My dear friend, when you come to a city, you probably want to viit the mot famou cenic pot of pecial interet. Nanjing ha many place of hitoric interet and ha been capital for ix "dynatie." But if you leave Nanjing without viiting Dr. Sun Yat-en' Mauoleum, undoubtedly you have mied the mot arreting and famou tourit attraction of the city.
Talking about the Mauoleum we hould have an idea about Sun Yat-en, the great pioneer of Chinee democratic revolution. Mr. Sun' original name i Sun Wen and tyled himelf Yat-en. So foreign friend would call him "Dr. Sun Yat-en". Since he took "Woodcutter in Zhouhan" a hi alia when he took part in the revolutionary activitie, he wa repectfully and widely called Mr. Sun Zhonghan in China. On October 12, 1866, Mr. Sun wa born in a farmer' family in Caiheng village of Xianghan county (the preent-day zhonghan City), Guangdong Province. When he wa till young, he had great expectation. He tudied medicine in Honolulu, Hong Kong and ome other place and after graduation he worked a a practitioner in Gangzhou, Macao and other place Later he gave up medicine a hi profeion to take part in political activitie. In 1905, he et up China Alliance Organization in Japan and he wa elected preident. He put forward the famou guiding principle- "driving the invader out, retoring the overeignty of China, etablihing a republic and equalizing the land ownerhip" and the Three People' Principle-"Nationalim, Democracy and the People' Livelihood." On October 10, 1911, the Wuchang upriing broke out and Dr. Sun a elected Preident of the Republic of China by repreentative from eventeen province. On the following New Year' day (January 1, 1912) Mr. Sun took the oath of office in Nanjing. From then on, Mr. Sun experienced Yuan Shikai' uurpation, the Second Revolution, "Campaign Protecting the Interim Contitution." In 1921, Mr. Sun too[由www.haoZuowen.Com整理]