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2012年8月14日 星期二

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! . 

3 則留言:

  1. 多謝介紹呀 Elzorro
    [pinkpanther501101回覆08/16/2012 14:37:32]Anyway, may the future of China be good.
    [版主回覆08/15/2012 08:51:51]My pleasure. Dr. Sun is a truly great statesman, unlike those we find in HK !

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  2. Dr Sun's will was actually drafted by 汪精衛 but he did caputre well what Dr Sun wanted to say.
    [版主回覆08/16/2012 22:51:23]I didn't know about that. Wong is a great writer.

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  3. I was not aware such a place in Macau....
    [版主回覆08/17/2012 11:21:31]According to what I gathered at the museum, Dr. Sun's first wife and other members of his family have lived there for quite some time and his elder brother died there.

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