Everyone is familiar with Chiang Kai-shek . He tried to establish the Chiang Dynasty and allowed the bureaucratic landlord group to exploit the people, compromised imperialism, and finally fled Taiwan to cause the failure of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait to be unified. It can be said that it is a very legacy.
But in his later years, Chiang Kai-shek was also homesick and often asked people to go to the mainland to buy bamboo shoots to pickle them to relieve the pain of homesickness. Not only did Chiang Kai-shek continue his living habits in the mainland when he was born, but his arrangements after his death were also somewhat exquisite.
975, at Chiang Kai-shek's funeral, people unexpectedly discovered that Chiang Kai-shek, who was originally thin, became very bloated in the coffin. It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek wore seven layers of underwear and seven pairs of pants after his death.
. To this day, Chiang Kai-shek has not been buried. The coffins of their father and son are all parked in Cihu in Daxi Town, Taoyuan County, and three blue bricks are placed under the coffin to make it hang. There is actually a reason for this kind of approach, but the answer to the mystery was later.
975, Chiang Kai-shek was already 87 years old this year, and his physical condition was very poor. He suffered from pneumonia and prostatitis . He suffered from another car accident a few years ago, causing damage to his heart valves, so he was tortured by illness in his later years.
In this case, Chiang Kai-shek could only rely on drugs to maintain his life. Occasionally, his condition would cause his emotions to be very unstable and accompanied by a mental disorder.
On April 5 of this year, Chiang Kai-shek's emotions suddenly lost control and became very irritable. If he was not satisfied, he would lose his temper with the people around him. But at this time, no one realized that Chiang Kai-shek's life had entered the countdown.
Under the persuasion of the nurse, Chiang Kai-shek finally took a break in the afternoon, but it seemed that his mood did not improve much.
In the evening, Jiang Jingguo came to the mansion. They talked about gossip together and had dinner together.
During the conversation that day, Chiang Kai-shek instructed Chiang Ching-kuo to hold the commemoration of the 100th birthday of Nankai University Zhang Boling . After saying that, Chiang Kai-shek laughed. The people around him hadn't seen him laugh like this for a long time.
After dinner, Chiang Ching-kuo left, and after listening to the radio for a while, Chiang Kai-shek took a few tablets of painkillers under the nurse's cooking, and then fell asleep again.
After Chiang Kai-shek slept, Chiang Kai-shek's personal guard Weng Yuan also returned to the dormitory to sleep because he was not working for the night shift.
just took a nap in a daze for a while, suddenly Weng Yuan was woken up by the commander. He rubbed his eyes and got up with a bed, looked at the commander suspiciously, and then he heard a message that made him awake immediately: Chiang Kai-shek passed away.
It was not midnight at that time, and Chiang Kai-shek died of a heart attack at 23:50.
In fact, Chiang Kai-shek's heart attack was not without warning. As early as March 26, Chiang Kai-shek had already gone to the gates of hell due to a heart attack. After three hours of hard work by medical staff, he was rescued.
Since then, Chiang Kai-shek has felt that he has not had much time and has begun to make arrangements for his life. His son Chiang Ching-kuo has visited him at least three times each time since then. But this time, it was Qingming Festival, and Chiang Kai-shek finally failed.
For a moment, the entire Shilin official residence was in chaos. When the Jiang family members and the Kuomintang military and political officials heard the news rushed over. Yan Jiagan immediately formed the funeral committee after Chiang Kai-shek's death.
But as the top leader of the Kuomintang, Chiang Ching-kuo held the actual power, and the arrangements for funerals were actually his instructed.
Soon, the island broadcasted the news of Chiang Kai-shek's death and issued three administrative orders by Chiang Ching-kuo, namely: from April 6, a one-month mourning period will be held, and all entertainment activities in various places will be stopped; military, public and educational personnel on the island must wear plain clothes and black veils; Chiang Kai-shek's body will be parked in the memorial hall for five days for the public to look at.
In addition to these, Chiang Ching-kuo also required television stations and radio stations to display sorrow and music and black and white pictures, and to suspend red printing in the name of saving paper. All articles reporting on funerals must be reported as "King Chiang", and the Qingming Festival, which had never been on holiday before, was also named "King Chiang's anniversary" and had a day off.
Three and a half hours after Chiang Kai-shek's death, his body was first placed in the Veterans General Courtyard, where staff arranged a mourning hall, with eighty-eight candles surrounding his coffin, and his portrait and will were also enshrined in the middle. During this period, military and political officials and Taiwanese people came here to pay tribute.
Before moving to the memorial hall on April 9, Chiang Ching-kuo personally put on seven layers of clothes for his father, including underwear, pants and a gown. Close to the body, there is also a layer of silk cotton wrapped around it, all the way to the neck. Then, Chiang Ching-kuo put on black leather shoes on his body.
