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Chiang Kai-shek's life is one of the most controversial and influential chapters in modern Chinese history.
His political career demonstrated his complexities as a military and political leader,
At the same time, it also reflects the domestic and foreign challenges facing China in the twentieth century.
Chiang Kai-shek's role in history has been widely criticized and praised.
Chiang Kai-shek's life was like a play, from an anti-Japanese hero to a defeated retreat to Taiwan, his whole life was swaying in the wind and rain.
On April 5, 1975, the Qingming Festival, in the early morning of Taoyuan, Taiwan, a gust of spring breeze swept through Cihu.
Chiang Kai-shek said goodbye to the world forever, leaving behind countless unsolved mysteries and deep family and country complexes.
"Chiang Kai-shek died, leaving behind the mystery of seven pairs of trousers! Why was his body never buried?"
This is not just an ordinary mystery, but a hidden historical secret.
Chiang Kai-shek's death is not only the end of an era, but also a historical remembrance.
His posthumous affairs have attracted widespread attention, especially his remains have not been buried.
It is still parked in the "Daxi Mausoleum" in Cihu Lake in Taoyuan.
The meaning behind this decision has caused endless conjecture and discussion in the outside world.
Chiang Kai-shek's early life
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) was born into a middle-class family in Zhejiang Province and was influenced by Confucian culture in his early years.
In 1906, Chiang Kai-shek went to study at the non-commissioned officer school in Tokyo, Japan, an experience that not only shaped his military thinking, but also exposed him to Japanese ideas of modernization and nationalism.
In Tokyo, Chiang Kai-shek was deeply influenced by Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles and decided to devote himself to the revolutionary activities of overthrowing the Manchus and establishing a democratic republic.
The rise of the Kuomintang and the role of Chiang
After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, Chiang Kai-shek returned to China to join the ranks of the revolution.
He soon became a close confidant of Sun Yat-sen and a major military leader within the Kuomintang.
In 1924, Sun Yat-sen established the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou, and Chiang Kai-shek was appointed as the principal and began to cultivate his own forces.
This phase marked the real beginning of Chiang Kai-shek's political career, and he won the support of his military and political colleagues with his strict discipline and strong leadership style.
After Sun Yat-sen's death in 1925, Chiang Kai-shek gradually rose to the core leadership within the Kuomintang.
From 1926 to 1928, he led the Northern Expedition, which successfully unified much of China and established the Nationalist government in Nanjing.
As the main leader of the Nationalist government, Chiang Kai-shek faced a great challenge: resistance to Japan
During the Sino-Japanese War and World War II,
Chiang Kai-shek's policies and military decisions had an important impact on China's strategic situation.
Chiang Kai-shek blew up the embankment of the Yellow River
Chiang Kai-shek's political and military career was equally controversial.
In 1938, in the face of the rapid invasion of the Japanese army,
Chiang Kai-shek made the controversial decision to blow up the Yellow River embankment in order to block the Japanese advance.
The decision led to widespread flooding on the south bank of the Yellow River, affecting Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and other provinces, killing hundreds of thousands of people and affecting the lives of millions.
Although this tactic delayed the Japanese offensive in the short term,
But its huge loss of life and property to the people,
and long-term ecological and socio-economic impacts, making this behavior historically controversial.
This decision also became one of Chiang Kai-shek's biggest regrets in his later years.
Chiang Kai-shek's funeral was on a grand scale, with countless chrysanthemums and 99 hearses, reflecting the glory and loneliness of his life.
In the crowd, there was a detail that puzzled people - Chiang Kai-shek's body turned out to be wearing seven pairs of trousers.
This bizarre discovery makes one wonder if there is some kind of deep meaning behind it.
In the face of the founding of New China and the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea,
Chiang Kai-shek finally saw that the tide was gone, and his dream of rule was finally in vain.
Chiang Kai-shek in his later years was more of a deep attachment to his hometown and endless longing for his mother.
He failed to return to his homeland before his death, but left a will,
I hope that after death, I can bury my ashes in Fenghua, Zhejiang, and rest in the same land as my mother.
The last years of this veteran were full of illness and suffering.
In March 1975, he became seriously ill and died on Ching Ming Festival due to complications caused by an operation.
His death, although quietly spread in Taiwan, but in the mainland,
Chairman Mao's simple response "I know" also seems to reveal the end of an era.
Although Chiang Kai-shek experienced many ups and downs in his life, his feelings for his hometown never changed.
Wearing seven pairs of pants is not only his adherence to the culture of his homeland, but also his simple hope to return to his roots.
Although his coffin was placed in the picturesque Cihu Lake, he never returned to his true hometown.
When Chiang Kai-shek died in Taiwan, his family, in accordance with his last wishes,
He was dressed in seven pairs of trousers - a traditional custom in the Fenghua region, symbolizing the attachment to his homeland and the unfulfilled wish to return.
He hopes that one day the coffin will return to Fenghua, Zhejiang, and return to his roots.
This former leader, his life is so legendary, and his death is so poignant.
In the whirlpool of politics, Chiang Kai-shek may have lost a lot, but until his death, he still retained the simplest wish - to return to the roots.
This is not only a summary of his personal life, but also a profound reflection on history.
"Hero I, a dream. Fallen leaves return to the roots, but a dream in the world. ”
A member of the Jiang family said: "My father has been running around all his life, and he has not even been able to get his last rest. He hoped that the body could be transported back to Fenghua, Zhejiang, which was his unfulfilled wish. ”
This may be the reason why he is still not buried.
No matter how magnificent our lives are, will we eventually be at peace?
What do you think of historical figures like Chiang Kai-shek?
Do you think a person's life should be defined by his accomplishments, or is his unfulfilled wish more revealing?