Cuiheng () is a village of the town of Nanlang,

Zhongshan Zhongshan ( zh, c=中山 ), alternately romanized via Cantonese as Chungshan, is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China. As of the 2020 census, the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is n ...

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province. Cuiheng is best known as the birthplace of Dr.

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, the " Father of the Nation" of the

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. Cuiheng is southeast of downtown

, and north of

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. The whole village is designated a special economic district, as Cuiheng New Area.

History

The village was established in the latter half of the 17th century during the reign of

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by the Feng and Mai families, who were later joined by the Yang and Lu (陸) families. The Lu surname became most numerous. At the time of Sun Yat-sen's birth in the 1860s, there were about sixty households with ten

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s. In addition to Sun, Lu Muzhen, Sun's first wife and

Lu Haodong Lu Zhonggui (30 September 1868 – 7 November 1895), courtesy name Xianxiang, better known by his art name Lu Haodong, was a Chinese revolutionary who lived in the late Qing dynasty. He is best known for designing the Blue Sky with a White Sun ...

(1868–1895), an early revolutionary martyr, were also born in Cuiheng.

Administration

Cuiheng is administered by Nanlang Township. For a time, Cuiheng village was elevated to the township level and became the town of Cuiheng Village (). However, in 1998 it was downgraded and reintegrated inside the town of Nanlang. On 31 March 2013 Cuiheng was upgraded into a "New Area".

Tourism

Cuiheng is home to the Former Residence of Dr Sun Yat-sen () and the Sun Yat-sen Residence Memorial Museum (), which was built next to the residence in 1956. The residence and museum complex was classified as a Major Site Protected at the National Level of

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in 1986 by the

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. There is also a

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Transportation

Cuiheng can be accessed by Zhongshan Bus 12 and 212. The village is a 30–40 minutes by bus from Zhongshan city centre on Bus 12, and 50-minutes from the Zhongshan Passenger Ferry Dock on Bus 212. The township of Nanlang, about 10 minutes to the north by bus on both routes, has a station on the Guangzhou–Zhuhai Intercity Railway.

References

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