Soong Ching Ling1893 65438+1October 27th, Soong Ching Ling was born in a family of priests and industrialists in Shanghai. As a friend and comrade of Sun Yat-sen, her father was her first teacher.
19151kloc-0/On October 25th, Soong Ching Ling decided to marry Sun Yat-sen, who was in exile, regardless of her parents' opposition, and followed Sun Yat-sen on the road of hard struggle to defend the system with firm steps. 1925 March 12 Sun Yat-sen passed away in Beijing. He entrusted "peace, struggle and saving the country" to Soong Ching Ling and his comrades.
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Soong Ching Ling grew up in a warm and harmonious family. At the age of seven, she entered Shanghai Chinese and Western Girls' School. 1907, she took her sister Meiling to study in the United States and began to receive systematic modern western education.
In the famous American Wesleyan Women's College, Soong Ching Ling has always been a very likable student: smart, studious, active in thinking and helpful. She often participates in various activities organized by the school, and once served as the literary editor of the school magazine Wesleyan Sect and the communication officer of Harris Literature Society.
The gentle Soong Ching Ling often makes amazing moves. While studying, she tore off the dragon flag of Qing Dynasty hanging on the dormitory wall of Wesleyan Women's College, stepped on it, hung the flag of the Republic of China sent by her father, shouted the slogan "Down with autocracy and support * * * and", and published an enthusiastic article "The greatest event of the 20th century" in the school magazine, eulogizing the victory of the Revolution of 1911, which caused an uproar in the whole school.
At the age of 23, when she was under house arrest by her father, she climbed the window of the house and ran away. Despite the opposition of relatives and friends, she resolutely went to Tokyo to marry Sun Yat-sen, who was in exile, and began her revolutionary career for 70 years.
After the death of Sun Yat-sen, Soong Ching Ling inherited his revolutionary legacy. As a representative of the left wing of the Kuomintang, she has always maintained close cooperation with the producers and made immortal contributions to the victory of the democratic revolution. On the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong made a special trip to thank Soong Ching Ling: "I can't tell you how much help all this has given us." Zhou Enlai also called her a "national treasure".
People's Network-Soong Ching Ling: National Treasure