Song Ailing married Kong Xiangxi, rich in the world; Soong Ching Ling married Sun Yat-sen and became the mother of the country, which was admired by thousands of people. As for Song Meiling, after she married Chiang Kai-shek, she became rich.

Besides their marriage, people also praise their beauty. Soong Ching Ling is quiet and generous, with outstanding temperament, gentleness and beauty. Song Meiling is graceful, graceful and full of momentum.

It seems that the beauty of the Song sisters has been recognized by the world. However, according to Chiang Kai-shek's attendants, he once happened to see Song Meiling's makeup removal without makeup, which was completely different from her makeup. She can only be described as "yellow-skinned".

Indeed, Song Meiling insisted on making up all his life. According to Soong Ching Ling's memory, since Meiling learned to make up, she rarely saw her without makeup.

According to the adjutant who served beside Song Meiling, Song Meiling never showed herself without makeup, and sometimes even slept in makeup, so even Chiang Kai-shek had hardly seen her without makeup.

Why is Song Meiling obsessed with makeup and unwilling to meet people who don't wear makeup? What is the secret?

Next, please follow the author's footsteps into Song Meiling's little-known private life.

Song Meiling once had two paintings hanging in his bedroom, one of which was a picture of a fragrant princess in a full uniform; The other is an oil painting depicting a girl reading.

These two paintings represent her expectations of herself, and the girl's reading profile highlights her own thirst for knowledge;

Tu expressed her expectations of herself. She hopes to be a woman with a sense of the times who is proficient in literature and martial arts.

But in fact, she likes power, enjoyment and beauty. In particular, she grew up with a well-off family and was very particular about dressing. Everyone who has seen her is stunned by her white and transparent skin, and no one will doubt her beauty.

But who would have thought that this beauty in white is just a disguise, and her skin hidden under delicate makeup is dry, dark yellow and gaunt.

Because of living habits, Song Meiling's skin is actually not good.

She is a real night owl and often stays up late. She only removes makeup before going to bed and puts on makeup the next morning, so she seldom wears makeup on her face.

Song Meiling's work and rest are completely opposite to those of ordinary people. She starts at night and is full of energy when others are sleeping.

Her party started with a movie.

According to the attendants around Song Meiling, she was a standard movie fan, watching movies day and night.

When she lived in Shilin's official residence, after dinner, as long as she was interested, she would ask the adjutant to call the film master and then choose the film to be shown.

The staff of the internal affairs office will prepare Chiang Kai-shek and her chairs and sofas. At that time, the equipment for screening movies was not very advanced, just ordinary machines and an ordinary small movie screen hanging on the wall.

Song Meiling had to watch movies from beginning to end, but Chiang Kai-shek was different. He has a standard work schedule and is used to going to bed before ten o'clock at night.

So generally speaking, Chiang Kai-shek left at one o'clock and went upstairs to sleep. Song Meiling usually invites Chen Cheng's wife Tan Xiang and Kong Er (Miss Kong Er's real name is Kong Lingjun, and Song Meiling likes to call her Kong Lingwei, so over time, she acquiesces in this name) to stay up late.

It may be because she and Chiang Kai-shek have completely different schedules, so Chiang Kai-shek rarely has a chance to see her after removing makeup.

Besides watching movies, Song Meiling likes reading books in the light in the dead of night. She has all kinds of books. Because I grew up in America, my English is better than Chinese, and I often read some English newspapers and magazines.

The deeper the night, the more awake Song Meiling is. Sometimes she gets hungry after watching it until midnight, but she doesn't eat much, so she will ask the kitchen to prepare some salted turkey to eat.

Perhaps because she has lived in the United States for a long time, Song Meiling seems to have a soft spot for turkeys, but strangely, she only eats bones, not meat.

According to his wife's memory, every night at one or two in the morning, Song Meiling would ask her to get the turkey.

Then, Song Meiling will put all the turkeys in the housekeeper's bowl and eat only the bones. After a long time, eating turkey every night has become the biggest headache for the housekeeper, because the turkey is very firewood and tasteless, and it is also very uncomfortable after eating for a long time. ......

Of course, at these times, Song Meiling will make up. Only before going to bed will she remove her makeup. After wearing makeup for so long, the skin will not breathe and its natural state will not be particularly good.

