On January 16, 2016, the results of the election in Taiwan were released. Democratic Progressive Party candidates Tsai Ing-wen and Chen Jianren won.
The former political representative the Kuomintang not only lost the "ruling power", but also lost half of the seats in the legislature, from 64 seats in the previous term to only 35 seats left.
In such a double blow, there was one person who made it out of the siege, defeated a strong opponent in the limelight, was elected as a representative of public opinion, and won a valuable seat for the Kuomintang, which has been losing streak.
He is the great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek -Jiang Wanan, and also the fourth generation of the Chiang family who was the first to set foot in politics.
The fourth generation of Chiang without halo
Jiang Wanan’s great-grandfather was Chiang Kai-shek, and his grandfather was Jiang Jingguo.
However, unlike the general public's familiarity with Jiang Youbai and Jiang Youqing, the name Jiang Wan'an seems a little strange to them, and the reason is also inseparable from Jiang Wan'an's complicated life experience.
Jiang Wanan's father is Jiang Xiaoyan. Although Jiang Xiaoyan is also Jiang Jingguo's son, he is not the son of Jiang Jingguo and his wife, but the illegitimate son of Jiang Jingguo's cheating lover Zhang Yaruo .
In order to maintain the reputation and face of the Chiang family, Chiang Kai-shek not only did not allow Zhang Yaruo to come in, but after she gave birth to twin illegitimate children, Chiang Kai-shek also did not allow the two children to be named Chiang, so Jiang Xiaoyan and his brothers took their mother's surname Zhang.
Therefore, Jiang Wanan has always been surnamed Zhang for the first half of his life.
Under such circumstances, although the blood of the Jiang family flows through his body, Jiang Wanan's growth environment from childhood to adulthood is not much different from that of children in ordinary families.
After Zhang Yaruo's bizarre death, Jiang Jingguo did not raise the illegitimate children himself, but entrusted them to Zhang Yaruo's mother.
Later, when Chiang Kai-shek was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, Chiang Ching-kuo secretly arranged for the two brothers to live in Taiwan, and asked his cronies to pay the two children regular living expenses on weekdays.
Zhang Wanan is the only son of Zhang Xiaoyan. He knew nothing about his life experience when he was young, and his father did not reveal the truth to him. However, the fact that Zhang Xiaoyan and his brothers are the sons of Jiang Jingguo can be regarded as one in Taiwan. open secret.
From elementary school to junior high school, Zhang Wanan’s classmates would always tease him about this:
"Hey! Do you know that you are the grandson of our current president?"
"Hey, my mother said your surname should be Jiang." Monk Zhang Wanan Erzhang was often puzzled by classmate
's teasing, so he took it as a joke and didn't take it to heart.
Until Zhang Wanan was 10 years old and entered the third grade of elementary school, Jiang Jingguo passed away. All schools in Taiwan lowered their flags at half-staff to express their condolences. Zhang Wanan went to the playground with his classmates as usual after class.
A teacher saw the child's heartless appearance, and quickly stopped him in the corridor: "Come here! Come here!"
Zhang Wanan walked over without knowing why, and the teacher said to him: "Your grandpa After passing away, why do you still go outside to play? You should stay in the classroom obediently."
Seeing the teacher's worried and serious face, Zhang Wan'an couldn't help but bewildered. It’s fine for student
to say that, why even the teacher said that? Mr.
's words have left a deep impression on him, and he will never forget them.
Later he went to junior high school. In order to prepare for a debate competition, Zhang Wanan went to the library with his classmates to find information. He accidentally saw a book called "Jiang Jingguo and Zhang Yaruo" on the bookshelf, so he started to read it curiously.
"It tells a lot about father (Jiang Xiaoyan) and uncle (Jiang Xiaoyan)." Later Jiang Wanan recalled.
Seeing the names of the closest people around him and the Jiang family who used to be far away in the clouds appear in the same book in this way, which made Zhang Wanan feel like falling into a dream, feeling very unreal.
Until then, he finally put his classmatesThe teasing of the teacher, the advice in the teacher's hallway, are connected with the stories told in this book.
He realized that he really seemed to have an unusual life experience.
In the second year of high school, his father, Zhang Xiaoyan, called the children into the house and told them their real life experience. Zhang Wanan had already made up his mind, and at this moment, he was finally fully confirmed.
