An accident in August 1969 caused Chiang Kai-shek to seriously injured his chest. Since then, his health has been seriously threatened, and heart disease has become even more serious. To this end, Soong Mei-ling hired experts from the United States to perform professional lung surgery on Chiang Kai-shek, hoping that his disease would be completely cured and eradicated. However, shortly after this operation, Chiang Kai-shek had a high fever and fell into a coma many times, and finally passed away on April 5, 1975.
Cheng Kai-shek loved a landscape in Daxi Town, Taipei City very much during his lifetime. The scenery there is beautiful, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the artistic conception is very close to that of Chiang Kai-shek's hometown, Xikou Town, Fenghua, Zhejiang.
In 1961, Chiang Kai-shek was full of the "great plan" of "counterattacking the mainland", so he was worried that his current presidential palace would be bombed, so he searched everywhere in Taiwan and finally found the landscape of Daxi Town. He also changed the name of the original "Dongkou Hotel" to " Cihu " to recall and commemorate his mother.
Cihu Lake is elegant in the scenery. Every spring, flowers bloom like poetry and picturesque. On his deathbed, Chiang Kai-shek personally instructed him to put his coffin on Cihu according to the customs of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and then be buried next to Sun Yat-sen's cemetery after moving back to the mainland in the future. This way of floating houses with dead people is a special funeral method for people who die in a foreign land. The floating house means raising the coffin to three inches above the ground, which is also to allow you to move back to the ancestral tomb in the future without any trouble and easier.
So, Chiang Kai-shek's coffin was sent to Cihu Hotel. Since then, a corner of Cihu has become Chiang Kai-shek's tomb manor, which not only contains Chiang Kai-shek's coffin and statues, but also preserves the rooms where Chiang Kai-shek lived as it is. Later, Cihu Lake was repaired by Chiang Kai-shek's descendants and became a famous tourist attraction in Taiwan Province today.
For Chiang Kai-shek, Cihu embodies his strong nostalgia for the rest of his life. This nostalgia not only contains his yearning for the beautiful mountains of the motherland, but also his attachment to his mother and hometown buried in his hometown in Zhejiang. Therefore, he worked and rested here in his later years; after his death, he also regarded this place as a "shelp place" instead of his hometown.
On January 13, 1988, Chiang Kai-shek's son Chiang Ching-kuo died of illness. Perhaps because of the father and son's heart, Jiang Jingguo's wish during his lifetime was to be with his father and return to his hometown together in the future. Therefore, after Jiang Jingguo passed away, his body and coffin were also placed in the Toutiao Hotel, Taoyuan County, one kilometer away from Chiang Kai-shek's residence.
Touliao Hotel was previously a place to place important documents, but due to the excellent scenery, Jiang Jingguo was built as " Daxi Mausoleum " after his death. But the father and son did not expect that their coffin stayed on the Fengshui treasure land in Taoyuan for thirty or forty years, but they were unable to move back to their hometown and return to their roots.
After the death of Chiang Kai-shek and his son, their dream of returning to their roots was transferred to the descendants of the Jiang family.
For decades, the descendants of the Jiang family have also been running around for the "two Chiangs"'s monument transfer, but because the Jiang family's power has fallen, their application for monument transfer has always failed to obtain the consent of the relevant part.
After the normalization of cross-strait exchanges and communication, Chiang Kai-shek's grandsons Jiang Xiaoci and Jiang Xiaoyan came to Guilin City, mainland China as scholars to visit the tomb to pay homage to their mother Zhang Yaruo. This is the first time that the descendants of the Jiang family have appeared in mainland China to worship their ancestors. In 1996, Chiang Kai-shek adopted son Jiang Wei-kuo At the Kuomintang meeting, he proposed to move the "two Chiangs" to Fenghua, Zhejiang, ancestral home so that the wishes of Chiang Kai-shek and his son during their lifetime were met. However, Taiwanese authorities believe that Chiang Kai-shek is already Taiwan's "president" and this identity should not be returned to the mainland, so he directly rejected Chiang Wei-kuo's proposal.
