Lu Haodong’s tomb

Lu Haodong’s tomb is located on the piedmont of the Litoujian Mountain in Cuiheng Village, built by Li Da, amerchant from Yonggu Company, under the leadership of Yang Ziyi,Head of Zhongshan County, at a cost of 6,370 silver dollars in 1937, with an area of about 350 square meters. There is a stone archway in front of the tomb, on which there is a lintel with Yang Ziyi’s inscription “Martyr Lu Haodong’s Tomb”. There is a granite memorial stone pavilion on the right of the passage, and a flower frame on the left; there is a fine and vivid stone statue of martyr Lu Haodong is in the middle of the end of the passage, and anepitaphin clerical script by Miao Huiyin is inscribed on the base. Martyr Lu Haodong (1867~1895), revolutionary companion of Sun Yat-sen, was arrested and killed for destroying the list of party members during the first Guangzhou Uprising. He was renowned as the first person sacrificed for the republican revolution in China’s history by Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

In 2009, Lu Haodong’s tomb was listed as a key protected cultural relic of Guangdong Province.