The Song family is one of the most influential families in China's modern history: Soong Ching Ling's father, Song Yaoru, was a close friend and main patron of Sun Yat-sen; The three sisters of the Song family, Soong Ching Ling and China were married to three important figures, Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. As for the three Song brothers,,, and, they are also important economic figures in China's modern history, especially Song Ziwen, who successively served as President, Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Executive Dean of the Central Bank of the National Government.
When the Opium War broke out, the curtain of China's modern history was opened.
Heroes can also be created in an era full of corruption, revolution, hypocrisy and greed, and the Song family came into being. It can be said that in order to grasp the political disputes and economic pulse in China's modern history, it is inevitable to avoid the Song family, which is called "the first family of the Republic of China" and has profoundly influenced the development trend of modern China and even the whole world.
The Song family refers to the family composed of Song Ailing, Soong Ching Ling, Song Meiling, Song Ziwen, Song Ziliang and Song Zian. During the Republic of China, it was cultivated by Song Yaoru and his wife Ni. Song Yaoru is a well-deserved family pioneer. The author uses a complete chapter to analyze the ins and outs of the Song surname "Han" rather than "Song" in detail. Song Yaoru went to study in the United States from a fisherman boy in Hainan Island, and then returned to China to preach, set up an industry and get to know Sun Wen, which was inextricably linked with the revolution. The whole process can also be regarded as his own tortuous struggle history. Song is keen on missionary work and industry, and also yearns for revolution. 1894, I met Sun Yat-sen who was preparing to go north to Tianjin and wrote to Li Hongzhang via Shanghai. After Sun Yat-sen failed to return to Shanghai from Tianjin as scheduled, Song Yaoru contacted the editorial department of the Chinese edition of the World Bulletin and published Sun Yat-sen's book on Li Hongzhang in simplified form. Since then, the two have become close friends. Over the years, Song Yaoru tried his best to support Sun Yat-sen. In the early revolution led by Sun, Song Yaoru's donation once became an important economic source.
In my opinion, the most successful places of Song parents are reflected in two aspects: the investment in the revolution led by them and the persistence in the elite education of their children. These two aspects helped the Song family to climb two political and economic peaks in modern China. When it comes to the education of the children of the Song family, we can't help but mention Ni, the legendary mother behind the Song family.
Sister Song, the president of Westrian Women's College in the United States, once said: "The parents of the Song family are very imaginative and courageous, and they are pioneers in the integration of eastern and western cultures"! Ni's mother Xu was the first Confucian scholar who came into contact with Christianity in the Ming Dynasty, and her father was also a noble family in Yuyao, Zhejiang. Born in the late Qing Dynasty, Ni was open-minded, modest and fair, and had a strict family style during the Republic of China. On the education of children, she insists on equality between men and women. When people began to seriously consider the education of girls, Jenny Guizhen decided to send all her daughters abroad to study. Her qualities of independence, self-improvement, openness and democracy, generosity and benevolence have exerted a subtle influence on the children of the Song family.