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Chiang Kai-shek, a native of Fenghua, Zhejiang, was born in 1887 and studied in Japan in his early years, where he joined the League. He was an anti-communist all his life, and served as president of the Kuomintang and chairman of the Kuomintang government. He fled to Taiwan in 1949 and was reinstated as the "government president" of the Kuomintang in Taiwan in 1950.
In March 1972, Chiang Kai-shek underwent prostate surgery, which later turned into chronic prostatitis, and his health has been in decline ever since. In July of the same year, he suffered from a cold and then pneumonia, and was hospitalized for one year and four months. In December 1974, influenza broke out in Taiwan, and Chiang Kai-shek suffered a recurrence of pneumonia due to a cold. In addition, due to the long-term use of antibiotics in the treatment of chronic prostatitis, the bacterial resistance to drugs is enhanced, and the treatment is quite troublesome.
Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Meiling
On the night of January 9, 1975, Chiang Kai-shek suffered from myocardial hypoxia in his sleep, and was turned into a safe patient after first aid. However, because the pneumonia has not healed, he has a fever from time to time. Chiang Ching-kuo was very uneasy when he saw that his father's condition had not improved. On March 29, Chiang Kai-shek dictated his will at the official residence of Caoshan Villa on the outskirts of Taipei. The opening sentence of the will is: "Since Yu Zi was tied, he has followed the revolution of the prime minister, and has always regarded himself as the Jesu Christ and the followers of the prime minister...... more than 300 words are a set of old tunes about how he practiced the Three People's Principles and recovered the land of the mainland.
On the afternoon of April 5, Chiang Kai-shek felt discomfort in his abdomen and his urinary system failed. Doctors thought his heart was not functioning well. At 8:01 p.m., his condition deteriorated. The doctor noticed that Chiang Kai-shek's pulse had suddenly slowed, so he informed Chiang Ching-kuo by phone. When Chiang Ching-kuo rushed to the Caoshan Villa, Chiang Kai-shek's heartbeat was irregular, his blood pressure dropped, and he was in a critical condition. Artificial respiration was immediately performed, and even drugs and electrodes were used to directly puncture the heart muscle to stimulate the heartbeat, but it did not recover. At 11:50 p.m., Chiang Kai-shek died at his official residence in Caoshan, a suburb of Taipei, at the age of 89.
When Chiang Kai-shek was dying, Soong Meiling was by his side. When Taiwan's party, government, and military dignitaries heard that Chiang Kai-shek had died, they all rushed to the Caoshan villa that night, and held a ceremony at the villa to sign Chiang Kai-shek's will. Those who signed the will were Song Meiling, Yan Jiagan, Jiang Jingguo, Ni Wenya, Tian Jiongjin, Yang Lianggong, and Yu Junxian.
Two hours later, the Taiwan Government Information Bureau issued a death communiqué calling Chiang Kai-shek's death a "collapse," which was an out-and-out and out-and-out regard of Chiang Kai-shek as a feudal emperor. The countries of the world reacted coldly to Chiang's death, and the small number of people attending the funeral and the low standard showed the weight of Chiang Kai-shek.
Soong Meiling and Chiang Ching-kuo decided to place Chiang's coffin in Cihu, 60 kilometers away from Taipei City, which was the cemetery Chiang Kai-shek chose before his death. After burying Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Meiling went to the United States and lived in seclusion in the villa of Kong Lingkan in the Latin Town district of Long Island, a suburb of New York City.
The "Cihu Hotel", where Chiang Kai-shek's coffin is parked, is constantly visited. Chiang Kai-shek's body had been embalmed, dressed in a robe and a horse coat, with a medal on his chest, in a black marble sarcophagus, and parked in the main hall. The wing room adjacent to the main hall maintains the original bedroom of the former life for people to visit. On the coffee table in the bedroom was a note letterhead, on which Chiang Kai-shek wrote in red pencil four lines of calligraphy:
"Able to bend and stretch".
Chiang Kai-shek
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