Sun Yat Sen Memorial House

I was a really lucky guy. The weather was fine when I visited the Guia
Lighthouse and when it was starting to pour, I had just reached the
shelter of the artillery magazine and when I was done having lunch, it
was starting to rain again but I could take shelter in the nearby Sun
Yat Sun Memorial House right next to the old-style restaurant at Avenida de Sidonio Pais, designed in a mock-Moorish style with wide verandahs and
spacious courtyards, originally constructed in 1912, and rebuilt in 1933



 I have a lot of admiration for Dr. Sun Yat Sen. It's not easy at all to find a man who was prepared to give up power in modern times when he could hold on to it. As far as I am aware, Washington was the only other one. Perhaps he really got the spirit of righteousness in him.

This is the verandah  of his residence in Macau where his first wife was living. What beautiful columns!

A view of the Macau police station opposite to the house

I like the Indian style arches and columns.

And the pattern of the cast iron grilles. Looks like two women. Don't they?

And weathered wall of the adjacent building through the iron grilles..

The corridor was nice too. Everything is kept spick and span. The floor tiles brought back a flood of memories of the house where I spent my childhood.

A giant shell decorates the small court yard

a full view of the courtyard; so classical, so quiet, so "Chinese"

Some lilies upon the window's ledge

This "5-drawer cupboard" with its copper shell-shaped handle looks exactly like the one in my old house.

A note about Dr. Sun's family in Macau. I learned that his father was a cobbler and his elder brother Sun Mei returned from Hawaii to live in this house in 1913 and died there two years later. His second daughter Sun Yun (1896-1979) was born on the same day as he was, studied in England, moved in 1932 with her husband to Brazil as ambassador there and returned to live permanently in Macau in 1949.

The baby strapper used by Sun's mother.

Dr. Sun was once kipnapped by the Tsing Government whilst he was in London but got released through the help of the British government.

His former dining room now turned into a mini-library.

Dr. Sun's final will in which he declared the revolution had not yet been completed and urged that the Unequal Treaties be abolished and for the revolutionaries to build up China in accordance with his "Strategies for the reconstruction of China" based upon his "Three People's Principles".  It seems that we're still a long way off from there more than a century later! .