Finally, he also wore a medal on Chiang Kai-shek's chest. In addition, Soong Mei-ling also placed four books such as "Three Principles of the People", "Bible", "Desert Sweet Spring" and "Tang Poetry" in the coffin, and also included felt hats, small hats, handkerchiefs, gloves, crutches, and crutches.
After completing these tasks, Chiang Kai-shek's coffin set off for the memorial hall. The descendants of the Jiang family represented by Chiang Ching-kuo were kneeling down to express their condolences, and even the Kuomintang officials and Taiwan county and city officials accompanied him to worship.
Chiang Kai-shek's body stayed in the memorial hall for seven days, and a funeral ceremony was held on April 16. In addition to the traditional funeral rituals in China, the funeral committee also performed a spiritual ceremony for him in accordance with the Christian rituals.
Then, the coffin surrounded by 200,000 yellow chrysanthemums was moved into the hearse, and once again, under the escort of a huge team, went to Cihu, Taoyuan County for a temporary house.
The so-called temporary house refers to temporary parking. Generally, the elderly are not buried after death and are called a house. In other words, even if you go to Cihu, you don’t want to bury Chiang Kai-shek, but you will be temporarily placed.
In the Chinese concept, once the elderly die, they will be buried in peace. Why did the funeral committee not bury Chiang Kai-shek in time? This was mainly Chiang Kai-shek's own wish, because he always wanted to return to his roots.
In Chiang Kai-shek's will, he said: "After I die, the coffin is temporarily housed in Cihu. The scenery there is very good, and it looks very similar to our hometown in Fenghua... The coffin will not fall to the ground, and one day will be returned to the mainland for burial."
Chiang Kai-shek is from Fenghua, Zhejiang. His mother is called Wang Caiyu . He once married a family named Zhu according to his parents' wishes, but suffered the misfortune of losing his husband and son. Wang Caiyu, who was extremely sad, chose to become a monk.
Not long after, Wang Caiyu's cousin was a partner in the store of Jiang Zhaocong, and after learning that his boss was widowed, he took the initiative to match the two. Wang Caiyu married into the Jiang family and gave birth to Chiang Kai-shek the following year.
Jiang family is a famous family in the local area. Jiang Zhaocong runs a wine and salt business and has a very wealthy family. He gave Wang Caiyu and his son a good life. Wang Caiyu later gave birth to a son and a daughter one after another.
But in 1895, Jiang Zhaocong died of illness, and Chiang Kai-shek's younger brother also died, but this is not over. His sister Jiang Ruilian was trapped at home due to a flood, but she died because no one helped her.
Since then, the Jiang family has fallen into trouble, and Wang Caiyu and his son are lonely and helpless, and are often bullied by the village.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was still a young man, was very indignant. He was jealous of the coldness of the world and felt even more unfair. Since then, his temperament has changed drastically. From a rich young master to a naughty child, he often fights, and Wang Caiyu was so angry that he collapsed several times.
But Wang Caiyu is still teaching his son carefully, and hopes to get him on the right path by sending him to study.
906, Chiang Kai-shek, who was nineteen years old at the time, traveled to Japan to study. Friends who are familiar with modern history should understand that many revolutionaries in modern China have had the experience of studying in Japan, and veteran pioneers such as Sun Yat-sen also have backgrounds in activities in Japan, and even China Tongmenghui was established in Japan.
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek was soon influenced by revolutionaries who were active in Japan. He and Chen Qimei became brothers of worship. He also met Sun Yat-sen under the recommendation of Chen Qimei and was able to join Tongmenghui .
Then, under the guidance of Chen Qimei, Chiang Kai-shek's status within the revolutionary party continued to rise. After Chen Qimei was assassinated, Chiang Kai-shek was once again led to the humerus by Sun Yat-sen. He worked for Sun Yat-sen and played a great role, which was an important basis for his later grasping power.
It is precisely for these reasons that in Chiang Kai-shek's heart, his mother Wang Caiyu and Sun Yat-sen have an important position. He once wanted to either be buried by his mother's side to fulfill his filial piety or be with him next to Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum after his death.
However, with Chiang Kai-shek's reputation, it is obviously unrealistic to be buried in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum after his death, so Chiang Kai-shek seemed to have the only choice to be with his mother in the end.
949, on the eve of Chiang Kai-shek's departure from the mainland, he had worshipped his mother and looked forward to going home to visit her again one day. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was still dreaming of counterattacking the mainland, hoping that the Americans would help him defeat the Communist Party.
