Haikou Zhongshan Memorial Hall

　　Haikou Zhongshan Memorial Hall is a key cultural relic protection unit in Haikou City, located at No. 19 Wenming West Road, Longhua District, Haikou. The managing authority is the Civil Affairs Bureau of Longhua District, Haikou.

　　Haikou Zhongshan Memorial Hall faces south and covers a total area of 2.28 mu, with a building area of 700 square meters. In front of the memorial hall is a small entrance courtyard. Ascending seven concrete steps leads to the main gate, which is flanked by two flower beds. In front of the gate stand six red square stone pillars, with five doorways between them — the central one being the main entrance, its lintel inscribed with “Zhongshan Memorial Hall.” The hall is higher in the south and lower in the north, with a stage also serving as a podium built in the northern section. The upper front and rear sections of the building have larger floor areas. The roof is paved with green glazed tiles, and the entire hall and balcony can accommodate 1,200 people for various meetings and events.

　　

　　Sun Yat-sen (1866~1925)　　Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), whose given name was Wen, courtesy name Zaizhi, also known as Risshin or Yixian, with the childhood name Dixiang and alias Zhongshanqiao, often used the name Zhongshan. He was born into a farming family in Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan County (now Zhongshan City), Guangdong Province. In his youth, influenced by the revolutionary traditions of the people of Guangdong, he 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 complete anti-feudalism, “establishing a republic and ending two thousand years of feudal imperial rule.” 19...... More+

　　Source: Party History Research Office of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee