The Song sisters should be the most dazzling sister flowers of the Republic of China period.
Their father was a wealthy businessman, and the sisters lived a wealthy life from an early age, receiving the best educational resources.
However, when the three sisters were married separately, they took a very different path.
Their husbands were all prominent figures of that era.
Soong Ching Ling, who married Sun Yat-sen, the father of the nation, has devoted herself to the revolutionary cause for decades, has provided assistance to our party many times, and is one of the greatest women of the 20th century.
Song Qingling has been living in Beijing in her later years, and she often thinks of her sister Song Meiling, who is far away in the United States.
Song Meiling defeated Taiwan with her husband Chiang Kai-shek, and after Chiang Kai-shek's death, she chose to settle in the United States and never returned to the mainland.
Although the sisters used to have a rift because of different political views, Song Qingling often remembered the sisterhood of the past.
However, compared to Song Qingling's concern for blood and kinship, Song Meiling did not think so.
In 1981, when Soong Ching-ling, who was seriously ill, wanted to see her sister in the United States again, Song Meiling did not reply about the meeting.
Even after Song Qingling's death, he did not come to his sister's funeral.
In 2003, Song Meiling's life also came to an end, and she died at her home in Manhattan, New York, USA.
At the time of her death, she made a will, and everyone found that it coincided with Song Qingling's will.
The sisters have been separated for many years, and Song Meiling does not even want to see her sister and attend her sister's funeral, so why did she make the same will.
What is the sisters' common will?
Why did the sisters who were once intimate come to the point of never seeing each other again?
Successively studying abroad, sisterhood
Song Qingling and her younger sister Song Meiling are 4 years apart, compared with the eldest sister Song Xialing, Song Meiling was the closest to the second sister when she was a child.
Because his father, Song Jiashu, was in business, the sisters' childhood time was very comfortable.
As the sisters grew older, Song Jiashu also planned her future path for her daughter.
The eldest sister, Song Xialing, was able to study in the United States with the help of her father, and she was also the first Chinese woman to study in the United States.
She received a Western education in the United States, becoming a unique presence on American campuses, and even met US President Roosevelt.
Song Xialing was stopped by customs at the beginning of her arrival in the United States and was trapped on the ship for more than ten days, and she has always been dissatisfied with this.
When meeting President Roosevelt, she asked in fluent English:
"Is this the freedom and democracy of your American population, and China will never turn away its guests?"
Song Xialing's move also appeared in the most influential newspaper in the United States, and Song Jiashu was proud after hearing about her eldest daughter's move in the United States.
He felt that the move of sending his eldest daughter to study abroad was very correct.
Later, he successively sent Song Qingling and Song Meiling to the United States to study.
Song Jiashu is different from ordinary wealthy businessmen, and when he returned from studying abroad in his early years, he always wanted to preach in China.
Repeatedly hindered, he began to print Bibles for the church, who knew that he made a fortune by printing Bibles, and later expanded his industry as an agent of imported machinery.
After accumulating a huge fortune, Song Jiashu met Sun Yat-sen by chance, and when he came into contact with advanced revolutionary ideas, he used most of his money to help Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause.
After completing his studies in the United States, Song became Dr. Sun Yat-sen's secretary because of his excellent work ability.
After the defeat of the Second Revolution, he followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen to Japan and continued to work for him.
It was in Japan that Song Xialing and Kong Xiangxi met and fell in love, and the two married under the blessing of relatives and friends.
Later, under the operation of Song Xialing and his wife, the Kong family became one of the four major families of the Republic of China and became prominent for a while.
Song Xiaoling quit her secretarial job after marriage, and she recommended her sister Song Qingling, who had just graduated from the United States, to take over the position of secretary.
Who knew that this move actually led to a marriage and made the status of the Song family go to a higher level.
After Soong Ching Ling became Sun Yat-sen's secretary, the two fell in love with each other day and night.
Soon after, Soong Ching Ling told his family that he wanted to marry Sun Yat-sen, a move that was strongly opposed by his father, Soong Ka Shu.
Although Soong Ka-shu supported Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause, Sun Yat-sen was 27 years older than Soong Ching-ling and only two years younger than himself.
This made the outside world think about the Song family, and for the sake of the reputation of the Song family, he resolutely did not allow his daughter to marry Sun Yat-sen.
But Song Qingling has a stubborn personality, she insists on marrying, and for a while her relationship with her father is very stiff.
In the end, under the mediation of her mother and eldest sister Song Xialing, her father finally nodded her marriage to Sun Yat-sen.
