the "article Wu Yong", and the fourth generation is named according to the order of "Pine Cypress Meilan Evergreen". But I don't know why, Chiang Kai-shek died at the age of 87, and Chiang Ching-kuo died of 78 years old when he was sick in his later years. However, none of the third generation of men in the Jiang family had lived past the age of Hua Jia, and only Jiang Xiaozhang, the daughter of Chiang Ching-kuo, was still alive in her eighties. Chiang Ching-kuo's eldest son, Chiang Hsiao-wen, was born in 1935 in the Soviet Union's Sverdlovsk Oblast, where his mother, Chiang Fang-leung, lived for a long time. Two years later, Chiang Ching-kuo's beloved daughter Jiang Xiaozhang was also born here. At the end of 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo and his wife and a pair of sons and daughters returned to Nanjing from the Soviet Union, and Chiang Ching-kuo began to formally intervene in the Chiang dynasty. As the eldest son and grandson, Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo had high expectations for Chiang Hsiao-wen, and they very much hoped that the Chiang Dynasty could be passed on from generation to generation and live forever. In addition to his superior material life, Jiang Xiaowen also received an extremely strict education and was often beaten.
Chiang Ching-kuo and his wife in their later years
Chiang Kai-shek was born in the military, and Chiang Ching-kuo also became strong and domineering under the long-term militarized life of the Soviet Union. When Jiang Xiaowen was 14 years old, the Jiang family's defeat and retreat to Taiwan fell into a wandering trough. This also made the atmosphere inside the Jiang family very depressed, and Chiang Ching-kuo's temper became even more fiery. According to Jiang Xiaowen's after-the-fact recollection:
"Whenever you want to be beaten by your father, Xiaozhang is the only savior, as long as Xiaozhang is coddled and persuaded by his father, most of them can make his father discouraged, if his sister is not there, it will be finished."
In the political atmosphere of Taiwan at that time, the Chiang family was already a real "first family." The material conditions of excessive wealth made these rich children soon lost in the red and willow green, and Jiang Xiaowen often sneaked out of the Jiang family at night and indulged in the gentle countryside in his youth. Chiang Kai-shek intended to cultivate the eldest grandson, and in 1956 he was installed in the twenty-eighth period of the Whampoa Military Academy. However, Jiang Xiaowen's bad habits are difficult to change, and he once fought with others in Kaohsiung for a singer, and even beat up the police who rushed to the scene to maintain order.
Jiang Xiaowen
Inside the school, Jiang Xiaowen also did not concentrate on his studies, and Xie Zhaoqi, the principal of the military academy at that time, was selfless and did not pay extra attention to Jiang Xiaowen. Therefore, Jiang Xiaowen's homework could not keep up with the progress at all, and he withdrew from school due to illness in less than half a year. After this, Jiang Xiaowen was even more self-indulgent and continued to cause disasters. After drinking and driving without a license, he hit and killed Zhang Huiyun, a passerby, and almost killed the guard Li Zhichu in the official residence. The rest of the crowds make trouble, and fights are even more commonplace. In order to save him, Chiang Ching-kuo arranged for him to go to the University of California, Berkeley to study business management, completely abandoning the illusion of letting him succeed.
University of Berkeley
After arriving in the United States, Jiang Xiaowen was still doing his own thing. He married his childhood friend Xu Naijin in 1960 in the United States, and four years later he was expelled from the United States by the police for vandalism and rioting in court. After returning to Taiwan, Jiang Xiaowen served as the director of the Taoyuan Management Office of the Taiwan Electric Power Company and the director of the Taoyuan County Party Department of the Kuomintang. During his term of office, he was fierce and vigorous, and his achievements in pursuing arrears of electricity bills ranked first in Taiwan. But his magnate personality eventually harmed him, and in 1970 Jiang Xiaowen was rumored to be seriously ill. Although the Jiang family claims to be a brain nervous system disease caused by hereditary diabetes, according to insiders, it is an incurable mental illness caused by greed and love. Since then, Jiang Xiaowen has become insane and sick. Fifteen months after Chiang Ching-kuo's death, the 54-year-old Jiang Xiaowen also passed away, and Jiang's parents and grandchildren came to a dismal end.
The second son of Chiang Ching-kuo, whom even the Americans dared to plot
Jiang Xiaowu was born in Chongqing in 1945, just when the Dawn of the War of Resistance Against Japan and peace was approaching. His arrival also made Chiang Kai-shek very happy at that time, but it is a pity that he also contracted the "princely disease" in his youth, and the behavior of his brother was the same as that of his brother. Jiang Xiaowu's academic performance in elementary school was very bad, and like Jiang Xiaowen, he liked to fight and make trouble, indulging in pleasure. Because he could not graduate from a regular school, Chiang Kai-shek sent him to the Army Officers' Academy in Fengshan, Kaohsiung. But Chiang Kai-shek did not expect that Chiang Xiaowu's temper was even greater, and he openly reprimanded and insulted the instructors in the school, and regarded the discipline of the army as nothing. He eats only dishes cooked by private chefs at school, and can leave the campus at any time to eat and drink.
