Chiang Kai-shek is partially located in Taiwan. After the regime is stable, he has made many efforts to further establish his so-called "orthodox" status. The most common method is to win over some "historical celebrities" to come to Taiwan to take important positions.
Therefore, in 1968, Chiang Kai-shek sent people to Macau and invited a 72-year-old woman to move to Taiwan to spend her old age. However, after seeing Chiang Kai-shek's sudden "care", the old woman did not choose to agree, but replied that she was old and weak and had difficulty moving, and directly declined.
In fact, this old woman who has experienced strong winds and rains has long known her charm for Chiang Kai-shek. She knows it is fake to go to Taiwan to spend her old age, and it is true to treat her as "anti-communist capital". Obviously, she is not willing to be used by the Kuomintang.
And although she is in Macau, the Party and the government have never forgotten her. Even though the economy was in the recovery stage at that time and life in mainland China was extremely difficult, Zhou Enlai still took care of her in life through Soong Ching Ling , and the old woman has always been grateful to the organization for her care.
After being "rejected", Chiang Kai-shek was helpless and had to change his treatment to "give a gold house to build a house", but it was always a piece of paper. After all, in Jiang's opinion, if he cannot use it for himself, he will have no value he will pay for it.
Speaking of this, perhaps many readers will ask: Who is this old woman? Why did Chiang Kai-shek try every means to invite her? In fact, this "old woman" is no one else, but Sun Yat-sen's youngest daughter, Sun Wan.
1. Sun Wan's first love
Sun Yat-sen had two marriages in his life. He and his original wife Lu Muzhen have a boy and two girls, namely the eldest son Sun Ke , the eldest daughter Sun Ce, and the younger daughter Sun Wan mentioned in this article.
In November 1896, Sun Wan was born in Honolulu, USA. She was born on the same day of the same month as her father. However, when he was born, his father Sun Yat-sen was imprisoned by the Qing government's mansion in London, England. He experienced the darkest moments of his life and failed to see his daughter born with his own eyes.
Not only that, Sun Wan's entire childhood was basically spent with her mother at her uncle's house, and her father was a strange blank in her childhood memory.
grew up a little bit, but Sun Wan’s understanding of her father was no different from that of ordinary Chinese people. It all came from news in newspapers. She only knew that he was either "rebelling" or running away.
Ordinary people have a respect for heroes, but there is no place to send the family affection between father and daughter in the world...
After the success of the Xinhai Revolution, Sun Yat-sen was coerced and deceited by the thief of the country, and was forced to give up the power of the president. In order to win people's hearts, Yuan Shikai sent Sun Ke and Sun Wan to study in the United States as the "children of the good man". Sun Wan still could not reunite with her father.
Sun Yat-sen was later actively struggling to oppose the traitor Yuan Shikai, and had no time to take care of his children, so he entrusted his friend Huang Xing to take care of his little daughter. Huang Xing was also responsible for the revolution, so he entrusted this to his aide Wang Boqiu .
Wang Boqiu, born in 1883, studied in Japan's Waseda University and Haval University in the United States in his early years. The young man participated in the " Tongmenghui " founded by Sun Yat-sen, and was determined to revolution and was valued by Sun Yat-sen.
Wang Boqiu is a talented person and gentle. He takes care of Sun Wan very carefully. No matter how busy he is, whenever he sees Sun Wan from school, he will wait on time at the school gate, take her schoolbag, ask about her homework, and carefully tutor her homework. It is windy and rainy, and he even prepares clothes and umbrellas, and cares about his well-being, both like his elder brother and father.
Sun Wan has already emerged as a graceful girl. She has just begun to fall in love and feels extremely sensitively the warmth of the opposite sex conveyed by Wang Boqiu and the fatherly love that is extremely lacking since childhood. Therefore, she soon fell in love with her own heart.
Sun Yat-sen was very pleased to learn from Huang Xingxin that his daughter was in love, but when he learned that his daughter was in love with Wang Boqiu, he immediately became uneasy.
In fact, it is not that Sun Yat-sen doesn't like Wang Boqiu, but that he knows that this person already has a family and is much older than his daughter, so Sun Yat-sen is very opposed to the two continuing to date because he insists on resisting polygamy and cannot accept the fact that his daughter is a "second wife" for others no matter what.
Huang Xing had no choice but to warn Wang Boqiu not to approach Sun Wan anymore. Wang Boqiu, who respected the two revolutionary predecessors, also planned to withdraw, but Sun Wan loved him and sweared: He should not marry in this life. And although she knew that Wang Boqiu already had a wife, she didn't care at all.
In her letter to Wang Boqiu, she wrote passionately: "You are from the revolutionary era, from the whole world, not just me, as long as you are with you, I can even allow you to have a wife..."
