Sun Chong’s tomb

Sun Chong’s tomb is located on the hillside of the Litoujian Mountain in Cuiheng Village, built in Year 22 of the Republican China period (1933), being a traditional round-chair tomb, made from granite slabs, with a spacious ground and two stone lions in the front, and a couplet on both sides. There is a stone elegiac tablet on which “sacrifice for the country” is inscribed by Sun Yat-sen. There is a 1.6m high and 0.88m wide stone tablet in the left front, on which Sun Chong’s epitaphhandwritten by Sun Ke is inscribed. Sun Chong (1881~1917) was a nephew of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and died for official business during the Constitution Protection Movement in October 1917. He was formerly buried at the Huangpu Park in Guangzhou, and his tomb was relocated here in 1933.

In May 2010, Sun Chong’s tomb was listed as one of the sixth group of key protected cultural relics of Guangdong Province.