Later, Zhang Xiaoyan ran around for half his life, went through ups and downs, and at the age of sixty, finally recognized his ancestors and returned to his clan, changed his surname to Jiang, and became the real Jiang family.
Zhang Wanan also changed his surname to Jiang after his father, becoming Jiang Wanan.
But in his eyes, he is still no different from other people, and some friends around him still habitually call him Zhang Wanan.
The Jiang family has reached the fourth generation, and it is no longer a big family that is closely related by blood. The fourth generation of the Jiang family has a distant relationship, and some have never even met each other.
Jiang Youbai is also the fourth-generation son of the Jiang family. Jiang Wanan has met him a few times, but they don't have much contact with each other.
When talking about his grandfather Jiang Jingguo, Jiang Wanan used to call him "Mr. Jingguo" and rarely called him "Grandpa".
However, the name "Wan'an" was given by Jiang Jingguo to this grandson who had never met.
Wan'an is Wan'an County, Jiangxi Province, . This place in Jiangxi is deeply buried with the love memories of Jiang Jingguo and his former lover Zhang Yaruo, which is of extraordinary significance to Jiang Jingguo.
It is reported that after learning of Jiang Wanan's birth, Jiang Jingguo was extremely happy. After thinking about it for a few days, he told Wang Sheng: "The child was named Wan'an, Xiaoyan, Xiaoci suffered a lot in Wan'an... ...."
The fourth generation of Jiang, the only one in politics,
The halo of the Jiang family fell from the sky, but it did not disrupt Jiang Wanan's future life trajectory.
After graduating from Chengchi University, Jiang Wanan went to the United States to study abroad, obtained a master's degree in law and a doctorate degree, worked as a lawyer in Silicon Valley for seven years, married a wife and had children at the same time.
In 2013, Jiang Wanan and his family moved back to Taiwan.
Jiang Wanan, who returned to Taiwan, decided to enter politics.
The reason why Jiang Wanan chose to enter the political arena was also influenced by his father Jiang Xiaoyan. Jiang Xiaoyan's brother Jiang Xiaoci didn't have much ambition, but Jiang Xiaoyan was very interested in politics.
And his most criticized point is also here.
You must know that Jiang Xiaoyan spent most of his life in order to be able to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors. In the end, it seemed that he was about to succeed.
So Jiang Xiaoyan prepared to compare Jiang Jingguo's blood sample with his own DNA.
was at this critical moment, but was opposed by Jiang Jingguo's widow Jiang Fangliang , so Jiang Xiaoyan had no choice but to choose other methods to prove his father-son relationship with Jiang Jingguo.
But he did not immediately change his surname to Jiang, saying that the move was to commemorate his mother Zhang Yaruo.
After Jiang Fangliang passed away, only three months later, Jiang Xiaoyan quietly changed his surname from Zhang to Jiang, although he said that this was done out of respect for Ms. Jiang Fangliang, so he put the change of surname on the agenda after her death.
But what he did next caused a lot of discussion. He used the name "Jiang Xiaoyan" to run for the mayor of Taipei.
This made the Jiang family very unhappy. Jiang Youbai’s mother Jiang Fang Zhiyi said: “I’m quite disappointed.”
Because it’s hard not to think that Jiang Xiaoyan is rushing to use the name of the Jiang family. From politics.
Now Jiang Wanan also chooses to go into politics, which is a very important decision for everyone.
Because most of the four generations of the Chiang family are engaged in various industries, but they are not involved in politics.
Jiang Youbo is obsessed with business and art design, so after three generations, the Chiang family has gradually faded out of Taiwan's political arena, wishing to stay as far away from the political vortex as possible.
Jiang's family no longer has the political capital of the past, on the one hand, and following the legacy left by three generations is also another reason.
However, Jiang Wan'an broke the rule that "the descendants of the Jiang family will never enter politics" and broke into Taiwan's political arena with the title of the fourth generation of the Jiang family. Complexity is inevitable.
One of the things that the outside world enjoys the most is comparing Jiang Wanan and Jiang Youbo. Even after Jiang Wanan announced his entry into politics, the media also asked Jiang Youbai what he thought of this.
But Jiang Youbai only lightly wrote: "I don't have any opinion on this." The political incense of the Jiang family.
But Jiang Wanan said that he chose to enter politics because of his personal political ambitions, and the aura of the Jiang family is more of a burden than a help to him.
"To me, the Jiang family is just a blood relationship." Jiang Wan'an once said so.