But soon, Chiang Kai-shek was disappointed. First of all, the victory of New China in resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea made Chiang Kai-shek realize the powerful power of the PLA. Then, the progress of the Kinmen artillery battle also allowed Chiang Kai-shek to see the Americans' ulterior motives.
Wait until the mainland tried to explode the first atomic bomb , which even hit Chiang Kai-shek with great blow. Chiang Kai-shek once said sadly: "How great it would be if this atomic bomb was tested by us!"
From then on, Chiang Kai-shek gradually no longer had expectations for counterattacking the mainland, and hopes of maintaining a long-term residence in Taiwan is the best result.
However, Chiang Kai-shek heard the news that he least wanted to hear. At the 1971 UN General Assembly , New China restored its legal status in UN .
Not long after, Kissinger and Nixon visited China one after another, which completely shattered Chiang Kai-shek's dream.
It is said that when the news came, a gust of wind blew away Chiang Kai-shek's hat. After his adjutant helped him pick it up, he found that Chiang Kai-shek was already in tears. After that, Chiang Kai-shek had to face reality. Can he return to his hometown?
Time came to 1975. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek had lived in Taiwan for twenty-seven years. His political frustration was put aside, and his health also had big problems.
He had prostatitis, which was not a serious illness. Soong Mei-ling contacted him with a famous American doctor, and it only took ten minutes of surgery to solve the problem.
However, when the doctor heard that he was performing an operation on a big man, he was so nervous that the operation lasted for 40 minutes. After that, Chiang Kai-shek also had symptoms of hematuria and urinary incontinence, which made him suffer.
And in 1969, Chiang Kai-shek encountered a car accident. Although the accident did not have much direct impact on him, his health has been deteriorating since then. Chiang Kai-shek himself said: "This car accident has saved me from living for at least ten years."
By the age of twilight, fame and fortune have become clouds, and their bodies are not as good as yesterday. They inevitably feel sad and sad, and their attachment to their hometown has become even deeper.
Chiang Kai-shek missed his hometown all the time during his decades of living in Taiwan. This can be seen from some small things. There was a man named Li Tiehan , served Chiang Kai-shek at Shilin Official Residence, and was responsible for purchasing daily necessities.
According to Li Tiehan's recollection, every time during the holidays, it was also the most troublesome time for his work.
Chiang Kai-shek liked to eat pickled salted bamboo shoots, pickled cucumbers, pickled vegetables, rice cakes and other snacks. These foods are actually available in Taiwan, but Chiang Kai-shek just couldn't get used to it. He always asked to purchase them from the mainland, and he had to go from his hometown .
Every spring, Chiang Kai-shek would buy dozens of kilograms of bamboo shoots from his hometown in Zhejiang, so that the chef would pickle it and store it, and then take some out every day to serve rice.
In addition to eating, Chiang Kai-shek also has a homesickness complex when wearing and using it. For example, clothes, Chiang Kai-shek likes to make silk the most, and it must be produced in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Silk, he took away a lot of silk clothes when he fled to Taiwan.
Many years later, old clothes could not be worn, and Chiang Kai-shek even used intelligence agencies in Hong Kong to purchase silk from Zhejiang. The seven layers of clothes that Chiang Kai-shek wore when he was buried were made of Hangzhou silk.
Chiang Kai-shek also liked Jingdezhen porcelain , He brought all the utensils he used in Nanjing back then to Taiwan.
Porcelain is different from silk and vegetables, and it is difficult to transport it from the mainland. Therefore, all the old items brought by Chiang Kai-shek became orphans, and one piece was damaged less.
It is not that Taiwan cannot produce porcelain, but Chiang Kai-shek has a special feeling for the old items.
Once, a servant broke the lid of the teacup that Chiang Kai-shek often used. Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he cursed and didn't have a smile on his face for several days. The servants gave him a porcelain lid made on the island, but Chiang Kai-shek just didn't like it, so the cup was rarely used.
From these things, we can see Chiang Kai-shek's love for his hometown, and his deep love was as deep as the last minute. But the best way to do so is What reflects Chiang Kai-shek's longing for his hometown was something that happened in the 1960s.
At that time, in order to investigate China's atomic bomb development progress, the United States had to send a very advanced high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft "U-2" to Lop Nur, China to take photos.
When the plane set off, Chiang Kai-shek specially explained a mission to the pilot, which was to fly to his hometown Take a few photos over Xikou , especially to take pictures of his mother's tomb.
Chiang Kai-shek had a deep affection for his mother, and it was his greatest regret that he had not worshipped his mother's tomb for many years. Chairman Mao wrote him a letter in the spring of 1956, which said: "The tomb in Fenghua is still there, and the flowers and plants in Xikou are safe. Welcome Mr. Jiang to go back to his hometown after the reunification of the motherland. "
Chiang Kai-shek tried to destroy the ancestral tomb of Chairman Mao's family three times, so he was very worried that the mainland would use the same method to retaliate against him. Until he received this letter, Chiang Kai-shek breathed a sigh of relief, and he also admired Chairman Mao.
