"I have served the old gentleman for nearly 30 years, but I have only seen Song Meiling once after removing her makeup. This is a sentence that Chiang Kai-shek's personal adjutant Weng Yuan said in his memoirs.
In the eyes of the public, Soong Meiling is an elegant, beautiful, strong, eloquent and temperamental lady, but in the eyes of Chiang Kai-shek's entourage, Soong Meiling is not much different from ordinary people, and there are some shortcomings of one kind or another.
For example, idols have a very heavy baggage, and they never see people without makeup.
In the early days, Song Meiling was a person who stayed in Shiliyangchang, because she was used to the nightlife of all-nighters and singing and dancing, so until she was old, she still maintained the way of sleeping late and getting up late.
And anyone with a little medical knowledge knows that people who often stay up late will definitely not be good, even if Song Meiling is intentionally eating some bird's nest, white fungus and other beauty foods, the result is not much worse.
Therefore, never seeing people without makeup is a criterion she has set for herself. Even Chiang Kai-shek himself rarely saw him without makeup, let alone others.
Usually when Chiang Kai-shek ** sleeps, Song Meiling's nightlife has just begun, and when Chiang Kai-shek gets up, Song Meiling has just fallen asleep for two or three hours.
Only once in the middle of the night, Weng Yuan inadvertently bumped into Song Meiling's appearance after removing her makeup. At that time, Weng Yuan was patrolling the garden when he came across a ghostly figure rummaging in the car. Out of professional habits, he was about to go up to check, but the two of them inadvertently looked at each other.
Weng Yuan was almost frightened out of his body, under the light was a miserable white face, **rough, dark pores, his hair was not coiled up, but draped on his shoulders very casually, and a white pajama gave him a sense of "Sadako".
Hello old lady, do you need help? In order to avoid embarrassment, Weng Yuanwu hurriedly said hello in advance. Song Meiling was obviously stunned, raised a hand to cover the light shining on her face, lowered her head and said, "No, I'll come down and find something, you can get busy!" ”
After speaking, he hurriedly went upstairs, leaving Weng Yuan alone and sighing in place. In Weng Yuan's words, there is a difference of 108,000 miles between her with makeup and her without makeup, and he can't imagine that a noble lady who is usually graceful and luxurious, without cosmetics, is like a peasant woman.
In addition to her appearance, Song Meiling will rely heavily on cosmetics, and she is even more strict with her body maintenance.
Song Meiling will measure her weight every morning after getting up, as long as she finds that it is a little heavier, the menu of the day will be adjusted immediately, not accounting for any meaty food, but all the green salad instead.
If her weight is within her standard, she rewards herself with eating a steak.
But this is just a routine operation, and Song Meiling heard the rumor from somewhere in the early years - smoking is okay**. In order to maintain a slim figure, she learned to smoke and forced herself to smoke a certain number of cigarettes every day.
But in order to respect Chiang Kai-shek, she never smoked in front of her husband, and would run to her study to smoke every time. But this habit only lasted for 3 5 before and after, and she was diagnosed by the doctor that there was a health hazard in her lungs, and she had to quit smoking for the sake of the long run.
Later, after Song Meiling was diagnosed with breast cancer, she paid more attention to health preservation. Later, he was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and for the first cancer, she went to the United States to receive the most advanced medical technology and program, and she could also try to use enemas to maintain her health.
At the time, many people thought that she would die soon after suffering from two cancers, but she miraculously lived to the age of 105, becoming the longest-lived cancer patient ever recorded in China and the United States.
It can be seen that in her early years, Song Meiling would do some things to put the cart before the horse for the sake of beauty, but in her later years, the stronger her sense of health is, her life is extremely peaceful, she eats less and more meals, has a peaceful mind, and never gets angry, so she has lived herself into a legend.