On one occasion, Weng Yuan, Chiang Kai-shek's attendant, decided to leave after helping Chiang Kai-shek finish his work late at night. Before he went downstairs, he saw a ghostly man passing by not far away. On closer inspection, he found that it was Song Meiling.

Weng Yuan was frightened at that time. On weekdays, Song Meiling showed a pair of fair skin in front of people. No one knows that her skin is so dull after makeup removal, which is a far cry from her makeup.

When it comes to makeup removal, Song Meiling has her own makeup removal process.

At that time, ladies and gentlemen used soap to remove makeup, but Song Meiling was different. At that time, she was already using oil to remove makeup.

First, she removes makeup from her face with an oil, then she will wipe off cleansing oil and floating powder on her face with a white towel, and finally wash her face with warm water. This is the whole step of removing makeup.

For makeup, Song Meiling's steps are also very complicated. Every time she puts on makeup, she needs at least two hours and never asks others to do it for her.

On the one hand, she doesn't want her plain face to be seen, on the other hand, she feels that no one knows her face better than herself.

The pigment she uses to paint her eyebrows is also very special. She burned newspapers to ashes and then tried to make them into paste. This cream paints eyebrows better than those sold in the general market.

Of course, Song Meiling's love for makeup is not just about beauty. In her view, make-up is a social etiquette.

She also strictly divides the etiquette of makeup into several grades, leaving aside formal occasions. Even Jiang Jingguo, Jiang Xiaowen and other children and grandchildren came to see her, and she had to put on makeup before meeting them.

Song Meiling is as stubborn as makeup in body maintenance, and she has a set of maintenance habits that are eye-popping to outsiders.

First of all, her teeth. Many people are deeply impressed by her white teeth. You know, at that time, she already had an electric toothbrush, which could wash away food residue between her teeth.

Because her skin has measles, she attaches great importance to drinking water.

When Song Meiling accompanied Chiang Kai-shek to inspect everywhere, she would ask her entourage to prepare some distilled water or mineral water so as not to affect her health and skin.

Then there is the figure, which she has kept strictly for decades.

There is a small scale in her room. Every morning, she will stand up and weigh herself. Once she finds that her weight gain exceeds her estimated standard, she will start to control her weight.

At dinner, she only eats some vegetable salad and won't eat anything else until her weight returns to its original state. When she is interested, she will ask the kitchen to prepare a steak for her.

Her eating habits are completely different from those of Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek likes heavy dishes. But Song Meiling wasn't. For example, her breakfast is very simple, usually two pieces of toast, a small piece of cream and a salted celery.

As for lunch, she eats even less, and often only eats some vegetables and fish. The reason why she eats so little is to keep healthy.

Over the years, Song Meiling's cheongsam has rarely been modified, and its weight has remained around 50 kilograms all the year round.

Song Meiling's cheongsam is as famous as herself, and her cheongsam is even more famous. It can also be seen from some old photos that she likes to wear cheongsam when attending large and small activities.

In the Shilin official residence, there are countless closets filled with countless cheongsam of Song Meiling.

In her bedroom, there are two wardrobes with good cheongsam, such as the black velvet cheongsam she often wears; Another is to put some slightly worse clothes.

However, although there are countless cheongsams in Song Meiling, they are often worn, and the remaining 90% cheongsams are either put away after only one or two passes, or hung directly after never being worn.

No one knows why she asked the master to make so many cheongsam without wearing it. The master who made cheongsam for Song Meiling was Zhang Ruixiang. No matter in mainland China or later in Taiwan Province Province, and later in life in Song Meiling to the United States, Zhang Ruixiang was always taken with him by Song Meiling.

It can be said that Zhang Ruixiang, as a tailor, only made cheongsam for Song Meiling all his life. He almost never takes a break and has been making cheongsam for Song Meiling.

The guards at Shilin Mansion once joked that the cheongsam made by Zhang Ruixiang could wrap Taipei.

Of course, Song Meiling didn't spend money to buy these materials for cheongsam, but others gave them to him.

There is a small room in Shilin's official residence, which is where Song Meiling put his gifts. There are many suitcases, which are ridiculously large in size and used to put the cloth given to her by others. There are countless silks and satins and precious fabrics in it.