Although he learned that the tomb was safe and sound, Chiang Kai-shek still wanted to take a look, which showed how deep his love for his mother was.
Chiang Kai-shek was so attached to his hometown and his friends, it was not surprising that he made such a will, and his son Chiang Ching-kuo was actually the same as him.
Chiang Ching-kuo was born to Mao Fumei. Although Chiang Kai-shek later abandoned Mao Fumei, Chiang Ching-kuo was raised by his mother and had a deep affection for his mother.
Unfortunately, Mao Fumei was killed by a Japanese plane in his hometown in 1939, and was only fifty-seven years old. This incident hit Chiang Ching-kuo very much and made him feel guilty towards his mother. He also hoped to return to his mother one day.
Jiang Jingguo died at 15:50 on January 13, 1988. In his later years, he was deeply troubled by diabetes , so he became blurred in the retina, necrotic muscles of his legs, and inflammation of his kidneys. So he could only travel by wheelchair. He even needed to use tape to fix his arms on the armrests of the seat during meetings to prevent his arms from slipping off on their own, which made people see that he was terminally ill.
After suffering from illness for two years, Chiang Ching-kuo finally passed away, and Chiang Kai-shek's coffin was also in the Cihu floating house for ten years. Not only did Chiang Kai-shek's wish to return to his hometown was not fulfilled, but Chiang Ching-kuo's burial also became a new problem.
After Jiang Jingguo passed away, he asked for a house like his father, hoping that he could return to the mainland and be buried beside his mother Mao Fumei after his death. At the same time, Chiang Ching-kuo's funeral ceremony was similar to his father, including seven layers of clothing.
Many people are more confused about this, and the puzzle was not revealed until Soong Mei-ling's later years. Soong Mei-ling said: "This is the custom of his hometown." It is said that in Fenghua, Zhejiang, only in this way can the souls of the dead return to their hometown.
Later, Chiang Ching-kuo's body was placed in Daxi Mausoleum , right next to Chiang Kai-shek's coffin.
As time goes by, descendants of the Jiang family who can speak in Taiwan, such as Jiang Xiaowen , Jiang Xiaoyong , Jiang Xiaowu , etc., have passed away one after another, and most of the Jiang family members faded out of the public's vision, and the achievement of this matter is even more distant.
In fact, there are many people on the island who are unwilling to move their spirits, because the Daxi Mausoleum has become a local attraction and brings huge tourism revenue to the local area every year. Of course, they are unwilling to let the two Chiangs move their spirits. Some people even suggested moving the mausoleum to Taipei and they strongly opposed it.
Now, almost half a century has passed, and there is still no follow-up on this matter. Some friends may ask, "Don't their bodies rot?" In fact, especially Chiang Kai-shek's bodies, they may have been decaying and not decent.
According to Chiang Kai-shek's personal bodyguard Weng Yuan, when Chiang Kai-shek was buried, because Soong Mei-ling opposed the destruction of the body, the staff did not take out his internal organs, but only injected the body with formalin .
The preservation of the body is nothing new. The Soviet Union once preserved Lenin's body, but the preservation of the body generally requires the removal of internal organs. Even so, Lenin's body is still highly decayed, so that his head and body had to be separated and replaced with a fake body to prevent the rot from spreading to the head.
. Chiang Kai-shek's body was not removed from the internal organs, 2. It was not stored in the conditions of constant temperature and humidity . It was not soaked in the anticorrosion liquid. It was just stored in the copper coffin after injecting preservatives into the body. In Weng Yuan's words, "I can't see it anymore."
In addition to the problem of corpse corruption, Chiang Kai-shek's mausoleum is still facing a greater crisis. Later, Taiwan planned to demolish its mausoleum under the pretext of "the two Chiang's mausoleums cost NT$42 million NT$1 every year, and dragging it on is just an endless waste of budget", but it was not successful in the end.
Chiang Kai-shek had a deep affection for his mother. Wang Caiyu raised him with great effort and was as kind as the sea. Chiang Kai-shek always missed his mother, and even at the moment of his death, he was still remembering his mother's kindness and the appearance of his hometown.
The bodies of Chiang Kai-shek and his son are still in Taiwan after nearly half a century. Maybe this is a teasing of fate. Because Chiang Kai-shek stubbornly launched the civil war, causing millions of people to lose their homes and relatives, and millions of people have a home to return. Now he himself is ugly to his hometown. How sad it is.
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