The family of Chiang Kai-shek (
The Chinese word ling often refers to an imperial tomb. So the tomb's name is the poison of feudalism and a reappearance of imperial thinking. The Taiwanese people can hardly accept it.
But on the other hand, the two Chiangs' bodies will soon be moved to a remote site: the Wujhihshan (五指山) military cemetery in Sijhih City, Taipei County. Honestly, the Taiwanese people are lucky to celebrate the termination of the Chiang family's foreign regime.
The site will be the place where the Chiang dynasty is buried.
According to the local media, the Chiang family insists on naming the tomb "Chiang Ling" and has its own space, so as to distinguish it from other tombs in the same cemetery.
This shows that the family has become an ordinary one at last. If the Chiang dynasty still existed today, it would certainly have majestic tombs which would not be mixed with those of the public.
This is exactly the meaning of the empire's extinction.
Sun Yat-sen's (
Obviously, this is because the tomb is for the two Chiangs, highlighting the fact that they formed a dynasty, but also signifying the end of that dynasty. Moreover, after the Qing (
When former Chinese leader Mao Zedong (
Before Chiang's defeat in the civil war between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Mao once proposed an eight-article "domestic peace agreement" (
After Mao erased Chiang's legitimacy, he took Sun as a great "pioneer" (
Chinese history is a cycle of empires. After the two Chiangs' death, the Taiwanese people also got rid of the reincarnation of imperial feudalism.
As we moved into the democratic era, we also cut off the connection to the past empire.
The existence of "Chiang Ling" serves as a witness to the foreign regime's last page. As the Chiang family bids farewell to the two Chiangs, the public can sit back and watch.
Chin Heng-wei is the editor-in-chief of the Contemporary Monthly magazine.
TRANSLATED BY EDDY CHANG
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