Some of these fabrics were "lucky" and were used as cheongsam in Song Meiling, while others were left untouched.

However, although Song Meiling's cheongsam is outrageous, she doesn't seem to like jewelry very much.

She has a yellow suitcase which she brought from the mainland. Its shape is Gu Zhuo. It is very dark and looks very old.

When I opened it, I found all the jewels in Song Meiling, most of which were pearls, and some of them were inlaid with diamonds. As for expensive pure diamonds or pure gold jewelry, there are hardly any.

Song Meiling loves beauty and art, and she also likes to collect some records and phonographs. She has a record cabinet, which contains all the records she received from all over the world, mostly classical music, such as violin or piano music.

Many people who have served around Song Meiling will feel that she has the dignity of an official wife when they meet her for the first time. Some people say that she is generous and intellectual, others say that she is selfish, cool thin. Which one is her?

This has to talk about the adjutant Guo who has served her for many years. Although everyone calls her "Assistant Guo", no one can help but feel sorry for her situation.

Guo's adjutant is responsible for serving. Her husband used to be a sedan chair bearer in Shilin's official residence, but unfortunately he died young, leaving aide Guo and three hungry children.

She can't bear the burden of life and the children's tuition alone. Later, when I learned about this, I felt sorry for her, so I sent Guo's adjutant's three children to Huaxing Nursery School to study at public expense.

Naturally, this kind of kindness Guo adjutant keeps in mind and tries his best to serve. She didn't have any higher education, so Song Meiling only treated her as a servant. If she doesn't do well, she will be scolded.

Aide Guo didn't say anything, after all, she accepted the offer. Every day, she not only massages and rubs Song Meiling's back, but also serves Kong Er, the most difficult person in the whole official residence.

Song Meiling doesn't like people stopping for a massage. She will always have a massage before going to bed at night. She is not allowed to stop before going to sleep. As long as she stops, she will feel uncomfortable.

After many years, Guo retired from his post of serving. Because I have been massaging Song Meiling and Miss Kong Er for many years, I have left sequelae, so it is difficult to lift my hands and exert myself.

Later, when I wanted to settle in the United States, I had to take aide Guo with me, but aide Guo declined his kindness considering that the child was underage.

But who knows, her refusal made Song Meiling furious and even called her "ungrateful". In her mind, she thinks she is no less than Guo's adjutant. Guo's adjutant naturally wants to work for her. Now she dares to refuse her request to go to America. It's all wet!

In this case, Guo's adjutant's children were forced to leave Huaxing Middle School, and Guo's adjutant disappeared in Shilin's official residence.

Guo, the adjutant, is not the only one who serves. Some waiters who received her talked about a detail, that is, the soles of Song Meiling's feet.

Ordinary people, as long as they are over forty, are well-maintained wives, and some thick cocoons will grow on their soles.

But Song Meiling doesn't even have thick skin on the soles of her feet, which may be related to the fact that she often wears a kind of silk loafers with extremely high softness when she is in the official residence.

Song Meiling, who is over 60 years old, is still delicate and slim, which shows how meticulous her daily maintenance is, from her hair to the soles of her feet.

Of course, Song Meiling loves money and power more than beauty.

Bao Zheng of Jiangnan once made a simple estimate of her and Chiang Kai-shek's property in 1934. It is said that Song Meiling's personal wealth is two and a half times that of Chiang Kai-shek.

So people actually have no idea, but after Chiang Kai-shek's death, when Song Meiling went to the United States to deliver luggage for the first time, people realized how rich she really was.

First, luggage. Song Meiling's luggage was transported by three planes for three years. By 199 1 year, when she left Taiwan Province province for the second time, she had packed 97 boxes of luggage.

In the United States, Song Meiling's residence is worth about NT$ 1 100 million, not counting the antique calligraphy and painting collection in the residence, but also worth NT$ 100 million.

Song Meiling's life is like her face before and after makeup. In front of people, she dresses elegantly and exquisitely, but behind her back, she is the opposite.

References:

Beauty and Sadness: A Real Song Meiling

In his later years, Song Meiling refused to recall. Did he use cosmetics?