"I did not use the identity of the Jiang family to run for election, but everyone knows this identity." He just returned to the Jiang surname, and has never lived in the Jiang family, so he is naturally not very close to the Jiang family.
It's a pity that Dad took a lot of effort to become a legitimate Jiang family, but Jiang Wan'an was quite indifferent about it.
But the label of the Jiang family is not something you can tear off if you want to.
Jiang Youbai has worked hard for so many years to get rid of the aura of the Chiang family, but in the end he was mentioned as "Chiang Kai-shek's great-grandson".
Jiang Wan'an should have anticipated this situation the moment he chose to enter the political arena, and outsiders do not know whether to accept it readily or refuse to welcome it.
As for the aura of the four generations of Chiang Kai-shek on his head, no matter where he ends up leading, there is bound to be a shortcut under his feet, which cannot be changed by subjective wishes and verbal statements.
Being criticized by netizens for "forgetting his ancestors"
Jiang Wanan, who entered the political arena at the beginning, had a good start. In the primary election of public opinion representatives, he defeated the representative of public opinion Luo Shulei who had won his father Jiang Xiaoyan.
Jiang Wanan said that although he was born in a political family, his father and grandfather were both political figures, but he has never been exposed to politics in the past, so he can be said to be a political amateur.
Someone asked him what he thought of "the descendants of the Jiang family will never enter politics", Jiang Wanan just smiled and said: "This is a completely false statement."
Jiang Wanan also said that if Mr. Participating in public affairs, he will never stop.
It is true that Chiang Kai-shek exhausted all means to allow his son to take over smoothly, and Chiang Ching-kuo also tried his best to get his three orthodox sons into politics.
However, things backfired, none of the sons could support them, and finally there was a murder case. In desperation, Chiang Ching-kuo had no choice but to say that the descendants of the Chiang family would no longer be in politics.
Now there is another political figure among the descendants of the Chiang family. Presumably Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo will be happy from ear to ear if they know about it.
However, some of Jiang Wanan’s political stances and practices later made people call out: The four generations of the Jiang family who have been recognized halfway through are going to dig up the graves of the Jiang family’s ancestors, and the coffin boards of the Jiang family are probably going to be angry I can't hold back anymore.
What exactly did Jiang Wanan do to be criticized by the outside world?
On January 1, 2019, Tsai Ing-wen published "2019 New Conversation" and proposed "Four Musts", directly placing herself in the shoes of the people of Taiwan and the mainlandopposite.
Jiang Wanan, a descendant of the Jiang family, publicly supported Tsai Ing-wen in a certain program, saying that "the four must be correct", which caused an uproar.
Taiwanese people who were originally very optimistic about this upstart in the political arena with the aura of the four generations of the Jiang family, their impression of Jiang Wanan fell sharply due to Jiang Wanan's remarks.
Angry people criticized him as a "Taiwan independence element", "forgotten his ancestors after counting the classics, and recognized the thief as his father", "bringing shame to the Chiang family".
Chiang Ching-kuo’s attitude towards the outside world during his lifetime has always been to insist on one China and oppose Taiwan’s independence. Even though Chiang Ching-kuo’s version of “one China” has changed the concept secretly, it has undergone a qualitative change and instead laid the foundation for Taiwan’s independence forces, but he did not dare to support Taiwan’s independence openly and aboveboard. of.
However, Jiang Wan'an, who debuted under the title of the fourth generation of the Chiang family, openly supports the view that it is no different from Taiwan independence.
This is tantamount to tearing off the last fig leaf of the Jiang family.
In the eyes of the people blinded by Chiang Ching-kuo's "one China" appearance, this grandson is simply against his grandfather, throwing the face of the Jiang family on the ground, it is better to go directly to dig the Jiang family's ancestral grave.
I don't know what kind of mentality Jiang Wanan had in making those remarks, but within a few days, he quickly changed his mind and clarified in an interview that he supported the " 1992 Consensus ".
But his impression in the eyes of the public has been greatly reduced. One China will always be the bottom line that the Chinese cannot back down, and no temptation or challenge will be tolerated.
Jiang Wanan's move to blur the "one China" principle, whether he agrees with it from the bottom of his heart, or suffers from "political recklessness", fails to see clearly the essence of the "four musts" against the mainland. The former is wolfish ambition, and the latter lacks politics. His sensitivity proved that he was not the one to put high hopes on.
