Many mainland tourists to Taiwan come to Cihu Lake in Taoyuan because it is the resting place of Chiang Kai-shek. "Cihu"The land originally belonged to the local Lin family, but in 1955 it was transferred to the Taiwanese authorities in the form of a donation. Chiang Kai-shek loved the scenery and felt that it was very much like his hometown. So in 1959, he built a hotel here and inscribed the name himself"Cihu"of plaques. Chiang Kai-shek died in Taipei in April 1975, and he had plans for his resting place. As early as the Liberation War, when the Chinese Kuomintang was losing and retreating, Chiang Kai-shek had found a cemetery for himself in the Purple Mountain in Nanjing, next to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. He considered himself to be the heir of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and should be by his side when he died.
However, this wish was dashed with the defeat of the war, and Chiang Kai-shek had to flee to Taiwan by plane. Still, he firmly believes that he will not just stay in Taiwan and will one day return to the mainland. Unfortunately, until the last moment, this wish could not be realized. Chiang Kai-shek's son, Chiang Ching-kuo, and his wife, Soong Meiling, consulted and placed his coffin in Cihu, the place most like his hometown, according to Chiang Kai-shek's wishes, waiting for the opportunity to return to Nanjing for burial in the future. With the increasingly frequent cross-strait exchanges, Taiwan veterans began to return to the mainland to visit relatives, and Chiang Ching-kuo also had different ideas about reunification. However, in 1988, he died suddenly, making the future of *** even more uncertain.
Chiang Ching-kuo's coffin has never been buried, and has been placed in Touliao, not far from Cihu, hoping to finally sleep with his father. In"De-Chiang"In Taiwan, where the noise is getting louder and louder, in 1996, Chiang Ching-kuo's son Jiang Xiaoyong held a press conference, and he made a request in front of the crowd: send the coffins of his grandfather and father back to the mainland for burial. He was emotional, choked up. Returning to the roots is the common wish of grandfather and father during their lifetime, and it is also their lifelong pursuit, which has never changed. He hopes to help make that wish come true. Some people say that the reason why Jiang Xiaoyong made this request at this time was because he was seriously ill at that time. Although he knew that the fulfillment of this request was very slim, he still brought it up before he died. However, at the end of the same year, Jiang Xiaoyong finally lost to cancer.
After Chiang Ching-kuo's death, rumors began to circulate that he, his brother Chiang Wei-kuo, and three sons had died young, which was related to their failure to be buried in their ancestral land. For this reason, Chiang Ching-kuo's widow Jiang Fangliang said that the "two Chiangs" would be buried first, and then they would have the opportunity to move back to the mainland in the future. In 2004, the Taiwan authorities selected a cemetery and built the "Chiang Mausoleum", which cost nearly NT$30 million and took one year to complete. However, Jiang's widow questioned this, arguing that the cemetery was remote and that some people had been agitating to "go to Chiang" and feared that the cemetery would be destroyed. As a result, the mausoleum has remained vacant to this day. As for the resettlement of the "two Chiangs", after twists and turns, the status quo was finally maintained. However, there is still controversy to this day, and the coffin of Lao Jiang in Cihu was once splashed with red paint, and although he tried his best to repair it, it still left traces.
Resolving the Taiwan issue is the wish of every Chinese, and the wanderers who have left the motherland are left with only the treasure island to return; as China's national strength grows stronger and stronger, it is believed that the day of reunification will not be too far away, and the wish of the "two Chiangs" will also be realized at that time.