90th Anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's Death

90th Anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's Death Marked across China

2015-03-11 20:32:24    CRIENGLISH.com      Web Editor: Fei

A visitor looks at displays during an exhibition to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Taipei, March 9, 15. [Photo: Chinanews.com]

An exhibition has been held jointly by non-governmental organizations from Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taiwan, in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei on March 7, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen which falls on March 12.

The event features Sun’s painting and calligraphy based on his life stories, demonstrating his 40-year efforts to push democratic revolution in China.

A rare photo shows Sun Yat-sen and his wife Song Ching-ling attend a ceremony for China's first self-made airplane named Rosamonde which is also Song's English name. [Photo: United Daily News]

The memorial hall has also released rare photographs and one exclusively made documentary on him. 

The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Guangzhou [File Photo: Baidu]

The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Guangzhou has also held exhibitions to mark the commemoration starting from March 10.

Apart from Sun's life stories, the Guangzhou memorial hall also included the history of the architecture itself.

A proposal for building the hall was first raised one month after Sun's death in 1925. It received warm welcomes from the government and Chinese nationals.

In Beijing, a ceremony is scheduled to happen on Thursday in Zhongshan Park.

According to the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, Chinese leaders will attend the ceremony. 

A tree-planting event is held in east China's Zhejiang province in 1921. [Photo: Tuanjie Newspaper]

China has set March 12 as the Arbor Day to commemorate Dr. Sun Yat-sen's death since 1928.

Sun proposed to celebrate a tree-planting day on the traditional Tomb-sweeping Day after the 1911 Revolution and was well received among governmental institutions and schools in the 1910s.

Sun Yat-sen and his wife Song Ching-ling take a photo during a trip from Hong Kong to Peking in 1924. [Photo: United Daily News]

Dr. Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) is considered as a "great revolutionary and statesman" in China for his leading role in the 1911 Revolution which overthrew the imperial Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and put an end to more than 2,000 years of feudal rule in China.

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