After marrying Sun Yat-sen, Soong Ching Ling has been following her husband and his revolutionary cause, and even after her husband's death, she has dedicated her life to the revolution with his legacy.
When the eldest sister and the second sister successively served as Sun Yat-sen's secretary, Song Meiling studied at the Westrian Women's College in the United States.
The three sisters have all studied here and received the influence of Western culture.
The Westrian Women's College also became famous in the future because it once cultivated the three sisters of the Song family.
When Song Meiling was born, the Song family had already established a foothold in Shanghai, a wealthy family with a head and a face.
She is different from the heavy calmness that comes with the second sister, she has been agile and lively since she was a child, and Song Father and Song Mother also love this little daughter very much.
Because of the experience of the eldest sister Song Xialing studying abroad, Song Qingling and Song Meiling were sent to the United States by their fathers in 1907 for education.
At that time, Song Meiling was only 10 years old, and Song Qingling was 14 years old.
Song Qingling and her younger sister Song Meiling studied together in the United States, and the unfamiliar environment made the two closer than the average sister.
Song Meiling, because of her young and lively nature, quickly integrated into the American environment, and her completely different temperament from her second sister has also become a beautiful landscape on campus.
Song Qingling's temperament is gentle and quiet, and he loves to read, like a light but fragrant lily.
Song Meiling is innocent and lively, mingling with American students on campus and is a daisy that blooms freely.
The time when the two sisters studied together should be the most free time in their lives.
A few years later, Soong Ching Ling returned to China after completing his studies and later went to Japan to become Sun Yat-sen's secretary.
Song Meiling also continued her studies on american campuses, and her ten-year study abroad career received a complete Western education.
When she returned to China at the age of 18, she first invited a private school to study the traditional literature of the mainland.
She even admitted that after many years of living in the United States, she seems to have only an oriental face, and she needs to quickly master fluent Chinese and classical literature and integrate into the current Chinese culture.
It is also because of the long study abroad life, her social skills are extremely strong, shanghai celebrity circles know Miss Song Jiasan, many outstanding young people have begun to chase her.
At that time, her eldest sister married Kong Xiangxi on the rich side, and the second sister married sun Yat-sen, the father of the country, and the Song family was already different from the past.
The outside world has speculated that this Song Meiling will choose what kind of man to become a husband.
Desperate, he chose to marry Chiang Kai-shek
In December 1922, Song Meiling's older brother Song Ziwen held a banquet in Shanghai.
There were many celebrities at the party, including many Kuomintang officers.
Among them was Chiang Kai-shek, who had just emerged at that time.
At this banquet, Chiang Kai-shek fell in love with Soong Mei-ling at first sight, and he took a fancy to Soong Mei-ling's beauty and her family lineage.
If he could get Soong Ching Ling's sister, he would be a brother-in-law with Sun Yat-sen in the future, which would be of great benefit to his development within the Kuomintang.
He began to pursue Soong Mei-ling and wanted Sun Yat-sen to broker the marriage, but this move was opposed by the Soong family and Soong Ching-ling.
Soong Ching Ling has a strong relationship with her little sister, and has always been very concerned about her marriage, in her opinion, this Chiang Kai-shek is not a good person.
Chiang Kai-shek had already married a wife, and there were two beautiful concubines around him, and Song Qingling, who had accepted advanced ideas, would never allow him to marry his little sister.
Seeing that her family and second sister were strongly opposed, Song Meiling hesitated even if she had the heart, and it was after this incident that she and Song Qingling gradually developed a gap.
Song Meiling did not have much deep affection for Chiang Kai-shek, she just thought that when the second sister married Sun Yat-sen's whole family, she chose to support the second sister, why when it came to her own marriage, the second sister could not choose to support her.
Chiang Kai-shek did not give up after failing to marry, and he relied on the Whampoa Military Academy to gain a firm foothold in the Kuomintang, which won the weight of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
In 1927, he led the Northern Expeditionary Army to Shanghai and once again launched a strong offensive against Song Meiling, and now he is already a general with a lot of achievements.
Song Meiling was gradually shaken under such an offensive, but the family was really unhappy.
At this time, Song Xialing saw the potential of Chiang Kai-shek, she saw what her little sister was thinking, and explained the benefits of marrying Chiang Kai-shek.
In her opinion, Chiang Kai-shek will certainly become the leader of the Kuomintang in the future, and when the Song family has power and wealth, it will surely become an unshakable big family.
In order to get his family to agree, Song Xialing took the initiative to advise Chiang Kai-shek, as long as he dismissed his wife and concubine to marry his younger sister.
