The story of Soong Ching Ling

Soong Ching Ling devoted her life to the liberation, freedom and happiness of women and children. She has the foresight of a politician, and advocates paying attention to and educating good children, so that the Chinese nation can become stronger day by day. She devoted her maternal love to hundreds of millions of children. Until she died at the age of 88, her great maternal love was still attached to her children. Was Soong Ching Ling like other ordinary women when she was young? You can raise your own children. However, for the sake of the revolution and the happiness and freedom of all China's children,1In June, 922, Soong Ching Ling suffered an unfortunate abortion due to overwork while resisting the armed rebellion in Chen Jiongming. Although she lost her own child, she has forged an indissoluble bond with many suffering children. Soong Ching Ling not only raised some orphans of revolutionary martyrs, but also paid close attention to the healthy growth of children in the Children's Art Theatre of China Welfare Institute. She is a good mother to millions of suffering children.

From 65438 to 0946, in those difficult years, the China Welfare Foundation led by Soong Ching Ling set up a special committee for famine relief and a children's charity organization to help children in distress. With anxiety, Soong Ching Ling and Ling Ran shouted everywhere at home and abroad: "We must save them (children) from the evil situation of dying of hunger and being exhausted by neglect." Her voice for justice has been strongly supported by people of insight at home and abroad. The Special Committee organized various charity performances, competitions, charity sales, fund-raising and other disaster relief activities again and again, and raised a lot of funds. Soong Ching Ling often presides over meetings in person, and actively sells her own treasures of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's relics and her commemorative treasures when she married Dr. Sun Yat-sen. On the one hand, it is used to establish China children's medical and health care institutions to help starving and sick children. At the same time, a large amount of funds and medicines were used to support the welfare of children in the liberated areas.

1949 One day in early spring, Soong Ching Ling saw with her own eyes that there were more and more street children in Shanghai. She frowned and meditated. She suddenly remembered Sanmao in Zhang Leping's "San Mao's Wandering" and decided to send someone from the China Welfare Foundation to contact Zhang Leping, using Sanmao's extensive influence in society to hold an exhibition of Sanmao's works for charity sale and donate all the proceeds from the exhibition to the suffering children. Zhang Leping a listen to is soong ching ling's idea, nodded in agreement. He worked tirelessly to draw more than 30 fine Sanmao watercolor paintings day and night and participated in the charity sale.

The "San Mao Works Charity Exhibition" was held in the gallery on the fourth floor of Shanghai Daxin Company. More than 30 masterpieces of Zhang Leping's San Mao Watercolor are displayed in a prominent position in the exhibition hall. All the exhibits are clearly marked, and some are as high as $800. Soong Ching Ling, who is nearly sixty years old, personally attended the rehearsal. She is dignified and radiant. She walked into the exhibition hall with a smile, talked with foreign friends in fluent English and talked with guests with a pure Shanghai accent. Her kind words and deeds of caring for suffering children won warm applause from the audience.

On April 4th, 1949, "San Mao Works Charity Exhibition" officially opened. That day, the weather was warm and sunny. In front of Daxin Company, colorful flags fluttered, drums were loud, and a burst of crackling firecrackers ushered in an endless stream of guests. The whole exhibition hall gallery is arranged in a solemn and orderly way, and the works are lifelike, which shocked the guests and touched everyone with Sanmao's tragic experience. As a result, everyone rushed to offer love and generosity, and more than 30 "Sanmao Watercolor Paintings" were snapped up. At the same time, many tickets were sold in the exhibition, and a large number of original San Mao Wandering Tales and San Mao Paradise badges signed by the author were sold for charity. This activity, under the direct care of Soong Ching Ling, has made great contributions to the relief of suffering children.