Cuiheng

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Cuiheng Village Town (翠亨村镇 Pinyin: Cuìhéngcūn Zhèn) is a town, formerly a village, in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, China. It is the birthplace of Sun Yat-sen, the Father of Nation of China.

Cuiheng is 17.6 kilometres southeast of Zhongshan downtown. The village was established in the latter half of the 17th century (during the reign of Kangxi Emperor) by the Feng (馮) and Mai (麥) families. Later joined by the Yang (楊) and Lu (陸) families (who came to be most numerous). At the time of Sun Yat-sen's birth in 1860s, there were about sixty households of ten surnames.

Located in Cuiheng, Sun Yat-sen Residence Memorial Museum (孫中山故居紀念館) was built in 1956, and was made a national protected unit (全国重点文物保护单位) in 1986 by the State Council. There is also a Polaris Temple (北極殿) dedicated to the Polaris Emperor (北極帝君).

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