Former Residence of Sun Yat-sen, Zhongshan, Memorial residence in Zhongshan, China.
The Former Residence of Sun Yat-sen is a memorial site in Cuiheng village, Zhongshan city, Guangdong Province, occupying the house where he was born and later returned to live. The grounds include the original family home, a memorial hall, and surrounding garden areas.
The two-storey brick-and-wood house was built in 1892 with money sent from Honolulu by Sun Yat-sen's elder brother Sun Mei, and Sun Yat-sen returned to oversee its construction. The memorial institution was founded in November 1956. The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, rebuilt from the former residence exhibition hall in 1996, opened on 12 November 1999.
Sun Yat-sen is referred to as the father of modern China, and this place holds a strong symbolic meaning for people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Visitors can walk through rooms where personal belongings, furniture, and handwritten notes are on display.
The residence, memorial hall and the recreated Cuiheng village houses and farmland lie close together and are toured on foot. The memorial hall stands northwest of the residence, and the residence faces west, so morning light falls on its front courtyard. The residence itself is a two-storey building with narrow stairs between floors.
The original family house that Sun Yat-sen helped design after returning from abroad mixes Western and Chinese architectural elements in a way that was unusual for a rural village at the time. This reflects how his years in Hawaii and Hong Kong shaped even the way he thought about his own home.
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