In order to marry Song Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek chose to divorce his wife and published a newspaper announcing that he had disassociated himself from his wife and concubine, and he finally married Song Meiling as he wished.
Soong Ching Ling has always disliked Chiang Kai-shek, but he can no longer interfere with his determined little sister.
At that time, Dr. Sun Yat-sen had passed away, Chiang Kai-shek became the leader of the Kuomintang with many helpers, and Soong Mei-ling became the "First Lady".
The couple was often invited to go abroad to attend various conferences, which greatly satisfied Song Meiling's vanity.
She tasted power and began to participate in various political affairs as Chiang Kai-shek's wife.
Chiang Kai-shek, who became the leader of the Kuomintang, began to comprehensively eradicate dissidents, and even more took various actions to suppress our party.
After Sun Yat-sen's death, Soong Ching Ling found that the development of the Kuomintang had long deviated from her husband's original intention, and she chose to support our party with a deep understanding of the great righteousness.
For this reason, Chiang Kai-shek was very dissatisfied, and he repeatedly found his wife, Soong Mei Ling, hoping that she could lobby her second sister and stand for the Kuomintang.
In the context of the times at that time, Song Qingling had a very high status both domestically and internationally, and if she could get her help, the National Government would be able to add icing on the cake.
Song Meiling also did not want to stand against the second sister, and repeatedly consulted her on this matter, but was rejected.
The sisters' former friendship was gradually exhausted by the long-term differences in political views.
In the War of Liberation, although our army was inferior in numbers to the national army, the national army had long been corrupt from within, and the pace of our army's liberation went to all parts of the country.
Chiang Kai-shek had to lead the remnants of the Kuomintang to Taiwan, and Soong Mei-ling also went with her husband, and has not returned to the mainland since.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Soong Ching Ling, as a close comrade-in-arms of our party, was elected vice chairman of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China.
She has been living in Beijing in the cultural, educational, health and welfare undertakings of women and children.
Song Meiling, on the other hand, has always been in Taiwan with her husband, and when the mainland stabilized, the mainland leaders repeatedly asked the couple to come back to visit their relatives, but for various reasons they failed to do so.
Later, Chiang Kai-shek died of a heart attack, and soon after Soong Mei Ling was busy with her husband's funeral, she went to the United States, where she had lived for ten years.
The sisters' will is the same, and the soul returns home
In her later years, Song Qingling always remembered the sisterhood of her childhood, and she wanted her little sister to return to China many times but did not respond.
In 1981, Song Qingling was sick and hoped that the little sister could return to China to see her again.
However, Song Meiling only replied to this: "Sending her sister to the United States for medical treatment", and did not reply to the matter of returning to China to visit relatives.
Soong Ching Ling still did not see this sister regretful death, she left a will, do not want to be buried with her husband Sun Yat-sen, hope to be buried with her parents.
Eventually she was buried in the Song Family Cemetery in Shanghai, where she was buried with her parents.
Song Meiling did not see the second sister for the last time, nor did she attend the funeral, and there were all kinds of speculations from the outside world.
In fact, it was because the Kuomintang cut off the way back to the mainland to visit relatives, and although Song Meiling was in the United States, it was not convenient for her to return to the mainland.
If she returns, she will be betraying her deceased husband, Chiang Kai-shek.
When Soong Meiling chose to marry Chiang Kai-shek, she was doomed to the fate of the two of them involved, one prosperous and one lost.
She died on October 24, 2003 in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 103.
Living to this age, she has seen many things open, and for many years she has watched her relatives die one after another, and in the end she is alone.
In a hundred years of life, everything becomes empty.
Among Song Meiling's wills, one is no different from Song Qingling.
Don't bury her with Chiang Kai-shek, hope to be buried with her parents.
But her last wish was not fulfilled in the end, and for various reasons, she was buried in the United States, next to the tomb of her eldest sister Song Yiling.
The final destination of the Song sisters is lamentable, they were once the most dazzling sister flowers.
However, because of the choice after marriage, they embarked on a completely different path, and on their deathbed, both wanted to fall leaves and return to their roots, but only Song Qingling was buried next to his parents as he wished.
Song Xialing and Song Meiling are buried in the United States forever, unable to return to their hometown and fallen leaves to their roots.
I don't know if Song Meiling in her later years regretted the choice of that year.
But life is like this, as early as she chose to marry Chiang Kai-shek in a desperate bet, it was doomed to today's end.
There is no turning back from the bow, and there is no turning back in life.