On December 1, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek held a wedding for Song Meiling in the Song family mansion on Kunshan Road on the old Shanghai Beach to directly change the course of China's modern history, the grandeur of this wedding can be said to be the "wedding of the century", just because of the marriage of the two people, the official realization of "Sino-US cooperation", this period is actually the downturn stage of Jieshi, the so-called "battlefield frustration, love field", he finally married Song Meiling as he wished.
Wedding of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling
To be precise, Chiang Kai-shek not only married Soong Mei-ling, a talented and beautiful lady, but also "married" the influence of the Soong family in the political and business circles in the country, not to mention that there were Americans behind the Song family at that time, and under the joint action of these forces, Chiang Kai-shek made a comeback, grasped the real power of the Kuomintang, and defeated almost all the local warlords who opposed him in the following Central Plains War, and gradually went to the peak of China's political power.
Song Meiling
This is a politicized marriage, without Soong Meiling there would be no Chiang Kai-shek coming later, without the support of the Soong family, Chiang Kai-shek may flash by like other warlords, and it is Song Meiling who has helped him do a lot of things. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek of course attached great importance to him, and at that time, in order to marry Soong Mei-ling, Chiang Kai-shek not only embraced Christianity on the soul, but also divorced his original wife and two concubines for her, one of whom also swore an alliance with him, and finally all turned his back.
In this way, Song Meiling became the famous first lady of the Republic of China period, and became the mother of Chiang Kai-shek's two children, Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Wei-kuo, and their family was relatively harmonious in getting along, the only pity was that Song Meiling herself did not have a child. Although Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Wai-kuo also called themselves mothers, they were not biological after all.
Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling, Chiang Ching-kuo (left), Chiang Wei-kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo's biological mother was Mao Fumei, Mao Fumei has been living in his hometown in Zhejiang since he was abandoned by Chiang Kai-shek, in 1938, the Japanese army occupied Zhejiang, on December 12 of that year, the Japanese planes bombed in Chiang Kai-shek's hometown of Fenghua Xikou in Zhejiang, Mao Fumei was so unfortunately killed, her body was not found until the next day, Chiang Ching-kuo was not in his hometown, but he received a telegram that his mother had been killed by the Japanese army and immediately rushed home to take care of his mother's affairs.
Chiang Ching-kuo and Mao Fumei (middle)
Mao Fumei's funeral was very solemn, after all, he was once Chiang Kai-shek's original wife, Chiang Ching-kuo's biological mother, but her identity is really embarrassing, on the tombstone, the word "Chiang" did not appear at all, only the name of Chiang Ching-kuo appeared in the name of "the tomb of Mao Taijun, the first concubine".
Tomb of Mao Fumei
However, it is this "xianfei" two words but caused Song Meiling is very embarrassed, very unhappy, since ancient times, Kao refers to the death of her father, you refer to the death of her mother, and in the Jiang family, at this time Song Meiling is Chiang Ching-kuo's mother, but Chiang Ching-kuo's voice is engraved on the tombstone "Xianfei", which is really obscure.
Song Meiling thought this wasn't a curse on me? Moreover, Mao Fumei and Chiang Kai-shek are already divorced, so why do they still use such a title? Chiang Ching-kuo felt that he had done the right thing, although Mao Fumei was divorced from Chiang Kai-shek, but she was his own mother after all.