Guiping Zhongshan Park

　　Located in the urban area of Guiping City, Guangxi, it was originally a private garden belonging to Ma Wenxiang, an official from the Ming Dynasty, and was formerly known as Ma Family Garden. It was later also called Mustard Garden and Xunzhou Park. In 1936, it was turned into Zhongshan Park and has a history of over 600 years. The park is covered with dense shade, adorned with swaying ancient banyan trees, winding flower paths, lush green lawns, bridge reflections on clear waters, and elegantly scattered pavilions. The environment is clean, serene, and features about 40,000 various large and small trees and shrubs, including more than 40 ancient banyan trees over a hundred years old. Rare and precious tree species include osmanthus, magnolia, ginkgo, and metasequoia. Facilities in the park include a water world and swimming pool. The south gate area offers a food and tea house, roller skating rink, rockery, fountain, goldfish pond, zoo, as well as amusement equipment such as strollers, mini trains, elevators, bumper cars, drifting boats, rowboats, and merry-go-rounds. During holidays, the park is bustling with visitors, receiving approximately 300,000 domestic and international tourists annually, making it one of the main tourist attractions in Guiping City. Recent investments in expansion and renovation projects, such as the Guiping Square near Zhongshan Park, have been fully completed. The new bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen and classical-style architecture erected at the park’s new entrance have added distinctive charm to the park....

　　Sun Yat-sen (1866~1925)　　Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), whose given name was Wen, courtesy name Zaizhi, also known by his art names Jixin and Yixian, childhood name Dixiang, and alias Zhongshanqiao, often used Zhongshan as his name. He was born into a farming family in Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan County (now Zhongshan City), Guangdong Province. In his youth, he was influenced by the tradition of struggle among the people of Guangdong and admired the revolutionary cause of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He was a pioneer of China's modern national democratic revolution, a great forerunner of the Chinese democratic revolution, the founder of the Republic of China and the Kuomintang, an advocate of the Three Principles of the People, and the creator of the "Five-Power Constitution." He was the first to raise the banner of thorough anti-feudalism, "establishing a republic and ending two thousand years of feudal imperial rule." 19...... Details+