Arcaded house
A Western front.
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The birthplace of Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), regarded in China as the founder of the modern republic, in the rural village of Cuiheng north of Zhuhai; it holds his house and a museum founded in November 1956, now one of China's first-class museums within a top-rated tourist area. The house was built in 1892 with money sent by his elder brother Sun Mei from Honolulu in Hawaii, with Sun Yat-sen himself overseeing the work; it is a two-storey brick-and-timber house on a 500-square-metre plot, its front in Western classical style with red arches, its interior in the local style with traditional Chinese furniture. In the front yard grows a tamarind tree he is said to have brought from Hawaii and planted himself, beside the site of the family's older house where he was born; the museum halls tell his life and the village's story, amid gardens and old rural houses. Entry is free without booking after a security check, and it opens from 9:00 to 17:30 with last entry at 17:00, per visitor guides. The drive from central Zhuhai takes about 40 minutes.
A Western front.
From Hawaii.
Old rural houses.
Cuiheng village, Nanlang, Zhongshan, about 30 km north of central Zhuhai
By car or taxi in about 40 minutes north to Cuiheng village, and entry is free without booking, per visitor guides.