Song Ailing was born in Shanghai on July 15, 1889. In 1904, she went to the United States to study and entered Wesleyan Women's College in Macon, Georgia. Returned to China after graduation in 1910. In 1912, he served as Sun Yat-sen's secretary. After the failure of the "Second Revolution", he went to Japan with his father Song Jiashu and still served as Sun's secretary. Married Kong Xiangxi in September 1914. Before marriage, he introduced his sister Soong Ching Ling to take over his secretary job, and Sun agreed. In 1915, she went back to her hometown with her husband to visit relatives and help her husband manage the affairs of Mingxian School. In 1927, he supported Chiang Kai-shek's "purge of the Party" against the Communist Party and promoted the marriage between Chiang Kai-shek and Song Dynasty. In 1929, he participated in the enshrining ceremony of Sun Yat-sen. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he supported Chiang Kai-shek's "suppression of the Communist Party". During the Anti-Japanese War, she participated in anti-Japanese and national salvation activities with Qing Ling and Mei Ling, supported Chinese industrial cooperatives, participated in organizing the Women's Steering Committee of the New Life Movement Promotion Association, founded the National Children's Welfare Association, and served as the president of the Hong Kong Friends of Wounded Soldiers Association. . Went to the United States in 1947. Died of illness in New York on October 19, 1973.
Song Qingling was born on January 27, 1893 in Shanghai to a family of pastors and industrialists. Her father, as Sun Yat-sen's friend and comrade, was her first enlightenment teacher. When she was a teenager, she went to study in a foreign country, received a "European-style education" in the United States, and was baptized by democracy. The Revolution of 1911 overthrew the autocratic rule of the Qing Dynasty, making her full of longing for the independence, freedom, democracy and prosperity of the motherland. The steady stream of letters and newspaper clippings sent by her father built a bridge in her heart with the revolutionary cause led by Sun Yat-sen. However, the Republic of China was strangled in the cradle, the revolutionary tide had receded, and Soong Ching Ling's ambition to return to China to reform and build the motherland after completing her studies could not be carried out. She went directly to Tokyo, where exiled revolutionaries were concentrated, and soon served as Sun Yat-sen's assistant, beginning her 70-year revolutionary career. On October 25, 1915, despite the opposition of her parents, Soong Ching Ling decided to marry Sun Yat-sen, who was in exile, and followed Sun Yat-sen with firm steps and without hesitation in the arduous struggle to defend democracy and the system. Sun Yat-sen died in Beijing on March 12, 1925. He handed over the task of "peace, struggle, and saving China" to Soong Ching Ling and his comrades. In August 1927, Soong Ching Ling visited the Soviet Union and then lived in Europe for four years. She visited the world's first socialist country and several major capitalist countries, studied Marx's works, and studied with many Chinese revolutionaries in exile in Europe. The core issue of the Chinese revolution - the issue of land and farmers - has made a qualitative leap in thinking. When Japanese imperialism's aggression against China continued to expand and national contradictions became the main contradiction in society, Soong Ching Ling quickly made scientific judgments and correct decisions. She believed that "the national crisis is facing us, and we should put aside our past grudges. The whole country must be united to resist Japan." , and strive for final victory." Her thoughts on national unity in the war of resistance are consistent with the strategic policy of the Communist Party of China to establish an anti-Japanese national united front that has overcome "left" dogmatism. She also paved the way for the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, playing an irreplaceable special role. From September 21 to 30, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was held in Beijing. Song Qingling was elected vice chairman of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China and the first National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Standing committee member. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Soong Ching Ling undertook a large number of state affairs activities for a long time. At the same time, she devoted a lot of energy to the culture, education, health and welfare of women and children. Since then, she has served as the honorary chairman of the All-China Democratic Women's Federation, the honorary chairman of the All-China Women's Federation of the People's Republic of China, and the chairman of the Chinese People's National Committee for the Defense of Children. In 1950, she was elected to the World Peace Council. In 1952, he was elected chairman of the Asia and Pacific Liaison Committee. In September 1954, Soong Ching Ling was elected vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the First National People's Congress. On April 7, 1959, the first session of the Second National People's Congress was held, and Soong Ching Ling was elected Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China. In January 1965, the Third National People's Congress was held, and she once again served as Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China. In January 1975, she was re-elected vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress at the Fourth National People's Congress. In February 1978, he was re-elected as Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress.
On August 30, 1980, he served as the executive chairman of the Third Session of the Fifth National People's Congress. Soong Ching Ling joined the Communist Party of China on May 15, 1981. On the 16th, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress awarded Song Qingling the honorary title of Honorary Chairman of the People's Republic of China. He died of illness in Beijing at 20:18 on May 29, 1981.
Song Meiling, born in Shanghai on March 23, 1899, is Chiang Kai-shek’s wife and diplomatic assistant. I learned English at home when I was young. He went to the United States in 1910 and later studied at Wesleyan Women's University. After returning to China in 1920, she participated in YWCA activities. Served on the Film Censorship Board and Child Labor Committee. In December 1927, she married Chiang Kai-shek in Shanghai. After that, she participated extensively in social and political activities, and held leadership positions in some women's groups and children's welfare groups. After the Xi'an Incident in December 1936, he went to Xi'an in person to support a peaceful settlement. During the Anti-Japanese War, he served as Secretary-General of the Aviation Commission. In 1943, he attended the Cairo Conference with Chiang Kai-shek and served as an interpreter. In 1948, he went to the United States to seek help on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek. In 1950, he went to Taiwan from the United States. In 1974, the Fifth Plenary Session of the Tenth Central Committee of the Kuomintang awarded her the "Zhongshan Medal". Soon after Chiang Kai-shek died of illness in 1975, he went to the United States for medical treatment and settled down. In 1976, he returned to Taiwan to live temporarily. She once served as the chairman of the "Chinese Women's Anti-Japanese Federation", the chairman of the presidium of the Chinese Kuomintang Council, and the director of the Chinese Kuomintang Women's Work Association. In October 1986, he returned to Taiwan to participate in the commemoration of Chiang Kai-shek's 100th birthday. Song Meiling is the author of "Xi'an Incident", "Peace and War in China", etc. He passed away at his home in Manhattan, New York, USA at 5:17 on October 24, 2003, Beijing time, at the age of 106.