Madame Yang (1827–1910), also known as Lady Yang, was the mother of

Sun Yat-sen Sun Yat-senUsually known as Sun Zhongshan () in Chinese; also known by Names of Sun Yat-sen, several other names. (; 12 November 186612 March 1925) was a Chinese physician, revolutionary, statesman, and political philosopher who founded the Republ ...

Biography

Madame Yang gave birth to Sun Yat-sen in the village of Cuiheng, Xiangshan County (now

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 ...

City),

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

, in 1866, when she was 39 years old. In 1878, when Sun Yat-sen was 13, she brought him from

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by boat so he could live with his elder brother, Dezhang. Madame Yang returned to China the same year. After the failure of the First Guangzhou Uprising in 1895, Sun Yat-sen was placed on the wanted list by the Qing court and his family became at risk of being captured.

Lu Muzhen Lu Muzhen (30 July 18677 September 1952) was the first wife of Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen. A traditional Chinese housewife, she had two daughters, Wan and Yan, and one son, Sun Fo, Fo, with her husband. Sun divorced with her after 30 year ...

, Sun Yat-sen's first wife, took her children and Madame Yang to stay with Dezhang in Honolulu. Later, after Dezhang became bankrupt from funding Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities, Madame Yang, along with the other family members in Honolulu, moved to

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, Hong Kong.

Grave

Madame Yang died at the Tung Tau Tsuen home on July 19, 1910, on her 83rd birthday. Sun Yat-sen was fundraising in Singapore at the time, and a member of the

Tongmenghui The Tongmenghui of China was a secret society and underground resistance movement founded by Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others in Tokyo, Empire of Japan, on 20 August 1905, with the goal of overthrowing China's Qing dynasty. It was formed ...

arranged the burial. The grave is located near Fei Ngo Shan Road, in Pak Fa Lam, Sai Kung, New Territories. In May 2000, the government contacted Sun Yat-sen's descendants to form long-term maintenance plans for the site. A large hole was discovered on top of the tomb, and the Hong Kong Chung Shan Research Institute began to fund-raise HK$1,000,000 for the repair. The Institute received permission from Sun Yat-sen's eldest grandson for repairs, and emergency repair works were carried out in October 2000. The

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was tasked with monitoring the grave, and repairing it when necessary. The

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also undertook studies to determine whether to consider the grave a declared monument. In 2017, markers pointing to her grave were vandalized. The Sun Yat-sen Institute's president, Lee Sung-wai, had his friends repair the markers.

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Google Maps location of tomb

Hong Kong Sun Yat-sen Institute
Family of Sun Yat-sen 1910 deaths

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