Although Chiang Kai-shek has many grandsons, some settled abroad and did not interact too much with the Chiang family, and some lost their lives at a young age.
The eldest grandson that Chiang Kai-shek had high hopes for at the time 1 Jiang Xiaowen . Because his mother is from the Soviet Union, the mixed-race genes make him romantic and very popular.Unexpectedly, Jiang Xiaowen relied on his power and wealth, and was flirting with flowers and grass everywhere, drinking and causing trouble. At a young age, he fell into trouble. By the time he was in his 30s, Jiang Xiaowen's language ability had been extremely deteriorated, equivalent to a dementia person. When he was 54 years old, he died.
Chiang Kai-shek's grandson, whom he loved since childhood, Jiang Xiaoyong suffers from cancer and feels that he is in poor health, he understands: If he doesn't run for his last wishes for his ancestors, there will be no one.
So, after several considerations, Jiang Xiaoyong connected with relevant departments in the mainland and joined hands with his wife and three children to return to his grandfather's hometown - Xikou Town, Fenghua City, Zhejiang Province.
Learning that Jiang Xiaoyong was in poor health, mainland China not only sent a special car to pick him up and drop him off, but also arranged traditional Chinese medicine treatment for him. Later, when Jiang Xiaoyong's health recovered to almost the same level, he embarked on the road to return to his hometown with the company of mainland staff and his wife and children.
August 2, 1996, when Jiang Xiaoyong stepped into the old house where his ancestors lived with a sick look on his face, he couldn't help but cry and tremble. While constantly observing everything in the old house, he kept saying, "I'm back, I'm finally back." Jiang Xiaowen actually didn't have much memory of the former residence of the Jiang family. He only remembered that when he was three or four years old, his grandfather Jiang Kai-shek hugged him on his lap and taught him the Four Books and Five Classics. But he didn't expect that everything he revisited here in the old place was so close to people; he didn't expect that the former residence of Jiang's family was not only not abandoned as weeds, but also protected by a dedicated person. Even fellow villagers who recognized them could have a passionate talk with him without any rift.
At this time, the tears in his eyes were already spinning - it turned out that everything in the mainland and his hometown had not forgotten them!
After attending the former residence of Jiang Xiaoyong, Jiang Xiaoyong usually climbed the position of Jiang's ancestral tomb with a long staircase.
While crawling, the staff and his wife were worried about his body and wanted to help him several times, but the stubborn Jiang Xiaoyong insisted on leaving by himself and said: This is the place I have missed for decades, and I must climb up by myself. When Jiang Xiaoyong finally came to the ancestral tomb of the Jiang family, he burst into tears and knelt heavily at the ancestral tomb, saying:
Although our Jiang family is in Taiwan, we are always Chinese.
After that, after returning to Taiwan, Jiang Xiaoyong immediately held a press conference and proposed to move the coffin of the "two Chiangs" back to his hometown in Fenghua to settle. However, no surprise, the Taiwanese authorities still refused his application mercilessly.
The grief Jiang Xiaoyong looked at the reporter's camera on the hospital bed and said: The last wishes of grandpa and father have always been back to the hometown of the motherland. Our Jiang family cannot go against their last wishes; our Jiang family will always adhere to the one-China position and do not attempt to separate Taiwan. We will definitely work hard to help them realize the wishes of our deceased ancestors. Jiang Xiaoyong's words, after citing and reprinting by media on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, sparked heated discussions for a while.
Yes! They were once compatriots who were in line with mainland China, but the crimes committed by the Jiang regime on the mainland caused the feelings of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to be harmed, and they themselves could never return to their hometown they had been worried about for a long time. This situation is extremely sad.
What’s even more unfortunate is that Jiang Xiaoyong died at the end of the year after the press conference. The plan to move the tomb of the "two Chiangs" was also put on hold and cannot be moved back to the mainland for burial.
