In contrast, the love between Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling is very sincere. Even if Song Meiling had bad habits, Chiang Kai-shek could tolerate her.
Speaking of the love story between Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling, it was really a much-told story in the Republic of China. When they first met, Song Meiling was already a well-known person in Shanghai society. She is not only beautiful in appearance, good in temperament, cheerful in character, but also knowledgeable, so she is very popular with Shanghai celebrities and has many suitors. However, Song Meiling grew up in the United States, was deeply influenced by western culture, and had clear goals for her future, so she was in no hurry to get married. Instead, she works while learning Chinese to make herself independent.
1922 One day, Song Meiling's brother held a banquet and invited many Shanghai celebrities, including Chiang Kai-shek. At this party, Chiang Kai-shek was stunned by Song Meiling when he first met her, and fell in love with her at first sight. After chatting, Chiang Kai-shek was attracted by her erudition and decided to pursue her regardless. But Chiang Kai-shek was 10 years older than Song Meiling and had been married three times, so Song Meiling didn't accept his pursuit at first.
Chiang Kai-shek did not give up. In order to catch up with Song Meiling, he even denied his first three wives in the newspaper. Under the unremitting pursuit of Chiang Kai-shek, Song Meiling was somewhat moved, but because of the resolute opposition of her family, she hesitated. Until the only sister who supported her persuaded her and told her the benefits of marrying Chiang Kai-shek, Song Meiling finally made up her mind. So in 1927, 1 February, Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling officially got married.
The relationship between them has been very good since they got married. Although Chiang Kai-shek had been married three times, he thought Song Meiling was his true love, so he was very kind to her and they were very affectionate. At the same time, Song Meiling also helped Chiang Kai-shek win over many talents with his rich knowledge and super-high communication skills, and achieved Chiang Kai-shek's career to the next level. It can be said that Song Meiling is Chiang Kai-shek's best wife. She not only relieved his worries, but also saved him at a critical moment.
Song Meiling is impeccable both as a woman and as a wife. She is dignified, generous, elegant and well-spoken, and deserves to be the first lady of the Republic of China. But few people know that Song Meiling has a bad hobby, which is smoking. Generally speaking, most smokers are men, and few women like smoking, but Song Meiling is a heavy smoker. It is said that once, when she was playing cards with the wives of several officials, she suddenly became addicted to cigarettes and asked the adjutant behind her for cigarettes. As soon as the adjutant heard that Song Meiling wanted a cigarette, he immediately took out a strong cigarette from her hand.
However, after Song Meiling married Chiang Kai-shek in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he became addicted to cigarettes. At that time, the government of the Republic of China was located in Chongqing, so Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling also lived in Chongqing. But the climate in Chongqing is wet and hot, which is completely different from that in the United States. However, Song Meiling couldn't adapt to this climate. As a result, she contracted a skin disease. She feels itchy every day and can't even sleep at night. One day, Song Meiling was itchy and in terrible pain. At this moment, she happened to see a pack of cigarettes on the maid, so she took one to smoke.
When she took a few sips, she found that the itching was relieved and people were refreshed, which surprised Song Meiling very much. So from then on, as long as the skin itches, she will smoke to refresh herself and stop itching. Over time, she became completely addicted to cigarettes and could never give it up. Later, Chiang Kai-shek learned about her smoking. He doesn't smoke, and even hates smoking, so his officials never dare to smoke in front of him.
However, Chiang Kai-shek was not angry about Song Meiling's smoking, especially when he learned the reason why she was addicted to smoking. So Chiang Kai-shek only advised Song Meiling to quit smoking at most, and later found that she couldn't quit at all, so she left it alone. Even after the defeat of the Kuomintang and its retreat to Taiwan Province Province, Chiang Kai-shek built a cigarette factory specially for Song Meiling to smoke. I have to say that Chiang Kai-shek really loved Song Meiling.