Jiang Xiaowu
In order not to let him continue to discredit the Chiang family, Chiang Ching-kuo also sent him overseas to study at the Munich Institute of Political Science in Germany. In 1968, Jiang Xiaowu married Wang Changshi, a Swiss-Chinese, and in 1973 gave birth to Chiang Kai-shek's first great-grandson, Jiang Yousong. Jiang Xiaowu was thus able to return to Taiwan and was also regarded as his successor by Chiang Ching-kuo. After Returning to Taiwan, Jiang Xiaowu successively served as chairman of the Kuomintang-controlled Rongdian Company and a member of the Standing Committee of the Information Department of the Kuomintang. In 1984, chinese-American writer Liu Yiliang (pen name Jiangnan) was assassinated in the United States by the Taiwanese assassin Wu Dun. After an investigation by the Americans, it was found that Wu Dun was the killer of the Taiwan Bamboo Gang and accepted the orders of the gang leader Chen Qili to assassinate Jiangnan. After Chen Qili arrived at the case, he confessed that he was personally instructed by Wang Xiling, the head of the intelligence unit at that time, and others, and that the biggest black hand behind the scenes was Jiang Xiaowu, who was in charge of Taiwan's intelligence agency. Jiang Xiaowu instructed the Assassins to assassinate a Chinese American in order to prevent Liu Yiliang from exposing some of the Jiang family's internal privacy.
Writer Liu Yiliang
As a result, relations between the United States and the Kuomintang Chiang family became particularly tense, and in order to avoid further intensifying the contradictions, Chiang Ching-kuo was forced to drive Chiang Hyo-wu to Singapore as deputy commercial representative. At the same time, Chiang Ching-kuo announced that the descendants of the Chiang family would no longer inherit the rule of the Chiang family. From then on, the Chiang family was doomed to lose touch with the highest throne in Taiwan. Jiang Xiaowu still retained a place in the political arena after Chiang Ching-kuo's death, but at that time, a wave of "de-Chiangization" was set off in the Kuomintang, advocating that it should truly enter a new era. Jiang Xiaowu was greatly dissatisfied with this, and he claimed:
"It is better to let the enemy scold than to let others whip the corpse." I feel very proud, I have a great grandfather and father, I know that I can not be compared with them, I am the surname Jiang, this can not be changed. ”
This is a backbone and pride of the descendants of the Jiang family, but no one could have imagined that this would be the final confession of the Jiang family to politics. In 1991, 46-year-old Jiang Xiaowu died suddenly after a banquet. Jiang Fangliang, the mother of Jiang Xiaowu, who was already in the middle of the year, cried and finally buried her in the cemetery of New Taipei City.
Jiang Fangliang in his later years
The only grandson of Chiang Kai-shek who has returned to the mainland
Chiang Ching-kuo's youngest son, Chiang Hsiao-yong, was born in 1948, at a low ebb when Chiang Kai-shek was forced into the palace by the Gui clan. This little grandson gave a lot of comfort to the elderly Chiang Kai-shek, who was also the most favored of the third generation. But it seems that the descendants of the Jiang family are doomed to have no connection with the military, and Jiang Xiaoyong also entered the military academy like his brothers. He also achieved good results in the early stages and trained very hard. However, during a training session, he unfortunately broke his ankle and was forced to leave the military camp to study in the Department of Political Science of National Taiwan University. Jiang Xiaoyong is the clearest and most capable of the third generation of the Jiang family. After graduation, he entered the business world, made the business prosperous, and successfully made a name. The original loss-making Honglin Group and ZTE Electric have all turned losses into profits in his hands, and Jiang Xiaoyong has thus entered the Taiwan Regional Finance Committee and began to wander between government and business.
Jiang Xiaoyong
Jiang Xiaoyong is a typical birth at the wrong time, and he missed the era when the Jiang family was most powerful. He bore chiang ching-kuo three grandchildren, but was unable to receive the inheritance rights of the Chiang family. In 1985, Chiang Ching-kuo became seriously ill, and Jiang Xiaoyong returned to his side to take care of him. After Chiang Ching-kuo's death, although Chiang Hsiao-yong already had a high-level seat in the Kuomintang, he and his family immediately left Taiwan. It is said that he was at odds with Lee Teng-hui and feared that he would be plotted against him. In 1994, Jiang Xiaoyong rebuked Lee Teng-hui and wrote: "Sheep are driven out of the flock or sheep, wolves in sheep's clothing are still wolves." At the same time, he also called for support for the newly formed New Party to counter Lee Teng-hui's Taiwan independence line. He was the most supportive of Chiang Ching-kuo's line of cross-strait dialogue in his later years in the third generation of the Chiang family, and was also considered to be the most similar to Chiang Ching-kuo in his later years. In 1996, Jiang Xiaoyong, who was already seriously ill, returned to Fenghua Xikou in Zhejiang Province to visit the grave. He was the first descendant of the Chiang family to return to the mainland to worship his ancestors after 1949, and Jiang Xiaoyong died half a year later at the age of 48.