1914, Sun Wan, who was only 18 years old, married Wang Boqiu despite her family's opposition. The wedding was held in a small country chapel in the United States. There was almost no witness, but Sun Wan was still immersed in happiness.
After marriage, Sun Wan gave birth to a pair of children, and Wang Boqiu also brought his wife and children back to China.
2. Sun Yat-sen urged his daughter to divorce
After Sun Yat-sen learned that the two were married, he still ordered Wang Boqiu to divorce and refused to recognize this son-in-law at all. Wang Boqiu was originally a right-hand assistant to Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren , but his image plummeted after "bigma", and he never had the chance to hold an important position in Tongmenghui and National Government .
At that time, Wang Boqiu was sent to a remote county called Xinle to be the county magistrate. But he had no complaints at all, worked diligently, faithfully implemented the new policy advocated by Sun Yat-sen, and managed the county town in an orderly manner in a few years, making Xinle County a model county town praised as a model example of the Republic of China.
Sun Yat-sen saw Wang Boqiu's political achievements. He knew his ability very well, but he never recognized Wang Boqiu's feudal marriage with polygamy, because his creed of "revolutionizing the fate of an old-style marriage" was never broken, so he still tried his best to urge Wang Boqiu to divorce his daughter as soon as possible.
Wang Boqiu had no choice but to divorce Sun Wan, and took the initiative to take the responsibility of raising his children, and restore Sun Wan to freedom.
However, Sun Wan, who still loves Wang Boqiu deeply, was heartbroken for this and was full of resentment for her father's insistence on interfering in her marriage happiness. The father-daughter relationship has disappeared.
In fact, before that, because we rarely met, there was no relationship between the father and daughter. In Sun Wan's impression: My father is a cold and great person, who belongs to the country, not to me.
Now in her opinion, she can’t even make decisions about her own marriage, which makes her already unfamiliar relationship even worse.
After the divorce, Sun Wan couldn't get out of the disheartened predicament for a long time. Her brother Sun Ke saw it and was anxious. She sent her sister to Macau to accompany her mother and actively looked for a new brother-in-law.
At this time, a talented man named Diansai came into Sun Ke's vision. He was only four years older than his sister.
—In my early years, I studied in St. John's University in Shanghai and Tsinghua University in Beijing. Later, I studied in Columbia University in the United States. After returning to China, I served as secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Guangzhou Military Government, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and a member of the Foreign Investigation Committee. I was young and strong and highly favored by Sun Ke.
So Sun Ke actively "matched" and let Dainsai meet his sister. Dainesai is indeed impeccable in terms of character and talent. After dating for a long time, Sun Wan also accepted him, so the two decided to get married in 1921.
This wedding was very grand. Not only were the relatives and friends from both sides here, but many officials from the government also came to congratulate. Everyone thought they would see Sun Yat-sen who agreed with this marriage at the wedding, but unfortunately: Sun Yat-sen has never appeared.
In fact, Sun Yat-sen, who always thought that he owed his daughter a lot in life, wanted to participate, but was rejected by his daughter who was still full of resentment towards him.
Sun Yat-sen was sad, and still entrusted his wife Soong Ching-ling to write a letter to congratulate the two newcomers and sent a gift of 4,000 yuan.This was a huge sum of money at that time, but Sun Wan neither replied to thank her for her, nor did she accept the gift, but handed it over to her mother for free.
Sun Wan gave birth to a pair of children after marriage. Sun Yat-sen was very happy and personally named his grandchildren. When his granddaughter was born, Sun Yat-sen was attacking the Guangxi warlords, so he named it "Success".
When the grandson was born, Sun Yat-sen took refuge in Yongfeng ship , and then named "Yongfeng". This time, Sun Wan accepted them one by one. It can be seen that Sun Wan still retains a special and important position for her father in her heart, but due to her stubborn personality, she could never get close to her father again.
3. Sun Wan failed to see her father for the last time
March 1925, the spring was chilly, and in , the founding father Sun Yat-sen, who worked hard for state affairs until the last moment of his life, had entered a state of dying, but he still vigorously mobilized himself and finally sorted out three documents: "State Will", "Family Will", and "Sound Suicide Letter to the Soviet Union".
The two famous sayings "We must awaken the people and unite the world to equally fight our nation" and "The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard" are even more familiar to future generations.
As noon approached, Sun Yat-sen was already in danger of life and fell into a semi-coma state. He saw his eyes dissipated, and he leaned out his hand with difficulty to grab something. He kept murmuring faintly: Wan'er Come, Wan'er Come, I owe you the most in my life..."
saw the file, and after vaguely hearing these words, everyone present was sad and crying...
The founding father was still a little awake, but what he said was still full of sincere instructions for the country, the people, and to his comrades. And when the consciousness was about to disappear, the infinite attachment that had been hidden in his heart, the love of his relatives could no longer be suppressed. How can the great human sentiment not touching?
