When mention China's modern history's greatest figures, President Sun Zhongshan deserves to be the second to none. Could it be the king in this world of soil, under the influence of the concept of thousands of Chinese feudal society, it is Mr. Zhongshan democracy, civil rights, people's livelihood Three People's Principles and personally fought for life, to achieve the ultimate overthrow of the monarchy republic. History can not be forgotten, never be forgotten, even though our generation for the poor and weak old China, the land of the feudal establishment Republican, sought to achieve the three principles and the enormous obstacles to be overcome and the experience of difficulties and setbacks, are difficult to put ourselves to feel; but people remember this great man of history, and have been in the commemoration of this great man in various ways. Towns and cities all over the country, almost every city has his memorial sites around the country. There are countless statues of Zhongshan, Zhongshan Monument, Zhongshan Memorial Hall, Zhongshan Park, Zhongshan Square, and even in the mountain, Zhongshan Pier etc. Among of which the first established Sun Yat Sen Memorial place, comes as Guangzhou City, Zhongshan Memorial Hall.
Sun Yat-sen was dead on March 12, 1925, people in Guangdong immediately proposed the funding for establishment of Memorial Hall and library, and spontaneously began to raise money. In early April 1925, led by Hu to make a formal preparatory grief code of sen Memorial Hall and the library building resolution "to the great building for a permanent memorial." From February 1926 to September it opened to community for publicaly assemble Memorial design programmes, and finally in accordance with the famous engineer Lu Yanzhi's design, funded by the National government of more than 370 million and part of the social contributions, in January 1929 commenced work and in 1931 November was to complete.
After completion of the Zhongshan Memorial Hall in Guangzhou Yuexiu Hill Southern Mountain, where originally was the Qing Dynasty army training hall, served as Military Governor Department after the Revolution. During 1921 when Sun Yat-sen as the provisional president, here was the presidential location. On June 16 1922 it was destroyed by the rebel warlord Chen. That is here, when the rebels surrounded and shelled the presidential palace, the Sun Yat-sen firstly asked Ms Soong Ching Ling to evacuate. Soong Ching Ling said: "China can survive without me, but can not go without you!" Later Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching Ling transferred to Chu Yu-ship safely out of danger. It appears that this site has its own memorial hall to commemorate the profound significance.
Zhongshan Memorial Hall is an octagonal palace architecture, has construction area of 12,000 square meters, and is 58 meters high. The building is elegant and magnificent, is one of the most landmark buildings in Guangzhou, was once praised Mao Zedong as "China's own design" model. For nearly 70 years, it has witnessed many historic events here. In 1936, Guangzhou peopleheld the pro-smoking demonstration here; during War period, the Japanese invasion forces bombarded here and dropped a bomb to blow up a corner of Memorial Hall; and in1945, the Japanese invasion forces in Guangzhou signed in here to surrender. Currently, it is the place for big activities in Guangzhou, the main place of assembly, and it is said that the number of market commercial performance to be held here each year is also up to hundreds.
Another masterpiece it is said about Zhongshan Memorial Hall, is the clever use of architectural design principles of the mechanical structure, using steel and reinforced concrete hybrid structure, 71 meters in the span of building space without a column, is the perfect combination of Chinese and Western architecture model. However, because of time constraints, we did not go and see inside, leaving with a pity.