Mother Jiang Cemetery
Leaving politics is the best choice for Chiang's family
In addition to the three brothers Jiang Xiaowen, Jiang Xiaowu, and Jiang Xiaoyong, Jiang Xiaozhang, daughter of Chiang Ching-kuo, Jiang Yousong, grandson of Chiang Ching-kuo, Jiang Youbai, Jiang Youchang, Jiang Youqing, Jiang Youmei, and Jiang Youlan, were all far away from politics. Jiang Youbai, the most famous of the fourth generation, is now a well-known cultural businessman on both sides of the strait and has also made great achievements in the field of art. He later pointed out that Jiang Xiaoyong had admonished in his later years: "When our family reaches this generation, we should also make a conclusion with politics." "Therefore, the future Jiang family will basically stay away from politics." I have to say that this choice is correct. Because the DPP's power on the island of Taiwan is getting bigger and bigger, the historical imprint left by the "white terror" initiated by Chiang Kai-shek and the "secret service politics" promoted by Chiang Ching-kuo will only become more vicious and terrifying under the repeated propaganda of the DPP. Instead of dwelling on historical grievances and grievances, it is better to jump out of it and become a promsist and no longer negotiate with the DPP.
Jiang Wan'an was the only Jiang family member in politics
Although the times have changed, things are not human, and the Jiang family has also washed away the lead hua and become ordinary people, but the heroic habits on their bodies have not changed. In 2012, Jiang Jingguo's grandson Jiang Youqing and his girlfriend attended the wedding of his second brother Jiang Youchang, and was later questioned by reporters about the marriage. The impatient Jiang Youqing directly insulted the reporter and hit the camera with his head. Such a habit is completely unsuitable for modern politics, especially in Taiwanese politics, where blue and green fight each other. After Taiwan enters the electoral society, the social image and style of politicians will be infinitely magnified and examined. Their style of conduct and personal morality will become the focus of public attention. The Jiang family's long-term cultivation of the style of the clumsy children has made it impossible for them to adapt to the contemporary political arena. Although the blood flowing through their bodies can unite the pursuit of them by senior kuomintang fans, their unrestrained style will have a negative impact on the kuomintang. This is also the reason why after Chiang Ching-kuo's death, the descendants of the Chiang family have gone overseas, and Song Meiling has also lived in the United States for a long time and has not returned to Taiwan.
Chiang Kai-shek's Mausoleum at Cihu Lake
There is also an objective reason why Chiang's family cannot continue to hold power on the island of Taiwan, that is, the change in Chiang Ching-kuo's own mentality. In his later years, Chiang Ching-kuo regarded privilege as a shackle, attached too much importance to his own political feathers, and tried his best to avoid all controversial events. Jiang Xiaoyong dropped out of the military academy because of his injury and entered National Taiwan University, which also had the influence of the Chiang family's power. Chiang Ching-kuo wrote in his diary on March 9, 1970: "Yong'er went through the formalities of withdrawing from and transferring schools on the grounds of being injured in his official duties, knowing that this was a deceitful work, but the truth is so, how can I not feel ashamed of myself." On March 25, 1975, Chiang Ching-kuo saw his eldest son Jiang Xiaowen in a state of madness and wrote in his diary:
"I was bored to see Wen'er's madness, but I didn't pity him at all, because it was his own sins." Now we have to use a lot of money to support a wasted person, consume public funds and public property, feel ashamed of ourselves, and cannot account for the common people. ”
Chiang Kai-shek's father and son have always admired Wang Yangming and Zeng Guofan, and want to be on par with the sages in history who have both culture and martial arts. But as a leader, it is inevitable that his hands will be stained with filth and blood, unless the leader sets limits on himself and abolishes martial arts. Otherwise, future evaluations will be positive and negative, without exception. What Wang Yangming and Zeng Guofan talk about is the way of being a subject, not the way of being a king. In his later years, Chiang Ching-kuo opened up the party ban and acquiesced to the emergence of the Democratic Progressive Party, and what he considered should be his own posthumous name. But what he did not expect was that the DPP did not remember his benevolence, but instead used him as an arrow target to attack.
Zhu Lilun worshipped Chiang Kai-shek
It has been exactly 47 years since Chiang Kai-shek's death, and many of his past events have been scattered with the wind. The descendants of the Chiang family have also withdrawn from the political arena in Taiwan Province, which can be said to have come to an end. Nowadays, most of the people who constantly mention the Chiang family on the island consume the Chiang family for political gain. Either they are calling on the people to be hostile to the Chiang family, thus stirring up Taiwan independence sentiments on the island of Taiwan. Either it was for the sake of the election, and constantly shouting to the Kuomintang supporters in the name of the Chiang family, chiang kai-shek's grandparents and grandchildren became the object of consumption for three generations. However, he has grown stronger and controlled the Kuomintang for decades, but now he can't even protect his mausoleum, which can't help but make people sigh.