Unfortunately, Sun Wan still did not appear by her father. Perhaps, at this moment, Sun Wan is not unable to get out of the old grudges, but is also full of regret and suffering...
The reason why she did not go was that in addition to blaming herself for not understanding the difficulties of the strict father, she felt that she had no face to meet the founding father who worked hard for the country and the nation until her death, and had no face to face so many people who sincerely admired him, loved him, and were sad for his departure.
It is precisely because of this that Sun Wan specially instructed her husband Dai Ansai to serve her father from beginning to end. Maybe she hoped that this would serve her children's last filial piety instead of herself.
After Chiang Kai-shek took over the power of the Kuomintang, Sun Wan's family, who could not stand Chiang Kai-shek's dictator's face, lived a low-key life away from politics. Dai Ansai only served as ambassador to Brazil . After returning to China, he only served as the supervisor of Guangdong Customs . He did not make a fortune and was very honored.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese invaders occupied Guangdong. Dai Ansai's customs supervision position was suspended. Dai Ansai, who did not want to be a traitor, was also unemployed at home and cut off his source of income.
Diansai was honest all his life and had no savings. In addition, the Japanese invaders' heavy taxes in Guangdong, they did not have any more than 8 years. The Kuomintang government has no support for any income, let alone any pension. The family is as hard as all ordinary people, and the couple has to work to make a living.
In fact, before that, their family also wrote to Sun Ke, hoping to get some funding to go abroad, but Sun Ke did not reply. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Sun Wan family still lived an ordinary family life.
4. Write a letter to the central government for help
1949, on the eve of the liberation of Guangzhou, the Sun Wan family came to Macau to settle down. Due to long-term hard work and sorrow, and his son Dai Yongfeng suddenly died in Lingnan University , Dai Ansai could not bear the blow and could not afford to suffer. He finally passed away in 1955.
. After the pillar collapsed, Sun Wan's family's life became even more difficult, and they could only rely on selling her husband's collection and real estate to survive.In 1964, due to difficulties in life and illness, Sun Wan also wrote letters to Liao Chengzhi, who held important positions in the Hong Kong and Macao offices, and Deng Xiaoping, Vice Premier of the State Council, hoping that the state would provide subsidies.
New China has not forgotten Sun Wan's family, and Liao Chengzhi has come to ask about her many times. Liao Chengzhi's father Liao Zhongkai is Sun Yat-sen's close friend, so Sun Wan and Liao Chengzhi have been together since childhood. After learning that Sun Yat-sen's descendants were living in such a poor life, the Central Committee quickly let the Macau Branch of Xinhua News Agency help Sun Wan and his family. Since then, Sun Wan's family's life has gradually improved.
After seeing the new China change the world under the leadership of the Communist Party and prosper, she was also very pleased and felt that this was her father's long-cherished wish in her life. Therefore, she did not want to go to Taiwan to be used. She wanted to stay in the motherland and watch the new China continue to thrive, and even Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan returned...
1971, Sun Wan unfortunately fell, causing her pelvis to be crushed and she was admitted to Macau Jinghu Hospital for treatment. During this period, she still felt the meticulous care of the central government. At that time, the Macau Branch of Xinhua News Agency not only visited the condition, but also invited famous orthopedic doctors from Beijing to treat her.
979, Sun Wan completed her extraordinary and ordinary life at the age of 83. The cost of her 8-year hospitalization was also paid by Beijing. After Sun Wan's death, she was first buried in Macau, and later moved to the Pofulin Christian Cemetery in Hong Kong, where she will always be with her husband Dainesai.
Looking at Sun Wan's life, although she went through hardships and obstacles, the ending was still successful overall. But she still had one regret, that is, she failed to make a formal reconciliation with her father. In fact, as we said above, she had long understood the difficulty of her father. This was not only a matter of age and experience, but also a sense of maturity in her thoughts.
As old, she gradually gained a deep and clear understanding of what her father had done, and understood that her father was busy for the country and the people, not for her own fame and fortune. In the face of "everyone", the small family must give up. After all, it has been difficult for the country and the country to achieve both.
As early as 1925, before Sun Yat-sen died, he ordered Soong Ching-ling to use a photo of himself as a souvenir to leave it to his daughter Sun Wan, who had not seen her for the last time. Soong Ching Ling lived up to her trust and handed it over to Sun Wan and his wife after making notes in Chinese and English on the front of the photo.
. Sun Wan kept this photo by herself until her death.
In November 2010, Sun Wan's goddaughter, Chinese American Situ Qian, returned the photo to the Chinese government and said: This is Ms. Sun Wan's confession to her father. I believe that Mr. Sun Yat-sen has knowledge in the spring, and he will definitely be extremely pleased to see his daughter let go and forgive him.
